EXPLANATION ....The bookshops and libraries are full of millions of books in a lifetime you can't expect to read them all. Indeed I believe that most of them aren't worth reading anyway. So it's a priority to find those works which are truly inspiring and entertaining.

Good Novels --- in order of good to bad, with a rating out of 100, click the filename for a detailed review To understand something you have to experience it, but of course you can't go to 16th century London or onto a 23rd century spaceship at the drop of a hat, but with a book you can ! Take - Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr (one of the best novels ever written) (amazing imagination and lucid style of writing), which takes us right into New York's Seedy and Low Life side oldreviews.htm - about 20 reviews in one file 80thestrengthofthestrong.htm 70timequake_vonnegut.htm 70goldtheman.htm sci-fi with permaculture ideas 65LoserTake.htm 65thereader.htm 60tenthman_greene.htm 60-CatsCradle.htm 60Hokus_Pocus_vonnegut.htm 60-100yearsofsolitude.htm 60montana.htm Cynical cowboy book 55We-Zamiatin.htm basis for Brave New World and 1984 55whathewould.htm 50stanislaw_fut.htm 50kim__kipling.htm 50lifeofpi.htm 45touristseason.htm 45masquerade_pratchett.htm 45junglebook.htm 45journeywithoutmaps.htm 45Tombrownschool.htm 35lodgedavid.htmHow Far Can You Go ? Poking fun at the Cathoc church 35milagro.htm Mexican culture in the US 30trainspotting.htm 25secretlifeofdracula.htm 20GranchesterGrind.htm 19shambala.htm Americans can't resist making money by churning out books full of hippy claptrap 15skinnylegsandall.htm 10thepartner.htm 10Quarantine.htm 10Godofsmall.htm 0crapnovels.htm othernovels.htm See also - Most of the works of Shakespeare (tho' better seen as plays), Graham Greene, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, Roald Dahl, Tom Sharpe, Terry Pratchett, Jack London, George Orwell,

Best non-fiction --- Utopia by Thomas More. It's incredible that Henry David Thoreau was using ideas from this book written 500 years ago and More in turn was using ideas from the Bible and Plato's Republic written 2500 years ago. People say there are never any truly new ideas. It's a pity that marketing and the need to make money by selling new books puts such classic enlightened works into the shadows 0ldreviewsnf.htm 84walden.htm - By Henry David Thoreau - 150 years ago he wrote that our capitalist culture is crazy 80utopia.htm - 500 years ago Thomas More also called the capitalist sytem crazy too (see detailed analysis) 83semler.htm Maverick By: Ricardo Semler 1993 owner of a Brazilian company Semco came up with a completely new system of management ..empower and trust your workers,great 85semler2.htm 7 Day Weekend By: Ricardo Semler 2003 A slightly better rewrite of the above book (for more criticism of modern capitalism see Confronting The Future by Charles Birch - (for more criticism of modern capitalism see Plato - works Philosophy for Beginners by Richard Osbourne dewey 100 Also Plato for Beginners - good - cartoon style Plato writes about a utopia like state in The Laws called Magnesia 4 classes not communist or equal - many strange things same as Utopia - education taught through play - very detailed rules In many ways it's different from the state he proposes in The Republic e.g different roles for men and women 83psychic.htm By: Matthew Manning - an incredible book about Poltergheists 80 synopsis/mediums.htm Books About Mediums : Doris Stokes and Betty Shine a detailed analysis 80theMysteriesfromForgottenWorlds.htm 75supernature.htm Supernature By: Lyall Watson 1973 incredible, establishment says supernatural doesn't exist cos it can't be explained ..he explains (not mickey mouse) 80fukuoka.htmThe One Straw Revolution A brilliant philosophy about Doing everything with nature (not just agriculture) this simple way is best. The world has been blinded by science. Very impressive 70OrganicGardening.htm 60 The philosophy gym : 25 short adventures in thinking by Law, Stephen. Also v good The Philosophy Files 60savages.htm 60desertroyal.html 55Princess.htm 50anevilcradling.htm 50FPbono.htm 50IslamtheStraightPath.htm 45stupidwhitemen.htm Michael Michael Moore 2003 I really like his philosophies, but this book is a bit disappointing 45ufobook.htmThe government's man says they do exist 40gypsies.htmA real insight into gypsy life in the USA 40acrosschina.htm travel to Tibet, Everest, Mongolia 40sonsofthemoon.htm 30columbine.htm otherreviews.htm See also non-fiction writers : Edward de Bono (lateral thinking), Desmond Morris (Anthropology), Charles BirchSee also synopsis and analysis of some books dmorris1.htm The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris BOOK6HAT.htm 6 Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono birch1.htm Confronting The Future by Charles Birch - critism of modern capitalism mediums.htm Books About Mediums : Doris Stokes and Betty Shine a detailed analysis aykbourn.htmAlan Ayckbourn's Playwriting Technique huxley-a.htm The Art of Seeing by Aldous Huxley (give up your glasses) Analysis of Anarchism From-The Anarchist Reader by George Woodcock Some quick notes : Silva Mind Control, How to Advertise, Food of the Gods - Terence McKenna , Alien abduction And for more serious information look out for good documentaries on British TV and BBC radio 5, 4, World Service. e.g. Horizon, Correspondent and Time Team

Travel/Guides --- 85vagabondUSA.htm - the best travel book ever written 80indiafile.htm 53wholestory.htm 45pillars_theroux.htm 45journeywithoutmaps.htm - Graham Greene in West Africa 40sonsofthemoon.htm

LATEST NOTES See also these databases : Best Authors --- Singapore --- Recommended 11/10/2005 searching google for "greatest books", reveals this good list