[Gen.Blather]

Here are the ones I wrote. ;)

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A133140011%2Cp_27%3ABern%20Pearson

[samadams2000]

The Haj by Leon Uris
The Virginian by Owen Wister

2 great books

[hoosiermama]

Read THE LAST FARMER by Howard Kohn. Read to the end. A great understanding of the German work ethic that formed the Midwest and a certain political family

[PGR88]

Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. Charles Murray.

[RepRivFarm]

“Unintended Consequences” by John Ross.

It is definitely time to start feeding the hogs.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1888118040/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1448735208&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=unintended+consequences+john+ross&dpPl=1&dpID=51SEZT5T36L&ref=plSrch

[sparklite2]

Neptune’s Inferno

Mouthful of Rocks

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Kafka’s Short Stories

Catch-22

Chimera

[apocalypto]

Adios, America by Ann Coulter is a must read.

Day of Wrath, a novella by William R. Forstchen

[Auntie Mame]

Have you read Radical Son by Horowitz? It’s in my top ten best memoir-type books.

I don’t read new books, they’re mostly terrible I’ve found. It takes years to sift the wheat from the chaff and life’s too short to read a bad book when there’s so many good ones out there.

I’m really loving all Patrick Lee’s books. They’re suspense with a little paranormal. Can’t put ‘em down.

And last but not least, almost always, if a book is really really popular, it will suck. Take “The Goldfinch” for example. It won a Pulitzer Prize and it had to be the most gawd-awful dreck I’ve ever tried to read. Seriously, I think whoever wrote it was on drugs; you know, those prescription drugs they have out there that make you boring as hell? I think they’re called psychotropic. In fact, stay away from Pulitzer Prize-winning books period.

[bigbob]

David Liss, start with “A Conspiracy of Paper”. Fascinating.

[Monterrosa-24]

THE SUM OF GOOD GOVERNMENT by Phil Crane

CANCER WARD by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

BONHOEFFER by Eric Metaxas

I’M FRANK HAMER by H. Gordon Frost

These are just a few I’ve re-thumbed recently that are part of the multitude that could be added to the list.

[Mercat]

Confederates in the attic

[Temujinshordes]

Black Flags, The Rise of ISIS, by Joby Warrick

[Diana in Wisconsin]

*BUMP* for later. Great topic. I’m a major reader; I’m never without a book or two going at once. Love, Love, LOVE to read.

(Thanks, Mom!)

[dainbramaged]

Anything by Harry Turtledove, especially Guns of the South.

[amorphous]

I enjoyed "The Martian", as well as the movie. Btw, I find kindle unlimited a good value.

And if you're in to this sort of thing:

And if you're not, you oughta be! ;-)

[PubliusMM]

Anything by Ayn Rand, “The Fountainhead”, “Atlas Shrugged”, at least, and then toss in “The Virtue of Selfishness”.

Grew up on Heinlein and Asimov, Phillip K Dick, and others.

H. Ryder Haggard, “She” and “Return of She” were great. The “Quartermain” stuff is pretty good.

[goodnesswins]

BOOKmark

[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.

[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.