i.e. books that I have enjoyed reading (some more than once)

Against the Gods: The Unknown story of Risk (Peter L. Bernstein)

Asimov's Chronology of the World (Isaac Asimov)

Let the Sea make a Noise(Walter A. McDougall)

Bringing Down the House (Ben Mezrich)

Liar's Poker (Michael Lewis)

Great Books (David Denby)

Pi in the Sky (John D. Barrow)

The Mathematical Universe (William Dunham)

The King Must Die (Mary Renault)

Genome (Matt Ridley)

In Search of the Birth of Jesus: The Real Journey of the Magi (Paul William Roberts)

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Steven Pinker)

Making the Corps (Thomas E. Ricks)

The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck (Rory Nugent)

Maus: A Survivor's Tale (I & II) (Art Spiegelman)

The Warrior Elite : The Forging of SEAL Class 228 (Dick Couch)

Angry White Pyjamas : A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons From The Tokyo Riot Police (Robert Twigger)

Rising Tide:The great mississippi flood and how it changed America (John M. Barry)

Don't see the movie, read the book

A Beautiful Mind (Sylvia Nasar)

A River Runs Through It and other stories (Norman Maclean)

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young (Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway)

The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)

Blackhawk Down (Mark Bowden)