I’ve read quite a number of books in my lifetime and I fully intend to read a bunch more.  This list pretty much sums it up.  I may at some point rates these books, as some I would highly recommend, others I wouldn’t waste your time on.

BOOK                                   AUTHOR

• Bo                                                                        Bo Schembechler & Mitch Albom
• Financial Self Defense                                      Charles Givens
• The Only War We Had                                     Michael Lee Lanning
• Jaws                                                                    Peter Benchley
• Five Fingers                                                       Gayle Rivers & James Hudson
• American Graffiti
• Cruel Shoes                                                        Steve Martin
• Everything We Had                                           Al Santoli
• Living Proof                                                        Clebe McClary
• The Dee Hunter                                                  E.M. Corder
• Out of the Crisis                                                  Edward Deming
• The Goal                                                               Eli Goldratt
• Think and Grow Rich                                          Napoleon Hill
• Nam                                                                       Mark Baker
• Fab Five                                                                Mitch Albom
• Home Was Alpena
• Super Supervisor                                                 Mildred Ramsey
• History of the U.S. Marshalls                             Robin Sommer
• Boss of Bosses                                                       Joseph O’Brien & Andris Kurins
• Beginners Guide to Getting Published                Writer’s Digest
• Final Truth                                                             Pee Wee Gaskins
• The Life of Abraham Lincoln                               Stefan Lorant
• Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind               Al Ries & Jack Trout
• Over The Top                                                        Zig Ziglar
• Mafia Kingfish                                                        John H. Davis
• A Life on the Road                                                 Charles Kuralt
• Seven Habits of Highly Effective People            Stephen Covey
• The Power of Positive Thinking                          Norman Vincent Peale
• How to Write                                                         Herbert Meyer & Jill Meyer
• Writers Market                                                      Mark Garvey
• Taking of the Pelham One Two Three               John Godley
• The Magic of Thinking Big                                   David J. Schwartz
• The West Point Way of Leadership                    Larry Donnithorne
• The Defense Never Rests                                     F. Lee Bailey
• Joe Dogs                                                                 Joseph Iannuzzi
• Leadership When the Heats On                         Danny Cox & John Hoover
• Fatso                                                                      Art Donovan & Bob Drury
• Inside the White House                                      Ronald Kessler
• Contract Killer                                                      William Hoffman & Lake Hedley
• Hitler as a Military Commander                        John Strawson
• Friday Night Lights                                             H.G. Bessinger
• Marine Sniper                                                       Charles Henderson
• Saturdays America                                               Dan Jenkins
• Confessions of a Coach                                         Norm Sloan
• Killer Spy                                                               Peter Maas
• Guide to Inspecting Your Home                         Century 21
• Street Survival
• Journey into Darkness                                        John Douglas & Mark Olshaker
• Hope and Help for Your Nerves                        Lucinda Bassett
• From Panic to Power                                           Lucinda Bassett
• Saturday Afternoon Madness                             Bob Waldstein & Phil Silverman
• Amazing Blue                                                        Detroit News
• Double Cross                                                         Sam & Chuch Giancana
• Dispatches                                                             Michael Herr
• Peace From Your Nervous Suffering                 Lucinda Bassett
• Sein Language                                                       Jerry Seinfeld
• Underboss                                                             Peter Maas
• Five and Ten                                                         John K. Winkler
• If Aristotle Ran General Motors                        Tom Morris
• Bad, or the Dumbing of America                        Paul Fussell
• Mortal Error                                                         Bonar Menninger
• The Precious Present                                           Spensor Johnson
• Howard Hughes, The Hidden Years                  James Phelen
• Unlimited Access                                                  Gary Aldrich
• Dead Solid Perfect                                               Dan Jenkins
• The Specialist                                                       Gayle Rivers
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad                                              Robert Kiyosaki
• A Good Walk Spoiled                                           John Feinstein
• Blind Man’s Bluff                                                  Sherry Sontag & Christopher Drew
• Fehrenheit 451                                                     Ray Bradbury
• The Wolverines                                                     Will Perry
• The Builders, Marvels of Engineering                National Geographic Society
• Harvey Penicks Little Red Book                         Harvey Penick
• Total Self Confidence                                            Robert Anthony
• Money Confidential
• The Rest of the Story                                           Paul Harvey
• The Leader in You                                                Sturart R. Levine & Michael A. Crom
• Man’s Search for Meaning                                  Victor Frankl
• What’s In It For Me                                            Joseph Stedino & Dary Matera
• Hiroshima                                                              John Hersey
• TPM: For Every Operator                                  Productivity Press
• TPM: Team Guide                                                Productivity Press
• Who Moved My Cheese                                       Spenser Johnson
• Finnegan’s Week                                                   Joseph Waumbaugh
• 101 Things to do in the year 2000                     Dan Penwell
• Run Bambi Run                                                     Kris Radish
• Night                                                                        Elie Wiesel
• A Fairway to Heaven                                            Tom Kite
• Lincoln at Gettysburg                                          Garry Wills
• Tom Watson’s Strategic Golf                              Tom Watson
• Dawn                                                                       Elie Wiesel
• Death of a Salesman                                             Arthur Miller
• My Recollections of Early Grand Lake
• Angela’s Ashes                                                      Frank McCourt
• Into the Wild                                                         Jon Krakauer
• Cashflow Qaudrant                                              Robert Kiyosaki
• And Then Seve Told Freddie                             Don Wade
• The Kingdom of Auschitz                                    Otto Friedrich
• For All Who Love the Game                               Harvey Penick
• How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job               Dale Carnegie
• The Survivor                                                         Terrence Des Pres
• Champions “Michigan Wolverines”                    Sport’s Illustrated
• Six Sigma                                                               Mikel Harry & Richard Schroeder
• Bottom Up Marketing                                          Al Ries & Jack Trout
• Are We Living in End Times
• Angel On My Shoulder                                        Natalie Cole
• The Commanders                                                Bob Woodward
• No Mercy                                                              John Waslh
• The One Minute Sales Person                           Spenser Johnson & Larry Wilson
• Tuckers Last Stand                                             William F. Buckley
• Michigan Memories                                             Dave Martin
• Day of Infamy                                                      Walter Lord
• Paper Lion                                                            George Plimpton
• Ghost Soldiers                                                      Hampton Sides
• America                                                                 Charles Kuralt
• The American Dream                                          Dan Rather
• Ordeal By Sea                                                       Thomas Helm
• On a Clear Day You Can See GM                       J. Patrick Wright
• Skipping Christmas                                              John Grisham
• The Complete Book of Woodowrking                Bosario Capotosto
• Iwo Jima                                                                Bill D. Ross
• Band of Brothers                                                   Stephen E. Ambrose
• The Christmas Box Miracle                                Richard Paul Evans
• Killing Pablo                                                           Mark Bowden
• The Ice Master                                                     Jennifer Niven
• The Christmas Box                                               Richard Paul Evans
• Hell’s Angels                                                           Yves Lanigne
• Lake Wobegone 1956                                            Garrison Keoller
• Don’t Stand Too Close to a Naked Man              Tim Allen
• Bathroom Reader 12th Edition                           Bathroom Reader Institute
• The Cold and the Dark                                         Carl Sagan
• Strike Zone                                                            Jim Bouton & Eliot Asinof
• John Edgar Hoover                                               Hank Messick
• The Time Piece                                                      Richard Paul Evans
• The Letter                                                              Richard Paul Evans
• The Sparrow                                                           Mary Doria Russell
• Shackelton’s Way                                                  Margot Morrell
• 101 Shop Tips                                                       woodworking press
• Leadership & Self Deception                               Abinger Institute
• Fatherhood                                                            Bill Cosby
• A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney                    Andy Rooney
• Leadership Secret of Atilla the Hun                   Wess Roberts
• Behind the Mask                                                   Dave Pallone
• Bathroom Reader 6, 7, & 8 editions                    BRI
• Family Treason                                                     Jack Kneece
• D.A.                                                                         Mark Baker
• And More of Andy Rooney                                 Andy Rooney
• The Da”Vinci Code                                               Dan Brown
• Devil’s Island                                                        Alexander Miles
• Book of football                                                     Sports Illustrated
• Berlin Game                                                          Len Dieghton
• Selling the Invisable                                             Harry Beckwith
• 1984                                                                        George Orwell
• Boot                                                                          Daniel Da Cruz
• The Grass is Greener Over the Septic Tank     Erma Bombeck
• How to Feel Great About Yourself and Your Life   Martin English
• Mobsters and Gangsters                                      LIFE Magazine
• Your Out and Your Ugly Too                              Durwood Merrill
• Catch Me If You Can                                             Frank Abagnale Jr.
• Commandant of Auschwitz                                   Rudolf Hoess
• Victors Valient                                                       UM
• Fly Boys                                                                 James Bradley
• Lake Wobegone Days                                          Garrison Keillor
• The Bureau                                                           Diarmud Jefferies
• Bleachers                                                               John Grisham
• The O’Reilly Factor                                              Bill O’Reilly
• Bathroom Reader 15 edition                              BRI
• Napalm and Silly Putty                                       George Carlin
• Bathroom  Reader, best of                                 BRI
• Dateline America                                                 Charles Kuralt
• The Rape of Nanking                                         Iris Chang
• The Giver                                                            Lois Lowery
• Master Spy                                                          Lawrence Schiller
• Miracle at Midway                                             Gordon W. Prange
• 30 Years of Bo                                                    Francis J. Fitzgerald
• Front Porch Tales                                              Phillip Gulley
• The Encyclopedia of Woodworking                  Mark Ramuz
• How Dogs Think                                                  Stanley Cohen
• A Dynasty in Blue                                               Frances Fitzgerald
• Tales From Michigan Stadium                         Jim Brandstatter
• It’s a Conspiracy                                                 National Insecurity Council
• The Five Disfunctions of a Team                      Patrick Lenconi
• When Will Jesus Bring the Porkchops              George Carlin
• Survival in Auschwitz                                         Primo Levi
• Life Among the Wolverines                               Tom Hemmingway & Bill Haney
• The Goal, Second Edition                                   Eli Goldratt
• One Point Safe                                                     Andrew & Leslie Cockburn
• The Air Raid Warden was a Spy                       William Breuer
• Excellence in Management                               Rick Conlow
• Wadsworth DD516 Bluebook                            Men of the Wadsworth
• Why Men Have Nipples                                     Mark Leyner & Bill Goldberg
• Homegrown Democrat                                       Garrison Keillor
• Meditations of a Great lakes Sailer                   Stanley Graham
• South                                                                   Ernest Shackleton
• Cold Zero                                                              Christopher Whitcomb
• Bird Watching                                                      Larry Bird
• The Main Enemy                                                Milt Bearden & James Risen
• War’s End                                                            Charles W. Sweeney
• TIME 75 Years                                                   TIME Magazine
• Down and Dirty Justice                                     Gary Lowenthal
• The Agenda                                                         Bob Woodward
• The Greatest Generation                                  Tom Brokaw
• Flag of our Fathers                                             James Bradley and Ron Powers
• The Greatest Generation Speaks                    Tom Brokaw
• The Pursuit of Happiness                                  Chris Gardner
• Vendetta                                                              Bryan Burrough
• The Last Juror                                                    John Grisham
• The Summons                                                     John Grisham
• Playing for Pizza                                                 John Grisham
• Piece of the Foxes Hide                                     Katharine Boling
• You Think Your So Smart                                 Jim Kraus
• The Road                                                             Cormac Macormac
• Comrade J                                                           Pete Earley
• Unlocked                                                             Louis Ferrante
• No Angel                                                              Jay Dobyns and Nils Johnson
• When Evil Came to Good Hart                         Mardi Link
• A Christmas Memory                                        Truman Capote
• Of Mice and Men                                                John Steinbeck
• Sleepers                                                               Lorenzo Carcaterra
• Final Patrol                                                          Don Keith
• Odd Man Out                                                       Matt McCarthy
• Three and Out                                                     John U. Bacon
• Summerall, On And Off The Air                       Pat Summerall
• The Match                                                            Mark Frost
• The Outsider’s                                                      S.E. Hinton
• Isadore’s Secret                                                    Mardi Link
• Conscent to Kill                                                     Vince Flynn
• Business at the Speed of Thought                      Bill Gates
• On The Waterfront                                              Malcolm Johnson
• No Country For Old Men                                    Cormac McCarthy
• The Zombie Survival Guide                                Max Brooks
• The Nightmare Season                                         Arnold Mandell MD
• West Dickens Avenue                                            John Corbett
• Everyone Communicates Few Connect             John C. Maxwell
• Me of Little Faith                                                   Lewis Black
• Heaven is for Real                                                  Todd Burpo
• On The Road                                                            Jack Kerouac

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