Please list 5 books

[Bain_Adaneth]

Thanks for all the great suggestions!!

 

[sowellfan]

Knowledge & Decisions - Thomas Sowell -- Dr. Sowell is a free-market economist, and he is one of my heroes (you may see his columns in your local newspaper once or twice a week near the editorial page). This book is a long, slow read, but it *will* make you a smarter person. Do you ever wonder why people (& society as a whole) make the decisions they make? Why do your co-workers (from the CEO down to the mail clerk) make bad decisions that seem easily avoidable? It's because transferring knowledge from one person to another takes work & attention. People just tend to think that their boss did something stupid because he's an idiot, but they don't stop to think that maybe the boss was perhaps operating under some incorrect assumptions that could be remedied.

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand -- People who like the free market and don't trust government will generally like this book, though it is long-winded at times. It's also pretty much against any religious beliefs, but if you can ignore that it's a great book.

The Road to Serfdom - F. A. Hayek -- Another book that illustrates why socialism & big government will end in disaster.

Silicon Snake Oil - Second Thoughts on the Information Superhighway - Clifford Stoll -- This guy was around for the beginnings of the internet, and he's got some questions about whether the usefulness of the internet is being overblown some. Do 4th and 5th graders really need to have their reports done in educational versions of Powerpoint? When & how deeply do students need to get involved with computers?

Inside American Education - Thomas Sowell -- With all the advantages that come with being in America, why are so many kids coming out of high school and college being so stupid?

 

[plum]

Yes, the BIBLE! *grin*

The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning
Safely Home by Randy Alcorn
The Calling by Brother Andrew
This Present Darkness by Frank E. Peretti
A Case for Faith by Lee Strobel
My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers

 

[Received]

Dostoyevsky: Notes From Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov

If ever there was one single author I recommend regarding the realm of fiction, this is your man.

Tolstoy: Anna Karenina, The Death of Ivan Illyich, Confession

Likewise.

Cheers for Russians.

Blessings.

 

[Im4HimiHs]

Daily Light on the Daily Path, Special Edition, Billy Graham Evangelistic Assn. Harper & Roe Pbl.

My other 4 have already been mentioned.

 

[johnhusswannabe]

Putting Amazing Back into Grace(Michael Horton), Grace Unknown(RC Sproul), On Christian Teaching(St. Augustine), Desiring God(John Piper), and Masters of the Dream(Alan Keyes)

 

[II Paradox II]

List 5 books that have changed the way you think....has had a great impact on your life...or that you think is worthy to be read....

1) Anything by francis Schaeffer
2) "Iustitia Dei" by Alister McGrath
3) "Pilgrim's Progress"
4) "Is there A Meaning In This Text" by kevin van hoozer
5) "to the lighthouse" by virginia woolf

ken

 

[Lizzy16]

Mine are:

1. The Count of Monte Christo - Alexander Dumas
2. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
3. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R.Tolkien
4. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
5. Kokoro - Natsume Soseki

You probably haven't heard about the last two books, no wonder, they are not well known in the western world. These booksd are Japanese

 

[BarbB]

Anything by Randy Alcorn or Frank Peretti - both made me more aware of the spiritual battles going on around us!

Gone with the Wind - fun to read!
Any Chuck Colson books - a real guy with real failings finds Jesus!

 

[Bain_Adaneth]

thanks....