Books read in October. Five favorites with astericks.
The Longest Race by Kara Goucher
A Song Everlasting by Ha Jin
The Noise of Typewriters by Lance Morrow
The Eleventh Man by Ivan Doig
Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel*
The Immortalists: Charles Lindberg, Dr. Alexis Carrel… by David M. Friedman
Gladiator: Fighting For Life, Glory, And Freedom by Ben Hubbard
San Fransicko by Michael Shellenberger
Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World by Lawrence and Nancy Goldberg
The Convict and Other Stories by James Lee Burke
Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe by Thomas Cahill*
Will The Circle Be Unbroken? by Studs Terkel
Drop Dead Healthy by A.J. Jacobs
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter by Thomas Cahill*
The Stranger at the Palazzo D’Oro and other stories by Paul Theroux
The Geography of Genius by Eric Weiner
In the Pond by Ha Jin
Heretics and Heroes by Thomas Cahill*
A room without books is like a body without a soul. -Cicero