Books
My Recommendations
Book Recommendations
Please note that this rating scale is subjective, non-linear, somewhat inconsistent, and reflective of multiple variables.
5 Stars: - Absolutely Stellar!
4 Stars: - Great!
3 Stars: - Good! Would recommend.
2 Stars: - Okayish.
1 Stars: - Not my favorite.
Richard Bach
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
A Gift of Wings
One
Running from Safety
Biplane
Nothing By Chance
Stranger to the Ground
Illusions-The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
The Bridge Across Forever
Hypnotizing Maria
William Kershner
The Student Pilot's Flight Manual
Rod Machado
Rod Machado's Private Pilot Handbook
Robert N. Buck and Robert O. Buck
Weather Flying
Bob Gardner
Say Again, Please Guide to Radio Communications
Isaac Asimov
View from a Height
Adding a Dimension
Atom
The Neutrino
Guide to Earth and Space
Brian Greene
The Elegant Universe
Simon Winchester
The Perfectionists
Jack Williamson
Terraforming Earth
The Stonehenge Gate
Jack McDevitt
The Engines of God
Deepsix
Stephen Baxter
Vacuum Diagrams
Greg Bear
The Forge of God
Alfred Coppel
Glory
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Time
Children of Ruin
Children of Memory
Robert Charles Wilson
Bios
Andy Wier
The Martian
Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Princess of Mars
Robert J. Sawyer
Calculating God
Dan Simmons
Hyperion
Hyperion
The Fall of Hyperion
Endymion
The Rise of Endymion
Ilium
Olympos
Roger Macbride Allen
The Corellian Trilogy
Ambush at Corellia
Assault at Selonia
Showdown at Centerpoint
The Ocean of Years
James S. A. Corey
The Expanse
Leviathan Wakes
Caliban's War
Abaddon's Gate
Frank Herbert
Dune
Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
Kim Stanley Robinson
The Mars Trilogy
Red Mars
Green Mars
Blue Mars
The Martians
Forty Signs of Rain
Icehenge
New York 2140
2312
Isaac Asimov
Foundation Series
Prelude to Foundation
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation
Foundation's Edge
Foundation and Earth
Robot Series
I, Robot
The Edge of Tomorrow
The Martian Way and other stories
The End of Eternity
Earth is Room Enough
The Stars, Like Dust
Carl Sagan
Contact
The Dragons of Eden
Piers Anthony
Isle of Woman
Arthur C. Clarke
The Deep Range
Rama Series
Rendezvous with Rama
Rama II
The Garden of Rama
The Hammer of God
Cradle
Imperial Earth
The Space Odyssey Series
2001 A Space Odyssey
2010: Odyssey Two
2061: Odyssey Three
3001 The Final Odyssey
Mary Doria Russell
The Sparrow
Larry Niven
Achilles' Choice
Ringworld
The Ringworld Engineers
The Integral Trees
The Legacy of Heorot
Ray Bradbury
R is for Rocket
Michael Crichton
Jurassic Park
The Lost World
The Andromeda Strain
Sphere
Steve Aiten
Meg
Pierre Boulle
Planet of the Apes
Robert A. Heinlein
Starship Troopers
Stranger in a Strange Land
David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas
Douglas Adams
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, the Universe and Everything
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Mostly Harmless
Young Zaphod Plays it Safe
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Matthew Hughes
Fools Errant
Raymond F. Jones
Renegades of Time
Robert Hoskins
To Control the Stars
Ernest Cline
Ready Player One
Karl Schroeder
Lady of Mazes
Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game
Ender's Shadow
Nancy Kress
Beggars in Spain Trilogy
Beggars in Spain
Beggars and Choosers
Beggars Ride
Edited by Brian Aldiss
Galactic Empires Vol.1
Galactic Empires Vol.2
Tanya Huff
A Confederation of Valor
Severna Park
The Annunciate
Tricia Sullivan
Lethe
Steven Brust
Issola
T J McLaughlin
Exogenesis
Peter Tieryas
United States of Japan
Chris Moriarty
Spin State
Ann Leckie
Ancillary Justice
H. G. Wells
The Time Machine
Alastair Reynolds
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days
John Cramer
Einstein's Bridge
Edward Llewellyn
Word-Bringer
Margaret St.Clair
The Dolphins of Altair
Ben Bova
Powersat
Moonrise
Katherine Applegate
Animorphs Series
Anne McCaffrey
Pern
Dragonsdawn
The Dragonriders of Pern
Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern
Nerika's Story
The Renegades of Pern
The Coelura
Christopher Paolini
Eldest
Lawrence Watt-Evans
Dragon Weather
Barbara Hambly
Dragonsbane
Marie Brennan
A Natural History of Dragons
Voyage of the Basilisk
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
Silmarillion
Tales from the Perilous Realm
Unfinished Tales
The Children of Hurin
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Patrick Rothfuss
The Kingkiller Chronicle
The Name of the Wind
The Wise Man's Fear
The Slow Regard of Silent Things
David Eddings
The Belgariad
Pawn of Prophecy
Queen of Sorcery
Magician's Gambit
Castle of Wizardry
Enchanters' End Game
The Mallorean
Guardians of the West
King of the Murgos
Demon Lord of Karanda
Sorceress of Darshiva
The Seeress of Kell
Belgarath the Sorcerer
Polgara the Sorceress
Robert Jordan
Wheel of Time
The Wheel of Time
The Great Hunt
The Dragon Reborn
The Shadow Rising
The Fires of Heaven
Lord of Chaos
A Crown of Swords
The Path of Daggers
Winter's Heart
Crossroads of Twilight
Knife of Dreams
The Gathering Storm
Towers of Midnight
A Memory of Light
New Spring
Peter Valentine Timlett
The Seedbearers Trilogy
The Seedbearers
The Power of the Serpent
The Twilight of the Serpent
Brent Weeks
The Way of Shadows
Madeleine L'Engle
The Time Quintet
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wind in the Door
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
An Acceptable Time
Many Waters
C. S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Magician's Nephew
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Horse and His Boy
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Screwtape Letters
Frank Peretti
The Door in the Dragon's Throat
Escape from the Island of Aquarius
The Tombs of Anak
Trapped at the Bottom of the Sea
The Secret of the Desert Stone
The Deadly Curse of Toco-Rey
The Legend of Annie Murphy
Flying Blind
Tim Lahaye
Left Behind
Sharon Shinn
The Alleluia Files
Neil Gaiman & Terry Prachett
Good Omens
Brian Jacques
Redwall
Redwall
Mossflower
Mattimeo
Mariel of Redwall
Salamandastron
Martin the Warrior
The Bellmaker
The Outcast of Redwall
The Pearls of Lutra
The Long Patrol
Marlfox
The Legend of Luke
Lord Brocktree
Taggerung
Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows
Richard Adams
Watership Down
Robert C. O'Brien
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Elizabeth Winthrop
The Castle in the Attic
Erin Hunter
Warriors: Into the Wild
Peter S. Beagle
The Last Unicorn
The Brothers Grimm
Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales
Jean Craighead George
My Side of the Mountain Trilogy
Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild
Jack London
The Call of the Wild
White Fang
The Sea-Wolf
Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Johann David Wyss
Swiss Family Robinson
William Golding
Lord of the Flies
Sir Thomas More
Utopia
Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers
Jules Verne
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Around the World in Eighty Days
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
C. S. Forester
Hornblower
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
Lieutenant Hornblower
Hornblower and the Hotspur
Hornblower and the Atropos
Beat to Quarters
Ship of the Line
Flying Colors
Commodore Hornblower
Lord Hornblower
Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies
Hornblower During the Crisis
Alexander Kent
The Flag Captain
Robert Ludlum
Bourne Series
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Ultimatum
Eric Van Lustbader
The Bourne Legacy
Tom Clancy
The Hunt for Red October
Rainbow Six
Sebastian Junger
The Perfect Storm
Elleston Trevor
The Flight of the Phoenix
Dale Brown
Eagle Station
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Yann Martel
Life of Pi
Téa Obreht
The Tiger's Wife
Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Books
Roald Dahl
The BFG
Scott O'Dell
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Katherine Paterson
Bridge to Terabithia
Norton Juster
The Phantom Tollbooth
Natalie Babbitt
Tuck Everlasting
Lois Lowry
The Giver
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Daniel Keyes
Flowers for Algernon
Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Minority Report
Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
George Orwell
1984
Animal Farm
Joseph Heller
Catch-22
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
Translated by Burton Raffel
Beowolf
Translated by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf and Ernest Meyers
The Iliad of Homer
Translated by W. H. D. Rouse
The Odyssey
Emily Bront
Wuthering Heights
Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Emma
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion
Lady Susan
William Goldman
The Princess Bride
Gaston Leroux
The Phantom of the Opera
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
C. P. Dadant
First Lessons in Beekeeping
Matther J. Hatami, P.E.
The Oilfield Survival Guide Vol.1
Jeffery K. Liker
The Toyota Way
Jocko Willink
Extreme Ownership
Discipline Equals Freedom Field Manual
W. Edwards Deming
Out of the Crisis
Charles J. Pellerin
How NASA Builds Teams
Tyler Parris
Chief of Staff
Grant Cardone
Sell or be Sold: How to get your way in business and in life
Mike Kaplan
Secrets of a Master Closer
Dr. Anthony M. Criniti IV
The Most Important Lessons in Economics and Finance
Thomas Sowell
Basic Economics - Fifth Edition
Linda K. Treviño & Katherine A. Nelson
Managing Business Ethics - Sixth Edition
Jordan B. Peterson
12 Rules for Life - An Antidote to Chaos
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
David Keirsey
Please Understand Me II
Col. Chris Hadfield
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
Amy Chua
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century
Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
The Future is Faster than you Think
Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
Algorithms to Live By - The Computer Science of Human Decisions
García, Héctor
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
Amanda Ripley
The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
Wim Hof
The Wim Hof Method: Activate Your Full Human Potential
John Lanchester
The Debt to Pleasure