Books

            Booklist, other recommended books, with brief descriptions.

1.   A Fez of the Heart by Jeremy Seal
   
2.   Murder on a Kibbutz by Batya Gur
   
3.   The John McPhee Reader selections from books by John McPhee
   
4.   When Earth and Sky Changed Places by LeLy Hayslip with Jay Wurtz
             continued in Child of War, Woman of Peace
   
5.   The Happy Islands of Oceania by Paul Theroux
   
6.   Nuclear Renewal by Richard Rhodes
   
7.   Out West by Dayton Duncan
   
8.   The Spell of the Tiger by Sy Montgomery
   
9.   Rolling Nowhere by Ted Conover
   
10.   Slide Rule by Nevil Shute
    
11.   Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies with Alison Leslie Gold
    
12.   The Ends of the Earth by Robert D. Kaplan
    
13.   Searching for Paradise by Thurston Clarke
              (Original title: "Searching for Crusoe")
    
14.   Baby, Would I Lie?" by Donald Westlake
    
15.   Zero Three Bravo by Mariana Gosnell
    
16.   I, Asimov by Isaac Asimov (confession of an Asimov wannabee)
    
17.   The Transforming Principle by Maclyn McCarthy
              (The life of Oswald Avery and the Secret of DNA.)
    
18.   Passage to Juneau by Jonathan Raban
    
19.   The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston
    
20.   The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
    
21.   Tycho and Kepler by Kitty Ferguson
    
22.   Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
    
23.   A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
    
24.   Eastward to Tartary by Robert Kaplan
    
25.   The Arch of Kerguelen by Jean-Paul Kauffmann
    
26.   Washington Schlepped Here By Christopher Buckley
    
27.   A Short History of Nearly Everything By Bill Bryson
    
28.   Population 485 by Michael Perrry
    
29.   The Fall of Baghdad by Jon Lee Anderson
    
30.   The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan
    
31.   Blue Latitudes the story of captain Cook, by Tony Horwitz
    
32.   Talking to the Enemy by Avner Mandelman
    
33.   Love my Rifle more than You by Kayla Williams
    
34.   Night Calls by by Henry Eisenberg with Arlene and Howard Eisenberg
    
35.   Imperial Grunts by Robert D. Kaplan
    
36.   An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina and Tom Zoellner
    
37.   The Southern Journey of a Civil War Marine The illustrated notebook of Henry O. Gusley
    edited and annotated by Edward T. Cotham, jr.
    
38.   The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn Beer with Susan Dworkin
    
39.   Francis Crick, Discoverer of the Genetic Code by Matt Ridley
    
40.   The Occupation--war and resistance in Iraq by Patrick Cockburn
    
41.   The Origins of the Future by John Gribbin
    
42.   Mirrors of the Unseen by Jason Elliott
    
43.   The Coast by Joseph J. Thorndike
    
44.   Swimming Across by Andrew S. Grove
    
45.   Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
    
46.   Becoming Shakespeare by John T. Lynch
    
47.   Jerusalem by Simon Goldhill
    
48.   Doctors by Sherwin B. Nuland
    
49.   In the Footsteps of Marco Polo by Dennis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell
50.   In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
51.   Nathanael Greene by Gerald M. Carbone
52.   In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
53.   The Oasis by Petru Popescu
    
54.   The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
    
55.   The Little Book of String Theory by Steven S. Gubser
    
56.   Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan
    
57.   1948, A Soldier's Tale by Uri Avnery
    
58.   I Shall not Hate by Izzeldin Abuelaish
    
59.   Sailors in the Holy Land by Andrew Jampoler
    
60.   The Man who Invented the Computer by Jane Smiley
    
61.   Lost in America by Sherwin Nuland
    
62.   Delhi by Sam Miller
    
63.   To the Last Breath by Francis Slakey
    
64.   Stranger to History by Aatish Taseer
    
65.   Every Man in this Village is a Liar by Megan K. Stack
    
66.   Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya Bremzen
    
67.   iWoz by Steve Wozniak with Gina Smith
    
68.   The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
    
69.   Quest by Leopold Infeld
    
70.   Pumpkin Flowers by Matti Friedman