Kem White's Completed Books List
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"When a man's fortunes
fail, let him first sell his gold and jewels, then let him sell
his land and his estate, and then his clothes and his belongings.
When he has nothing left, only then let him sell his books." |
Books I've read during the last several years and can recommend (archeological order mostly):
- The Big Sky by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
- Heyday: A Novel by Kurt Andersen
- The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta
- Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West by Hampton Sides
- Body of Lies: A Novel by David Ignatius
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- The Last Crossing: A Novel by Guy Vanderhaeghe
- Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor
- Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth by Joe Conason
- The March: A Novel by E. L. Doctorow
- 1776 by David McCullough
- Empire Rising: A Novel by Thomas Kelly
- Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- The Tyrant's Novel by Thomas Keneally
- What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
- Flying Crows: A Novel by Jim Lehrer
- The Grand Idea: George Washington's Potomac and the Race to the West by Joel Achenbach
- The Plot Against America: A Novel by Philip Roth
- The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy by David Brock
- White Widow by Jim Lehrer
- Waterborne by Bruce Murkoff
- The Known World: A Novel by Edward P. Jones
- Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward
- The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
- Isaac Newton by James Gleick
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
- Notes From The Shore by Jennifer Ackerman
- Between Two Worlds by Kate Moorehead
- Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor
- The Tale of Three Trees by Angela Elwell Hunt
- The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree by Gloria Houston
- The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices by Michael Brower and Warren Leon
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- The Coffee Trader by David Liss
- Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
- John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy by Evan Thomas
- The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn by Diane Ravitch
- The Once and Future Spy by Robert Littell
- The Rising Sun: A Novel by Douglas Galbraith
- Practicing Ressurrection: A Memoir of Discernment by Nora Gallagher
- Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
- Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking by M. Neil Browne and Stuart M. Keeley
- Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph Ellis
- Hope is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds by Christopher Cokinos
- Strength for the Journey: A Pilgrimage of Faith in Community by Diana Butler Bass
- The Company: A Novel of the CIA by Robert Littell
- The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E. B. White
- The Blue Bear: A True Story of Friendship, Tragedy, and Survival in the Alaskan Wilderness by Lynn Schooler
- Sibley's Birding Basics by David Allen Sibley
- Carter Beats the Devil: A Novel by Glen David Gold
- Columbus in the Americas by William Least Heat-Moon
- Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell
- The Godbearing Life: The Art of Soul Tending for Youth Ministry by Kenda Creasy Dean and Ron Foster
- The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths by Bruce Feiler
- Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith by Nora Gallagher
- John Adams by David McCullough
- English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
- The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan
- No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany by Martin Goldsmith
- When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
- How Good Do We Have To Be? A New Understanding of Guilt and Forgiveness by Harold S. Kushner
- Deus Lo Volt! by Evan S. Connell
- The Professor and The Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
- Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick
- Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul
- A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
- When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity During the Last Days of Rome by Richard E. Rubenstein
- Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose
- The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
- River Horse: The Logbook of a Boat Across America by William Least Heat-Moon
- An Island Out of Time by Tom Horton
- America In Search of Its Soul by Gibson Winter
- Mixed Blessings by Barbara Brown Taylor
- Home By Another Way by Barbara Brown Taylor
- The Luminous Web by Barbara Brown Taylor
- Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith by Kathleen Norris
- Fishcamp: Life on an Alaskan Shore by Nancy Lord
- The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
- Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Big Horn by Evan S. Connell
- The Good Book: Reading the Bible With Mind and Heart by Peter J. Gomes
- A Walk In The Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
- Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
- A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
- Shackleton's Boat Journey by Frank Arthur Worsley
- Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer
- Quincunx by Charles Palliser
- Rescuing The Bible From Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture by John Shelby Spong
- A Brief History of the Episcopal Church by David L. Holmes
- Turning the Tide: Saving the Chesapeake Bay by Tom Horton
- Season at the Point: The Birds and Birders of Cape May by Jack Connor
- Stolen Season: A Journey Through America and Baseball's Minor Leagues by David Lamb
- The Complete Birder: A Guide to Better Birding by Jack Connor
- Natural Lives, Modern Times: People and Places of the Delaware River by Bruce Stutz
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay by William W. Warner
- Snow Falling On Cedars: A Novel by David Guterson
- The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
- Ironweed by William Kennedy
- The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff
- Blue Highways: A Journey into America by William Least Heat-Moon
- Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt
- Watermen by Randall S. Peffer
- Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant: A Novel by Anne Tyler
- Chesapeake by James A. Michener
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
