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Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
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I'm sure this thread has been posted 300 times over the years, but what is the best book you've ever read and the best book you've read this year?
I was one of those guys that wouldn't touch a book I wasn't forced to read for school, but as soon as I hit 30 I learned that reading is a great pastime and the best way to learn new stuff. So my list of "best books I've read this year" is also my "best books I've ever read."
I dabble in a tiny bit of fiction stuff--mostly historical fiction or southern-related fiction, but truly enjoy history or non-fiction stuff as well as various books about faith, Christianity, etc.
Here's my picks:
Like A River by Granger Smith
Every Good Endeavor by Timothy Keller
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Band of Brothers (obviously) by Stephen Ambrose
The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
The Tiger by John Vaillant
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Term Limits was a good book. Read it a LOONG time ago.
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Jun 25, 2024, 10:28 AM
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This year??? Would Duck's Unlimited count?
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
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Jun 25, 2024, 10:30 AM
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1. The Bible
2. Currently working through The Screwtape Letters.
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
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Jun 25, 2024, 10:33 AM
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Currently reading my way through The Bible chronologically in 2024, which I've never done. Plenty of books in the Bible I've never even cracked open, so I'm excited to keep going.
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
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Jun 26, 2024, 2:08 PM
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I read it cover to cover a few years ago. Took me almost a full year, reading before bed. It was worth it though.
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
Jun 26, 2024, 2:11 PM
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That's my plan. Started it about 3 months ago, but I'd like to try and finish in as close to 365 days as I can.
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
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Jun 25, 2024, 10:33 AM
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Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
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Jun 25, 2024, 7:00 PM
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I accidentally gave you a tu which was a definite accident. I threw a copy of that in the trash in 1984.
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
Jun 25, 2024, 9:39 PM
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Yeah I never read it. I just threw it in there since the Bible is getting tossed around the thread.
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game of thrones***
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One of the funniest books is Winston Groom's Forrest Gump, so different than
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Jun 25, 2024, 11:04 AM
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The movie. The part about when he was an astronaut with the ape is hilarious. The sequel Gump and Company with the part where he plays Goliath in the David and Goliath exhibit at PTL is pretty funny too.
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That book had me laughing out loud
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Jun 25, 2024, 2:01 PM
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before I finished the first page.
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
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Jun 25, 2024, 11:08 AM
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Once an Eagle by Anton Myer is a Great War book.
Historical fiction by Jeff Shaara.
Have read many of those on here and they’re all great.
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Jun 25, 2024, 11:09 AM
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Also anything by William Faulkner. I reread lots of those.
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
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Jun 25, 2024, 11:10 AM
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Best Book....the Bible of course.
Best book read recently......Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
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Anything by Nelson DeMille is good. Start out with Plum Island, if you want to
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Jun 25, 2024, 11:10 AM
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get a feel for his writing style.
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Re: Anything by Nelson DeMille is good. Start out with Plum Island, if you want to
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Jun 25, 2024, 6:58 PM
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I love the John Corey series! The last on wasn’t quite as good, but overall, the series is excellent!!
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
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Jun 25, 2024, 11:14 AM
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God's Bible.
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Jun 25, 2024, 12:42 PM
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I love that book. It's so exciting and such a joy to read. Great beach reading.
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Jun 25, 2024, 11:16 AM
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Defenders of the West by Raymond Ibrahim. The author details how a mere hand full of motivated men kept European civilization in Christian hands against relentless attacks and overwhelming odds. I would consider this as a must read for anyone wanting to know more about their history.
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
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Hustler June 1993...changed me forever.
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
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Jun 25, 2024, 1:01 PM
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That was a great one.
Hustler June 1993...changed me forever.
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
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Love Band of Brothers. Big fan of TK but haven’t read that one!
I really enjoy reading the Bible. It’s the only book that has given me life.
“The Screwtape Letter” by CS Lewis if wonderful.
“Anna Karenina” or “The Brothers Karamazov” are the greatest novels.
“The Lord of the Rings” for epic Fantasy.
“Steve Jobs” or “Shoe Dog” for entrepreneurship.
The best book I’ve read this year “The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry.”
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
Jun 26, 2024, 7:19 PM
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Loved the Brothers Karamazov. But I really, really enjoyed War and Peace.
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Jun 25, 2024, 11:19 AM
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Green Eggs and Ham…
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Jun 25, 2024, 11:42 AM
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To Kill a Mockingbird
No books this year
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Jun 25, 2024, 12:40 PM
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To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. The only book that was turned into a movie, that I enjoyed the movie as much as the book.
Jaws, by Peter Benchley
Devotion, by Adam Makos
The Stand, by Stephen King
A Young Patriot, by Jim Murphy
And of course, the number one best seller of all time, The Holy Bible.
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
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Just like my response to favorite movies, I don’t do drama. I like light reading that might just make me laugh out loud occasionally. Favorite author is Carl Hiassen. He wrote a column for the Miami Herald for years and his books are set in Florida, usually South Florida. Living in South Florida amid the craziness that is everyday life down there might have made them more entertaining to me. The first one I read was Stormy Weather and I was hooked. Another favorite is Double Whammy which deals with the Lake Okeechobee bass fishing industry. If you don’t laugh at the absurd humor in this one I feel sorry for you. Surprisingly, the only one of his books that was made into a movie, Strip Tease, was maybe his worst book of all, IMO.
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
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Jun 25, 2024, 12:59 PM
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I’ve read all those books and agree with you take.
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Carl Hiassen is an author that I found out about only this past year. I’ve read a couple of them - pretty good reads!
I got on a Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch series) kick for a while. I think that I’ve read all but 1.
I love the John Sanford / Lucas Davenport series.
Many call them the ‘Prey’ series. I’ve read all of those.
I’m reading some James Patterson series right now.
I would like to find another series like the above mentioned series if anyone has any suggestions.
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Some Not Already Listed
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Jun 25, 2024, 1:07 PM
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Pillars of the Earth
The Vicar of Christ
Anything from Daniel Silva
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Re: Some Not Already Listed
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Jun 25, 2024, 7:13 PM
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Follett is terrific.
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Probably Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy and Lonesome Dove by
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Jun 25, 2024, 1:20 PM
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Larry McMurtry. McCarthy wrote a number of my favorite books including The Road and No Country for Old Men.
Unfortunately, I haven't read a book this year. I need to get the last two books McCarthy wrote before he died - The Passenger and Stella Maris.
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I'd say 'A Separate Peace', 'To Kill a Mockingbird', 'Pillars of The Earth'
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Jun 25, 2024, 1:40 PM
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are some of the most memorable.
Currently I'm enjoying the latest book in the Angus Donald Outlaw Chronicles series 'Robin Hood and the Castle of Bones'.
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Re: I'd say 'A Separate Peace', 'To Kill a Mockingbird', 'Pillars of The Earth'
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I loved "A Separate Peace" in 10th grade. I loved it even more two years later when I used it for the essay portion of the AP exam and managed to exempt freshman English. 
I am slowly cleaning out bookcases at my parents' house and recently enjoyed reading two books that are roughly my own age: Arthur Hailey's "Hotel St. Gregory" and ER Braithwaite's "To Sir, With Love".
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
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and everything by John D MacDonald.
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Guardian Angel-about military pararescue
Black ops- stories from ex CIA
sacred duty-about a soldier’s tour in The Old Guard(including time at Arlington National Cemetery )
All different, all good
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!. 1984
2. Animal Farm
3. Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
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Peter Rabbit was pretty solid at one point. I highly recommend. Another that I must recommend is, Where the Wild Things Are. It is not as complex to read as Peter Rabbit, but the art work is extremely exciting. Be careful to keep the nightlight on after reading. It takes some getting used to the creatures because they are scary. Spoiler alert: The creatures turn out to be nice.
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I can think of books that have influenced me
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Animal Farm
Catcher in the Rye
Grapes of Wrath
Brave New World
All of those were many moons ago. A few years back read Life of Pi (before the movie). That was up there as well.
In 2024 I got nothin’. Podcasts and a few trendy business books
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
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Jun 25, 2024, 7:29 PM
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Love the Bible and the classics, but for pure entertainment, like anything by Daniel Silva, Brad Thor and Vince Flynn (or his ghostwriter).
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The Old Man and the Boy***
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Jun 25, 2024, 9:02 PM
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Bible by a mile but for fun and entertainment:
All time
Executive Orders - Tom Clancy
A Land Remembered - Pat Smith
This year
Beneath a Scarlett Sky - Mark Sullivan
Chickenhawk - Robert Mason
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One Second After by William Forstchen
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
Jun 25, 2024, 9:35 PM
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Love books that make me Google for more facts as I read:
Perfect Storm...the first swordfish caught may be 60 days "fresh" in the hold by the time you return to the dock. Of course in that instance they never returned.
The Splendid and the Vile...Ww II horrors. Russia lost 50 million people.
The Wager. How do you head west hundreds of years ago crossing the ocean and not expect he'll. The ships were big enough to store livestock for the occasional steak. Unfortunately they didn't know to pack limes (scurvy).
The Demon of Unrest. A different perspective on Ft. SUmter, succession, and all that followed.
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
Jun 26, 2024, 11:34 AM
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Playboy- Girls of the ACC. Don't remember the exact month…. But Spring of 98.
It was a game changer!
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
Jun 26, 2024, 1:06 PM
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Recently I've been reading the Joel Rosenberg books, which are action novels set in the Middle East and deal with terrorism and the governments / factions in that region. They're particularly interesting at this point in world and Israeli history, and are pretty entertaining to boot.
I'd have to agree with a lot of the earlier recommendations, in particular The Catcher In The Rye, The Grapes of Wrath, the Jeff Shaara books, Game of Thrones although it's frustrating that Martin never finished the series. I like all the Ken Follett books - Pillars of the Earth series through Armour of Light are really good. And I'd throw in a recommendation for Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov - although it's a pretty disturbing book it's very well written and entertaining.
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
Jun 26, 2024, 1:16 PM
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Best: anything among Carl Hiaasen (hard to pick just one)
This year: only completed one so far and it was Skink-No Surrender by Carl Hiaasen. It's for young adults but wanted to see how he incorporated his Skink character from his other novels into this one.
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
Jun 26, 2024, 1:58 PM
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(1) The Bible
(2) "The Last Green Valley"
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
Jun 26, 2024, 2:38 PM
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Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
Jun 26, 2024, 7:24 PM
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Is it nonfiction?
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
Jun 26, 2024, 7:42 PM
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Yes, it’s the best war memoir that I have read. He was a Frenchman forced to fight for Germany on the eastern front. He describes things well, you will feel like you are in the foxhole with him as the Red Army tanks roll past. Great read. Spoiler alert - he lives to tell about it.
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
Jun 26, 2024, 7:46 PM
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Awesome! I’ll have to check it out
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
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The Boys in the Boat is a great book. Slow to start, but one of my favorites. I have not watched the movie yet.
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Catch-22 is my all time favorite novel***
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
Jun 26, 2024, 7:36 PM
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Fail Safe
Lord of the Flies really made me think
The Wheel of Time series for Fantasy
Arabian Nights was extremely entertaining
Of Mice and Men
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
Jun 26, 2024, 7:49 PM
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All of Brian Kilmeads books.
Blind man's bluff
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Re: Best Book You've Ever Read? Best Book You've Read This Year?
Jun 26, 2024, 8:48 PM
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Crime and Punishment
The Grapes of Wrath
The Book Thief
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CU Medallion [54758]
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Tough choice for me...War and Rememberence,The WInds of War, and
Jun 26, 2024, 9:04 PM
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Chesapeake.....IMHO they should all be mandatory reading for high school students.
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