Annual Summer Reading List
Each year around this time, through the Update, I offer ten titles - in no particular order – from the previous twelve months for your summer reading consideration, usually with an emphasis on cultural understanding. Enjoy.
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann. A fascinating page-turner that is part history, part mystery, part adventure, part biography, and part journalistic immersion that tells the life of one of the more intriguing characters in exploration history, Percy Harrison Fawcett – not to mention a picture of an era that will surely prevent lives such as Fawcett’s being experienced again.
Abraham Lincoln by James McPherson. This is arguably the best short biography every written of Lincoln, released on the 200th anniversary of his birth, by one of the leading Lincoln historians.
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. If you read everything Gladwell writes, which I do, you will find this better than Blink, but a bit below The Tipping Point - but vintage Gladwell and well worth the read.
Revelation: A Matthew Shardlake Mystery by C.J. Sansom. If you are a Sansom fan, you are ready to devour this fourth installment in the Shardlake series. If Sansom is unknown to you, do not delay another day in introducing yourself to this series (begin with Dissolution). But read fast – Revelation is one of his best. Set in Tudor history (1500s), filled with political and religious intrigue, Sansom is simply one of the best historical mystery writers of our day.
The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans. This completes Evans majestic trilogy, and together with the first two volumes, provides the new standard.
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