The Bookworm Room list of recommended reading
Bookworm on Feb 10 2011 at 6:17 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
Here is an incomplete, semi-edited linked list of all the books you guys recommended:
- P.J. O’Rourke’s Eat the Rich
- Ward Moore’s Bring the Jubilee
- C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, Book 3)
- Gertrude Himmbelfarb’s The De-moralization Of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values
- John O’Sullivan’s The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World
- Diane Ackerman’s The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story
- Paul Johnson’s Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky (P.S.)
- Arthur Koestler’s The Age of Longing
- St. Peter’s Bones
- Peace Like a River
- We the Living
- The Rembrandt Affair (Gabriel Allon)
- Sins of the Assassin: A Novel
- Caliphate
- Without Warning
- The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
- Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System
- Londonistan
Carpooling is about to begin. I’ll do more later.
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Late to the suggestion list: Radical-In-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, by Stanley Kurtz
Over at Ace of Spades, they have a weekly book thread on Sunday morning. Perhaps we could have a weekly chat here about what everyone is currently reading. (The Books page here seems to have mostly petered out….)
That’s a lovely idea, Tonestaple. I think I could make that happen. And you’re right that Books! petered out, because it was too distant, somehow, from the main intellectual energy at this blog.
I’ve read a good chunk of the list – and I’m a bit surprised to see Caliphate on there – not that it isn’t very, very fitting.
That, his first (admittedly somewhat crappy ) book “State of Disobedience”, his books with Ringo, and his “New Earth ” series (desert Called Peace, Carnifex, etc.) are all nearly guaranteed to make PC-oriented heads explode.
I’d like to add Freehold by Michael Williamson to the queue.
I know it is late, but a really fun novel is The List of Adrian Messenger by Philip MacDonald (1959). Until I stumbled across it in a used book store, I thought it was just a movie (George C. Scott, Kirk Douglas and cameos by Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and more). I loved the movie, but the book is much better. Not conservative particularly – though certainly not liberal – just a good read. Not long and hard to put down, it is easy to get club members to actually read on or ahead of schedule. And it can provoke a good discussion about human evil – its nature, causes, etc. Out of print, but lots of used copies available via Amazon and elsewhere -and free for Kindle and other readers (I think).
I hate to confess, even though I polish off 50-100 books a year, I have read none of the other recommended books. I’d better get to work.
Book, I think it just got too long and people were leery of adding in stuff that they thought might already be mentioned.
Midnight, his State of Disobedience actually predicts some of what’s going on under Obama. Except they thought it was going to be Hillary as President.
To Midwest C,
Freehold can spark an interesting discussion concerning polygamy or more than 2 person romantic relationships, outside the eternal PC doctrine of “free love”.