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Browsing Public Domain Books / Most Favorites / Page 2. Sci-Fi Lists - Top 100 Sci-Fi Books. The Very Best Books I've Read in 2010 // Brainsturbator. I have dozens of projects and I neglect them all. This year, my biggest victim has been Brainsturbator, once the focus of my daily life, now mostly a museum to who I was four years ago. I am many things to many people, but there’s one constant: I read a couple hundred pages a day, minimum. So as we approach to end of 2010, I wanted to share some of my very highest reading recommendations with you fine folks… A Terrible Mistake, by HP Albarelli. Although this list is technically in alphabetical order, this also happens to be my number one draft pick. There have been a lot of interesting books written about the shared history of LSD and the CIA, but all of them have been very incomplete. In the end, what’s most impressive about A Terrible Mistake is how much history it was not able to cover.

After the New Economy, by Doug Henwood. The majority of my reading in the past year has been in Economics, shaped by a couple new jobs that required me to become a fake expert in the field. . , Castle. The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit) Recently, someone asked Reddit for a list of the best science fiction books of all time. Being a fan of sci-fi, and wanting to expand my own reading list, I thought it would be helpful to tally the results and preserve them here for future reference.

I've also included selected quotes from the comments, as well as my own notes on the books I've already read. PS: All book images in this post are copyright Amazon, and were retrieved using my Big Book Search Engine. So, without further ado, here are the Greatest Sci-Fi Books of All Time, ordered by upvote count: Dune Frank Herbert - 1965 "There's a reason it's the global top selling science fiction book of all time. " - NibblyPig If you have a chance, track down the excellent full cast audiobook (unabridged!) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams - 1979 "I really love the cool combination of humor, philosophy, and sheer nuttiness of the entire series. " - Scarbrow Ender's Game Orson Scott Card - 1985 Foundation Trilogy Isaac Asimov - 1942. Find books on Goodreads. Sacred Books of the East Index.

Sacred-texts home Hinduism Taoism Confucianism Buddhism Jainism Islam ZoroastrianismBuy CD-ROM Buy books: Sacred Books of the East Table of ContentsIndex of TranslatorsTransliteration TablesAvailable reprints The Sacred Books of the East (SBE) series, comprising fifty volumes, was issued by the Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910. It has translations of key sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam.

The series was edited by the famous linguist and scholar of comparative religion, Max Müller. This series was the one of the inspirations for the sacred-texts website. NEW: The SBE is complete As of September 2008, we have now reached a key milestone, completing and posting substantial etexts of all of the original 49 volumes of the SBE. The difficulties of turning these books into etexts were enormous, and required great care and diligence. However, there are compelling reasons to revisit these books. Transliteration Tables. Print - The 75 Books Every Man Should Read. Wikibooks. Free-eBooks.net | Download free Fiction, Health, Romance and many more ebooks. Library of Congress Home.

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