Catcher in the rye - JD Salinger

for you wire71

Bill Bryson: Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors

Bram Stoker - Dracula
Simon Scarrow - 'The Eagle Series'
George Orwell - 1984
Max Brooks - World War Z


And the pedants amongst us;
Lynne Truss - Eats, shoots & leaves

Grits by Niall Griffiths,a brilliant read.

The Two of Me, by Andrew Johns. The best sporting autobiography I have ever read.
[url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Penguins-Stopped-Play-Village-Cricketers/dp/0719563461/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267840197&sr=8-1Penguins Stopped Play, by Harry Thompson (creator of Have I Got News For You and Never Mind The Buzzcocks)[/url
[url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Blacks-Golds-John-Haynes/dp/1901347176/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267840292&sr=1-1All Blacks to All Golds, by John Haynes (the story of the first tour to the Northern Union in 1907)[/url
Down and Under, by Dave Hadfield.

Also if anyone has a copy of The Forbidden Game: The Untold Story of French Rugby League they are willing to sell, please PM me.

A thriller, an emotional, unbelievable true story that takes the main subject into the FBI, CIA, Columbian drug barons, London Yardies, Scotland Yard, Mafia and Jamaica =#FF0000THE SETT by Sir Rannulph Feinnes .

Razzle - January-2010 Issue

Duncan Fletcher - Behind The Shades

Jamie Carragher - Being Carra (I think)

James And The Giant Peach - Roald Dahl.

To be surprised and even shocked try [iThe Wind up Bird Chronicle[/i or [iKafka by the Shore[/i by Haruki Murakami or [iIn the Miso Soup [/iby Ryu Murakami ( no relation ) or for insights into how evil girls can be try [iGrotesque [/iby Natsuo Kirino.

Crikey getting highbrow on here. Anyway stuff I have enjoyed recently;

'The Damned United' by David Peace

'Led Zeppelin; When Giants Walked The Earth' by Mick Wall

'Stupid White Men' by Michael Moore

'Don't Die With The Music In You' Wayne Bennett (finally got it by having it shipped from Oz)

I've been looking to get the Wayne Bennett book, do you have a link ?

Ta.

Bill Bryson - A Short History of Almost Everything.
Brilliant.

Some quality books have been named already, and here's two more of my recommendation:

Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude

John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath

A really great, funny book.....However, the last chapter is probably the saddest thing I ever read, and to anybody who gives the book a go, I challenge them not to have a tear in the eye after reading it.

Some good stuff on here, cheers.

I read Longy on the plane out and left it with the sickbags and information card. Absolute rubbish.

What you spent £18 on a book and then discarded it like an empty crisp packet just because you didn't like it?

Shame on you.

Got to agree with that.

Also Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (like 1984 and just as accurate in prophecy); Birdsong by Sebastien Faulkes (best WW1 novel ever); and to be disturbed & challenged Deadkidsongs by Toby Litt (just superb, but tough reading).

for a light hearted read you can't beat bill bryson,a really amusing book i read recently was Yes Man by Danny Wallace.

It was off of ebay.

Well no, it was a present. I did read it though but didnt want to keep it. I am quite selective about what makes my book case and this didn't quite cut it.

The Railway man by Eric Lomax
Notes from a small island Bill Bryson
Chariots of the gods by Erich von Daniken
Watch my back Geoff Thompson

the profession of violence - john pearson

made for rugby - barrie macdermot


bronson- charles bronson.

Bronsons ok but its mostly about him moveing from prison to prison and gets abit boreing.

A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil - John Berendt

The Adventures Of Augie March - Saul Bellow

Underworld - Don DeLillo

i'm bugggered if i know where my copy is, its been passed round several friends who can only get through the first couple of chapters then decide to give it a miss. No one seems to know who had it last, can't say i'm that bothered though.