Books I've read in adulthood, the ones I can remember.
Not listed are the classics, short stories, novels, philosophers,
psychology, non-fiction, and American Black and Indian history,
holocaust, about disabled individuals, about the mentally ill,
fiction and non-fiction that I read before 18-19 yrs old. I had
a lot of study halls in the library for some reason! I don't like
poetry, romance novels, fantasy, or mystery in general. If it's
too much military history without the human side I can't get into
that either.
Biography
Truman by David McCullough
Mornings on Horseback: The Story Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough
Churchill Biography. (I forgot which one)
Malcom X. Autobiography
Jackie-O biography. I forgot which one
Some biography of these 100 yr old sisters (I forgot the name
of, but liked it)
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
Tis : A Memoir by Frank McCourt
Born on a blue day, a Memoir by Daniel Tammet
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack
Obama
A long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson
Mandela
American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood by Marie
Arana
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across
the Color Line (Hardcover)
by Martha A. Sandweiss
Thinking in Pictures My Life with Autism by Temple
Grandin
Non Fiction
The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972
by William Raymond Manchester
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of
the American West by Dee Alexander Brown
Native American Testimony : A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations
from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000 by Peter Nabokov
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
(Hardcover)
by Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: a Hmong Child,
Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne
Fadiman
Complications, A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul
Gawande
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic,
20th-Anniversary Edition by Randy Shilts
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
by Laurie Garrett
The Family, The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart
of American Power by Jeff Sharlet
The Immortal Life of Hennrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Historical Fiction
Chesapeake by James A. Michener
Centennial by James A. Michener
The Source by James A. Michener
Hawaii by James A. Michener
Mexico by James A. Michener
The Covenant by James A. Michener
London by Edward Rutherfurd,
Sarum : The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd
Russka : The Novel of Russia by Edward Rutherfurd
Shogun by James Clavell
Tai-Pan by James Clavell
Gai-Jin (Paperback) by James Clavell
Fiction
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
In the Beginning by Chaim Potok
The Promise by Chaim Potok
My Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Davita's Harp by Chaim Potok
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
Valley of Horses by Jean M. Auel
The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M. Auel
Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur S. Golden
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
(not that great..)
Fear Nothing by Dean R. Koontz (not a fan)
Some Grisham book (I hated it)
Roots by Alex Haley
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Lord of the Flies by William Gerald Golding
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Forgotten: Some African novel of my Daughters (I hated it. I forgot
what it was)
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger (I couldn't finish
it-monotonous but the movie was better)
The Kite Runner ~ Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns ~ Khaled Hosseini
Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Sci-Fi-Fanasy (not usually my thing)
Sphere by Michael Crichton
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (Boxed Set) by J. R. R. Tolkien
Watership Down by Richard Adams