MGR: My “To Be Read” List
I have an extensive to be read list. In fact, it’s probably more like a book case.
I have a physical book list. I also have a ton of e-books, most of them in Kindle format. All are waiting (mostly patiently) for my time and attention. My reading has been going much slower than in previous years, but I am still getting some things read.
My in-progress reading is as follows:
- Our Oriental Heritage, Will Durant (Volume One of a ten volume set). I realized I’d never taken world history, so I asked Lazette Gifford what she’d recommend (because I thought I’d remembered her mentioning she’d been reading on the subject a few years before), and I got the books she recommended.
- Moneyball, Michael Lewis. This is a Kindle format e-book about advanced statistics in baseball. I usually follow basketball, and discussions about advanced statistics are becoming more common in the sport. I’m certain the subject of Lewis’s book has had a lot to do with that.
- A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggle, Thomas Sowell. I’m trying to get an unbiased understanding of political thought.
On deck, waiting to be read (there are hundreds of these, but I’m going to list the most likely to be read next below);
- The Unexpected Husband, Debbie Macomber
- A Storm of Swords, George R. R. Martin
- Defying Hitler, Sebastian Haffner
- 12th & McGraw, Forrest Haskell
- Known and Unknown, Donald Rumsfeld
- Without Hesitation, Hugh Shelton
- Obama’s Wars, Bob Woodward
- Amierca in the Gilded Age, Sean, Dennis, Cashman
- They Met at Shiloh, Philip Bryant