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Jan 13, 2021 11:58AM
Hey! My name is Jon and I enjoy reading just about anything I find interesting. I have a very irrational fear of running out of stuff to read so I’m constantly searching for the next book (or 12) to put on my list to read. Hoping this group will help me find more interesting books to keep me busy!
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Welcome!
What are your interests, Jon? What books have you read and why did you like them? What books won't you touch?My first love are mysteries — private eyes, police procedurals, stories based in other countries and other centuries — but I have also developed a fondness for general literature biographies and histories. But never, never, never romances.
My interests are all over the map. I’m a big hockey fan so I read all the biographies I can on former players and coaches. But I also read a lot of fiction. Plenty of Stephen King, John Grisham and Lee Child. Then I also enjoy tons of nonfiction with my favorite authors there being Malcolm Gladwell and John Krakauer. Love the classics as well and am currently reading “Oil!” By Upton Sinclair. So like I said, all over the map! Willing to read anything that I find interesting.
Here are a couple you might enjoy:The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, The Horse That Inspired a Nation by Elizabeth Letts
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
A King of Infinite Space (Long Beach Homicide, #1) by Tyler Dilts
Beartown by Fredrick Backman. Plot is pretty good, but the impact of Jr. Hockey on a small town is really good.
Yes! I loved Beartown and Us Again You. Both fantastic books.
In terms of non-fiction, can I recommend the "familiar essay" genre (?). Anne Fadmian's Ex Libris, and At Large and at Small are two books I will recommend to the death; she is such a wonderful writer, with essays ranging from lepidoptery (the art and science of collecting and preserving butterflies!) to an ode to mail, and ice cream (separately, of course). Wonderful topics that you'd never think you were interested in.
I also think you'd like Jon Ronson. Specifically, his "The Psychopath Test" is a nice cross between lovers of thrillers (although he is a journalist, so this is not a thriller, but a telling expose of sorts on the true nature of psychopathic killers) and those of journalistic non-fiction.
Small great thingsDragonfly -Leila meecham
The great alone
Nightingale
Orphan train
Kite runner
Eye of the needle
The Alice network
Lilac girls
Nickel boys
Educated
American dirt
Whisper man
Unbroken
Jon wrote: "Hey! My name is Jon and I enjoy reading just about anything I find interesting. I have a very irrational fear of running out of stuff to read so I’m constantly searching for the next book (or 12) t..."Hey Jon,
I'd be happy to hook you up with a paperback or Kindle version of any one of my books that you like. And if you enjoy it, I'll be even happier to hook you up with another.
Here's what I got as of now:
Memoirs of a Douchebag (2007) – by John Box
American MaleWhore in Tokyo (2014) – by Rowen Boozewell with John Box as main character
The Stars’ Fault (2016) – by John Box
Negotiations with God (2018) – by R.W. Sowrider with Rowen as main character
Kanpai,
JB
The Wagers by Sean Michael is an unusual stand alone. He writes like a literary novelist, plots like genre fiction, and world builds like a great Netflix special. It's a family-drama-cum-heist story with a very cool twist... luck is tangible. Tangible enough to be stolen, anyhow.https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/sho...
Oh, to add... if you've never read the Martin Beck novels (also referred to as "the Story of Crime") by husband and wife duo Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall, then I envy you. I would love to read these again for the first time. Start with Roseanna and work your way through all ten!https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
