Novels so powerful, convincing, transforming that Readers Can't Put Them Down

WHAT ARE 2 FICTION BOOKS THAT YOU READ MORE THAN ONCE, NOVELS THAT INSPIRED, EVEN CHANGED YOU?

HERE’S my CURRENT LIST of
BEST NOVELS:

Ones I’ve read (most at least 3 times) that have incredibly real characters, suspense, setting, and theme—novels that take you into another life,
where for 2 hours or more,
you live a different life in a different time and place,
totally forget your own life!

Novels that have such deep meaning that you reflect on their themes repeatedly,
novels that inspire or warn,
that leave you changed!

THE TIME MACHINE by H.G. Wells
EXODUS by Leon Uris

WATCHERS by Dean Koontz
ONE DAY AWAY FROM HEAVEN by Dean Koontz

HYPERION and ½ of ENDYMION by Dan Simmons
THE HOST by Stephanie Meyer

THE ORIGIN by Irving Stone

THE BONESETTER’S DAUGHTER by Amy Tan
THE SHORT STORIES OF JACK LONDON

11/22/63 by Stephen King
THE COVENANT by James Michener

IN DUBIOUS BATTLE by John Steinbeck
FLOWERS FOR ALGERON by Daniel Keys

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS by Ernest Hemingway
(though questionable because of some immoral events)
JANE EYRE by Currer Bell (Charlotte Bronte)
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)


What is your 'can't stop reading, until even the wee hours of the morning' novel?


In the Light,

Dan Wilcox

Seal of Stone

STONE WHALE --

SEAL OF STONE-

Seal of stone
Gray lighted in the dusked evening
Scarred, laying low in the damp sand
Snout seeped in the incoming eddy of tide,
Waiting eons and eons
Covered
Uncovered
Covered
Repeatedly
Ceaselessly
By the Pacific sea,
Worn down by its cold crashing breakers,
The rolling, rolling of sand and small pebbles
And the sometimes perch of a hungry gull,
For the stone fish that will never come.


Dan Wilcox