Reading Pt. 5

I was thinking of how to end this short series of posts on reading. I decided to list several books I consider favorites of mine. These are ones I’ve read multiple times and they occupy a permanent place on my bookshelf, even when I send a box to the library or put a bunch of them in bins to de-clutter.

These are my favorites. For various reasons, they might not be yours. And that’s totally fine. So here we go with a non-exhaustive list in no particular order of some of my favorite books:

• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

• Apollo by Charles Murray & Catherine Bly Cox

• The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy

• The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn

• Ball Four by Jim Bouton

• The Search for God and Guinness by Stephen Mansfield

• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

• The Complete Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson

I have a feeling I’ll be thinking of books I should have added to this list and there will be a supplemental post at some point in the future. For now. that’ll do.