HI everyone,

I am an avid reader, and I am always on the lookout for new books to read, would you mind sharing any good titles (fiction or not).

What are your top 5 recommendations?


I will start first, from the top of my head:

-[u]The Power of One[/u] by Bryce Courtenay (AWESOME!!!)
-[u]Tommo & Hawk[/u] by Bruce Courtnay (card cheating in there!)
-The R.A. Salvatore "Dark Elf" serie
-[u]The World According to Garp[/u] by John Irving
-[u]The Ants[/u] by Bernard Weber
-[u]The Hunt for Red October[/u] and [u]Rainbow Six[/u] by Tom Clancy
-[u]To Kill a Mockingbird[/u] by Harper Lee
-[u]The Last of The Blue Water Hunters[/u] by Carlos Eyles
-[u]The Book of Five Rings[/u] by Miyamoto Musashi
-[u]The Ninja[/u] by Eric Van Lustbader
-[u]The Old Man and The Sea[/u] by Ernest Hemmingway
-etc...

That is more than 5, but who cares...

your turn now!

Ronnie Lemieux
Montreal
Canada

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King (seven books all together)
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Tao Te Ching
I Ching
Alexander (published by Mike Caveney)

Might want to start the standard 'cannon' list and then spread out a bit. Have you read Neil Gaiman's Sandman? The Frank Herbert stories? The Borges stories? The Philip K. Dick stories? Lots of literature to explore once you get out of the magic shop.

George Orwell:
Animal Farm
1984

Ayn Rand:
Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead
Anthem

Anthony Burgess:
A Clockwork Orange

Various Author's. Mostly manuscripts:
A Treasury Of Science (preferably the 2nd edition)
This book has unabridged writings from many important thinkers from Plato to Robert Oppenheimer. Should be required reading in Schools. This book contains several papers written by Benjamin Franklin and anyone really interested in the real story of the "kite experiment" should read what Franklin himself had to say about it.
Iven

All the books written by Jim Swain. They are very good I think, 4 or 5 in all.

I like:

The Cat Who" series by Lilian J. Braun (mystery)
Harry Potter books (different sort of magic)
Fast Food Nation (have not been back to McD'd since reading this book)
The Da Vinci Code

Anything written by David Sedaris.

Guillotine: Its Legend and Lore
by Daniel Gerould

I'm a crazy fan of the Wheel Of Time series by Robert Jordan. I also like everything Tolkien ever wrote.

The secret diary of Laura Plmer (Twin Peaks).

Gareth

Anything by James Patterson, his book are awesome!

"Brave New World" is cool (Huxley).

I forgot this at my friend’s house I stayed at recently so I can't remember the entire title. But it's basically called "Classic Comedy". It's a book on old time comedy, Silent film stars and slapsticks. Things like that. Very informative and inspiring.

For instance. Did you know that Houdini was Buster Kenton’s god father and he's the one who gave him the stage name "buster"?

It's a very inspiring book.

Ron Jaxon

The Tarzan and Mars Series by ERB.
The OZ books by Baum. (One of the Oz books was recently turned into a Magic prop thanks to freestyle Book test ).

Any book by Daniel P. Mannix ie: "Memoirs Of A Sword Swallower" and "We Who Are About To Die."

And the best book I EVER read, "Circus Of The Scars" by Jan T. Gregor.

Xmosis,

We both share an affinity for ERB's Barsoom. I just finished re-reading 'Chessmen of Mars'.

I also enjoy Howard's Conan & Solomon Kane, Lovecraft, Bloch, Derleth, and urban hero-pulp reprints (Doc Savage, The Avenger, The Shadow, and my favorite...The Spider).

Steve

Ann Coulter's books.

Hot Talk, Cold Science by Dr. S. Fred Singer

Environmental Overkill & Trashing The Planet by Dixie Lee Ray

Pick A Better Country by Ken Hamblin

The Seven Fat Years by Robert Bartley

Stanislavskis' 3 Books on the art of acting.

The Lord Of The Rings.

"Lord of the Rings" and a lot more (I read a lot).

Magixx

Stephen King books. You've got to love them. The closest one to a movie the book got was Green Mile.

Michael

Some not mentioned yet...

Fiction
Little, Big by John Crowley
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin
The Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Masquerade by Kit Williams - I loved trying to solve the puzzle

Nonfiction
The Day After Roswell by Col. Philip Corso - can we believe such an authoritative source?
How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphics by Collier and Manley