Summer reading recommendations -- What are you reading?

July 13, 2009 | ChocChipCookie

[ChocChipCookie]

I haven't seen a good summer reading thread, so I thought I'd start one. What books have you read so far this summer, what are you currently reading, and what is in your book stack?

I just started reading The Doomsday Key by James Rollins. So far it has an interesting premise, genetically altered foods, but I am only about 1/8 of the way through.

I will probably read Glenn Beck's Common Sense and maybe Dred Scott's Revenge by Judge Napolitano.

I love hearing what everyone else is reading!

[JLS]

I am reading the classical _The Road to Serfdom_ by Hayek.

[ChocChipCookie]

Just realized I began every paragraph of my post with “I”. It’s all about me, I guess. :o)

[r9etb]

Re-reading Churchill's 5-volume series on the Second World War.

Fans of Homer J. Simpson's posts will understand the relevance....

[rovenstinez]

I am reading LESSONS FROM THE POOR.

[Tired of Taxes]

I read “Atlas Shrugged” in January. That’s enough reading for me for the entire year. ;-)

[John W]

Nixonland finished. Now reading-

Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination

[zkbeta51]

Besides all the Jim Cramer books, I am currently 100 pages into Power, Ambition, Glory by Steve Forbes and John Prevas. Pretty good book.

[redhead]

In the master bathroom, it's Ann Coulter's "Godless." In the living room, it's "Depression Free, Naturally." There are others here and there in various degrees of "read-ness" but those are the main stops at this point.

[agere_contra]

Just started “Lights Out” by Steyn.

[kevinm13]

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes.

Great read. Lots of parallels with today, unfortunately.

[meadsjn]

Just finished "Foreign Enemies and Traitors" by Matt Bracken, FR's own Travis McGee.

Highly recommended, along with the previous two in the series.

[TightyRighty]

I love to read but have decided to take the summer to do some writing instead. I’ve got a stack of unread books in my bedroom that are looking really lonely right now!

[hampdenkid]

Reading all of John Connolly’s novels. The man understands that we live in a world where good and evil actually exist in manifest forms.

[anniegetyourgun]

If you're a Glenn Beck listener, you've heard everything that is in the book already. I read it, but don't recommend you spend money on it - unless you're buying it to give to some unthinking lib.

Finally getting around to Liberal Fascism - very well written - recommend.

I just finished The Shack - don't go there.

Next up for me will be The Black Swan.

[Batman11]

Just finished Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny.

READ IT!

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Finishing Moby-Dick, and also working on Gulliver's Travels, Don Quixote, Le Morte D'Arthur, and Bruce Catton's one-volume The Civll War.

[gOOsefmalOOsef]

I am reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, have heard the recomendation many times and since I am taking the summer off from school I thought I would give it a go. Of course after I read this it will be time for my yearly reading on the Lord of the Rings trilogy along with The Silmarillion by Tolkein.

Atlas Shrugged however, has turned out to be prophetic and one of the best books I have read.

[Puppage]

The First Tycoon

[SMARTY]

Just finished ‘Wreck of the Medusa’ A. McKee, just beginning ‘A History of Warfare’ J. Keegan

[ChocChipCookie]

Have you read The Worst Hard Time? That was an excellent book, all about the Dust Bowl.

Oh, I recently read Patriots. It was okay. Definitely thought provoking in an apocalyptic way.

[jla]

fyi

[Owl_Eagle]

Finishing War Made New (Max Boot)
Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming
Politically Incorrect Guide to Evolution
I Can’t Believe I’m Sitting Next to a Republican

Since we’re talking books though, CAN NOT RECOMMEND ENOUGH “Aquariums of Pyongyang”. Most moving book I’ve ever read (written by the hand of man anyway).

[bunster]

You’ll enjoy Black Swan — just finished it. another along the same lines is Malcolm Gladwell’s - Outliers - on the NY times Nonfiction best seller list (if that means anything). In fact Black Swan author and Gladwell reference each other.

[LongElegantLegs]

I’m rereading ‘The Frugal American Housewife’. I think you can get it free from Project Gutenberg.

[freemama]

I just finished Common Sense. I’m reading Anti-Cancer: A New Way of Life by David Servan-Schreiber and Rick and Bubba’s Guide to the Almost Nearly Perfect Marriage by Rick Burgess and Gill Bussey.

[tnlibertarian]

Becker CPA exam review material. I wouldn’t recommend it. Unless you suffer from insomnia.

[ChocChipCookie]

Just finished Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny.

READ IT!

I own it! Completely forgot about it. I wonder where it is...

[jla]

Just realized I began every paragraph of my post with “I”. It’s all about me, I guess. :o)

I just noticed that.

[Wu]

The Good Thief and The Outlander

[La Lydia]

William Taubman’s biography of Khrushchev; Donna Leon’s “About Face” and “August Heat” by Andrea Camilleri.

[abb]

Who Killed CBS? Peter J. Boyer
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Who+Killed+CBS%3F-a06494414

[MtnClimber]

I am rereading "Atlas Shrugged" and following the Freeper Book Review.

I am also reading "Foreign Enemies and Traitors" by Matthew Bracken who is Freeper Travis McGee.

[Fred Hayek]

Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg

[BGHater]

Wolf Totem: A Novel-Jiang Rong
The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates-Peter T. Leeson

[woollyone]

Gulag Archipelego - by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Am learning how to cope with the coming round-ups and maintain a sense of humor.

Seriously though, this is scary reading. I still have not come to even remotely comprehend the complete depravity of the whole thing. It foreshadows what is truly possible, even here, in the US, if we allow a depraved tyrant to rule over us.

Also just finished Glenn Beck's Common Sense.

[wordsofearnest]

I read that 30 + years ago. Not very interesting but practical.

[listenhillary]

Glenn Beck : Common Sense
Boortz: Fair tax:Answering the Critics
Levin: Liberty and Tyranny

[IronKros]

This summer I have read:

The Iliad
Walden
The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

Currently Reading:
Chronicles of the Black Company Series
I am on the second omnibus.

Military Dark Fantasy, pretty interesting.

[wordsofearnest]

Good luck to you also.

[envisio]

Service manual for a 1978 cb750 SOHC.
Cabellas catalog.
Book on home brewing.
“Big-Uns” 25th anniversary edition.
JohnDeere parts and accessories catalog.

[scramjet]

Just finished “Enemies Foreign and Domestic” by Matt Bracken, aka Travis Mcgee.

[listenhillary]

Highly recommended : Myth of the Robber Barons by Burton Folsom

[Dansong]

Just finished “Gods And Generals” by Shaara and “Old Soldiers Never Die”(MacArthur) by Perret. Dwyer’s “Napoleon” awaits.

[Big Red Clay]

Been a little slow on the reading so far. What I have gotten done this summer-

“Liberty and Tyranny” by Mark Levin
“Common Sense” by Glenn Beck
“The Silent Man” by Alex Berenson

I will probably finish “The Apostle” by Brad Thor tonight. Gotta head to Barnes & Noble since I don’t really have anything in the on deck circle.

[raybbr]

Just realized I began every paragraph of my post with “I”. It’s all about me, I guess. :o)

That's why it's called a "vanity".

[The Louiswu]

Sci-Fi summer fluff Polaris by James McDevitt and the compaion
Seeker also my Mr. McDevitt.

Sci-fi/mystery novels set in the far future with a dose of archeology tossed in.

[CAD Daddy]

Brad Thor, The Last Patriot. Very good action/spy novel.

[Hegemony Cricket]

Now *that’s* an eclectic list! :-)

[Disambiguator]

I just finished the Matt Bracken trilogy a week and a half ago. GR8STUF.

Next up: Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein (never read it before)

I may also tear into Beowulf. We picked up a copy as part of my kid’s curriculum for the upcoming school year.