Can you name three books that you think everyone should read?

1. Almost Like a Whale - Steve Jones.

My son handed it to me after he'd read it during his Marine Biology studies.
Basically, it's Charles Darwin's Origin of Species made modern, updated and very readable.


2. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller.

Brilliant book which reminds me of being young, footloose and fancy free...and a lazy summer on Skiathos, and banana beach.



3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

I first read this when I was in my early twenties and finished it in three days. Five years later I read most of it to and with my son (who was about 5 at the time) and found that he had inherited my weird sense of humour. He also says that this got him addicted to reading books.

1. The Eye of the Heron, by Ursula K. Le Guin

I like this book because of its brutally honest look at how propaganda and revisionist history work. I also like the message about how the oppressed should deal with oppressors (hint: it's not what Jesus would do).

2. Burmese Days, by George Orwell

The book is important so that people know Orwell had antipathies to other things besides Communism.

3. Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis

Important lesson about the hollowness of middle class life. Love the last couple of pages.

"The Republic," "1984," and "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" and just for fun "Brave New World"

Government, warning about government, and since everyone dies, some spiritual aide in coping without the do this/don't do that of more conventional religious texts.

Flowers for Algernon, Book Thief, Inferno

I saw The Book Thief movie, did it follow the book closely? Is the book particularly well-written?

I can't say that everybody should read these books, but I certainly am glad I did.

Desolation Angels - Jack Kerouac.
A lookout station in a California forest. His internal musing and, later, how so much of it fell away with his return to society. One touching passage in which he regrets killing a mouse.

Opus 21 - Phillip Wylie
A writer of the 50s having a fictional long weekend, as he awaits biopsy results from a throat growth. We are treated to essays and incidents meant to illustrate Wylie's world view.


The Tortilla Curtain - T. C. Boyle
Two illegal Mexicans, husband and wife, try to make it in California. Their lives and the lives an urban 'white' couple become more and more entangled, with the Mexicans becoming ever more beaten down and desperate and the white man trying with all his might to be free of the scourge of these people.

The Mentor The Kid and The CEO, Outliers, The Size of Thoughts. Of course this is my opinion by enjoyment of my personal preference of what I have read and I'm sure there are various other people that with difference preference to what I read although those three I think were all really good reads for anyone.

Well the recent book by ; John Anthony West , Serpent In The sky ( The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt)

The Passion of the Western Mind ( Understanding the Ideas That have Shaped Our World View ) by Richard Tarnas

Not in HIS Image ( Gnostic Vision , Sacred Ecology and the Future of Belief)by John Lamb Nash.

All three open up our minds .

Like I said they were by my opinion. Everyone has their own.

all those books you just listed in your reply to me actually happen to be the kind of Books that most frown upon although I get into that kind of stuff lol

Yes , so do I .

TRUTH , is what matters in the end . Socrates .

Yeap & Socrates was a smart man as were many other ancient Philosophers. as well many other modern ones.

I'd imagine You'd have a field day with my Book Collection North, Given the basis of your preference of readings lol

Everyone should read "Murder on the Orient Express" if you're a fan of detective novels.

I love detective, murder and mystery stories. However, books ( not mysteries) that I've read in the past and which I still enjoy reading and have copies of are:

1. Sanctuary
2. An American Tragedy
3. Arrowsmith
4. Look Homeward Angel
5. The Jungle
6. So Big
7. Giant

I also have a great love for drama and have numerous books on plays.

I also love biographies.

I'm going to keep that one in mind(it sounds really good) I appreciate it very much. I like detective novels sometimes, I can recommend you a couple of Detective Novels also Not sure if you've read them or not so here goes...

The Black Echo
Killing Floor