By Special Request

After several questions about what I read and why, I was asked to compile a reading list. This is not exhaustive, but I was exhausted when I chose these few out of the many that I could have. And yes, I have read all of thse and can recommend all of them...for various reasons, too numerous to mention here.

The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight, Ackmann, Martha
The Physics of Baseball (3rd Edition), Adair, Robert K.
Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment, Ambrose, Stephen E.
See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism, Baer, Robert
The Baseball Fan's Companion: How to Master the Subtleties of the World's Most Complex Team Sport and Learn to Watch the Game Like an Expert, Bakalar, Nick
Crowd Culture: An Examination of the American Way of Life, Bell, Bernard Iddings
Critics of the Enlightenment: Readings in the French Counter-Revolutionary Tradition, Beneton, Philippe (Foreword)
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science, Bethell, Tom
Stages to Saturn : a technological history of the Apollo/Saturn launch vehicles, Bilstein, Roger E.
Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager, Bissinger, Buzz
Possibilities of Prayer, Bounds, E. M.
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, Bowden, Mark
Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury, Ray
The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man, Budziszewski, J.
Hey Ranger!: True Tales of Humor & Misadventure from America's National Parks, Burnett, Jim
Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed, Cooper, Henry S.F., Jr.
Godless: The Church of Liberalism, Coulter, Ann
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repressionm Courtois, Stéphane
The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg, Dawidoff, Nicholas
Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Denton, Michael
The Best Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky: Including Notes from the Underground, Dostoevsky, Fyodor
The Education of Ronald Reagan: The General Electric Years And the Untold Story of His Conversion to Conservatism (Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History), Evans, Thomas W.
Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs: The Classic Martyrology, Gallonio, Reverend Antonio
The Men in Blue: Conversations With Umpires, Gerlach, Larry R.
The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus, Gingerich, Owen
Rebel with a Cause, Graham, Franklin
The Art of the Catapult: Build Greek Ballistae, Roman Onagers, English Trebuchets, and More Ancient Artillery, Gurstelle, William
A Primer on CO2 and Climate, Hayden, Howard C.
A Life In Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII, Helm, Sarah
The Medical Casebook of Adolf Hitler: His Illnesses, Doctors, and Drugs, Heston, Leonard L.
Shows about Nothing: Nihilism in Popular Culture from the Exorcist to Seinfeld, Hibbs, Thomas S.
Sky of Stone: A Memoir, Hickam, Homer
Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society, Hollander, Paul
Les Misérables, Hugo, Victor
High Calling: The Courageous Life and Faith of Space Shuttle Columbia Commander Rick Husband, Husband, Evelyn
Hamlet
Rookie, Jenkins, Jerry B.
The Battle for Rome : The Germans, the Allies, the Partisans, and the Pope, September 1943-June 1944, Katz, Robert
Dingers!: A Short History of the Long Ball, Keating, Peter
Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda, Keegan, John
Lessons from a Sheep Dog, Keller, Phillip
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Larson, Erik
Thunderstruck, Larson, Erik
Avalon: The Return of King Arthur, Lawhead, Stephen R.
Merlin (The Pendragon Cycle, Book 2), Lawhead, Stephen R.
Patrick: Son of Ireland, Lawhead, Stephen R.
Scarlet, Lawhead, Stephen R.
Taliesin: Book One of the Pendragon Cycle (Pendragon Cycle), Lawhead, Stephen R.
Grail (Pendragon Cycle/Bk 5), Lawhead, Steve
Rogue Trader: How I Brought Down Barings Bank and Shook the Financial World, Leeson, Nick
Rare Words and Ways to Master Their Meanings: 500 Arcane but Useful Words for Language Lovers, Leighton, Jan
Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language, Lerer, Seth
The Screwtape Letters, Lewis, C. S.
And the Angels Were Silent: Walking with Christ toward the Cross, Lucado, Max
Hitler's Cross: The Revealing Story of How the Cross of Christ Was Used As a Symbol of the Nazi Agenda, Lutzer, Erwin W.
A Skeleton In God's Closet, Maier, Paul
Flames of Rome, The: A Novel, Maier, Paul L.
Pontius Pilate, Maier, Paul L.
Fatal Vision, McGinniss, Joe
Young Stalin, Montefiore, Simon Sebag
Under Fire: An American Story, North, Oliver L.
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present, Oren, Michael B.
The Dante Club: A Novel, Pearl, Matthew
Spyplane: The U-2 History, Polmar, Norman
A Physician Looks at the Crucifixion, Pries, Mitchell Peter
Modern Art and the Death of a Culture, Rookmaaker, H. R.
A Mathematician at the Ballpark: Odds and Probabilities for Baseball Fans, Ross, Ken
The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor, Silverstein, Ken
Deceived on Purpose, Smith, Warren
A Consumer's Guide to the Apocalypse: Why There is No Cultural War in America and Why We Will Perish Nonetheless, Velasquez, Eduardo
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, Winchester, Simon
Weird and Wonderful Words, Winchester, Simon
Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America, Wise, David
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, Woods Jr., Thomas E.
Who Made God?: And Answers to Over 100 Other Tough Questions of Faith, Zacharias, Ravi
Plagues of the Mind by Bruce S. Thornton
Intellectual Morons by Daniel J. Flynn
Political Pilgrims by Paul Hollander
The Triumph of the Therapeutic by Phillip Rieff
Monsters from the Id by E. Michael Jones
Dionysos Rising: The Birth of Cultural Revolution out of the Spirit of Music by E. Michael Jones