Recent Books you have enjoyed

[🏀]

The Stench of Honolulu

[Sir Lawrence]

If you've read historical fiction... I highly recommend Fall of Giants by Ken Follet (I'm sure you've read it though).

I'll second that, and add his sequel, Winter of the World.

Currently reading book one of the (non-fiction) Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy (by Edmund Morris):  The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.  Fascinating dude and a surprisingly good read. 

[Pakuni]

Crazy River by Richard Grant
Someone Could Get Hurt by Drew Magary

[🏀]

Someone Could Get Hurt by Drew Magary

+1

[LloydMooresLegs]

I'll second that, and add his sequel, Winter of the World.

Currently reading book one of the (non-fiction) Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy (by Edmund Morris):  The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.  Fascinating dude and a surprisingly good read. 

One of my favorite bios - and there are several good bios of TR. Much better than Dutch, which was so odd.

[LloydMooresLegs]

If you've read historical fiction... I highly recommend Fall of Giants by Ken Follet (I'm sure you've read it though).

Have read some Follet, but long ago and not that.  I will check it out- thanks.

[LloydMooresLegs]

Just read a couple of reviews and looks right up my alley.  Other favorites of the genre include Gods and Generals (of course) and Caleb Carr's The Alienist (and frankly, any well-written Guilded Age set thriller).

[MUeng]

Light at the Edge of the World.  Great book about vanishing cultures, lots of lessons to be learned

[forgetful]

It is an old book, but it is one that I think everyone should read and was just re-reading it.

Team of Rivals.

[LloydMooresLegs]

It is an old book, but it is one that I think everyone should read and was just re-reading it.

Team of Rivals.

+1,000

[reinko]

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes by David Grann

http://www.amazon.com/The-Devil-Sherlock-Holmes-Obsession/dp/0307275906

A mixture of true crime stories, great read.

[Steve Buscemi]

The Tender Bar is one any Wells St. alum would enjoy.

[Chicago_inferiority_complexes]

Detroit:  A autobiography

Sh*t My Dad Says

The Outsider:  Jimmy Connors memoire

Detroit: An Autobiography just came in the mail for me on Wednesday.

[Sunbelt15]

Atlas Shrugged was pretty interesting. I have to watch the movie now.

[wildbillsb]

THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST by Mohsin Hamid.  Political assassination thriller, believable love story, and modern political allegory all rendered in 200 pages.  Couldn't put it down.

[WellsstreetWanderer]

Istanbul Passage by Korner

  The War is over and most of the intrigue left is smuggling Jews into Palestine. I liken this to a Graham Greene thriller with plot twists and turns and a good foray into manners and morals of the place and time.
He also wrote "The Good German" which I thoroughly enjoyed

[brewcity77]

Reading and enjoying Dan Brown's Inferno right now. It follows the same premise as his other Langdon books, but like all of them is a great page-turner and has some interesting art history woven into the plotline.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Atlas Shrugged was pretty interesting. I have to watch the movie now.

Great book, not so great movie.

I'd recommend the Fountainhead, written more than a decade before Atlas Shrugged.  Also a book of fiction, but you may like it if you found Shrugged interesting. 

[Dr. Blackheart]

From Fr. Pilarz:

If you appreciate riveting nonfiction, I highly recommend The Hare with Amber Eyes by noted British ceramic artist Edmund de Waal. Decades after his wealthy, art-collecting Jewish family had nearly all of their possessions stripped from them by Nazi occupiers, he goes in search of their truths and traditions and finds them passed down through the tiniest of art objects.

My other recommendation is A Thousand Mornings, the new collection by Mary Oliver. The renowned poet treated a Marquette audience to a preview of the book in November during the reading she gave while here to receive an honorary degree. With their rare gift for capturing the rhythms and wonders of the natural world, the poems of this friend of Marquette are exceptional summer companions.

[77ncaachamps]

My girlfriend: ELEANOR AND PARK by Rainbow Rowell. She's really enjoying it.

Me: WHY WE BROKE UP by Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket). I'm enjoying it.

[Blackhat]

Went and purchased Fall of Giants and Hitler's War (alternative history).   Some good recommendations out there, enjoying Fall of Giants so far.   Detroit an Autobiography seems interesting too....A how-not-to story?

[Lennys Tap]

The Tender Bar is one any Wells St. alum would enjoy.

The Tender Bar was the hangout for a good friend of mine. He knew all the principal characters and had some great stories not in the book to add.

[CTWarrior]

Great book, not so great movie.

I'd recommend the Fountainhead, written more than a decade before Atlas Shrugged.  Also a book of fiction, but you may like it if you found Shrugged interesting.  

The worst movie made out of a great book is Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe.  The movie starred Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith and Bruce Willis and was unwatchable.

[Eldon]

A Random Walk Down Wall Street (8th edition, 2003)

This books is great.  I have yet to read a Non-random walk down wall street and I probably won't be able to for a while, unfortunately.

Keefe (and/or anyone else with finance experience), I'm curious to hear your take on the efficient markets hypothesis.  In economics departments across the US (world?), it is gospel, but I always like to hear the thoughts and opinions of those who are on the ground actually trying to put theory into practice.

Could it really be that Warren Buffet is simply a really lucky guy?  Are financial markets really akin to glorified coin-flipping contests?

[Steve Buscemi]

The Tender Bar was the hangout for a good friend of mine. He knew all the principal characters and had some great stories not in the book to add.

I can imagine.  The book was a joy to read.