I have read a bunch of baseball books, not really novels.
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I read one of Yogi's books, but I don't remember which one.

Favorite: The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway.

Least favorite: Ulysses by James Joyce (had to fight through it in college).

Grapes of Wrath

Probably my second least favorite. Disgusting ending - chick should have let the old dude starve.

Anything Michener for fiction. For non-fiction, Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense by Walter Prescott Webb and Lone Star by T. R. Fehrenbach.

The witcher series is excellent. Any by Greg Isles, too many favorites to list. The biography of Rockefeller is very interesting.

Where the Red Fern Grows (Had to for school, all others, I skimmed through and passed literary tests on them. AHAHAHHA)

Fishing on the Edge - Mike Iaconelli (This was one fun read)

Several other Bass based books as well. See a theme?

Catych-22 and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are two that I regularly pull quotes from.

Used to read a bunch not as much nowadays.

The Time It Never Rained - Elmer Kelton
Ranger's Law - Elmer Kelton
Deadman's Walk/Commanche Moon/Lonesome Dove/Streets of Laredo - Larry McMurtry

Favorites, so far...

Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keys
The Last Mafioso by Ovid Demaris

Books I hated...

A Catcher in the Rye
The Scarlett Letter
Farenheit 451
Stage plays/stories by Agatha Christie...they are all the same!

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Not necessarily my favorite but it had a profound impact on my thinking. It influenced my thinking significantly in the early 2000's. Banned in Canada and will be confiscated if found there. Author had been harassed here in the US by BATF. Cumbersome read at times but does deliver a thought provoking scenario. Could have been written by Ayn Rand if she'd lived long enough. Cover shows Lady Justice being assaulted by a US Govt. jack booted thug (ATF agent).



Had limited printings. Movie rights never sold (too bad). Portrays the swampy gubmint in a bad light even though it was written almost 30 years ago.

Anything from Michener. Chesapeake, The Source, Mexico, Space, others.
They are Novels, thus fiction, but all are highly based on real events.
Michener as an author, would often physically move to the central location of the novel, to be able to gather real data from the local. Most of his stories take a location, then he tells you about what happened as time passed through the location.
The Source tells about everything that led up to present Middle East. From when cavemen roamed through about the Six Days War. Including detail about how the Crusades started and what they did. GREAT BOOK.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six for a drama.

I prefer technical stuff, always have.

Foundations of Sniper Marksmanship by John C Simpson. ~Strongly recommend.

The dark tower series by stephen king. Dude has a wild imagination.

I truly enjoyed reading several Frank Peretti novels especially "This Present Darkness" and "Piercing the Darkness".

As CMack stated before me Peter Hathaway Capstick was riveting as a writer and a read everything I could get my hands on by him, loving it all.