<p>Anyone have any suggestions on interesting books to read.
Published 07-09 please.</p>
<p>Don’t suggest classics/outdated books.
Don’t suggest fiction either.</p>
<p>Any books you find interesting that fit those categories?</p>
<p>… my mom tells me that Look Me in the Eye (by Augusten Burroughs’s brother, if that means anything) is pretty kickin’.</p>
<p>i hear freakonomics is pretty good</p>
<p>but that’s from 2005</p>
<p>The Soloist.</p>
<p>Into Thin Air
its about the Mount Everest disaster in 1996</p>
<p>Baby Rudin</p>
<p>Jodi Picoult… all of her books. Some were published recently in the time frame you want, some weren’t. Regardless, they’re all amazing books and she writes stunningly.</p>
<p>Catch-22 and 1984 are MUST-READS.</p>
<p>The Last Lecture.</p>
<p>I don’t know when it was published, pretty rescent though I’m sure, but my mom said it’s a very inspirational book :)</p>
<p>Whoops - forgot about the published in '07-'09 part.
I’m not too thrilled about modern books myself… perhaps try googling this and see for yourself?</p>
<p>I like Haruki Murakami, but unless you read Japanese, you’ll never get something from him that was published as recently as 07. Generally though, I think you’re better off reading his best works, which from a critical view would probably include The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which was published a while ago, because like pretty much any other big modern author (Palanuhik, sp, and Stepehn King for example)I can think of, he writes a lot of books with the same themes, so I think it’s good to do the best in case you get tired of everyone being the same. I think After Dark is his most recent novel, and actually, that’s a cool one to start with, because it’s got a female main character and is therefore very different from the vast majority of his books.</p>
<p>Andrew Sean Greer is good. The Story of a Marriage is the only one that fits the publication requirements, but again, I don’t think it’s his absolute best. I do like it an awful, awful lot though.</p>
<p>The World Without Us</p>
<p>The title basically says it all. It wasn’t an amazing book, but it was interesting…</p>
<p>All Living Things. It really puts you into the struggles of the scientists whom have had to challenge society’s accepted values and push their own ideas (all proven true in the future) to the scientific community. It might not be too interesting if you’re not interested in biology, though.</p>
<p>Hmmm, Twilight is an excellent nonfiction book. Every other book in the world sucks.</p>
<p>no it’s not. Because it’s a fiction</p>
<p>i think magicmonkey likes to think of Twilight as nonfiction cause he/she lives in an imaginary world where vampires are real ;]</p>
<p>^Yea. But even if Twilight was nonfiction, it’d still be a horrible book.</p>
<p>Which of these plays should I read first?</p>
<p>Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar</p>
<p>Romeo and Juliet is a quick read since you already have the gist of it…</p>
<p>I can’t speak for the other ones though. I need to read those for myself…</p>