Recommend me some books

[Yerda]

Good books are the best gifts I've ever recieved. If any of you have read anything you found particularly good I'd like to know. So, some recommendations please.

I like most genres. I like most styles. Short-stories, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, whatever.

Cheers!

 

[MissAlice]

These are books I love that're a bit underrated and fiction.


Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Welcome to the Monkey House. Great books and it's full of short stories.



Hermann Hesse Narcissus and Goldmund. You'll have to read it to decide for yourself. It's a little hard to explain from my own perception. I'm not exactly sure what it is that drew me about this book.



Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles. It's simple and full of short stories about the future in Mars and the effects of man's presence on its soil. I still like to go back and read it. My niece loves it as well.



Voltaire. Micromégas. This is a very very old work of science fiction about the observations and cultures viewed by an alien. Hard for me to explain so I just recommend you read it.




David Lindsay. A Voyage to Arcturus. I loved this book but as I've said each person has their own taste. It is also a work of fiction.



Richard Adams. Watership Down. It's about a rabbit society and written from their perspective.




H.P. Lovecraft. At the Mountains of Madness. Brilliant book but then again I like most of Lovecraft's novels.

 

[Cain]

Lords of the Left Hand Path - Dr. Stephen Flowers

 

[Yerda]

Thanks folks.

 

[Storm]

Jacqueline Carey.

 

[Yerda]

Jacqueline Carey.

I looked her up. I'll be honest, I've almost always avoided fantasy writing. Time to be more open-minded I think.

 

[Sententia]

In my humble opinion this book is awesome: The Demon-Haunted World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Storm]

I looked her up. I'll be honest, I've almost always avoided fantasy writing. Time to be more open-minded I think.

You should, she's amazing. What really sets her apart from the pack (I think) is her background as a theologian. The Sundering explores the concept of evil; the Kushiel series began as a contemplation of free will and the sanctity of sex.

Add to that some of the most elegant prose I've ever read, and she transcends mere fiction to craft true mythic cycles. I've read the original Kushiel trilogy cover to cover a dozen times, and I always find a new layer of meaning. It's not exaggerating too much to call it my Bible.

 

[Watchmen]

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Gunslinger (and the other Dark Tower books) by Stephen King.

Any of Neil Gaiman's short stories.

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman.

 

[elmarna]

A hitchhikers guide to the galaxy-
it is based on pespectives both humorus and gets you to think!!!!

 

[Kathryn]

I have some favorite authors who can't seem to write much that isn't great:

Thomas Friedmann - interesting sociological books and books related to current events worldwide. I love his inquisitive, honest, and balanced perspective

Bill Bryson - very entertaining, witty, and brutally honest books on mostly world travel. Hilarious, informative, and hard to put down!

Bruce Feiler - he immerses himself in different cultures (the circus, college in England, the Nashville music scene, teaching English in Japan, etc) and then writes about his experiences and insights. He's funny as well as sincere - and always respectful of other cultures and subcultures.

 

[SageTree]

Bill Bryson - very entertaining, witty, and brutally honest books on mostly world travel. Hilarious, informative, and hard to put down!

'A Walk in the Woods' is solid gold, by Bryson


"A Book of Negroes" was an AMAZING book, I've recently finished.
~By Lawrence Hill

I'd call it historical fiction and has to be THE easiest book format wise I've ever read.
It's one of those that you can get right into the 'voice'.

 

[Watchmen]

Anything by Steinbeck.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

The Mote in God's Eye - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Tales of the Dying Earth - Jack Vance
Gateway - Frederik Pohl
The Algebraist - Ian M. Banks
Forever War - Joe Haldeman
The Hyperion Cantos - Dan Simmons

 

[Kathryn]

'A Walk in the Woods' is solid gold, by Bryson


"A Book of Negroes" was an AMAZING book, I've recently finished.
~By Lawrence Hill

I'd call it historical fiction and has to be THE easiest book format wise I've ever read.
It's one of those that you can get right into the 'voice'.

Checking it out right now on Amazon - and will probably download it to my Kindle tonight! It looks really good. Thanks!

 

[Revoltingest]

Catch 22 (by Joseph Heller)
The Onion Field....& anything else by Joseph Wambaugh
Gorky Park....& anything else by Martin Cruz Smith, especially those featuring the intrepid Soviet investigator, Arkady Renko
Shibumi....& anything else by Trevanian
Slaughterhouse 5....Cat's Cradle....& anything else by Kurt Vonnegut
The Bonfire of the Vanities....A Man in Full....& anything else by Tom Wolfe
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)

 

[HiddenDjinn]

Calculus Made Easy(by Sylvanus Thompson)

 

[Yerda]

Thank you very much for the fast-growing reading list.

 

[Yerda]

Calculus Made Easy(by Sylvanus Thompson)

I've just found an online copy. It has the best prologue of any calculus book I've ever seen.