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Biographies
Alex Haley
Autobiography of Malcolm X*
Bob Spitz
The Beatles
H. W. Brands
TR: The Last Romantic
Howard Bryant
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron
Keith Richards
Life
Lenny Bruce
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People; An Autobiography
Madison Smartt Bell
Toussaint Louverture: A Biography
Stacy Schiff
Cleopatra: A Life
Phillip Freeman
Alexander the Great
Julius Caesar
Stephen Davis
Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga
Ulysses S. Grant
Personal Memoirs
Historical and Political Fiction & Non-Fiction
Alan C. Guelzo
Fateful Lightning
Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America*
Arthur Koestler
Darkness at Noon*
Barbara Ehrenreich
Nickel and Dimed; On (Not) Getting By in America
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Miracle at Philadelphia*
Bob Woodward & Scott Armstrong
The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court
Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward
All the President’s Men
David Fromkin
Europe’s Last Summer: Who Started The Great War In 1914?
David D. Thornburg, Ph. D.
Campfires in Cyberspace*
Eric Jager
The Last Duel
Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972
Hells Angels
James L. Nelson
Benedict Arnold’s Navy
Jaspar Ridley
The Freemasons
Jeff Shaara
Gods and Generals
The Last Full Measure
Michael Shaara
Killer Angels
Robert Ferguson
The Vikings: A History
Roger Shattuck
Forbidden Knowledge
Stephen E. Ambrose
To America
Nothing Like It in the World*
Undaunted Courage
Thomas Friedman
The World is Flat*
William Manchester
The Glory and the Dream
Fiction
Unknown
Beowulf*
The Nibelungenlied
Gilgamesh*
Ambrose Bierce
Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce
Edgar Allen Poe
Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe
Franz Kafka
The Castle
The Metamorphosis and Other Short Stories
The Trial
Gogol
Dead Souls Hans
Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus
Homer
The Iliad*
The Odyssey*
Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Joseph Heller
Catch-22
J. R . R. Tolkien
The Hobbit*
The Fellowship of the Ring*
The Two Towers*
The Return of the King*
The Silmarilion
Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions
Sirens of Titan
Slaughter House Five
Welcome to the Monkey House
Player Piano
Richard Bach
Jonathan Livingston Seagull*
Virgil
The Aneid*
*Must Reads