Barb V

I'm a bibliophile from birth with no hope (or desire) of recovery. Favorite genres: biography, memoir, history. Always looking for book suggestions.

My five favorite nonfiction titles:
1. Peter the Great: His Life and World, by Robert K. Massie
2. Two in the Far North, by Margaret E. Murie
3. Dreams from My Father, by Barack... more »

I'm a bibliophile from birth with no hope (or desire) of recovery. Favorite genres: biography, memoir, history. Always looking for book suggestions.

My five favorite nonfiction titles:
1. Peter the Great: His Life and World, by Robert K. Massie
2. Two in the Far North, by Margaret E. Murie
3. Dreams from My Father, by Barack Obama
4. American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot, by Craig Ferguson
5. The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President, by Julie M. Fenster

My five favorite fiction titles:
1. Between the Bridge and the River, by Craig Ferguson
2. The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
3. We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin
4. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

The five titles I would you want if stranded on a desert island:
1. The Oxford English Dictionary (unabridged)
2. The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
3. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, by Stephen Jay Gould
4. Between the Bridge and the River, by Craig Ferguson
5. Peter the Great: His Life and World, by Robert K. Massie « less