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1: This Changes Everything - Naomi Klien
2: The Conquest Of Happiness - Bertrand Russel
3: Alone Together - Sherry Turkle
4: Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky
5: The Second Machine Age - Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew Mcafee
6: Freedom Evolves - Daniel C Dennett
7: You Are Not A Gadget - Jaron lainer
8: The Democracy Project - David Graeber
9: Brave New World - Aldous huxley
10: 1984 - George Orwell
 
Great idea for a thread and I will defo check out those I haven't read which is all of them minus
Brave new world and 1984....I have difficulty engaging with a book unless it grabs me by the lapels and squirrels it's way into my brain....
Such as
The shock of the fall...Nathan Filer
The Killer next door ...Alex Hardwood
The wicked girls. ...Alex Harwood


Crikey I forgot.. The grapes of wroth...totally harrowing book...you thought you were having a hard time
 
1.) Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
2.) The Diary of Anne Frank
3) Night by Elie Wiesel

...

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.
 
Dostojevsky the Karamazov Brothers
Auster Moon Palace
Doblin Berlin Alexanderplatz
Pessoa The book of disquiet
Hugo Miserables
Tolstoy Death of Ivan Ilyich
Benjamin Paris in the XX century
Rilke Letters to a young poet
Dennett The mind's I
Pema Chodron the places that scare you
 
Dracula - Bram Stoker
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The World According to Garp - John Irving
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
The Stand - Stephen King
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
The Time Machine - H.G Wells
War of the Worlds - H.G Wells
All Things Wise and Wonderful - James Herriot

Just off the top of my head, so many more. :)
 
Here are eight, one shared with SophiaGrace:

Peter Brown – The World of Late Antiquity (the book that created the discipline of late antique history)

Judith Herrin – Byzantium (an encounter with two builders led Prof Herrin to write a layman’s introduction to the Byzantine empire)

St Augustine – Confessions (sometimes called the first autobiography, and remarkably modern in its psychology)

Procopius – Anecdota (just good fun; a scurrelious 6th century ‘Private Eye’, poking fun at the emperor and empress, with, for example, undoubtedly false stories about Theodora’s sexual perversions with trained geese!)

Viktor Frankl – Man’s Search for Meaning (the founder of the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy explains how he saw hope in the most hopeless of situations – Nazi death camps)

Rene Guenon – The Crisis of the Modern World (foundational text of the Traditionalist School, whose devotees include the Prince of Wales)

Alan Hollinghurst – The Swimming Pool Library (modern gay classic)

Evelyn Waugh – Brideshead Revisited (I actually find it hard not to cry over parts of this book, and let it never be said I ever modelled myself on Lord Sebastian Flyte!)
 
Ioann said:
Here are eight, one shared with SophiaGrace:


Viktor Frankl – Man’s Search for Meaning (the founder of the Third Viennese School of Psychotherapy explains how he saw hope in the most hopeless of situations – Nazi death camps)

I reckon that would trigger the hell out of me!

I never was much for fiction since I was a kid. I should get some fiction. I bougth Nuromancer once but lent it to someone and never got it back.
 
Hmm... I don't have 10, but here goes:
Barbara Kingsolver - Poisonwood Bible
Frank Herbert - Dune
H. P. Lovecraft - Call of Cthulhu
William Golding - Lord of the Flies
Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Stephen King - Misery
 
Martin Eden, Jack London
The Collector, John Fowles
The Famiched Road, Ben Okri
On the Advantages and Disadvantages of History for Life, Nietzsche
Heart's Blood, Juliet Marillier



Mr Seal The Albatros said:
Stephen King - Misery

I need to get to this one...
 
NOOOOOOO I seen the film misery that was bad enough. You read it and it is going to go in your nut!
 
1984
The demonata series -Darren shan
His dark materials
Of mice and men

Of the top of my head XD
 
mattathyah said:
1984
The demonata series -Darren shan
His dark materials
Of mice and men

Of the top of my head XD

You can't be reading 1984 without reading Brave new World.
 
cumulus.james said:
mattathyah said:
1984
The demonata series -Darren shan
His dark materials
Of mice and men

Of the top of my head XD

You can't be reading 1984 without reading Brave new World.

I have read 1984 and not Brave New World. TBH, I wasn't that impressed with 1984 for some reason.
 
SophiaGrace said:
Ioann said:
Here are eight, one shared with SophiaGrace:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/17203396?shelf=read&sort=rating

Here's my list of books I've rated 5 stars (and descending in rating) since i was 16 if anyone is interested.

and here's a link to my Goodreads profile

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/17203396-scribblescribe

I get uneasy with the title "Crime and Punishment". I feel it should be "Crime and Rehabilitation". Neurosceinces tells us that the brain has "plasticity" and can change. I want to see a bad man turned good, not a bad man turned worse.
 
ringwood said:
Dracula - Bram Stoker
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The World According to Garp - John Irving
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
The Stand - Stephen King
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
The Time Machine - H.G Wells
War of the Worlds - H.G Wells
All Things Wise and Wonderful - James Herriot

Just off the top of my head, so many more. :)

great choice 'The Stand' by Stephen King !
I love that book !
 
cumulus.james said:
SophiaGrace said:
Ioann said:
Here are eight, one shared with SophiaGrace:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/17203396?shelf=read&sort=rating

Here's my list of books I've rated 5 stars (and descending in rating) since i was 16 if anyone is interested.

and here's a link to my Goodreads profile

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/17203396-scribblescribe

I get uneasy with the title "Crime and Punishment". I feel it should be "Crime and Rehabilitation". Neurosceinces tells us that the brain has "plasticity" and can change. I want to see a bad man turned good, not a bad man turned worse.

Oh I love those kind of "bad man turned good" books.
Isn't Les Misérables like that? A poor thief, turned father, turned hero? I know the musical is something like that.
 
1.Temple of my Familiar -Alice Walker
2.Foundation Trilogy -Isaac Asimov
3.Native Son -Richard Wright
4.The Unbearable Lightness of Being -Milan Kundera
5.One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
6.The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
7.Night -Elie Wiesel
8.War and Peace -Leo Tolstoy
9.I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings -Maya Angelou
10.Silent Spring -Rachel Carson
 
Lacrecia said:
cumulus.james said:
mattathyah said:
1984
The demonata series -Darren shan
His dark materials
Of mice and men

Of the top of my head XD

You can't be reading 1984 without reading Brave new World.

I have read 1984 and not Brave New World. TBH, I wasn't that impressed with 1984 for some reason.

Of mice and men is my favorite book of all time, short but perfect.
1984 is really good (haven`t finished it yet) but I have to say I didn't enjoy the start of it. I'll let ya all know when I`m done hahaha
 

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