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I've got Fight Clubon My list I really love the movie so now that I realized it's a book I'd love to read that. Happy Early Birthday :)

Zero, The Story of Japan's Air War in the Pacific-as Seen by the Enemy: I'm trying to write something based on aviation history, for nanowrimo. This book was authored, in part, by one of the all time great aeronautical engineers, Jiro Horikoshi.

The Right Stuff: I loved the movie, as a kid.

Why the West Rules - for Now: A /r/askhistorians recommended read.

From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pear Harbor: One of the books that informed Mad Men.

Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles: I'm a musician.

Living with the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia and the Grateful Dead: I'm a musician.

DisneyWar: I find Hollywood fascinating.

Painting With Light: I love film photography.

Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime: The Soviet Union was a fascinating bit of history - so much political drama and socioeconomic engineering but still with de facto Tsars.

[Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict]http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EGJ7L8U/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=3P6ROMQS808NO&coliid=I1EIIL7QDPI54R): Another /r/askhistorians recommendation.

The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past: Another /r/askhistorians recommendation.

The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World): Another /r/askhistorians recommendation.

I was a total girly-girl at your daughter's age, and LOVED The Secret Garden at her age. Would Coraline be too scary for her?

For your son, 6th grade is when I discovered Ender's Game and got WAY into the Star Trek novels. Franchise books tend to be pretty clean, would he be interested in the Star Wars novels?

Horns

Awesome contest, thanks!

The Joss is a creepy 19th century novel by the guy who wrote The Beetle, which was one of the best (and most obscure) things I read this year. It's so weird that the author is largely unknown know. In his day, he outsold Stoker's Dracula.

Alright, I'll have to go with... 1984. This is a great idea!

I would love to get a copy of Looking for Alaska which is only 2.50 right now. Of course, if the price goes up on it I will edit this.

Off the top of my head, I would have to say Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris. It's written in the first person plural, yet manages not to be distracting. It also captures what it feels like to work in a floundering office environment.

LEMONY SNICKETS: A Series of Unfortunate Events. I have been reading these books to my daughter. She loves them. She wants to read them as soon as she learns how. They arent fairy tales or anything with a happy ending. But they are a fun read with explanations for certain phrases or words. I actually enjoy reading them as well. We just started on book 3 of 13. Super fun series.

> Dear Reader,

> I'm sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe. From the very first page of this book when the children are at the beach and receive terrible news, continuing on through the entire story, disaster lurks at their heels. One might say they are magnets for misfortune.

> In this short book alone, the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, and cold porridge for breakfast.

> It is my sad duty to write down these unpleasant tales, but there is nothing stopping you from putting this book down at once and reading something happy, if you prefer that sort of thing.

> With all due respect,

> Lemony Snicket

Feed (Newsflesh Book 1) by Mira Grant##

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The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED.

Now, twenty years after the Rising, Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives-the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will out, even if it kills them.


FEED is the electrifying and critically acclaimed novel of a world a half-step from our own---a novel of geeks, zombies, politics and social media.