Edge Murton

Bookshelf


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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Goes straight to me. If I read it, it'll turn up on the shelf above.

Everything, as a list


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