Mr. Uhrig's Top 5 Favorite Books:

Here is a list of some of my favorite novels:

  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
    • The Road Book Cover

    Cormac McCarthy has been a well known author long before The Road came along in 2006. Many people may know him as the author of the novel upon which the popular movie No Country For Old Men is based, or his best selling novel from 1985, Blood Meridian. Though he had been a great success for many years leading up to the publication of The Road, this novel stands out as among his most successful works, and won him the Pulitzer Prize for the first time in his career.

    The Road is the story of a boy and his father trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. I love this novel for the simplicity of the story, and the real emotional connection that you form with the characters while reading.

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
    • 2001 Book Cover

    This novel, along with the film of the same name, is absolutely my favorite film-novel combination I have ever encountered. The story of how the two came about is also quite unique. While most of the time, a film will be based on the novel which comes first, in this case, Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick, the director of the film, worked together to produce both at the same time. The novel was still be written at the time that the film was being made. As a result, they both are very clearly connected, but also very clearly separate works, and complement each other better than any other film-novel combo I've ever encountered.

    2001 is really split into three parts. First, it tells the story of the beginning of mankind, and their first encounter with an alien life form. It then fastforwards to the year 1999, and for a time almost turns into an adventure novel, detailing a team of astronauts and their mission to investigate a strange object that has been found on one of the moons of Saturn. Finally, it concludes after humans rendezvous with this mysterious object and how it dramatically changes the lives of those who encounter it, and likely the lives of the whole human race.

  • The Castle by Franz Kafka