Book suggestions, please?

[Mike_F]

One of the best modern books I've read in recent years is Atonement.

Very well written with a great twist if you've not seen the film.

[Dutch Uncle]

If non-fiction is your choice then I can recommend:

Operation Mincemeat by Ben MacIntyre (true story of deceiving the Germans in WW2 by leaving a dead body with false plans off the coast of Spain)

Any of the documentary books about Bletchley Park - e.g. Station X by Michael Smith or The Secret Life of Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKay

Invictus by John Carlin (Story of Nelson Mandela and South Africa winning the Rugby World Cup)

How Soccer explains the World - an unlikely Theory of Globalisation by Franklin Foer - eccentric but fascinating book relating football to many social and political developments

My Father and Working Class Football Heroes by Gary Imlach - and insight into a footballer's life pre lifting of the maximum wage

[Sammy Chung was King]

I'm reading MORE THAN JUST A GAME-Football v Apartheid, it's about how the prisoners on Robben island, and people in Africa were treated during this period.
It is a good book upto now, even though concentration is always an issue with me.

[Yargo]

Mary Shelly's Frankenstein is maybe one to look over these days,in which an artificial creation is put together with the greatest of intentions only for it to turn on its creator and threaten its creator's very existence and therefore has to be destroyed as the experiment goes horribly wrong,although an alternative ending has the twins Billy  and BobG hovering over the monstrosity saying with small tweeks we can tame this beast

[colfromdonny]

I love reading Jasper Fforde, the Thursday Next and Nursery crime books are very cleverly written.

[essexrover]

Mein Kampf might be a decent starting point

Hitler was a flash in the pan. He never wrote a sequel did he ? 


As mentioned already above George Orwell is great and I love most of his books. But try Homage to Catalonia. An account of his experiences in the Spanish civil war.

[Yargo]

The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray is a must read right now

[glosterred]

If you like thrillers Tony Parsons DC Max Wolfe stories are a good read, if you like history James Holland Burma 44 is worth a read or something on the same period The Burma Campaign by Frank McLynn.

[DaveDRFC]

Not sure if I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes has been mentioned on this thread yet, but that is a brilliant book.

[Donnywolf]

Manuscript in a Red Box for local history.

It gives a great insight into life around Thorne and what became the Isle of Axholme during the drainage / water management program

So good I have loaned it out 3 times and as happens the last loanee cant find it any more. I saw a copy only last week somewhere and chuckled. Ho Ho I thought 50p - a bargain - but no £15 it was which prompted a quick step back and I left empty handed !