Book Recommendations

[Vicster]

Hello

So, I'm trying to read about 100 books this year (all from the library) and anyways so far here are my favourite books for this year:

Fiction: The Plague by Albert Camus

Non-Fiction: Think like a Freak by Steven Levit and Stephen Dubner

Anyone else want to share their recent favourites :)

[juggleandhope]

fiction;
gilead

non-fiction
born bright

both in the "thinking about society through the life of one individual" genre.

[hankandtina]

I started a journey last fall to read a lot of the "Great Books".  I wrote to a college professor at a small, liberal arts college I attended briefly a long time ago.  They are known for having a Junior year "Great Books" symposium in the Honors program.  There are ~100 books on the list.  I am cheating and cherry-picking the ones I want, though.  Many can be found at the library, but I also picked up a stack from my list at a used book store for about 50 cents a piece.  I like to have some unread books on my list laying around.  I am also intermixing less heavy books for a break in between the deeper books.  Anyways, for what it is worth here is the list I read last year:

2016 Reading List:
“A Handful of Dust”, by Evelyn Waugh
“Hamilton”, by Ron Chernow
“The Long Goodbye”, by Raymond Chandler
“The High Window”, by Raymond Chandler
“The Big Sleep”, by Raymond Chandler
A couple of Patrick O’Brian novels from the “Master & Commander” series
A couple of John D. MacDonald mysteries
A couple of Stuart Woods mysteries
“The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965”, by William Manchester & Paul Reed (Vol 3 of the “Last Lion” biography)
“The Stranger”, by Albert Camus
“1984”, by George Orwell
Parts of “The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire”, by Edward Gibbon
“Social Machines”, by Peter Semmelhack
“The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-44”, by Rick Atkinson
“Frankenstein”, by Mary Shelley
“Treasure Island”, by Robert Louis Stevenson
21 of the “Federalist Papers” essays, by Hamilton, Madison & Jay
“My Early Life:  A Roving Commission”, by Winston S. Churchill
“Robinson Crusoe”, by Daniel Defoe
“Jane Eyre”, by Charlotte Bronte
“Pride & Prejudice”, by Jane Austen
“The Great Crash 1929”, by John Kenneth Galbraith
“Burma Days”, by George Orwell
First three books in “The Last Kingdom” chronicles, by Bernard Cornwell
Parts of “Infrastructure:  A Guide to the Industrial Landscape”, by Brian Hayes
“Walden”, by Henry David Thoreau
“The American”, by Henry James
“Life”, by Keith Richards

[lost_in_the_endless_aisle]

For non-fiction, The Fall by Camus (a quick but idea-dense read), and if you generally like the existentialists, I found Sartre's The Age of Reason very good (and to a lesser extent Nausea).

For non-fiction, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Tetlock might be of interest based on your comment.

[ganesh]

Non fiction:
The Gene: An Intimate History
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27276428-the-gene
The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11021707-the-most-important-thing
Boys in the Boat
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16158542-the-boys-in-the-boat

[ysette9]

I'm normally a fiction kind of person, but I got a lot out of Collapse and Guns, Germs, and Steel, both by Jared Diamond. Very thoughtful and changed how I view the world and history.

[lthenderson]

Hello

So, I'm trying to read about 100 books this year (all from the library) and anyways so far here are my favourite books for this year:

Fiction: The Plague by Albert Camus

Non-Fiction: Think like a Freak by Steven Levit and Stephen Dubner

Anyone else want to share their recent favourites :)

I've been working on the "100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time" list published by National Geographic for a number of years and am getting close to finishing it.

http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/2001/07/adventure-books/anthony-brandt-text