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.

[Marathoner]

Killing Reagan by Bill O-Reilly

One Year After (sequel to One Second After).

[Mrs. B.S. Roberts]

“Watches I Have Known” is a good read for commuting. Stories
of people and their watches. FReeper author!

Americana at its best.

[Nuocmam]

A Conflict of Visions and The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell

[Billthedrill]

New as of this year is Nikolaus Wachsmann's KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps. It isn't simply a must-read for a WWII scholar, it's a meticulous study of a police state gone absolutely toxic. Be prepared for some uneasy conclusions: who knew? Everyone and no one. Were they the same as the Holocaust? No, and then yes. Could they happen again? No, literally, but something very like them, certainly. I'm re-reading it now because it was too much for one gulp. Highly recommended.

[LakeEffectLad]

1984 -Orwell
Stonewalled -Atkisson

[SamAdams76]

So many great suggestions, I wish I could respond to everybody. But I just downloaded "Conspiracy of Paper" and will likely get a few more of these suggestions before the weekend is over. I read "The Coffee Trader" and "Whiskey Rebels" by Liss a few years back and forgot how good this author was.

It appears that "Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Heinlein is not available on Kindle. That's a bummer.

[wastedyears]

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Rogue Warrior by Dick Marcinko
Ghost by John Ringo

[wtd]

For the great part, my personal library includes non-fiction reference type, heavily dog-eared books relating to Islam - not the kind of book one recommends for leisurely enjoyment, but by far the majority of books populating my bookshelves.

The few fictional books I managed to complete, enjoy and chose to re-read multiple times include:

• Herman Wouk's "Winds of War", "War and Rememberance", "Inside, Outside", "The Law Giver"
• Ian Toll's "Six Frigates" (5 star!)
• Frank Herbert's "Dune" (took a very long time and great effort to get started, but well worth it)

  I'm particularly fond of a recently discovered series :

• Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" series. I've read all eight full novels in the last 5 months, re-listen to each novel on audible while performing mundane tasks or run errands and have watched the first season of the cable series on Starz while recovering from illness (which introduced me to the books).

[Stegall Tx]

Spinneret by Timothy Zahn Very entertaining and it has a fairly worthwhile ending.

[SaxxonWoods]

For musicians and people who like them, or wonder about them.

“Another Nightmare Gig From Hell”, musicians’ tales of wonder and woe, by Nick Zelinger and Tammy Bracket

Available on Amazon. Read a chapter a day and get your daily belly laugh.

Big Head Todd and the Monsters and more. Hysterical stories of gigs gone bad.

[Hulka]

Uncle Toms Cabin.

Must read.

[PeaRidge]

“Complicity......How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery.” written by Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank, veteran journalists with the Hartford Courant.

The authors provide “the rest of the story of slavery” avoided by historians since the 1800’s.

[Auntie Mame]

http://www.amazon.com/Caliphate-Tom-Kratman-ebook/dp/B00ARPJDLA/ref=sr_1_5?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1448735725&sr=1-5&keywords=kratman

Got it. Thanks.

[tbw2]

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, WW1-postWW2 Russian gulag system history
“Sirat: Through the Fires of Hell”, sci-fi
“America: The Last, Best Hope” by Prager

[Dante3]

I found ONE SECOND AFTER hard to put down but haven’t had a chance to read the sequel yet.

[mumblypeg]

Recently read The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess. Written 1961 about a dystopian society ruled by homosexuals. The protagonist is pretending to be gay to keep his government job, but comes under suspicion for secretly having an affair with a woman. Burgess is better known for A Clockwork Orange.
Am currently reading Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe. It’s set in Miami, where anti-Castro Cubans rule and white people are fast becoming a minority. But things don’t line up neatly; Wolfe goes deep into the complexities and hypocricies, always with brutal, incisive humor.
Am planning to go back and read all of Wolfe’s books and articles which I somehow missed years ago: Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers; and Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; and The Right Stuff.
I did read, and LOVED, Bonfire of the Vanities, a viciously hilarious skewering of the unholy alliance between white Manhattan liberals and ghetto black activists, with one character—a shakedown artist— clearly a Rev. Al / Rev. Jesse composite.
Written in the 80s, it deserves a revival now in light of all the BLM noise. Forget the Tom Hanks movie. Read the book.

Also, recently re-read Orwell’s 1984. Understood it better this time than I did when in high school.

An exceptional cookbook is The Catch and The Feast, by Joie and Bill
McGrail. (Pub.1969, still available online.) Big city, high society girl marries a country boy. He teaches her how to shoot, hunt, and field dress the catch!! She then turns the catch into elaborate gourmet meals fit for Henry VIII’s table. Entertaining reading, lots of mouth watering pictures and recipes. I recommend this one for hunters and preppers!

Thanks for this thread, Sam!

[Pirate Ragnar]

Add Rand’s We The Living

[Crucial]

Reading 1984 now and for a book that old, it really explains the Leftist insanity going on now. Radical Son was good as well as others have mentioned. The Foundation series by Asimov is great as well.

[mumblypeg]

Oh yeah, forgot to mention: love author Dean Koontz.
Especially the Odd Thomas series, about a clairvoyant minimum wage fry cook with superpowers. Thomas sees evil, calls it what it is, and fights it, while also having acerbic conversations with the ghosts of Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Alfred Hitchcock.
Koontz is Catholic, and he lays a lot of Biblical truth in between the lines.

[trisham]

Nelson DeMille
By the Rivers of Babylon
Cathedral
Mayday
Night Fall
Plum Island
Spencerville
The Book Case
The Charm School
The Gate House
Up Country
Word of Honor

Stephen Hunter
Bob Lee Swagger series
Point of Impact (1993)
Black Light (1996)
Time to Hunt (1998)
The 47th Samurai (2007)

There are more in the Bob Lee Swagger series, but I haven’t gotten to them yet.