These are the books that stayed with me, often for days after finishing them, and some for weeks.

GENERAL INTEREST:

1. Three Day Road, by Joseph Boyden
2. The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival, by John Vaillant
3. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Societies, by Jared Diamond
4. An Anthropologist On Mars, by Oliver Sacks
5. Final Rounds, by James Dodson
6. Survival of the Sickest, by Sharon Moalem
7. The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
8. 1491, by Charles C. Mann (about pre-Columbian Americas)
9. Angela’s Ashes, by Frank McCourt
10. No Country For Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy
11. Positively Fifth Street, by James McManus
12. I heard You Paint Houses, by Charles Brandt (inspired the movie ‘The Irishman’)
13. Dances of Dependency, by Calvin Helin
14. The Cellist of Serajevo, by Steven Galloway
15. The Kalahari Typing School For Men, by Alexander McCall Smith
16. A Time To Kill, by John Grisham
17. A Painted House, by John Grisham
18. The Goal, Eliyahu M. Goldratt
19. The Imperial Cruise, by James Bradley
20. Dublin, by Edward Rutherford
21. The Millionaire Next Door, , by Thomas Stanley & William Danko

SCIENCE FICTION / FANTASY

1. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke
3. Foundation (the series), by Isaac Asimov (and there are so many more great books by Asimov)
4. The Heechee Saga (the first 3 books of this series: Gateway, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, Heechee Rendezvous), by Frederick Pohl
5. Lord Valentine’s Castle (of the Majipoor series), by Robert Silverberg

BIOGRAPHIES AND AUTO-BIOGRAPHIES:

1. Ben Hogan: An American Life, by James Dodson
2. When I left Home, by Buddy Guy
3. Guy LaFleur’s autobiography