I’m always looking for new books to read (fiction or nonfiction) and would greatly appreciate if you could share your favorite book(s).

I’ll start: Dune by Frank Herbert.

 

9 pages of that here

https://omegaforums.net/threads/wrur-reading-today.41751/

another few threads also

 

EE Doc Smith "The Lensman" series.

finest Space Opera ever written.

 

Fear and loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S Thompson

 

Anything by Dr Thompson of course ( I have em all) but LOTR rules.



Digging into this again in anticipation of the Amazon series ...

 

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

 

The Four Agreements changed my life perspective. I recommend it to all my friends, family, and co-workers. Quick read.

For fun, anything by Steve Berry’s Cotton Malone series.

 

I devour books avidly and I second the Hunter S comments but never yet got round to Tolkein strangely (on my list though!).

the best book I have read recently is "the narrow road to the deep north" by Richard Flanagan - beautifully written and thought provoking.

Favourite light reading is anything by John Le Carre - I have them all

Current Book

 

Mine is All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, beautiful, cynical, and ultimately heartbreaking. But there's nothing wrong with a good Raymond Chandler mystery or a Ray Bradbury yarn. And then there's Bukowski...

 

The Neurotic personality of our time by Karen Horney

 

I like graphic novels and my favourite is Persepolis

 

Tom Clancy....The Sum of All Fears.

Followed by...2001 A Space Oddesey...Arthur C. Clarke.

Best Historical...The Rise And Fall of the Third Reich
William L Shirer.

 

An eclectic mix of recommendations from this year's reading ...

The Cellist of Sarajevo (Galloway)
Laurus (Vodolazkin)
Studies in the Sermon on the Mount (Lloyd-Jones)
The Border Trilogy (McCarthy)
All the Light We Cannot See (Doerr)
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank (Carhart)

Long-time favorites, though, include all of Wendell Berry's novels, A Dance to the Music of Time (Powell), pre-1950 Hemingway, The Dark Tower series (King), and Lord of the Rings (Tolkien).

 

One off my 847 books? difficult to say but I can try
Among French novels, Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Among British, The Power and the Glory by Graham Green
Among American, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Among Italian, Il deserto dei Tartari by Dino Buzzati

But I also love the SF novels and short stories by Isaac Asimov

 

The ragged trousered philanthropists by Robert tressell.

 

I was raised on Sci Fi. Asimov’s Foundation books are outstanding. Steinbeck was a genius.

 

HMS Ulysses by Alistair Maclean
Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
Foundation by Asimov
Jerusalem Poker Edward Whittemore

 

I lucked onto a hardback "Simultaneous First Edition" of "Forbidden Planet". Paid 25 cents for it at a salvage store. it along with many other books had been found locked away in the ancient vault of the former payroll office of the factory building the salvage store had set up shop. No telling how they finally got the vault open, perhaps someone found the combination in some old paperwork.
Anyway the book is in extraordinarily good condition. The dust cover is in good condition with only a little wear at the edges. intact dust covers for this edition are very rare. I've seen this edition on rare book sites priced at more than two grand with beat up and torn dust covers.
The publication of the book was deliberately delayed till the day the motion picture was released.
When I read the book I found it was a little different from the film and with scenes not in the movie.

Another old and more or less rare book in my collection is "The Earth Abides". I don't see how that one was never made into a movie, but all post apocalypse books and films owe a great debt to that book.

Recent books I've found to be great reads.
"The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril".
https://www.amazon.com/Chinatown-Death-Cloud-Peril-Novel/dp/074328786X
"I Cover the Waterfront"
https://www.amazon.com/I-Cover-Waterfront-Max-Miller/dp/1569802637

 

Most everything by Paul Theroux. I have read all but about half a dozen of his books. A favourite? Probably his book The Great Railway Bazaar, Riding the Iron Rooster, maybe his book Deep South. He is a very prolific author. Fiction and travel are his focus. So many books...........so many!

 

No one mentions the Kama Sutra?

 

MWO...1st edition...tons [and tons] of fabulous pics...

 

Must be “heavy reading”!

 

The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov.
The Third Policeman by Flan O Brien
The Book thief by Marcus Zusac
Anything by Walter Mosley for light entertainment

 

"The Road Less Traveled" by Scott Peck.

 

Not unless you mention "chiropractor" in the same breath...

 

“A River Runs Though it It” Norman Maclean

I too love a “4 count rhythm and the hope a fish will rise.”