Books you think Everyone should read

[80watts]

So if you read a book that you think everyone should read.

Energy and Civilization- A History- Vaclav Smil -- University of Manitoba. Prime movers from people, animals, waterwheels and turbines, windmills, steam Engines, steam turbines, Internal combustion engines. From walking, coaches, ships, trains, airplanes.

Eric H. Cline-- 1177; After 1177; Three Stones make a Wall (about Archaeology). The 1177 books are about the fall of the late bronze age Civilizations and the beginning of the Iron Age.

Doom- The politics of Catastrophe- Niall Ferguson. Disasters from earthquakes to volcanoes, wars, to plagues. Using economics, cliodynamics, network science for explanations. And why the fuck we as a western world are failing to help in times of crisis.

Graham Hancock. Any. For the guys that think modern archealogy hasn't gone far enough... In his books he present facts found by other people who modern archealogists disagrees with, or have hard time with the facts they present. So Hancock presents them.

I like science fiction/fantasy books, and I like Roman history too.

Does any one know a good torrent site that replaces the Z-library that got shut down a few years ago?

 

[GentlemanJack69]

So if you read a book that you think everyone should read.

Energy and Civilization- A History- Vaclav Smil -- University of Manitoba. Prime movers from people, animals, waterwheels and turbines, windmills, steam Engines, steam turbines, Internal combustion engines. From walking, coaches, ships, trains, airplanes.

Eric H. Cline-- 1177; After 1177; Three Stones make a Wall (about Archaeology). The 1177 books are about the fall of the late bronze age Civilizations and the beginning of the Iron Age.

Doom- The politics of Catastrophe- Niall Ferguson. Disasters from earthquakes to volcanoes, wars, to plagues. Using economics, cliodynamics, network science for explanations. And why the fuck we as a western world are failing to help in times of crisis.

Graham Hancock. Any. For the guys that think modern archealogy hasn't gone far enough... In his books he present facts found by other people who modern archealogists disagrees with, or have hard time with the facts they present. So Hancock presents them.

I like science fiction/fantasy books, and I like Roman history too.

Does any one know a good torrent site that replaces the Z-library that got shut down a few years ago?

Science Fiction Fantasy.
Lucifer's Hammer by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven. Excellent apocalypse story
For the Love of Evil by Piers Anthony. second to last in the incarnations of immortality series. The whole series is good, but For the Love of Evil is excellent.
Any book by David Weber.
Alex Verus series by Benedict Jacka
Legend by David Gemmell
Too many to list.

 

[Bunghole1]

 

[80watts]

Science Fiction Fantasy.
Lucifer's Hammer by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven. Excellent apocalypse story
For the Love of Evil by Piers Anthony. second to last in the incarnations of immortality series. The whole series is good, but For the Love of Evil is excellent.
Any book by David Weber.
Alex Verus series by Benedict Jacka
Legend by David Gemmell
Too many to list.

Lucifer's Hammer by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven. Excellent apocalypse story

Jerry Pournelle "the rods from god" guy.
Larry Niven the ring worlds... good books

For the Love of Evil by Piers Anthony. second to last in the incarnations of immortality series. The whole series is good, but For the Love of Evil is excellent.
Read him years ago, but drifted off.

Any book by David Weber.
Wondering if Weber's massive missile strikes have to do with modern warfare these days? Honor Harrington Series.

Alex Verus series by Benedict Jacka
never read, but will keep my eye out for books.

Legend by David Gemmell
The master of fantasy, I want one of those stone balls.....

 

[amigo67]

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Contemplate how fortunate you are and how quickly everything can all be taken away from you.

 

[masterblaster]

Any book by Kurt Vonnegut.

 

[angry anderson]

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Contemplate how fortunate you are and how quickly everything can all be taken away from you.

Should read it. I read one day in the life of Ivan Desinovitch. I had just been working for brick layers a short while before, in Calgary, when I was young. Reminded me of that. lol.

 

[angry anderson]

 

[80watts]

Sci-fi with comedy and satire:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Existential literature:
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

Psychology and philosophy:
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind - Julian Jaynes

Inspirational literature and allegory:
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach

Spiritual literature:
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

Self-help and memoir:
The Game - Neil Strauss

PiratebayProxy.info is my go-to torrent site, I just checked and it has all torrents of the books you listed.

I was looking for a replacement of z-library that got shut down 2-3 years ago by the FBI due to patent issues. thank for the info will check it out.

 

[plumbcrawl]

A Confederacy of Dunces & East of Eden. 2 fiction titles that become more relevant & relatable every time I read them.
Tuesdays with Morrie because everyone dies eventually and some do it better than others.
The Wealthy Barber or Wealthing like Rabbits for anyone under 25 to learn a bit about money.

 

[bigballs55]

The Righteous Mind - Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt

The Creators and The Discovers by Daniel J. Boorstin

 

[ChromeGasCap]

Most books could only be considered essential reading when the book serves a individuals purpose.
All books are essential for their own reasons; This is why so many have been published.
My own book shelves, are home to thousands of books.

Most novels are essential much like movies are essential, they are entertainment.
Spiritual books are essential when somebody is ready for, or looking for, spiritual enlightenment .
Self help books are essential if somebody feels they need some form of improvement. IMHO these books only help us to realize that perhaps we didn't need any help to begin with.
The most essential are instructional books, from biology to physics, from medical journals to vehicle service manuals. These are the books that hold all of the truly important content required for our civilization to function from day to day, but all too specific to recommend as essential reading.

All books are essential!!

 

[80watts]

Most books could only be considered essential reading when the book serves a individuals purpose.
All books are essential for their own reasons; This is why so many have been published.
My own book shelves, are home to thousands of books.

Most novels are essential much like movies are essential, they are entertainment.
Spiritual books are essential when somebody is ready for, or looking for, spiritual enlightenment .
Self help books are essential if somebody feels they need some form of improvement. IMHO these books only help us to realize that perhaps we didn't need any help to begin with.
The most essential are instructional books, from biology to physics, from medical journals to vehicle service manuals. These are the books that hold all of the truly important content required for our civilization to function from day to day, but all too specific to recommend as essential reading.

All books are essential!!

Those book manuals are now on youtube, lot easier to watch a video, see, hear, and learn... key in a few word for searching and presto....

Funny you should metion bookshelves of books.... in living room, office etc...

 

[Uncled]

All books are essential!!

Sadly, to some people, books are dangerous.

 

[PuntMeister]

If you enjoy a little comedy in your sci-fi, you might try a littly Harry Harrison. The stainless steel rat series is still a humorous read with lots of galaxy hopping (as a reader, I am a total slutty-slut for galaxy hopping), but also has good guys turned bad and bad guys turned good, and all that.

if you liked Hitchikers, you might enjoy a little Spider Robonson—Callahan’s Cross Time Saloon series.

I did all the Big Name classics, but prefer the intrigue of the lesser known gems. A few did one or two amazing novels and them poof. Will have to look those up—they still impact to this day.

 

[80watts]

There was a series with a guy named Phule.

 

[MB Mod]

Anything from Arthur C Clark, read 2001 a space odyssey when I was a kid and I was a fan right away. Personal favourite was Rendezvous with Rama which is being made into a movie, looking forward to seeing it!

 

[PuntMeister]

There was a series with a guy named Phule.

Phule’s Army series. Lot’s of societal tones, underdog rooting, and funny bits.

 

[GentlemanJack69]

Phule’s Army series. Lot’s of societal tones, underdog rooting, and funny bits.
Phule's Company, by Robert Asprin. The Myth series by Robert Asprin is quite good as well - the first is Myth-Conceptions.

 

[GentlemanJack69]

If you enjoy a little comedy in your sci-fi, you might try a littly Harry Harrison. The stainless steel rat series is still a humorous read with lots of galaxy hopping (as a reader, I am a total slutty-slut for galaxy hopping), but also has good guys turned bad and bad guys turned good, and all that.

if you liked Hitchikers, you might enjoy a little Spider Robonson—Callahan’s Cross Time Saloon series.

I did all the Big Name classics, but prefer the intrigue of the lesser known gems. A few did one or two amazing novels and them poof. Will have to look those up—they still impact to this day.

If you enjoyed the Stainless Steel Rat I would recommend. The Long Run by Daniel Keys Moran.