Books everyone must read

I'll give one fiction and one non-fiction.

Fiction: The Lord of the Rings (buy it as one big book to make it count as just one. )

Non-Fiction: The Book of Five Rings as translated by Stephen Kauffman.

I seem to have a thing for rings. :laugh:

Non-fiction: If I stay
Fiction: Girl with the Dragon tattoo series

These are my two recommendations. If you love mystery, romance, violence, or sadness these books are for you.

Hmmm

How about:

A Whack On the side of the Head

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

Custer Died For Your Sins

Paradise

Utopia

The Clan Of the Cave Bear series

Jedi_Roz wrote: Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee

Custer Died For Your Sins

I read Vine Deloria Jr. years ago. I haven't heard his name in forever.

Excellent author. He wrote Custer Died for Your Sins. Dee Brown wrote Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Gisteron wrote: Four pages in and nobody mentioned The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams yet?

This book, seriously, is amazing. If you could only pick one "funny" book to learn life lessons from, it should be this or something by Pratchett.

My picks are:
Fiction - Frank Herbert's Dune . It is not an exaggeration to say that this book completely changed my life.
Non-Fiction - An interesting little book called F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way .

When in New Orleans at a conference last month, I discovered this book on Alan Watts. It is a collection of twelve essays/articles by a variety of scholars.

Alan Watts - Here and Now: contributions to psychology, philosophy and religion, edited by Peter J. Columbus and Donadrian L. Rice, State University of New York Press, 2012.

These are lots of great books. Mine is the Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff, one of the best books I've ever read.

The Tao of Jeet Kune Do by Bruce Lee, Book 4 by Aleister Crowley, Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel, Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi and the Art of War by Sun Tzu...

The book that got me back into reading Fantasy:

The Eye of the Hunter by Dennis L. McKiernan.

Loved that book, man. Read it so many times.

It was the first book I read where the author jumps back and forth in time through the story, instead of it just being one long piece in a continuous flow of events. I miss that book. Time to pull it back out again.