Fave Books - updated 11-10-2020
This alphabetized list will take a long time to list ALL the books on my shelves since I'm an avid reader! Updated 11-10-2020
Science/Math Related
- A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age - Jimmy Soni
- Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and her Crew - Michael Leinbach, Jonathon H Ward, et al.
- Brother Astronomer - Guy Consolmagno
- Chasing New Horizons - Alan Stern and David Grinspoon - (Alan signed my copy)
- Cosmos - Carl Sagan
- Deke! U.S. Manned Pace: From Mercury to the Shuttle - Donald K. "Deke" Slayton with Michael Cassutt
- E=MC2 - A biography of the world's most famous equation - David Bodanis
- Endurance - Scott Kelly (will be meeting him in June and get my copy signed)
- Failure is not an Option - Gene Kranz
- Falling to Earth - Al Worden
- Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly
- Last Man on the Moon - Eugene Cernan
- Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time - Dava Sobel
- Lost Moon - Jim Lovell
- Marie Curie: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary Scientist Who Became the First Woman to Win a Nobel Prize - Charles River Editors
- Michio Kaku - any of his books
- Moon Shot - Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton
- Most Wanted Particle - Jon Butterworth
- Nikola Tesla - Biography of a Genius - Marc J Seifer
- No Dream is Too High - Buzz Aldrin
- Origins - Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith
- QED - Richard P. Feynman
- Rocket Boys - Homer H Hickam Jr
- Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan - George D Morgan
- Rocket Girls - Nathalia Holt
- Rocket Men - Robert Kurson
- Spaceman - Mike Massimino
- The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars - Dava Sobel
- The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race... - Eugene Cernan
- The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe
- The Sky Below - Scott Parazynski
- The Woman Who Smashed Codes - Jason Fagone
- Thirteen - The Apollo Flight That Failed - Henry S.F. Cooper
- 22 Britannia Road - Amanda Hodgkinson
- A Half-Acre of Hell - Avis D Shorer
- Alan Turing: Unlocking the Enigma - David Boyle
- Any book by my friend, Donald Burgett
- Broken Angels - Gemma Liviero
- D-Day - Hell's Highway - Bastogne (3 books) by George Koskimaki
- Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink - Anthony McCarten
- Fatal Decision - Carlo D'Estes
- First Across the Rhine - Col David Pergrin
- Helmet for my Pillow - Robert Leckie
- Operation Dragoon - The Liberation of Southern France - Anthony Tucker-Jones
- Sole Survivor - George Gay
- The Damned Engineers - Janice Holt Giles
- The Hidden Legacy of World War II - Carol Schultz Vento
- The Liberator - Alex Kershaw
- The Lost Letter - Jillian Cantor
- The Lost World of Bletchley Park - Sinclair McKay
- The Secret Lives of Codebreakers - Sinclair McKay
- Violins of Hope - James A Grymes
- Winds of War and War and Remembrance - Herman Wouk
- Winter Journey - Diane Armstrong
- Winter Men - Jesper Bugge Kold
- A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived - Adam Rutherford
- Alexander Hamilton: A Life - Willard Sterne Randall
- Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence - John Ferling
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- Catherine - Inside the heart and mind of a great monarch - Sigrid Weidenweber
- Homeland - John Jakes
- Hotel Moscow - Talia Carner
- North and South - John Jakes
- Queen of Scots - John Guy
- The Blue and the Gray
- The Brotherhood of War - W.E.B. Griffin
- The Last Boleyn - Karen Harper
- The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
- The Passion of Marie Romanov - Laura Rose
- The Year 1000 - Lacy and Danziger
- Victoria: The Heart and Mind of a Young Queen - Helen Rappaport
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- War of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors - Dan Jones
- Pattie Boyd - Wonderful Tonight
- The Beatles - The Beatles Anthology
- Yeager - An Autobiography
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
- A Lady Astronaut Novel - The Calculated Stars and The Fated Sky - Robinette Kowal
- A World Out of Time - Niven
- A Wrinkle In Time - Madeleine L'Engle
- Arthur C. Clark - any of his books
- Asterior Noir -G.S. Jensen
- C. J. Cherryh any of her books
- Contact - Carl Sagan
- Deep Black - Samuel Best
- Drifters Alliance - Ellen Case
- Dune - Frank Herbert and the "pre-Dune"books written after his passing - Brian Herbert & Kevin J Anderson
- Ghost Targets - series - Aaron Pogue
- Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - J.K Rowling
- Merkiaari Wars - series - Mark E. Cooper
- Mission One - Samuel Best
- Noa's Ark series - C Gockel
- Odyssey One - series - Evan Currie
- Quantum Tangle - Chris Reher
- Ringworld - Larry Niven
- Singularity - series - William Hertling
- Solo - Mur Lafferty
- Split Second - Douglas E Richards
- The Atlantis Plague series - AG Riddle
- The Coordinate and The Hidden Coordinate (books 1 and 2) - Marc Jacobs
- The Extinction Files (Pandemic and Genome)
- The Fallen Empire Omnibus (books 1-3 and prequel) - Lindsay Buroker
- The Coordinate/The Hidden Coordinate (books 1 and 2) - Marc Jacobs
- The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
- The Long Winter Trilogy - (Winter World, The Solar War, The Lost Colony) - A.G. Riddle
- The Man Who Fell to Earth - Walter Zellman
- The Universe Builders - set of four books - Steve LaBel
- Watchers - (books 1 and 2) - S.T. Boston
- Star Wars - Yoda - Dark Rendezvous - Sean Stewart
General Fiction/Non-Fiction
- Alex and Me - Irene M Pepperberg
- Earth's Children - Jean Auel
- Korean Alphabet - Go, Dahye
- Talk to Me in Korean - book 1 - sold by Yoko Premium
- Sloths - Life in the Slow Lane - Rebecca Cliffe
- The Beautiful American - Jeanne Mackin
- The Culper Series (Inner Circle, The Fifth Assassin, and President's Shadow) - Brad Meltzer
- The Genus of Birds - Jennifer Ackerman
- The Inside Ring - Mike Lawson
- The Magnolia Story - Chip and Joanna Gaines
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