1. The Bible
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
4. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
5. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
6. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
7. 1984 by George Orwell
8. Harry Potter Books by J.K. Rowling
9. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
10. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
11. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
12. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
13. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
14. Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
15. It’s Not about the Bike by Lance Armstrong
16. Oh the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss
17. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
18. The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
19. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
20. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Honorable Mention (Next 20 in No Particular Order)
-A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
-The Killer Angels
-The Alchemist (Plus)
-The Hobbit
-Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
-The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)
-Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition)
-The Great Gatsby
-Think and Grow Rich!: The Original Version, Restored and Revised
-Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
-When Pride Still Mattered : A Life Of Vince Lombardi
-Candide (Bantam Classics)
-No One Here Gets Out Alive
-Moby-Dick (Dover Giant Thrift Editions)
-Band of Brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from -Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest
-Invisible Man
-The Power of One: A Novel
-The Forgotten Soldier
-On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
-Conversations with God : An Uncommon Dialogue (Book 1)
Other Recommended Reading (No Particular Order)
-The Naked Ape: A Zoologist’s Study of the Human Animal
-Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Centennial Edition)
-Heaven Is a Playground (Second Edition)
-The Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice-cream God (Loyola Classics)
-Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perrennial Modern Classics)
-The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
-Watchers at the Pond
-The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
-Days of Grace
-Still Me
-The Wealth of Nations (Modern Library Classics)
-Discovering the Laws of Life
-Hating America : The New World Sport
-Why Black Men Love White Women: Going Beyond Sexual Politics to the Heart of the Matter
-Crimson Joy
-Summer Of’42
-The Pillars of the Earth
-Ramses: The Son of Light – Volume I (Vol 1)
-David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
-Point of Impact: Net Force 05 (Net Force)
-The Sea-Wolf and Selected Stories: 100th Anniversary Edition
-Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon’s Experience with Exceptional Patients
-Sacred Hoops: SPIRITUAL LESSONS OF A HARDWOOD WARRIOR
Me : Stories of My Life
-Ender’s Game (Ender, Book 1)
-Cold Sassy Tree
-The Great Santini
-Absalom, Absalom!
-A Grief Observed
-Missing Links
-Where the Wild Things Are
-We were Soldiers Once…And Young: Ia Drang–The Battle That Changed The War In Vietnam
-Walking
-Tender Is the Night
-The Magic Mountain
-The Education of Henry Adams: A Centennial Version (Massachusetts Historical Society)
-Your Erroneous Zones
-The Best and the Brightest
-Ordinary People
-Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
-In Cold Blood
-The Grass Harp
-The Sun Also Rises
-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classics)
-A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)
-Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
-Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I – Swann’s Way & Within a Budding Grove (Vintage)
-Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
-Lonesome Dove
-The Art of War
-Bounty Trilogy
-The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
-East of Eden
-Shane
-THE TRUMPET IN THE DUST
-All Quiet on the Western Front
