So many books, so little time.
❧ Twenty Greatest Adventure Books
- Stephen Ambrose – Undaunted Courage
- Felice Benuzzi – No Picnic on Mount Kenya
- Laurence Bergreen – Over the Edge of the World
- Steven Callahan – Adrift
- Apsley Cherry-Garrand – The Worst Journey in the World
- Art Davidson – Minus 148°
- Gontran De Poncins – Kabloona
- Bernal Diaz – The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico
- William Herndon – Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon
- Maurice Herzog – Annapurna
- Thor Heyerdahl – Kon Tiki
- Washington Irving – The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
- Jon Krakauer – Into Thin Air
- Alfred Lansing – Endurance
- Reinhold Messner – All Fourteen 8000'ers
- Doug Peacock – Grizzly Years
- John Wesley Powell – The Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons
- Slavomir Rawicz – The Long Walk
- Piers Paul Read – Alive
- Hudson Stuck – The Ascent of Denali
❧ Twenty Greatest Military Books
- Mark Bowden – Black Hawk Down
- John Burford – LRRP Team Leader
- Dick Couch – Chosen Soldier
- Tommy Franks – American Soldier
- Mike Gordon and Bernard Trainor – Cobra II
- Sebastian Gorka – Defeating Jihad
- Eric Haney – Inside Delta Force
- Bill Harlow and James Mitchell – Enhanced Interrogation
- Frank Johnson – Diary of an Airborne Ranger
- Alex Kershaw – The Longest Winter
- Jon Krakauer – Where Men Win Glory
- Marcus Luttrell – Lone Survivor
- Andy McNab – Bravo Two Zero
- Sean Naylor – Not a Good Day to Die
- Richard Newcomb – Abandon Ship
- James Rowe – Five Years to Freedom
- Gary Schroen – First In
- Tony Schwalm – The Guerilla Factory
- Hampton Sides – Ghost Soldiers
- Herbert Werner – Iron Coffins
❧ Twenty Greatest Books to Make You Smart
- Carey Benedict – How we Learn
- Nicholas Carr – The Shallows
- Gary Chapman – The Five Love Languages
- Ann Coulter – Demonic
- Jared Diamond – Collapse
- Mike Gluck and John Johnson – Everydata
- Henry Hazlitt – Economics in One Lesson
- Eric Hoffer – The True Believer
- Theodore Kaczynski – Technological Slavery
- Daniel Kahneman – Thinking Fast and Slow
- Daniel Levitin – A Field Guide to Lies
- Farhad Manjoo – True Enough
- Jesse Lee Peterson – The Antidote
- Jordan Peterson – Twelve Rules for Life
- Jeremy Rifkin – The Age of Access
- Marshall Rosenberg – Nonviolent Communication
- Ben Shapiro – Brainwashed
- Thomas Sowell – Wealth, Poverty, and Politics
- Albert Speer – Inside the Third Reich
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956
❧ Ten Greatest American History Books
- Michael Allen and Larry Schweikart – A Patriot's History of the United States
- John Brebner – The Explorers of North America, 1492-1806
- Bruce Catton – The Civil War
- Bernard DeVoto – The Journals of Lewis and Clark
- Timothy Egan – The Worst Hard Time
- Brian Fagan – The Great Journey
- David McCullough – 1776
- Thomas Paine – Common Sense
- Colin Powell – My American Journey
- Clark Wissler – Indians of the United States
❧ Ten Greatest Adirondack Books
- Ted Aber and Stella King – The History of Hamilton County
- Russell Carson – Peaks and People of the Adirondacks
- Alfred Donaldson – A History of the Adirondacks
- William Fox – A History of the Lumber Industry in the State of New York
- Harold Hochschild – Lumberjacks and Rivermen in the Central Adirondacks
- Arthur Masten – The Story of Adirondac
- Paul Schneider – The Adirondacks
- Jeptha Simms – Trappers of New York
- Guy and Laura Waterman – Forest and Crag
- William White – Adirondack Country
❧ Ten Greatest Fiction Books
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