What books do you recommend

[billboy]

What are some that you would recommend to someone...or you've read before and was like damn I got to tell someone about this book?

[kar ma]

Originally Posted by billboy

What are some that you would recommend to someone...or you've read before and was like damn I got to tell someone about this book?

"How to Read a Book" - written by the cheif editor of Encyclopedia Britanica in the 60s.. Classic.. Check out his list of top 100 books to read in the back of that too, it contains gems like Marcus Aralias's "Meditations"..

[elaheh]

Im a huge fan of Milan Kundera, and I ALWAYS recommend Immortality to all of my friends. My favourite book, and I get something different from it each time!

Immortality: Milan Kundera

Other than that, One Hundred Years of Solitude, probably fuelled my determination to write. I read it about 5 years ago or so, and I've never read a writer who expresses him/herself as well as the author.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

[offthabooks]

Originally Posted by elaheh

Other than that, One Hundred Years of Solitude, probably fuelled my determination to write. I read it about 5 years ago or so, and I've never read a writer who expresses him/herself as well as the author.
One Hundred Years of Solitude

c/s this...

Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas is a book I always recommend to people...my favorite book, hands down

The People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn...just overall essential reading

Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc...very powerful, sorta book that stays with after you read it

[CB4_Gusto]

Rogue State by William Blum

[elaheh]

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