These are the books that stayed with me, often for days after finishing them, and some for weeks.
GENERAL INTEREST:
- Three Day Road, by Joseph Boyden
- The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival, by John Vaillant
- Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Societies, by Jared Diamond
- An Anthropologist On Mars, by Oliver Sacks
- Final Rounds, by James Dodson
- Survival of the Sickest, by Sharon Moalem
- The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
- 1491, by Charles C. Mann (about pre-Columbian Americas)
- Angela’s Ashes, by Frank McCourt
- No Country For Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy
- Positively Fifth Street, by James McManus
- I heard You Paint Houses, by Charles Brandt (inspired the movie ‘The Irishman’)
- Dances of Dependency, by Calvin Helin
- The Cellist of Serajevo, by Steven Galloway
- The Kalahari Typing School For Men, by Alexander McCall Smith
- A Time To Kill, by John Grisham
- A Painted House, by John Grisham
- The Goal, Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- The Imperial Cruise, by James Bradley
- Dublin, by Edward Rutherford
- The Millionaire Next Door, , by Thomas Stanley & William Danko
SCIENCE FICTION / FANTASY
- Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
- 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke
- Foundation (the series), by Isaac Asimov (and there are so many more great books by Asimov)
- The Heechee Saga (the first 3 books of this series: Gateway, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, Heechee Rendezvous), by Frederick Pohl
- Lord Valentine’s Castle (of the Majipoor series), by Robert Silverberg
BIOGRAPHIES AND AUTO-BIOGRAPHIES:
- Ben Hogan: An American Life, by James Dodson
- When I left Home, by Buddy Guy
- Guy LaFleur’s autobiography