Books I think everyone should read

[ThreadBbdr]

Early on I was afflicted with the incurable disease of reading. It is a progressive illness that only gets worse and worse as time goes by. So many books so little time!

*snip*.....

One of the tag lines that I use is

"Addict to the written word. I read the back of ceral boxes if nothing else is available."

[James MacMillan]

One of the tag lines that I use is

"Addict to the written word. I read the back of ceral boxes if nothing else is available."

Yes - and in another thread someone talked about being bored!

Just how is this possible, when there are so many, many books to read?

[Standard]

The Blind Corral (Ralph Beer)
Illusions (Richard Bach)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Persig)
The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)
The Tales of O. Henry (O. Henry)

Almost anything by Heinlein gives a good look into human nature.

[Livingston]

Early on I was afflicted with the incurable disease of reading. It is a progressive illness that only gets worse and worse as time goes by. So many books so little time!

There are just too many books to list individual titles.

Among my current all time favorites authors are:

Robert Heinlein
James Fenimore Cooper
Aurthor Conan Doyle
Rudyard Kipling
Alan Dean Foster
WEB Griffin

and on and on and on and on......

I, too, am addicted to reading. It is not unusual for me to have 3+ books going at the same time.

Some of my favorite authors, that haven't been mentioned, are:
Louis L'Amour (I have them all in hard back)
Clive Cussler
Stephen Coonts
Tom Clancy
John Grishom
Diana Gabaldon
and sooooo many more.

[James MacMillan]

It is not unusual for me to have 3+ books going at the same time.

Doesn't everyone do that?

[Tattoo Bradley]

I, too, am addicted to reading. It is not unusual for me to have 3+ books going at the same time.

Doesn't everyone do that?

I LOVE to read. But, I'm a "one-at-a-time" kinda guy. otherwise I start crossing characters from one to the other. Well, I've never attempted more than one at a time, but I assumet that's what would happen.

[Steve53]

I'm currently reading several books... some at my easy chair, others bedside, and others yet in my backpack that I take to work daily... I'll read on the bus, occasionally at work, and nearly anywhere else.

Currently in progress:

The Man Who Would Be King - Ben Macintyre
Empire From The Ashes - David Weber
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
Elmer Gantry - Sinclair Lewis
Krondor the Assassins - Raymond Feist
Something M.Y.T.H. INC. - Robert Asprin
The Bear and The Dragon - Tom Clancy

and in the backpack:

Dark Assassin - Anne Perry
Dust - Martha Grimes
Long Spoon Lane - Anne Perry
and three crossword puzzle magazines, too.

[sirdaniel1975]

Great thread, by the way.

Some of favorites have already been mentioned, so I won't re-list them.

Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien

The Camulod Chronicles by Jack Whyte
1. The Skystone
2. The Singing Sword
3. The Eagles Brood
4. The Fort at the Rivers Bend
5. The Saxon Shore
6. The Sorcerer
(He also wrote Uther & The Lance Thrower, but these 1st 6 are best. They are all half fiction.)

Enjoy

[northernsky]

A good book is so much in the 'mind of the beholder', I love to look at others 'must read' books, if for no other reason than to say to myself 'wow, now that's different".

I would add JD Salinger, Truman Capote, Muriel Spark, Margaret Drabble, Haruki Murakami, David Mitchell, Yasunari Kawabata and Alice Munro. My list would be much too long if I went any further.

[Coinneach]

Oh yeah...how could I forget (that's the trouble with having most of my books on the other coast):

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (this is one of my all-time favorites)