Book Recommendations?

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What sort of stuff are you interested in? Fiction? Non-fiction? Adventure? Horror? Comedy? Literature?

I like historical bios, techno spy stuff, sports-related.  Also enjoy re-reading some of the classic literature that I was 'forced' to read when I was in school.    

I downloaded 'Iron War', last night.  Been meaing to read it for a long time. 

Mark

Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors

Lone Survivor

Into the Wild

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

Shadow Divers

On my to-read list:

Unbroken

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

No idea if it's better. Listened to it on a long drive a few years ago, but remember being sort of fascinated and frustrated with the attempt to identify what they found

My recent books I read;

The Martian

Escape from Camp 14

The Coldest War

Farside

They were all good.

I loved Into Thin Air. I read it more than 15 years ago and loved it.  

I also really enjoyed Bill Bryson's 'Walk in the Woods' - i read it on a sunny vacation and was laughing out loud. 

I've read several WW1 history books lately - all good but a little depressing for vacation. 

And I am not sure how into the other stuff i've read you would be.  Teen lit is always good reading for vacation - did Hunger Games, Divergent, etc. 

What World War 1 books have you read?  I love war history books and am always looking for a new one.

Reading right now 'A Mad Catastrophe' by Jeffry Wawro about the war on the eastern front, particularly about the collapse of Austria-Hungary

Have read most of and awaiting it again from the library: The War that Ended Peace by Margaret McMillan - mostly about the geo-politics leading up to WW1.   (her other book Paris 1919 is good, have you read it? )

I guess that's just two - leading up to that I read about the War of 1812 in Pierre Berton's books (Canadian perspective but written in an engaging way)

Oh that's a misspelling on my part - it's Margaret MacMillan - not Mc

Oh and to add - i really liked the Secret Race - by Tyler Hamilton. If you haven't read it already.  Fascinating look into the world of doping in cycling. 

Thanks for the link Boilermaker.  It look like a great list.  I would add my recommendation to theirs for The Long Walk, by Slavomir Rawicz.  A page turner.

And it won Canada Reads last year, didn't it? 

I haven't read any Joseph Boyden books but i've never heard anyone say anything negative about his books. My SIL was raving about two others of his. 

When Graveyards Yawn by G. Wells Taylor. Its the first book of a trilogy. Not really my type of book but I got hooked. Very different.