I recently received a gift card and am wondering what are some books worth picking up? I'm going to read Nate Silver's book, but am really interested in what everyone else reads. It can be anything from plays to graphic novels. I'll start:
1. Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose is a really good WWII documentary about paratroopers, it even comes with photos and HBO did a really good job making it into a miniseries.
2. Generation Kill by Evan Wright, another war documentary (also done by HBO) but it concerns the most recent Iraq war from beginning to the first 3 weeks or so.
3. A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin
4. Moneyball by Michael Lewis, details the cyber metric aspect of baseball (which I love), it follows the Oakland A's in the early 2000's.
5. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaardner, a great introduction into philosophy and philosophers with an okay story behind it.
Honorable Mention would Stephen Colbert's and Jon Stewarts books