Best three books of your favourite genre.
January 24, 2008 1:58 PM Subscribe
What are the top three books (IYHO) in your favourite genre. Yes, I'm looking for good stuff to read.
Here's the rub, pick one genre or sub genre, and pick the top 3 in your opinion. Genre can be romance, fantasy, military, sci fi, literary fiction, or be even more specific to literary fiction from Indian authors, steam punk, hard sci fi involving alternate history.
For example, best satirical fantasy (where I define fantasy as Stuff Happens Just Cuz):
Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Good Omens
Going Postal
Here's the rub, pick one genre or sub genre, and pick the top 3 in your opinion. Genre can be romance, fantasy, military, sci fi, literary fiction, or be even more specific to literary fiction from Indian authors, steam punk, hard sci fi involving alternate history.
For example, best satirical fantasy (where I define fantasy as Stuff Happens Just Cuz):
Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Good Omens
Going Postal
This post was deleted for the following reason: This is straight-up chatfilter. If you're just looking for books to read with no specific target or constraints, there are a lot of existing threads you can check out. -- cortex
Historical mystery for me
An instance of a fingerpost
The name of the rose
The Quincunx
posted by ilike at 2:07 PM on January 24, 2008
An instance of a fingerpost
The name of the rose
The Quincunx
posted by ilike at 2:07 PM on January 24, 2008
The Civil War: Bruce Catton's Army of the Potomac trilogy.
posted by caddis at 2:08 PM on January 24, 2008
posted by caddis at 2:08 PM on January 24, 2008
Magic Realism (actually this is a 'mode' as defined my alot of critics but i think their wrong, :P)
Midnights Children (Salman Rushdie)
Nights at the Circus (Angela Carter)
100 Nights of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
I may or may not be writing my thesis on this particular topic and writers and although its not everyones cup of tea, its a really great genre, and you probably will like it if you like fantasy, even though its a bit...even if i do say myself...high brow. Its all about the struggle between the old and the new...innit.
Enjoy your books!
posted by Neonshock at 2:10 PM on January 24, 2008
Midnights Children (Salman Rushdie)
Nights at the Circus (Angela Carter)
100 Nights of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
I may or may not be writing my thesis on this particular topic and writers and although its not everyones cup of tea, its a really great genre, and you probably will like it if you like fantasy, even though its a bit...even if i do say myself...high brow. Its all about the struggle between the old and the new...innit.
Enjoy your books!
posted by Neonshock at 2:10 PM on January 24, 2008
Science fiction, my favourite book from my three favourite authors:
Larry Niven World of Ptavvs
Iain M Banks The Player of Games
Isaac Asimov The Robots of Dawn
I could have filled the list with just Larry Niven titles, but thought a selection of authors would be more useful to you.
posted by happyturtle at 2:10 PM on January 24, 2008
Larry Niven World of Ptavvs
Iain M Banks The Player of Games
Isaac Asimov The Robots of Dawn
I could have filled the list with just Larry Niven titles, but thought a selection of authors would be more useful to you.
posted by happyturtle at 2:10 PM on January 24, 2008
Memoirs with a ton of political history
The Private Life of Chairman Mao
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Defies category but if you don't read this book you're a shell of a man:
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
Fiction with trenchant, socially relevant, subversive and sometimes comedic commentary
1984
White Boy Shuffle
A Clergyman's Daughter
posted by sneakin at 2:11 PM on January 24, 2008
The Private Life of Chairman Mao
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Defies category but if you don't read this book you're a shell of a man:
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
Fiction with trenchant, socially relevant, subversive and sometimes comedic commentary
1984
White Boy Shuffle
A Clergyman's Daughter
posted by sneakin at 2:11 PM on January 24, 2008
short stories:
- the secret lives of people in love (simon van booy)
- golden apples of the sun (ray bradbury)
- you are not a stranger here (adam haslett)
contemporary fiction/cool if you like different/eclectic stuff:
- extremely loud and incredibly close (jonathan safran foer)
- everything is illuminated (jonathan safran foer)
- the history of love (nicole krauss)
posted by gursky at 2:15 PM on January 24, 2008
- the secret lives of people in love (simon van booy)
- golden apples of the sun (ray bradbury)
- you are not a stranger here (adam haslett)
contemporary fiction/cool if you like different/eclectic stuff:
- extremely loud and incredibly close (jonathan safran foer)
- everything is illuminated (jonathan safran foer)
- the history of love (nicole krauss)
posted by gursky at 2:15 PM on January 24, 2008
Buddhist Studies:
Principle Teachings of Buddhism (Hard to find, but you can get free copies online. MefiMail me if intersted).
Creation and Completion
The Way of the Bodhisattva
posted by milarepa at 2:17 PM on January 24, 2008
Principle Teachings of Buddhism (Hard to find, but you can get free copies online. MefiMail me if intersted).
Creation and Completion
The Way of the Bodhisattva
posted by milarepa at 2:17 PM on January 24, 2008
Travel books:
Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart
Journalism books:
Journalism: Truth or Dare by Ian Hargreaves
It's a Mad World, My Master by John Simpson
In Search of History by Edward O. White
posted by parmanparman at 2:19 PM on January 24, 2008
Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart
Journalism books:
Journalism: Truth or Dare by Ian Hargreaves
It's a Mad World, My Master by John Simpson
In Search of History by Edward O. White
posted by parmanparman at 2:19 PM on January 24, 2008
Sci-Fi:
Isaac Asimov - Foundation
Isaac Asimov - Foundation And Empire
Isaac Asimov - Second Foundation
Basically where George Lucas and every other modern sci-fi author stole their ideas from.
posted by afx114 at 2:32 PM on January 24, 2008
Isaac Asimov - Foundation
Isaac Asimov - Foundation And Empire
Isaac Asimov - Second Foundation
Basically where George Lucas and every other modern sci-fi author stole their ideas from.
posted by afx114 at 2:32 PM on January 24, 2008
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