Some Favorite Books

As of August 1999

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General Non-Fiction

1. Hofstadter, Douglas R. (1979) Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. New York: Basic Books, Inc.
2. Gleick, James (1987) Chaos: Making a New Science. New York: Penguin Books.
3. Plato (1992) The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications.
4. Tannen, Deborah (1990) You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation. New York: Ballantine Books.
5. Dean, John W. (1976) Blind Ambition: The White House Years. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Biographical Non-Fiction

1. Sandoz, Mary (1997) Crazy Horse. New York: Fine Communications.
2. Franklin, Benjamin (1940) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Washington Square Press.
3. Boswell, James (1979) The Life of Samuel Johnson. Englewood, CO: Viking Press.
4. Haley, Alex (1973) The Autobiography of Malcolm X. New York: Ballantine Books.
5. Franklin, Sidney (1952) Bullfighter From Brooklyn. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Historical Non-Fiction

1. Innes, Hammond (1969) The Conquistadors. New York: Knopf.
2. Tuchman, Barbara W. (1987) A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. New York: Ballantine Books.
3. Riordon, William L. (1963) Plunkitt of Tammany Hall. New York: E.P. Dutton.
4. Suetonius (1991) The Twelve Ceasars. Englewood, CO: Viking Press.
5. Mattingly, Garrett (1974) The Armada. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.

Traditional Fiction

1. García Márquez, Gabriel (1985) Love in the Time of Cholera. New York: Penguin Books.
2. Tolstoy, Leo (1994) War and Peace. New York: Modern Library.
3. Hemmingway, Earnest (1996) For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Scribner.
4. Dreiser, Theodore (1953) An American Tragedy. New York: The New American Library.
5. Orwell, George (1946) Animal Farm. New York: The New American Library.

Science Fiction

1. Card, Orson Scott (1985) Ender's Game. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.
2. Crichton, Michael (1990) Jurassic Park. New York: Ballantine Books.
3. Vinge, Vernor (1986) Marooned in Real Time. New York: Baen Publishing.
4. Laumer, Keith (1968) Retief and the Warlords. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
5. Card, Orson Scott (1992) Memory of Earth. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.

Mormon Books

1. Ehat, Andrew F. and Cook, Lyndon W. (1980) The Words of Joseph Smith. Salt Lake City, UT: Bookcraft.
2. Johnson, Sonia (1981) From Housewife to Heretic. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
3. Barrett, Ivan J. (1992) Trumpeter of God: Fascinating True Stories of the Great Missionary and Colonizer, Milo Andrus. American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, Inc.
4. Andersen, Todd G., (1986) The Gospels Made Whole: One Complete Story of Jesus Christ. Provo, UT: Best Books Publishing.
5. Newell, Linda King and Avery, Valeen Tippetts (1984) Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.

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