SUPERB,
READABLE, ENGROSSING and VERY INSTRUCTIONAL NOVELS:
THRILLERS/ MYSTERIES-
DAN
BROWN Angels & Demons, Da Vinci Code
Lawrence Block, Robert Parker, Lee Child,
Robert Crais. Sue Grafton.
Frederick
Forsythe, esp. ODESSA FILE” &
DAY OF THE JACKYL,” ICON, FIST OF GOD.
Daniel
Silva “The English Assasin” “Confessor” “Price of Fire” and many more.
RIPPER! CASE SOLVED by Patricia Cornwall
Adios Scherhezade by Donald Westlake 10-165$ (search on Adios and author’s name, only, spelling title is too iffy)
“MISSING, the Execution of Charles Horman” by Tom HAUSER 2$
Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard 4-12$ prose so fabulous it could be mounted and worn as jewelry.
Daniel Woodrell, His themes involve a Hillbilly P.I., hilarious premise.
HISTORICAL NOVELS:
Sarah
Dunant, Renaissance themes.
Zoe
Oldenbourg. Dark Ages in France.
“Third Eye” “Dr. from Llasha,” all a buck or two tops and
“You Forever” “Chapters of Life” or ANYTHING by author TUESDAY LOBSANG RAMPA, as they INSPIRE your E.S.P
ALAN
WATTS, Robert
Anton Wilson,
Dr. DICK ALPERT ( BABA RAM DAS, his other name).
Anything by
Brit COLIN WILSON
PALM READING: Charlotte Wolf “HUMAN HAND” (hands of insane and retarded)
CHEIRO’s many books on palmistry.
Soul of the
Universe by Stromberg where he proves that God exists and can be proven with
PHYSICS. Guy was a physics Dr.
Anything by
HOWARD ZINN like “People’s History of USA”
Politics of World Economy by Wallerstein 14$ to 60$
Age of Imperialism by Harry Magdoff 1$ to 15$
WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE by CYNTHIA BROWN 1$ (Human rights Policy in Lat Amer)
World Turned Upside Down, Radical Ideas in English Revolution Christopher Hill $2-8
Edmund
Wilson FINLAND STATION, Bios of all reformers of gov since Renaissance to Lenin
NONFICTION
HISTORY;
ANYTHING
by WILL DURANT
Anything by Howard Zinn, 1-10$ People’s History or ANY
book play at all.
JOY HAKIM’s Progressive view History books, to insure youngsters grow up liberal!
Roman Revolution by Ronald Syme 2$ to 24$
Anything by D.W. Brogan 1-$150
The World of Odysseus by Moses Finley
Finland Station by Edmund Wilson
Peasants of Languedoc Le Roy Ladurie
Anything by Arnold Toynbee
DANIEL POOL - What Jane
Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew:
From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life
in Nineteenth-
Century England (ISBN: 0671882368) And many others.
THE PHOENICIANS by Gerhard Herm though many other authors tackled same title.
CHAIM POTOK
“WANDERINGS” 8000 yrs of History of the Jews
Mediterranean
World in Age of Philip II by Fernand
Braudel
ANY BOOK BY FERNAND BRAUDEL! Just search on his name, no titles! SNAP up what you can get
ANYTHING BY JULES MICHELET on HISTORY OF FRANCE. Leave it to a Marxist to interpret history better than the rest of us! BTW, he created Marx so Marx was a MICHELET-IST or BABEUVIAN maybe.
“New History and the Old’ Gertrude Himmelfarb $1 to 10$
CENTURIES OF CHILDHOOD by Philippe Aries
Beauvais et le Vauvaises de 1600-1730 by Pierre Gourbet HE IS IMPOSS to find in USA maybe in EUROPE/
not on abe books. So try EUROPEAN dealers.
LATE ANTIQUITY by PETER BROWN 5-12$
”LONDON
LIFE IN THE 18th CENTURY by DOROTHY GEORGE
WORLD OF ODYSSEUS by FINLEY 2-6$
The Sixties by Todd Gitlin 1$ to 31$ Marxists interpret history better!
Cheese and
the Worms, Cosmos of a 16th Century Miller. Carlo Ginzburg 6$-15$
TIME BENDS autobio by Arthur Miller. l.00$ at abebooks. ONE BUCK!
LION"s
GAME by NELSON De MILLE
Nickle and
Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich (on living
poor in America)
Heilbronner, Robert, Anything by him 4$ and up MAKING OF ECONOMIC SOCIETY
New American Poverty by Michael Harrington same book 1$ to 300$
GERMAN BIG BIZ, The RISE of by TURNER HENRY
Unequal Exchange by Ranjit Sau 11-30$
“Nicaragua, What difference could a Revolution Make” Joseph Collins 1$ up
Corporations and the Cold War by David Horowitz 5$ to 30$
GLOBAL REACH Richard Barnet1-10$
U.S. Imperialism by Farhang Mansour 4-21$
Theory of Capitalist Development by Paul Sweezy 4-20$
Intervention and Revolution Barnet 1-$5
Historical Capitalism Wallerstein 4$ to 42$
Great Conspiracy $4 to $42 by Alfred Kahn
Economics for
Beginners ,
Marx for
Beginners, RIUS anything by him
MAO for Beginners Rius
Lenin For Beginners 1$ to
20$
CULTURE,
ANTHROPOLOGY, EDUCATION
Western Attitudes Toward Death Philipe Aries
AT ODDS, Women and the Family in America by Carl Degler
Origins of Individualism, Political Oppression and the State by ELI SAGAN
Education in the Forming of American Society by Bernard Bailyn
CENTURIES OF CHILDHOOD by Philippe Aries 4-8$
Thomas
Dover “GREEK HOMOSEXUALITY: 6$ to 28$
Kissinger
by Mort Halperin
Read up on JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU online to find out what a jerk he was! *click there.
ROMANCE, LOVE
Dr. Pat Allen. “GETTING TO I DO”
Hendrix “GETTING THE LOVE YOU NEED”
Getting the Love you Want by Hendrix
Most Hendrix titles are for 1$ but some guy wants a grand for one!
The Rules and “He’s just not that IN to you”
Deborah
Tannen “You Just Don’t Understand” 1$ all over abe books
GARDENING
Chico’s Organic Gardening by David
Wallechinsky
PROSPERITY
Bob Proctor “You were Born Rich”
MYSTERIES- Lawrence Block, Robert Parker. John Burdett, Sue Grafton
THRILLERS – Lee Child, Robert Crais, Daniel Silva, Steve Berry,
“BEST OF” LISTS
The RANDOM HOUSE LIST http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html
The TIME MAG LIST: http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html
http://www.adherents.com/people/100_novel.html
The NEW YORK TIMES list: http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/072098best-novels-list.html