I was wondering what books people have read and would recommend to others. I will start the list and edit it to keep it on one page.

[b]Arch-Angel's List:[/b]
Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces
Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills
Silent Warrior: The Marine Sniper's Vietnam Story Continues

[b]DNRA's list:[/b]
How the world turns - Jeff Robinson

[b] TimJ's List:[/b]
Forgotten Soldier-Guy Sajer
War Story-Jim Morris
Commander Commander-Charles McDonald
A Rifleman Went to War-Herbert McBride

[b]AZ-K9's list:[/b]
Unintended Consequences

[b]TxLewis list:[/b]
First 6 Tom Clancy Novels
Unintended Consequences
Radical Son - by David Horowitz.
Most anything by frederick pohl

[b]CS223's list:[/b]
In the Company of Heros - Michael J. Durant
Flags of Our Fathers

[b]Belfry_Express's[/b]
The Truth About Challenger - Randy Avera

[b]MR_Wilson's list:[/b]
Tainting Evidence : Behind the Scandals at the FBI Crime Lab
The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror by Hoffman, David
The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America's Most Secret Agency
Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives
The Immaculate Deception: The Bush Crime Family Exposed
The War on Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001
Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy, Saudi Arabia and the Failed Search for bin Laden
Pearl Harbor; The Mother of All Conspiracies
Day of Deception
Unintended Consequences
A Book of Five Rings
Tragedy and Hope, The History of the World in Our Time
Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA
Unlimited Access
Inevitable Revolutions
The Cult of Counter-Terrorism
By Way of Deception
George Bush, The Unauthorized Biography
Rashomon and Other Stories
Ideals of the Samurai : Writings of Japanese Warriors
Hagakure : The Book of the Samurai
Just a few of my favorites, off the top of my head

[b]Norman74's List:[/b]
Anything by Ayn Rand
Anything by Carl Hiaasen

[b]Aimless's list:[/b]
1-"The Complete AR-15 Owners Guide" by Kuleck and Duff
2-Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter
3-"Lucifer's Hammer" and "Footfall" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

[b]40sig's List:[/b]
The Art of War

[b]SteyrAug's List:[/b]
Black Hawk Down - Mark Bowden
We Were Soldiers - Hal Moore
Uninteded Consequences - John Ross
The Federal Siege At Ruby Ridge - Randy Weaver
All titles by Stephen Ambrose
I Could Never Be So Lucky Again - James Doolittle
The Art Of War (The Linyi Text) - Lao Tzu
Living The Martial Way - Maj. Forrest Morgan
Zen In The Martial Arts - Joe Hyams

[b]Zaphod's list[/b]
Any novel by Tom Clancy or Clive Cussler.
The Guardians series by Richard Austin.
Shogun by James Clavel
The Bource Identity by Robert Ludlam
The U.S. Declaration of Independance by Thomas Jefferson
The U.S. Constitution by James Madison, et al.
Red Pheonix, Vortex, and Cauldron by Larry Bond
Storming Intrepid by Scott Peterson (?)
The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams
The Way Things Ought To Be by Rush Limbaugh
Slander by Anne Coulter
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
The Bible by God, et al.

[b]JohnGalt's list:[/b]
Atlas Shrugged

[b]cookie's list:[/b]
Unintended Consequences by John Ross
How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove

The Author 'Jeff Robinson' seems to have a enlightening list of books concerning the "How the world turns"[;)].......[b]edited to say---> I have followed his published "WORKS" and was suggesting all of them.........-->"as the world turns" is a soapopera, AS WE ALL KNOW THAT IS portrayed to mirror reality----------> [/B] I'm on chapter6 of one of jeff's BOOOOOOKS as we-e-speak [;)] IMO!...[red]TRY"THE LAUNDRYMEN" SEE IF YOU DISAGREE[red\][/B].

Although I havent yet read it, I will be the first here to suggest Unintended Consequences. Seems to be a suggestion that comes from both paranoid, seperatist weirdos and the normal gun freaks.

Unitended Consequences.

The first 6 or so novels of Tom Clancy, esp the ones with john clark

Radical Son, by David Horowitz.  It explains how the left really is infiltrated and run by the old communist regime.

Most anything by frederick pohl

TXL

"In the Company of Heros" by Michael J. Durant
"Flags of Our Fathers"

"The Truth About Challenger"
Randy Avera

Tainting Evidence : Behind the Scandals at the FBI Crime Lab

The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror by Hoffman, David

The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America's Most Secret Agency

Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace

The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives

The Immaculate Deception: The Bush Crime Family Exposed

The War on Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked, September 11, 2001

Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy, Saudi Arabia and the Failed Search for bin Laden

Pearl Harbor; The Mother of All Conspiracies

Day of Deception

Unintended Consequences

A Book of Five Rings

Tragedy and Hope, The History of the World in Our Time

Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA

Unlimited Access

Inevitable Revolutions

The Cult of Counter-Terrorism

By Way of Deception

George Bush, The Unauthorized Biography

Rashomon and Other Stories

Ideals of the Samurai : Writings of Japanese Warriors

Hagakure : The Book of the Samurai

Just a few of my favorites, off the top of my head.

Mike

PS: these are all great military books, which I forgot, but have at home, thanks for mentioning them, TimJ.....

Forgotten Soldier-Guy Sajer
War Story-Jim Morris
Commander Commander-Charles McDonald
A Rifleman Went to War-Herbert McBride

Anything by Ayn Rand
Anything by Carl Hiaasen

My wife's Boss just gave her the this book "In the Company of Heroes" by Michael J. Durant to give to me he said that he thought of me when he was given this book at the FBI Conference in Sun Valley, ID. I cant wait to read it, I hope that I will get an opportunity to meet Durant and get it signed.

I just got this one today:

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I'll let you know how it is. [:D]

I read the first book (great book by the way), but is the Silent Warrior also about Carlos Hathcock?

The Art of War

Yes, it went into more details about his experiences and what happened to him later in life as well. it dose cover some of the same material but in greater detail.

Black Hawk Down - Mark Bowden
We Were Soldiers - Hal Moore
Uninteded Consequences - John Ross
The Federal Siege At Ruby Ridge - Randy Weaver
All titles by Stephen Ambrose
I Could Never Be So Lucky Again - James Doolittle
The Art Of War (The Linyi Text) - Lao Tzu
Living The Martial Way - Maj. Forrest Morgan
Zen In The Martial Arts - Joe Hyams

Any novel by Tom Clancy or Clive Cussler.

[b]The Guardians[/b] series by Richard Austin.

[b]Shogun[/b] by James Clavel

[b]The Bource Identity[/b] by Robert Ludlam

[b]The U.S. Declaration of Independance[/b] by Thomas Jefferson

[b]The U.S. Constitution[/b] by James Madison, et al.

[b]Red Pheonix[/b], [b]Vortex[/b], and [b]Cauldron[/b] by Larry Bond

[b]Storming Intrepid[/b] by Scott Peterson (?)

[b]The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy[/b] series by Douglas Adams

[b]The Way Things Ought To Be[/b] by Rush Limbaugh

[b]Slander[/b] by Anne Coulter

[b]Basic Economics[/b] by Thomas Sowell

[b]The Bible[/b] by God, et al.

Ummm ... I'd just have to say Atlas Shrugged.

[url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/1888118040?tag=arfcom00-20]Unintended Consequences[/url] by John Ross

[url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345406141?tag=arfcom00-20]How Few Remain[/url] by Harry Turtledove

You don't have enough space for my book list.

Band of Brothers by Ambrose
The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Blackhawk Down by Mark Bowden
In the Beginning by John Gribbin
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
The Harlot by the Side of the Road--Jonathan Kirsch

Two GREAT books

"Alien Agenda" by Jim Marrs

"Rule by Secrecy" by Jim Marrs

and

"Holy Blood & Holy Grail"

"The Davinci Code"

Agreed.

"Blackjack-33", by James Donahue.

"The Stand: Unabridged", by Stephen King

"Blackhawk Down"

A Soldiers Load and the Mobility of a Nation-S.L.A. Marshal
Men Against Fire; The Problem of Battle Command in Future War
Anything by Ambrose
The Prince-Machiavelli
Once An Eagle-Anton Myrer
Anything by Clancy


Of all of them, Men Against Fire influenced me the most. Iit is about leading men into battle, and motivating them to kill and advance.

[i]Capitolism and Freedom[/i] by Milton Friedman

[i]Unintended Consequences[/i] by John Ross

[i]Think Free to Live Free: A Political Burnout's Guide to Life, Activism and Everything[/i] by Claire Wolfe

[i]Don't Shoot the Bastards (Yet): 101 More Ways to Salvage Freedom[/i] by Claire Wolfe, Boston T. Party

[i]101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution: Ideas and Resources for Self-Liberation, Monkey Wrenching and Preparedness[/i] by Claire Wolfe

[i]The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America[/i] by Philip K. Howard

That's actually a pretty heavy book, not at all what you expect from Stephen King.

1) The Bible

2)Everything on Wilson's list, (thanks wilson)

3) American founding documents, from the Mayflower compact on to the Constitution.

4) Unintended consequences, by John Ross.


Lemmee know when yer done, there's more...[:D]

Literally and figuratively....[:D]

"Stolen Valor" by B.G. Burkett. This is a must read for all Viet Nam Veterans and all those who would REALLY like to understand the War.

I liked:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mutiny On the Bounty

The Hunt for Red October

The Sum of All Fears

I am the Cheese

The Catcher in the Rye

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

A Brief History of Time

Treasure Island

Various Edgar Allen Poe stuff

Moby Dick

Most of the classic stuff.

As listed before : the first 6 Clancy boks
Theodore Rex
Slander
Invasion
and the poor mans James bond vol 1&2

Tom Clancy novels
Sky Masters- Dale Brown
Marine Sniper:  93 Confirmed Kills- Charles Henderson
Silent Warrior- Charles Henderson
SEAL!- Forgot author, loaned out my copy and never got it back
Rogue Warrior- Richard Marcinko
Death in the Delta- Gary R. Smith
Death in the Jungle- Gary R. Smith
Masterchief- Gary R. Smith
Hunters and Shooters- edited by Bill Fawcett
What'dya Mean I can't Kill 'em?- Rad Miller, Jr.
Six Silent Men Vol. 1 thru. 3- Reynel Martinez, Kenn Miller, and Gary A. Linderer
Phantom Warriors:  Books 1 and 2- Gary A. Linderer
Eyes Behind the Lines- Gary A. linderer
Eyes of the Eagle- Gary A. Linderer
Dead Center- Ed Kugler
Black Hawk Down- Mark Bowden
We Were Soldiers Once...And Young- Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Joeseph L. Galloway
Point Man- Chief James Watkins and Kevin Dockery
Illusion or Victory:  How the U.S. Navy SEALs Win America's Failing War on Drugs- Richard L. Knopf
Kilo Class- Patrick Robinson
Pillars of Fire- Steve Shagan
Adrift- Forgot

If you haven't read Unintended Consequences yet, go DO IT NOW!

I see "Unintended Consequences" being mentioned frequently!![:D]
But NOT frequently enough!!![;D]

Would you like me to send you a copy?? [:D]
Every gun-owning patriot, and leo's should have a look....
I will send you a hard cover copy free. One condition, pass it on to another board member who makes the same promise, or send it back to me. Please let me know, post, and send IM. [snoopy]

Some that were not mentioned
1984 - Orwell
Down and out in Paris and London - Orwell
The Time Machine - Wells
20,000 legues beneth the sea - Verne
Patriots, the men who started the American Revolution - Langguth
The Forgotten Soldier - Sajer
The Boat - Buchiem

[i]"Unintended Consequences"[/i] [:D]

[i]"The King's Coat"[/i] by [b]Dewey Lambdin[/b]
ISBN:0-449-00360-4

"On Killing"
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman

Jay

For Fun and Enjoyment

Treasure Island, Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson

The Vorkosigan Books - probably start with The Vor Game and chronologically from there and then the early ones  - Louis McMaster Bujold

The Curse of Chalion - Bujold

History -  a little heavier than the above but entertaining

The Silver Seekers, The City Makers, The Water Seekers, Ghosttowns, - anything you can find by Remi Nadeau  The author is a historian named after the earlier Remi Nadeaus, who were instrumental in developing Los Angeles, the contractor who ran the 20 Mule Team Borax Wagons, ran the freight lines in the Owens, Panamint and Death Valleys.  Great histories of old west California

Nothing Like It In the World : The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 - by Stephen Ambrose

Death Valley and the Amargosa - A Land of Illusion by Lingenfelter

Civil War - the Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Civil War Trilogy, Grant Moves South, Grant Takes Command all by Bruse Catton

little heavier but not bad

Civil War by Shelby Foote

"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", Heinlein

"The Illuminatus! Trilogy", Shea and Wilson

Reader's Digest "Back to the Basics"

"Death of The West", Pat Buchanan

"Send in The Waco Killers" and "The Ballad of Carl Drega" by Vin Suprynowicz

"A Book of Abstract Algebra" by Charles C. Pinter

Now how come nobody told me this book was written? I stalk, and stalk, and stalk some more.
My yet my efforts are so frowned apon. How could such an inconsiderate thing happen? [:D]

EDIT! the line in the middle was my question.

They Fought Alone - John Keats
From Here to Eternity -  James Jones

And of course...this classic....

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in all seriousness, and if your open-minded enough, try reading ... The autobiography of Malcolm X
he mentions a few times how full of crap liberals really are, interesting read for sure, even if you dont agree with his religion beliefs.
and of course...
God, Guns and rock n roll by ted nugent

Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse
by James Wesley Rawles

ALL of Steven E Ambrose's books.

In the Company of Heroe's by Michael Durant

Patton A genius for War.

Lord of the Rings trilogy.

y'all need more cyberpunk in your lives:

snow crash - stephenson
cryptonomicon - stephenson
neuromancer - gibson
count zero - gibson
mona lisa overdrive - gibson

oh, and some sci fi for flavor:

ender's game - card
speaker for the dead - card
stranger in a strange land - heinlein

and some existentialism for spice:
the stranger - camus
steppenwolf - hesse

now, write a 8-12 page essay on the binding thread of all these novels and have it to me by next friday.

being forced to read it right now... very enjoyable.

Webstir'z Nu Werld Dickshunery

I had Unintented Consequences in .txt or .pdf format that someone on one of the gun boards put up, anyone know where to get it now?  Great read.

The Bible
Black Hawk Down - Mark Bowden
Inside Delta Force - Eric L. Haney
In the Company of Heroes - Michael Durant
Alas, Babylon - Pat Frank
The Stand - Stephen King
Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy
Marine Sniper - Charles Henderson