
READING LIST
This is a list of what I've been reading lately and enjoyed. I seek out books that help me improve my writing, character development, and plot construction. Much of what I read is nonfiction, especially history, and classic literature.
My List:
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The Last Lion -- William Manchester
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Washington -- Ron Chernow
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Spencer's Mountain -- Earl Hamner
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate -- Robert Caro
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KGB: The Inside Story -- Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky
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Virgin Soil Upturned -- Mikhail Sholokhov
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Reconstruction -- Eric Foner
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The Slave Trade -- Hugh Thomas
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The Forge of Christendom -- Tom Holland
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The Normans in Sicily -- John Julius Norwich
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The Diaries of John Quincy Adams -- John Quincy Adams
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations -- David Landes
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The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson -- Roger Knight
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Confessions -- St. Augustine
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Brothers Karamazov -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Why Nations Fail -- Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
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Democracy in America -- Alexis de Tocqueville
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Doctor Zhivago -- Boris Pasternak
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Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn't, and Why it Matters -- Steven Koonin
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Energy and Civilization -- Vaclav Smil
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Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austen
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Grant -- Ron Chernow
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The Last King of America -- Andrew Roberts
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The River Where America Began -- Bob Deans
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The Life of Elizabeth I -- Alice Weir
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Persian Fire -- Tom Holland
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Jefferson and Montecello -- Jack McLaughlin
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The Odyssey -- Homer
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The War that Made the Roman Empire -- Barry Strauss
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Persians: the Age of Great Kings -- Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
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Battle Cry of Freedom -- James McPherson
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Short Stories -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent -- Robert Caro
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Manhattan Transfer --- John Dos Passos
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Macbeth -- William Shakespeare
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Pillar of Fire -- Taylor Branch
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Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant -- U.S. Grant
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Republic -- Plato
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O Pioneers! -- Willa Cather
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Writings & Drawings -- James Thurber
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire -- Caroline Finkel
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Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution -- H.W. Brands
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In Praise of Slowness -- Carl Honore
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Meditations -- Marcus Aurelius
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The Bonfire of the Vanities -- Tom Wolfe
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he Dred Scott Case -- Don E. Fehrenbacher
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The Eagle Against the Sun -- Ronald Spector
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The Lincoln Highway -- Amor Towles
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Custer's Trials -- T.J. Stiles
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Alexander I: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon -- Marie-Pierre Rey
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All the King's Men -- Robert Penn Warren
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Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone -- Charles Moore
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Writings -- James Madison
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Empire of Liberty -- Gordon S. Wood
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The Obstacle is the Way -- Ryan Holiday
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The Leopard -- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
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The Baseball Book of Why -- John McCollister
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power -- Robert Caro
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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories -- Norman Maclean
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James Madison --Ralph Ketcham
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Fight Club -- Chuck Palahniuk
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Abraham Lincoln: A Life -- Michael Burlingame
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Visitors to Monticello -- Merrill D. Peterson
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Ramayana -- R.K. Narayan
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The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans -- Plutarch
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The Great Arab Conquests -- Hugh Kennedy
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Robert Kennedy and His Times -- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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The Alexiad -- Anna Komnene
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Powers and Thrones -- Dan Jones
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Infinite Jest -- David Foster Wallace
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The Daily Stoic -- Ryan Holiday
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -- Edward Gibbon
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The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas -- Carmen Lamas
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Margaret Thatcher -- at her Zenith: In London, Washington and Moscow -- Charles Moore
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In Defense of Thomas Jefferson: The Sally Hemings Sex Scandal -- William G. Hyland, Jr.
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The Enlightenment -- Ritchie Robertson
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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes -- Zachary D. Carter
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Napoleon -- Andrew Roberts
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1177 B.C. -- the Year Civilization Collapsed -- Eric H. Cline
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Crime and Punishment -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain -- George Saunders
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John Quincy Adams -- James Traub
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My Dearest Friend: the Letters on John and Abigail Adams -- John and Abigail Adams