Freeper Reading List (Please add your Suggestions)

[SamAdams76]

I know there have been similar lists in the past but would like to start a new thread with a focus on NEW books but feel free to throw in an old classic as well.

My reading has really increased over the past year since I switched to Kindle and now spend two hours a day commuting to Manhattan by train. I've actually punched through most of my reading list and I'm looking for some more books to add to it.

So I'm looking for Freepers to turn me (and others) on to some good reading.

Currently I'm re-reading Winston Churchill's massive 6-volume series on WW2 (I'm on "Their Finest Hour" volume) but would like to mix some other books in there as I like to read 2-3 books simultaneously, switching from one to the other depending on my mood. Sometimes I want to just read a good novel but love reading non-fiction as well as well as some historical or science fiction. I also like reading business books as well, for instance, I just read "Good to Great to Gone" which is the story of the rise and fall of Circuit City.

I know that Freepers have the best book recommendations and it's been a while since I've seen a thread so I think it would be a good time to start a new one.

One book I might add to my Kindle today is "Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlein. I borrowed that from the library a few years back and got just a couple chapters into it before I had to return it but it looked like it was going to be pretty good.

Looking at new books, "The Wright Brothers" by David McCullough and "Dead Wake (Last Crossing of the Lusitania) by Erik Larson look good.

[Gen.Blather]

“A reminder that I need to get on the ball, and back into the swing of writing.”

Don’t be overly ambitious at first. Carry a marker pen and modify liberals bumper stickers. It allows you to vent creativity, angst and humor all in one go, but it’s not big on plot development or characterization.

[goodnesswins]

BOOKmark

[HonkyTonkMan]

bttt for BONHOEFFER (Metaxas)

[luvbach1]

I don't read many new books these days but here are some of my old favorites:
A Tramp Abroad--Mark Twain; Studs Lonigan Trilogy--James T. Farrell; The Caine Mutiny--Herman Wouk; The Mayor of Casterbridge--Thomas Hardy; The Jungle--Upton Sinclair; Babbitt--Sinclair Lewis; The Naked and The Dead--Norman Mailer; Two Years Before The Mast--Richard Henry Dana; Andersonville--MacKinlay Kantor.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I read “The Virginian” earlier this year and enjoyed it immensely. It’s amazing that Wister was an easterner with limited time in the west when he wrote that.

I just finished “One Secon After” and “One Year After” by William Forstchen. They are highly realistic books about the ultimate SHTF events for which almost nobody can prepare. They are really indictments about government inaction the last 30 years on these well-known and well-understood potential means of attack on the U.S. I really wouldn’t recommend them as holiday fare — wait until the dead of winter in February.

I’m currently reading “The Most Powerful Idea in the World” by William Rosen. It is “a story of steam, industry and invention.” I enjoy reading on these topics. This book is actually highly relevant to the question “why didn’t Muslims invent modern society?” The book won’t be everybody’s cup of tea because there is a HUGE amount of detail on the invention of metallurgy and the making of iron and steel, followed by the discovery of using heat engines to do work and later the scientific analysis of heat engines, ie, thermodynamics. You always read about the most famous and successful inventors such as Watt, but you often don’t realize the top guys had hundreds of competitors chasing them. The story also concentrates on the legal and patent environment in England that rewarded inventors financially.

In the same vein, I really enjoyed “Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II” which I read last year..

Next up: A shift back to politics and culture and why Western Civilization is being lost: “The Devil’s Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West” by Michael Walsh. VDH gives this book a great review and recommendation.

[upchuck]

13 HOURS - What really happened at Benghazi.

ONE SECOND AFTER.

NO EASY DAY.

ALAS BABYLON (not a new book, but a classic).

THE MAKING OF JACK FALCONE.

[Dante3]

I know many here oppose the views of Kirsten Powers - and so do I. However, her book THE SILENCING effectively sums up the tyranny of what she labels “illiberal liberals,” and how insane our colleges have become in suppressing the truth. Those trying to decide on college need to read this.

[bunster]

You might like “The Shepherd’s Life: Modern Dispatches From an Ancient Landscape”
by James Rebanks

A modern shepherd in Northern England’s Lake District whose life is ordered by the seasons. I learned so much about sheep and this lucky, hardworking man (Rebanks) who has been able to make a living raising sheep thanks to Beatrix Potter (of all people) who saved the area from developers in mid 20th Century.

I’ll read your suggestion if you’ll take a look at mine - deal?

[Monterrosa-24]

The trouble with the film, BONHOEFFER: AGENT OF GRACE is that one would never know from that movie that Bonhoeffer was a strict constructionist regarding scripture. He hated liberal theology institutions such as Union Theological Seminary in midtown Manhattan.

Metaxas’ book gives us a closer look at the real Bonhoeffer.

[SE Mom]

If you’ve never read The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, it is a must. For anyone who loves liberty and rejects the cause of the collective, it will amaze you, and strenghten your understanding.

I read this when it was first published and have remembered it for decades.

[No You Cant]

Here is my short-list”

1) Lookup and read the 45 goals of communism. Pay special attention to #17.
2) Go to youtube and watch “The Wave”. (School experiment.)
3) On youtube, watch the movie “The childrens story. (in 3 parts)
4) Read: The Naked Communist, By: Cleon Skousen

[HonkyTonkMan]

For ideas: Goodreads 2015 Book Lists

[RickGee]

I just finished American Betrayal by Diana West. It ties together all the spying and influence of the Soviet Union in America from the ‘30s onward.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250055814?keywords=american%20betrayal%20diana%20west&qid=1448737203&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1

Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg traces the history of “progressive” thought:
http://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Fascism-American-Mussolini-Politics/dp/0767917189/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1448737372&sr=1-1&keywords=liberal+fascism

Bastiat’s The Law is great. Available free here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44800

[Kid Shelleen]

>> Have you read Radical Son by Horowitz? It's in my top ten best memoir-type books <<

Agree; one of the most fascinating political memoirs/bios I have ever read. It should be required reading by all conservatives.

Another recommendation from me would be:
Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy

[SamAdams76]

Thanks, I will check them out. Another Freeper that is an author!

[amorphous]

Excellent survival novel suggestions for your reading list here:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=mathew+braken

Many available on kindle unlimited! ;-)

[HonkyTonkMan]

Appreciate the insight Monterrosa-24. I enjoyed the detail in the book and probably will not watch the movie. I recall DB was very much against the liberals - I think he watched what happened to the Confessing Church and the creation of the complacent Nazi evangelical church; he just could not reconcile the situation in Germany with the liberal excess in the USA.

[locountry1dr]

bfl

[Roos_Girl]

Wool by Hugh Howey
Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson
Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss

[pa_dweller]

Life at the Bottom - Ted Dalrymple

Old Man's War - John Scalzi