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10 to read before the apocalypse?

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  • Registered Users Posts: 38 GunRunner


    I'm not as well read as all of ye but anyway...

    All Quiet On The Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
    H - Autobiography Of A Child Prostitute And Heroin Addict - Christiane F
    The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
    Perfume - Patrick Suskind
    Guerilla Days In Ireland - Tom Barry
    Borstal Boy - Brendan Behan
    Confessions Of An Irish Rebel - Brendan Behan
    Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Heart Of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
    Go Ask Alice
    The Manchester Martyrs - Joseph O'Neil


    ... I just listed eleven. :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 990 ✭✭✭galactus


    GunRunner wrote: »
    Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Great call. A disturbing (and funny) read.

    "I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man."


  • Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭Say it Aint So


    On the road -Jack Kerouac
    The old man and the sea - Ernest Hemingway
    Brave new world - Aldous Huxley


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,461 ✭✭✭✭Zeek12


    Tender is the night - Fitzgerald
    Catch 22 - Heller
    The Outsider - Camus
    The Heart is a lonely hunter - McCullers
    The Old man and the sea - Hemmingway
    Memoir - McGahern
    As I lay dying - Faulkner
    Appointment in Samarra - O'Hara
    A Clockwork orange - Burgess


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 565 ✭✭✭thefasteriwalk


    Great thread, OP. This is fairly off the cuff and I will, most probably, be back to do some trade mongering. Poetry, drama and graphic novels are included, because, well, I simply can't leave them out. Here goes:

    The Man Without Qualities - Musil
    Arcadia - Stoppard (or anything by Tom Stoppard really)
    Hamlet - Shakespeare
    Geek Love - Dunn
    Brave New World - Huxley
    Howl - Allen Ginsberg
    The Impossibility of an Island - Houellebecq (again, anything by Houellebecq)
    Maus - Spiegelman
    A Clockwork Orange - Burgess
    1984 - Orwell
    Sex in History - Tannahill (a tour de force - highly recommended)


  • Registered Users Posts: 30 Lector


    As more than one previous poster said, 10 is too few but...
    Here's a few off the top of my head

    The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
    Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
    100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
    A History of Warfare by John Keegan
    Dune by Frank Herbert
    Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
    Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
    At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
    The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler

    That's 10, but I could easily pick another 10 which would reward reading and re-reading..
    Books, don't ya just love 'em!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
    The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
    Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
    The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
    We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
    The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (or any one of his books)
    The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
    Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard
    The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
    Salems Lot by Stephen King
    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    1984 by George Orwell

    Thats 12 but I couldnt leave some of them out


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 118 ✭✭Mindfulness


    Brave new world - Aldous Huxley
    1984 - George Orwell
    Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
    The Hobbitt - JRR Tolkien
    The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
    Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
    The Stand - Stephen King
    The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
    Rubicon - Tom Holland
    The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexendre Dumas

    Please note, this list will change over the years - didn't add Ulysses or numerous others that I also love for a variety of reasons.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1 marina10


    Hi,
    For me the most boring book is pride and prejude. It´s very slow this books, super naive.

    I prefer books more deelply from authors such as tostoi or Dostoievsky.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,913 ✭✭✭Ormus


    Brave new world - Aldous Huxley
    1984 - George Orwell
    Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
    The Hobbitt - JRR Tolkien
    The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
    Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
    The Stand - Stephen King
    The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
    Rubicon - Tom Holland
    The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexendre Dumas

    Please note, this list will change over the years - didn't add Ulysses or numerous others that I also love for a variety of reasons.

    Great choices!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,273 ✭✭✭UsedToWait


    Great thread - I think I have enough books in my Amazon basket to last till the Apocalypse, and I'm only on page 30..

    Will come up with 10 of my own when I get to the end of the thread.

    Just a suggestion though - could you please write a sentence or so on why you've chosen a particular book - I've just been skimming over the posts listing the names of ten books, but have really enjoyed people's justifications for the ten they've selected..


  • Registered Users Posts: 20 sweargen


    Ten Books WOORRAAGH In no particular order.

    A Clockwork Orange. Is it justifiable for the state to take away the only thing a man loves to make him acceptable to society.
    Dantes Inferno. listen to it on audio book get the tune, the music of the language, read the book, it has everything, and no Tom Bombadill.
    Blood Meridian. Echos of Dantes Inferno, a master at work with the English language and quite possibly the most violent book I have ever read.
    Grapes of Wrath. Just the best story about ordinary people ever told. Another master of language.
    In Dubious Battle. Another Steinbeck novel, about the early formation of unions and how people of belief are used and sacrificed.
    Stalingrad. History book reads like a novel, the cruelty and sacrifice, of a pivotal time of history.hing
    Raymond Chandler. Anything, disdainful, Honest, jaded, expects the worst and is seldom disappointed. The real joy is the narrative, pure poetry.
    The Killer Inside me. (Jim Thompson) Sparse, Uncompromising, Violent The master of the unreliable first person narrative
    The Wasp Factory. It is just very ****ed up.
    The Lost City of Z. (David Grann) Non Fiction. This Geezer explored the Amazon Basin in the late 1800 early 1900s when it was still blank on the maps Stopped to fight in WW1 and then went back. an astounding man you never heard of. S

    Thats it, off the top of my head, hope I inspired someone to read any of these books. S


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 230 ✭✭MaggieNF


    sweargen wrote: »
    Ten Books WOORRAAGH In no particular order.

    A Clockwork Orange. Is it justifiable for the state to take away the only thing a man loves to make him acceptable to society.
    Dantes Inferno. listen to it on audio book get the tune, the music of the language, read the book, it has everything, and no Tom Bombadill.
    Blood Meridian. Echos of Dantes Inferno, a master at work with the English language and quite possibly the most violent book I have ever read.
    Grapes of Wrath. Just the best story about ordinary people ever told. Another master of language.
    In Dubious Battle. Another Steinbeck novel, about the early formation of unions and how people of belief are used and sacrificed.
    Stalingrad. History book reads like a novel, the cruelty and sacrifice, of a pivotal time of history.hing
    Raymond Chandler. Anything, disdainful, Honest, jaded, expects the worst and is seldom disappointed. The real joy is the narrative, pure poetry.
    The Killer Inside me. (Jim Thompson) Sparse, Uncompromising, Violent The master of the unreliable first person narrative
    The Wasp Factory. It is just very ****ed up.
    The Lost City of Z. (David Grann) Non Fiction. This Geezer explored the Amazon Basin in the late 1800 early 1900s when it was still blank on the maps Stopped to fight in WW1 and then went back. an astounding man you never heard of.o read any of these books. S

    Thats it, off the top of my head, hope I inspired someone to read any of these books. S


    Who's the author of the Stalingrad one? Interested in a book on it


  • Registered Users Posts: 20 sweargen


    Stalingrad is written by Anthony Beevor. Good choice, don't be put off by the size. hope you enjoy it. S.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 230 ✭✭MaggieNF


    sweargen wrote: »
    Stalingrad is written by Anthony Beevor. Good choice, don't be put off by the size. hope you enjoy it. S.

    Doesn't seem that long, will probably read soon, since I'm reading a lot of World War 2 books at the moment, thanks for telling me :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 20 sweargen


    MaggieNF wrote: »
    Doesn't seem that long, will probably read soon, since I'm reading a lot of World War 2 books at the moment, thanks for telling me :)
    My pleasure


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭Paddy Samurai


    Stalingrad. History book reads like a novel, the cruelty and sacrifice, of a pivotal time of history -sweargen

    A book I always wanted to read.Sitting on my shelf a few years now. Hopefully I will manage it this year.Too many damn books.:(
    Blood Meridian. Echos of Dantes Inferno, a master at work with the English language and quite possibly the most violent book I have ever read.-sweargen

    Great Book,but "In the Rogue Blood" by Blake is my favourite of the two.Some say more violent,and I would probably agree.
    The Stand - Stephen King-Mindfulness
    A Top Notch post-apocalyptic read,only surpassed IMO, by Swan Song (McCammon).
    Salems Lot by Stephen King-Dirty Dingus McGee
    Great book,My favourite King book,I have reread it more times than I have any other.


  • Registered Users Posts: 20 sweargen


    Great Book,but "In the Rogue Blood" by Blake is my favourite of the two.Some say more violent,and I would probably agree.

    Is that by William Blake ? forgive my ignorance


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭Paddy Samurai


    sweargen wrote: »
    Great Book,but "In the Rogue Blood" by Blake is my favourite of the two.Some say more violent,and I would probably agree.

    Is that by William Blake ? forgive my ignorance


    James Carlos Blake (born May 26, 1947) is an American writer of novels, novellas, short stories, and essays. His work has received extensive critical favor and several notable awards. He has been called “one of the greatest chroniclers of the mythical American outlaw life” [1] as well as “one of the most original writers in America today and … certainly one of the bravest.” [2] He is a recipient of the University of South Florida's Distinguished Humanities Alumnus Award and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.

    If your interested there is an interview here where Blake talks about McCormack

    http://www.gq.com/entertainment/books/201202/james-carlos-blake-friends-pancho-villa-johnny-depp-adaptation-country-bad-wolfes-book


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  • Registered Users Posts: 20 sweargen


    Thanks Paddy for the tip, my appetite is whetted. I read the interview, straightforward, succinct I like that.,


  • Registered Users Posts: 167 ✭✭Neil McCauleys Cooler Brother


    A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller.
    Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov.
    Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon.
    The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B., J.P. Donleavy
    From Hell, Alan Moore.
    Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy.
    American Tabloid, James Ellroy.
    Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy.
    A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man, James Joyce.
    Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,648 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake. That one as always stuck in my head.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭Monkeybonkers


    A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller.
    Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov.
    Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon.
    The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B., J.P. Donleavy
    From Hell, Alan Moore.
    Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy.
    American Tabloid, James Ellroy.
    Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy.
    A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man, James Joyce.
    Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake.


    I read this years ago and remember at the time thinking it was brilliant. Must give it another read. Thanks for the reminder


  • Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭bellinter


    The Stand - Stephen King
    The Long Walk - Stephen King
    The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
    All The Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
    The Given Day - Dennis Lehane
    The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
    Open - Andre Agassi
    Rough Ride - Paul Kimmage
    Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
    The Book Thief - Markus Zusak


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭Gandalph


    I'm going to have to read King's 'The Stand' due to all the mentions here and being a big post apocolyptic theme fan myself, although I really didn't enjoy McCarthy's 'The Road', with all the praise it got.

    Some of my favourite books being;
    World War Z - Max Brooks
    Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan (Only read from 1-5)
    Harry Potter (from no.4 onwards) - JK Rowling
    The Wolf of Wallstreet - Jordan Belfort
    Pathfinder - David Blakely


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  • Registered Users Posts: 598 ✭✭✭Whippersnapper


    Off the top of my head:
    • Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
    • Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
    • The Master - Colm Toibin
    • The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
    • All The President's Men - Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
    • Perfume: The Story Of A Murder - Patrick Suskind
    • Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance - RM Pirsig
    • Animal Farm - George Orwell
    • A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
    • The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,476 ✭✭✭Comic Book Guy


    Hi all,

    Finished the Count of Monte Cristo last week after seeing it listed in a lot of peoples top 10.
    Great read, really enjoyed it with the only drawback that the basic story is so well known now in popular culture that ya already know the main plot and are reading it as such.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1 Kazan


    Mikhail Bulkagov: The Master and Margarita
    Sofi Oksanen: The Purge
    Bohumil Hrabal: Too Loud a Solitude
    Bohumil Hrabal: I served the King of England
    Michael Cunningham: The Hours


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭SilSil


    bellinter wrote: »
    The Stand - Stephen King
    The Long Walk - Stephen King
    I vote for these two! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭Monkeybonkers


    After recently finishing it I would have to put Vanity Fair by William Thackeray in here.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,799 ✭✭✭onethreefive


    I'm new to reading book's for pleasure so I don't have 10 favourites yet but my top 3 would definitely be:

    1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky.

    2. The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger.

    3. Harry Potter book 4-7 - J. K. Rowling.


  • Registered Users Posts: 22 Up The Bare Stairs


    Confining this list to fiction, with one exception, and thinking how do I limit it to ten:
    1. The Sportswriter – Richard Ford
    2. Foster – Claire Keegan (really a stretched out short story but exquisite)
    3. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
    4. To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
    5. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
    6. That They Might Face The Rising Sun – John McGahern
    7. The Iliad – Homer
    8. Ulysses – James Joyce (much more accessible than people might think)
    9. The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
    10. Mimesis – The Representation of Reality in Western Literature – Erich Auerbach (very, very heavy but one of the best works of literary criticism I’ve read)

    Would include Dante's Inferno if I was allowed 11, but that's cheating ;)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 132 ✭✭Banneret


    Nice ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 209 ✭✭johnROSS


    Dharma Bums- Jack Kerouac
    Down and Out in Paris and London - Orwell
    Animal Farm- Orwell
    Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
    Trainspotting- Irvine Welsh
    Brave New World- Huxley
    any of the Sherlock Holmes stuff
    East Of Eden - John Steinbeck
    The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
    almost any Oscar Wilde


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭Kalimah


    Star of the Sea- Joseph O'Connor.
    We need to talk about Kevin. Lionel Shriver.
    Hatter's Castle. AJ Cronin
    Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte
    22.11.63. Stephen King
    Stalingrad. Anthony Beevor
    Berlin. Anthony Beevor.
    Alone in Berlin. Hans Fallada .
    The Eagle of the Ninth. Rosemary Sutcliffe
    The last testament of Gideon Mack. James Robertson.
    I could put in another 10 very easily!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭Slattsy


    Then they wouldn't make your top 10 :-)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,394 ✭✭✭megadodge


    The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
    A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
    Life of Pi - Yann Martel
    1984 – George Orwell
    Perfume - Patrick Suskind
    Secret Scripture – Sebastian Barry
    Star of The Sea – Joe O'Connor
    The Sicilian – Mario Puza
    Seabiscuit – Laura Hillenbrand
    Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha – Roddy Doyle


    A number of honourable mentions (there's loads more I just can't think of right now):

    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert M. Pirsig
    A Star Called Henry – Roddy Doyle
    Alone in Berlin – Hans Falada
    Five Star Billionaire – Tash Aw
    The World According to Garp - John Irving


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,066 ✭✭✭Washington Irving


    The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
    Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
    Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
    The Odyssey - Homer
    Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
    Hamlet - William Shakespeare
    The Arabian Nights

    And a sacred text of your choosing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭Kilgore__Trout


    The Postman - David Brin
    Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
    Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
    Flowers For Algernon - Daniel Keyes
    The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien
    Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
    Catch 22 - Joesph Heller
    The Terror - Dan Simmons
    Shutter Island - Denis Lehane
    The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler

    Not in any particular order.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭mcsean2163


    "Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut"

    Maybe I read this when I was too young but I thought it was pretty rubbish, deadpan, "so it goes". It don't understand how it has so many fans, it's like the emperor with no clothes.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭Kilgore__Trout


    Preferred Cat's Cradle. Could make more sense of the message, which seemed to cover a lot more ground, and thought it was a weirder and more humorous tale.

    Still thought Slaughterhouse was a fine read though. Enjoyed the dark humour, the portraits of humanity gone wrong, and the weird, offbeat nature of the story. Whether Vonnegut's experiences in WW2 and in Dresden adds something to the book is up for grabs, but for me it did.

    Each to her/his own, I guess : )


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Cedrus


    mcsean2163 wrote: »
    "Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut"

    Maybe I read this when I was too young but I thought it was pretty rubbish, deadpan, "so it goes". It don't understand how it has so many fans, it's like the emperor with no clothes.

    May be you did, may be try again before you diss it. It's nominated with good reason.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 28 fayvirtue


    Tom Sawyer , Huckleberry Finn, Catcher in the rye , 1984 , World according to Garp, Suttree , The Orchid Keeper , The Five people you meet in Heaven ,The Hands Maids Tale, For Whom The Bell Tolls




  • I've read some really great books based on recommendations from this thread that I otherwise may have overlooked. Wish more people posted in it. I'll list ten now that haven't yet been mentioned yet or only mentioned a few times because we all know The count of Monte Cristo, Crime & Punishment etc are great books, its nice to stumble across lesser known greats.

    Stoner - John Williams.
    A forgotten masterpiece. It follows the life of a young farmer who goes to college and later becomes a professor, an inconsequential man who does the opposite of living life to the fullest. Its all very uneventful and yet its hard not to be captivated by it and feel so involved with William Stoner.

    Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes.
    A man with an IQ of 68 is chosen to partake in a medical experiment to increase his intelligence. His diary tracks the effects of the experiment on him and the lab mouse Algernon that was also experimented on. Astounding read.

    The Magus - John Fowles.
    A young English teacher moves to a remote Greek island to teach and becomes embroiled in a dark psychological game with one of the islands inhabitants, an eccentric elderly man. I thought about this novel for weeks after I finished it.

    The New York trilogy - Paul Auster.
    Three interconnected stories of detective fiction that blew me away. Its so much more than what it appears to be.

    Wonder boys - Michael Chabon.
    The story of a creative writing professor who can't finish his novel and spends most of the novel stoned and or drunk and generally making an ass of himself. I loved it.

    The orphan masters son - Adam Johnson.
    The story of a North Korean orphan who stumbles from a life of poverty to a job as a body double for a hero of the revolution during the reign of Kim Jong Il.

    Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace.
    Its a struggle at times. Its gargantuan. I've never had to use a dictionary as much in my life as I had to when reading this book. And its bloody brilliant. I can't tell you what its about in a few words, just read it.

    Times Arrow - Martin Amis
    A novel in reverse. Amis is a great writer who doesn't always write great novels, this for me is definitely one of his best.

    Wool omnibus - Hugh Howey
    A post apocalyptic dystopian novel (yes another one) set in an underground silo hundreds of years after whatever event made life on the outside uninhabitable. It was originally released as one short novella and has exploded from there, I recommend reading the omnibus as it all slots together very well.

    House of leaves - Mark Z Danielewski
    First off, don't even try to read this in e-book format. It has to be read on paper. The formatting of this book is unique to say the least. It tells the story of a family who move into a small house where something is terribly wrong - the house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. This book will get inside your head. At different stages while reading it I had to put it down just to process what was after happening. I hated this book. Then I loved it. Then I didn't want to read it anymore. Then I couldn't put it down. The more you put into this book the more you will get out of it. It is not an easy read.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6 2395dfys


    engineering the alpha 2.0 every male teenager/man should read it


  • Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭FaulknersFav


    Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
    The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
    Stoner - John Williams
    For Esme with Love and Squalor - J.D. Salinger
    Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
    Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned - Wells Tower
    Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
    Beware of Pity - Stefan Zweig
    Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
    The Outsider - Albert Camus


  • Registered Users Posts: 280 ✭✭sm213


    Tales of the unexpected- Dahl
    Falling leaves - Adeline Yen Mah
    Goodnight Mr.Tom
    The talisman - king and straub
    King Lear -Shakespeare
    The Shadow of the Wind- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    The demonata series by darren shan is super cool.
    Harry potter series.
    Ugly - constance Briscoe
    I'm sure I'm missing some.


  • Registered Users Posts: 30 Thomas998


    The Day of the Jackal.
    11/22/63
    The Green Mile
    The Name of the Wind
    Harry Potter series
    Mistborn series
    Stormlight Archive
    Stalingrad
    Red Alert
    1984


  • Registered Users Posts: 30 Thomas998


    Oh, forgot To Kill A Mockingbird - maybe not a popular choice these days, but powerful stuff nonetheless.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭Keplar240B


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    How To Stay Alive In The Woods
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    Larry Dean Olsen’s Outdoor Survival Skills

    The Survival Handbook, by Colin Towell

    When All Hell Breaks Loose
    from Cody Lundin

    Naked Into The Wilderness
    by John and Geri McPherson

    Peterson’s Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants

    Tom Brown’s Field Guide To Wilderness Survival

    The Outward Bound Wilderness First-Aid Handbook
    by Jeffrey Isaac

    Northern Bushcraft, by Mors Kochanski,


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