reading

I love reading. I love a book or story that captivates me until I’ve reached the last page and that leaves me thinking about it for days and weeks following.

This post simply lists some of my favorite books.

The Solace of Open Spaces (Gretel Ehrlich)
Where Rivers Change Directions (Mark Spragg)
Undaunted Courage (Stephen Ambrose)
Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls)
Cold Mountain (Charles Frazier)
Ordinary Wolves (Seth Kantner)
Outliers (Anything by Malcolm Gladwell)
Freakonomics (Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner)
The Worst Hard Time (Timothy Egan)
The Worst Journey in the World (Apsley Cherry-Garrard)
Endurance (Alfred Lansing)
The Last Lecture (Randy Pausch)
The Post American World (Fareed Zakaria)
The World is Flat (Thomas Friedman)
Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin)
Good to Great (Jim Collins)
Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer)
Into The Wild (Jon Krakauer)
Perfect Storm (Sebastian Junger)
The Bonfire of the Vanities (and all books by Tom Wolfe)
The Alienist (Caleb Carr)
Last Child in the Woods (Richard Louv)
Why Gender Matters (Leonard Sax)