Books

Since I'm on a reading kick, I figured I'd post some of my favorite books:

+ Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris [a fast-paced biography of Teddy Roosevelt]
+ PRIZE : THE EPIC QUEST FOR OIL, MONEY & POWER by Daniel Yergin [a history of the oil industry]
+ The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley [a young adult fantasy book - yay!]
+ Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley [another young adult book with magic, horses and castles]
+ Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
+ Sophie's Choice by WILLIAM STYRON [a very well-written book about a man who meets a Holocaust survivor]
+ The Brothers K by DAVID JAMES DUNCAN [a family saga revolving around baseball; this book is frequently side-splittingly funny]
+ Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
+ Terra Firma by Thomas Centolella [poetry!]
+ All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Vol 1) by CORMAC MCCARTHY [a buddy adventure book set in Mexico]
+ Sunne in Splendour by SHARON KAY PENMAN [historical fiction about Richard III]
+ The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
+ The Princess Bride: S Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by WILLIAM GOLDMAN [very much like the movie, but even funnier]
+ The English Patient by MICHAEL ONDAATJE
+ Dealing with Dragons: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Book One by Patricia C. Wrede
+ The Dark Is Rising Sequence: Silver on the Tree/The Grey King/Greenwitch/The Dark Is Rising/Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper [more young adult fantasy]
+ Assassin's Apprentice (The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1) by ROBIN HOBB [true book crack- beware!]
+ The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst [a book about typography that is fun to read and actually funny at times]
+ Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H. G. Bissinger [football in Texas... what else can you say?]

- nyanko