This is my first post so I decided to ask this.
Mine is “a time to kill” by John Grisham.
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Cats cradle, Kurt Vonnegut.
It wrecked me when I read it the first time, and it was the first time I experienced a writer ripping apart my brain and leaving me to jigsaw the thing back together.
A lot of his books could have done it, but that was the one that did.
I have a lot of favorites for different criteria, but probably the easy answer that comes to mind is Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
You sound like the kind of Hoopy Frood that knows where his towel is
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/985613.Best_Loved_Folktales_of_the_World
Compiled by Joanna Cole
Came here to say H2G2 but somebody got it so I’ll go with The Nutmeg of Consolation
Fiction: Jorge Luis Borges’ Ficciones
Non-fiction: Graeber and Wengrow’s The Dawn of EverythingSo far I’ve read 1984 5 times twice in school and 3 more times since graduation. The most recent was this past summer
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
