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Posted: 5/24/2017 4:40:06 PM EDT

When I was a kid I never really enjoyed reading all that much, and as aresult I didn't read all that many books. In contrast, I've read about 50 in the last two years and I'm always looking for more.

For those like me that have somewhat missed out, what are the books that every person should read?

Posted: 5/24/2017 4:43:55 PM EDT

[#1]

If you're a father or grandfather, or if you like great stories about hunting, dogs, fishing, mentoring, or a look back into a different era, I highly recommend this one. I've read it several times. The kids still like hearing chapters out of it, too.

I can say, I believe it made me a better father.

From memory:

The forward: Anyone who reads this book will know I had a real fine time as a boy.

First line: Now, the Old Man knows pretty near about everything but mostly, he ain't painful with it.

Posted: 5/24/2017 4:44:11 PM EDT

[#2]

The Bible, you heathens. GD needs the Bible!

Posted: 5/24/2017 4:44:40 PM EDT

[#3]

Atlas Shrugged.

Posted: 5/24/2017 4:45:52 PM EDT

[#4]

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Atlas Shrugged.

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No. Horrible suggestion.

Posted: 5/24/2017 4:46:43 PM EDT

[#5]

Endurance - Shackleton's Incredible Journey

In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men.

For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed between two ice floes. With no options left, Shackleton and a skeleton crew attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. Their survival, and the survival of the men they left behind, depended on their small lifeboat successfully finding the island of South Georgia—a tiny dot of land in a vast and hostile ocean.

Posted: 5/24/2017 4:47:56 PM EDT

[#6]

Red Storm Rising

The Hunt for Red October

Once An Eagle

Pale Horse Coming

The Green Berets

Marine Sniper

Guadalcanal Diary

Posted: 5/24/2017 4:49:10 PM EDT

[#7]

Feseden & Feseden, Organic Chemistry

Ross, Unintended Consequences

Some would say the Bible, I say no, but whatever

The Art of War, Sun Tzu

A Book of Five Rings/Go Rin No Sho, Musashi

Grey's anatomy, so you know your anus from a hole in the ground

Vince Flynn's series is like crack--be warned

Posted: 5/24/2017 4:49:19 PM EDT

[#8]

Hatcher's Notebook should be required reading for any gun guy.

Posted: 5/24/2017 4:49:59 PM EDT

[#9]

Animal Farm, by George Orwell
1984, by George Orwell
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

The Hobbit, followed by The Lord of the Rings, both by JRR Tolkien.

Posted: 5/24/2017 4:50:12 PM EDT

[#10]

13 Hours (the book)

The Federalist Papers

Common Sense

Posted: 5/24/2017 4:54:59 PM EDT

[#11]

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

This Perfect Day by Ira Levin

Posted: 5/24/2017 4:59:32 PM EDT

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Animal Farm, by George Orwell
1984, by George Orwell
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

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I like these better than what I posted--except the Organic Chem book

Posted: 5/24/2017 5:00:41 PM EDT

[#13]

Mein Kampf

Turner Diaries

The Camp of the Saints

Posted: 5/24/2017 5:03:11 PM EDT

[#14]

https://www.amazon.com/Sharpening-Warriors-Edge-Psychology-Training/dp/0964920506?tag=vglnk-c102-20

Sharpening the Warrior's Edge by Bruce K. Siddle. It's not entertaining or anything but it has a bit of interesting data and analysis in reference to combat psychology. Everyone should take a look.

Posted: 5/24/2017 5:03:39 PM EDT

[#15]

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Posted: 5/24/2017 5:04:27 PM EDT

[#16]

Atlas Shrugged
1984
Brave New World
Rich Dad Poor Dad
The Millionaire Next Door
Death In The Afternoon (Hemingway on bullfighting)
The Manhattan Project (Al Cimino)
The First War Of Physics (Manhattan Project and Cold War espionage aftewards)
Anything by P. J. O'Rourke (humor)
Lord Of The Rings trilogy

Posted: 5/24/2017 5:06:39 PM EDT

[#17]

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein

Posted: 5/24/2017 5:08:28 PM EDT

[#18]

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Mein Kampf

Turner Diaries

The Camp of the Saints

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I read the Turner Diaries years ago, the author knew his propaganda.
I disagree with him entirely, but he knew his propaganda.

Posted: 5/24/2017 5:08:42 PM EDT

[#19]

This is what I'm reading at the moment....... every effing night......

Posted: 5/24/2017 5:11:43 PM EDT

[#20]

For pure entertainment, the Monster Hunter series.

Posted: 5/24/2017 5:13:10 PM EDT

[#21]

Any collection of Robert Service's poems.

"There are strange things done
'Neath the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold.
The Artic Trails
have their secret tales
That will make your blood run cold..."

Posted: 5/24/2017 5:18:03 PM EDT

[#22]

Left of Bang

Posted: 5/24/2017 5:18:39 PM EDT

[#23]

Anything by Neal Stephenson, starting with Snow Crash.

Posted: 5/24/2017 5:28:28 PM EDT

[#24]

"Trump - The Art of the Deal" - Donald J. Trump

Posted: 5/24/2017 5:31:03 PM EDT

[#25]

The Fountainhead
Atlas Shrugged
We the Living
Anthem
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
1984
Animal Farm
Brave New World
To Have and Have Not
For Whom the Bell Tolls
A Farewell to Arms
Fahrenheit 451
The Great Gatsby
The Grapes of Wrath
The Winter of our Discontent
Of Mice and Men
Cannery Row
On the Road
To Kill a Mockingbird
Starship Troopers

...That should keep you busy about a month or so. Get back to me when you're caught up.

Posted: 5/24/2017 5:37:20 PM EDT

[#26]

The Bible
Wild at Heart-John Eldredge
The Way of the Wild Heart-same

Posted: 5/24/2017 5:37:21 PM EDT

[#27]

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Book-Communism-Crimes-Repression/dp/0674076087?tag=vglnk-c102-20
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (1999), by Andrzej Paczkowski, Stéphane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Karel Bartosek, Jean-Louis Panné, and Jean-Louis Margolin.

It's a book that has stuck with me from the day I finished reading it the first time. Not a day goes by that I don't see the echoes of the tactics described therein - which lead to the deaths of over 100 million people - still used by those that would prefer you live under their boot.

Apparently, the book is out of print (and used copies are selling for over $40 each on Amazon!), but it is available as a Kindle Book for $8. It should be required reading before finishing high school - because God knows, there are too many faculty in current academia would rather see this book disappear.

Here's a description from Publisher's Weekly,
In France, this damning reckoning of communism's worldwide legacy was a bestseller that sparked passionate arguments among intellectuals of the Left. Essentially a body count of communism's victims in the 20th Century, the book draws heavily from recently opened Soviet archives. The verdict: communism was responsible for between 85 million and 100 million deaths in the century. In France, both sales and controversy were fueled, as Martin Malia notes in the foreword, by editor Courtois's specific comparison of communism's "class genocide" with Nazism's "race genocide." Courtois, the director of research at the prestigious Centre Research National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and editor of the journal Communisme, along with the other distinguished French and European contributors, delivers a fact-based, mostly Russia-centered wallop that will be hard to refute: town burnings, mass deportations, property seizures, family separations, mass murders, planned famines, all chillingly documented from conception to implementation. The book is divided into five sections. The first and largest takes readers from the "Paradoxes of the October Revolution" through "Apogee and Crisis in the Gulag System" to "The Exit from Stalinism." Seeing the U.S.S.R. as "the cradle of all modern Communism," the book's other four sections document the horrors of the Iron Curtain countries, Soviet-backed agitation in Asia and the Americas, and the Third World's often violent embrace of the system. A conclusion"Why?" by Courtois, points to a bureaucratic, "purely abstract vision of death, massacre and human catastrophe" rooted in Lenin's compulsion to effect ideals by any means necessary.

Posted: 5/24/2017 5:41:25 PM EDT

[#28]

Big Woods- William Faulkner

Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy

The Dune Trilogy by Frank Herbert

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America by John M. Barry. Very interesting non fiction.

Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon by William Lewis Herndon . Another very good nonfiction book.

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. Gwynne

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival by Laura Hillenbrand

Jack Hinson's One-Man War, A Civil War Sniper by Tom McKenney

Posted: 5/24/2017 5:42:43 PM EDT

[#29]

Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technotronic Era.

Blueprint for the current deep state/ media/ academia political collusion.

Posted: 5/24/2017 5:45:26 PM EDT

[#30]

Posted: 5/24/2017 5:48:42 PM EDT

[#31]

Do the Work-Steven Pressfield

This is one of few books that I have in audio, e-book, and hardcopy form. I use them all.

It has been more valuable and made me more money than most of my formal education.

Posted: 5/24/2017 5:54:22 PM EDT

[#32]

This one! It transformed my life into an amazing saga of awesomeness!
Well, either that, or I wrote it and I make $1.50 whenever someone buys a copy.

What It's Like To Have A Tail

Edit: Not sure what's with the price TBD. It's $3.99 for Kindle.

Posted: 5/24/2017 5:55:48 PM EDT

[#33]

Day of Wrath by William R. Forstchen

Lights Out by David Crawford

The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings

Starship Troopers

Alas Babylon

1984

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware series, all of them.

Posted: 5/24/2017 5:56:36 PM EDT

[#34]

Dune

Posted: 5/24/2017 5:56:48 PM EDT

[#35]

You can also order this for the lady in your life. Get her all hot and bothered.

Posted: 5/24/2017 6:07:41 PM EDT

[#36]

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... phenomenal recommendation

Posted: 5/24/2017 6:10:57 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/24/2017 6:11:38 PM EDT

[#38]

The Collected Works of William Shakespeare

Encyclopedia Britannica

The Blah Story by Nigel Tomm

Posted: 5/24/2017 6:13:41 PM EDT

[#39]

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This is what I'm reading at the moment....... every effing night......
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Me too!!! Lol

Posted: 5/24/2017 6:20:09 PM EDT

[#40]

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse.

Yeah, most of the Jack Ryan books are pretty good, but that one is filled with filthy hobo tube shotgun murder.

Posted: 5/24/2017 6:23:32 PM EDT

[#41]

Gates of fire.
Band of Brothers.

Posted: 5/24/2017 6:25:07 PM EDT

[#42]

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No. Horrible suggestion.

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Atlas Shrugged.

No. Horrible suggestion.

Have to agree with Stump70, unless you're good at skim reading
I agreed with the general ideas of the book and wanted to read it and still struggled to get through it. Parts of it really drag on and on with no real advancement after multiple pages of the same stuff being repeated

Posted: 5/24/2017 6:26:50 PM EDT

[#43]

The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

Posted: 5/24/2017 6:27:01 PM EDT

[#44]

Combat & Survival.

Posted: 5/24/2017 6:27:49 PM EDT

[#45]

Camping and Woodcraft by Horace Kephart.

Posted: 5/24/2017 6:29:15 PM EDT

[#46]

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Have to agree with Stump70, unless you're good at skim reading
I agreed with the general ideas of the book and wanted to read it and still struggled to get through it. Parts of it really drag on and on with no real advancement after multiple pages of the same stuff being repeated

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Yep. Atlas Shrugged was the ONLY book I ever read in Cliff Notes format, and I was happy with that decision.

Posted: 5/24/2017 6:29:30 PM EDT

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Animal Farm, by George Orwell
1984, by George Orwell
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

The Hobbit, followed by The Lord of the Rings, both by JRR Tolkien.

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Came to post this, and "The Giver." (Lois Lowry)

ETA: "Hatchet" Gary Paulsen

Posted: 5/24/2017 6:30:08 PM EDT

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Animal Farm, by George Orwell
1984, by George Orwell
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

The Hobbit, followed by The Lord of the Rings, both by JRR Tolkien.

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All of that, plus Starship Troopers.