Try Chat.
“Unfit for Command’
Kama Sutra. Scratch and Sniff version.
Wind in the Willows. Mr. Toad rocks!
If you liked The Virginan by Owen Wister try books from Louie L’Amore.
The Bible for $1000, Alex.
Most of the early Heinlein, his later stuff was not as good, the thicker the book, the worse it is.
CS Lewis, “There once was a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb and he almost deserved it.”
Replay, by Ken Grimwood
Of Heinlein's stuff, I've got to go with Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven will do tall time in hell for his excremental film!) or Time Enough for Love.
Off the top of my head...
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Memoirs of an Invisible Man by H.F. Saint
Without Remorse by Tom Clancy
The Cay by Theodore Taylor (short, but very good)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Firestarter, Needful Things, and Different Seasons by Stephen King
“A Perfect Spy” by John LeCarre.
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
1776 by David McCollough
Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
The Odyssey(trans. Fitzgerald)
The Iliad(trans. Lattimore)
The Complete Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
I have read literally hundreds of books tho I am not a heavy reader. I honestly can’t think of a single one which just stands out as great.
For some reason a fairly obscure book by Xenophon called “The Anabasis” or “The March up Country” stands out as an extraordinary book about extraordinary times.
The adventures of 10,000 Greek mercenaries trapped a thousand miles from home in Persia. How they fought their way home after the Persians treacherously murdered their generals during a peace conference.
Xenophon, who was an Athenian and a Spartan, whose name I can’t recall, were elected generals by the troups and the two worked perfectly together. I think around 6400 finally made it back to Greece.
I liked David McCullough’s: John Adams.
it’s okay, the 19th century prose was a little hard for me to get through. BTW, it’s based on the so called Johnson County War, between large cattle operations—often owned by Eastern and/or foreign interest—and small indpendent ranchers. Wister took the side of the big ranchers, whom history has judged to have been in the wrong. The definitive nonfiction account is The War on Powder River, by Helena Huntington Smit, written in the fifties and still available thru Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/War-Powder-River-H-Smith/dp/0803251882
The best book I have ever read would be Hostage To The Devil if you are into exorcism and possession. Also The Enemies series Foreign and Domestic, Domestic etc. Just finished Dracula and it was by far better than anything Hollywood has produced about it, highly recommended.
I first read “The Wizard of Oz” When I was in the 4th grade. We had an interesting setup where each classroom had it’s own library. They had two copies of it.
I read some of the other OZ stories recently and they are about as good as “The Wizard”.