15 Books

[formerkywrestler]

Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein

Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov

The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkein

Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

The Godfather - Mario Puzo

Wiseguy - Nicholas Pileggi

Road to Perdition - Max Allan Collins

Donnie Brasco - Joseph D. Pistone

The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo

The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck

The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes (translation by John Ormsby)

Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

Germinal - Emile Zola

Lady Chatterly's Lover - D.H. Lawrence

 

In no particular order, along with several other books listed by others.

These should be on my list somewhere.

[coldweatherfan]

I forgot.

 

Liberty & Tyranny - Mark Levin

[owsleyking]

Have you read any beyond the original trilogy? I've read the first four and there are at least two others he wrote that I've heard of. I'm just wondering if it's worth it.

 

No I haven't. They have been on my 'to read' list for some time now,but just haven't gotten around to them.

[owsleyking]

Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein

Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov

The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkein

Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

The Godfather - Mario Puzo

Wiseguy - Nicholas Pileggi

Road to Perdition - Max Allan Collins

Donnie Brasco - Joseph D. Pistone

The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo

The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck

The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes (translation by John Ormsby)

Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

Germinal - Emile Zola

Lady Chatterly's Lover - D.H. Lawrence

 

In no particular order, along with several other books listed by others.

 

Ok...number one on my next list.

[SSC]

Bringing Down the House

Moneyball

The God Delusion

The Dawkins Delusion

The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to Bill Simmons

The Dollar Meltdown:

 

 

Just a start...

[formerkywrestler]

Just noticed that this was on both of our lists!

I love it.

[All Tell]

Alas, Babylon

Left Behind series

Harry Turtledove's South Wins series (The CSA wins the Civil War and exists as an enemy of the US through WW2)

The Godfather

The Exorcist

Dune Series

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan books (Other then Hunt for Red October the books are vastly superior to the movies)

Stephen King's Dark Tower series

The Stand

The Firm

The DaVinci Code

The Harry Potter books

Hannibal (because I HATED the ending)

Double Jeopardy: Obsession, Murder, and Justice Denied (the story of Brenda Shaeffer's murder at the hands of Mel Ignatow where he was acquitted, then subsequent discovery of photos proved his guilt)

[The Professor]

The Martian Chronicles-Ray Bradberry

The Hobbit- J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord Of The Ring Trilogy- J.R.R. Tolkien

Of Mice And Men- John Steinbeck

The Grapes Of Wrath-John Steinbeck

To Kill A Mockingbird-Harper Lee

Lord Of The Flies-William Golding

The Sirens Of Titan-Kurt Vonnegut

A Christmas Carol- Charles Dickens

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn/Tom Sawyer-Mark Twain

[PurpleHaze]

The Bible

The Left Behind Series

The LIttle House in the Big Woods....Very first book I ever read...

Of Mice and Men

Sarah Palin...Going Rogue

Friday Night Lights

I think the name was...Under the Bleachers...I know that was not the name, but, close...maybe it was just Bleachers.

After I'm Gone...it is a journal that you answer questions in. People read it after your death...boy, that has made me think.

Then there is a book that was required reading for my counseling class....it was...Do You know Who Lives Next Door....Our instructor brought the book in...that really made me think.

The Green River Killer's Wife. Poor lady.

Then there are all the books at Barnes and Noble under True Crime. I have read, if not all of them, pretty close. You never know about people. There was one where a child killed her parents over a boyfriend that she was not to see anymore because he was too old. I think she was 15 and he was in his 20's....And then there are the mobster books. There are a lot of these books that range from paid murder to murder of children. I like these books because I like to analyze the people who are monster enough to do these crimes.

[Cawoodball player]

In order of favorite...

 

1.) Chronicles of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

2.) Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

3.) Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

4.) Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

5.) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

5.) Bleachers by John Grisham

7.) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

8.) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

9.) The Metamorphisis by Franz Kafka

10.) The Trial by Franz Kafka

11.) The Stranger by Albert Camus

12.) The Education of a Coach (Bill Belichick) by David Halberstam

13.) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

14.) Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin

15.) Night by Elie Weisel

 

Being an English major, I had to read most of these books in literature courses, but a couple are guilty pleasures (ie. football books).

 

My favorite book, Chronicles of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, isn't as well known as the others, and isn't even his most popular book, but I love it! I suggest it for anyone.

Edited January 4, 2010 by Cawoodball player

[Jim Schue]

Not in any particular order:

 

"Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

"All The King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren

"Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson

"How To Lose Friends and Alienate People" by Toby Young

"To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

"The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" by Douglas C. Adams

"Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky

"A Bluegrass Conspiracy" by Sally Denton

"Hell's Angels" by Hunter S. Thompson

"The Cheese Chronicles: The Story of a Rock'n'Roll Band You've Never Heard Of" by Tommy Womack

 

I'm sure there's more, but this is what's coming to me off the top of my head.

[Colonels_Wear_Blue]

In order of favorite...

 

1.) Chronicles of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

2.) Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

3.) Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

4.) Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

5.) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

5.) Bleachers by John Grisham

7.) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

8.) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

9.) The Metamorphisis by Franz Kafka

10.) The Trial by Franz Kafka

11.) The Stranger by Albert Camus

12.) The Education of a Coach (Bill Belichick) by David Halberstam

13.) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

14.) Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin

15.) Night by Elie Weisel

 

Night is absolutely heartbreaking and in its brevity and the way Weisel just throws forth his accounts and thoughts from the holocaust. I know it is required in many schools, but really think this book should be required reading everywhere - every bit as much as To Kill A Mockingbird, Catcher In The Rye, and Romeo & Juliet are these days.

 

I can't even tell you how often this book and Primo Levi's If This Is A Man enter into my thoughts. If you haven't read If This Is A Man, I strongly suggest it.

[MBWC41]

Whoever is unable to come up with 15, say "I."

 

"I."

I...:lol:

 

This is going to make zero sense but here it goes...I enjoy reading but I don't read for enjoyment. I actually read quite a bit but 90% of the books I read are based on what I can learn. I read about the stock market, real estate and other investment books.

[kygirl]

In no particular order:

1. The Innocent Man by John Grisham

2. Einstein by Walter Isaacson

3. Me by Katharine Hepburn

4. The Fourth Procedure by Stanley Pottinger

5. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

6. Mrs deWinter by Susan Hill

7. Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy

8. Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

9. The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

10. I Took A Lickin' and Kept On Tickin' by Lewis Grizzard

11. A Humanizing Ministry by Tim Estes

12. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

13. In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead by James Lee Burke

14. Shem Creek by Dorothea Benton Frank

15. The Life of Sir Thomas More by William Roper

[owsleyking]

A point of personal interest,being as the book was my grandfather's favorite and after 51 years on this earth having finally finished it for the first time this year: Hangman is the only person to list Moby Dick so far.