book recommendations

[scouser1]

Ok getting close to spring time and possibly some outdoor reading with a coffee, I am turning to my fellow Terbites for book recommendations, I am a huge history and politics buff but looking for anything in all genres.

 

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Fiction

The Charm School, by Nelson DeMille

Non-fiction

A Short History Of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson

 

[Mr. Lucky]

I don't read books much
I try to sometimes but I fall asleep!


I say take a visit to Chapters Book store

 

[ig-88]

Passion Politique by Jean Chretien

 

[onthebottom]

I think this Winston Churchill series is indispensable: http://www.amazon.com/Second-World-War-Six-Boxed/dp/039541685X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_a

I have a first edition set that I read on my NYC commute several years ago...

Also The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria is a good read.

OTB

 

[John Williams 785]

War In A Time of Peace, by David Halberstam... about the events leading up to the Clinton administration's decision to intercede in Bosnia. Fascinating behind the scenes look at how their foreign policy evolved leading up to the decision.

 

[danmand]

Out stealing horses by Petersen.

A short history of tractors in ukranian

 

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Atlas Shrugged
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
1984
Brave New World
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Idiot
War and Peace
Illusions
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Lord of the Rings
The Iliad
The Odyssey
The Republic
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
The Bourne Identity
Inside the Third Reich
Le Miserables
A Brief History of Time

That should keep you going for a week.

 

[LKD]

Ideas : A history from fire to Freud. by Peter Watson

 

[ChuckL]

Fiction The Terror - by Dan Simmons, great fictionalized account of the doomed Franklin Expedition searching for the North West Passage through the Arctic

Non - Fiction A Short History of Nearly Everything- By Bill Bryson very funny

Non- Fiction I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell - by Tucker Max. I very literally came close to wetting myself while reading this on a flight to Shanghai.

 

[Hannah_]

Some of my personal favorites...

The Giver - Lois Lowry

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

Things White People Like - Christian Lander

Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

 

[alphanig]

First of all, good thing you're not a manc haha!

Bud you should try Dan Brown. Some fantastic books tbh - The Davinci Code, Digital Fortress, Angels and Demons and my favourite Deception Point!

 

[ballbust]

here's a 100
http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/14/100-must-read-books-the-essential-mans-library/

when I have time the next book I'm reading is
"The Art of Warfare by Sun Tzu"

 

[Radio_Shack]

Can't think of any books off hand but here's a couple to ponder:

ULYSSES by James Joyce
THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
CATCH-22
DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
1984 by George Orwell
I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara
U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell
THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh
AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene
LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell
POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad
THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence
WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller

 

[Anynym]

There are a lot of good classics online, including much of the "Harvard Classics" ("The Five-foot Shelf of Knowledge" which was assembled to provide a solid classical education in the classics.)

 

[Hannah_]

If you're ever in the mood for a short story try "Suffer the Little Children" by Stephen King. Pretty eerie stuff.

 

[Mr. Lucky]

 

[scouser1]

some really interesting recommendations here guys and gals, lets keep this thread going as long as possible for anyone to suggest a book they have read, but can we try to keep the usual classics out, I mean everyone knows about them and honestly James Joyce is completely unreadable

 

[Miss Maya Blue]

Of water and the spirit

the biography of/by Malidoma Some

a first hand account of an african shaman's initiation into shamanism

just amazing.

http://www.amazon.com/Water-Spirit-Ritual-Initiation-African/dp/0140194967

 

[hunter001]

http://www.cbc.ca/canadareads/books.html