Any good book suggestions ?

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I've recently purchased: the great gatsby, to kill a mockingbird, way of the superior man.

Any one got any good book suggestions? Either classics or self improvement/business books.

I hear the power of now is good ?
  • To Kill a Mockingbird is a great book
    other suggestions: depends of the type of literary fare you like...
    I've recently re-read:
    Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

    as for self improvement...kind of depends -

    But there's that old joke:

    A man walks into a book store and asks the Clerk: "Can you direct me to the self-help section please?"

    And the Clerk says: "That would kind of defeat the whole purpose, now...wouldn't it, Sir...?"
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  • Profile picture of the author Gaston Wolf
    Haha nice joke

    Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

    Are on my list to buy, thanks for the help!
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  • Profile picture of the author jacktackett
    here's the first page of my To Read reading list....

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    Jack McDevitt Series - recommended by OSC
    A Talent for War,
    Polaris,
    Seeker,
    The Devil's Eye,
    Echo,
    and Firebird



    Gavin de Becker puts it like this in Fear Less

    speed of trust.

    The visual miscilanious

    Temeraire novels by Naomi Novik, OSC

    Millionair fastlane

    humanity at work

    money and power - goldman sachs rules the world

    Optimal Thinking: How Rosalene Glickman, PhD

    Fast Fiction: Creating Fiction in Five Minutes

    telling lies for fun and profit.

    sales letters that sizzle

    Cashvertising - Tim Ash (cashvertising.com - eric whitman?)

    Fast Fiction? - Tracy Needham recommended.

    Story: Substance, structure, style and the principles of screenwriting by robert mckee

    Viral Loop: The Power of Pass-It-On" by Adam Penenberg

    Adapt: Why success always starts with failure. By Tim Harford, isbn 978-0-374-10096-4 published 2011.

    The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and
    the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements, by Sam Kean

    Charles C. Mann's 1493 (1st) its a sequal to 1491 - first, but OSC recommends reading second.

    Goodheart's 1861: The Civil War Awakening.

    Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction, editor Leigh Ronald Grossman

    John Tschohl, president of the Service Quality Institute, a consulting service, and author of the book "Achieving Excellence Through Customer Service."

    The Emerald Atlas - YA recommended by OSC

    The Zulu Principle : Making Extraordinary Profits from Ordinary Shares? by Jim Slater

    “Founders at Work” by Jessica Livingston - essays on various founders and how they started their companies.

    Successful Direct Marketing Methods by Bob Stone, Ron Jacobs

    It is Great By Choice by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen. Sean

    Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh , Gregory White Smith

    Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action (10/29/2009) by Simon Sinek

    The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

    failing forward - John maxwell

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  • Profile picture of the author icegin
    I've got quite a number of classics on my shelf -- here's a few recommendations:

    1984
    - George Orwell
    Animal Farm - George Orwell
    The Stranger - Albert Camus
    Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo
    The Dwarf - Par Lagerkvist
    A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
    Journey to the End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
    Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann
    Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
    Ask the Dust - John Fante
    Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
    Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
    The Trial - Franz Kafka
    Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
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    • Profile picture of the author QuickSurf
      Not exactly what your looking for, but I can tell you for a fun, immersed read... the Hunger Games is awesome. Can't wait for the movie based on the 1st book.
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  • Profile picture of the author Frank Schwarz
    I am reading "Pitch Anything" and "Toilet Paper enterpenuer"
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