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My reading list for 2010-2020 


Currently Reading

Fiction
  • "Tender is the Night" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

​Non Fiction
  • "Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon" by Craig Nelson

Please take note: 
  • This is a non-sponsored link
  • These are not in any chronological order
  • This list does not include books on tape

Non Fiction

Biographies
  1. "Grant" by Ron Chernow
  2. "Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant" by Ulysses S. Grant 
  3. "Titan" by Ron Chernow
  4. "Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow
  5. "An Unfinished Life:  John F. Kennedy 1917-1963" by Robert Dallek
  6. "Kissinger" by Walter Isaacson
  7. "Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman" by James Gleick
  8.  "John Adams" by David McCullough
  9. "Truman" by David McCullough
  10. "Aléxandros: La trilogia" by Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Culture
  1. "The Discoverers" by Daniel J. Boorstin
  2. "The Creators" by Daniel J. Boorstin
  3. "The Seekers" by Daniel J. Boorstin
  4. "Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unesxpected" by Daniel J. Boorstin
  5. "The Fifties" by David Halbestram
  6. "The Greatest Generation" by Tom Brokaw
  7. "Sentimento italiano. Storia, arte, natura di un popolo inimitabile"  by Valerio Massimo Manfredi

History
  1. "1776" by David McCullough
  2. "The Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
  3. "American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson" by Joseph J. Ellis
  4. "His Excellence: George Washington" by Joseph J. Ellis
  5. "American Creation" by Joseph J. Ellis
  6. "The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789" by Joseph J. Ellis  
  7. "Lincoln and His Generals" by T. Harry Williams
  8. "Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  9. "Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life"  by Adam Gopnik
    1. ​Associated articles on this topic can be found on the articles page of this site.
  10. "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" by Edmund Morris
  11. "Theodore Rex" by Edmund Morris
  12. "Colonel Roosevelt" by Edmund Morris
  13.  "Mornings on Horseback [...]" by David McCullough
  14. The Robert Caro series "The Years of Lyndon Johnson:
    1. Path to Power"
    2. Means of Ascent"
    3. Master of the Senate"
    4. Passage of Power"
  15. "The Best and the Brightest" by David Halbestram

Sports
  1. "When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi" by David Maraniss
  2. "Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball" by George Will
  3. "The Yogi Book: I Didn't Say Everything I said" by Yogi Berra

Fiction

American Literature
  1. "Cakes and Ale" by W. Somerset Maugham
  2. "The Painted Veil" by W. Somerset Maugham
  3. "Liza of Lambeth" by W. Somerset Maugham
  4. "The Razor's Edge" by W. Somerset Maugham 
  5. "Theater" by W. Somerset Maugham
  6. "The Moon and Sixpence" by W. Somerset Maugham
  7. "Of Human Bondage" by W. Somerset Maugham
  8. "The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway" by Ernest Hemingway
  9. ​"The Son Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
  10. "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
  11. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway
  12. ​

Italian Literature
  1. "La Vita Nova" by Dante Alighieri
  2. ​"Le Rime" by Dante Alighieri
  3. "La Divina Commedia" by Dante Alighieri
  4. "Il Decamerone" by Giovanni Boccaccio
  5. "Orlando Furioso" by Ludovico Ariosto
  6. "Novelle Rusticane" by Giovanni Verga
  7. "Il Mistero Buffo" by Dario Fo
  8. "Il Nome della Rosa" by Umberto Eco
  9. "Il Pendolo di Foucault" by Umberto Eco
  10. "La storia de 'I Promessi Sposi' raccontata da Umberto" By Umberto Eco
  11. "I Promessi Sposi" by Alessandro Manzoni

Russian Literature
  1. "Notes from the Underground" by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
  2. "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  3. "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  4. "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
  5. "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy