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    What's Your 2015 Reading List?

    My 2015 reading list:

    1) 1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies
    2) 1434: The Year A Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance by Gavin Menzies
    3) The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin
    4) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
    5) Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
    6) The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope by Austen Iverleigh
    7) Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life by Alison Weir
    8) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    9) Dracula, and Other Horror Classics by Bram Stoker
    10) Beloved by Toni Morrison
    11) The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century by Paul Collins
    12) How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman

    And any further books will be decided.
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    One on my agenda is Killing Patton. We just watch George C. Scott as Patton the other night. The other books by O'Reiley, Killing Lincoln, and Killing Jesus, were both excellent tomes. The only regret was the Author didn't go far enough.
    As for other books, they would be anything and pretty much everything. I read anywhere from 4-5 books a week.
    They are like Candy. At this point, I try to read at least one, self expanding, or political book a week. I usually have two going at once.
    Currently: Hubris by Isikoff, starring George Bush as the ultimate manipulator, tricking the congress into declaring war on Iraq, and The Devil's Elixer by Khoury, about pharmaceuticals discovered in remote tribal areas, and the FBI agent trying to find the Cartel leader.

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    Killing Patton

    Eleanor of Acquitaine

    the land of fire and Ice. ( we will see)

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    Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill is next after The Vietnam Wars by Marilyn Young.
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    Just finished The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century by Paul Collins. Mulling it over.

    Reading Moorish Spain - Richard Fletcher (from Colins' chapter notes, above). V. interesting reading.

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    Anything by Rush Limbaugh and any books on sailing.

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    now reading: Eleanor of Acquitaine and The Shadow over Santa Susana

    listed: 1421, re-read Kon Tiki...

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    D.J. Molles should be coming out with the next novel in his zombie series. It is at the top of the genre. He started self publishing and got picked up by a major publishing house.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    D.J. Molles should be coming out with the next novel in his zombie series. It is at the top of the genre. He started self publishing and got picked up by a major publishing house.
    John Ringo has a series. He's very readable.

    From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ri...-series_novels

    "Series[edit]

    Black Tide Rising Series[edit]

    "Series based on a zombie apocalypse
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