Fave Books - updated 02-09-20

This alphabetized list will take a long time to list ALL the books on my shelves, since I'm an avid reader! Updated 2-09-2020

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 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 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

WWII - Fiction/Non-Fiction

• 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 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

History and Historical Fiction

• 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 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

Autobiography/Biography

• 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
• 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 Extinction Files (Pandemic and Genome
• The Fallen Empire Omnibus) books 1-3 and prequel) - Lindsay Buroker
• 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
• Watchers - (books 1 and 2) - S.T. Boston

General Fiction/Non-Fiction

• Alex and Me - Irene M Pepperberg
• Earth's Children - Jean Auel
• 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 Magnolia Story - Chip and Joanna Gaines