Personal Library

[WILCO]

What are some of the Titles and Authors in your personal library?

Please feel free to include all topics, not just hunting or reloading. We are an educated group and I love to see titles and authors so that maybe I too, could get a copy for my shelves.

[sthwestvictoria]

Great thread Wilco.

Manuals:
An Australians Reloading Guide by Barry Wilmot
ABC'S of reloading Dean Grennell
Hornady manual, 3rd edition
Lyman Reloading Handbook 45th

General Reading:
Art of the Rifle - Cooper
Hell I was there - Keith (letters from Elmer Keith on order)
Introduction to the Deer of Australia - Arthur Bentley
Walking them Up - Ken Pearce
The Accurate Rifle - Warren Page
Australian Shooters Handbook - Ken Pollard
A Hunters Heart: Honest Essays on Blood Sport - David Peterson

Looking forward to reading other peoples entries.

[WILCO]

Great thread Wilco.

Looking forward to reading other peoples entries.

Thanks and me too! I love books!

[WILCO]

Manuals:
An Australians Reloading Guide by Barry Wilmot
ABC'S of reloading Dean Grennell
Hornady manual, 3rd edition
Lyman Reloading Handbook 45th

General Reading:
Art of the Rifle - Cooper
Hell I was there - Keith (letters from Elmer Keith on order)
Introduction to the Deer of Australia - Arthur Bentley
Walking them Up - Ken Pearce
The Accurate Rifle - Warren Page
Australian Shooters Handbook - Ken Pollard
A Hunters Heart: Honest Essays on Blood Sport - David Peterson



Some great authors and titles there.

[sthwestvictoria]

Thanks and me too! I love books!

This is the T-Shirt my partner screen-printed for me, two birthdays ago:
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[41 mag fan]

Playboy
Hustler
XXX

I dont look at the pictures I get engrosed in the reading material

[WILCO]

Playboy
Hustler
XXX

I dont look at the pictures I get engrosed in the reading material

Like I said, we're an educated group..........

[cbrick]

Far too many to list. My loading room has three 3 foot shelves of loading & related books, my living room has two 3 foot, 4 shelf book cases mostly full covering many different topics. Very little in novels, mostly American history, biography's, current affairs etc.

Rick

[Wayne Smith]

Thousands. Way too many to post. From history to geology to psychology to Bible study to theology to mysteries to science fiction to do it yourself, cookbooks to hymnals - we have more books than we have shelves, and more on the Kindles.

[Jim]

Lots of handloading manuals. My two most cherished are by Phil Sharpe and Earl Narramore. I got these, by the way, from a charter member here. I have an almost complete collection of Capstick. Every year, I go through the complete works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes". I have a huge collection of grilling cook books. Come spring, most of our meals come from the deck right outside the back door.

Janet makes me look like a starting novice. She has more books than I can carry in my pickup.

[rush1886]

Authors:
Elmer Keith
Jack O Conner
Jim Carmichel
Mike Venturino
Ken Waters
Richard Lee
Jack London
Robert Service
Edward Abbey
Patrick McManus
Carl Russel
Fred Gowans
Lewis and Clark

and a host of others

[scottiemom]

I have about 300 linear feet of shelving -not near enough but all we have wall space for! I love to read and have 3 books going at any given time! Am a big mystery buff - from Sherlock Holmes and Charlie Chan to Agatha Christie and what you would call "cozy" mysteries. Like biographies and am addicted to "how things work" and "how to fix" type books. Have recently discovered Brad Metzler - his books are a great read!
We should start a book exchange!!

[Rangefinder]

Hah... what a topic! LOL I would rather move my piano than move my books--it's lighter (it's an antique orchestral grand carved from solid tiger oak, btw, and bottoms out the suspension in my truck at nothing more than the suggestion of hauling it...). I read sci-fi, fantasy, political suspense, and who-knows what else... My library is just that--a library. So, you want to know every chord possible on a standard 6-string guitar? I have a book on it. You want to know the fundamentals of aviation and small aircraft piloting? I have several. How about timber-framing? Sailing? Stone cutting and masonry? Ever wonder how to burn off limestone into clinkers to use in Portland Cement? Well, I have you covered. Mathematics--need a formula or a memory-jog to remember how to apply one? I have over a dozen books on applied mathematics alone. I won't even mention science, medicine, history, language, etc...

I accidentally coined a saying I am pretty proud of at the register while buying a book when the cashier said "you buy a lot of books..." I shrugged and said "books don't care if the power is out. They work all the same if you can figure out how to open them..."

I love reading, write often, and have noticed over the years that you can easily recognize those who do the same. They generally have a good grasp of both knowledge and the ability to communicate. Unfortunately, those who have neither are far more obvious and frequent.

[blackthorn]

Similar to "Rangefinder" I read all kinds of books, some educational and some pure recreational (junk). I had a lot more books than I currently have but I gave most of my how-to (build with; stone, wood rounds, old tires etc.), plumbing, electricty, carpentry, Mother earth news (1 t0 337+) books to my boys. My gun books remaine with me and they will get them "from my cold dead hands"! I buy the odd Handloader if the index has something that catches my fancy and I usually buy the Backwoodsman, read it and pass it on to my youngest son. I have been and remaine an avid reader all of my life, and reading has served me well.

[shooter93]

It would probably take m a year to list them all. I have over 200 lineal feet of filled bookcases here and recently built more. I've belonged to the NRA Classic Firearms and Frontier Series since it started. Both of those turn out a bunch of great books both firearm and history related. You may want to look into those.

[WILCO]

Thanks for all the replies folks.

[MT Gianni]

I have several authors I try to own all they have in print. They include Dick Francis & his son Felix,Elmer Keith, Bob Hagel, Steven Hunter, Robert Crais, John D MacDonald, Michael Connelly,Donald Harstad, and Steven Hamilton. I've tried to read all of Robert B Parkers, Sue Grafton, Jonathon King, Bernard Cromwell, Lee Child, Chuck Logan and Dennis Lehane. I enjoy biographys and how to books. I do not care much for political intrepretations but do read some occasionally. Given the choice of Talk Radio, most TV or a toothpaste tube I will pick the toothpaste tube to read every time.

[375supermag]

Hi...

I read ...a lot!

I read and study military history with an emphasis on WWII. One whole wall of my den is covered in bookcases full of books on military history and armored fighting vehicle design and development. I have studied nearly every battle and campaign of any significance on the eastern front in WWII(currently studying Glantz' excellent trilogy on the Stalingrad campaign) and have recently begun an in-depth study of the post-landing Normandy battles.

I also study paleontology. Dinosaur fossils, especially the predators intrigue me. I am also quite interested in hominid evolution and have not only acquired a large number of the popular works on the subject, but also some text books and limited publication professional papers on fossil analysis.

I also read science fiction and a good bit of current political writings by conservative authors and pundits.

Firearms related books include works by some guy named O'Connor, another guy named Taffin and a couple other books by Mike Venturino. I also have a couple of books by Skeeter Skelton,Elmer Keith and Bill Jordan.

A somewhat eclectic mix.

[Love Life]

I really can't list them all, but my re-read section contains the following books:

"Atlas Shrugged"
"Starship Troopers"
"1984"
"War is a Racket"
"First to Fight"
"Citizen Soldier"
"Alphabet of Manliness"
"Encyclopedia of Sarcasm"
"The Republic"
"On Killing"
"Counter Insurgency Operations"
"How Wars are Won" (Falls in line with the "Art of War")

So a little bit of everything. My next batch will have much more history books covering our history.

[gsdelong]

Curious as why nobody listed W.E.B Griffin?

[jaysouth]

If you have kids or grandkids:

Dictionary of Cultural Literacy by E.D. Hirsch. Tells you eveything a literate person should know from history to mythology to religion to philosophy. Easy to understand with lots of pictures.

McMillan Visual Dictionary. Exploded diagrams of subways, skyscrapers, aircraft carriers, locomotives, etc.

[Philngruvy]

Thousands of books. My most favorite is by one of our members, "Unintended Consequences". Possiby my second favorite is "A Prayer For Owen Meany".

[Bad Water Bill]

Anywhere from several feet of shelving on breeding the killifish of the world,all kinds of gun books,some on gold and silversmithing,diamonds and other gem stones, geology, fishing, many outdoor books but no paperbacks. Over 400 of them have gone to the vets at Hines hospital.

[joesig]

A third or more of my books are shooting related, mostly reference and loading manuals

Charles Singer Landis for Woodchuck hunting and 22 rifles.
Guy Lautard's stories and bedside readers.
John H. Armstrong for model railroading (N scale)
Various performance and how to manuals (interior, transmission and carburetor)
Helm service manuals for my Chevys
Various woodworking and metalworking books.

[Junior1942]

*The Great Gatsby* by F. Scott Fitzgerald. *The Green Hills Of Africa* by Ernest Hemingway. All of the *Death In. . . .* by Peter Capstick Hathaway. Do NOT start reading one of them before going to sleep--unless you want to stay awake all night! *Undaunted Courage* by Stephen Ambrose.

[TXGunNut]

My modest library is mostly paperback adventure and historical novels. Only books that get off the shelf often are reloading manuals, gun-related coffee table books and cookbooks.

[Blacksmith]

Lots of books on many subjects but would like to add all those by Julian S. Hatcher. Starting with Hatcher's Notebook, even though they are somewhat dated I learn things in everyone I have read.

[MtGun44]

Thousands of books. Been reading a lot of WW2 history lately. Highly recommend "Shattered Sword"
but only for the serious history of naval warfare student. Essentially ALL of the details the are
"well known" about the Battle of Midway are absolutely wrong and these guys - history web site
folks, pretty analogous to this site except for topic - broke thru the lies and got to the facts.
They managed to get Japanese site members to interview survivors of the battle, often months
before being silenced forever and get permanent records of what REALLY happened on the Japanese
side of the battle. Great book.

Another is "Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" - if this doesn't bring a tear to your eye for the heroes
that took three US destroyers and four destroyer escorts into a head to head battle against
4 battleships, 6 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers and 11 destroyers attacking 6 small, slow US escort
carriers with limited aircraft. Author is Hornfischer. Never forget the names USS Samuel
B. Roberts, USS Johnston, USS Hoel, USS Heermann. These heroes knew that the odds of
surviving approached zero as they turned into attacking 12 heavy capital ships and 11
destroyers, with 5" guns and only 0.5" decks and 0.75" hulls. DDs and DEs did have torpedoes
and they used them well, too.

Steve Ambrose's "Band of Brothers" led me and my wife to do a tour of Normandy to specifically
visit the places where these heroes fought. A tour of the whole Normandy battlefield followed.

A real gem is "Seven Roads to Hell" from a young paratrooper that fought surrounded and
desperate at Bastogne, and won. The book was written only a year later and put away for
decades, only pulled out by the author in the last decade and published. We have spent time
at Bastogne, also. Stood in the woods where the Easy Company (Band of Brothers) heroes
hunkered down and stopped the German armor. The foxholes are still there.

"The First Team" is a great look at the fundamentals and details of the first part of WW2 in
the Pacific, up until the Battle of Midway.

All of Eric Brown's books, starting with "Wings of the Navy", then "Wings of the Weird and
Wonderful" and others. Eric Brown was a British Navy pilot and test pilot before and during
WW2 and got to fly operationally most of the US and British fighters of the war, and late in
the war and after it he flew most of the advanced development aircraft that the Germans
had developed. Having one experienced test pilot write about all these aircraft from his
test pilot notes written at the time is just invaluable to cut through the haze of misinformation
surrounding these wonderful aircraft. "Duels in the Sky" is the one where he mentally pits
each Allied fighter against each Axis fighters and calls how it would really work out. FUN
stuff for pilots.

Lots of gun, airplane, history, engineering, racing cars, auto repair, hunting, camping,
travel, photography, computer and reloading books.


"Chapparal" (the racecar); "Vic Elford" - racecar driver; "Porsche 917" - unreal racecar that
I watched race many times. "Aero Engines", "Hell, I was there" Keith's great autobiography,
"Flying the Old Planes" - Tallman, WW1 planes - originals, not replicas, makes a huge difference,
it turns out. "Journal of a Trapper" - Osborne; really worth the time.

Bill

[Ed Barrett]

All the NRA exploded views of firearms books, all the DeHass books on action types.

[gray wolf]

These are some of my favorites as I seem to keep going back to them.
I even have a few of them in the E-book platform.

How to cook Oriental Duck while wearing a leg holster.
Planting an herb garden after dark while using night vision.
Plastic guns and household wiring.
The magic of slug guns and soft tissue.
escape and evasion ( or how to sneak a new gun past the wife )
How to turn a six pack and a Pizza into a bucket of wheel weights.
5 easy ways to turn a NO into a YES when talking to the wife.
3 easy ways to convince your friends a 3 inch group is really a 2 inch group.
Sounds to sleep by, ( pre recorded press handle going up and down )
200 pages soft cover with pictures ( training your dog to get you a BEER )
Difficult but not impossible ( OR-- how to wear an ankle holster with shorts )

[Castaholic]

"The Real George Washington" by Jay A. Parry & Andrew M. Allison Really it should be mandatory for every high school student to read it.

[Pb2au]

Everything from Melville to Zane Grey, from the Upanishads to my Haynes manual for my pick up. Fiction, non Fiction, The Ovid to Dr Suess. My shelves are full in three rooms, my reloading lab and the Journals of Dick Proenneke. I love reading. Moving to my next house is going to be a pain due to my books.

[geargnasher]

Thousands. Most still in boxes until I get the mammoth 12' shelves build in the new living room.

Easiest to list the last few I've read cover-to-cover:

Failure is not an option
For spacious skies
Every day a Friday
When Legends Die
Mining the hard rock
The Basic writings of Bertand Russell (re-read)
The bullet's flight
The Magus
I think before that I finally managed to claw my way through The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay after about a dozen tries. Without a doubt, the worst book ever written and published in the English language. Even worse than Melvill's Billy Budd, which I had previously thought for many years to be the worst book ever written.

XXX magazine doesn't have any articles that I can find to read, just pages and pages of pictures. How boring! I must be the only Alpha Male in North America who has only a current Sinclair International and Brownell's catalog in the basket by the toilet. Thank goodness they put out new ones at least once a year because somehow the pages keep getting stuck together.

Gear

[btroj]

Wow Gear, pages stuck together. Over sharing violation.

My wife said "Ewwwwww". She is a pretty smart gal

[geargnasher]

Drool, Brad, over all the benchrest tooling I'll never be able to afford, getcher mind outta the ditch! At least that's what I keep telling my wife.......

Gear

[btroj]

Yeah, Sincalir doesn't sell anything cheap. I will say that the front rest my parents got me as a gift a decade or so ago is one sweet piece of equipment.

I don't buy much from them now, quit shooting NRA Hightower years back. Too many jerks and rules Nazis locally. I kinda miss the competition but it cut into my casting time.

As for a personal library I don't care what it is, just READ. I was raised by parents who read, I have a kid who reads. Best way to gather knowledge regarding various topics. Great for teaching grammar, spelling, and vocabulary. I suppose having a brother who is a professional librarian sways me a bit too.

[shooterg]

All of the above ! And I read W.E.B. Griffin. No one mentioned Roy Chandler , the old Perry County boy ? He's at least as good as Louis L'Amour . And I read and reread OLD American Rifleman , the 30's through 50's especially.

[Kraschenbirn]

I'm something of a bibliophile and, as I sit here in my somewhat cramped home office with its three bookcases, two desks (one dedicated to computer and peripherals), and gun safe, right behind me is a floor-to-ceiling shelving unit filled with nothing but shooting-related books: reloading manuals, collector references, old catalogs, gunsmithing guides, shooting titles, etc, etc, etc. Eyeballing from top shelf downward, I see titles by Elmer Keith, Goeff Boothroyd, Teddy Roosevelt, Jack O'Connor, Robert Ruark, Frank Barnes, Harold Cormack, WHB Smith, Ken Waters, Roy Jinks, Bill Jordan, George Nonte, Roy Dunlap...and the list goes on.

On the opposite side of the room is a double bookcase of military history, mostly dealing with the 100 years from 1840 thru 1940 (even though I do have a 1st U.S. edition of Churchills's six-volume "The Second World War" and a copy of Prange's "At Dawn We Slept" tucked in there, too). On top the gun safe is a couple more shelves of aviation history, circa 1900 thru 1940.

In our basement family room, I've got Louis L'amour, Robert Heinlein, David Drake, John Ringo, Stephen Hunter, all of Robert Ruark's fiction works, Mark Twain, Conan Doyle, and couple of shelves of miscellaneous fiction by an assortment of authors. And, of course, this doesn't count my wife's collection...she a voracious reader, too...of historical romance, mystery/detective, cookbooks, and political science works.

Bill

[Wayne Smith]

I'll tell you that right now I'm about a third of the way through the second volume of John Hay's Abraham Lincoln, a History and am about 40% through John Birmingham's Weapons of Choice - one of my wife's picks. We share an account on the kindles. I have recently finished Steven Taylor's Commander the Life and Times of Britian's Greatest Frigate Captain. I have read all of the Sharpe novels, everything Louis L'amore wrote, and Jim Butcher's Dresden files. Lots of Bible Commentaries and lots of history.

[Tazman1602]

I have 24 FEET of books in my bedroom on shelves dating from the 1800's to present day. Too many to list and some might get me landed in trouble the way things are going even though First Amendment rights are still somewhat intact.............

Art

[fouronesix]

My goodness- too many to list.
Wouldn't even be fair to list a few favorites. Very wide variety of subjects. 99%+ are reference in nature.

[xs11jack]

I have about 100 ft of shelf with books piled on top of the books and on the floor in the closet and plied around my computer desk. Almost all are non-fiction, although I do have a liking for Lee Childs, Tony Hillerman, and C.J. Box. Some of my favorites in non-fiction are The Second World War, six vol. set by Winston Churchill, A Peoples History of the Civil War and Reconstruction, 5 vol. set by Page Smith. The Rising Sun by John Toland, along with his In Mortal Combat:Korea, 1950-1953. Another gripping WWII book is At Dawn We Slept, by Gordon W. Prange. How about The War Between The Generals, Inside the Allied Command by David Irving. And of course Stephen E. Ambrose's Citizen Soldiers, and anything else he wrote. I have many technical books too. With Gun Digest collected when I can aford them. Machinery's Handbook, 20th edition, and so on. Several Blacksmithing books, The metal Casters Bible, the Dave Gingery building your own lathe series. And Last But Not Least, 7 books by Gary Larson, the Far Side guy, and 6 Calvin and Hobbes books. I am cursed with a nearly perfect memory when it comes to fiction and find reading most books boring if reread in the last 8 or 10 years. I have only 6 loading manuals and with the information available here and other good boards on the internet, I don't need any more. I don't often buy new books, I first check with a place called abebooks.com. they often have good books listed for a buck plus shipping. So, there your are, here I am and that is the show.
Jack

[Ickisrulz]

For biblical studies, anything by G. Campbell Morgan is worth its weight in gold. The "Crises of the Christ" is one of the best.

[shooterg]

Now, if you were stranded somewhere and could only have ONE book, what would it be ?

[Wayne Smith]

Now, if you were stranded somewhere and could only have ONE book, what would it be ?

That's easy, my Bible. The only book not completely written by man!

[xs11jack]

I second that.
Jack

[WILCO]

I second that.
Jack

Ditto for me.

[44fanatic]

A few reloading manuals
Tom Clancy
Dean Koontz
Stephen Koontz
Stephen Ambrose
Military History

and none of yall have mentioned Louis Lamour...have a box with most of his books in the attic from when I was a kid.

[Bad Water Bill]

The only paperbacks I keep are the ZANE GREY ones. He knew how to spin a story so you felt like you were actually in that dark dry red brown high walled canyon with just a trickle of a stream slowly moving thru.

And NEVER a profane word in any of his books.

[Junior1942]

The only paperbacks I keep are the ZANE GREY ones. He knew how to spin a story so you felt like you were actually in that dark dry red brown high walled canyon with just a trickle of a stream slowly moving thru.

And NEVER a profane word in any of his books.Wasn't it Elmer Keith who despised Zane Grey?

[MT Gianni]

Wasn't it Elmer Keith who despised Zane Grey?

Yea, he took him on a hunt for a month, fronted the supplis and got paid about 1/2 of agreed on amount a year later, IIRC.

[Trail Finder]

I was looking for a good read particularly Elmer Keith. I have heard some of his stories second hand and started looking for his autobiography or hell I was there. They are becoming an expensive read. I am searching my local good will stores and second hand book stores for those treasures.

[Wayne Smith]

I read one of Zane Grey's books, over and over under different titles! His family novels are different, telling the story of his colonial ancestors. At least Louis Lamour wrote different novels.

[Junior1942]

Yea, he took him on a hunt for a month, fronted the supplis and got paid about 1/2 of agreed on amount a year later, IIRC.Well, if Elmer Keith didn't like him, neither would Junior Doughty.

[WILCO]

At least Louis Lamour wrote different novels.


Yeah. 3:10 to Yuma is one of my favorites. Just stumbled onto my copy of "West of Dodge" whilst searching for my second copy of "The short stories" by Ernest Hemingway.

[farmerjim]

Nobody said Vince Flynn yet.
Anything on WW2
Techno thrillers
How to books

[dkhern]

i do lots of reading may be new but i like my kindle
o'conner, keith, mcgivern, page, prowley, ackley. corbet, ruark, capstick, bell
big steven hunter fan

[double8]

Your library is not complete without a copy of "The Muzzle-Loading Cap Lock Rifle" by Ned Roberts.
My copy is from 1952 and I never tire of perusing it.

[Blacksmith]

Don't forget poetry books. Anything by Robert Service.

Any former Navy types might enjoy Edward Ellsberg here is his list of publications:
http://www.edwardellsberg.com/pub.htm

[429421Cowboy]

My guns/hunting shelf consists of;
The Complete Book of Hunting by D.E. Petzel
Firearms by Chris McNabb and
The Book of Weapons by Zimmerman, both gifts from Miss K for Valentines day last year.
Complete Outdoor Encyclopedia by Outdoor Life,
A Treasury of Outdoor Life, with articles by Askins, O'Connor, Keith and old adds as well
Flaydermans Guide to Antique American Firearms, 6th edition
Shooters Bibles back to 1968, seem to be the only thing i buy at gun shows!!
Gun Traders Guide, Stoger
Ammo and Ballistics 3, Third edition by Bob Forker,
Gunsmithing at Home, Stoger
The Complete Book of Rifles and Shotguns, O'Connor. My dad's favorite author, as well as my grandpa's, which explains why there are so many M70 .270's in the family! He ties in a dead heat with Keith for my favorite author. God bless Amazon used books, i paid more for the shipping than the book!
Hornady Handbook Vol II. Because i can't resist old loading manuals at garage sales, even if i might never use them.
American Ammunition and Ballistics by Edward Matunas. Opinated and biased, makes for an educational read.
Fast and Fancy Revolver Shooting, Ed McGivern. What can i say? I'm 5th generation Central Montanan, he's a local legend, and was friends with my great-grandpa who was a game warden.
No Second Place Winner, Bill Jordan. Because. Just because everybody should own a copy. Stupid Amazon books! Brand new copy for $3.99!
Hunting Adventures Worldwide, Jack Atcheson. A Butte, Montana boy that does some crazy stuff, including joining the Army to fight in the Korean War just to get a chance to hunt tigers there like O'Connor. Read that book once a week when i was a kid and still love it.
Man Eaters of Kumaon, Jim Corbett. Another book that everybody needs to have, my copy was my grandfather's when he was a boy.
NTA Trappers Handbook, I still use it to figure out how far out to place my lures when trapping.
Care of Game Meat and Trophys, Charlie Elliot. A great book by another great hardcore hunting writer.
The Hunters Shooting Guide, O'Connor. Yep, I like O'Connor.
Rifle in Hand, and Beyond Fair Chase, Jim Posewitz. Given to every Montana Hunter Ed Instructor, i wish they were required reading for all hunters.
Basics of Shotgunning, NRA, my grandpa gave it to me when i began youth league skeet as a kid.
Wild Animal Hunter, Wynant Davis Hubbard. Was and remains one of my most cherished books, read it so many times as a child. Something about a group of men back then hunting ivory then catching live animals to send back to zoos. Tales of young elephants ran down on foot and wrestled, or trapping live Cape Buffalo in pit traps then hauling them back is one thing, catching lions in custom Newhouse leghold traps, then pinning them down and tying them up took a big man and alot of trust in your men! Mom got that jewel at the library discard book sale for us, along with most of our other books as kids.
Speer 5 & 7,
Lyman 45 and
PO Ackley's Handbook for Shooters and Reloaders Vol II were all pulled from the trash at my best friends house.
And my favorite novel, Fools Crow, by James Welch. A Blackfeet tribe member, he spins a story about the Blackfeet people in the area around the time of 1876, when the first Napicwan (white men) came to start pushing them into the Backbone of the World (Rockys).
Just a small slice of my books, along with a whole slew of the L'amours, you just can't beat a good story about one of the Sacketts!!

[Bad Water Bill]

Keep that up and I MIGHT have to take an inventory of the books on my shelves. Only been collecting dust since the early 60s.:)

Well I started looking for one book and found my lost cruise book of the USS Randolph and
thanksgiving menus from 1957-8

I did find

100 great guns
An illustrated history of firearms
By Merrill Lindsay

If you want to see some beautiful firearms made by some of the finest craftsmen from across the world this should be in your collection. The photography is superb.

[WILCO]

And my favorite novel, Fools Crow, by James Welch. A Blackfeet tribe member, he spins a story about the Blackfeet people in the area around the time of 1876, when the first Napicwan (white men) came to start pushing them into the Backbone of the World (Rockys).

http://www.blackfoot.org/default.php

[WILCO]

Thanks to all who've posted in this thread. There are a lot of really great topics and titles listed. Plus, I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one with books piled up and not enough shelving!

[double8]

Keep that up and I MIGHT have to take an inventory of the books on my shelves. Only been collecting dust since the early 60s.:)

Well I started looking for one book and found my lost cruise book of the USS Randolph and
thanksgiving menus from 1957-8

I did find

100 great guns
An illustrated history of firearms
By Merrill Lindsay

If you want to see some beautiful firearms made by some of the finest craftsmen from across the world this should be in your collection. The photography is superb.


Dang!!.....Still have my cruise book [ and Christmas menu] from the Far East Cruise aboard USS Bennington 1960-61. HS-8. :drinks:

[Bad Water Bill]

When we took the Indie to Gitmo on her first trip out of U S waters they had a picture of her slipped between the cigarette wrapper and the celophane (sp) wrapper. YUP still got a couple of them.[smilie=1:

[archmaker]

Ones that I read over and over, not complete, and :

This ain't no Rag - Charlie Daniels
To Ride, To shot, to Speak the Truth - Cooper
Zen in the Martial Arts - Joe Hyams
Ender's Game
Louis L'Amour books
Richard Thieme (tough read, but one of those that take months to read because he makes you ponder)

[MT Gianni]

I may not have mentioned , Chuck Logan and Walter Mosley in fiction. I have been interested in WW2 submarine stories since Run Silent, Run Deep. Adm. Richard H O'Kane wrote a couple of great books on his experiences in Wahoo and Clear the Bridge.
I for got Craig Johnson of the Longmire series. The first chapter of Junkyard dogs is one of the funniest things I have ever read.

[Trail Finder]

What do you guys think about Massad Ayoob?