Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book

Ben

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Ben.


Doctor Zhivago
Ben is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (16%)
17 hours, 3 min ago

 
A People's Traged...
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (58%)
Apr 18, 2026 06:16AM

 
Stepping Stones
Ben is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (75%)
Jun 27, 2026 07:23AM

 
See all 4 books that Ben is reading…
Loading...
Aldous Huxley
“Linda had been a slave, Linda had died; others should live in freedom, and the world be made beautiful. A reparation, a duty. And suddenly it was luminously clear to the Savage what he must do; it was as though a shutter had been opened, a curtain drawn back.”
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

William Maxwell
“The unpaved street we were now living on had no past and no future but only a wan present in which it was hard to think of anything to do.”
William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow

William Maxwell
“After I couldn't remember any more except in a general way what she looked like, I could still remember the sound of her voice, and I clung to that.
I also clung to the idea that if things remained exactly the way they were, if we were careful not to take a step in any direction from the place where we were now, we would somehow get back to the way it was before she died. I knew that this was not a rational belief, but the alternative - that when people die they are really gone and I would never see her again - was more than I could manage then or for a long time afterward.”
William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow

Aldous Huxley
“Fine to think we can go on being socially useful even after we're dead. Making plants grow.”
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

Aldous Huxley
“I feel,' he said, after a silence, 'as though I were just beginning to have something to write about. As though I were beginning to be able to use that power I feel I've got inside me--that extra, latent power.”
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

year in books
Nkem
226 books | 29 friends

Dell
1,569 books | 120 friends

Jude
417 books | 248 friends

Emilie ...
2,831 books | 815 friends



Favorite Genres



Polls voted on by Ben

Lists liked by Ben