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recommend some books

posted 4 years ago by [deleted]
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i should be finishing the book i'm currently reading tomorrow afternoon. i'm considering re-reading barbara demick's 'nothing to envy - ordinary lives in north korea,' but i'm not sure i feel like taking on something that dour, particularly since the book i'm finishing, while good & enjoyable, was a bit of a grind to get through.

so throw up some book recommendations. maybe we'll all find something to enjoy.

& if you feel ambitious, you can recommend something for each of the following categories:

1. scientific nonfiction (e.g. "the selfish gene")
2. biography/autobiography
3. modern fiction (e.g. "atonement")
4. sci-fi

[–] Eggman (216) 4 years ago

scientific nonfiction: Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
biography: My Camp by Rudolf Stiffler
M.F: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Sci-fi: House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

[–] nyctc7 (41344) 4 years ago

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525431993/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tpbk_p1_i0

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 4 years ago

By Bill O'Reilly:

Killing Lincoln
Killing Kennedy
Killing Patton
Killing The Rising Sun
Killing England

etc. I've read three of them, and they're all excellent!

😎

[–] Kowalski (58820) 4 years ago

EVERY COUPLE YEARS I REREAD JAMES CLAVELL'S KING RAT,ITS MY ALL TIME FAVORITE AND I NEVER GET TIRED OF IT.

[–] AndyKing1967 (34035) 4 years ago

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
1984 - George Orwell
Hammer of the Gods (Led Zeppelin biography)
V For Vendetta (graphic novel) - Alan Moore

[–] Theman (1069) 4 years ago

Great Expectations
Star Wars The Annointed Screenplays by Laurent Bouzereau. This goes into a lot of info about the earlier drafts of the original trilogy.

[–] Keelai (31975) 4 years ago

1. "Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death" by Robert Lanza

2. "Enemies in Love: A German POW, a Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance" by Alexis Clark
(Biography and plenty of WW2 era history, too).

4. Trilogy: "One Second After"; "One Year After"; "The Final Day" by William R. Forstchen
(Realistic dystopian trilogy about ENT attack which leaves U.S. without electricity).

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy

I'm your Huckleberry by Val Kilmer (Great memoir, best I've read for a long time)