These 15 books I have read and thoroughly enjoyed.
Madeleine Albright, A Twentieth-Century Odyssey by Michael Dobbs
Carolyn 101 by Carolyn Kepcher & Stephen Fenichell - Business Lessons from The Apprentice's Straight Shooter
Cities of Gold by William Hartmenn - A Novel of the Ancient and Modern Southwest
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (This was probably the first book I read that influenced me to think about opening a bookstore)
Mistress of the Elgin Marbles by Susan Nagel - A Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin
Chasing Shakespeares by Sarah Smith - A Novel
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt by William Nothdurft
Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Baigent, Lincon & Leigh
How To Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci by Michael Gelb - Seven Steps to Genius Every Day
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
King of the Confessors by Thomas Hoving (This is the book that got me interested in Art History)
Connections by James Burke (It's the little details and accidents of history that turn out to be the real gems)
Contact by Carl Sagan (While the Book was good, the Movie was brilliant)
Bush on the Couch by Justin Franck - Inside the Mind of the President
The Ambassadors' Secret by John North - Holbein and the World of the Renaissance
Here are 16 book that I have not yet read.
On a Grander Scale by Lisa Jardine - The Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren
The Jigsaw Puzzle by Ann Williams
The Dragon Seekers by Christopher McGowan - How an Extraordinary Circle of Fossilists Discovered the Dinosaurs and Paved the Way for Darwin
The Gnostic Discoveries by Marvin Meyer
The Secrets of Judas by James Robinson - The Story of the Misunderstood Disciple and His Lost Gospel
Leonardo da Vinci Flights of the Mind by Charles Nicholl
American Jezebel by Eve LaPlante - The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind by Diana & Michael Preston - Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer, The Life of William Dampier
Kepler's Witch by James Connor - An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother
A Perfect Red by Amy Butler Greenfield - Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire
A Benjamin Franklin Reader by Walter Isaacson
The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester - William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
God's Secretaries by Adam Nicolson - The Making of the King James Bible
The Last Days of Henry VIII by Robert Hutchinson
Players by Bertram Fields - The Mysterious Identity of William Shakespeare
Alexander the Corrector by Julia Keay - The Tormented Genius who Unwrote the Bible
This list is just in case you like History & Biography and need something to read.
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