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  • date:: October 15, 2009 at 5:32 PM
  • url:: http://www.zefrank.com/zesblog/archives/2009/10/a_short_list_of.html
  • ... when I asked for suggestions on twitter and facebook...this is about a third of the titles that I received back - maybe they will help you find a book too :: PLEASE add your recommendations for GREAT books in the comments :: click below ::
  • The Time Traveler's Wife
  • Naked lunch
  • Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
  • Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
  • Flaming Iguanas, Erika Lopez
  • "The Deluxe Transitive Vampire"
  • "Giraffes? Giraffes!"
  • The man who was Thursday, by GK Chesterton
  • Making Meaning
  • Middlesex,
  • The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay,
  • House of Leaves,
  • Cryptonomicon
  • Head Hunter
  •  Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
  • 1959 The Year that Everything Changed
  • Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
  • Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
  • Size of the World by Jeff Greenwald
  • Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
  • Purple cow
  • The Secret History, Donna Tartt
  • Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  • City of Thieves,
  • Devil in White City
  • Zeitoun
  • Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar
  • Shantaram
  • East of Eden
  • The Once and Future King
  • Lolita" by Nabokov,
  • The Book Thief
  • The Book of Lost Things
  • The Enchantress of Florence
  • Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
  • The Brain that Changes Itself
  • ROOTS
  • Three cups of tea
  • Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff Christ's Childhood Pal
  • We Die Alone - Howarth
  • Ball Four" by Jim Bouton
  • Strong Motion by Jonathan Franzen
  • Pale Fire (Nabokov)
  • Master and Margarita (Bulgakov)
  • Nathanial Philbrick's "In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
  • A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
  • Pontypool Changes Everything by Tony Burgess
  • "Drood," by Dan Simmons
  • M.T. Anderson's Whales on Stilts
  • An Easy Thing by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
  • A Fine Balance By Rohinton Mistry
  • Harpo Speaks by Harpo Marx
  • The Lovely Bones
  • "Jitterbug Perfume" by Tom Robbins
  • "An Abundance of Katherine" by John Green
  • Man's Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl
  • brothers karamazov
  • Another Road Side Attraction" Tom Robbins
  • The Book Of Lost Things by John Connolly
  • "Mans search for meaning"
  • Oysters by Jon Biguenet
  • The Shack
  • The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
  • the ishmael series by daniel quinn
  • a heartbreaking work of staggering genius
  • "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein
  • islam explained -tahar ben jelloun
  • the jungle - upton sinclair
  • what is the what - dave eggers
  • city of quartz / excavating the future in los angeles - mike davis
  • "The Devil's Advocate: A Short Polemic on How to Be Seriously Good in...
  • Max Blumenthal's,"Republican Gomorrah"
  • Chris Hedges, "Empire of Illusion"
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • Gilead by Marilyn Robinson
  • The Audacity of Hope
  • The Wanting Seed - Anthony Burgess
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • The Cold Six Thousand
  • invisible monsters - chuck palahniuk
  • Blood Meridian
  • The History of Our World Beyond the Wave, R.E. Klein
  • "The Cellist of Sarajevo"
  • "Little Bee"
  • For F*cks Sake by Robert Lasner
  • "The Dirt" by Neil Strauss and Motley Crue
  • Devil in the White City
  • the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime
  • "The Book of Joby"
  • Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
  • Piers Anthony "on a pale horse"
  • "Novice to Master: An ongoing lesson in the extent of my own stupidity"
  • Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn.
  • Netherland, by Joseph O'neill
  • "the ground beneath her feet" by salman rushdie
  • Bill Bryson's 'A Short History on Nearly Everything'
  • A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
  • "Lord Vishnu's Love Handles: A Spy Novel (Sort Of" by Will Clarke
  • The Alexandria Quartet
  • The Art of Racing in the Rain
  • Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
  • Oryx and Crake"
  • "The Year of the Flood"
  • Integral Spirituality
  • "life after god
  • The Stone Raft.
  • The Diamond Age
  • The Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
  • Riddley Walker
  • On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas)
  • God's Debris/Religion War by Scott Adams
  • Scarecrow by Matthew Reilly
  • The Raw Shark Texts
  • Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
  • Living Nowhere by John Burnside
  • The Count of Monte Cristo
  • jonathan strange & mr norrell
  • Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
  • [[I Am a Strange Loop]] by [[Douglas Hofstadter]]
  • Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
  • The Death Ship
  • The Hunter
  • Empire of the Sun, by J.G.Ballard
  • The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr
  • Out Stealing Horses
  • Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
  • Lost Illusions.
  • Everything you need to know about media
  • Born To Run - Christopher McDougall
  • Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block
  • 'Matter' by Iain M Banks
  • crooked little vein by warren ellis
  • "In A Sunburned Country."
  • Replay by Ken Grimwood
  • "Vincent" by Joey Goebel
  • "The Witch of Portobello" by Paulo Coelho
  • "Everything is illuminated" by J.S. Foer
  • "Rant" -Chuck Palahniuk.
  • The Third Policeman, by Flann O'Brien
  • "A Whole New Mind: Why right-brainers will rule the future" Daniel H. Pink
  • The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
  • Chabon's Kavalier & Clay.
  • "Gang Leader for a Day" by Sudhir Venkatesh
  • AMERICAN ON PURPOSE, Craig Ferguson
  • Crime and Punishment
  • 'The Shadow of the Wind' by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • "My Father's Suitcase" Orhan Pamuk
  • the Discovery of Heaven written by Harry Mulish
  • The Big Orange Splot by Daniel M Pinkwater
  • Saturn's Children by Stross
  • Dancing After Hours
  • the men who stare at goats by jon ronson
  • "Generation Me" Jean Twenge
  • Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
  • The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
  • Anathem - Neal Stephenson
  • Light by M. John Harrison
  • Timbuktu by Paul Auster
  • 'kokoro' by natsume soseki
  • 'a thousand cranes' by yasunari kawabata
  • The Story of B by Daniel Quinn.
  • Overqualified by Joey Comeau
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