Done reading One Second After and sequel. Now??

[Tallbald]

I recently picked up again on reading novels for pleasure in the evenings. Just finished One Second After and the sequel, One Year After. Would like a few suggestions for another "what if" type of novel to pick up for entertainment. I considered Indian Country but am unsure. Maybe an alternate history novel about the Civil War or something? Or a good historical novel of say, 300-400 pages length.Hope it's something available on Amazon I could buy.
Thanks. Don.

 

[Paul B]

Try The Frontiersmen by Allen W. Eckert, the Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie or Centennial by Michener. Actually just about anything by Michener is good.
Paul B.

 

[Wyandot Jim]

Centennial by Michener. One of my favorites. I think if Michener would have written history book Kids would know history. My Daughter read it while in high school and loved it. Yea she read it over Christmas Break :wink:
Try Texas, and Chesapeake. well even Tales of The South Pacific was ok.

 

[Bear Paw Jack]

If you want to stay with a similar idea by William Forstchen Day of Wrath (Dies Irae) is excellent. It's a quick read. It's a what if that happens. I really like the way he thinks and believe he nails the premise. Moslems watch us very closely and attack where they see weakness.

 

[coach]

What no libraries handy? I’ve slacked off reading recently but my wife would read me into the poor house if she bought books. A Kindle for Christmas as well as an old Nook she has broadens the free reading possibilities. And you don’t even have to drive anywhere to get them. You won’t miss the “book experience” if you go digital. She still does all three depending on what’s available.

 

[one bullet]

You will really like the Patriot series of books by James Wesley Rawles. The first is "Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse". The second is "Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse. And the last one I read was "Founders: A Novel of the Coming Collapse". They were all excellent. Most public libraries have all three.

 

[Paul B]

Centennial by Michener. One of my favorites. I think if Michener would have written history book Kids would know history. My Daughter read it while in high school and loved it. Yea she read it over Christmas Break :wink:
Try Texas, and Chesapeake. well even Tales of The South Pacific was ok.

I have most of his books and from what history I've learned over the years while the characters may be fiction, the historical part seems to be correct.
On Centennial, I not only have the book, I have a copy of the mini series.
Another good author is Micheal Chrichton. I have a few of his books as well including Jurrasic Park and the sequel, The Lost World. One book of his, State of Fear while not quite up to his standards has a segment where one person explains how the government along with the collusion of the media and unscrupulous lawyer uses fear to control the population. Never has it been so conspicuous staring with the Obama administration continuing on down to where we are today. I'm thinking MC was trying to get a message out. I do believe I got the message.
Paul B.

 

[WMB30]

Undaunted Courage by Steven E. Ambrose

Bill

 

[6GUNSONLY]

Ever read "Alas, Babylon" by Pat Frank? Post nuclear-war novel written and set in the Cold War era. Quick read, but entertaining. I first read it in high school and loved it, have re-read it at least twice since then.

 

[Bear Paw Jack]

There are 11 books in the CJ Box (Joe Picket, Wyoming Fish and Game who ended up solving more crimes than the local sheriff so he wasn't that popular with the sheriff, for a reason) series. Excellent books. I really enjoyed the whole series. Makes more sense if you read them in order. I thought these were so good, I was disappointed when I finished. Wish there had been more.

 

[gramps]

W. E. B. Griffith’s series on the Military is good.
gramps

 

[gunzo]

I'll second, Allen Eckert's Frontiersmen. I'm not the most avid reader, but couldn't put this one down. Simon Kenton seems to have had as many, or more exploits than D. Boone. Strange, in that Boone was all we read or heard about of that era in the vicinity. At least five more sequels if you like first one.

 

[Tallbald]

These are great suggestions and I really appreciate them. As I soon visit a surgeon to see if it's time for me to have the total lumbar fusion I've been expecting for 6 years now, I'd better gather a library for my bedside. I actually prefer a paperback book to the electronic thingies now available. There's just something about folding a top corner over at my stopping place that takes me back to my youth. We do have a decent used paperback store here in town (unless it has closed up in the last few years) that was really well organized.
Thanks again everyone. Don.

 

[Cracker-American]

I really recommend the WEB Griffith military books. I have read the covers off my paperbacks. A warning. Give a pass to any of his books co-authored by his son; William Butterworlth. They are not only not as good as the fathers but so bad I can't finish them. Son came on board about five years ago full time.

 

[akbluz]

I'll suggest reading anything by Elmer Kelton, the author from south Texas who wrote many novels about the region. A good one is "Good Old Boys" (the movie starred Tommy Lee Jones and Sissy Spacek). And although it's set in the 1950's, one of my favorites is "The Time It Never Rained" about the severe drought in the region.

 

[pi2]

Try this:

Malevil

by Robert Merle

Brief description here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malevil

 

[Ale-8(1)]

Ever read "Alas, Babylon" by Pat Frank? Post nuclear-war novel written and set in the Cold War era. Quick read, but entertaining. I first read it in high school and loved it, have re-read it at least twice since then.

Another vote for this one. Written in 1959, it is one of the very first "post-apocalyptic" novels and set the tone for many if not most of those that followed. A must read.

:mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

[Tallbald]

I did read Alas Babylon back in the 10th grade. Maybe 1974(?). It stuck with me and actually, has, down through the years sort of guided many of my larger purchases. Sewing machines that can be run off line shafts (Bertha Jo, my saddle stitching machine), my Silverfire Survivor biomass stove, wood lathes that can be run off alternate driving forces without electronic controls, things like that. 10th graders can be very impressionable ya know! I'm making a library list here. Thanks. Don