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[edit] AskMe's Soliciting book recommendations
[edit] especially loved AskMes of the broadest sort
- universal books
- how did you find your favorite book?
- what single book is the best introduction to your field
- vacation reading, but not too light
- perfect non fiction books
- books every girl should read (and the ultimate result of the question)
- books for boys
- great books more great books
- a novel from every country
- fantastic books for 2007 for 2006
- all time favorites
- must reads
- a book everyone should read, and why
- what was the first book you read you really loved two or three you really loved
- what books keep you in bed
- What books do you need to have read to live without regret
- what recent books of poetry have meet the most to you
- what books have influenced you the most
- a fiction book a week
- fill my bookshelves
- books with small, intense followings
- funny books for a new mom
[edit] Non-fiction
- the best written non-fiction more
- on indolence
- oddball topics
- books which bust myths
- what books defined your generation
- books which contradict a field
[edit] Science & Math
- modern evolutionary theories
- global warming skeptical
- history of science
- environmental science
- math reference, including integrals
- eugenics
- on unexplained phenomena
- other solar systems
- names of animals in multiple languages
- latest advances in physics
- science for non scientists
- quantum physics and metaphysics
- consciousness
- birds
- religion science & nature
- consciousness
- cognitive science
- Improving higher math (calculus, linear albegra, vectors etc)
- basic math (up through single variable calculus) more remedial math
- linguistics
- textbook on probability & statistics
- approaching the mathematics field from an engineering background
- make kids think like mathematicians
[edit] introduction to ...
- ...statistics
- ...physics
- ...quantum physics again
- ...physics and math
- ...evolution
- ...calculus
- ...math after algebra
- ...science for children
[edit] Travel
- UK travel guide
- off the road more traveled
- women traveling alone
- travel, in the broadest sense
- best travel guide
[edit] Philosophy & religion
- atheism
- Deism and Unitarian Universalism
- formal logic
- religion and theology
- a guide to classical philosophy
- semiotics
- non canonical texts
- Buddhism
[edit] History, Politics & Sociology
- Ancient Civilizations
- prehistory
- disasters, perhaps nautical
- Russia
- the Cuban revolution
- international arms trade
- of the Persian Gulf
- modern east Asia
- early Christianity
- Roman history more rome yet more City life in ancient Rome
- Europe since the Renaissance
- world history
- international relations
- suffering unfortunates
- Jewish law again history of Jewish conspiracy theories
- non western cross cultural exchange
- the biases of history books history books which, taken collectively, will balance biases
- the British constitution
- narrative history
- books that explore a subculture
- nomadic cultures
- niche history
- alternative history
- social science, with a Canadian focus
- best history books
- Japanese history, pre 1900
- atlas
- France Napoleon french revolution Napoleonic France
- how people are shaped by culture
- non-US perspectives on US Culture
- Edwardian era
- social enterprise
- about mexican-americans
- knitting together Keynes, Weber, Kant & Hohfeld
- discussing the idea of a four-day working week
- Marijuana and American Culture
- relationship of colour to social and cultural trends
- network theory and social network theory
- American Indian law
- history and causes of Sri Lankan conflict
- basic geographical and cultural knowledge
- histories of places
[edit] Post 1900
- the rise of the Nazis
- World War II
- Japanese Perspective of World War Two
- Yugoslavia in the 1990s
- the interwar period american popular culture in the interwar period
- history of space travel
- the cold war
- the Falklands war
[edit] The United States
- a book on every president
- an American history reading list
- American history to 1850
- everyday life during the American Revolution
- light US history
- Mexican-American war
- the gilded age
- US political polemics
- the new left in the 1960s more 60s
- US presidential elections
- US foreign relations
- native americans and their culture
- some US event 1850-1929
- US demographics
- american political history to supplement constitutional law
- 19th century Native American history
- the Lewis and Clarke expedition
- asylums in the US
[edit] Biography
- Ataturk
- Charlemagne
- Oriana Fallaci
- Laurel and Hardy
- Langston Hughes
- Howard Hughes
- John Locke
- Suzanne Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, a.k.a. "Mademoiselle Nation"
- Trotsky
- US presidents or american politicians Franklin Delano Roosevelt Abraham Lincoln James Madison and James Monroe
- sports biographies about a figure skater
- biographies, perhaps of women
- gritty rock biographies
- creative people working in the arts or sciences
- autobiography
- biographies generally
- unique/offbeat biographies Quirky, current autobiography
- Diaries
- memoirs focused on food or travel (2005) (2004)
[edit] Business, economics & investment
- leadership and problem solving
- negotiation
- interviewing
- job hunt
- like the cluetrain manifesto
- business books which talk about business reality
- books about specific jobs
- like Memo from David O. Selznick
- the recording industry
- how to be a copy editor
- dog whispering at work
- personal MBA
- time management
- project management (that isn't IT related)
- social enterprise, social entrepreneurship and the Fourth Sector
- cause and effect relationships for investors
- e-business textbook
- how to become a successful salesman
- sales process development
- marketing
- IMF & the World Bank
- macroeconomics
- the "biography" of businesses
- for a new manager
- the gobal economy
[edit] small business
- essentials for the small business owner
- how to break out to your own business
- how to run a grocery store
- start your own business
[edit] investment & finance
- finance for beginners
- introduction to economics and quantitative finance
- Finance, funds and investment
- classic investment books
- learn banking in a week
- personal investment
[edit] Life, Health & medicine
- exercise journal
- weight training
- first aid
- living unhealthfully as healthfully as possible
- clinical psychology
- divorcing your family
- sex! (no accessories please)
- for a reluctant mom
- meth users
- bringing western medicine to the developing world
- parenting more parenting
- mothers and teen-aged daughters (oy) more for people who suddenly become guardians
- nutrition
- a medical book which would be interesting in a first edition
- how to interpret my dreams
- self help self still needs help still needing help self help books with bad advice
- regaining emotional intelligence
- for a marriage on the rocks
- Good Anatomy books for MRI students
- bereavement
- dating
- emotional intimacy for straight men
- self discipline
- meditation
- being a better person
- becoming pregnant
- diet and nutrition for a healthy pregnancy
- stop baby crying
[edit] Hobbies, sports & games
- sports sociology
- european football more socer american football
- boxing
- gardening
- drawing more
- go
- poker
- mad survival skillz more survival books for shut in computer nerds, MeFis sure are worried about the end of the world
- freshwater fish
- home repair
- a medical dictionary
- Howto books
- Red Sox
- leading small groups
- chess and the mathematics of chess
- yoga
- pilates
- small amusement parks
- knots
[edit] Food, drink & cooking
[edit] Cookbooks
- single reference (which isn't The Joy of Cooking)
- vegan vegetarian
- the perfect cookbook
- Mediterranean/Persian
- Ethiopian/Eritrean/North African
- best for technique and theory
- for children (and metric too)
- Asian
- light recipes
- The 10 books every cook should own
[edit] Technology
- web design web development web design CSS html web design
- C# and web services
- ActionScript
- digital circuit design
- excel and access
- networking
- tech for non-techies
- online culture
- computer hardware
- computer books
- iPod
- php and mySQL
- computer science reading list
- submarines
- SGML
- audio editing
- cold fusion
- C++
- simple electronics
- user interface design
- my Canon 350D
- XML
- Flash CS3
- Adobe Premiere Pro 7.0
- usability for web and software applications
- academic books on video games
- php
- the PIC microprocessor (geekout!)
[edit] Design
- a book by Edward Tufte
- faucet design
- visionary architecture or urbanism
- essential typography books more
- best book on graphic design
- industrial design
- photos of pre 20th century living spaces
- infographics
- universal design, suitable for a teenager
[edit] the arts & education
- about Postmodernism
- rock music
- theory of 70s & 80s popular music
- architecture
- writing non-fiction
- writing non-fiction and children's books
- writers on writing
- improving creative writing
- becoming a better student
- copyright free etchings
- prepping for the GRE before taking the LSAT
- writers and alcohol
- books about comic books
- the protagonist
- the relationship between books and films
- painting with oils
- music theory more music
- fashion and style
- graphic novels more graphic novels Graphic novel form of Paradise Lost
- medieval tapestry
- analysis of Beethoven's symphonies and other classical works
- the basics of the Narrative Theory/Narratology
- Phoenix (the bird)
- reference books for fashion designers
- astronomy textbook
- history of fine arts photography
- textbook on copyright
- historical or anthropological studies of fiction
- books of street photography
- listing old movies
[edit] language
[edit] poetry
- getting started with poetry more beginners still starting out make a normal dude like poetry
- an introduction to english poetry
- brazilian poetry
- combining art and poetry
- some good modern poets
- who averages Neruda and Longfellow
- poetry which uses found language
- how to read poetry
- poems for a wedding more wedding verse to match brides Neruda
- prosody
- lift the curse, give light verse
- for someone who likes virgil note, not this guy
- sprung rhythm
- poetry magazines
- german anti nazi poetry
[edit] poems about...
- ...migraines or chronic pain
- ...secrets or hidden places
- ...US Independence day
- ...an incorrect URL
- ...food or eating
- ...university life
- ...getting older
- ...christmas
- ...grandmothers
- ...the moon
- ...tragedy
- ...death
[edit] Fiction
- healing and relationships, or Armageddon
- isolated survivalism
- the great Australian novel
- stories about radical personal change
- the opposite of Atlas Shrugged
- fiction series written over 25 years
- by australians
- in which the protagonist dies unexpectedly (hmmm, don't know how unexpected it will be now)
- quirky storylines
- best of modern, serious fiction
- books to induce a non reader to read
- smart adventure, not too much narrative or character
- joyful participation in the sorrows of the world
- characters who sacrifice themselves for the common good
- fiction that all Americans know
- the depressing 21st century
- like the princess bride
- to help accept death and loss
- about the day of the dead or plantation life in the west indies
- people and animals
- not focused on love
- the subconcious
- novels to kick start a brain
- science and literature, postwar
- examining the marginal
- fiction
- straight fiction, no sex
- family friendly books
- fantastic narrative adventure fiction
- impostors
- funny, written before 1900
- about a birthday
- life changing short stories
- escape and survival
- Squirrely firstperson narratives
- philosophical fiction
- living in a condo
- Cornwell, Banks, Brookmyre, Rankin ... like Muriel Spark
- summer reading 2005 more
- to go with Carnivale
- math and fiction
- good translations
- annotated books
- about unrequited love
- the exploration of knowledge
- books with good movie adaptations
- the literary equivalent of the road movie
- including the rituals of housekeeping or cooking
- holding out for a hero (late 1700s - 1800s, swashbuckling a must)
- things like Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series
- with a wintry feel
- centered on online communication
- a good story
- trashy
- exciting, thrilling, unputdownable pageturners more pageturners
- stories of survival more survival novels
- prejudice and concealed identities
- dense historical genre
- christmas stories
- literary adventure stories
[edit] Fiction concerning specific characters
- gay male fiction
- with pitiful but sympathetic villains
- what it's like to be an attractive person in US or European society
- about journalists journalists behaving badly
- satisfied loners as main characters
- about people aged 25-35
- books where the narrator has mental disabilities
- starring real people
- about people without technology
- about 20-something hipsters
- stateless characters
[edit] Fiction: Crime / Mystery / Noir
- Russian book noir
- mysteries
- spy novels, like Len Deighton or John Le Carré
- detective/horror crossover
- classic crime & noir fiction
- classic mysteries that play fair with the reader
- cozy mysteries
- non-gory, like Sarah Caudwell
[edit] Fiction: Historical
- great post-WW II American novels
- cold war spies
- historical fiction where characters stick to their principles
- historical fiction
- war
- about the irish
- historical fiction with subtle monsters
- historical fiction
- historical fiction (convoluted, anachronistic, sprawling, adventuresome)
- prehistoric times
- with pirates
[edit] not in english
- in Russian
- in French popular books in french (french-french, not french canadian NOT QUBECCOIS-IST)
- in spanish easy spanish tough teens, in spanish
- French science fiction
- in modern chinese
[edit] women
- hen lit (40+ year old women have well written hot sex)
- with pregnant characters
- womens fiction for a real man
- by the McSweeney's womens auxiliary
- about excellent women
[edit] our sensitive MeFis
[edit] Science fiction & Fantasy
- science fiction or fantasy set on Earth
- artificial intelligence
- about the last man on earth or just a few men left more Apocalyptic
- cyberpunk, less car chases unconditional cyberpunk steampunk
- epic sci-fi more epics
- bumbling wizards
- suspense & horror yikes! eek!
- science fiction for a book club
- disaster books
- retold fairy tales
- shadows
- thrillers
- dark sci-fi
- sci fi with good story lines
- zombies mmmm brains
- in the arctic
- like Dune or Left Hand of Darkness
- intro to sci fi
- post singularity
- sci fi with a religious tint
- colonies rebel against earth
- for an esl student
- sexy science fiction
- time travel
- fantasy books for people who dont like fantasy books
- general sci fi questionsmore still moremore
- that a Clive Barker fan would like
- plot and character driven sci-fi
- sci-fi accurately depicting the scientific process
- sci-fi by mainstream authors
- sci-fi for people who don't like sci-fi
- speculative fiction
- where signals are sent into the past
- without sexual violence
- the early stuff
- grand space operas
- canadian, dystopian science fiction
[edit] ...but not just any fiction
- with alternating narration
- epistolary novels more epistolary comic books
- condemned by the Vatican
- with characters from other books
- set in blackletter
- short but great
- independent scenes combine to a coherent whole. Or, failing that, funky punctuation
- with unreliable narrators
- written by a celebrity under an alias
- with the most swears
- second person narratives
- with titles in the form of a question
- with lots of US slang
- by women
- by autistic authors
- finishable
- well-developed people of colour
- with two heros
- long books
[edit] for a book club
- book club
- themed sets of books for a book club
- Catholic parish
- for a book club on the verge of dissolution
- vaguely holiday related
- young adult, fantasy
- maybe a female author?
[edit] for kids
- grown up books for kids
- sex ed for the preschool set
- absolutely favorite kids book
- big concepts, little people
- Pour les enfants
- classics for a four year old
- children's books converted to song
- what novels are on the middle school syllabus
- concerning twins
- scared straight for 9 year old liars
- book series
- historical fiction, to support history class
- animals
- illustrated books for a two year old
- like noisy outlaws for a 12 year old
- real life adventure for a 12 year old
- mysteries for a 13 year old
- great cities of the world
- for a 10 year old with a learning disability
- to make a mommas boy
- India for kids
- great books to read in high school
- Russian fairytales for a 4 year old
- pagan stories for a 6 year old
- chapter books for a 5 year old
[edit] ...specifically female kids
- 9 year old girl
- poetry for an 8 year old girl
- womens lives for a 12 year old girl
- girls as main character
- what comic book character to name a daughter after
- the dangerous book for boys for girls
[edit] by reading circumstance
- at the beach still at the beach on a desert island (technically, still at the beach)
- after work
- for a two year old on an airplane
- during a peace corps stint
- on the plane still in the air
- to bring on deployment to the desert
- vacation more
- audiobooks for a commute
[edit] Of a certain age
- sex ed from the 1950s
- space books from the 1970s
- Spanish anarchist adventure stories from the 1930s
- best novels by decades
- DIY books from the 1950s
[edit] As gifts, by recipient
- for an architect
- for a 16 year old attention whore
- for a soon to be grieving preteen
- French language books for intermediate students of French
- for a 19 year old who likes Tom Clancy
- for a teenager who has asked about vegetarianism
- for mom, but not too deep, not too fluffy
- for a retiree, to keep her busy
- to a person of faith, to subvert same
- children's book collection for expectant mom
- for a retiring professor
- someone smart but physically deteriorating
- for someone with ADD
- to help learn English
- for an elderly aunt
- a non fiction book for someone you don't really know
- for someone who doesn't like to read
- for eighth graders, as a prize
- for someone who got fired
- for a samurai movie fan
- for gay teens black gay teens
- poetry for an 8 year old
- for someone who likes history
[edit] About or taking place in
- Los Angeles
- Sacramento, California
- New York City
- New York (so good they asked it twice)
- Seattle
- San Francisco
- the USA, suitable for a first year university class studying the contemporary US
[edit] Looking for things not found in a book
[edit] Libraries
- Foreign books in New York
- libraries with audiobooks
- reading at libraries vs. at home
- library software
- using your library
- borrowing books online
- a low tech anti-theft device
[edit] Buying & selling
- in paperback yet?
- first editions
- selling used textbooks
- cheap books online
- book search with price comparison
- cheap online books for Australians
- out of print books
- selling a basement full of books
- book releases
- getting alerts when an specific author publishes a new book
- book sales figures
- donate books for a good cause
- selling baseball books
- valuing old books
- grouping secondhand booksellers to minimize shipping
- book trading sites
- selling 10 year old text books
- selling books online
- selling vintage books
- swapping obscure books
[edit] Bookstores in ...
- sell used literary fiction books in LA
- bookstores in Philadelphia
- bookstores in Seattle
- books in Waco, Texas
- rare book dealers in Mississippi
- new york, especially poetry cheap comic books in NYC
- graphic novels in sci fi
- Chicago, with good poetry sections
- buying and selling used books in London
- denver
[edit] The trials of book ownership
- deoderizing a book getting rid of that musty book smell
- de-molding books more
- the bittersweet feeling of finishing a good book
- sobering up a book remarkably, more
- the problem with scary books...scared readers
- storing moist books
- book vs. baby
- book mites
- distracted by my nose
- dirty books in the library, makes you sick dirty
- a dirty book
- why do bookstores make me poop
[edit] Questions about specific books or authors
- what to do after reading dune
- has Finnegans Wake ever been translated?
- Name of the Rose? I don't remember a rose
- Quicksilver. WTF? Stephensons Baroque Cycle more Stephenson
- John McPhee's Coming into the Country, where are they now?
- My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist
- desert solipism
- Finnegan's wake
- Jane Austin's redactions more redactions
- the philosophy of Charlie Brown
- books about atonement to contrast with atonement
- about Wittgenstein (that about which you cannot speak, thereupon you should be silent)
- help with patrick o'brian vocabulary
- is JK Rowling trying to subvert the established order?
- david foster wallace do you read the footnotes
- life of pi. whats the deal?
- the purpose driven life
- best translator of Rilke
- e e cummings for middle schoolers
- Borges, in english, online
- Vonneguts "Rumfoords"
[edit] where to start with...
- ...Dickens
- ...Slavoj Zizek
- ...Peter Handke
- ...Thomas Bernhard
- ...John Irving
- ...Philip K Dick
- ...Vonnegut
- ...Kant
- Brownings the Ring and the Book
- ...Paul Celan
- ...Bukowski
[edit] other sources of book recommendations
- magazines covering non fiction
- book websites more still more did I mention the web sites? allmusic for books websites for children's book reviews poetry blogs literary blogs
- international favorite books
- foolproof book recommendations
- websites
- queer sci-fi website plain old sci fi
- blogs that review non fiction books
- guide to Project Gutenberg
- websites exploring the fringes of comic book culture
- international best seller lists best sellers by genre
- like Frederic Raphael's list of books
- how do you keep up with new books?
[edit] ?
- how to run a book club for kids
- how to scan a book
- where to sign or inscribe a book
- literary criticism websites
- mounting a paperback in a shadow box
- first vs. later editions
- books vs movies based thereon
- interesting mailer for a book
- pacing ones self while reading
- preventing cracked spines
- favorite small publishers
- ebooks
- API to get metadata from ISBN
- how to donate books to US soldiers
- requesting audio books (for a disabled person)
- christmas lit
- getting rid of books
- how to organize a library
- what do you call the stuff people leave in books?
- novel plots in two sentences
- an english major hates the canon
- a list of novel plots?
