Friday, December 28, 2012

The Year In Books

I finished a Willie Mays biography last night; am still just half way through the book on Reconstruction.  So, here's this year's list:


2012        Book  List

John Adams, David McCullough

LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay
Warren Kozak

Look Me In The Eye: My Life With Aspergers
John Elder Robison

A Dog’s Purpose, W. Bruce Cameron

Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 – the Present
Michael B. Oren

The Last Campaign: Robert F Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
Thurston Clarke

Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, John Milton Cooper, Jr.

Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Robert Wright

Thirteen Moons, Charles Frazier

America’s Quarterback: Bart Starr and the Rise of the
National Football League
Keith Dunnavant

Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous and Inspiring
Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of The Bible
David Plotz

Willie Mays:  The Life, The Legend,  James S. Hirsch

2 comments:

  1. Sounds like a great read. Sorry to say I did not read any of these, wish that I had. Am reading a good one now, will let you in on it when I turn the final page.

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  2. I'm almost half-way through a new one called A Trial of Generals. Reading about the Philippines in 1942, tonight.

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