Favorite NON Scifi/Fantasy Books!

Pick up For Whom the Bell Tolls, pick up A Farewell to Arms, pick up a lot of his stuff because it holds up. It's extraordinarily good.

So, while yes, things like Dracula or Fahrenheit 451 are definitely my top reads of all time, they cannot be included here.

So, while yes, things like Dracula or Fahrenheit 451 are definitely my top reads of all time, they cannot be included here.

Pick up For Whom the Bell Tolls, pick up A Farewell to Arms, pick up a lot of his stuff because it holds up. It's extraordinarily good.

And from there, what we get is one of the most savage, brutal, and relentless mystery thrillers I have ever experienced. It's definitely on that seven vibe, kind of this horrendous take on humanity that hits all the harder because we know so many of the problems presented in this book are in the real world, whether it's how people with, you know, like mental illnesses are abused, the way women are mistreated or looked down upon, corporate criminals who get away with doing awful, awful things, and rich legacy families who can have like, you know, shady stuff going on.

I know that sounds like snobby, I'm not trying to come across that way, but whether it's The Hound of the Baskervilles or really from beginning to end, every single one I've seen adapted was better in the book, better presented, better structured, better paced out, better information spills, the way Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did.

Yet, even though it is so not in the tone I approve of, even though it is so just dreary and dreadful, I flew through this book because it is so tantalizingly seductive in its horrific view of the future.