I could (and do) read these books over and over.
- Alexander Hamilton: A Life, Forrest McDonald.
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway.
- All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren.
- Zen and the Art of Motorcylce Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig.
- The Sand Pebbles, Richard McKenna.
- The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara.
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller.
- From Here to Eternity, James Jones.
- Once an Eagle, Anton Myrer.
- George Washington (4 Vols.), James Thomas Flexner.
- The Praise Singer, Mary Renault.
- Huey Long, T. Harry Williams.
- The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa.
- The Shorter Pepys, Robert Latham, ed.
- Catholicism, Richard P. McBrien.
- New American Bible, St. Joseph Edition.
- The Face of Battle, John Keegan.
- On Killing, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman.
- The General in His Labyrinth, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
- Lost Horizon, James Hilton.
- The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene.
- Mozart: A Life, Maynard Solomon.
- The Master of Go, Jasunari Kawabata.
- The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco.
- A Pilgrim's Path, John J. Robinson.
- The Life of Thomas Moore, Peter Ackroyd.
- The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis.
- Out of This Furnace, Thomas Bell.
- About Three Bricks Shy of a Load, Roy Blount Jr.
- Dubliners, James Joyce.
- The Last Hurrah, Edwin O'Connor.
- The Friends of Eddie Coyle, George V. Higgins.
- The Last Detail, Darryl Ponicsan.
- Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis.
- With Malice Toward None, Stephen B. Oates.
- The Power Broker, Robert A. Caro.
- Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, William A. Riordon.
- John Marshall: Definer of a Nation, Jean Edward Smith.
- Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder, Jack McLaughlin.
- Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain.
- Burr, Gore Vidal.
- Judgment at Nuremberg, Abby Mann.
- The Young Lions, Irwin Shaw.
- Memories of the Ford Administration, John Updike.
- Remembering Denny, Calvin Trillin.
- Ragtime, E.L. Doctorow.
- The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck.
