Favorite Books

A smattering of some of my favorite books, in no particular order:

How the Irish Saved Civilization, by Thomas Cahill

A Season on the Appalachian Trail, by Lynn Setzer

We Die Alone,  by David Howarth

Roots, by Alex Haley

Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bourdain

Self-Reliance, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everett Ruess: a Vagabond for Beauty, by W.L. Rusho

Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee, by Dee Brown

Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer

The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway

Undaunted Courage, by Stephen Ambrose

Faith of My Fathers, John McCain

Affliction, by Russel Banks

Light My Fire, by Ray Manzarek

Hammer of the Gods, by Stephen Davis

The Complete Works of Shakespeare, by William Shakespeare

The Late Mr. Shakespeare, by Robert Nye

The Last American Man, by Elizabeth Gilbert

Desert Solataire, by Edward Abbey

It’s Not about the Bike, by Lance Armstrong

High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby