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I’m looking for a good book, any recommendations?
The biography of R’ Shlomo Friefeld
Fiction or non-fiction?
What’s your tolerance level? 🙂
how “prudish” does it have to be
What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell.
I don’t really like his pop psychology books, but I LOVE this book, which is basically a collection of the best/favorite articles that he wrote for the New Yorker. You will find yourself fascinated by the development of advertisements for hair dye and training dogs. It’s also very, very well written, obviously.
If you don’t want to spend on it or shlep to the library all of his articles (including many more than are in the book) are on his website, but the computer is an annoying way to read.
Beloved–Toni Morrison
Midnight’s Children–Salman Rushdie <– this and Beloved are not for the faint-hearted, as they are disturbing and kind of gory
The Ocean at the End of the Lane–Neil Gaiman
Discworld series–Terry Pratchett
Tortilla Flat–John Steinbeck
The Lord of the Rings–J. R. R. Tolkien
Pale Fire–Vladmir Nabakov
The Help–Kathryn Stockett
Millenium Trilogy–Stieg Larsson
The Joy Luck Club–Amy Tan
War and Peace–Leo Tolstoy
Room– Emma Donoghue
The Good Earth–Pearl S. Buck
Mrs. Dalloway–Virginia Woolf
Age of Innocence–Edith Wharton
Pillars of the Earth and its sequel World without end by Ken Follet (fiction)
The Prime Ministers by Yehuda Avner (non fiction)
Fall of giants by Ken Follet (fiction)
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston (dramatized non fiction)
Jurassic Park by Michael Chricton (fictio)
Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connely (fiction)
At home by Bill Bryson (non fiction)
The Corner by David Simon
The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort (non fiction)
The Ice Man by Philip Carlo (non fiction)
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahaneman (non fiction)
Busting Vegas by Ben Mezrich (dramatized non fiction)
21 by Ben Mezrich (dramatized non fiction)
…what are chick books?
Yeah, what’s a chick book?? My wife read most of the books I list above and she liked them….
live right: The book on Rabbi Freifeld WAS incredible.
“As long as I Live” by Ahron Margolit,also unbelievably inspiring.
Lakewood001 – Haha, I see Jurassic Park’s being recommended now! 😀 Oy1, if you can tolerate the more mature stuff in the JP books, it really is a great read.
I would think a chick book is something like PS: I Love You, which is beautiful. Otherwise I usually head for the older kids’ section cause there are some fantastic books there and kids’ literature is always clean. Adults’ and even teens’ section you really have to be careful what you pick up in terms of content.
I can recommend The Tapestry series by Henry H Neff.
well if you are going to read Michael Crichton books, you might as well read the best book of his, Timeline.
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