“We are condemned to think with words, to feel with words, if we want at least others to feel with us. But words are stones.”
Vergílio Ferreira
Throughout my life, I’ve read many books, great ones, good ones and a couple of pages of bad ones too. Not as many as I would like, though – I’m a slow reader and often find myself staring at a beautiful sentence or lost in thought with the book open in my lap.
Every person has a different relationship with books, and even for each one that changes with the mood. But some books are constants. Here is my list. The top one is immutable, the rest fluctuates a bit…
- O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo, José Saramago
- Cosmos, Carl Sagan
- Aparição, Virgílio Ferreira
- The Foulcault Pendulum, Umberto Eco
- Memorial do Convento, José Saramago
- Atonement, Ian McEwan
- For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway
- Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling
- As Três Vidas, João Tordo
- The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
- Contact, Carl Sagan
- Solar, Ian McEwan
- Ensaio sobre a Cegueira, José Saramago
- Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
- The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, Joel Dicker
- The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
- The Cuckoo’s Calling, J. K. Rowling
- Millennium series, Stieg Larsson
- The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follet
- Red Sparrow, Jason Matthews
- The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
- Killing Eve, Luke Jennings
- The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch
- Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
- The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
- A Rainha Ginga, José Eduardo Agualusa
- Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton
- …saving this space for the next book that blows my mind 😉
Karlos K. 