Book recommendations during quarantine

Observer

Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe books are great, especially if you know Los Angeles.
It would be a great time to read The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy then watch the movie. He has a lot of other great books, too.
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess). I prefer the shorter version. Read it more than once to get used to the language then watch the movie.
Trainspotting (Irvine Welsh) would be a great book/movie combination.
I think I might re-read some of the above soon, but tonight I’m going to take The Stand (Steven King) down from the shelf because hiding from a virus with Captain Trips just seems right.

flw

The original James Bond novels by Ian Fleming. Read the whole series, start to finish.

Observer

Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe books are great, especially if you know Los Angeles.
It would be a great time to read The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy then watch the movie. He has a lot of other great books, too.
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess). I prefer the shorter version. Read it more than once to get used to the language then watch the movie.
Trainspotting (Irvine Welsh) would be a great book/movie combination.
I think I might re-read some of the above soon, but tonight I’m going to take The Stand (Steven King) down from the shelf because hiding from a virus with Captain Trips just seems right.

mikekchc

I just bought this and I am knee deep into it! So good!

lindo

If you like historical stuff and enjoyed the movie 'Master and Commander', I can totally recommend the source series written by Patrick O'Brian. He was an absolute master of description of maritime adventure, and what seem to be extraordinary events of naval warfare at the time of the Napoleonic Wars were inspired by real accounts written by the men who took part.

The first in the book series is 'Master and Commander' but you will find it is different to the movie, which actually combined the stories of two later books in the series, of which there are no less than twenty novels. If that sounds daunting, it's not. It is more like a treasure chest that you can dip into over a long time. The two main characters introduced in the first book become as real to you as close friends, warts and all.

It is best to read them in the order they were written. I initially started reading them in paperbacks, but then found an edition of the whole twenty in five hardback volumes, which turned out cheaper in total than buying individual softcovers. Over the last twenty years I have read the whole series twice, and enjoyed them just as much the second time around. If I last another twenty they will certainly get read again.