Tuesday, April 22, 2025

A Few Books That Changed My Life

 


  • The Holy Bible
  • The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
  • Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
  • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  • Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
  • Life with a Star by Jiri Weil
  • Letter From Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • The Warden by Anthony Trollope
  • Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  • Fortunes of War by Olivia Manning
  • The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
  • The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madson, and John Jay
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
  • Six Crises by Richard Nixon
  • The Forest Ranger by Herbert Kaufman
  • Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
  • Silent Missions by Vernon A. Walters
  • The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  • The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
  • Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
  • Churchill by Lord Moran
  • The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor
  • All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
  • The Insurgents by Fred Kaplan
  • Lincoln and His Generals by T. Harry Williams
  • The First Circle by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  • Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John LeCarré
  • A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker
  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
  • Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe
  • Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
  • I, Claudius by Robert Graves
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
  • Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  • In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman
  • The Wall by John Hersey
  • Chronicles of Wasted Time by Malcolm Muggeridge

4 comments:

chris said...

Good list. I read The Killer Angels almost every summer to coincide with the events at Gettysburg. A Moveable Feast is perhaps my favorite Hemingway book and he never wanted it published.

Michael Wade said...

Chris,

I think A Moveable Feast is Hemingway's best book and that his short stories are much better than his novels.

Your annual read of The Killer Angels is a great tradition.

Michael

Ray Visotski said...

Greetings from SC, Michael.
I was surprised that Atlas Shrugged was not on your list.

Michael Wade said...

Ray,

I have always, for some reason, had difficulty getting into Atlas Shrugged. I have friends who have read it multiple times so the problem may be mine. It is on my Give It Another Try list!

Michael