Like taking candy......from a baby!: Today in History

Books I've Recently Read

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
Poor Richard's Almanack - Benjamin Franklin
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson (bought another copy)
A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore
The Age of Acuiescence - Steve Fraser (too long)
The City Not Long After - Pat Murphy
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson (stolen)
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - Mark Twain (I couldn't finish)
A Light in August - William Faulkner
The Lost Continent - Bill Bryson
Nothing Like It in the World - Stephen Ambrose
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling- Ross King
Let's Pretend This Never Happened- Jenny Lawson
A Place of My Own- Michael Pollan
I'm a Stranger Here Myself- Bill Bryson
The Fountainhead- Ayn Rand (mostly)
Moby Dick- Herman Melville (halfway)
The Hunger Games- Suzanne Collins
Let There Be Light - Jeannette Griggs
109 East Palace- Janet Conant
Skyscraper- Robert Byrne
The Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger (partial read, it was dumb)
The Plague- Albert Camus
Tortilla Flat- John Steinbeck
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain
Life and Death at Hoover Dam- Jerry Borrowman
Mornings on Horseback- David McCullough
His Excellency- Joseph J. Ellis
The Winter of Our Discontent- John Steinbeck
Into the Woods- Jon Krakauer
The White Cascade- Gary Krist
The Big Burn- Timothy Egan
Rise to Rebellion- Jeff Shaara
The Children's Blizzard- David Laskin
Forbidden City- William Bell
A Confederacy of Dunces- John Kennedy Toole
The Angel of Darkness- Caleb Carr
Word Catcher- Phil Cousineau
The Rise From the Ashes of War- Simon Parkinson
Catch 22- Joseph Heller
The White Cascade- Gary Krist
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk- David Sedaris
Getting the Bugs Out- David Kiley
Driven- David Kiley
Litte America, Town at the End of the World- Paul A. Carter
JACK KEROUAC'S American Journey- Paul Maher Jr.
The Worst Hard Time- Timothy Egan
Rocket Boys- Homer Hickam
On the Wealth of Nations- PJ O'Rourke
Summer of the Monkeys- Wilson Rawls
My Side of the Mountain- Jean George
Tuck Everlasting- Natalie Babbitt
Hatchet- Gary Paulsen
Devil in the White City- Erik Larson
Magnificent Machines- James May
Rockets of the Comstock
Copper Camp Kids- Walter Johnson
The Total Money Makeover- Dave Ramsey
Don Quixote of La Mancha- Cervantes
What Next, Doctor Peck?- Joseph H. Peck, MD
A Long Way from Chicago- Richard Peck
The Forgotten Man- Amity Shlaes
Black Like Me- John H. Griffin
Catch 22- Joseph Heller
Bug- Phil Patton
The Cobra in the Barn- Tom Cotter
Howard Hughes- George J. Marrett
Roughing It- mark twain
Common Sense- thomas paine
Engulfed In Flames- david sedaris
1776- david mccullough
Pontoon- Garrison Keillor
John Adams- david mccullough
Me Talk Pretty One Day- david sedaris

Like taking candy......from a baby!

2.07.2012

Today in History

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