I second Killers of the Flower Moon, excellent. I also enjoyed Mad do Mattis’ books ....I’m reading no better frien no worse enemy right now
Just read 1984, Animal Farm , and Brave New World in the last few months.
I have Brave New World to start after I finish We.
I really enjoy Clive Cussler N.U.M.A. books with Dirk Pitt as the main character.
You Orwell fans might like Don DeLillo’s White Noise
Try some Zane Grey, old but good.
The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb.
1984 by George Orwell.
1984 by George Orwell.
I'm in the middle of The Pale Horse right now.
I'd also suggest The Jakarta Pandemic. It is literally happening as we breath.
Some other good ones where listed here as well.
I'm a fan of the One Second after series and Matt Bracken's books (Enemy Trilogy). Also really enjoyed the When Worlds Collide books and movie.
I enjoy the dystopian/ apocalyptic /EMP books but am currently re-thinking that as I am really hoping that I am just asleep and that this is all a dream base on what I have read and maybe some onions I ate before going to bed.
Some others:
Lucifer's Hammer
Dune
Alas, Babylon
Earth Abides
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Atlas Shrugged
Anything by Dan Brown
Lights Out by David Crawford
Deep Winter series by Thomas Sherry
Ender's Game
The Hobbit series
Normal by Aaron Byrd (or Grand58742) hard to find
Anything by Stephen Hunter
Longmire books by Craig Johnson
Dave
I'd start with The Martian by Andy Weir.
The Longmire novels by Craig Johnson are really good. I'm partial to The Cold Dish, the first in the series, but I read 'em all as they come out. If you like audiobooks, or just want to try them, these are all read by George Guidall, who is an outstanding reader.
The Expanse series by James SA Corey is outstanding, but it'll take a lot longer than two weeks to get through the books that have been published to date. IIRC, they're on book 9 of a 13 book series.
Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James D. Hornfischer should be required reading in our schools, and his books Neptune's Inferno and The Fleet at Flood Tide are exceptionally well-told histories of the Navy in the Pacific Theater of WWII. I think so highly of this book that I've actually bought Last Stand three times--as an Audible book, on Kindle, and in hardback.
The Heart Of Everything That Is by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin is the story of Red Cloud, the Sioux leader who defeated the US in a war (known at the time as Red Cloud's War).
Go Like Hell! by AJ Baime. If you watched Ford vs. Ferrari, now you can read about what really happened, without all the Hollyweird horsesh*t. This is another one where I went and bought the hardback after reading it in another format.
Pretty much anything by Oklahoma native (and OU alumnus) Tony Hillerman. I'm partial to his Leaphorn and Chee novels.
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan. This is some hard sci-fi, wherein people's "self" is stored in a "stack" that can be downloaded into a body (called a "sleeve"). This one is definitely not for the kiddies, as it has one scene that can only be described as pornographic, another that involves torture (with the male protagonist being resleeved into a female body that is then subjected to torture), and one that peripherally involves some seriously deviant behavior.
I'm about 2/3rds through Rebel Yell, SC Gwynne's biography of General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson.
The Longmire novels by Craig Johnson are really good. I'm partial to The Cold Dish, the first in the series, but I read 'em all as they come out. If you like audiobooks, or just want to try them, these are all read by George Guidall, who is an outstanding reader.
The Expanse series by James SA Corey is outstanding, but it'll take a lot longer than two weeks to get through the books that have been published to date. IIRC, they're on book 9 of a 13 book series.
Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James D. Hornfischer should be required reading in our schools, and his books Neptune's Inferno and The Fleet at Flood Tide are exceptionally well-told histories of the Navy in the Pacific Theater of WWII. I think so highly of this book that I've actually bought Last Stand three times--as an Audible book, on Kindle, and in hardback.
The Heart Of Everything That Is by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin is the story of Red Cloud, the Sioux leader who defeated the US in a war (known at the time as Red Cloud's War).
Go Like Hell! by AJ Baime. If you watched Ford vs. Ferrari, now you can read about what really happened, without all the Hollyweird horsesh*t. This is another one where I went and bought the hardback after reading it in another format.
Pretty much anything by Oklahoma native (and OU alumnus) Tony Hillerman. I'm partial to his Leaphorn and Chee novels.
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan. This is some hard sci-fi, wherein people's "self" is stored in a "stack" that can be downloaded into a body (called a "sleeve"). This one is definitely not for the kiddies, as it has one scene that can only be described as pornographic, another that involves torture (with the male protagonist being resleeved into a female body that is then subjected to torture), and one that peripherally involves some seriously deviant behavior.
I'm about 2/3rds through Rebel Yell, SC Gwynne's biography of General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson.
