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Last updated August 31, 2026
I like to read biography, history, corporate history, defense/space, with thrillers mixed in when I need a
break. Books in bold are the ones I'd hand to someone without being asked.
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Based on a True Story: A Memoir — Norm Macdonald
The Trading Game: A Confession — Gary Stevenson
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet — Katie Hafner
The Running Man — Richard Bachman
Molly's Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker — Molly Bloom
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq — Steve Coll
The Alice Network — Kate Quinn
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War — Robert Coram
Skipper: Why Baseball Managers Matter and Always Will — Scott Miller
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon — Kim Zetter
Lonesome Dove — Larry McMurtry
Bill James Handbook Walk-Off Edition — Bill James
The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West — Alexander C. Karp
The Coming of the Third Reich — Richard J. Evans
The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century — Joel F. Harrington
Tremendous — Joey "Coco" Diaz
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness — Jonathan Haidt
Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment — Jason Schreier
Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America — Michael Hiltzik
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos — Jordan B. Peterson
Anonymous: Jesus' hidden years...and yours — Alicia Britt Chole
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies — Jared Diamond
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 — Marcus Luttrell
The Shining — Stephen King
The Fisherman — John Langan
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics — Daniel James Brown
Fourth Wing — Rebecca Yarros
Liar's Poker — Michael Lewis
Hell Divers — Nicholas Sansbury Smith
The Butterfly Garden — Dot Hutchison
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike — Phil Knight
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation — Jon Gertner
End of Watch — Stephen King
Finders Keepers — Stephen King
Mr. Mercedes — Stephen King
The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook — Niall Ferguson
Minuteman: A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare — David K Stumpf
Life of Pi — Yann Martel
It Ends with Us — Colleen Hoover
Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age — Lori Garver
American Psycho — Bret Easton Ellis
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors — Matt Parker
Anxious People — Fredrik Backman
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World — Niall Ferguson
The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now — Meg Jay
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants — John Drury Clark
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe — Mike Massimino
All Things New: Heaven, Earth, and the Restoration of Everything You Love — John Eldredge
The Home Front: Life in America During World War II — Dan Gediman
Science that Changed the World: The untold story of the other 1960s revolution: Guardian Shorts (Kindle Single Book 17) — Tim Radford
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron — Bethany McLean
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine — Michael Lewis
Scar Tissue — Anthony Kiedis
Moneyball — Michael Lewis
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley — Antonio García Martínez
AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War — Tom McNichol
Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond — Gene Kranz
Sex with Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House — Eleanor Herman
Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer — Rob Manning
The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer — Philip Carlo
Hannibal — Thomas Harris
The Silence of the Lambs — Thomas Harris
Red Dragon — Thomas Harris
A Man Called Ove — Fredrik Backman
Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy — Eric O'Neill
Thunder Below!: The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II — Eugene B. Fluckey
Kelly: More Than My Share of It All — Clarence L. Johnson
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir — John Bolton
11/22/63 — Stephen King
The Uninvited: How I Crashed My Way into Finding Myself — Craig Schmell
Riding Rockets — Mike Mullane
Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster — Allan J. McDonald
The Man Who Knew The Way to the Moon — Todd Zwillich
Alexander Hamilton — Ron Chernow
The Outsider — Stephen King
Pet Sematary — Stephen King
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present — Howard Zinn
The Stranger in the Lifeboat — Mitch Albom
Ready Player One — Ernest Cline
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI — David Grann
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed — Lori Gottlieb
Greenlights — Matthew McConaughey
The Silent Patient — Alex Michaelides
To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee
The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho
Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson