[Veggie Todd]

If anyone has read a good book lately, and would be good for someone to read in short spurts, I'd be interested to hear about it. Thanks!

[kalee]

Prayers for successful surgery and a speedy recovery.

[Rebelbase]

If you like US Western history this is a good read. Tells the history of the cattle driving days from about 1865 to the early 1890's. If you've seen the movie Lonesome Dove you'll recognize several plot scenes that were based on true events.

Same for some of the 1990's Tombstone scenes.

This one really filled in a void I had for knowledge of that era.

I found my copy in a used bookstore and it's available on Amazon.

[Heart-Rest]

You might want to consider getting and reading this book:

"Rebels And Redcoats: The American Revolution
Through The Eyes Of Those That Fought And Lived It"
By George F. Scheer & Hugh F. Rankin

Best wishes for your surgery and recovery.   Take care.

[pops88]

Iron Coffins: A Personal Account Of The German U-boat Battles Of World War II

This is one of the best pieces of historical non-fiction I've ever read. I couldn't put it down, and as a woman, normally have little interest in war stories. It was recommended by both my husband and daughter.

"The former German U-boat commander Herbert Werner navigates readers through the waters of World War II, recounting four years of the most significant and savage battles. By war's end, 28,000 out of 39,000 German sailors had disappeared beneath the waves."

[AZLiberty]

Check out the four-volume series on Dystopia and Utopia by industrial and systems engineer William Livingston. Livingston was a prolific inventor before he got interested in organizational dysfunction. After several books, over several decades, about that topic, he turned things around and started writing about what it would take for organizations to be super-functional. He cracked that nut, and wrote a couple of highly technical and hard-to-read books -- which no one read.

After some interesting successes with creating real-world organizational utopias over the last few years, he is putting the recipe out there for anyone who cares to pay attention. Though his writing remains highly technical, it's necessary, because Livingston basically develops a mathematical physics of people working in groups. The new books, however, are highly entertaining and rich in real-world examples, both historical and up-to-the-minute. The books are $2.99 each on Amazon, though the first three are "free" to Kindle Unlimited subscribers.

Come January (after some heavy deadlines) I'm considering leading an FR book club through these books. Meanwhile, you can get a head start at:

Pilgrimage to Utopia: Book 1: Philosophy
Pilgrimage to Utopia: Book 2: Dystopia/
Pilgrimage to Utopia: Book 3: Utopia
Pilgrimage to Utopia: Book 4: Way Stations

[Rapunzel]

Zora Neal Huston’s “Waiting on God” or Patrick D. Smith’s “A Land Remembered”.

[Rapunzel]

Both are Florida history.

[elcid1970]

“And I was There” by ret. Adm. Edwin T. Layton about breaking the Japanese naval code & how this was squandered by the U.S. intelligence establishment in the days prior to Pearl Harbor. No FDR conspiracy, just a series of turf battles & monumental screwups.

Pearl could have been primed & ready on December 7th.

[Hardastarboard]

Anything by Bernard Cornwell, which is historical fiction, especially his novels about the Early English era, and any of his novels about Richard Sharpe in the Napoleonic war era. Anything by Michael Connelly or Lee Child (Jack Reacher series) for fictional thrillers.

[GingisK]

Brotherhood of the Rose, by David Morell.

[Nuocmam]

“American Nations-A History of The Eleven Rival Regional Cultures Of North America” by Colin Woodward. Meets the majority of your criteria: Nonfiction, History, Autobiographies, and of course, America.

[Tommygun99]

Anything by Rick Bragg. He’s a great southern author and is an amazing storyteller.

Start with “All Over But the Shoutin’.” Then check out his latest, “My Southern Journey.”

[ameribbean expat]

The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation

https://www.amazon.com/Smartest-Places-Earth-Rustbelts-Innovation/dp/1610394356

[mad_as_he$$]

Read the dictionary; all other books are in it.

[Verginius Rufus]

War and Peace and/or Crime and Punishment.

[StoneWall Brigade]

I highly recommend A sword on the Land by FR`s own Pastor Bill Randles it deals with Islam and the Muslim world in the end times

[Randy Larsen]

Missing 411 by David Paulides. Somethings we all need to know.

[Chickensoup]

My AMAZON REVIEW

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, Great Read., August 29, 2016

By

Chickensoup

The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 (Hardcover)

Great book. Well written walk through a dystopian future that takes current policies and extends them to their logical conclusions. An excellent parsing of the differences between Keynesian and the Milton Friedman’s schools of economic thought. Managed markets and free markets. Some mistake this as a homage to Ayn Rand. People who do not know the difference between Austrian School of Economics and Objectivism. The characters stay on course during this tour de force through years of economic and societal breakdown. Worth the read. And you all know I am fussy.

[TomasUSMC]

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