Reading List

• Salt, Milk, Cod, and The Big Oyster by Mark Kurlansky. (I may be a fan of this guy’s work)
• The Taste of Conquest by Michael Krondl
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Cooked, Caffine, The Bottany of Desire by Michael Pollan
• Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America by Michael Ruhlman

• Subject Histories like those by Mark Kurlansky.
• Coal by Barbara Freese
• A Splendid Exchange by William Bernstein
• The Ascent of Money by Niall Furguson
• Guns, Germs and Steel, and Collapse by Jared Diamond
• Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism by Bhu Srinivasan
• Cuba Libre! by Tony Perrottet
• Farsighted by Steven Johnson
• Blitzed by Norman Ohler
• Dataclysm by Christian Rudder
• Blink, The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
• Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
• Paper by Mark Kurlansky
• Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 by Laura Spinney
• The Ten-Cent Plague by David Hajdu
• The Rise of Rome by Anthony Everitt
• Pacific, Krakatoa, The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
• Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

• Saga of the Seven Suns, Dune Prequels by Kevin J Anderson
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Gary Paulsen: (So many, in my teens)
• Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row, Red Pony, Junius Maltby, The Pearl By Steinbeck
• Micromegas, Zadig, Candide by Voltaire
• Hardy Boys: (Dozens)
• Harry Potter (All) J. K. Rowling (I have not seen the movies.)
• Dozens of books of fairy tales and short stories from Project Gutenberg.
• Douglas Adams (All)
• The Cat Who… Series (All) by Lilian Jackson Braun