<p>Check out some books on Africa!</p>
<p>The Challenge for Africa- Wangari Maathai
The Boy who Harnessed the Wind- William Kamkwamba</p>
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According to the Austrians and absolutely no one else.</p>
<p>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is good-it won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize</p>
<p>If you like travel/adventure stories you would probably enjoy “Into Thin Air” and “Into the Wild” both nonfiction books by Jon Krakauer.</p>
<p>Trust the Dog, its a new nonfiction book about clients, trainers and dogs of Fidelco Guide Dogs for the Blind. Most guide dog schools require the blind person to come and spend a month or so at the school, but Fidelco trainers take the dog and train the new team in their own community. Fascinating.</p>
<p>Check out Around the World in 80 Days. It is nothing like the movie and is great. It is available from the AudioBooks Free App on a iPod touch if you have one.</p>
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<p>Truth is not determined by majority opinion. That, and economics was treated as a deductive science for the majority of its existence. It’s still predominantly treated as such; people just tend not to realize it.</p>
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<p>The Time Machine (one of my personal favorites… then again this entire list is)
The Road
Dune
The Count of Monte Cristo <- long but stunning
Les Miserables
The Three Musketeers
Crime & Punishment
The Sun Also Rises
The Great Gatsby
Atlas Shrugged
Killing Pablo
LotR (sure you’ve already read this)
Anything by Dan Brown (Minus the lost symbol… worst ending for a book EVER!!!)
If you’re looking for something funny, read the Bartimaeus Trilogy
For something more children-y but still entertaining… Redwall. </p>
<p>Too many good books… I’ve read so many I know I’m forgetting loads!</p>
<p>I LOVE Crichton’s works, especially medical thrillers, but I’m currently reading State of Fear and I really like it. I’ve gotten through the first ~300 pages in about two days. :p</p>
<p>I love reading, but it’s hard to find time. Now that summer is here, I plan to catch up on a lot of books I’ve added to my “to-read list” throughout the year.</p>
<p>Yeah, Redwall is a fantastic series for kids in 4th-5th grade on up. </p>
<p>I found the book, E. coli 0157: The True Story of a Mother’s Battle with a Killer Microbe, to be gripping.</p>
<p>Madame Curie written by her daughter, Eve Curie, is an incredible story, lyrically written. Wistful in parts, too–you can sense that Eve felt left out, with everyone in research except herself. </p>
<p>Day of the Triffids–you have to get it from the library. My brother said it was the best thing he ever read as a teen. About walking Venus flytrap-type carnivorous plants that get loose.</p>
<p>I liked Alas Babylon. sure, it was dated in that it occurred during the Cold War and deals with the aftermath of nuclear war, but it was still a compelling story.</p>
<p>I loved Battlefield Earth. (at least the first half, once that little gray man came on the scene, it got tiresome)</p>
<p>Try out Jeffrey Archer’s novels.</p>
<p>Below the Salt by Thomas Costain is an interesting story, in my opinion, set during King John and the Magna Carta times.</p>
<p>Coma by Robin Cook. I’ll never forget that scene in the cold room. Also, The Hot Zone.</p>
<p>“American Facists: The Christian Right and the War on America” by Chris Hedges (A NY Times Bestseller)</p>
<p>“Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party” by Max Blumenthal</p>
<p>The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak<br>
The Help by Kathyn Stockett ( made me laugh and cry)
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway (A short novel but very very good.)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith</p>
<p>There are no experiments in economics. There is only data, and economists are almost unrestricted in how they choose to interpret it. Economics contains no monolithic truth for good economic policy, and economist’s job primarily consists of providing posterior justification for economic opinions they already had. </p>
<p>I hated Catcher in the Rye and Brave New World. I thought Animal Farm was dull. There was probably a time when Animal Farm was original and insightful, but all of its wisdom has become commonplace in the 21st century.</p>
<p>I liked Heart of Darkness and The Count of Monte Cristo even though these two books are nearly complete opposites in genre.</p>
<p>Anyone who interested in popular science books should read Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman by Feynman, What is Mathematics? by Courant, and A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bryson.</p>
<p>The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Beautifully written with a compelling story, I was hooked after the first few sentences.</p>
<p>For something dense but really engaging, Neal Stephenson. Just finished his new book, Anathem, and I wished it was longer than 928 pages. Try Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Cycle if you have a lot of time and like history. Snow Crash if you’re into computers and/or swords.</p>
<p>For really light, fluffy, often laugh-out-loud-on-the-subway-so-that-people-give-you-weird-looks funny, The Know-It-All or The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs.</p>
<p>I just went to the bookstore. My choices:</p>
<p>The Waves by Virginia Woolf (reading To the Lighthouse right now, it’s so great).
The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner
This Side of Paradise by Fitzgerald
short stories by Woolf</p>
<p>Hmmm I think I’m missing one. But maybe those would be good for you too</p>
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<p>Even the Keynesians are more libertarian than the vast majority of humanities and liberal arts professors. I would consider Monetarists to be in line with what the average person considers Libertarian, while the Austrians are better though of as anarcho-capitalists.</p>
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<p>Ah come on! Just because there are opposing views doesn’t mean they’re less legitimate. It seems like every time a libertarian speaks he must criticize Keynes, even though it seems to me that most educational literature (that I’ve had, at least) is very bent towards a libertarian view of economics (however you want to take it).</p>
<p>That being said, I’m not gonna say I completely know what I’m talking about. I’ll probably end reading Austrian/Chicago school books anyway. So there’s another recommendation, I guess, haha.</p>
<p>“The Waves by Virginia Woolf (reading To the Lighthouse right now, it’s so great).”</p>
<p>To the Lighthouse is absolutely fantastic. One of the most beautiful, moving, profound novels I have ever read.</p>
<p>Glad to see someone else likes Woolf. I’ve not read The Waves yet but have it on my desk behind me. Along with about sixty other books. But I will get to it at some point, rest assured.</p>
<p>I am mostly reading history and philosophy at the moment.</p>
<p>Infinite Jest hands down</p>