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ALL-TIME FAVORITE  BOOKS:

Aztec, by Gary Jennings

The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston

Love is Eternal: A Novel About Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln, by Irving Stone.

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker

Sophie's Choice, by William Styron

Kira, Kira, by Cynthia Kadohata

The Thorn Birds, by Colleen McCullough

Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier

The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank

READING NOW: 

The Grouchy Historian, by Ed Asner

The American Revolution: A Visual History, by DK Publishing

1776, by David McCullough

Code Girls: ...American Women Code Breakers of WWII, by Liza Mundy (audiobook)

1968: The Year that Rocked the World, by Mark Kurlansky

2018 Write Well Award Anthology, edited by Rick Taubold

The Existential Pleasures of Engineering, by Samuel C. Florman

Chaos: Making a New Science, by James Gleick

Vietnam: The First Complete Account of Vietnam at War, by Stanley Karnow 

The Underground Railroad, by Charles L. Blockson

RECENT BOOKS READ (THE MOST MEMORABLE IN BOLD):

John Adams, by David McCullough

Howard's End, by E.M. Foster (audiobook)

The Kitchen God's Wife, by Amy Tan

The Water Museum (short stories), by Luis Alberto Urrea

Running in the Family, by Michael Ondaatje

Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte (audiobook)

Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces..., by Ben MacIntyre

The Spy and the Traitor, by Ben Macintyre

Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo (audiobook)

Uh-Oh, by Robert Fulghum

The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah

Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe (audiobook)

Someone I Used to Know, by Patty Blount

On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan

The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck (audiobook)

The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan

Chekhov's Sister, by W. D. Wetherell

A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster

Will Starling, by Ian Weir

The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells (audiobook)

What on Earth Have I Done?, by Robert Fulghum

Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin

Lincoln's Dreams, by Connie Willis

Mexico City Noir, edited by Paco Ignacio Taibo II (short stories)

The Lottery and Other Stories, by Shirley Jackson

Flight of the Sparrow, by Amy Belding Brown (audiobook)

Slowly, Slowly in the Wind, by Patricia Highsmith (short stories)

Mrs. Bennett Has Her Say, by Jane Juska

The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (audiobook)

Death Comes to the Archbishop, by Willa Cather

The Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad

A Separate Peace, by John Knowles

Strangers on a Train, by Patricia Highsmith

Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

The Stars, the Earth, the River, by Le Minh Khue (short stories from Vietnam) 

A God in Ruins, by Kate Atkinson (audiobook)

A Round-Heeled Woman, by Jane Juska

It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It, by Robert Fulghum

The Atomic City Girls, by Janet Beard

Await Your Reply, by Dan Chaon (audiobook)

Trap of Gold & Trail to Pie Town, by Louis L'Amour (audiobook)

A Million Little Pieces, by James Frey

Mothers and Sons, by Colm Toibin (short stories)

Echoes from the Macabre, by Daphne du Maurier (short stories)

The Librarian of Auschwitz, by Antonio Iturbe

Sin: Selected Poems of  Forugh Farrokhzad, translated by Sholeh Wolpe

The Pearl, by John Steinbeck

A Lonely Woman: Forugh Farrokhzad and Her Poetry, by Michael C. Hillmann

Song of a Captive Bird, by Jasmin Darznik

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov

Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger

Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson and His World, by David Daiches

Native Son, by Richard Wright

Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome

Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson

Black Boy, by Richard Wright

The Conquest of Malaria in Italy, 1900-1962, by Frank Snowden, PhD.

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, by Wes Moore

Journal of a Plague Year, by Daniel Defoe 

Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris 

The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS, by Edward Hooper

Barrel Fever, by Davis Sedaris

The Barbary Plague, by Marilyn Chase

A Long Way Home, by Saroo Brierly

Life is a Wheel: Love, Death, Etc., and a Bike Ride Across America, by Bruce Weber

The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath 

My Antonia, by Willa Cather

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (essays), by Davis Sedaris

Mein Kampf: Words that Changed History, by Duane Damon

Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak (translation by Pevear &  Volokhonsky) 

The Scent of Rain and Lightning, by Nancy Pickard (audiobook)

Every Fifteen Minutes, by Lisa Scottoline (audiobook)

The Piano Teacher, by Janice Y. K. Lee (audiobook)

When You Are Engulfed in Flames (essays), by Davis Sedaris

Holidays on Ice (essays), by Davis Sedaris

Teacher Man, by Frank McCourt 

'Tis: A Memoir, by Frank McCourt

Angela's Ashes, by Frank McCourt

Names on a Map, by Benjamin Alire Saenz

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, by Barack Obama

Lady Chatterly's Lover, by D. H. Lawrence

The Awakening, by Kate Chopin

The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly, by Stephanie Oakes

Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen

The Story of the Lost Child (Book 4 of 4), by Elena Ferrante

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Book 3 of 4), by Elena Ferrante (audiobook)

The Story of a New Name (Book 2 of 4), by Elena Ferrante (audiobook)

My Brilliant Friend (Book 1 of 4), by Elena Ferrante (audiobook)

Shades of Milk and Honey, by Mary Robinette Kowal

Hunger of Memory, by Richard Rodriguez

Just Like Heaven, by Julia Quinn

Howl and Other Poems, by Allen Ginsberg

Slightly Married, by Mary Balogh

Alex Cross's Trial: Alex Cross Series, Book 15, by James Patterson (audiobook)

Cancer Ward, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story, by Diane Ackerman (audiobook)

Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War, by Karl Marlantes (audiobook)

Stories and Prose Poems, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler

The Gladiators, by Arthur Koestler

The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island, by Bill Bryson (audiobook)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Strange Fiction, by H.G. Wells (audiobook)

Home, by Toni Morrison (audiobook)

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, by David Remnick

Seven Days that Shook the World: The Collapse of Soviet Communism, by Stuart Loory

Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague, by Geraldine Brooks (audiobook)

The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington, by Daniel Mark Epstein

Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman

The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap, by Stephanie Coontz

The Giver, by Lois Lowry (audiobook)

Salt to the Sea (the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff), by Ruta Sepetys (audiobook)

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, by Laura Hillenbrand

Hunting Eichmann, by Neal Bascomb

A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson

The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou

The Men Who United the States, by Simon Winchester (audiobook)

Pacific, by Simon Winchester (audiobook)

Death Rides a Pale Horse, by Dusty Rhodes (audiobook)

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, by Reza Aslan (audiobook)

Message from Nam, by Danielle Steele

Juliet's Nurse, by Lois Leveen

Techniques of the Selling Writer, by Dwight V. Swain

You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction, by Lee Gutkind

The Playwright's Guidebook, by Stuart Spencer

The Help, by Kathryn Stockett (audiobook)

Seeds of Tomorrow, by Mikhail Sholokhov

The Accidental Tourist, by Anne Tyler

Noah's Compass, by Anne Tyler (audiobook)

Johnny Angel, by Danielle Steele

In the Midst of Death, by Lawrence Block

A Time to Kill, by John Grisham

Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury (audiobook)

One Summer: America 1927, by Bill Bryson

The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces, edited by Beverly Lawn

Midnight Rain, by Holly Lisle

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII, by Iris Chang

Killing Patton, by Bill O'Reilly

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell

I'm a Stranger Here Myself, by Bill Bryson

The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, by Bill Bryson

Defiance, by Nechama Tec

Uncle Vanya (play), by Anton Chekhov

The House on the Embankment, by Yuri Trifonov

On the Road, by Jack Kerouac

Another Life, by Yuri Trifonov

Sashenka, by Simon Sebag Montefiore

The Court of the Red Tsar, by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee

Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell

The Innocents Abroad, by Mark Twain (audiobook)

The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro

Young Stalin, by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi

Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Romanov Sisters, by Helen Rappaport

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Prague Fatal, by Philip Kerr (a WWII mystery)

Giovanni's Room, by James Baldwin

Queen of America, by Luis Alberto Urrea (sequel to The Hummingbird's Daughter)

Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border, by Luis Alberto Urrea

Undaunted Courage (Lewis and Clark), by Stephen F. Ambrose

The Devil's Highway, by Luis Alberto Urrea

The Hummingbird's Daughter, by Luis Alberto Urrea

Eclipse, A Novel of Lewis and Clark, by Richard S. Wheeler

The Children's Blizzard (of 1888 ) by David Laskin

A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls (audiobook), by Ernest Hemingway

Puppy Chow Is Better Than Prozac, by Bruce Goldstein

Without You, There is No Us, by Suki Kim (about North Korea)

In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

You Can't Go Home Again, by Thomas Wolfe

Long After Midnight, by Ray Bradbury (short stories)

The City of Thieves, by David Benioff

Dresden, by Frederick Taylor

Last Jew of Treblinka, by Chil Rajchman

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China, by Chung Jang

Assembling California, by John McPhee

Krakatoa (volcano), by Simon Winchester

A Crack in the Edge of the World (SF earthquake), by Simon Winchester

Galileo's Daughter, by Dava Sobel

The World that Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square, by Ned Sublette 

Savvy, by Ingrid Law

Every Man Dies Alone, by Hans Fallada

The Brain that Changes Itself, by Norman Doidge

American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman who Defied the Puritans, by Eva LaPlante

Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Volt, by Alan Heathcock (short stories)

Final Flight: The Mystery of a WW II Plane Crash and the Frozen Airmen in the High Sierra, by Peter Stekel

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, by Charles C. Mann

Hattie Big Sky, by Kirby Larson

Torn Thread, by Anne Isaacs

In Arabian Nights, by Tahir Shah

The Art of Fiction, by John Gardner

The Anatomy of Story, by John Truby

Life and Fate, by Vasily Grossman

A Writer at War, by Vasily Grossman

Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin, by Timothy Snyder

Into Africa: The Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone, by Martin Dugard

Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of WWII's Greatest Rescue Mission, by Hampton Sides

Hell's Guest, by Glenn D. Frazier (Bataan Death March)

A Foot Soldier for Patton, by Michael C. Bilder

Under a Cruel Star: Life in Prague 1941-1968, by Heda Margolius Kovaly

Crafting the Personal Essay, by Dinty W. Moore

China Men, by Maxine Hong Kingston

The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan

A Good Man Is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'Connor  (short story collection)

Twenty-One Stories, by Graham Greene.

As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner

The War Against the Jews 1933-1945, by Lucy S. Dawidowicz