Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro
Has anyone read any of the books from this list?

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ad...ooks_1-19.html
I've read quite a few of them. And there are some really great ones they left off. I'm partial to Savage Arena, a truly gut-churning account of high-altitude climbing. Another personal fave is The Sex Lives of Cannibals, which is a both deeply funny and nauseating.

Most of the ones from that list that I've read are the "classics." The newer books, not so much.

P.S.: I just finished Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and I'm a shaved marmoset if I can figure out why it won so many awards. Kinda like how out of all the wonderful Graham Greene books, they teach kids The Heart of the Matter, the only one he wrote without a trace of humor. What is it about unrelenting grimness and awards?