Timbooo’s book club
I love reading. I used to only read fiction when I was younger, but at some point I transitioned into non-fiction and these days the ratio is probably slightly in favour of non-fiction over fiction. That’s not to say I don’t love disapearing into an engrossing fictional world from time to time; In fact, ‘historic fiction’ is probably my favorite genre… setting fiction stuff in among shit that really happened is a great bridge between the fiction and non.
The thing is though, reading an entire book can take a long time – and investing that time into a book will come at the expense of investing it in something else. Hence, I like to be very selective when I choose a new book to read and I’m always on the look out for recommendations from friends and family.
If you have a recommendation please let me know; We’re friends afterall!
In the meantime, here are some recommendations of mine. Yes, there are some cliché picks here, but then there’s a reason for the general consesus…
The Century Trilogy
by Ken Follett
This trilogy will put you through the ringer.
The Name of The Wind and The Wise Mans Fear
by Patrick Rothfuss
One day the third book will come out… one day.
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
I loved this book as a kid, when it was a book about a brave dog going deeper and deeper into the wilderness. I re-read it again a few years ago (after it was name-dropped a bunch of times in the TV series “The Night Of”), and realised that of course is it an allegory – and yes, a few very outdated, cringy bits about women and minorities – but it is still an adventure book centred around a great creature finding its place in nature.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
Yep
The Harry Potter series
by JK Rowling
Pretty obivous pick, but man did these books have an arc.
Natural Born Heroes
by Christopher McDougall
I love the scope of this book. It starts and ends in WW2, but it goes everywhere else in between!
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
This .
Extreme Ownership
by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
This too.
Batavia
by Peter FitzSimons
Sure, there are flaws in this book… but then there’s a lot of guesswork involved in re-telling something that happened hundreds of years ago from various accounts. This is fucked up though… it’s fucked up because it really happened.
“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.” – Louis L’Amour
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin
“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.” – Diane Duane
