Douglas W. Bowers


What I read



Fiction



In high school and college, I thought I would be the type of person who reads classics, and writes Pulitzer material that would be taught in universities. But I found that I could not get through a book unless it kept me energized. Books like Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, and Under the Dome would be the kinds of books I would race to get home from work to read. The kinds of books where I fight to keep my eyes open to keep reading late at night. The closest I came to feeling that way about a classic was Bram Stoker's Dracula. It's not that I don't like the older works. But when I get a break and have a chance to read, and I choose to play a few rounds of Toon Blast instead of picking up where I left off reading Crime and Punishment, I have to ask myself if it is worth my time to keep going.



REcommendations



  • You Came Back, Christopher J. Coake
  • The Drexel Pierce novels, Patrick Kanouse
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy - Stieg Larsson
  • The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
  • Neuromancer, William Gibson
  • A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. LeGuin (I was young when I read this, so keep that in mind)
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
  • I Am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes
  • The Harry Potter Series, J. K. Rowlings
  • Dracula, Bram Stoker
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
  • The Martian, Andy Weir
  • Under The Dome, Stephen King
  • Hearts in Atlantis, Stephen King
  • 11/22/63, Stephen King
  • The Blofeld Trilogy, Ian Fleming
  • The Jack Reacher series, Lee Childs
  • The original Thrawn trilogy (from the early 1990's), Timothy Zahn
  • Dune, Frank Herbert (I also really like the prequels written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson)
  • The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
  • Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z, Max Brooks


NonFiction



Like fiction, I can only spare time for nonfiction books if there is something to grab me. Some historical, anthropological, and even financial books can keep me engrossed. There is one caveat on the financial books, though. After reading all of them, my big takeaways were to spend below my means, eliminate debt, and invest in index funds.



REcommendations



  • The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Franklin Covey
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
  • The Wars of the Roses, Anthony Goodman
  • Makes Me Wanna Holler, Nathan McCall
  • Beating the Street, Peter Lynch
  • The Intelligent Investor, Bejamin Graham
  • Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki
  • On Writing, Stephen King
  • The Bible, various (regardless of your faith, many books have good storytelling and are great examples of early Hebrew narrative cycles and Greek writing styles)




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