[Cboldt]

James Burnham - Suicide of the West

[gleeaikin]

Books by Heinlin, Asimov, Bradbury
Atlas Shrugged, Rand
Outline of History, H.G. Wells
The Primal Scream, A. Janov
Connections
Let's Have Healthy Children, Adelle Davis
Books by Graham Hancock

[Zeroisanumber]

The Autobiography of Malcom X by Malcom X (with Alex Haley)

Team of Rivals by Doris Goodwin

Shadow: Five Presidents in the Shadow of Watergate by Bob Woodward

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Bridges at Toko-Ri by James Michener

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer

Harrison Bergeron (short story) by Kurt Vonnegut

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Native Son by Richard Wright

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

To name a few.

[Bear_Slayer]

My Side of the Mountain
The Grapes of Wrath
The Bible
The Screwtape Letters
The Journals of Jim Elliot

[LS]

"Wealth and Poverty"

"The Camp of the Saints"

"Atlas Shrugged"

"The Impending Crisis"

May I suggest, for others to check out my new 9/11 novel---not that it would "influence" you, but it might uplift you, chill you, entertain you, and touch your heart strings: "September Day."

http://www.jeffhead.com/septemberday/

[Californiajones]

"Lincoln Talks" Emmanuel Hertz 1939
"Witness" Whitaker Chambers
"The Name Above The Title" Frank Capra 1971
"The Disenchanted" Budd Shulberg 1949
"Lincoln The Unknown" Dale Carnegie 1931
"The Second Oldest Profession" Philip Knightley 1988
"The Final Quest" Rick Joyner 1996
"Inside the Third Reich" Albert Speer 1960
"FDR'S Last Year" Jim Bishop 1972
"Marlene Dietrich" Maria Riva 1993
"Marilyn Monroe" Maurice Zolotow 1960
"The Collected Poems of John Donne" John Donne
"Don Quixote" Cervantes
"Poetic Closure" Barbara Hernstein Smith 1968
"Poetics" Aristotle
"My Imitation Of Christ" Thomas A Kempis
"Against Interpretation" Susan Sontag

and The Holy Bible

[ko_kyi]

Starship Troopers, Atlas shrugged, The Caine Mutiny, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Farenheit 451.

I am fascinated by the concepts of individualism v. collectivism, duty v. personal needs, and the way so-called "higher purposes" are so frequently self-serving justifications for immoral behavior.

[Preachin']

The Bible, especially the Gospels, Genesis, Exodus and Esther.

Evidence That Demands a Verdict- Josh McDowell

The Late Great Planet Earth- Hal Lindsey

[Eagle Eye]

The Bible (of course!)

Patton biography author unknown

Soldier - Anthony Herbert

Instant Replay - Jerry Kramer

See you at the Top (and others by) Zig Ziglar

The Greatest Saleman in the World - Og Mandino

Gungo Ho! - Ken Blanchard

[Pietro]

thanks for starting this thread, I always enjoy finding out what other freepers have read. Most of the classics stated here can stand alone and don't need to be seconded by me, but one that hasn't been mentioned, which I think stands alone among American letters is:

Huckleberry Finn

To any freepers that haven't read this book, and I doubt there are many, please, please rush out and get a copy. It is in my mind the quintessentional protrait of an American.

[k omalley]

The Narnia books, the trilogy, "The Great Divorce" C.S. Lewis

"Song of Bernadette" Franz Werfel

The Holy Bible

"Radical Son" David Horowitz

"Theology and Social Theory" John Milbank

[thepainster]

Just now reading

Lyndon Johnson-Path to Power by Caro. It is a fascinating history of Texas, New Deal Politics and the Depression. It is the first of three on LBJ and his rise to power. The resarch Caro did was monumental. I highly recommend this series to all Freepers.

[johnny7]

As a child;

Lord of the Flies -Golding, From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa -Bliven, Legion of Strangers -Mercer, On the Beach -Shute

As an adult;

The Quest of the Historical Jesus -Schweitzer. The Last Lion -Manchester, Son of the Morning Star -Connell, Goodbye Darkness -Manchester, Memoirs of the Second World War -Churchill, The Pacific War 1941-1945 -Costello

[Biblical Calvinist]

There are others, but these are the important books that have been influential in helping to form the worldview that I now hold..

God - "The Bible"- various versions; mostly The New American Standard version.

Francis A. Schaeffer- "The God Who Is There", "Escape From Reason", and "He Is There And He Is Not Silent", "How Should We Then Live"- (These books were most influential in turning my thinking around.)

John Calvin- "The Institutes of the Christian Religion" and Calvin's Commentaries

Loraine Boettner- "The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination"

J.I. Packer- "Knowing God"

Martin Luther- "The Bondage of The Will"

R.C. Sproul- "Grace Unknown"

Michael Horton- "Putting Grace Back Into Amazing"

[Graymatter]

Cboldt is suspended from FR. What is going on? Second time in 2 days a favorite freeper of mine gone poof.

[Minus_The_Bear]

BTTT

[TChris]

The Holy Bible
The Book of Mormon (and other LDS scripture)
Various C.S. Lewis
The Proper Role of Government - Ezra Taft Benson
1984 - Orwell
The Prince - Machiavelli

[Alberta's Child]

Wealth and Poverty by George Gilder

Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics and Applied Economics

The Tempting of America by Robert Bork

For sports fans out there, Ken Dryden's The Game and Home Game: Hockey and Life in Canada are two of the best sports books I've ever read.

[Centurion2000]

Holy Bible
1984
Animal Farm
Brave New World : Huxley
Starship Troopers
Atlas Shrugged
Demon in the Freezer
Cataclysm! : Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9500 B.C.
Patriots : James Rawles
Unintended Consequences : John Ross
Lost Rights : James Bovard
The Prince : Machiavelli
The Art of War : Sun Tzu
The Domaination of the Draka Novels : SM Stirling (the bad guys win, for once)

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[Hi Heels]

Beautiful Joe

Anything by Torey Hayden