Leftist Protozoa

Ten favorite books of all time. I know there have been threads specifically for history or politics books or what you're reading now, but I didn’t see one covering favorites of any category. It would be a shame to not include all that great fiction out there.

1. Jupiters Travels, Ted Simon (man and motorcycle travel around the world; but much more than a book about a motorcyclist)

2. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S Thompson

3. Planet of the Apes, Pierre Boulle

4. Citizen Soldiers, Stephen E. Ambrose (I’m a big fan of his “conversational” style of writing)

5. anything by Clive Cussler (a guilty pleasure)

6. Ten Days that Shook the World, John Reed

7. Jean Paul Pallud’s “Then and Now” series about World War II

8. Shelby Foote’s three-book set on the Civil War

9. Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner, Scott Cunningham (I don’t practice this religion, but the book provided some interesting relaxation techniques)

10. The Last Open Road, Burt Levy

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Tashah

Any book by Pauline Gedge (ancient Egypt - fiction). That's about ten titles. Nobody does it better.

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bhkad

Fredrick Forsythe's The Day of the Jackal & The Odessa File
Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America
Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October, The Cardinal of the Kremlin, Clear and Present Danger & The Sum of All Fears
Stephen Coonts Flight Of The Intruder
Doris Kearns Goodwin's Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
Marianne Williamson's Introduction to A Course in Miracles & A Return to Love : Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles
Robert J. Donovan's PT 109: John F. Kennedy in WWII
John F. Kennedy's Why England Slept & Profiles in Courage
T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Hal Lindsey's The Everlasting Hatred: The Roots of Jihad
Robert Pape's Dying to Win
Walid Phares Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
Jose Torres' Sting Like a Bee: The Muhammad Ali Story
Alex Haley's The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five & Breakfast of Champions
Joseph Wambaugh's The New Centurions, The Blue Knight, The Onion Field & The Choirboys
Truman Capote's In Cold Blood
Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice

Those are the ones that immediately come to mind without regard to favorites. I was just trying to remember any of the books I've read. I've forgotten many more than I could possibly recall.

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Leftist Protozoa

Excellent pick.

bhkad

What about "Dying to Win" by Robert Pape?

Lachean

My Top Ten (in order)
Atlas Shrugged & The Fountainhead- Ayn Rand *have a 1st edition of Fountainhead*
Demon Haunted World & Contact - Carl Sagan *made me love science*
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche
Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris
The God Delusion & The Selfish Gene- Richard Dawkins
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
1984 - George Orwell
Hitchhiker's Guide Series - Douglass Adams
Slaughterhouse Five & Cats Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Moby Dick - Melville

Honorable Mention:
Why I am Not a Christian - Bertrand Russell
Origin of the Species - Charles Darwin
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
A Briefer History of Time - Stephen Hawking
*Anything* - Terry Pratchett
Angel's And Demons / Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

Currently Reading:
The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials #1 of 3)

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Leftist Protozoa

The Fountainhead? Nietzsche?

Ouch.

Gunface

This is a really, really, really, really good book.

I tried writing my top ten, and then I realized I could never name 10 books I like the most. It's like choosing.. I dunno. Something impossible. XD

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Lachean

I like it so far, a much more clever Universe (or should I say set of Universes) than the Narnia books. I even got the audio book from Audible (free audiobook promo) so I can keep up with it in the car since I don't have much free time to read these days.

Have you read the other ones? Because I bought them as well...

Lachean

Whats wrong with Ayn Rand or Friedrich Nietzsche?