Books read by year

Saturday, August 14, 2010

What presidents read

American Presidential Book Club
American Presidential Book Club
Click on the graphic (or the link below it) to make it big enough to read.  I found it on Sheila's Book Journey blog this morning.

Obama

The Way Home ~ by George Pelecanos
Lush Life ~ by Richard Price
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America ~ by Tom Friedman
John Adams ~ by David McCullough
Plainsong ~ by Kent Haruf
The Post American World ~ by Fareed Zakaria
Netherland ~ by Joseph O'Neill
Huzur (Confort) ~ by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
A Mind at Peace ~ by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
Haritada bir bakta ~ by Sait Faik Abasiyanik
Gilead ~ by Marilynne Robinson
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Invisible Man ~ by Ralph Ellison
Moby-Dick ~ by Herman Melville
Song of Solomon ~ by Toni Morrison
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Golden Notebook ~ by Doris Lessing
FDR ~ by Anthony J. Badger
Native Son ~ by Richard Wright
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln ~ by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Irony of American History ~ by Reinhold Niebuhr
Collected Poems 1948-1984 ~ by Derek Walcott

Bush

John Adams ~ by David McCullough
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of Whaleship Essex ~ by Edvard Radzinsky
Salt: A World History ~ by Mark Kurfansky
Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar ~ by Edvard Radzinsky
Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power ~ by Richard Carwardine
Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural ~ by Ronald C. White Jr.
Lush Life ~ by Richard Price
Polio: An American Story ~ by David Oshinsky
The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth ~ by Leigh Movi
Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero ~ by David Maraniss
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women ~ by Geraldine Brooks
Mao: The Unknown Story ~ by June Chang and Jon Halliday

Clinton
Brave Companions ~ by David McCullough
Goodnight, Irene ~ by Jan Burke
The Culture of Disbelief ~ by Stephen L. Carter
Living History ~ by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Lincoln ~ by David Herbert Donald
The Four Quartets ~ by T. S. Eliot
Invisible Man ~ by Ralph Ellison
Meditations ~ by Marcus Aurelius
The Denial of Death ~ by Ernest Becker
One Hundred Years of Solitude ~ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Imitation of Christ ~ by Thomas a Kempis
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ~ by Maya Angelou
The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the 21st Century ~ by David Fromkin
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 ~ by Taylor Branch

2 comments:

  1. Interesting list. I have read a few.

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  2. Nice job with this Bonnie. I like how you listed out the books. :D

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