Any good reading suggestions - Not just sailing

[WCB]

I find myself looking for good books to read. My wife has her book club and I get some of the cast offs of that but I'm always on the hunt for a good book. I am planning to buy Buddy Melges' book, Sailing Smart, or add it to my Xmas "wish" list but I'm also looking for other suggestions.

I figured that this could be a good place for everybody to share their favorite books, sailing related or not.

 

[Dorado]

Trout fishing in America by Richard Brautigan

It probably won't help you catch more fish, but it does have something to do with trout fishing.

 

[sledracr]

Another thread here: What to Read - General Anarchy - Sailing Anarchy Forums

 

[WCB]

Another thread here: What to Read - General Anarchy - Sailing Anarchy Forums

Ooh...I'll check it out, thank you

 

[Chris in Santa Cruz CA]

Just read most of the Lars Kepler books. In a week. 3 to go in the Joona Linna series. 

 

[Snaggletooth]

Juste started it, lovley so farr...........

 

[Captain Ketamine]

I presume you’ve read some of Ben Macintyre’s books. They are worth a look. Operation Mincemeat (recently made into a film). Agent Zigzag, Double Cross, Rogue Heroes. Essentially these are about specific episodes in history, some good ww2 spy stuff all true, written in a style that’s very engaging. Good holiday fare…

a totally different one is about the Dreyfus affair. True story With a man falsely accused of treason sent to Devils Island (remember from Papillon).

 

[Steam Flyer]

I just finished re-reading Geraldine Brooks' 'People Of The Book' about a restored medieval Jewish text, historical fiction or perhaps fictionalized history. A lot of it revolves around the seige of Sarajevo in the '90s, the book was contemporary to that and I read it back then. Great story with an unusual personal perspective from the main character.

Highly recommended.

 

[DarthSailor]

I find myself looking for good books to read. My wife has her book club and I get some of the cast offs of that but I'm always on the hunt for a good book. I am planning to buy Buddy Melges' book, Sailing Smart, or add it to my Xmas "wish" list but I'm also looking for other suggestions.

I figured that this could be a good place for everybody to share their favorite books, sailing related or not.

this is a loaded question, what do you want to read fiction, nonfiction, brain candy, do you want a series of books, fantasy, sci fi, western, detective, thriller, funny, serious etc.

I have lots of recommendations but to answer without more specifics would reveal more about me than I am comfortable with doing here.

 

[Waiex191]

Anything by Stephen King.

 

[Point Break]

A lot of folks dismiss the classics in favor of contemporary works. That’s a mistake IMHO. Even a reread decades later is often enjoyable.

 

[giegs]

Tom McCarthy - The Making of Incarnation

His other books are also worth checking out. One of my favorite living authors.

 

[slug zitski]

I find myself looking for good books to read. My wife has her book club and I get some of the cast offs of that but I'm always on the hunt for a good book. I am planning to buy Buddy Melges' book, Sailing Smart, or add it to my Xmas "wish" list but I'm also looking for other suggestions.

I figured that this could be a good place for everybody to share their favorite books, sailing related or not.

Pick up some books by Jan Morris

Historical fiction .. very well researched and written.. a pleasure to read
I’ve read Venice a few times

 

[VWAP]

 

[Steam Flyer]

Pick up some books by Jan Morris

Historical fiction .. very well researched and written.. a pleasure to read
I’ve read Venice a few times

This Jan Morris?

Jan Morris, author and transgender pioneer, dies at 94

NEW YORK (AP) — Jan Morris, the celebrated journalist, historian, world traveler and fiction writer who in middle age became a pioneer of the transgender movement, has died at 94...

apnews.com

I'd heard good about the "Pax Britannica" series, will take a closer look at her works.

 

[10thTonner]

Also sprach Zaratustra.

 

[Mrleft8]

A lot of folks dismiss the classics in favor of contemporary works. That’s a mistake IMHO. Even a reread decades later is often enjoyable.

I just reread "The Wopshot Chronicles" by John Cheever a few weeks ago. Just as good as it was when I first read it some time in the 70s.

 

[Captain Ketamine]

Then there’s Blitzed. If you’ve not read it , it’s a very good account of the use of methylamphetamine in Germany before and during WW2. Not just as a stimulant because of lack of caffeine, but as a tactical agent. Also Hitlers dodgy doctor got him addicted to the stuff.

 

[gptyk]

Anything by Stephen King.

Ayup. Just finished Fairy Tale. Was an excellent yarn, with plenty of Easter eggs for a constant reader.

 

[Point Break]

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