Help, I'm running out of things to read! Suggestions?

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  • yoovie
    yoovie Posts: 17,121 Member
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    ISHMAEL
  • elisabeisme
    elisabeisme Posts: 308 Member
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    I've read all but three of these - seems like we have very similar tastes in reading.

    a couple more (which you've probably read!):

    The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
    - Winchester
    More Sex is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics
    - Landsburg
    The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief
    - MacIntyre
    Survival of the Sickest : A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
    - Moalem
    The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Colective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations
    - Surowiecki
  • icimani
    icimani Posts: 1,454 Member
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    I've been reading some historical fiction lately.

    - Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
    - anything by Ken Follet. Pillars of the Earth is one of my all-time favorites, and I just got done reading Fall of Giants.
  • vypeters
    vypeters Posts: 475 Member
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    I've read all but three of these - seems like we have very similar tastes in reading.

    wow, I guess we do have similar taste! Any recos for me?

    Hmmm....

    The Signal and The Noise by Nate Silver
    What's Luck Got to Do With It by Joseph Mazur
    Crash of the Titans by Greg Farrell
    Fooling Some of the People All of the Time by David Einhorn
    Lost Rights by David Howard
    Sleights of Mind by Stephen Macknik et al
    Numbers Rule Your World by Kaiser Fung
    The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Alison Hoover Bartlett
    Operation Mincemeat (or anything really) by Ben Macintyre
    A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
    The Lost Chalice by Vernon Silver
    The Greatest Trade Ever by Gregory Zuckerman
    The Killer of Little Shepherds by Douglas Starr
    The Half Life of Facts by Samuel Arbesman

    Anything by Oliver Sacks
    Anything by Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • vypeters
    vypeters Posts: 475 Member
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    I've read all but three of these - seems like we have very similar tastes in reading.

    a couple more (which you've probably read!):

    The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
    - Winchester
    More Sex is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics
    - Landsburg
    The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief
    - MacIntyre
    Survival of the Sickest : A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
    - Moalem
    The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Colective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations
    - Surowiecki

    I've read just about everything Simon Winchester ever wrote. Have you read 'The Meaning of Everything', which is also about the OED?

    Two on this list I haven't read, Thanks!
  • Joanitude
    Joanitude Posts: 171 Member
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    I'm not much on nonfiction...but one I have on order is The Faithest. I read an article by the author and it was an interesting way to look at religion/spirituality.
  • Runs4Wine
    Runs4Wine Posts: 416 Member
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    I typically read fiction, but here are some non-fiction/historical fiction books I've read recently and enjoyed:

    Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer
    The Letter: My Journey Through Love, Loss, and Life by Marie Tillman
    Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwanandan Holocaust by Immaculee Ilibagiza
    Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert Massie
    In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
    A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
  • jessienicole05
    jessienicole05 Posts: 83 Member
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    BUMP!! I loveto read and am always looking for new books to read. :happy:
  • Runs4Wine
    Runs4Wine Posts: 416 Member
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    Another great resource is GoodReads. I keep track of the books I've read, and would like to read. It also recommends others based on what I've read and a Listopia where others rate books based on genre.
  • Cheryl188
    Cheryl188 Posts: 114 Member
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    Outlander - Diana Gabaldon!

    Loved this book! Very much fiction. Read it twice and cried both times.
  • icimani
    icimani Posts: 1,454 Member
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    Outlander - Diana Gabaldon!


    I LOVED the whole series! I felt like I really knew Jamie and Clare.
  • Nerdy_Rose
    Nerdy_Rose Posts: 1,277 Member
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    What about historical fiction? Stories based around actual history and facts, but with character personalities embellished?

    Passion of Artemisia
    Traitor's Wife
    Girl in Hyacinth Blue
    Queen of Shadows
  • xiofett
    xiofett Posts: 138 Member
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    Not a huge non-fiction reader, although that's pretty much all I watch on TV. But I have a few suggestions in both fiction and non-fiction genres.

    Non-fiction:
    A Big Little Life - Dean Koontz (As a warning, it's about his dog Trixie, who passed away a few years ago. You WILL cry at the end, and possibly several other times in the book. Moreso if you're a dog lover.)

    Destination Truth: Memoir of a Monster Hunter - Josh Gates (If you don't watch the show it might not be as good, but it's an excellent book on why one should be an adventurer)

    I'm just here for the Food - Alton Brown. (Yes, it's ostensibly a cookbook, but it's very well written and so much more)

    The Zombie Combat Manual - Roger Ma (You can never be too prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse. ;) )

    Fiction:

    Married with Zombies series - Jesse Petersen (Hilarious, but not for those put off by profanity. Or Zombies)

    Anything written by David Eddings or Roger Zelazny.

    World War Z - Max Brooks. (Yes, another zombie book. What can I say. I like them. This one is written in the style of a series of interviews with survivors of the apocalypse, so it reads more like a non-fiction book than fiction.)
  • elisabeisme
    elisabeisme Posts: 308 Member
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    great suggestions eveyone!

    @vypeters, great list. I've read a couple on there but many new ideas too.

    By the way, I'm reading "The Signal and The Noise" by Nate Silver right now. I agree that it's definitely a recommended read. It's a vey timely topic with all the election polls in the news. I have been a long time reader of his "FiveThirtyEight" blog and have seen him interviewed too. He's a brilliant guy.

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