Freeper Reading List (Please add your Suggestions)

[SamAdams76]

I know there have been similar lists in the past but would like to start a new thread with a focus on NEW books but feel free to throw in an old classic as well.

My reading has really increased over the past year since I switched to Kindle and now spend two hours a day commuting to Manhattan by train. I've actually punched through most of my reading list and I'm looking for some more books to add to it.

So I'm looking for Freepers to turn me (and others) on to some good reading.

Currently I'm re-reading Winston Churchill's massive 6-volume series on WW2 (I'm on "Their Finest Hour" volume) but would like to mix some other books in there as I like to read 2-3 books simultaneously, switching from one to the other depending on my mood. Sometimes I want to just read a good novel but love reading non-fiction as well as well as some historical or science fiction. I also like reading business books as well, for instance, I just read "Good to Great to Gone" which is the story of the rise and fall of Circuit City.

I know that Freepers have the best book recommendations and it's been a while since I've seen a thread so I think it would be a good time to start a new one.

One book I might add to my Kindle today is "Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlein. I borrowed that from the library a few years back and got just a couple chapters into it before I had to return it but it looked like it was going to be pretty good.

Looking at new books, "The Wright Brothers" by David McCullough and "Dead Wake (Last Crossing of the Lusitania) by Erik Larson look good.

[Gen.Blather]

Here are the ones I wrote. ;)

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A133140011%2Cp_27%3ABern%20Pearson

[samadams2000]

The Haj by Leon Uris
The Virginian by Owen Wister

2 great books

[hoosiermama]

Read THE LAST FARMER by Howard Kohn. Read to the end. A great understanding of the German work ethic that formed the Midwest and a certain political family

[PGR88]

Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. Charles Murray.

[RepRivFarm]

“Unintended Consequences” by John Ross.

It is definitely time to start feeding the hogs.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1888118040/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1448735208&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=unintended+consequences+john+ross&dpPl=1&dpID=51SEZT5T36L&ref=plSrch

[sparklite2]

Neptune’s Inferno

Mouthful of Rocks

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Kafka’s Short Stories

Catch-22

Chimera

[apocalypto]

Adios, America by Ann Coulter is a must read.

Day of Wrath, a novella by William R. Forstchen

[Auntie Mame]

Have you read Radical Son by Horowitz? It’s in my top ten best memoir-type books.

I don’t read new books, they’re mostly terrible I’ve found. It takes years to sift the wheat from the chaff and life’s too short to read a bad book when there’s so many good ones out there.

I’m really loving all Patrick Lee’s books. They’re suspense with a little paranormal. Can’t put ‘em down.

And last but not least, almost always, if a book is really really popular, it will suck. Take “The Goldfinch” for example. It won a Pulitzer Prize and it had to be the most gawd-awful dreck I’ve ever tried to read. Seriously, I think whoever wrote it was on drugs; you know, those prescription drugs they have out there that make you boring as hell? I think they’re called psychotropic. In fact, stay away from Pulitzer Prize-winning books period.

[bigbob]

David Liss, start with “A Conspiracy of Paper”. Fascinating.

[Monterrosa-24]

THE SUM OF GOOD GOVERNMENT by Phil Crane

CANCER WARD by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

BONHOEFFER by Eric Metaxas

I’M FRANK HAMER by H. Gordon Frost

These are just a few I’ve re-thumbed recently that are part of the multitude that could be added to the list.

[drbuzzard]

This one reads as downright prescient.

http://www.amazon.com/Caliphate-Tom-Kratman-ebook/dp/B00ARPJDLA/ref=sr_1_5?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1448735725&sr=1-5&keywords=kratman

And you cannot beat the price on Kindle.

[Mercat]

Confederates in the attic

[Temujinshordes]

Black Flags, The Rise of ISIS, by Joby Warrick

[Diana in Wisconsin]

*BUMP* for later. Great topic. I’m a major reader; I’m never without a book or two going at once. Love, Love, LOVE to read.

(Thanks, Mom!)

[dainbramaged]

Anything by Harry Turtledove, especially Guns of the South.

[amorphous]

I enjoyed "The Martian", as well as the movie. Btw, I find kindle unlimited a good value.

And if you're in to this sort of thing:

And if you're not, you oughta be! ;-)

[sauropod]

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[Tanniker Smith]

A reminder that I need to get on the ball, and back into the swing of writing.

[PubliusMM]

Anything by Ayn Rand, “The Fountainhead”, “Atlas Shrugged”, at least, and then toss in “The Virtue of Selfishness”.

Grew up on Heinlein and Asimov, Phillip K Dick, and others.

H. Ryder Haggard, “She” and “Return of She” were great. The “Quartermain” stuff is pretty good.