Book Recommendations - Ask, recommend, comment

[Kitlen]

I looked through the pages and didn't seem to find a thread for this, so I figured I'd start one. Figure we can all post recommendations, ask for recommendations from authors or genres, and comment on books people recommend.

I'm actually looking for recommendations on the DCI Banks series by Peter Robinson. My father and I enjoy the show immensely and I am thinking of buying him a book from the series. Any recommendations as to which book of his is the best?

In return, I recommend books and other shit.
Anything by Lovecraft, I highly recommend the short story The Rats in the Walls (it's free online to read).
I highly recommend The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Stories by Lu Xun. Good introduction to Modern Chinese literature and great commentary.
My Lobotomy by Howard Dully. Yes, as the title reads he received a lobotomy during the "icepick lobotomy" craze. It details his childhood and how it affected his life, and then how he went back to research what really happened to him and other recipients of the procedure.
Blindness by Jose Saramago. Holy shit. This book. Fucked me up, man.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

I recommend the book starship troopers by Robert A Heinlein it is a very good and inspirational book and it made me question everything that I was taught when I was younger

 

[LagoonaBlue]

Books I have read and recommend are:

Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe.
Greenmantle by John Buchan.
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (read this one before Greenmantle - those two books are part of a series of 5 books, Thirty-Nine Steps being the first in the series and Greenmantle being the second).

 

[Abethedemon]

Do you guys know about any good traditionalist philosophical books? I'm curious in hearing the opinion of the philosophical/metaphysical far right. Also, what Nietzsche would you recommend starting out with?
I'd also like to recommend Seven Taoist Masters, which I am currently reading. It's very engaging and has some interesting supernatural elements.

 

[Sigyn]

A Wild Sheep Chase and Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami are two of my all-time favorites; they're really great examples of how to make surrealism work in literature. They've got this whimsical, dream-like quality to them which is my favorite kind of 'mood' when it comes to books.

Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafòn is a really great mystery/adventure novel with fleshed-out, three-dimensional characters.

Outside of Fiction, there's this book on the history and application of cryptography called The Code Book by Simon Singh that has a really comprehensive, balanced look into cryptography and how it was/still is used and how its shaped the world around us. It goes from the first encryption techniques to the quantum cryptography used today and is just really fascinating.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

Also, what Nietzsche would you recommend starting out with?

I recommend starting out with Twilight of the Idols, afterwards read in whatever order you want but save Thus Spoke Zarathustra for one of the later ones