Good book suggestion for winter read list

[Highlands Hunter]

Bows on the Little Delta
By Glenn St. Charles

 

[longspeak74]

Anything by Cormac McCarthy. Big fan of Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire being a favorite.
Solace of Open Spaces is a great read.
Watership Down also a classic.

 

[*zap*]

alas babylon

 

[ODB]

Bows on the Little Delta
By Glenn St. Charles

What a great book. Used to hang out at NW Archery all the time when I lived near there. Awesome people.

 

[NealS02]

Undaunted Courage - Stephen Ambrose
Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper (way different than the movie)
Boone - Robert Morgan
American Serengeti - Dan Flores

 

[bigv]

I hope they serve beer in hell.

Cause it’s funny.

I almost died reading that. Not sure I have ever laughed that hard! Raunchy and horrible but f'ing hilarious!

 

[Mtncowboy]

Jack O'Connor (The Lost Classics and all his other books)
Charles Sheldon (The Wilderness of Denali, and others)
Alaska and Me by Billy Molls

 

[jengland03]

The Bear Hunter – James T. McCafferty​

Is a fascinating read. Especially for those with ties to the Mississippi Delta.

 

[medvedyt]

Jack O'Connor (The Lost Classics and all his other books)
Charles Sheldon (The Wilderness of Denali, and others)
Alaska and Me by Billy Molls

wilderness of the upper Yukon is a must from Sheldon to any sheep hunters. interesting to read the gear it was taking with him ...

 

[4570neal]

CJ Box series, he writes about a game warden in Wyoming. Once you start it, you can’t put them down

 

[BishBeCool]

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

 

[RS_Non-Res]

Early American Frontier Historical Novels. I put together this matrix of 6 titles by Allan W. Eckert (1931-2011) a little while back. Thought I would post its here before I reformat my hard drive. First some generalized comments about his work...Sorry about the table formatting...

Well documented historical narrative

Fictional accounts with accurate historical references,

Exceptional detail

Book was so full of historical names, people, bio's, etc. that for me, I'd got more bogged down with historical information, than a good story

Totally engrossing and nearly impossible to put down.

Author attempts to treat both the American Indians and the British fairly.

Be prepared to be shocked at some scenes described in this book, but they are part of our history.

Lurid portrayals of massacres highlight the narrative. Sobering. Unvarnished

Pulitzer Prize nominee (6x) author...all 6 of his 600 plus page novels.

Title	Time frame	topic	Where	Who
Frontiersmen	Mid 1700's	Settling of the Trans-Allegheny Frontier	WV, KY, MI, OH, IN, IL	Kenton, Tecumseh
Wilderness Empire	Late 1700 early 1800s	French and Indian War	MI, OH, IN, IL, PA, MO	Sir William Johnson (English), France, Iroquois League
Conquerers	1762 to 1764	English claim to former French territory, Pontiac's uprising	PA, MI, WI	English soldiers, traders, and settlers, Pontiac
Wilderness War	1745 to 1763 to 1780	Pre-Revolution Expansion, last years of the Iroquois Confederation, and first years of the American nation.	NY, PA, NJ	British, American Revoluionists, Seneca Valley Indians, Thayendanegea, Sir William Johnson
That Dark and Bloody River	Late 1700 early 1800s	Western expansion into the Ohio River Valley	WV, KY, OH, IN, IL	Boone, Brady, Greathouse, Kenton, Tecumseh, Blue Jacket, Shawnee
Twilight of Empire	1804 to 1832	Claiming the Upper Mississippi	IL, WI	Black Hawk, White Cloud, Fox, Sauk, Sac, Pottawatomie

 

[Beendare]

Looking at some of the reading list here my best books recently probably won’t be Hits,

Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Vergase the medical ethics professor at Stanford,
His other book, the covenant of water I don’t think is quite as good

Verity, by colleen - - -

Remain by Nick sparks and M Night Shamalan was good, weird love story, if you really want to get on your wife’s good side, take her to see the movie that’s coming out sometime later this year

Coup d’etat by Ben Coes is a good one for this crowd, it’s a along the lines of a Mark greeny or Vince Flynn book

 

[stoneag]

Revenant and Ridgeline by Michael Punke. I didn't care for the movie version but have really enjoyed the book. Ridgeline is also a great historical fiction.

 

[North of 60]

Atlas Shrugged for a prescient novel on the world.

A Confederacy of Dunces if you want to laugh and laugh.

 

[919Brad]

Dang. Tons of good suggestions. There are times in camp when you just need a good laugh to go along with a tall bourbon.

"I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell." -Tucker Max

PS - Skip the movie. It sucked.

 

[Shoot1000]

Just finished "Jim Bridger" by Jerry Enzler. Very well researched and written book covering Jim Bridger and the American west. Worth a look. View attachment 749016

Thank you. I’ll have to check it out.

 

[Beendare]

Atlas Shrugged for a prescient novel on the world.

That should be required reading in school. I think that’s when I first read it. It’s Long and a tad boring at times but the principles aren’t right on the money to this day. The scenarios conceived by Ayn Rand in Atlas shrugged is currently happening in California and in parts of Europe. Its a good primer on unintended consequences.

I used to hate history when I was a kid now I love it. The old saying of history repeats itself is so true.