With the New Year upon us, I thought I might share what books I have on deck for 2016. Keep in mind I am a writer and amateur historian, so my “professional reading” tends to have a very heavy emphasis on military history, in particular WW2 and the Cold War. My leisure and fiction reading tends to gravitate that way also, but I also like a good spy novel as well. I also try to squeeze one or two Pulitzer Prize winning novels in there too.
I have an entirely separate section for World War Two Books, and these books change frequently depending on what I am studying or what catches my attention. For now, this is what I have on deck.
Fiction
- The Revenant (Punke)
- The Martian (Weir)
- Ghost Fleet (Singer)
- All the Light We Cannot See (Doerr)
- The Orphan Master’s Son (Johnson)
- The Lions Gate (Pressfield)
- Red Storm Rising (Clancy)
- Red Sparrow (Matthews)
- Assassins Gallery (Robbins)
- Command Authority (Clancy)
- Jeff Shaara World War Two Quadrilogy (4 books)
- Bernard Cornwell Saxon Tales (On Book 4, Sword Song)
- Agincourt (Cornwell)
- 1356 (Cornwell)
Non-Fiction
- Gulag (Applebaum)
- Iron Curtain (Applebaum)
- A People’s Tragedy (Figes)
- Days of Rage (Burrough)
- Future Crimes (Goodman)
- The Blue Tent Sky (Aiken)
- Dead Wake (Larson)
- The Billion Dollar Spy (Hoffman)
- Disciples: WW2 Missions of the CIA Directors (Waller)
- The New Spymasters (Grey)
- Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century (Horne)
- The Fall of the Ottomans (Rogan)
- The Republic of Pirates (Woodard)
- The Unknown Story: Mao (Chang)
- Revolution in Texas (Johnson)
- Lone Star Nation (Brand)
- The Ghost of Cannae (O’Connell)
- Moscow 1812 (Zamoyski)
- Napoleons War (Esdaile)
- The Greatest Knight (Asbridge)
- Jerusalem (Montefiore)
- If By Sea (Daughan)
- Small Wars, Faraway Places (Burleigh)
- All the Shah’s Men (Kinzer)
- War Made New (Boot)
- Crusade (Atkinson)
- The Great War of our Time ( Morell)
- Fiasco (Ricks)
- Cobra II (Gordon)
- American Spartan (Tyson)
- Agent Storm (Storm)
- Soul of Battle (Hanson)
- The Savior Generals (Hanson)
- The Very Best Men (Thomas)
- Legacy of Ashes (Weiner)
- The Good Spy (Ames)
- The Zhivago Affair (Finn)
- A Spy Among Friends (Macintyre)
- Company Man (Rizzo)
- The Manchurian President (Klein)
- Body of Secrets (Bamford)
- Shadow Warrior (Woods)
- Safe for Democracy (Prados)
- Ike’s Spies (Ambrose)
- Blacklisted by History (Evans)
World War Two
- Richard J. Evans Trilogy
- The Coming of the Third Reich,
- The Third Reich in Power
- The Third Reich at War
- Carlo D’Este World War Two Leaders Biography Trilogy
- Eisenhower: A Soldiers Life
- Warlord: The Life of Winston Churchill at War
- Patton: A Genius for War
Stay Sharp, Stay Alert and Stay Dangerous!