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- date:: October 15, 2009 at 5:32 PM
- url:: http://www.zefrank.com/zesblog/archives/2009/10/a_short_list_of.html
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- ... when I asked for suggestions on twitter and facebook...this is about a third of the titles that I received back - maybe they will help you find a book too :: PLEASE add your recommendations for GREAT books in the comments :: click below ::
- The Time Traveler's Wife
- Naked lunch
- Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
- Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
- Flaming Iguanas, Erika Lopez
- "The Deluxe Transitive Vampire"
- "Giraffes? Giraffes!"
- The man who was Thursday, by GK Chesterton
- Making Meaning
- Middlesex,
- The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay,
- House of Leaves,
- Cryptonomicon
- Head Hunter
- [x] Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- 1959 The Year that Everything Changed
- Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
- Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
- Size of the World by Jeff Greenwald
- Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
- Purple cow
- The Secret History, Donna Tartt
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- City of Thieves,
- Devil in White City
- Zeitoun
- Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar
- Shantaram
- East of Eden
- The Once and Future King
- Lolita" by Nabokov,
- The Book Thief
- The Book of Lost Things
- The Enchantress of Florence
- Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
- The Brain that Changes Itself
- ROOTS
- Three cups of tea
- Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff Christ's Childhood Pal
- We Die Alone - Howarth
- Ball Four" by Jim Bouton
- Strong Motion by Jonathan Franzen
- Pale Fire (Nabokov)
- Master and Margarita (Bulgakov)
- Nathanial Philbrick's "In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
- A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
- Pontypool Changes Everything by Tony Burgess
- "Drood," by Dan Simmons
- M.T. Anderson's Whales on Stilts
- An Easy Thing by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
- A Fine Balance By Rohinton Mistry
- Harpo Speaks by Harpo Marx
- The Lovely Bones
- "Jitterbug Perfume" by Tom Robbins
- "An Abundance of Katherine" by John Green
- Man's Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl
- brothers karamazov
- Another Road Side Attraction" Tom Robbins
- The Book Of Lost Things by John Connolly
- "Mans search for meaning"
- Oysters by Jon Biguenet
- The Shack
- The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
- the ishmael series by daniel quinn
- a heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein
- islam explained -tahar ben jelloun
- the jungle - upton sinclair
- what is the what - dave eggers
- city of quartz / excavating the future in los angeles - mike davis
- "The Devil's Advocate: A Short Polemic on How to Be Seriously Good in...
- Max Blumenthal's,"Republican Gomorrah"
- Chris Hedges, "Empire of Illusion"
- Fahrenheit 451
- Gilead by Marilyn Robinson
- The Audacity of Hope
- The Wanting Seed - Anthony Burgess
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- The Cold Six Thousand
- invisible monsters - chuck palahniuk
- Blood Meridian
- The History of Our World Beyond the Wave, R.E. Klein
- "The Cellist of Sarajevo"
- "Little Bee"
- For F*cks Sake by Robert Lasner
- "The Dirt" by Neil Strauss and Motley Crue
- Devil in the White City
- the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime
- "The Book of Joby"
- Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
- Piers Anthony "on a pale horse"
- "Novice to Master: An ongoing lesson in the extent of my own stupidity"
- Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn.
- Netherland, by Joseph O'neill
- "the ground beneath her feet" by salman rushdie
- Bill Bryson's 'A Short History on Nearly Everything'
- A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
- "Lord Vishnu's Love Handles: A Spy Novel (Sort Of)" by Will Clarke
- The Alexandria Quartet
- The Art of Racing in the Rain
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- Oryx and Crake"
- "The Year of the Flood"
- Integral Spirituality
- "life after god
- The Stone Raft.
- The Diamond Age
- The Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
- Riddley Walker
- On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas)
- God's Debris/Religion War by Scott Adams
- Scarecrow by Matthew Reilly
- The Raw Shark Texts
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- Living Nowhere by John Burnside
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- jonathan strange & mr norrell
- Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
- [[I Am a Strange Loop]] by [[Douglas Hofstadter]]
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
- The Death Ship
- The Hunter
- Empire of the Sun, by J.G.Ballard
- The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr
- Out Stealing Horses
- Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- Lost Illusions.
- Everything you need to know about media
- Born To Run - Christopher McDougall
- Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block
- 'Matter' by Iain M Banks
- crooked little vein by warren ellis
- "In A Sunburned Country."
- Replay by Ken Grimwood
- "Vincent" by Joey Goebel
- "The Witch of Portobello" by Paulo Coelho
- "Everything is illuminated" by J.S. Foer
- "Rant" -Chuck Palahniuk.
- The Third Policeman, by Flann O'Brien
- "A Whole New Mind: Why right-brainers will rule the future" Daniel H. Pink
- The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
- Chabon's Kavalier & Clay.
- "Gang Leader for a Day" by Sudhir Venkatesh
- AMERICAN ON PURPOSE, Craig Ferguson
- Crime and Punishment
- 'The Shadow of the Wind' by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- "My Father's Suitcase" Orhan Pamuk
- the Discovery of Heaven written by Harry Mulish
- The Big Orange Splot by Daniel M Pinkwater
- Saturn's Children by Stross
- Dancing After Hours
- the men who stare at goats by jon ronson
- "Generation Me" Jean Twenge
- Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
- The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
- Anathem - Neal Stephenson
- Light by M. John Harrison
- Timbuktu by Paul Auster
- 'kokoro' by natsume soseki
- 'a thousand cranes' by yasunari kawabata
- The Story of B by Daniel Quinn.
- Overqualified by Joey Comeau
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