The Art of War is good if you can get through it. There is a reason it is still required reading at West Point.
I'm a nerd at heart, so some of my favorite books include the following: The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan - my favorite bar none, I am anxiously awaiting how they end the series when the final book comes out next year. The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind - very good series with engaging characters. The Belgariad and The Mallorean by David Eddings Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Both are really good. A lot of guy humor, especially in Average American Male. They are light, easy, quick reads.
25th Hour 1984 Shutter Island Moneyball Confessions of an Economic Hitman The Road Paris 1919 The Heroin Diaries Some Keith Moon Bio Scott Weiland Autobiography The Third Chimpanzee-Great book The Book of Basketball-Currently reading Oil!-Upton Sinclair Brave New World-Hated it. Paris 1919 All the Shah's Men-Awesome book about the 1953 Iranian Coup Great Gatsby-read it for a class. Hated it at the time. These were all from the past 3 years probably. All worth checking out.
1) Rasco and the Rats of Nimh 2) Hank the Cowardly Dog series 3) Sherlock Holmes: The Hounds of Baskervilles 4) Fifty-Nine in '84 5) Winning's Only Part of the Game 6) Lord of the Flies 7) Adventure of Huckleberry Fin 8) The Canterbury Tales 9) The Great Gatsby 10) Animal Farm 11) Growing With Old Men (read this in High School and can't remember the exact name) 12) Goosebump series 13) Animorphs series
No particular order: Bill Simmon's Book of Basketball - *** War as They Knew It by Michael Rosenberg - *** highlights the Ten Year War between Bo and Woody... Awesome book for those Michigan/O$U fans here Clockwork Orange High Fidelity Fever Pitch Of Mice and Men One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - *** On the Road - *** Where the Red Fern Grows - *** (Who doesn't love this book) Currently reading: Three and Out - Rich Rodriguez's chronicles of his time in Ann Arbor Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson My Life - by Keith Richards
It's so hard to rank them. Some of my favorites: To Kill a Mockingbird Shogun Lucifer's Hammer A mote in God's Eye Ringworld Pillars of the Earth LOTR Trilogy The Stand Moneyball Into the Wild The Bear and the Dragon Clear and Present Danger The Firm An Army at Dawn The Day of Battle Flags of our Fathers
The Song of Ice and Fire books (Game of Thrones) are my favorite books of all time. Really glad that the TV series is doing the books justice. Also a big fan of nonfiction books. Guns, Germs, and Steel is fantastic, as is Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands.
Best book ever... http://www.amazon.com/Love-Affair-C...9WCI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1338871785&sr=8-1
Just finished reading Swing Your Sword by Mike Leach. Absolutely amazing read, I recommend it to everyone.
I almost got that, but I dont think it is in paperback yet and I didn't have the cash to shell out for the hardback
I read a bunch of books through school, many of the classics... However, for entertainment I mostly stick to fantasy/scifi Robert Jordan - Wheel of Time Series - One of my all-time favorites and my first serious fantasy series. I started reading this in middle school and have read through the series to the latest book at the time several times now. The original author died, but one of my other favorites is finishing it from the notes the author left. First 6 or 7 books are excellent, it does get a bit watered down in the last few books the original author wrote, but still good stuff. George RR Martin - Song of Ice and Fire - You guys know it from Game of Thrones. If you like the show, read the books. They go into more depth than is possible in the show. Terry Goodkind - Sword of Truth Series - I read the first book in 1 day while in college, that is how much I think of it. The 1st 4 books are top notch. The quality falls off a bit in the later books, but still worth reading. He tops off what I consider my 'big 3' of fantasy authors. Tolkien - LotR/Hobbit- Godfather of fantasy. What else can be said? Good stuff, but I like the more in depth and epic nature of the 3 above over these. Robin Hobb - Farseer Trilogy/Live Ship Traders/Tawny Man trilogy/ Soldier Son Trilogy - She is a very good writer who seems to hate her main characters. The first few are about an assassin as he grows and develops and they are basically tragic fantasy novels. Very engaging stories and writing, you feel for the characters. Steven Erikson - Malazan series - huge series. They are all in the same world, but follow a gradual timeline with some characters spanning various amounts of books. More of a world story chronicling an empire and war instead of following a band of characters. Very epic and vast. Glen Cook - Black Company series - Very similar to the Malazan, though this was part of Eriksons inspiration. These books follow a mercenary band over a decent period of time. Guys die off and new ones are added etc. They are usually up against a set of demigod like characters... Raymond Feist - Riftwar Saga and following trilogies - 1 major character throughout all the trilogies, but each trilogy is usually a set of characters, and the following trilogies are wars are usually made up of the children of the major characters in the previous series. David Eddings - Belgariad/Malloreon/Elenium/Tamuli - Another epic writer. Belgariad and Malloreon are his earliest and best. The rest of his books get too derivative and his newest stuff is pretty bad. The originals are amazing though, he just seems to want to keep writing the same series each time... Patrick Rothfuss - Kingkiller Chronicles - Excellent new writer. Only 2 books in the series so far, but I see him as one of the next great fantasy writers. Story follows 1 characters journey and is similar to an adult and more mature Harry Potter. not exactly, but thats a decent way to explain it. R.A. Salvatore - Drizzt books - Several series spanning over a dozen books with the main character a Drow Elf Drizzt. Basically classic 80s fantasy that takes place in D&D world. Not the best writer, he does like to focus on the sword fighting and battle scenes. Weis/Hickman - Dragonlance books - Another pair of famous D&D writers. The Chronicles and Legends Trilogy are famous fantasy series. Tad Williams - Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn / Otherland / Shadowmarch - One of my other early fantasy reads with the high fantasy MSaT series. He changed gears and did a cool modern sci-fi series in Otherland where people get stuck in a more developed internet basically. And I havent finished his newest series Shadowmarch Roger Zelazny - Amber series - A fantasy classic. Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn/Way of Kings/Wheel of Time - He is finishing the Wheel of Time series. His Mistborn Trilogy was interested and a unique take on the genre. The Way of Kings is a huge epic book starting a new series, and I cant wait for the next. J.V. Jones - Sword of Shadows - Good series that is still on going. It is somewhat similar in flavor to GoT. Jennifer Roberson - Sword-Dancer Saga - A decent trilogy, not amazing, but worth reading. John Marco - Tyrants and Kings/ Eyes of God - Another decent writer and series of books. Terry Brooks - Shannara series - A classic that I have tried to get into but struggled with. Too derivative of Tolkien L.E. Modesitt Jr - Recluce Saga/Corean Chronicles - I have read a few of the Recluce novels, there are a ton. They are all set in same world, but with no connected or returning characters from book to book
Currently reading Breakaway, a book about how the Pittsburgh Penguins were able to stay in Pittsburgh and get a new arena. Read alot of wrestlers biographies.
O.M.G. I've finally found a thread that I can participate in. lol TSO Bookclub...what!? I am completely impressed with all of these reading lists and I'm fully intending to go through a lot of them later and add some to my own reading list. Here's my contribution: Intriguing: Black Swan Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson - was wondering if this would be any good Lucifer's Hammer - looooove post-apocalyptic Current: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett Crazy River by Richard Grant (awesome book about a traveler/writer's journey to East Africa Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono Past: The Newlyweds by Nell Freudenberger (eh, it was okay, kind of a twist on a romance novel without the romance lol) Game of Thrones (awesome...making myself wait for the others) Beauty by Laurell K. Hamilton (one of the vamp series I'm obsessed with ...a little interlude from her newest book) Hunger Games Trilogy (Enjoyed all of them. They were a fun read.)
