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Posted: 7/27/2016 10:04:03 PM EDT
1984

Black Hawk Down

The Catcher In the Rye

Of Mice And Men

The Stand

The Killer Angels

Just a few of the top of my head.

Link Posted: 7/27/2016 10:09:11 PM EDT
[#1]
With the Old Breed
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 10:10:07 PM EDT
[#2]
Tolkien's stuff- Hobbit, Lord of the Rings.  And I agree about the Stand.
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[#3]
Edgar sawtell
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 10:11:21 PM EDT
[#4]
Cryptonomicon

The best book I have ever read hands down.
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 10:11:48 PM EDT
[#5]
Inside the soviet army
Communist manifesto
Common sense
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 10:12:15 PM EDT
[#6]
A number of Faulkner's books.
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 10:12:51 PM EDT
[#7]
The Harry Potter series.  I've read it about five times, but it's been nearly two years.

Also the Lensmen series.  Awesome classic sci-fi.
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 10:12:52 PM EDT
[#8]
In to thin air
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 10:13:11 PM EDT
[#9]
"The Gates of Fire" by Steven Pressfield. Awesome read and I'm looking forward to doing it again.
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 10:18:34 PM EDT
[#10]
Time, love, and memory by Jonathon Weiner

QB VII by Leon Uris
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 10:23:30 PM EDT
[#11]
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 10:25:30 PM EDT
[#12]
Shantaram.
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 10:27:09 PM EDT
[#13]
Catch 22

The Empty Land

Both are books I try to read at least once a year.
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 10:27:35 PM EDT
[#14]
Starship Troopers
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 10:28:10 PM EDT
[#15]
The Sun Also Rises
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 10:28:13 PM EDT
[#16]
Red Storm Rising
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 10:28:14 PM EDT
[#17]
Lately, I've been thinking about reading "Shogun" again.



Love that book.
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 10:30:21 PM EDT
[#18]


The Gulag Archipelago.



Used to be in at least yearly rotation, along with Starship Troopers and a few others.

Link Posted: 7/27/2016 10:33:33 PM EDT
[#19]
The Bible, which is the most important, but Homer's Iliad, Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Complete Works, anything by J.Frank Dobie, and of course anything regarding the Far Side !
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 10:33:49 PM EDT
[#20]
"Enemy at the gates" by William Craig.  Much better than the movie.
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[#21]

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The Harry Potter series.  I've read it about five times, but it's been nearly two years.
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Cryptonomicon
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1984



Black Hawk Down



The Catcher In the Rye



Of Mice And Men



The Stand

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Tolkien's stuff- Hobbit, Lord of the Rings.

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I've read all of these, but the more I read certain "classics" the more I wonder why they're considered to be so great...



I'm reading through A Song of Ice and Fire for the second time and picking up a LOT more than I did the first time through.



I just finished all 41 Discworld novels (I started in September). Brilliant series that I'll definitely read again in the future.



The first Ringworld book is worth another read.



Also,



Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Dune

Ender's Game (whole series is great imho)

Starship Troopers

Animal Farm (needs to be read over and over)

Art of War (ditto)

John Dies at the End (WAY better than the movie)

Anything by Carl Sagan

Moby Dick

Old Man and the Sea



Lots of others worth a second or third reading.

Link Posted: 7/27/2016 10:34:37 PM EDT
[#22]
Judas Strain. Very creppy.
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 10:34:42 PM EDT
[#23]
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A Farewell to Arms
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[#24]
The count of monte Cristo.....

The full version, not the short version
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 10:37:14 PM EDT
[#25]
Shogun. James Clavel
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 10:38:42 PM EDT
[#26]
Civilization : The Lensman Series
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[#27]
The Fountainhead
Atlas Shrugged
Lord of The Rings trilogy
Animal Farm
1984
Beowulf
Death in the Afternoon
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[#28]
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Lately, I've been thinking about reading "Shogun" again.

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I'm reading Shogun now.

Dune

Mists of Avalon

Mutiny on the Bounty

Hunt for Red October

My little brother is a genius, went to a school for the gifted. He read War and Peace when he was 10, keeps challenging me to read it. I'm on the fence about it. He has HFA which is probably why he enjoyed it. I'm not so sure I will.

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[#29]
Once an Eagle





Link Posted: 7/27/2016 11:00:23 PM EDT
[#30]
Atlas Shrugged

Enemies Trilogy

Castner's Cutthroats

Link Posted: 7/27/2016 11:06:19 PM EDT
[#31]
the selfish gene....it's like being totally naked and defenseless and looking into a mirror.
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 11:08:55 PM EDT
[#32]
Fearless

Unbroken

Legend

Indestructible

To Hell and Back

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[#33]
"Red Storm Rising" - Tom Clancy
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[#34]
Kim
The English Patient
Hamlet
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[#35]
Guts by Gary Paulsen. Filled with accounts of the events that Brian went through in Hatchet
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 11:22:21 PM EDT
[#36]
Don Quixote, the modern Edith Grossman translation.  You will laugh your ass off at all the potty and sexy humor the puritans edited out of the earlier translations.
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 11:22:21 PM EDT
[#37]
That short story with grandpa and the cave
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[#38]
Don Quixote

Steppenwolf

Cat's Cradle

The Old Man and the Sea

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[#39]
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Link Posted: 7/27/2016 11:31:31 PM EDT
[#40]
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Flatland

Dune

Atlas Shrugged

The Fountainhead
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 11:34:44 PM EDT
[#41]
Anything by Thomas Sowell
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 11:34:48 PM EDT
[#42]
The Far Pavilions
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 11:44:09 PM EDT
[#43]
Hackers - steven levy
Talent code
I know why the caged bird sings - maya angelou
Iococa - autobiography
Gunslinger series - stephen king
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[#44]


Hopefully not a How to manual.
Link Posted: 7/27/2016 11:48:50 PM EDT
[#45]
Last of the Breed
Son of the Morning Star
Shelby Foote's Civil War series
Link Posted: 7/28/2016 12:02:12 AM EDT
[#46]
The road, atlas shrugged
Link Posted: 7/28/2016 12:05:50 AM EDT
[#47]
Think and Grow Rich
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Shoninki
Link Posted: 7/28/2016 12:15:41 AM EDT
[#48]
Catch-22, for the fifth or sixth time.
Link Posted: 7/28/2016 12:20:00 AM EDT
[#49]
The Donner Party Chronicles and Endurance. Both great books - both are well researched and historically accurate accounts.

Edit to add that Talking Hands by Margalit Fox (yes, that's the correct spelling) is an excellent read if you're interested in linguistic anthropology and/or sociolinguistics. I'll probably start rereading this one this weekend.
Link Posted: 7/28/2016 12:24:35 AM EDT
[#50]
Trump   "the president years"     out in 2025  
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