Andy Rowell

Some books I have enjoyed

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A friend asked for books I have enjoyed. I think he specifically said he likes biography and history. 

Here is the list I gave him in March 2018. 

Biography and Historical:

  1. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin,
  2. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand,
  3. Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty by John M. Barry,
  4. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Biography by Eberhard Bethge,
  5. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by William Manchester (first volume of 3),
  6. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (first volume of 3),
  7. Grant by Ron Chernow,
  8. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose,
  9. John Adams by David McCullough,
  10. 1776 by David McCullough,
  11. The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough,
  12. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson,
  13. Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King,
  14. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson,
  15. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis,
  16. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis,
  17. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis,
  18. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell,
  19. The Road to Character by David Brooks,
  20. What Are We Doing Here?: Essays by Marilynne Robinson,
  21. The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today by Thomas E. Ricks,
  22. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg,
  23. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander,
  24. Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman.

Fiction / Classics / Literature / Award Winners:

  1. Middlemarch by George Eliot,
  2. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy,
  3. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky,
  4. The Underground Railroad: A Novel by Colson Whitehead,
  5. Golden Hill: A Novel of Old New York by Francis Spufford.

Some people keep track of their books on Goodreads. I should do that.

Most of these I have tweeted about at https://twitter.com/AndyRowell

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