2012, A Year of Great Reading

As 2012 comes to a close, I reflect back on a year of some of the best books I’ve come across in years. Following, is a list of those that I would recommend.

Steve D’s bookshelf: read in 2012

Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

The Pacific

by Hugh Ambrose

1776

by David McCullough

The Aleppo Codex: The True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the International Pursuit of an Ancient Bible

by Matti Friedman

Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War

by Newt Gingrich

The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance

by Fritjof Capra

A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight

by Robert J. Mrazek

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

by Walter Isaacson

The Last Epic Naval Battle: Voices from Leyte Gulf

by David Sears

Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend

by James I. Robertson Jr.

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

by Eric Metaxas

Grant

by Jean Edward Smith

Lee and Grant

by Gene Smith

Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

by Bill O’Reilly

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

by Laura Hillenbrand

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

by David McCullough

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