Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing
Roger Rosenblatt
Citizen Emperor
Philip Dwyer
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Gordon S. Wood
Oxford History of the United States (2)
The Man Who Loved China
Simon Winchester
Roughneck
Jim Thompson
Of Time and the River
Thomas Wolfe
Now and on Earth
Islands in the Stream
Ernest Hemingway
The Fortunate Pilgrim
Mario Puzo
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath