[Migraine]

The Bible
Jim Elliot -- (diaries) Shadow of The Almighty
Francis Schaeffer -- Trilogy: The God Who Is There/Escape From Reason/He is There and He is Not Silent
VW Von Hagen -- The Roads that Led to Rome
V.S. Naipaul -- Among the Believers
Robert Creamer -- Babe
Frederick Forsyth -- Day of The Jackal
Christy Matthewson -- Pitching in a Pinch
Jack London -- White Fang

[I got the rope]

The Holy Bible
Brave New World...Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm...George Orwell
1984...George Orwell
The Art of War...Sun Tza
The Federalist Papers...Alexander Hamiliton, John Jay, James Madison
Origin of Species...Charles Darwin

[GoodWithBarbarians JustForKaos]

Recently: 'State of Fear'

Overall: The Bible

[tubebender]

Business books by successful entrepreneurs...

[Migraine]

The Bible
Jim Elliot -- (diaries) Shadow of The Almighty
Francis Schaeffer -- Trilogy: The God Who Is There/Escape From Reason/He is There and He is Not Silent
VW Von Hagen -- The Roads that Led to Rome
V.S. Naipaul -- Among the Believers
Robert Creamer -- Babe
Frederick Forsyth -- Day of The Jackal
Christy Matthewson -- Pitching in a Pinch
Jack London -- White Fang

[One4Indictment]

The Bible
This Present Darkness
Piercing the Darkness
Prophet
The Screwtape Letters
The Great Divorce
Les Miserables

[mysterio]

The works of Orwell, both 1984 and Animal Farm.

[Chesterbelloc]

Orthodoxy - GK Chesterton
Free To Choose - Milton Friedman

[Petronski]

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer
The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-four, George Orwell
The Holocaust, Martin Gilbert
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nazi Germany, Klaus P. Fischer

[185JHP]

"The Caine Mutiny" - doing what's right is *always* right, no matter what it costs...

[lowbridge]

Archie Comic Books

[irv]

There've been many, many books, but a few stand out. In no particular order:

• Dune -- Frank Herbert
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress -- Robert Heinlein (also Starship Troopers and even Tunnel in the Sky by the same author.)
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich -- William L. Shirer
• The Nazi Doctors -- Robert Jay Lifton
• Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787 -- Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier
• Isaac Asimov's Foundation series (the 3 original books only)

[Junior_G]

The Emperor's New Clothes

[BruceysMom]

The Bible
H. Vernon McGee's commentaries
A Wrinkle In Time-Ursala L'Guin
Steppenwolf-Herman Hesse (not in a good way)
The Source-Michner
Anything by Dean Koontz

[Trinity5]

Unintended Consequences by John Ross

[JoeSixPack1]

The Good Earth.
Old man and the Sea.
The Third Wave.

[Jack Deth]

P.J. O'Rourke: With a wit just as acidic and sharp as when he wrote for and later edited "National Lampoon" magazine!

"Republican Party Reptile"
"Parliament Of Whores"
"Give War A Chance"

Ross Thomas: No one wrote more knowingly and well about Policticaal intrigues, antics and back door deals!

"The Cold War Swap"
"The Back-Up Men"
"The Fools In Town Are On Our Side"
"Yellow Dog Contract"
"If You Can't Be Good"
"The Money Harvest"

Tom Wolfe: The man is a National Treasure! "Radical Chic..." is a Textbook Primer on the liberal mindset that surfaced in the 1960s and hasn't changed much since.

"Radical Chic And Mau-Mauing The Flack Catchers"
"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"
"The Right Stuff"

Jack.

[investigateworld]

Death Valley and the Amargosa, by Richard Ligenfelter.

[AlienCrossfirePlayer]

Carnage and Culture and An Autumn of War by Victor Davis Hanson.

[MitchellC]

The Bible, foremost.

'What if Jesus Had Never Been Born?' by D. James Kennedy. As far as a lot of the details and exact arguments Kennedy used go, in retrospect this is a bit dinky, but I agree with the overall point (that Western culture and thus the world benefited directly from the life and teachings of Jesus Christ and without Him the world today would be unrecognizable to us) now as much as ever. It really shook up the way I viewed the world and created a huge stumbling block on the path to Liberalism (I read it not long after I'd gotten out of high school).

'Mere Christianity' by C.S. Lewis.

'The Case for Christ' by Lee Strobel.

'Apologetics: An Introduction' by William Lane Craig.

'A Conflict of Visions' by Thomas Sowell (this book should be required reading at every university).

'Conquests and Cultures' by Thomas Sowell.