Looking back, I realized I've actually read a number of books that I've seen on LT or have been recommended to me by folks on LT.

Basque History of the World
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memoiries of an African Childhood
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
The River of Doubt
Stiff: The curious lives of human cadavers
Unbowed
Wizard of the Crow - novel

and would really like to read a few others in the future (this is just a sample)
The Year of Living Biblically
A Short history of tractors in ukrainian - novel

I'm sure other LTers would like to know their recommendations or thoughts have helped you with your reading selection! What have you read based on what you've read on LT?

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Recent reading from books recommended on LibraryThing (although not all of these are nonfiction):

Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

Plus I brought home from the library last night at least 6 more recommended here on LibraryThing. One thing for sure, LT has definitely expanded my horizons as to my reading!

I've read or bought so many books recommended on Library Thing: Midnights: A Year with the Wellfleet Police; Basque History of the World; Fatal Shore; Strange Piece of Paradise; The Year of Living Biblically are the ones that come to mind.

I joined the Singleton Showcase group, but get some many recommendations from LT, that I doubt I'll be adding many singletons from now on.

Here is my seen on LT list.

The Mother Tongue
The lives of a cell
The trial of Socrates
Strapless by Deborah Davis
Defining the Wind
The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank
Broadsides From the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs
The Piltdown forgery
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
The Code Book by Simon Singh

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Here are more books I've read or placed on my TBR shelves based on hearing about them on LT:

The Scientist, the Madman, the Thief and their Lightbulb by Keith Tutt
Mexico Days by Robert Roper
When You Catch an Adjective, Kill it by Ben Yagoda
Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
No Matter How Much You Cook or Promise to Pay the Rent, You Blew it 'cauze Bill Bailey ain't Never Coming Home Again by Edgardo Vega Yunque
Before She Met Me by Julian Barnes
The Desire of Every Living Thing by Don Gillmor
There's No Place Like Here by Cecelia Ahern
Coming out of the Ice by Victor Herman

and more.....

Time Traveler by Ronald L. Mallett
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka

If you are expecting Marina Lewycka's book to be mainly about tractors, you may get a surpise...

I only have one book that I read in part because I saw it discussed here: Tom Lewis's The Hudson: A History.

(The combination of factors that limited the number of such books is as follows:
* I've only been on LT since May
* I read mostly during lunch and my commute home, or just over an hour a day
* lots of other things that want attention, including LT.)

The ones I've read (thank you, Happy Heathens group! and others):

The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille
Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
The Natural History of Make-Believe
The Year of Living Biblically
Zeno and the Tortoise

TBR:
Dawkins's The Selfish Gene and The Ancestor's Tale
The book your church doesn't want you to read
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
The New Joy of Sex
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Democracy in America
Living with Darwin
Monkey Girl
The Red Queen

The Natural History of Make Believe? Wow! I am going googling for that one (I hope it is not just about religion)!

#11 -- It's about storytelling to children over time in the Western tradition. It is awesome, even if you haven't necessarily read all the books it covers.

I've put two on my wishlist today just from seeing them on here.

We came all the way from Cuba so you could dress like this? by Achy Obejas
The Angry Clam by Erik Quisling

I'd never heard of either of them but they both sound very funny.

Now I also want #10's The Natural History of Make Believe as well.

Thanks, Heina. And, Jodyreadseverything, if you go for the names, how about "The Woman Without a Hole?" (I dare not bracket it for it is one of mine and there could be a zealous flagger on the prowl!). But, yes, names get us, I am now going to google that angry clam!!!

Gyah (as japanese say)! I googled and first found a Thai woman who cut off her husband's dingaling because .... But, then i foungd a review mentioning this: "the story of a mollusk who struggles with its existence and goes through many trials trying to find meaning in his life, even converting to Islam, and then abandoning it again when it doesn't seem to help. Quisling includes a tragic but completely realistic epilogue of the angry clam's ending days." I think I will stick to my holothurian (sea cucumber) haiku, thank you.

"Rise, Ye Sea Slugs!"

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I suppose Early Reviewers and such count as well. I recently received, read, and reviewed Wildebeests in a Rainstorm, which, of course, I heard about on LibraryThing.

One of my all time favorites found here is The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. I highly recommend it.

I don't have a TBR list, if it's on my self and I haven't read it it's TBR. What I do have is a TBB list, To Be Bought, (actually, it's a small notebook.) A lot of it has come from looking through LTer's libraries and those that haven't I've checked with my interesting libraries and reviewers I trust. I've actually passed on a book because a quality reviewer here panned it. The options in my city for quality used books (I rarely buy new) is limited so similar libraries on LT and buying online is the way to go.

I definitely need to thank LT for introducing me to new books and authors. Among them:
Half a Yellow Sun
The Book Thief
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Short History of Nearly Everything and then all of Bill Bryson's books.
World War Z
Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

I'm sure there are many more, but these come to mind. I would probably never have read any of these books without the strong recommendation of LT members. As always, I thank you. Keep the reviews coming.

Big History as a topic, especially:

Maps of Time
Big History
Eternal Frontier
Journey of Man

>17 Gordon, yeah I'm of a similar philosophy - I have a lot of books physically on my shelves that I'm meaning to read. Those are all tbr. I've played around with different formats for keeping track of books I'd like to acquire in one format or another (paper- or audio- back). I was not a particular fan of the Facebook app, and audible.com's website does not have a lot of books I would like to read. I am already surrounded by too much paper and writing things down is not searchable. Right now, I'm using BookMooch to keep a general list of TBBs (to be bought) - and then if someone happens to be getting rid of one of them, there's an easy mechanism to get it. The website uses Amazon's database, so it's fairly extensive, which I like. To tie it back to the thread, I'll note that I have added many titles to my BookMooch wishlist that I've seen on LT.

I need to go pick up a book that was recommended recently. Other then hitting an occasional brick wall argument with someone with whom I will never agree, probably on anything, finding this site has been wonderful.

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of those who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan - excellent book!

LibraryThing has definitely added to my wishlist and my reading.

Books added to my TBR list from here (as in I've bought the book) include the Barbara Hanawalt books Growing Up In Medieval London and The Ties That Bound (ordered and shipped, but not arrived yet)

Novels I've read thanks to here include the Temeraire books.

However, blogging and book review blogs are doing more for the latter category than anything else these days.

I second that about the Egan book. A great combination of historical data blended with real-person narratives.

I read, but was unfortunately disappointed by, The Good Doctors, which I received and reviewed for the Early Reviewers, which I heard about on LibraryThing.

I want to thank LT for introducing me to David Liss. I received the book The Whiskey Rebels as part of the Early Reviewer program. Since then I have read all of his books, except for The Ethical Assassin and his latest. I can't wait to read those! For anyone who loves historical fiction I cannot recommend him enough. Enjoy!