Flowers for Algernon

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1. pitifulsurroundOct 2026
   Flowers for Algernon
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2. drakonkaOct 2026
   A few:

   - Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (thrice)

   - The Color of Distance by Amy Thomson (twice)

   - Fox 8 by George Saunders (twice)

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3. chistevOct 2026
   1. Animal Farm by George Orwell

   2. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes [1]

   3. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley

   4. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette Mccurdy

   5. Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris

   6. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [2]

   7. Cosmos by Carl Sagan

   8. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins [3]

   9. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

   10. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander [4]

   11. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

   12. Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium by Carl Sagan [5][6][7]

   13. Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism by Richard Dawkins

   [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076596

   [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452253

   [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326741

   [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539535

   [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751771

   [6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49740712

   [7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49739256

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4. chistevOct 2026
   Flowers for Algernon is the most mentioned book in this thread thus far. I listed it too in my comment.

   Highly recommended to those who haven't read it!

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5. pfortunySep 2026
   Right now, "The Lord", by Romano Guardini, a large collection of homilies covering the whole life of Christ. Obviously, this is a Catholic text.

   Also, "Heaven on Earh", by Emma Wells, about nine or ten Gothic Cathedrals (mostly the history of their building and preservation). A bit too plain for my taste but includes interesting facts and anecdotes.

   Finished recently:

   -Flowers for Algernon, which I liked a lot.

   -Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke, so beautiful and surprising.

   -The Great Gatsby, which I had not read yet and which I have loved reading.

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6. rackpAug 2026
   Ever since I read "Flowers for Algernon" twenty years ago, I have known that being foolish does not necessarily mean being unhappy, nor does being intelligent guarantee happiness.
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