Bastard Out of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
This book, what I call "bookclub fiction", had been recommended to me by a friend, because it takes place in a town near to where I live now.
The Castle in the Forest: A Novel
by Norman Mailer
This is a fictionalized account of Hitler's childhood, with psychological speculations as to why Hitler turned out the way he did.
11 Days in December: Christmas at the Bulge, 1944
by Stanley Weintraub
This book is about the Battle of Bastogne.
Night
by Elie Wiesel
A classic I'd never gotten around to reading.
Following below are some books that I want to read that I have yet to find either at the library or the bookstore. All of these books are about politics.
The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Krugman
The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing
by Greg Anrig.
Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of Children
by David Harsanyi
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What have you been reading lately?
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