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The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara
Dustin Stewart
I loved this book because of the different perspectives of Gettysburg and how the different leadership styles during the battle played key roles in deciding the outcome.
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Voices from Chernobyl
Svetlana Alexievich
This book is an oral history of the nuclear reactor accident at Chernobyl in 1986, and of the suffering, death, and contamination—biological, environmental, psychological, existential—left in its wake. It is constructed from the testimony of dozens of people whose lives were transformed by the disas...show more
Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer
A gripping story of tragedy on Everest and how sometimes even the most prepared plans can fall apart in a hurry when Mother Nature doesn’t cooperate.
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Assigned at least once to nearly every student in the English-speaking world, Golding’s chilling depiction of the descent into savagery of schoolboys stranded on a deserted island stirs to menacing life as we turn the pages; terror coils behind the words like a patient predator stalking its prey. Wr...show more
11/22/63
Stephen King
A great adventure that subtly includes bits of other stories from King and culminates with an alternate ending to the JFK assassination story.
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
Like Buck, the big dog that is this book’s protagonist, the reader of The Call of the Wild is swiftly and irrevocably swept from the “sun-kissed” world of its opening pages into a realm of elemental and unsparing experience. A favorite of his owner, Buck has known a placid, even pampered life in Cal...show more
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is near the top of the list of most-beloved American novels. Set in Depression-era Alabama, it is the story of six-year-old Jean Louise Finch, better known as Scout; her older brother, Jeremy, nicknamed Jem; and their father, Atticus Finch, a middle-aged lawyer who...show more
A Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin
The plot of A Game of Thrones revolves around a dynastic war among several families, but every step of the way the intricate story lines are personal and visceral. What’s most compelling is that the reader’s understanding of unfolding events is continually transformed by shifting narrative perspecti...show more
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
Whacked out and drug crazed; riotous and exuberant; immature and irresponsible; brilliantly original and more than a little insane, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas chronicles the “bad craziness” that overtook Hunter S. Thompson and a sidekick on a journalistic assignment in 1971. It’s a book of headl...show more