My intention is to add all of the books that I've ever read to this page. We'll see how that goes.
So far this is just a list of stuff that I've read recently and/or that I can see on my bookshelf from where I'm sitting and/or that I read a long time ago and the memory has stuck with me. |
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| Churchill: A Biography | Roy Jenkins | 2001 | A one volume biography of churchill by a fellow Brit Politician/Author | August 9, 2009 | *** | | Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card | 1986 | | | **** | | The Shining | Stephen King | 1977 | | | ***** | | The Fellowship of the Ring | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1954 | | | ***** | | The Two Towers | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1954 | | | ***** | | The Return of the King | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1955 | | | ***** | | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick | 1968 | | | **** | | The Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith | 1776 | The foundation of modern economics. | | ***** | | The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money | John Maynard Keynes | 1953 | Keynes is to Smith as Einstein is to Newton | | ***** | | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1866 | an exploration of the dark side of human nature | | **** | | How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie | 1936 | Carnegie's seminal work. | | **** | | The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | 1937 | about little people and big adventures | | ***** | | 1984 | George Orwell | 1949 | pretty much how we are living today | | **** | | The Intelligent Investor | Benjamin Graham | 1949 | Warren Buffet's favorite book. | | *** | | The Second World War | Winston S. Churchill | 1950 | Churchill's six volume history. | | ***** | | The Penguin History of the Second World War | Calvocoressi, Wint, Pritchard | 1972 | | April 11, 2009 | **** | | Foundation | Isaac Asimov | 1950 | | | **** | | The Rise & Fall of the Third Reich | William L. Shrirer | 1959 | | | *** | | The Second World War | Martin Gilbert | 1989 | | | *** | | Stalingrad | Anthony Beevor | 1998 | On the biggest and bloodiest battle in the history of the world. | | **** | | Guns, Germs, and Steel | Jared Diamond | 1999 | Why and how certain civilizations win out over others. | | **** | | Troublesome Young Men | Lynne Olson | 2007 | | | *** | | The First World War | John Keegan | 1998 | | | **** | | Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | 1977 | | | **** | | Enigma | Hugh Sebag-Montefiore | 2000 | | | ** | | This is Your Brain on Music | Daniel J. Levitin | 2006 | About Music and how your brain interacts with it. | | **** | | Tom Jones | Henry Fielding | 1749 | The prototype for all subsequent novels. | | ***** | | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 1818 | you know the story | | ***** | | Pudd'nhead Wilson | Mark Twain | 1894 | a mix up at birth makes for an amusing tale | | **** | | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | 1859 | | | **** | | Team of Rivals | Doris Kearns Goodwin | 2005 | The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln | July 1, 2010 | **** | | The Divine Comedy | Dante | 1300 | | | ***** | | With the Old Breed | Eugene Sledge | 1981 | A World War II memoir by Eugene Sledge, a United States Marine. | | **** |
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