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| Specialist290 | Jun 18 2007, 01:32 PM |
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My personal recommendation list: Fantasy The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, by JRR Tolkein (and that's about it... Don't read much fantasy) Science Fiction Starship Troopers, by Robert Heinlein Have Space Suit, Will Travel, by Robert Heinlein The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov The "Gaunt's Ghosts" series of Warhammer 40,000 novels, by Dan Abnett The "Ciaphas Cain" series of Warhammer 40,000 novels, by Sandy Mitchell The "Grand Admiral Thrawn" trilogy of Star Wars novels, by Timothy Zahn The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells Dune, by Frank Herbert (and maybe the first two or three sequels, too) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams World War Z, by Max Brooks Other Fiction Animal Farm, by George Orwell Hamlet, by William Shakespeare War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy The Portrait of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde Moby Dick, by Herman Melville All The King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren The Blue Max, by Jack Hunter The Odyssey, by Homer Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson Gulliver's Travels, by Johnathan Swift Shogun, by James Clavell Nonfiction / Biography Pretty much anything about World War II or the American Civil War A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates, by Capt. Charles Johnson The Beatles, by Bob Spitz Caesar's Commentaries (on the Gallic and Civil Wars) The Histories, by Herodotus The Twelve Caesars, by Suetonius Politics, Religion, and Philosophy The Gospel of John The Art of War, by Sun Tzu (translated by Samuel B. Griffith) The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli The Book of Five Rings, by Miyamoto Musashi (translated by Stephen F. Kaufman) Poetry "The Raven," by Edgar Allan Poe "Ozymandias," by Percy Bysshe Shelley All of these are books that I've read at least in part; I haven't included the dozens upon dozens of books that I've wanted to read but haven't gotten to yet. |
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