How about sending Dad a good book for Father's Day? Even if he doesn't read it, you can! And to help ensure your successful choice, we've pulled a few out below that we think may work for you... and Dad.
1) Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
In Blink, Malcolm Gladwell revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant - in the blink of an eye - that actually aren't as simple as they seem.
2) The Boy Who Fell out of the Sky by Ken Dornstein
Ken Dornstein's memoir takes readers on a journey through the life and death of his elder brother, David, who died at the age of 25 in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Six years Ken's senior, David was a writer who incessantly filled spiral notebooks with his fictions, thoughts, and life experiences. Obsessed with succeeding as a writer, David imagined that this success would only come after death at a young age.
3) Chronicles, Volume One by Bob Dylan
Dylan's voice is distinctively American: generous of spirit, engaged, fanciful and rhythmic. Bob Dylan turns Chronicles, Volume I into a poignant reflection on life, and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art.
4) The Husband by Dean Koontz
Mitch, an ordinary guy - a landscaper, is gardening when he receives the call of his worst nightmares. The callers have kidnapped Holly, Mitch's wife, and threaten to kill her slowly and painfully unless they receive $2 million within 60 hours. Expect the unexpected from the master of the psychological thriller.
5) Life Interrupted, The Unfinished Monologue by Spalding Gray
Spalding Gray ended his life in 2004, after two years of suicidal depression. Life Interrupted consists of Gray's final monologue in which he describes the accident and its aftermath in Irish hospitals, plus a short story he wrote to commemorate his tenth wedding anniversary, and a short love letter he penned to the city of New York.
6) Luckiest Man by Jonathan Eig
This may be one of the best baseball books written. Heavily researched in a seemingly successful effort to separate mythology from fact, this is no hagiography. Henry Louis Gehrig is presented, warts and all. Modern baseball players need to read this book (or, have it read to them) and learn something about integrity and sportsmanship.
7) A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut
A Man Without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut’s hilariously funny and razor-sharp look at life, art, politics, and the condition of the soul of America today.
8) On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
With his characteristic combination of philosophical acuity, psychological insight, and wry humor, Frankfurt proceeds by exploring how bullshit and the related concept of humbug are distinct from lying.
9) The Tao of Willie : A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart
If Willie Nelson were Lao Tzu, the Tao te Ching would be a song about trains. Perfect for the father who spent your formative years singing, "Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys."
10) The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery
The Weather Makers is both an urgent warning and a call to arms, outlining the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future.
