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confederacy is great read.

Mostly nonfiction for me. I really liked “The Millionaire Next Door”, and learned a lot from it. “Stories of the Old Duck Hunters” would be my favorite outdoor book, but it’s collection of short stories. My wife and daughters are the real readers in the family.

Lots of my favorites already mentioned, but I'll add one more.

anything by Gene Hill

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A few of my favorites

Anthem by Ayn Rand

A Tale of Two Cities

Last of the Mohicans

Lost Horizon

Green Hills of Africa

African Rifles And Cartridges by John Taylor is an all time favorite of mine.

The best book I ever read was about 1000 pages long. Cannot remember the name of it, but it was about the drug war. It was like 3 separate books running at the same time, and in the end, they were all tied together. Non-fiction.

Love Peter Hathaway Capstick's Books. All of them.

Don't typically read this kind of stuff, but The Art of Racing in the Rain was outstanding. Much better than the movie, as was A Dog's Purpose.

Just finished Black Ops-The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior by retired CIA Officer Ric Prado. It was good. Worth the read.

Lord, I’ve read most everything listed. I’m an avid reader and had excellent teachers and school experiences. I’m where I am because of a good public school education. I grew up in Greenville, MS known as having more authors than any other town its size in the US. It was not uncommon to see Shelby Foote in the grocery store ( his family’s plantation was south of Greenville or William Faulkner’s literary agent. The Keatings did photo and stories for National Geographic. The Percy’s were a literary family of authors. Mississippi has always been renowned for its authors and creative musicians. Hell, some of us read, and some can actually write! I love short stories, and southern writers. I also like to read of hunting and fishing. The power of the written word is powerful. My son just requested that I mail my Robert Roark books and Nash Buckingham books to him. I liked Will James especially his pen and ink drawings. Authors I like are many: Carmack McCarthy, Rick Bragg, Gene Hill, Hemingway, Faulkner, Welty, Jack London and on and on.

So am I but I prefer Horn Of The Hunter

The Bible is another favorite but I prefer KJV

Wow, this tickled the gray matter....Mom and her mother were librarians and we did not have TV until I was a senior in high school.

There is no best one, only many excellent fiction and non-fiction works, some which have been mentioned previously in this thread. Here are a few others that stick in my mind:

Coming Into the Country, Pine Barrens, The Founding Fish, Rising From the Plains, The Control of Nature, and many others by John McPhee
Something of Value and others by Robert Ruark
1421: The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies. Much criticized but an interesting perspective on Chinese exploration.
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Charles C. Mann
The Look of the Old West, William Foster-Harris
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and others by John Le Carre
Animal Tracks and Hunter Signs, Ernest Thompson Seton.
The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy
Honor Bound and many others, W. E. B. Griffin
Paddle to the Sea and others, Holling C. Holling
Longitude, Dava Sobel

The Road

Green Hills of Africa is one I’ve read many, many times.

Frontersman By Alan Eckert

Don’t be a hater bro.


No Country for Old Men, The Frontiersman, and That Dark and Bloody River are also favorites. Honestly the last two I enjoy more than McCarthy. I just really like McCarthy’s writing style and attention to detail.

I find lately that I read to be entertained, rather than to be educated. Maybe I work so hard that I need to give my brain a break. I read anything by Dick Francis, Craig Johnson, Louis Lamour, David Baldacci, John Sanford, Gene Hill, Sigurd Olson, Nash Buckingham,Gordon Macquarrie, or William Kent Krueger.

Dean

Shōgun by James Clavell.

Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis.
Hawksbill Station by Robert Silverberg.
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Who Goes There by John W. Campbell

Last of the breed, by Louis LaMoure(SP?)

Virgil B.

The Lord of the Rings books by Tolkien. Have read all 3 books over 30 time starting in 5th grade.

Lonesome Dove

America- What Went Wrong.

By Charles 'Chuck' Colsen President Nixon cabinet member & Jack Eckerd Drugstore founder.

30 plus years ago it explained the plan to tax and spend the USA into oblivion, in order to create a country of ''little kings'' -> politicians and they overlords/globalist.

Can't remember the exact name of No. 2 book, yellow cover, Pork Barrel Projects, how gov't doles out 10's, even 100's of millions of dollars that ?somehow? a big percentage makes its way back into the pockets of gov't employees.

Think I saw With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge mentioned a time or two, it is a book every American should read. I will make my daughters read it in a few years

If you’ve been to war yourself perhaps you don’t need to, but everyone else should