what book would you suggest everyone should read?

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and why?

Answer 1

THE WAY THINGS WORK vols I & II written in the 60's during the height of the Cold War when people were sure a nuclear war was coming and began building bomb shelters in their back yards. The book is actually an encyclopedia of facts on how to rebuild civilization after a nuclear war and you survive. It tells you how to make soap, make vinegar, tan hides, make clothes, make a fire, build a simple lathe or a water wheel to generate electricity. All sorts of useful information. The book has been re-written into a single volume and updated to reflect this new era, but for my money the original two-volume set is the best. And if everything in the world keeps going the way it is, I think this book will be coming back into vogue before very long.

Answer 2

Catcher within the Rye Jane Eyre Pride and Prejudice Much Ado About Nothing Anne of Green Gables The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Finn The Canturbury Tales Cyrano de Bergerac Hound of the Baskervilles Kidnapped Les Misérables The Importance of Being Earnest The Secret Garden The Awakening A Tale of Two Cites Those are my favourite classics!

Answer 3

If you like religious / pseudo religious fantasy texts I suggest The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit , The Bible, Heroditus - The Histories, The Illiad, The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Bhagavad Gita, The Koran, The Nebelung, The Tales of the Aboriginal Peoples of Australia.

If you like real life spy/thriller stuff, I suggest Blind Mans Bluff or Body of Secrets.

If you like history I recommend, Guns, Germs and Steel, Rise and fall of the Great Powers, Rise and Fall of Rome, The Sword and the Chrysanthemum.

If you like science I recommend, Darwin's The Origin of Species & Mendelian Selection. The Cosmos Series , Connections, by James Burke.

Answer 4

Right now, The Road by Cormac Mc Carthy. Today it won the highest honor in Scotland. It already won the Pulitzer this year. It is a truly amazing story of love and compassion in a post-apocalyptic world. It will literally take your breath away and you will be thinking about it weeks later. It is a genuine classic and will be for a very long time to come. Pax - C

Answer 5

The Hobbitt and the Lord of the Rings. Written over 60 years ago this tale is still fresh in its thinking. Yound and old alike can find amusement in the characters and find strength in its quest. I've read the books three times so far and probably will another three before I die.

Answer 6

The last dog on earth its kinda of a kid book but thick and its good cause i could see the book actually happen in the real world i suggest reading it.

Answer 7

Well, actually I wouldn't suggest that everyone read a certain book (sounds kinda pushy). But you might like Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison--I know I did.

Answer 8

"Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah" by Richard Bach. It details how humanism and belief in deity can learn from each other. It is a light story, full of laughs but it stills gives the reader something to think about. It is a good read.

Answer 9

The diary of Anne Frank.

It is historical, it is profound and it gives an insight into the innocence and the attrocities mankind is capable of, and the more people that understand those 2 facts the better a chance we have at preventing anything like what happened to Anne Frank from happening to anyone else ever again.

Answer 10

There are so many good books. It depends if you want fiction or nonfiction.

If you are business oriented, I highly recommend "The Original and Evolution of New Business" by Bhide.

For fiction, try this out:

My Name is Red
by Orhan Pamuk, a very famous Turkish author.

Came highly recommended from someone I trust.

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