What's a good book?

Question

Looking for something to read on the flight for Christmas. Prefer non-fiction to fiction generally although I'm open to well written fiction also.

Answer 1

Would suggest "Climb the Highest Mountain," Mark Prophet, for inspiration.

"Men in White Apparel," Ann Ree Colton, also interesting for inspiration.

"Expecting Adam," Martha Beck, is funny, warm, and profound; she reconstructs her last year earning her Ph.D. at Harvard and also delivering her son, Adam.

"The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?", Free and Wilcock, http://www.divinecosmos.com

"Extraordinary Knowing," Dr. Elizabeth Mayer; a professor of psychology at U.C. Berkeley, out of desperation, takes a friend's advice to try a dowser 3,000 miles away, to try and locate her daughter's beloved stolen harp. He does, to the very corner. The rest of the book recounts her attempts to disprove the event, and more.

"The Master of Lucid Dreams," psychiatrist Olga Kharitidi, is an amazing account of her learning a method of dream healing.

Fiction: "The Great Divorce," C. S. Lewis, a great novella.

Fiction: "Hidden Camera," Zoran Zivkovic, a light and non-violent mystery.

cordially,

j.

Answer 2

You could always go look at the Pulitzer nominees and winners since they break out non-fiction into a number of categories.

I've read: Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War; Polio: An American Story; and Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, which were all very good.

Answer 3

The Terry Fox Story

Answer 4

Spoon River Anthology! It's a poem book, so there's no worry in finishing it all after the flight. They're all made up people who have been buried on the same cemetery. These poems are simply their secrets, stories, scandals, etc. I love how the author linked the poems together. You're referred to a character in the poem of another. The table of contents lists the names of the townspeople (of Spoon River) so you can go straight to their story after their mentioned in someone else's. It's lost of fun to read how this author linked everyone from this town together; from family secrets, to love affairs, to war, and so on and so forth :)

Answer 5

the best book i ever read was A Painted House , By John Grisham, characters you'll never forget, some of the finest dialogue of his career every detail rings clear and true, and nothing is wasted, if you like huckleberry finn or to kill a mockingbird this book is for you ,i have read it 5 times now and never tire of it, it keeps you reading because you want to know what is happing next you can not put it down, give it a try,

Answer 6

Watchers by Dean Koontz

From a top secret government laboratory come two genetically altered life forms. . .
One is a magnificent dog of astonishing intelligence.
The other, a hybrid monster of a brutally violent nature.
Both are on the loose…
Bestselling author Dean Koontz presents his most terrifying, dramatic and moving novel: The explosive story of a man and a woman, caught in a relentless storm of mankind’s darkest creation…

Answer 7

The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
the movie's coming out soon too!

Answer 8

I would say a book called Briar Rose its based on sleeping beauty as well as the holocaust i am reading it and im very impressed with it

Answer 9

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Adler

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Paint it Black (can't remember the author's name)

Answer 10

If you haven't read Night by Elie Wiesel, I highly recommend that. It's a bit short, but why not read it?