What is your favourite book?
Kim (1901) by Rudyard Kipling is the story of a boy coming of age in colonial India. Kipling grew up in India himself, and the sheer richness of the many cultures that Kim experiences as he travels across India and up into the lower Himalayas with a Tibetan llama is mind-blowing. Meanwhile Kim is drawn into the “Great Game” of spying between the European powers. It’s a deeply moving and beautiful book. Best of all, you can download it for free in all the major ebook formats!
Maybe not the best book I’ve ever read, but favourite for sure goes to Kafka on the Shore. Had me hooked the entire way through, and it’s a book I’ve thought of for years after reading it initially.
If I can pick another, Siddhartha is an all-time favourite too.
Anathem by Neal Stephenson. It’s a book about math monks. It has a lot of interesting ideas about philosophy and the nature of the universe and so on. It’s the sort of book that has surprisingly a lot of heart for what you’d assume based on the above.
I love Neal Stephenson, and that might be my favorite as well
Tao Te Ching Specifically the DC Lau translation https://terebess.hu/english/tao/lau.html
I love the poetry focused version by Ursula K. Le Guin:
I wanted a Book of the Way accessible to a present-day, unwise, unpowerful, and perhaps unmale reader, not seeking esoteric secrets, but listening for a voice that speaks to the soul. I would like that reader to see why people have loved the book for twenty-five hundred years.
Ooh! I’m gonna put that on my list. I have an old Prentice Hall one from 1963.
By which translator/reteller?
“Translated, with introductory essays, comments and notes by Wing-Tsit Chan”
