The fave book Meme...
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Some of these are not really my favorites...but this is just off the top of my head...
Comedy: Guards, Guards by Terry Pratchett
Sci-fi: The Door Into Summer by Robert Heinlein also quite fond of The Sparrow by Mary Doro Russell and The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffery
Fantasy: Dragonflight by Anne McCaffery
Political: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken also Guards, Guards by Terry Pratchett
Horror: Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe (more short story than book) I also like Lovecraft. Oh, and Red Nails by Robert E. Howard.
Most Inspiring: It's a tie between the next two books listed...
Most Enlightening: Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama
Most Practical: Slang and Euphemisms a dictionary of oaths, curses, insults...sexual slang and metaphor by Richard A. Spears.
Arts: Alphonse Mucha: The Spirit of Art Nouveau
Business: Type Talk at Work by Janet Thuessen
Training: I am hard to train...maybe Feeling Good Handbook by David Burns
Computer: Editing Digital Video by Robert Goodman
Cooking: The New Basics Cookbook by Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins (Lara is right this is a great cookbook) also good is 5-a-day by Elizabeth Pivonka about how to get fruit and veggies into the diet
History: BLAH! Oh...okay...uhm...Brassy's book of Military Blunders
Career: Not a genre given to great books in my opinion...mostly standard advice...but we could return to the Personality typing...there's a good book called: Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You...
Mystery: Resurrection Row by Anne Perry
Finance: Not my thing
General Fiction: No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (listed as a mystery but really...not...more of a trickster myth).
Romantic: Sheesh...there's a puzzler...read a few...favorite? "The Grand Sophy" by Georgette Heyer
Non-fiction: Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Auto/Biography/Memoir: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zola Neale Hurston
Classic Lit: Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (though it is hard at times to overlook the casually negative stereotypes that are an essential part of making the gags in this book work, if you set it in context for time and place, it is one of the funniest things ever written)
Religious Text: Animal Magic
Short Story Collection: Don't read them generally...liked this victorian collection of erotic stories I have...but...nevermind...
Children's Lit: Toot and Puddle: You Are My Sunshine by Holly Hobbie
Poetry: Collected Work of Robert Frost
Foreign Author: P.G. Wodehouse (old and English) Of the modern bunch...let's see extremely fond of Robert J. Sawyer (is Canada foreign?) and also Alexander McCall Smith.
What I'm reading right now: Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith...and I highly recommend all of this series of books...read them in order.
And let's add one shall we...
Self Help: The Pleasure Prescription by Paul Pearsall...also Write Your Own Pleasure Prescription and Partners in Pleasure. Taking a South Pacific Perspective on life...quite refreshing...
ladyoneillSome of these are not really my favorites...but this is just off the top of my head...
Comedy: Guards, Guards by Terry Pratchett
Sci-fi: The Door Into Summer by Robert Heinlein also quite fond of The Sparrow by Mary Doro Russell and The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffery
Fantasy: Dragonflight by Anne McCaffery
Political: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken also Guards, Guards by Terry Pratchett
Horror: Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe (more short story than book) I also like Lovecraft. Oh, and Red Nails by Robert E. Howard.
Most Inspiring: It's a tie between the next two books listed...
Most Enlightening: Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama
Most Practical: Slang and Euphemisms a dictionary of oaths, curses, insults...sexual slang and metaphor by Richard A. Spears.
Arts: Alphonse Mucha: The Spirit of Art Nouveau
Business: Type Talk at Work by Janet Thuessen
Training: I am hard to train...maybe Feeling Good Handbook by David Burns
Computer: Editing Digital Video by Robert Goodman
Cooking: The New Basics Cookbook by Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins (Lara is right this is a great cookbook) also good is 5-a-day by Elizabeth Pivonka about how to get fruit and veggies into the diet
History: BLAH! Oh...okay...uhm...Brassy's book of Military Blunders
Career: Not a genre given to great books in my opinion...mostly standard advice...but we could return to the Personality typing...there's a good book called: Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You...
Mystery: Resurrection Row by Anne Perry
Finance: Not my thing
General Fiction: No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (listed as a mystery but really...not...more of a trickster myth).
Romantic: Sheesh...there's a puzzler...read a few...favorite? "The Grand Sophy" by Georgette Heyer
Non-fiction: Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Auto/Biography/Memoir: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zola Neale Hurston
Classic Lit: Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (though it is hard at times to overlook the casually negative stereotypes that are an essential part of making the gags in this book work, if you set it in context for time and place, it is one of the funniest things ever written)
Religious Text: Animal Magic
Short Story Collection: Don't read them generally...liked this victorian collection of erotic stories I have...but...nevermind...
Children's Lit: Toot and Puddle: You Are My Sunshine by Holly Hobbie
Poetry: Collected Work of Robert Frost
Foreign Author: P.G. Wodehouse (old and English) Of the modern bunch...let's see extremely fond of Robert J. Sawyer (is Canada foreign?) and also Alexander McCall Smith.
What I'm reading right now: Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith...and I highly recommend all of this series of books...read them in order.
And let's add one shall we...
Self Help: The Pleasure Prescription by Paul Pearsall...also Write Your Own Pleasure Prescription and Partners in Pleasure. Taking a South Pacific Perspective on life...quite refreshing...