Top Four Must Reads
from my library
Sanibel Flats
by Randy Wayne White
The Ship That Would Not Die
by F. Julian Becton
Twenty Decisive Battles of the World
by Joseph B. Mitchell
(updating Edward Shepherd Creasy’s original treatise, Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, published in 1851)
Finance & Economics
Friedrich Hayek
Milton Friedman
Eugene Fama
Richard Thaler
Daniel Kahneman
Various Contributors’ (Edited by Bruce Seaman) Handbook of Research on Nonprofit Economics and Management
Benjamin Graham’s Security Analysis
Adam Smith
Historical Fiction
Ellis Peters’ The Cadfael Chronicles
William R. Forstchen’s
George Washington Series (with Newt Gingrich)
Gettysburg Series (with Newt Gingrich)
Jeff Shaara’s various novels, plus
American Revolutionary War Series
Civil War, Western Theater Series
Civil War: 1861-1865 Series (with Michael Shaara)
“Gods & Generals”
“Killer Angels”
“The Last Full Measure”
Second World War Series
James Nelson’s Norsemen Saga Series
Western Fiction
William W. Johnstone’s
First Mountain Man Series
Last Mountain Man Series
Craig Johnson’s Walt Longmire Mysteries Series
Owen Wister’s The Virginian
Mysteries
John D. McDonald’s Travis McGee Series
John Sandford’s Lucas Davenport Series
Clive Cussler’s Dirk Pitt Series
John Grisham
James Patterson’s Alex Cross Series
Randy Wayne White’s Doc Ford Series
Carl Hiaasen
Other Fiction
William R. Forstchen’s John Matherson Series
Michael Crichton
Patrick O’Brian
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan Series
Other Nonfiction
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Ron Chernow
David McCullough
Victor Davis Hanson
Edward Gibbon’s History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire
Nathaniel Philbrick
James Nelson
Roger Crowley
James D. Hornfischer
James McPhearson
Niall Ferguson
Edmund Burke