Your best book recommendations

[4tuna]

Hi all,

I am starting a new job where I will be commuting about 30 minutes each way on public transportation, and am trying to compile a list of reading material. So tell me:

What is the best book you have read in the last several years?

Responses can be on any topic - project management, engineering, business, getting ahead, life lessons, etc., --but really try to select only the best and limit your response to one or two books.

Thanks in advance

4tuna

 

[BigH]

I say that Patrick Robinson's books: Kilo Class, Nimitz Class, USS Seawolf. Great novelist.

 

[jheidt2543]

Steven Ambrose's "Undaunted Courage", a biography of the Lewis and Clark expedition gets a big vote from me.

 

[StephenA]

Fermat's Last Theorem by Andrew Wiles is an amazing story and well worth reading

StephenA

 

[GeoPaveTraffic]

"Who moved my Cheese" by Spencer Johnson, Kenneth H. Blanchard. It is a short book, only worth a day or so of commuter reading, but it is a book that everyone should read at least once a year.

 

[bltseattle]

Consider "Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way we Make Things" by William McDonough & Michael Braungart. This book provides a unique persepective on how designers, engineers, and architects can effect postive societal/environmental change through thoughtful designs.

 

[Fizzhead]

4tuna

Try out Ken Follet's "Pillars of the Earth". Great novel and has some interesting information about early cathedral construction (ok, this may fall into the realm of "esoteric").