Good book recommendations?

I’m going on a work trip that’ll have a fair amount of down time, including about 12 hours of flying. Looking for some good book recommendations to upload on my phone. I like anything but fantasy and science fiction.

I’m not a book reader but here are the last 3 books I read by personal choice:

Wheat Belly
A Briefer History of Time
Toyota Way

A Briefer History of Time is basically a twice condensed version of a physics book by Stephen Hawking. If you’re into this stuff and didn’t take any physics courses, it really blows your mind.

I have been really into Bernard Cornwell – historical fiction. You can find a bunch of his stuff at Half Price books for dirt cheap.

I like any James Patterson crime novel. Easy read, a lot of action

Undaunted Courage by Steven Ambrose.

It is a historically accurate telling of the journey of Lewis and Clark – from conceived idea through death. It is one of those “can’t put it down” novels. I have read it 3-4 times.

Another is “Crazy Horse and Custer” by the same author that chronicles the parallel lives and similarities of these to men from birth through death. Another spellbinder…..

The Illustrated Man by, Ray Bradbury (science fiction)

I highly recommend the following books that later became movies:

BlackHawk Down by Mark Bowden
Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
American Sniper by Chris Kyle
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand.

Those are all phenominal books that I cannot say enough good about, and they all deal with true American heroes.

Clive Cusslers early books with Dirk Pitt were good.

David Baldacci

Jack DuBrul

Terri Blackstock

straight from the gut – Jack Welch. Former GE CEO. Its the way the country should be run.

Kids got me hooked on audio books when they were little. Still like the Junie B Jones series for some great laughs. Ya, they are kids books, but most are halarious

Anything by John Gierach. The emphasis is on fly fishing but he covers a lot of ground.

Moby Dick

12 hours in the air? How about the Holy Bible?

Classics that everyone should read and these aren’t to hard to digest:
– Moby Dick
– Anything by Hemingway. Or everything by Hemingway.
– The Grapes of Wrath
– The Great Gatsby

Old Fishing, Hunting, Adventure and Safari
– The Maneaters stories by extraordinary hunter Jim Corbett.
– The Maneaters of Tsavo by John Henry Patterson
– The Diary of Col. Peter Hawker
– The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton

History
– John Adams by David McCollough. Brilliant
– As already mentioned, Undaunted Courage
– 1776 – It’s stunning how improbable the founding of our country actually was.

Fiction –
– Daniel Silvia – The Gabriel Allon series.
– Craig Johnson – The Walt Longmire mysteries.
– CJ Box – Montana game warden mystery/suspense series.

Happy reading.

Grouse

5 books all by Gary Paulson the hatchet series

I’m with Randy on this one. Audio is the way to go. Most my books are in the public domain and older than the 20th century generally, so won’t bore you with those.

But download maybe a college course. History is really good, UCLA has some good courses. Science, magic and religion was awesome, and the “Justice” Harvard course was a classic. http://academicearth.org/universities/harvard/

Pat McManus has some fun books. My favotrite of his is “They Shoot Canoes, Don’t They?”.

“Chicken Soup for the Fisherman’s Soul” is a good one too. Many short stories by different authors. Some will make you laugh and some will make you tear up.

For a more local flavor on murder mysteries

William Kent Krueger – Cork O’Conner series, he’s sheriff in Northern Minnesota
John Sandford – Lucas Davenport or Virgil Flowers series both cops with the BCA in Minnesota

Also not local but as someone else mentioned
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand – very interesting book about a WWII POW

Merle’s Door by Ted Kerasote

“Blind your Ponies” by a MN author, but I can’t remember his name.

Kenny Sawley’s “The last River Rat” or “Muskrat for supper”

Good mississippi novels

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I’m not much of a reader . . . but when I do . . . I really liked “Into Thin Air” (true story of Mt Everest expedition gone bad – I think a movie based on it coming this fall) and the Vince Flynn (gov’t/spy) novels are great!

American sniper
seal team six!!!!!!

x2 on Minnesotan Vince Flynn’s series, Mitch Rapp is bad a$$ and supposedly going to be going to the big screen soon.
American Sniper and Lone Survivor were both awesome.
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand was very good also imo.

walleye fishing by BK??????????

glenn57 wrote:

walleye fishing by BK??????????

I heard he published it under the name River Rat Randy to prevent stalkers.
DT

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand is unbelievable. Best book I ever read, all true.
Hemingway has some great stories, and then you look cool while reading them as well. I had his short story collection In Our Time in my perm house on Mille Lacs for years; never got tired of it. In the story The Three Day Blow a couple of young guys drink whiskey and talk about baseball and fishing and girls and life.
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer is another winner.

deertracker wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>glenn57 wrote:</div>
walleye fishing by BK??????????

I heard he published it under the name River Rat Randy to prevent stalkers.
DT

Waiting for White Horses by Nathan Jorgenson MN author, book about life love, duck hunting, fishing all around Walker MN. A crooked number also by Jorgenson, fishing hunting and townball / baseball in the Walker area.