With the new school year beginning soon, I decided to make a list of the books that I want to read for the improvement of my mind. I am trying to add more non-fiction, non-history books to my list (if left to my own devices, I would read only novels and history, I'm sure). I probably won't read all of these books and I am sure that I will get distracted by a really good library book but I am going to try to stick to my list.
Biographies
The Real George Washington- Jay A. Parry & Andrew M. Allison
The Real Ben Franklin-Andrew M. Allison
John Adams- David McCullough
Up from Slavery- Booker T. Washington
The Last Lion (Winston Churchill)- William Manchester
(Reading) Give Me Liberty: The Uncompromising Statesmanship of Patrick Henry- David J. Vaughan
History
My Dearest Friend: The letters of John and Abigail Adams
Of Plymouth Plantation- William Bradford
On the Origins of War: And the Preservation of Peace -Donald Kagan
Wide as the Waters : The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired -Benson Bobrick
Novels
Middlemarch --- George
Daniel Derronda--- Elliot
Faust- Johann Wofgang van Goethe
Ben Hur- Lew Wallace
Gulliver's Travels- Johnathan Swift
The portrait of a Lady- Henry James
Robinson Crusoe- Daniel Defoe
Vanity Fair- William Makepeace Thackeray
Illiad- Homer
Shakespeare
At least one Dickens book
Misc.
Large Family Logistics-Kim Brenneman
The Four Loves- C.S. Lewis
