Mine’s The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. Thick books never stopped me from reading nonstop before, but there are entries in the book that just has me stopping and taking time to mull things over.
Also, sharing this excerpt: “Not to be sentimental, as I sound, but why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?”
how to stay alive in avalanche terrain
the count of Monte Cristo. The issue with this one is that it’s big and a paperback so I don’t like taking it ok flights or when I travel cause it’s going to get destroyed. And I usually start reading something smaller then when I travel, get side tracked and finish that book instead before returning to the count. Which is a shame. Because it’s a really good book.