2014

Everyone is doing it!  Reading lists, Best music list, best movies, diets, goals for the new year!

The creation of a reading list for me has been quite easy, I got some amazing books for Christmas, and so the 2014 reading list was started with these books:
-The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin, a historical look at the falling out of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William H Taft.
-Freaknomics by Steven Levitt and Steven Dunner . A book that Mike refers to quite often when he sees a problem un-sloved because of a lack of incentive.
-A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson. A book similar to "lies my teacher told me" that is more of a setting the record straight kind of book, from our elementary learnings to actual grown up explanations about science and history.
- The book thief by Markus Zusak. Which I will read and then proceed to watch the movie.
- Mother Teresa: A complete Authorized biography by Kathryn Spink. A present from my Sister-in-law and her husband.

I also accompanied Mike to go pick up his law books for this semester of school, while I was waiting for him to get his book, I wandered around the GW bookstore and these two books caught my eye.

- Homage to Catalonia, Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell. A short book that talks about the authors experience in Spain during the Spanish Civil war in 1936. I really enjoy reading about the spanish civil war, and I try and tell others about it as much as I can, I feel that it gets overshadowed by WWII, and so very few Americans ever hear about it.
-Eisenhower 1956: The Presidents Year of Crisis- Suez and the Brink of War. The title pretty much says it all, but Eisenhower is one of the presidents that I have a growing interest in due to reading the biography on J. Edgar Hoover.

The rest of my list is roll-overs from 2013, I either didn't find them at the library or they didn't seem as interesting at the time I needed a new book, or they have not been finished/published yet.

- The Way of Kings: Words Of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
- Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
-The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South 1670-1717 by Alan Gallay
- A. Lincoln: A Biography by Ronals C White Jr.
- Henry Clay: The Essential American by David S Heidler

I was talking with my sister, and she mentioned that a lot of times, if she does not have a non-fiction book on her list to read, she feels like she should, and therefore never reads a fiction book, even if there is one that has caught her eye.

Reading is great no matter what you are reading, AND, if you need a good fiction book to read, I recommend The Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. They are a great fiction read.

So, what is on your list?

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