I am an avid reader, and love conspiracy related books of all sorts. Here's a few of my picks:

Club Dumas
the Alexandria Link
Angels and Demons

Non-Fiction:

Puzzel Palace
SpyChips
Inside the CIA

I forgot to also add "Inside the Tomb" about the Skull and Bones.

Here is a conspiracy book you may like - not fiction but fact. "Lies My teacher Told Me" - by James W. Loewen

It is one of my favorite books and years ago it first led me to search out the truth and find that many conspiracy theories were true. I am still on this journey of Truth and have never looked back.

It chronicles many of the falsehoods we are taught in school and attempts to explain why we are misled.

A simple example ( from memory) is Christopher Columbus. Ask most people who he is and they will tell you "He discovered America" Nothing could be further from the truth. He never got closer than the Caribbean islands. In contrast Leif Erickson did set foot on north American soil almost 500 years before Columbus. In fact Columbus carried maps of the North American continent with him when he sailed this way that were derived from knowledge that Erickson brought back with him. Other documents in Europe prove the Spaniards were well aware of the New Word and where it was located long before Columbus sailed on his voyage. Columbus was made out to be a hero but in fact he and his men were murderers who were almost responsible for the genocide of the Haitian people because he desired their gold, he worked them and tortured them like slaves until their deaths.

This is the true historical account and not taught to our children in schools.

If you read this I hope you enjoy it as much as I have :-)

anything by neil gaimen, espcially american gods. i read much more than most i believe... i read this about 4 years ago and nothing has it beat. neverwhere and also star dust by gaimen are also in my top 10

Most Harry Turtledove books. I love alternative history.

How about 'dark mission-the secret history of NASA' by Richard C. Hoagland?-Amazing!

Ellen Brown - Web of Debt
Carrol Quigley - Tragedy and Hope
G. Edward Griffin - The Creature From Jekyll Island
John Taylor Gatto - Dumbing Us Down
Zbigniew Brzezinski - The Grand Chessboard

Anything by A. L. Martinez

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.

Absolutely the funniest book I have ever read. By a longshot!

I read recently a Book, science fiction, by a Sci-Fi writer from Boston, Richard Bowes, the book was called "Time Rangers."

Another one I enjoyed was a diary like book by Andrew Garcia called "tough trip through paradise" about early pioneers in North America and how they existed w/ the First Peoples.

American Gods is also one of my favorite books.

I also love, love, loved "Generation Kill" by Evan Wright. Evan Wright is a journalist who was embedded with a Marine First Recon unit during the first thirty days or so of the Iraq War. It is extremely good and it can be appreciated no matter what your feelings on the war are. Wright also does a good job at keeping himself invisible and focusing on the soldiers.

"Libra" by Don Delilo also really tickled me. It's basically Lee Harvey Oswald historical fiction following him for childhood to his death. Interesting and a fun read if you like the subject.

The Phineas Poe trilogy by Will Christopher Baer. Weird and gritty neo-noir books. The second in the trilogy isn't great, but the others more than make up for it.

"World War Z" by Max Brooks. This is the be-all end-all of zombie books. Even if you have no interest in zombies, you should check this out because it's that good. Every chapter is an interview with a different person talking about their experiences during "the zombie war." The book is insanely thorough and meticulously researched.

"Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy is one of the most amazing books I've ever read. It's a very difficult read and the only book I can categorize as gratuitously violent. It has one of the scariest and most memorable characters ever: Judge Holden. The whole thing reads like a nightmare.

Fiction. Actually it's a trilogy by Stieg Larsson. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo/The Girl who Played with Fire/
The Girl who Kicked a Hornet's Nest. Contrary to the titles, they are not 'girly' books at all. All titles can be bought from Amazon.com. I have them as paperbacks and e-books.

I have more, but have to find the links.



Cheers.

Graphic Novels:
Alan Moore - From Hell
Manu Larcenet - Ordinary Victories
Art Spiegelman - Maus: A Survivor's Tale

Normal Books
Jack Kerouac - Dharma Bums, Desolation Angels, Big Sur,
(Tthere was an esquire article that described what men do or should do depending on different ages. somewhere, maybe age 24, they say that you should trade out Kerouac with Hemmingway. I have not read Hemmingway but the idea of saying farewell to Kerouac books is sad although I really can't finish Dr. Sax... ug (Kerouac is not for everyone though))

Just a few of my favorites:

Brave New World
1984
Naked Lunch (everything by Burroughs, actually)
A Clockwork Orange
Lord of the Rings (yes, I read it long before the movies came out)
Atlas Shrugged
The Wanting Seed
Tropic of Cancer
The Chronicles of Narnia
Fahrenheit 451
Slaughterhouse 5

There's too many to list, really but those are the first that come to mind. And pretty much anything relating to audio, audio recording and music composition.

If we're listing comic books, then the Sin City series is probably my favorite.


-TheAssoc.

Surpised that "Foucaults Pendulum" did not get a mention here on ATS. Catholicism, tenplars, black madonnas, stonehenge and all kinds of good stuff.