I thought it would be nice to have a place where we could recommend good reads to eachother. They do not simply need to be related to economics although that is the bulk of my reading currently.

Seagull recommended a short story to my recently that I flew through in a couple sit downs...I enjoyed it.

"Stikeen"

I also read "Freakonomics" somewhat recently and liked it.

Another..."Confessions of a wall street analyst"

I am also about finished with a lance Armstrong bio
"Its not about the bike"

Another...

"The age of turbulence"

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Thanks daiello.

I am looking at learning financial modeling. I picked up a book by Simon Benninga on financial modeling, but I also heard Fabozzi has some helpful books in this area...any recommendations?

A novel that I read a few months ago that I liked was "King Rat" by Clavell.

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I am also very interested in forensic accouinting. I have subscription to jfa, but I would like to get recommendations to good books covering this topic....

Good recommendations would be appreciated.

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As advertised.....do you want a "cookbook" for implementing financial models into excel? You get it with Simon Benninga's "Financial Modeling" - I was so into it today, I barely pulled my head out of it, and when I did, it was to take a drink of water or play around with excel. It comes with a cd too.....

If you want to learn how to model like I do, then this is an excellent start imo. 3 days and I am most of the way through it (and its a loaded book), but I will be back through it many times to come, for reference....thumbs way up!

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Since you said that we should not limit ourselves to economics books, I would suggest "Childood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke. It is a book that I read when I was a teenager and has remained my favorite read over the years.

lol ok so since dinomo opened the door for early life lemme go way back >> 'the fir tree' by hans christian andersen, which changed the way i looked at christmas trees in a very big way and at a very young age!!!

Aha....books we loved in our younger years and may have had some influence on us.....wait, I am still in my younger years...lol - okay young-eeeeerrrrr years...

The first books that I really remember loving were "A Wrinkle In Time" by L'Engle & "Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn" by Twain, of course...

Then a little later I found myself really liking Steinbeck. Both "Of Mice and Men" & "The Grapes of Wrath" I also must say that I was certainly influened by JD Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" and Kerouac's "On the Road"...

Some of my personal favorites are the simple yet classic writings of...
~ Hemingway, "Snows of Kilimanjaro"

~ Franz Kafka, "Metamorphosis" being one...

~ My all-time favorite author.....yup, you guessed it, the late Kurt Vonnegut. "Cat's Cradle", "Sirens of the Titan", "Breakfast of Champions"

~ And with my whimsical sense of humor (you may have guessed this fella since my fav is Vonnegut).....a neighbor of mine, Mr. Tom Robbins - "Another Roadside Attraction", "Jitterbug Perfume", " Skinny Legs and All"

Of course I could go on and on with books and authors that I love.....and probably will from time to time...but these are certainly the ones that come to mind right now off the top of my head...

Happy Reading!

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ok so aside from story already listed as a real young one and maybe 'the little match girl' written by same author, the next book that had the most impact on me was 'broken wings' by khalil gibran ...

was locked up in my bedroom nursing my first heart hurt and this was a book that my mom went out and bought to help me mend it and it worked... so all you men with daughters may wanna keep this one in mind b/c most of us get to experience this 'rite of passage' at least once lol....

With two little girls, I know I will have to face this at some point because like you say, they will. Thanks for the resource! Will definitely remember it.

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