Books I'm Reading
As an eternal learner, I am constantly reading. Each month, I invite you to join me in reading a selection of my favorite books or follow along with my current reading list. My book list will be posted and archived on this page at the beginning of every month.
I look forward to reading with you!
All-Time Favorites:
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Crazy Horse and Custer: Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors by Steven Ambrose
The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough
Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full by Conrad Black
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
Founding Documents:
Declaration of Independence
United States Constitution
Bill of Rights
Monthly Reading List:
December 2014:
Recommended Reading: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower: Soldier and President (Vol. 1 & 2) by Stephen Ambrose
Eisenhower: The White House Years by Jim Newton
Going Home to Glory by David Eisenhower
Crusade in Europe by Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith
What I'm Reading
41: A Portrait of My Father by George W. Bush
November 2014:
Recommended Reading: Native American Heritage
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
The Real All Americans: The Team that Changed a Game, a People, a Nation by Sally Jenkins
Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne
The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America by James Wilson
Tecumseh: A Life by John Sugden
A Terrible Glory: Custer and Little Bighorn by James Donovan
Driven West by A.J. Langguth
For Young Readers
Baby Rattlesnake as told by Te Ata and adapted by Lynn Moroney
What I'm Reading
Worthy Fights by Leon Panetta
October 2014:
Recommended Reading: World War I
The First World War by John Keegan
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan
The First World War: A New History by Hew Strachan
Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
What I'm Reading
The Way Forward by Paul Ryan
September 2014:
Recommended Reading: "Back to School" Summer Intern Favorites
Chelsea: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Brad: Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy by Pietra Rivoli
Sydney: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Jeni: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Mitchell: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Gabrielle: Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
Braxton: Called to Lead by John MacArthur
Maddie: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Coty: Animal Farm by George Orwell
Mac: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
What I'm Reading
House of Cards Trilogy by Michael Dobbs
August 2014:
Recommended Reading: Favorite Fiction
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
What I'm Reading
House of Cards Trilogy by Michael Dobbs
July 2014:
Recommended Reading: The Founding of America
1776 by David McCullough
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
Miracle at Philadelphia by Catherine Bowen
What I'm Reading
Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff
June 2014:
Recommended Reading: World War II
At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Gordon Prange
D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen Ambrose
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
The Great Raid by William Breuer
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
Crusade in Europe by Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides
WWII Reading for the especially ambitious
Memoirs of the Second World War by Winston Churchill
What I'm Reading
Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year by David Von Drehle
May 2014:
Recommended Reading: Abraham Lincoln
Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year by David Von Drehle
Congressman Lincoln by Chris DeRose
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James McPherson
What I'm Reading
Duty by Robert M. Gates
April 2014:
Recommended Reading: American Presidents
Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full by Conrad Black
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H.W. Brands
What I'm Reading
Duty by Robert M. Gates
March 2014:
Recommended Reading
American Creation by Joseph J. Ellis
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
John Adams by David McCullough
What I’m Reading
JFK’s Last Hundred Days by Thurston Clarke
February 2014:
Recommended Reading
Citizens of London by Lynne Olson
Winston’s War: Churchill, 1940-1945 by Max Hastings
Lincoln: A Life of Purpose & Power by Richard Carwardine
What I’m Reading
This Town by Mark Leibovich
