Monday, January 16, 2012

Books to Read

I was a member of a Birkman personality assessment this past year as part of a team building exercise at work. It was a neat experience and tremendously accurate. One of the traits it listed for me, with a score of 99, was reading. Now with a score of 99 it actually indicates that reading is actually a need for my personality.

If you know anything about me, you know I enjoy reading. I am happiest when I am on the couch or in the bed with a good book, reading a book with a friend and chatting about it, or being able to recommend a book to someone that they end up enjoying.



I was talking with someone at work a couple of weeks ago about some of the books I've read lately and he laughed at how odd my tastes were; they're like me, unique!

I always have a list of books ready and waiting on me. They are from different genres and cover different subjects. It's an ever growing list and I'm always open to recommendations.

So here it is. Let me know if you have an recommendations of your own.


  • J.D. Salinger: A Life - Kenneth Slawenski
  • The Tiger's Wife - Tea Obreht
  • Arguably - Christopher Hitchens
  • The Devil All the Time - Donald Ray Pollock
  • Hemingway's Boat - Paul Hendrickson
  • 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
  • The Paris Wife - Paula McLain
  • The Mill River Recluse - Darcie Chan
  • Vortex - Robert Charles Wilson
  • 11/23/63 - Stephen King
  • Black Mass - Dick Lehr
  • In My Time - Dick Cheney
  • Area 51 - Annie Jacobsen
  • The Postcard Killers - James Patterson
  • Little Bee - Chris Cleave
  • The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking
  • Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I have read the Hawking book and it was wonderfully over my head. I still plan to read Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential and Hitchen's Arguably. I hope to read most everything written by Pat Conroy before I am done. To Kill a Mockingbird is even better than the perfect movie. I also want to write a novel before I am done.

Unknown said...

Get to writing Mr. Mancil. Get to writing..