[Nkc]

Consolidated list of all the books recommended by our members (not in any order):

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1) "Eleven Rings" - Phil Jackson
2) "A Song of Ice and Fire" - George R.R. Martin
3) "The Game" - Neil Strauss
4) "Tuesdays with Morrie" - Mitch Albom
5) "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" - Malcolm Gladwell
6) "The Great Gatsby" - F Scott Fitzgerald
7) "Lone Survivor" - Marcus Luttrell
8) "Life of Pi" - Yanni Martel
9) "Crossing the Chasm" - Geoffrey A. Moore
10) "Think and Grow Rich" Napoleon Hill
11) "Fooled by Randomness" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
12) "The Catcher in the Rye" - J.D. Salinger
13) "The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer" - Phillip Carlo
14) "The Art of Making Money" - Jason Kersten
15) "Flowers for Algernon" - Daniel Keyes
16) "American Psycho" - Bret Easton Ellis
17) "The House of God" - Samuel Shem
18) "Heisenberg's War" - Thomas Powers
19) "When You Are Engulfed in Flames" - David Sedaris
20) "Angels and Demons" - Dan Brown
21) "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature" - Steven Pinker
22) "The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values" Sam Harris
23) "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales" Oliver Sacks
24) "Lying" - Sam Harris
25) "Free Will" - Sam Harris
26) "Outliers" - Malcolm Gladwell
27) "The Grand Design" - Stephen Hawking
28) "Atlas Shrugged" - Ayn Rand
29) "Kite Runner" - Khaled Hosseini
30) "Rant" - Chuck Palahniuk
31) "Lord of the Flies" - William Golding
32) "Butterfly Revolution" - William Butler
33) "On the Beach" - Neville Shute
34) "The Guns of Navarone" - Alistair MacLean
35) "The Big Short" - Michael Lewis
36) "Sleeping With the Devil" - Robert Baer
37) "Cell" - Stephen King
38) "The Book Thief" - Marcus Zusak
39) "The Art of Racing in the Rain" - Garth Stein
40) "The Boys in the Boat" - Daniel James Brown
41) "Roots" - Alex Haley
42) "Glass Castle" Jeannette Walls
43) "Catch 22" - Joseph Heller
44) "Forgotten Fire" - Adam Bagdasarian
45) "The Art of War" - Sun Tzu
45) "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time" - Mark Haddon
46) "The Breadwinner" - Deborah Ellis
47) "The Dark Tower Series" - Stephen King 7 Books Total
48) "Ender's Quartet" - Orson Scott Card 4 Books Total
49) "Micro" - Richard Preston and Michael Crichton
50) "Jurassic Park" - Michael Crichton
51) "The Hunger Games Trilogy" - Suzanne Collins 3 Books Total
52) "12 Years a Slave" - Solomon Northup
53) "The Wolf of Wall Street" - Jordan Belfort
54) "A Fine Balance" - Rohinton Mistry
55) "Fall on your Knees" - Ann-Marie MacDonald
56) "A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail" - Bill Bryson
57) "A Prayer For Owen Meany" - John Irving
58) "The Prince of Tides" - Pat Conroy
59) "A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius" - Dave Eggers
60) "A Short History of Nearly Everything" - Bill Bryson
61) "All You Need is Kill" - Hiroshi Sakurazaka
62) "12 Steps to a Compassionate Life" - Karen Armstrong
63) "Just Six Numbers" - Martin J. Rees
64) "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming" - Mike Brown


AMAZING LIST. Let's get more!!!

[squishy]

Life of Pi

[BMW F22]

Crossing the chasm- geofferey moore (marketing stuff but very interesting)
Think and grow rich- napoleon hill
Fooled by randomness- also a good read

[kingofthedemo]

I have read both, The Game, and Lone Survivor, both are really entertaining reads. As far as classics go, if you have never read: The Catcher In The Rye, I recommend it. (It was my favorite as a teenager)

If you like true crime these are both really interesting: The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer , and The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter

[PINeely]

Daniel Keyes- Flowers for Algernon
Bret Easton Ellis- American Psycho- Only read if you aren't easily disturbed; makes the movie look like an episode of Blue's Clues.
Samuel Shem- The House of God (especially if you're in a medical-related field)
Thomas Powers- Heisenberg's War
Any Kurt Vonnegut that you haven't read
David Sedaris- When You Are Engulfed in Flames

I see you listed The DaVinci Code, if you like this one then definitely read Angels and Demons. Hell, read that one even if you don't like TDC.

This is just to get you started. I could name good books all day but nobody wants to listen Are you into short stories at all?

[BenchRacerYo]

Read the GOT series before all else. Fantastic series with a very well thought out plot and storyline. My only issues are that he will probably die before he writes the 6th and 7th and that once you read the first, you can't do anything else but read the rest.

[PINeely]

Originally Posted by BenchRacerYo

Read the GOT series before all else. Fantastic series with a very well thought out plot and storyline. My only issues are that he will probably die before he writes the 6th and 7th and that once you read the first, you can't do anything else but read the rest.

Am I the only one who skips Daenerys chapters? Sometimes Jon Snow chapters too.

[BenchRacerYo]

Originally Posted by PINeely

Am I the only one who skips Daenerys chapters? Sometimes Jon Snow chapters too.

To be honest, I skipped all the chapters with Bran in them. I read everything else. I honestly have no idea what's happening with Bran, Hodor, Rickon and Osha.

However, I find Jon Snow and Daenaerys to be my favorite characters.

[TrevorM3]

anybody read 50 shades of grey? lol quite a few chicks have told me it's good.

[Nkc]

Originally Posted by BenchRacerYo

To be honest, I skipped all the chapters with Bran in them. I read everything else. I honestly have no idea what's happening with Bran, Hodor, Rickon and Osha.

However, I find Jon Snow and Daenaerys to be my favorite characters.

I skim thru Catelyn chapters. I'll fill you in on Hodor...HODOR...HODOR...oh he's got a giant cock too

[Nkc]

Originally Posted by TrevorM3

anybody read 50 shades of grey? lol quite a few chicks have told me it's good.

I read the first one. Fucking horrible and waste of time. My wife enjoyed it but I guess that's because she doesn't watch porn like I do. Serious it sucks nads.

[NemesisX]

1) The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Pulitzer finalist)

2) The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

3) The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

4) Lying

5) Free Will

6) Outliers: The Story of Success

7) The Grand Design

As you can tell I'm a huge fan of non-fiction. The last fiction book I read was the davinci code probably 7 or 8 years ago, although I really enjoyed it.

Also, these aren't books but they're interesting nonetheless -

http://theoreticalminimum.com/courses

The "theoretical minimum" is a set of six courses on physics (classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, special relativity, general relativity, cosmology, and statistical mechanics) that are intended for a general audience. The only requirement is that you know basic high school calculus. The courses build, so one should watch them in the order presented (from top to bottom, classical mechanics to statistical mechanics).

A lot of my non-science friends have found these videos to be incredibly illuminating. Some of them even said that they wished that they had studied physics in college after watching them.

I just think that as a living being on this earth one should know something about quantum mechanics or special and general relativity, and these videos more than fulfill that need.

They're not full length courses that would be taught to an undergraduate physics majors. These courses are specially tailor-made for a general but technically and scientifically-savvy audience.

[BenchRacerYo]

Originally Posted by Nkc

I skim thru Catelyn chapters. I'll fill you in on Hodor...HODOR...HODOR

That about sums up my knowledge of them!

[kingofthedemo]

Originally Posted by TrevorM3

anybody read 50 shades of grey? lol quite a few chicks have told me it's good.

Homo.

[NemesisX]

Oh, and the "theoretical minimum" is taught by a really eminent physicist (Leonard Susskind) who is probably on the short list to win a nobel prize some day. He's also an amazing teacher.

[PINeely]

Originally Posted by BenchRacerYo

To be honest, I skipped all the chapters with Bran in them. I read everything else. I honestly have no idea what's happening with Bran, Hodor, Rickon and Osha.

However, I find Jon Snow and Daenaerys to be my favorite characters.

Seriously all that you need to know about Bran is that he was able to warg Hodor. Osha is just kinda creeping around and Rickon is god knows where.

Jon and Dany just don't do it for me. Not enough politico.

Concerning 50 shades, I don't understand how the prospect of being beaten during sex is arousing. Apparently the chicks like it though.

[BenchRacerYo]

Originally Posted by PINeely

Seriously all that you need to know about Bran is that he was able to warg Hodor. Osha is just kinda creeping around and Rickon is god knows where.

Jon and Dany just don't do it for me. Not enough politico.

Only two books left, Bran better get his shit together!

[Nkc]

Oh you guys, what a great list of books. My checkout basket is up to around $400us now. I'm gonna trust you guys and read all of them. Thanks a lot and keep em comin.

[Joekerr]

Ayn Rand "Atlas Shrugged". Good book, and funny how its still relevant to modern day society.

Be prepared for a long read, and it starts a little slow, but really gets interesting.

[TrevorM3]

Originally Posted by kingofthedemo

Homo.

haha, no.

[Mr Tonka]

Originally Posted by Nkc

Oh you guys, what a great list of books. My checkout basket is up to around $400us now. I'm gonna trust you guys and read all of them. Thanks a lot and keep em comin.

Kite Runner. Get the audio book if you have the time. it's narrated by the author which gives the book a ton of depth.

[Devious21]

+1 for Atlas Shrugged and Moral Landscape.

If you've read Fight Club, "Rant" is from the same author (Chuck Palahniuk). Really liked it.

I also liked Lord of the Flies and Butterfly Revolution when I was in school. Both have similar themes (society going to hell). Lord of the Flies is boys on an Island. Butterfly Revolution is boy and girls in a summer camp.

King also mentioned the Iceman (Richard Kuklinski). I haven't read the book but his HBO interviews are really interesting.