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At the moment I'm reading Fatherland, by Robert Harris. It's a murder-mystery set in Berlin during April 1964. The main twist to this is that the Nazis won World War II. Harris is a professional historian, so a lot of the book is very believable. Events are mentioned in passing, and it helps to make the story told feel more realistic. It doesn't go into extreme detail on how things happened, and it therefore allows for a lot of backstory originating from the reader as well. I like that in a book.
Robert Harris also wrote Archangel, which is another mystery story, except set in Russia after the death of Josef Stalin. So far I would rate Fatherland more highly, as it feels more well plotted. Both books are excellent, all the same.
I read a lot of different genres of literature. As I love history, I find myself reading a considerable amount of historic fiction and non-fiction. I haven't yet got around to actually reading it, but you might enjoy The Shot by Philip Kerr. I bought it at £1, and never checked the blurb. If I'm not mistaken it's some fiction based on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
If you're into wartime fiction then you could definitely do worse than Iain Gale's books. Like Robert Harris, he's a historian and author. I've only read his book Alamein (based on the fight for Africa during World War II). It managed to handle conflict from the eyes of the British, the American medics who found themselves in Africa, the Italian army, and the Afrika Korps. I can't speak for the rest of his works but Alamein was quite well-written.
Young Hitler, by Claus Hant, is another excellent book. It's magnificently researched, and gives a good insight into the life of the young Adolf Hitler. Proclaiming itself as a non-fiction novel it manages to bring the first thirty years of Hitler's life to a very appealing story. It's incredibly well researched, and you get a good idea of the kind of books Hitler himself read. As a result I recommend reading it with a smartphone or laptop beside you, in order to check everything. It's so well written you'll only enjoy the book more. It speaks of philosophers like Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzche. There's also Young Stalin, by a different author, but I haven't read it so cannot really comment.
I'd also suggest The Set-Up by Felix Riley and The Holy Thief by William Ryan. Both are the debut works of the two authors, and I really enjoyed both of them. The sequel to The Holy Thief, entitled The Bloody Meadow, is releasing sometime during this month, so you could snag both books and get into what is hopefully a long-running series that way. Felix Riley's story is both witty and different: it's based on crime, sure, but it uses financial backgrounds of shady corporations as a backdrop.
Robert Harris also wrote Archangel, which is another mystery story, except set in Russia after the death of Josef Stalin. So far I would rate Fatherland more highly, as it feels more well plotted. Both books are excellent, all the same.
I read a lot of different genres of literature. As I love history, I find myself reading a considerable amount of historic fiction and non-fiction. I haven't yet got around to actually reading it, but you might enjoy The Shot by Philip Kerr. I bought it at £1, and never checked the blurb. If I'm not mistaken it's some fiction based on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
If you're into wartime fiction then you could definitely do worse than Iain Gale's books. Like Robert Harris, he's a historian and author. I've only read his book Alamein (based on the fight for Africa during World War II). It managed to handle conflict from the eyes of the British, the American medics who found themselves in Africa, the Italian army, and the Afrika Korps. I can't speak for the rest of his works but Alamein was quite well-written.
Young Hitler, by Claus Hant, is another excellent book. It's magnificently researched, and gives a good insight into the life of the young Adolf Hitler. Proclaiming itself as a non-fiction novel it manages to bring the first thirty years of Hitler's life to a very appealing story. It's incredibly well researched, and you get a good idea of the kind of books Hitler himself read. As a result I recommend reading it with a smartphone or laptop beside you, in order to check everything. It's so well written you'll only enjoy the book more. It speaks of philosophers like Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzche. There's also Young Stalin, by a different author, but I haven't read it so cannot really comment.
I'd also suggest The Set-Up by Felix Riley and The Holy Thief by William Ryan. Both are the debut works of the two authors, and I really enjoyed both of them. The sequel to The Holy Thief, entitled The Bloody Meadow, is releasing sometime during this month, so you could snag both books and get into what is hopefully a long-running series that way. Felix Riley's story is both witty and different: it's based on crime, sure, but it uses financial backgrounds of shady corporations as a backdrop.
Brian Lumley's "Necroscope" saga.
It was originally a trilogy, but books now number well into the teens. A story about a man who's able to speak with the dead, whose life begins taking all sorts of twists when his ability catches the eye of certain organizations... as well as a dead vampire. As silly as the idea may sound, the story is quite good, and takes some pretty drastic turns as it goes along. It also puts a fresh spin on the idea of vampires (no glitter here), while making them out to be more than just "the bad guy." It's well written, engrossing, and yet I always seem to be the only one who's ever even heard of the author and the series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necroscope
It was originally a trilogy, but books now number well into the teens. A story about a man who's able to speak with the dead, whose life begins taking all sorts of twists when his ability catches the eye of certain organizations... as well as a dead vampire. As silly as the idea may sound, the story is quite good, and takes some pretty drastic turns as it goes along. It also puts a fresh spin on the idea of vampires (no glitter here), while making them out to be more than just "the bad guy." It's well written, engrossing, and yet I always seem to be the only one who's ever even heard of the author and the series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necroscope
If you enjoyed the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series I think you'd enjoy the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Though aimed a bit younger I thought they were great books.
The Three Musketeers
The Silence of the Lambs
Any of Jules Vern's books
Robinson Crusoe
Lord of the Flies
Any of George Orwell's stuff
Really any of Dumas's books
Gulliver's Travels
the list quite literally goes on.
Of course all of these are classics but are a must have in anyone's collection.
The Silence of the Lambs
Any of Jules Vern's books
Robinson Crusoe
Lord of the Flies
Any of George Orwell's stuff
Really any of Dumas's books
Gulliver's Travels
the list quite literally goes on.
Of course all of these are classics but are a must have in anyone's collection.
Another recommendation for A Song of Ice & Fire. Also The Wheel of Time. haven't read it all but it's pretty good so far.
If you don't mind sci-fi I would recommend the Adventures of Miles Vorkosigan series written by Lois McMaster Bujold.
Furthermore just about anything by Stephen King but mostly It.
Oh and Forrest Gump by Winston Groom.
That would be all I can think of the top of my head.
If you don't mind sci-fi I would recommend the Adventures of Miles Vorkosigan series written by Lois McMaster Bujold.
Furthermore just about anything by Stephen King but mostly It.
Oh and Forrest Gump by Winston Groom.
That would be all I can think of the top of my head.
If graphic novels are allowed, then im gonna suggest getting the first compendium of The Walking Dead. It provides a lot of reading material, its gripping, scary and dramatic. Its one of the most realistic zombie media, and all the characters feel like they are actually there and you will begin to like them after a while. But, if you've got a faint heart then I wouldn't reccomend it, a part in the middle and the end are really gut wrenching stuff. After you have read through that then I would say you get volumes 9-14, they are cheaper than getting the 3 books with them in.
I feel so honored to be the first to recommend Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. It's definitely interesting, with a well thought out universe utterly unlike our own. Have at it!
http://www.amazon.com/Princeton-Companion-Mathematics-Timothy-Gowers/product-reviews/0691118809/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics is a book, edited by Timothy Gowers with associate editors June Barrow-Green and Imre Leader, and published in 2008 by Princeton University Press (ISBN 978-0-691-11880-2). It provides an extensive overview of mathematics, and is noted for the high caliber of the contributors. The book was a 2011 winner of the Euler Book Prize of the Mathematical Association of America, given annually to "an outstanding book about mathematics".
It's good value.
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics is a book, edited by Timothy Gowers with associate editors June Barrow-Green and Imre Leader, and published in 2008 by Princeton University Press (ISBN 978-0-691-11880-2). It provides an extensive overview of mathematics, and is noted for the high caliber of the contributors. The book was a 2011 winner of the Euler Book Prize of the Mathematical Association of America, given annually to "an outstanding book about mathematics".
It's good value.
The Complete Books of Swords. A three-part series (comprised of the First, Second and Third Books of Swords) set in a low-fantasy world. There are vague references to how there was actually a big apocalypse ("Aren't you worried that old-world light might stop working?" "It's been working for ten thousand years, no reason to stop now.") and that the world has rebuilt itself from that.
Essentially, the gods of this world (the Roman gods, which were the Greek ones) created 12 swords as part of a game and passed them out among the mortal folk. A few recurring characters get caught up in this turmoil and essentially have to save the world. It's like the lord of the rings but without all the action-killing worldbuilding that Tolkien is famous for.
Essentially, the gods of this world (the Roman gods, which were the Greek ones) created 12 swords as part of a game and passed them out among the mortal folk. A few recurring characters get caught up in this turmoil and essentially have to save the world. It's like the lord of the rings but without all the action-killing worldbuilding that Tolkien is famous for.