Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby van Pelt
Shadow Divers – Two Americans who risked everything to Solve a Mystery of WWII, by Robert Kurson
On Character – Choices that Define a Life, by General Stanley McChrystal
The Shipping News, by Annie Proulx
How Iceland Changed the World – The Big History of a Small Island, by Egill Bjarnsason
The Japanese Lover, by Isabel Allende
The Tiger – A True Story of Vengeance and Survival, by John Vaillant
Once Upon a Town – the Miracle of the North Platte Canteen, by Bob Greene
Beyond the Trident, by Tom Murphy
A Soldier of the Great War, by Mark Helprin
Red Dog Farm, by Nathaniel Ian Miller
The Anxious Generation, by Jonathan Haidt
The Garden of Evening Mists, by Tan Twang Eng
Self and Soul – a Defensee of Ideals, by Mark Edmundson
All the Beauty in the World, by Patrick Bringly
The Women, by Kristin Hannah
Unreasonable Hospitality – the Power of Giving People More than they Expect, by Will Guidara
SPIDER WORLD SCI FI SERIES
- Spider World #6 – Shadowland by Colin Wilson
- Spider World #5 – The Magician by Colin Wilson
- Spider World #4 – The Delta, by Colin Wilson
- Spider World #3 – The Fortress by Colin Wilson
- Spider World #2 – The Tower, by Colin Wilson
- Spider World #1 – The Desert, by Colin Wilson
Without Hesitation – the Odyssey of an American Warrior, by Gen Hugh Shelton
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Astrophysics for people in a Hurry, by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride
The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula Le Guin
The Midnight Library. by Matt Haig
On Desperate Ground – the Marines at the Reservoir, the Korean War’s Greatest Battle, by Hampton Sides
A River Runs Through it, by Norman Maclean
By All Means Available – Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy, by Michael Vickers
On Belay! The Life of Legendary Mountaineer Paul Petzold, by Raye C. Ringholz
Teton Tales – and other Petzold Anecdotes, by Paul Petzold
The Life Impossible, by Matt Haig
Washington – a life, by Ron Chernow
Hacking Darwin Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity, by Jamie Metzl
Echoes of the Past – Tales of Old Yavapai in Arizona – Vol 1, by the Yavapai Cowbelles of Arizona
Superconvergence, by Jamie Metzl
North Woods, by Daniel Mason
Eve in Hollywood, by Amor Towles
Einstein – His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson
The Whiskey Row Fire of 1900, by Bradley G. Courtney
The Life & Death of St Kilda, by Tom Steel
Calum’s Road, by Roger Hutchinson
The Wager – a tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder, by David Grann
James, by Percival Everett
The Sardinian Brigade by Emilio Lussu
The Wide, Wide Sea, by Hampton Sides
The End – a Novel, by Fernanda Torres
Eastbound, by Maylis de Kerangel
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
2054 by Will Ackerman and Jim Stavridis
How Ike Led, by Susan Eisenhower
Deacon King Kong, by James McBride
The Matrix by Lauren Groff
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
The Jersey Brothers, by Sally Mott Freeman
Tom Lake, by Ann Patchett
Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingslover
Elon Musk, by Walter Isaacson
The Desert and the Sea, by Michael Scott Moore
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexander Dumas
Orbital, by Samantha Harvey
The Stranger in the Woods, by Michael Finkel
On Great Fields – the Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, by Ronald White
I Robot, by Isaac Asimov
Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr
Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline
A Quiet Cadence, by Mark Treanor
Waiting for the Barbarians, by J.M. Coetzee
Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, by Giorgio Bassani
That’s That – a memoir, by Colin Broderick
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
A Crack in Everything, by Catherine Ingram
Ghost Soldiers – the Epic Account of WWII’s Greatest Rescue Mission, by Hampton Sides
Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson
Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip Dick
Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese
Catch 22, by Joseph Heller
The Fall, by Albert Camus
On Call in the Arctic – A Doctor’s pursuit of Life, Love and Miracles on the Alaskan Frontier, by Thomas Sims
The Soul of an Octopus – an Exploration into the Wonders of Consciousness, by Sy Montgomery
Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant
Benjamin Franklin – an American Life, by Walter Isaacson
Code over Country – the Tragedy and Corruption of SEAL Team SIX, by Matthew Cole
In the Kingdom of Ice -The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette, by Hampton Sides
Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
The Lessons of History, by Will and Ariel Durant
An Immense World, by Ed Yong
The Avoidable War – The Dangers of Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and Xi Jinping’s China, by Kevin Rudd
The Edges of the Earth, by Richard Leo
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
Mr Putin – Operative in the Kremlin, by Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy
The Philosopher’s Stone, by Colin Wilson
Fishcamp, by Dorothy Savage Joseph
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
The Wyoming Lynching of Cattle Kate 1889, by George Hufsmith
The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
2034 – A Novel of the Next World War, by Elliot Ackerman & Adm Jim Stavridis
The River of Doubt – Teddy Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey, by Candice Millard
Steel Decks and Glass Ceilings – a Navy Officer’s memoir, by Jim Jewell
The Space Between Worlds, by Micaiah Johnson
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy
Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
A Purple Place for Dying, by John D. MacDonald
The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles
The Virtues of War – a Novel of Alexander the Great, by Steven Pressfield
Finding the Mother Tree – Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, by Suzanne Simard
The Intention Experiment, by Lynn McTaggart
Greenlights, by Matthew McConnaghey
Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights, by Salman Rushdie
The Every, by Dave Eggers
The Circle, by Dave Eggers
Call Sign Chaos, by Jim Mattis and Bing West
Harlem Shuffle, by Colson Whitehead
Runnin’ with Frogs – A Navy Memoir, by George Worthington
Rogue Heroes – the History of the SAS, by Ben MacIntyre
Epitaph, by Mary Doria Russell
Doc, by Mary Doria Russell
The Alchemist (2) by Paolo Cuelho
Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow
Grant, by Ron Chernow
The Dictator’s Revenge, by Paul Shemella
All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Marie Remarque
ALPHA – Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the NAVY SEALs by David Philipps
Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
Narcissus and Goldmund, by Hermann Hesse
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Children of God, by Mary Doria Russell
The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell
The Secret Lives of Alexandra David-Neel, by Michael and Barbara Foster
The Popes of Avignon – a century in exile, by Edwn Mullins
My 25 Years in Provence, by Peter Mayle
The New Rules of War, by Sean McFate
Constant Nobody, by Michelle Butler Hallett
The North West Passage by Roald Amundsen (Vols 1 & 2)
My Journey to Lhasa, by Alexandra David-Neel
Red Dress in Black and White, by Elliot Ackerman
By Water Beneath the Walls, by Ben Milligaan
Nine Years Among the Indians 187-1879, by Herman Lehmann
The Weight of Ink, by Rachel Kadish
The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray, by Jorge Amado
Matterhorn, by Karl Marlantes
Empire of the Summer Moon, by S. C. Gwynne
Prairie Fires – The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Caroline Fraser
Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
By Honor Bound – Two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a Story of Extraordinary Courage, by Tom Norris and Mike Thornton with Dick Couch
The Plague, by Albert Camus
Memoirs of a White Crow Indian, by Thomas Leforge w T.B. Marquis
Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
The Beauty of a Darker Soul, by Joshua Mantz
Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
Waiting for Eden, by Elliot Ackerman
A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving
Rubicon, by Steven Saylor
Sea Stories – my Life in Special Operations, by Adm Bill McRaven
Tattoos on the Heart, by Gregory Boyle
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gates of Fire, by Steven Pressfield
Once an Eagle by Anton Myrer
Tinkers, by Paul Harding
The Whale Rider, by Witi Ihimaera
Come on Shore and We will Kill and Eat You All, by Christina Thompson
The Bone People, by Keri Hulme
Island of the Lost, Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, by Joan Druett
Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts
The Over Story, by Richard Powers
An Artist of the Floating World, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead
Ride with me, Mariah Montana, by Ivan Doig
Jack London, Sailor on Horseback, by Irving Stone
Circe, by Madeline Miller
BOOKS on D-DAY
Dog Company – the Boys of Pointe du Hoc, by Patrick O’Donnell
Beyond Band of Brothers, by Major Dick Winters
The Guns at Last Light, by Rick Atkinson
D-Day through German Eyes, by Holger Eckhertz
Pegasus Bridge, by Stephen Ambrose
D- Day, by Stephen Ambrose
The Longest Day, by Cornelius Ryan
Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Jungle Rules by Paul Shemella
Shantung Compound – The Story of Men and Women under Pressure, by Langdon Gilkey
The Choice, by Edith Eger
Billy Lynn’s Long Half-time Walk, by Ben Fountain
The Silence of the Girls, by Pat Barker
Hiking with Nietzsche, by John Kaag
Crux, by Jean Guerrero
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, by Peter Godwin
Eternal Life, by Dara Horn
Ransom, by David Malouf
Void Star, by Zachary Mason
The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Trident, by Jason Redman
Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner
Wine and War, by Don and Petie Kladstrup
Ice Capades – a Memoir of Fast Living and Tough Hockey, by Sean Avery
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Wood
The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt
Ill Met by Moonlight, by W. Stanley Moss
Starship Troopers, by Robert Heinlein
Zorba the Greek, by Nikos Kazantzakis
Rifleman Dodd, by C.S. Forester
The Sandcastle Girls, by Chis Bohjalian
The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery
The Shadow of Kilimanjaro, by Rick Ridgeway
Green Hills of Africa, by Ernest Hemingway
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, by Leo Tolstoy
Super Consciousness, by Colin Wilson
Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders
News of the World, by Paulette Jiles
Footsteps of Elephant Bill, by Susan Williams
A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
Waking up – A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion, by Sam Harris
The General, by C.S. Forester
Waiting for Snow in Havana, by Carlos Eire
Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz
Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl
Elephant Company, by Vicki Constantine Croke
The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Gilead, by Marilynn Robinson
English Creek, by Ivan Doig
All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
Our Town – a Play in Three Acts, by Thornton Wilder
I’m Staying with My Boys – The Heroic Life of Sgt John Baseline USMC, by Proser with Cutter
The Revenant, by Michael Punke
The Deep Blue Good-By, by John D. MacDonald
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren
Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut
When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi
Going After Cacciato, by Tim O’Brien
A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller
The Martian, by Andy Weir
The Cider House Rules, by John Irving
Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson
The Game of Life and How to Play It, by Florence Shinn
Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Tijuana Straits, by Kem Nunn
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Richard Flanagan
Dancing at the Rascal Fair, by Ivan Doig
Euphoria by Lily King
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Border Music by Robert Waller
Ines of My Soul by Isabel Allende
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, by Laura Hillenbrand
Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot by Bruce and Andrea Leinginger and Ken Gross
A million Miles in a Thousand Years – How I learned to live a better story, by Donald Miller
The Pearl, by John Steinbeck
The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
The Northwest Passage, by Kenneth Roberts
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
A Small Place, by Jamaica Kincaid
The below books are all listed one after another and the reviews can be seen by clicking here.
- Pearl in the Storm, by Tori McClure
- Jim Bridger Mountain Man, by Stanley Vestal
- Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck
- Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse
- Cities of the Plain, by Cormac McCarthy
- War, by Sebastian Junger
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