Favorite Books – updated Sept 25, 2024

I recently decided that it might be nice for my viewers if I included links to the books I’ve read, so starting today (7-24-2024), I’m implementing it for any new additions to this page.

Science/Math Related
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age – Jimmy Soni
Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and her Crew – Michael Leinbach, Jonathon H Ward, et al.
Brother Astronomer – Guy Consolmagno
Chasing New Horizons – Alan Stern and David Grinspoon – (Alan signed my copy)
Cosmos – Carl Sagan
Deke! U.S. Manned Pace: From Mercury to the Shuttle – Donald K. “Deke” Slayton with Michael Cassutt
E=MC2 – A biography of the world’s most famous equation – David Bodanis
Endurance – Scott Kelly (signed copy)
Failure is not an Option – Gene Kranz
Falling to Earth – Al Worden
Hidden Figures – Margot Lee Shetterly
Last Man on the Moon – Eugene Cernan
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time – Dava Sobel
Losing the Nobel Prize – Brian Keating
Lost Moon – Jim Lovell
Marie Curie: The Life and Legacy of the Legendary Scientist Who Became the First Woman to Win a Nobel Prize – Charles River Editors
Michio Kaku – any of his books
Moon Shot – Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton
Most Wanted Particle – Jon Butterworth
Nikola Tesla – Biography of a Genius – Marc J Seifer
No Dream is Too High – Buzz Aldrin
Origins – Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith
QED – Richard P. Feynman
Rocket Boys – Homer H Hickam Jr
Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan – George D Morgan
Rocket Girls – Nathalia Holt
Rocket Men – Robert Kurson
Spaceman – Mike Massimino
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspective on Civilization – Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars – Dava Sobel
The God Equation – Michio Kaku
The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America’s Race… – Eugene Cernan
The Right Stuff – Tom Wolfe
The Sky Below – Scott Parazynski
The Woman Who Smashed Codes – Jason Fagone
The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics – edited by Timothy Ferris
Thirteen – The Apollo Flight That Failed – Henry S.F. Cooper

WWII – Fiction/Non-Fiction
22 Britannia Road – Amanda Hodgkinson
A Half-Acre of Hell – Avis D Shorer
Alan Turing: Unlocking the Enigma – David Boyle
Any book by my friend, Donald Burgett
Broken Angels – Gemma Liviero
D-Day – Hell’s Highway – Bastogne (3 books) by my friend, George Koskimaki
Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink – Anthony McCarten
Fatal Decision – Carlo D’Estes
First Across the Rhine – Col David Pergrin – a personally signed book in my collection
Helmet for my Pillow – Robert Leckie
Operation Dragoon – The Liberation of Southern France – Anthony Tucker-Jones
Retracing the Steps of the 1277th – John Priest
Sole Survivor – George Gay
The After Dunkirk Series (books 1-7) – Lee Jackson
The Damned Engineers – Janice Holt Giles
The Hidden Legacy of World War II – Carol Schultz Vento
The Liberator – Alex Kershaw
The Lost Letter – Jillian Cantor
The Lost World of Bletchley Park – Sinclair McKay
The Redhead of Auschwitz – a true story – Nechama Birnbaum
The Secret Lives of Codebreakers – Sinclair McKay
Violins of Hope – James A Grymes
Winds of War and War and Remembrance – Herman Wouk
Winter Journey – Diane Armstrong
Winter Men – Jesper Bugge Kold

History and Historical Fiction
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived – Adam Rutherford
Alexander Hamilton: A Life – Willard Sterne Randall
Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence – John Ferling
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Catherine – Inside the heart and mind of a great monarch – Sigrid Weidenweber
Dangerous Lady – Amy License
Homeland – John Jakes
Hotel Moscow – Talia Carner
Ivy Rose Series – (books 1-3) – Gemma Jackson
Korea: The Impossible Country – Daniel Tudor
Lady in Waiting – Karen Heenan
Longsword’s Lady: Countess Ela of Salisbury (Medieval Babes: Tales of Little-Known Ladies Book 7)
North and South – John Jakes
Queen of Scots – John Guy
The Blue and the Gray
The Brotherhood of War – W.E.B. Griffin
The Girl Who Came Home: A Novel of the Titanic – Hazel Gaynor
The Ivy Rose series – Gemma Jackson
The Last Boleyn – Karen Harper
The Last Christmas – Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb
The Lydiard Chronicles (series of 3) – Elizabeth St.John
The Marwood Family Tudor Saga (books 1-4) – Amy Licence
The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Passion of Marie Romanov – Laura Rose
The Royal Court Series – (books 1-6) – Anne R Bailey
The Year 1000 – Lacy and Danziger
Tudor Ladies in Waiting – (books 1-3) – Sandra Byrd
Victoria: The Heart and Mind of a Young Queen – Helen Rappaport
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
War of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors – Dan Jones
When we Were Young & Brave – Hazel Gaynor

Autobiography/Biography
Do You Feel Like I Do? – Peter Frampton with Alan Light
Jet Boss – Captain Laura Savino
John Glenn: A Memoir – John Glenn with Nick Taylor
My Effin’ Life – Geddy Lee
Pattie Boyd – Wonderful Tonight
The Beatles – The Beatles Anthology
The Storyteller – Dave Grohl
Yeager – An Autobiography

Sci-Fi/Fantasy
3Zekiel (First Contact) Pater Cawdron
A Lady Astronaut Novel – The Calculated Stars and The Fated Sky – Robinette Kowal
A World Out of Time – Niven
A Wrinkle In Time – Madeleine L’Engle
Apothecary (First Contact) – Peter Cawdron
Arthur C. Clark – any of his books
Asterior Noir – G.S. Jensen
Carpathians – Paul Dixon
Chain Reaction – Gerald M Kilby
C. J. Cherryh any of her books
Cold Eyes (First Contact) – Peter Cawdron
Colony Mars – (book 1-6) – Gerald M Kilby
Contact – Carl Sagan
Darwin’s Children – Greg Bear
Deep Black – Samuel Best
Drifters Alliance – Ellen Case
Dune – Frank Herbert and the “pre-Dune” books written after his death – Brian Herbert & Kevin J Anderson
Earth Song series – Nick Cook
Einstein’s Raven – Fred G. Baker
Factory of God – (book 1 of 3) – Brandon Q Morris
Ghost Targets – series – Aaron Pogue
Gravity is Heartless – Alise Black
Harry Potter series – J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – J.K Rowling
Hello World (a book of short stories) – Peter Cawdron
Hole – Brandon Q Morris
Ice Moon Series – (books 1-4) Brandon Q Morris
Infernum – Jayson Adams
Letter From Hell – Time Diving – Craig Robertson
Losing Mars (First Contact) – Peter Cawdron
Lucifer’s Hammer – Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Mammoth – John Varley
Merkiaari Wars – series – Mark E. Cooper
Mission One – Samuel Best
Noa’s Ark series – C Gockel
Nosferatu (First Contact) – Peter Cawdron
Odyssey One – series – Evan Currie
Portals – Douglass E Richards
Post-Human Series – (books 1-4) – David Simpson
Privateer Tales (books 1-20) – Jamie McFarlane
Quantum Radio – A. G. Riddle
Quantum Tangle – Chris Reher
Ringworld – Larry Niven
Singularity – series – William Hertling
Solar Storm – Gerald M Kilby
Solo – Mur Lafferty
Split Second – Douglas E Richards
Star Kingdom – (books 1-8) – Lindsay Buroker
The Art of War (First Contact) – Peter Cawdron
The Atlantis Plague series – AG Riddle
The Belt (books 1-6) – Gerald M Kilby
The Boat of a Million Years – Poul Anderson
The Coordinate and The Hidden Coordinate (books 1 and 2) – Marc Jacobs
The Cosmic Key – Patrick Donohue
The Disturbance – Brandon Q Morris
The Extinction Files (Pandemic and Genome)
The Fallen Empire Omnibus (books 1-3 and prequel) – Lindsay Buroker
The Coordinate/The Hidden Coordinate (books 1 and 2) – Marc Jacobs
The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings – Tolkien
The Immortal – Joshua T. Calvert
The Long Winter Trilogy – (Winter World, The Solar War, The Lost Colony) – A.G. Riddle
The Man Who Fell to Earth – Walter Zellman
The Spaceman Chronicles – (books 1-3) – Tom Abrahams
The Tempest (First Contact) – Peter Cawdron
The Universe Builders – (set of four books) – Steve LaBel
The Yestertime Effect – Andrew Cunningham
Watchers – (books 1 and 2) – S.T. Boston
Star Wars – Yoda – Dark Rendezvous – Sean Stewart
Wherever Seeds May Fall (First Contact) – Peter Cawdron
Xenophobia – Peter Cawdron

General Fiction/Non-Fiction
Alex and Me – Irene M Pepperberg
Earth’s Children – Jean Auel
Korean Alphabet – Go, Dahye
Talk to Me in Korean – (book 1) – sold by Yoko Premium
Sloths – Life in the Slow Lane – Rebecca Cliffe
The Beautiful American – Jeanne Mackin
The Cosmic Key: A Thriller – Patrick Donohue
The Culper Series (Inner Circle, The Fifth Assassin, and President’s Shadow) – Brad Meltzer
The Genus of Birds – Jennifer Ackerman
The Inside Ring – Mike Lawson
The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown
The Magdalene Chronicle series – Gary McAvoy
The Magnolia Story – Chip and Joanna Gaines
The Stars of Everywhere – Kevin Glenn
The Vatican Secret Archive Thriller series – Gary McAvoy