OT: Best Book

[bsquared24]

Heading on summer vacation on Saturday and looking for a book so why not Ask the Pack. What's the best book you've read in the last 2 years?

 

[JungRebel]

The Nix - Nathan Hill
The Resurrectionist - Matthew Guinn

 

[ConkyMSU]

Red Notice - Bill Browder

 

[MedDawg]

Heading on summer vacation on Saturday and looking for a book so why not Ask the Pack. What's the best book you've read in the last 2 years?

'Replay' by Ken Grimwood is one of my favorites.

https://www.amazon.com/Replay-Ken-Grimwood/dp/068816112X

 

[Maroon Eagle]

John Lewis’s March trilogy.

 

[WutheringDawg]

Lincoln in the bardo - George Saunders

Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain (read it after he took his life, had never read any of his work until someone linked the new yorker article recently)

 

[BlueRidgeMtns]

The fight club book is actually pretty good. Worth the read even if you’ve seen the movie.

 

[dogmatic]

"All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

WWII saga set in France. Magnificent imagery and description.

 

[seshomoru]

The Martian

 

[Maroon Eagle]

My two cents: All that have been mentioned are solid suggestions.

 

[tatedog]

Flim Flam**

 

[CochiseCowbell]

C. S. Lewis' Space Trilogy

 

[Bucksnort_Dawg]

Killing Patton
Killing Kennedy
Killing Lincoln

Killing Patton was my favorite

 

[SedLexDuraLex]

Ditto for The Martian, All the Light We Cannot See
If you like golf... The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever

• A Man Called Ove was excellent if you don't mind reading about cranky old guy.

 

[PineGroveBully]

Killing the Rising Sun was the best of the killing books to me. May have been biased as my grandfather would have likely invaded Japan had we no dropped the bomb(s)

 

[PineGroveBully]

11-22-63 by Stephen King, best I ever read
Tempest at Dawn
The 14th Colony

I like historical fiction and those 3 are best I've found

 

[She Mate Me]

I've found that anything by Jim Harrison is worth the time.

 

[L4Dawg]

Shiloh: Conquer or Perish. By Timothy Smith

 

[imissplatinumplus]

The Quiet Game - Greg Iles

Or any of his Penn Cage novels.
all set in Natchez. Really great reads

 

[Maroon Eagle]

HD6 doesn’t like you now. **

 

[DerHntr]

Little House on the Prairie**

 

[Faustdog]

The Quiet Game - Greg Iles

Or any of his Penn Cage novels.
all set in Natchez. Really great reads

These are good beach reads. Read Natchez Burning sitting on a beach last year. Also, these books are definitely fiction but some of the stories told are based on actual happenings during the civil rights struggle in the Natchez area.

Edit: As a follow up to the Penn Cage novels, read Stanley Nelson's Devil's Walking: Klan Murders along the Mississippi in the 1960's. It's most definitely not a beachy read, but it tells the actual stories that the books are based on.

 

[Bulldogg31]

"17'ng Up Biggly with Begley" by Andrew Cannizaro is gonna be out soon I bet.

 

[dudehead]

The Great Work of Your Life by Stephen Cope: https://goo.gl/K3pakc

 

[PineGroveBully]

Shiloh 1862 by Winston Groom

he wrote Forrest Gump also but this is completely non fiction. Uses diaries of soldiers, ppl from the Shiloh area, ppl from Corinth. A GREAT read if you enjoy Civil War stuff. He also wrote Vicksburg 1863, its great as well.

 

[HailState/ToTheVictors]

Just finished "All the Pretty Horses" by Cormac McCarthy. Part of a trilogy and I'm about to start the 2nd book.

 

[Muttley]

Any of the Lee Child books, Michael Connelly is good, John Sandford has a bunch to choose from, Vince Flynn is good and I also highly recommend the Quiet Game by Greg Iles and the trilogy that follows up after the Quiet Game, start with Natchez Burning, The Bone Tree, and Mississippi Blood.

 

[AROB44]

The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend​

 

[was21]

Yep..Michael Connelly is the best....and Harry Bosch is The Man

 

[JungRebel]

^ this is a good one. Lots of great stories throughout woven together, with a couple of them being continued into the 'present' near the end. Good book for WW2 enthusiasts.

 

[Reunion Dog]

The Rising Tide... Best book ever written on Mississippi history.

 

[Rockydawg]

The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test- Tom Wolfe

 

[Yim Yames]

I second 11-22-63. What a great book.

 

[moou]

"The Stand" by Stephen King
"Dispatches from Pluto" by Richard Grant" about the Mississippi Delta

 

[moou]

11-22-63 is a great read!

 

[WhiteShepherd07]

“My Years with a Dogman” by Mike McConery.

I’m into training Shepherds and this was one of the most enlightening books I’ve ever read. Stories told from a former Nazi who was Hitlers dog man.

“The Art of Racing in the Rain” was probably one of the best books I’ve ever read and couldn’t put down.

“Fearless” was the absolute best story I’ve ever read.

 

[jack daniels dog]

Pet Semetary

Cujo

The Mist

The Green Mile

These are the Stephen Kings I got around to before having two kids. Like all of them and will continue to read his work when I can

 

[CochiseCowbell]

I second 11-22-63. What a great book.

Wait, I just realized the significance of this date.

JFK was assassinated on the same day that C.S. Lewis (AKA Jack) & Aldous Huxley died. There's a book about this, "Between Heaven & Hell" by Peter Kreeft in which I've been vaguely interested. Are y'all telling me that Stephen King took this and turned it into a sci-fi horror?!

If so, this thread has reached its goal & I'm ordering/finding both books immediately.

 

[snoopdog]

Correct on 11-22-63. Cool twist on how we arrive at that date

Wait, I just realized the significance of this date.

JFK was assassinated on the same day that C.S. Lewis (AKA Jack) & Aldous Huxley died. There's a book about this, "Between Heaven & Hell" by Peter Kreeft in which I've been vaguely interested. Are y'all telling me that Stephen King took this and turned it into a sci-fi horror?!

If so, this thread has reached its goal & I'm ordering/finding both books immediately.

Nm

 

[blacklistedbully]

Gonna cheat and give you a classic I read many moons ago...Trinity by Leon Uris. It's a hefty read, and the first 100 pages or so are so boring you'll be tempted to give up, but don't! It is all just setting the scene for you. Once you get past that part, it may well become the best book you'll ever read, and it will quite likely give you a much deeper understanding of the history and challenges involving Ireland, England and Northern Ireland. FWIW, Uris is the author who wrote Exodus, QB VII and more.

Everyone I've convinced to read it has agreed on both counts...hard to stick with the first part, but incredibly rewarding if you do.

If you're looking for lighter summer-reading, and don't mind science-fiction, Orson Scott Card is a gifted author. He's a legit, big-time talent who brings incredible story-telling to SciFi. I'd start with Ender's Game (book is exponentially better than the movie), then progress through the rest of the books in that series, all great pieces of literature. FYI - Card is the only author to win both the Hugo & Nebula awards in back-to-back years. He's won over a dozen awards over his career, and has written some excellent non-sci-fi fiction as well (Lost Boys comes to mind).

Hope this helps.