[i]An idea from a forum I used to frequent.[/i]
The idea is you post titles of books you think are so good and/or informative that others should read them, and why you think that.
Mine:
"Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law]-godwinslaw!-[/url] Germany" by Hans J Massaquoi - because Blacks/Africans living in Germany during Naziism was something I and possibly most others in the world outside of Europe never knew happened.
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Everyone should read Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates. It's written like the journal of a Dahmer-esque serial killer. My favorite by far. Some of my other favorites: - Choke by Chuck Palahniuk - Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden - World War Z by Max Brooks - 1984 by George Orwell - The Godfather by Mario Puzo
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The Screwtape Letters Mediated: How the Media Shapes Our World and the Way We Live in It Parables of Kierkegaard (an easier approach to Kierkegaard)
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Edited by GT Stryker: 5/25/2013 3:49:30 AMI'm reading a book called, [i]The Genius in All of Us[/i], by David Shenk. It's about how genes are not really set in stone from our birth, and that they are constantly changing and adapting. It dispels the old saying of, "Oh, it's in the genes."
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SecondWorld. I can't think of where to start to describe it so here. Read it last summer, action packed, very entertaining, and has some humor in it. When you read it you definitely think it could be some whacky B movie.
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Sci-fi essential. The Mars trilogy. (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars) Also 1984 and Brave New World.
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atlas shrugged if at the very least to introduce new world views
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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Great book.