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Thursday, March 15, 2007
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A Very Partial List of Books I've read
1797: Nelson's Year of Destiny
1906
American Caesar
Aubrey/Maturin Series
Blue Blood
Fermat's Enigma : The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
Flu : The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
Gates of Fire : An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
Heart of Darkness
John Sandford's t Prey Novels
Lonesome Dove
Lord of the Rings
Lost Japan
Memoirs of a Geisha : A Novel
Mornings on Horseback
Patton on Leadership : Strategic Lessons for Corporate Warfare
The Boys of '98 : Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
The Butch Karp Series
The Civil War by Shelby Foote
The Harry Potter Series
The Hobbit
The Lion's Pride : Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and War
The Medical Detectives
The Roads to Sata : A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan
The Seat of the Soul
The Strenuous Life
The Visitation
You Can't Be Too Careful : Cautionary Tales for the Impetuous, the Curious and the Blithely Obvious
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea