My Favorite Books
This is a collection of some of my favorite books of all time. I've read many serious clinkers
over the years and it's made me very aware of true quality. Sometimes you may find a book very
enjoyable. Once in a very great while you'll run across a book that simply moves you. This is
a collection of books that I've read more than once.
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The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
His name is Tom Booker. His voice can calm wild horses, his touch can heal broken spirits. And Annie Graves has traveled
across a continent to the Booker ranch in Montana, desperate to heal her injured daughter, the girl's savage horse, and her own
wounded heart. She comes for hope. She comes for her child. And beneath the wide Montana sky, she comes to him for what
no one else can give her--a reason to believe.
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L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
An epic crime novel that stands as a steel-edged time capsule--Los Angeles in the 1950s, a remarkable era defined in dark
shadings. This is the story of three cops in a spiral, a nightmare that tests loyalty and courage, a nightmare that offers no mercy,
allows for no survivors.
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Lines And Shadows by Joseph Wambaugh
A commando team sent to patrol the snake-infested no-man's-land south of San Diego. Not to
apprehend the thousands of illegal aliens slipping into the U.S., but to stop the ruthless
bandits who preyed on them nightly. Yet each time they walked into the violent blackness along
the border, they came closer to another boundary line--a fragile line within each man.
and crossing it meant destroying their sanity and their lives.
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Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
One of the greatest science fiction novels ever published, Stranger in a Strange Land's original manuscript had 50,000 words
cut. Now they have been reinstated for this special 30th anniversary trade edition. A Mars-born earthling arrives on this planet
for the first time as an adult, and the sensation he creates teaches Earth some unforgettable lessons. "A brilliant
mind-bender."--Kurt Vonnegut.
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Fools Die by Mario Puzo
This is one of the best novels ever written about Las Vegas and the passions of the power brokers that make it tick. Why junk
novels like Puzo's The Last Don and The Sicilian were made into films and not FOOLS DIE I'll never understand. What a great
film this would have made under the direction of a Scorcese, Coppola, or even Tarantino. This novel is Puzo's best, followed by
The Godfather, and The Dark Arena.
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Different Seasons by Stephen King
What makes these novellas so good is that each presents a profile of a character at a defining moment in his life. These
characters are well developed and believable so you care about the outcome and get involved in the story. He then takes you
through a series of events that is fascinating, and in the case of "Apt Pupil", disturbing and shocking.
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Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon
Near the end of World War II in Los Alamos, a town set in the shimmering New Mexico desert, an international team of
scientists led by Robert Oppenheimer gathered together to build the world's most dangerous weapon. The atomic bomb.
Author Joseph Kanon has crafted an ingenious and utterly absorbing thriller, a tale of espionage and love set against the most
important undercover government project in America's history.
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Smilla's Sense Of Snow by Peter Höeg
Living in Copenhagen, childless, part-Eskimo Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen has only one real friend--her six-year-old neighbor
Isaiah. When he's killed in a fall, Smilla doesn't believe it's an accident and decides to investigate--even though the police warn
against it.
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Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
At first the novel seems the kind of
anti-mythic, anti-heroic story one might expect: the main protagonists are a drunken and inarticulate pair of former Texas
Rangers turned horse rustlers. Yet when the trail begins, the story picks up an energy and a drive that makes heroes of these
men. Their mission may be historically insignificant, or pointless--McMurtry is smart enough to address both possibilities--but
there is an undoubted valor in their lives.
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American Tabloid by James Ellroy
By the bestselling author of The Black Dahlia and White Jazz comes this explosive and acclaimed new novel that goes inside the
Kennedy years. Mob bosses, politicos, snitches, psychos, fall guys, and femme fatales--in the early '60s, they're mixing up a
molotov cocktail guaranteed to end the country's innocence with a bang.
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