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The Thin Red Line by James Jones

Our Gang (Starring Tricky and His Friends) by Philip Roth

Entertaining an Elephant: A Novel about Learning and Letting Go by William McBride

Salinger: A Biography by Paul Alexander

Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon by Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton

The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner

Tiananmen Diary: Thirteen Days in June by Harrison E Salisbury

The I Hate the 20th Century Reader edited by Clint Willis and Nate Hardcastle

Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

Of Human Bondage by W Somerset Maugham

Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald: The Rise and Fall of a Literary Friendship by Scott Donaldson

McTeague: A Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris

Three Blind Mice and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

Sophie's Choice by William Styron

Fletch, Too by Gregory McDonald

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L Trump

The Second Tree from the Corner by EB White

Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni

Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwell

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe

The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

Baseball Babylon: From the Black Sox to Pete Rose, the Real Stories Behind the Scandals That Rocked the Game by Dan Gutman

1776 by David McCullough

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

Return with Honor by Captain Scott O'Grady

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling

Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain by Isaac Asimov

Maximum Bob by Elmore Leonard

Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

Damien the Leper by John Farrow

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Napoleon by Herbert Butterfield

Star Wars: X-Wing Solo Command by Aaron Allston

Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Mud, Sweat, and Tears: The Autobiography by Bear Grylls

Wish You Well by David Baldacci

Fletch's Moxie by Gregory McDonald

The Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy

Castro's Curveball: A Novel by Tim Wendel

Voyage to the City of the Dead by Alan Dean Foster

Survivor: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: An Unauthorized Biography by Chuck Barris

Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney

What If?: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been edited by Robert Cowley

Guts: The True Stories behind Hatchet and the Brian Books by Gary Paulsen

18 Stories by Heinrich Boll

Setting Free the Bears by John Irving

Wrestlecrap: The Very Worst of Professional Wrestling by R.D. Reynolds and Randy Baer

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Death Is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories by Sandra Cisneros

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey

The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough

Thunderstruck by Erik Larson

The Brethren by John Grisham

Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams

Sports in America by James A. Michener

The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card

Midway Memories by Scott McGaugh

More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Moll Flanders by Daniel DeFoe

Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero by David Maraniss

Misery by Stephen King

American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. History by Chris Kyle

The Card: Collectors, Con Men, and the True Story of History's Most Desired Baseball Card by Michael O'Keeffe and Teri Thompson

Homer & Langley: A Novel by E.L. Doctorow

Partisans by Alistair MacLean

The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories by John Updike

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Dream by William A. Fahey

Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton

Confessions of an Irish Rebel by Brendan Behan

Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games by A. Bartlett Giamatti

The Water Is Wide by Pat Conroy

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman

The Fifth Assassin by Brad Meltzer

Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale by Josh Wilker

Allegiant by Veronica Roth

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches [...] by S.C. Gwynne

Up Close and in Your Face with the Greats, Near-Greats, and Ingrates of Sports by Roy Firestone

Insurgent by Veronica Roth

West of the Sun by Edgar Pangborn

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash by Edward Humes

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon by David Michaels

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team by Wayne Coffey

No Easy Day: The Autobiography of a Navy SEAL by Mark Owen

The West: The Making of the American West by Jon E. Lewis

Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

Honor Among Thieves by Jeffery Archer

The Fourth Horseman by Will Henry

The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston

Planet Earth by Jonathan Weiner

An Illustrated Guide to Ghosts and Mysterious Occurrences in the Old North State by Nancy Roberts

Robert Ludlum's The Lazarus Vendetta: A Covert-One Novel by Robert Ludlum and Patrick Larkin

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Stowaway by Karen Hesse

Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

We Were Soldiers Once...And Young by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway

Figures of Speech: 60 Ways to Turn a Phrase by Arthur Quinn

I Am Third by Gale Sayers

Trinity by Leon Uris

Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy by Viktor E. Frankl

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Heroes and Outlaws of the Old West by Shane Edwards

Mount Vernon: The Story of a Shrine by Gerald W. Johnson

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

The Miracle of Language by Richard Lederer 

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Insomnia by Stephen King

Murder at the Margin: A Henry Spearman Mystery by Marshall Jevons

Charles Darwin by Arthur S. Gregor

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book by Gerard Jones

The Contender by Robert Lipsyte

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason

The Man Called Noon by Louis L'Amour

The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

O. Henry's Short Stories by William Sydney Porter (O. Henry)

Contact by Carl Sagan

The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush by Pierre Berton

Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Acts of War by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik

Do Penguins Have Knees? by David Feldman

The Ragman's Son: An Autobiography by Kirk Douglas

Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Song of the Exile by Kiana Davenport

A Night to Remember by Walter Lord

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Bestie: The Authorized Biography of George Best by Joe Lovejoy

The History of American League Baseball Since 1901 by Glenn Dickey

Cortes and Montezuma: History's Greatest Tale of Adventure and Conquest by Maurice Collis

Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

The Gardens of Monticello by Peter J. Hatch

Hustle: The Myth, Life, and Lies of Pete Rose by Michael Y. Sokolove

Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions by Daniel Wallace

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kenneth Toole

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

Ripley's Believe It or Not! Sports Oddities

Race Matters by Cornel West

Strange & Fascinating Facts about Famous Brands by Charles Reichblum

The Coup by John Updike

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

Buried Dreams: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer by Tim Cahill

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Lost Horizon by James Hilton

The Beckoning Silence by Joe Simpson

The Tonto Woman and Other Stories by Elmore Leonard

False Glory: The Steelers and Steroids by Steve Courson

1st to Die by James Patterson

Net Force by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The Wapshot Chronicles by John Cheever

Obasan by Joy Kogawa

The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad

Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters by Hans Blix

Fever by Robin Cook

The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum 

 

(since December 2009...the most recent reads are at the top of the list)

 

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