Reading List
The WxToad's bookshelf
Every book the WxToad read from November 2008 to May 2019: 268 of them, shelved by the year he read them. Click a book to pull it off the shelf, or search the full list below.
268books read
2010busiest year, 42 books
212different authors
Vince Flynnmost read, 13 books
201910 books
201818 books
201729 books
201616 books
201520 books
201421 books
201332 books
201239 books
201123 books
201042 books
200915 books
20083 books
The full list
| Title | Author | Read |
|---|---|---|
| Ice Bound | Dr. Kerri Neilsen | May 2019 |
| Say Goodbye for Now | Catherine Ryan Hyde | May 2019 |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair | May 2019 |
| Come Again No More | Jack Todd | April 2019 |
| Rules for Radicals | Saul Alinsky | April 2019 |
| My Father the Spy | John Richardson | April 2019 |
| The Water in Between | Kevin Patterson | March 2019 |
| The Deep State | Jason Chaffetz | March 2019 |
| Sun Going Down | Jack Todd | February 2019 |
| Franklin Pierce | Peter A. Wallner | January 2019 |
| Peary: The Explorer and the Man | John Edward Weems | December 2018 |
| No One Would Listen | Harry Markopolos | December 2018 |
| The Life We Bury | Allen Eskens | November 2018 |
| Woodrow Wilson | August Heckscher | November 2018 |
| Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul reinvented an Industry - and Made Himself the Richest Man in America | Stephen Manes & Paul Andrews | October 2018 |
| Godforsaken Sea - Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters | Derek Lundy | September 2018 |
| The Disciple | Stephen Coonts | September 2018 |
| Old Friends | Tracy Kidder | September 2018 |
| Steve Jobs: The Man who Thought Different | Karen Blumenthal | August 2018 |
| Grant | Ron Chernow | August 2018 |
| The Informant | Kurt Eichenwald | May 2018 |
| Cuba | Stephen Coonts | May 2018 |
| John Tyler: Champion of the Old South | Oliver Perry Chitwood | April 2018 |
| Watchers | Dean Koontz | March 2018 |
| Gold Diggers | Charlotte Gray | March 2018 |
| Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President | Robert J. Rayback | February 2018 |
| The World According to Bob | James Bowen | January 2018 |
| Katharine Graham - Personal History | Katharine Graham | January 2018 |
| Charlie Company - What Vietnam Did to Us | Peter Goldman & Tony Fuller | December 2017 |
| The Battle of the Generals | Martin Blumenson | December 2017 |
| Act of War | Brad Thor | December 2017 |
| Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom | Ken Ilgunas | November 2017 |
| Townie | Andre Dubus III | November 2017 |
| The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles and Their Secret World War | Stephen Kinzer | October 2017 |
| The Color of Truth | Kai Bird | October 2017 |
| Tearing Down the Walls | Monica Langley | September 2017 |
| Use of Force | Brad Thor | September 2017 |
| Paperboy: Confessions of a Future Engineer | Henry Petroski | August 2017 |
| Colder than Hell: A Marine Rifle Company at Chosin Reservoir | Joseph R. Owen | August 2017 |
| And You Know You Should Be Glad | Bob Greene | August 2017 |
| Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover | Richard Gid Powers | August 2017 |
| Voyager | Jeana Yeagar & Dick Rutan | June 2017 |
| Citizen Cohn: The Life and Times of Roy Cohn | Nicholas von Hoffman | June 2017 |
| Kearney's March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847 | Winston Groom | June 2017 |
| Girl from Fitchburg | Bernadine Kielty Scherman | June 2017 |
| The Mosquito Coast | Paul Theroux | June 2017 |
| Proud to Be: My Life, the Air Force, the Controversy | Kelly Flinn | May 2017 |
| Old Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time | Freeman Cleaves | April 2017 |
| Breaking the Limit | Karen Larsen | March 2017 |
| Damages | Barry Werth | March 2017 |
| The Hungry Ocean | Linda Greenlaw | March 2017 |
| The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat | Bob Woodward | March 2017 |
| Vision: The Story of Boeing | Harold Mansfield | February 2017 |
| Parting the Desert - The Creation of the Suez Canal | Zachary Karabell | February 2017 |
| A Street Cat Named Bob - And How he Saved my Life | James Bowen | January 2017 |
| Ike's Spies - Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment | Stephen E. Ambrose | January 2017 |
| Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis | J. D. Vance | January 2017 |
| Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con | Guy Lawson | December 2016 |
| The Grand Idea: George Washington's Potomac and the Race to the West | Joel Achenbach | December 2016 |
| Ayn Rand and the World She Made | Anne C. Heller | November 2016 |
| Call the Briefing! | Marlin Fitzwater | October 2016 |
| The Price of Politics | Bob Woodward | August 2016 |
| Carrying the Fire | Michael Collins | July 2016 |
| Seabiscuit - An American Legend | Laura Hillenbrand | June 2016 |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J. D. Salinger | June 2016 |
| The Last Patriot | Brad Thor | May 2016 |
| Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics | Joel H. Silbey | May 2016 |
| State of Fear | Michael Crichton | April 2016 |
| Tracks in the Sea: Matthew Fontaine Maury and the Mapping of the Oceans | Chester G. Hearn | April 2016 |
| Last Bus to Wisdom | Ivan Doig | March 2016 |
| Three Weeks with My Brother | Nicholas Sparks | March 2016 |
| Team of Rivals | Doris Kearns Goodwin | March 2016 |
| In the Devil's Snare | Mary Beth Norton | January 2016 |
| Undaunted Courage | Stephen Ambrose | December 2015 |
| Coming Clean | Kimberley Rae Miller | December 2015 |
| Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire | Tom Chaffin | December 2015 |
| The Devil in the White City | Erik Larson | November 2015 |
| Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War | James Risen | November 2015 |
| An Invisible Thread | Laura Schoff & Alex Tresniowski | October 2015 |
| The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared | Jonas Jonasson | October 2015 |
| Clinton Cash | Peter Schweizer | September 2015 |
| When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age | Justin Kaplan | September 2015 |
| Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail | Cheryl Strayed | August 2015 |
| Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered From All Sides | Christian G. Appy | August 2015 |
| A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity | Bill O'Reilly | July 2015 |
| Cold Mountain | Charles Frazier | June 2015 |
| Hidden Order | Brad Thor | May 2015 |
| Andrew Johnson: A Biography | Hans L. Trefousse | May 2015 |
| The First Commandment | Brad Thor | April 2015 |
| 1812: The Navy's War | George C. Daughan | March 2015 |
| The Bully Pulpit | Doris Kearns Goodwin | March 2015 |
| Band of Brothers | Stephen E. Ambrose | January 2015 |
| Heavy Weather | Bruce Sterling | January 2015 |
| American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America | David O. Stewart | December 2014 |
| Destiny of the Republic | Candice Millard | December 2014 |
| Blood and Thunder | Hampton Sides | December 2014 |
| 1776 | David McCullough | November 2014 |
| The Fourth Estate | Jeffrey Archer | October 2014 |
| Empire of the Summer Moon | S. C. Gwynne | September 2014 |
| Hit & Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Gruber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood | Nancy Griffin & Kim Masters | August 2014 |
| Buddy: How a Rooster Made Me a Family Man | Brian McGrory | August 2014 |
| The Hope | Herman Wouk | August 2014 |
| Jack: Straight from the Gut | Jack Welch | August 2014 |
| Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate | Bob Woodward | July 2014 |
| What Happened | Scott McClellan | July 2014 |
| Unbroken | Laura Hillenbrand | June 2014 |
| The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times | Francis Russell | June 2014 |
| USS Seawolf | Patrich Robinson | March 2014 |
| Parallel Lies | Ridley Pearson | March 2014 |
| The Last Hero: Wild Bill Donovan | Anthony Cave Brown | March 2014 |
| Breaking Point | Dana Haynes | February 2014 |
| The Fourth Part of the World | Toby Lester | February 2014 |
| The Last Man | Vince Flynn | January 2014 |
| Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA | Terry Reed & John Cummings | January 2014 |
| Sea of Thunder | Evan Thomas | December 2013 |
| Crashers | Dana Haynes | December 2013 |
| Dirty Wars - The World is a Battlefield | Jeremy Scahill | December 2013 |
| A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving | November 2013 |
| Not Between Brothers | David Marion Wilkinson | November 2013 |
| Alexander Hamilton | Ron Chernow | October 2013 |
| Reccessional | James A Michener | September 2013 |
| The Shell Game | Steve Alten | August 2013 |
| Blind Man's Bluff | Sherry Sontag & Christopher Drew | August 2013 |
| The Yankee Years | Joe Torre & Tom Verducci | August 2013 |
| The Birth of the West | Paul Collins | July 2013 |
| Shadow Warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIA | Randall B. Woods | July 2013 |
| The Man Who Loved Books Too Much | Allison Hoover Bartlett | July 2013 |
| Into the Silence | Wade Davis | July 2013 |
| The Chase | Clive Cussler | July 2013 |
| The Lost Cyclist | David Herlihy | June 2013 |
| The River of Doubt | Candice Millard | June 2013 |
| A Final Reckoning: A Tale of Bush Life in Australia | George A. Henty | June 2013 |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | June 2013 |
| Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad | Gordon Thomas | June 2013 |
| Coolidge | Amity Shlaes | May 2013 |
| The Ice Balloon | Alec Wilkinson | April 2013 |
| Twelve Desparate Miles | Tim Brady | March 2013 |
| Liberty | Stephen Coonts | March 2013 |
| Halsey's Typhoon | Bob Drury & Tom Clavin | March 2013 |
| The Worst Journey in the World | Apsley Cherry-Garrard | March 2013 |
| Screwed | Dick Morris & Eileen McGann | February 2013 |
| American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson | Joseph J. Ellis | February 2013 |
| Liberty and Tyranny | Mark R. Levin | January 2013 |
| Intruders | Stephen Coonts | January 2013 |
| Classified Woman | Sibel Edmonds | January 2013 |
| Benedict Arnold: Revolutionary Hero | James Kirby Martin | January 2013 |
| Diary of a U-Boat Commander | Anonymous | December 2012 |
| The Red Horseman | Stephen Coonts | December 2012 |
| Sleeping with Custer and the 7th Cavalry | Walter C Rodgers | December 2012 |
| The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest | Anatoli Boukreev & G. Weston DeWalt | December 2012 |
| Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton | Barbara Olson | December 2012 |
| Solving 9-11: The Deception That Changed the World | Christopher Bollyn | November 2012 |
| Slipknot | Linda Greenlaw | November 2012 |
| James Madison | Richard Brookhiser | October 2012 |
| The Minotaur | Stephen Coonts | October 2012 |
| Airframe | Michael Crichton | October 2012 |
| Have You Seen My Country Lately? | Jerry Doyle | October 2012 |
| The Cider House Rules | John Irving | October 2012 |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | September 2012 |
| Man of the House | Thomas P. O'Neill | September 2012 |
| The Great Destroyer: Barack Obama's War on the Republic | David Limbaugh | September 2012 |
| Full Black | Brad Thor | September 2012 |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | September 2012 |
| Highest Duty | Chesley Sullenberger | September 2012 |
| Under Siege | Stephen Coonts | August 2012 |
| The Roots of Obama's Rage | Dinesh D'Souza | August 2012 |
| Typhoon | Joseph Conrad | August 2012 |
| The Amateur | Ed Klein | August 2012 |
| The Man Who Loved China | Simon Winchester | August 2012 |
| Liberal Betrayal of America and the Tea Party Firestorm | William Davis Eaton | August 2012 |
| The Kingdom | Clive Cussler | July 2012 |
| Rayisms | Ray Rothbard | July 2012 |
| Crossing to Safety | Wallace Stegner | July 2012 |
| Final Flight | Stephen Coonts | July 2012 |
| Dead or Alive | Tom Clancy | June 2012 |
| Angle of Repose | Wallace Stegner | May 2012 |
| Riptide | D. Preston & L. Child | May 2012 |
| Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times | H. W. Brands | April 2012 |
| The Man Who Knew Too Much | Dick Russell | March 2012 |
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | John Berendt | February 2012 |
| The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt | T. J. Stiles | February 2012 |
| Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World | Andrew Breitbart | February 2012 |
| Huey Long | T. Harry Williams | January 2012 |
| America | Stephen Coonts | January 2012 |
| Honorable Warrior: General Harold K. Johnson and the Ethics of Command | Lewis Sorley | January 2012 |
| Foreign Influence | Brad Thor | December 2011 |
| Washington: A Life | Ron Chernow | December 2011 |
| American Assassin | Vince Flynn | November 2011 |
| The Guts To Try | Col James H. Kyle | October 2011 |
| Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurtry | October 2011 |
| After America | Mark Steyn | October 2011 |
| The Tycoons | Charles R. Morris | October 2011 |
| The Oregon Trail | Francis Parkman | October 2011 |
| Dereliction of Duty | H. R. McMaster | September 2011 |
| Mad Anthony Wayne | Thomas Boyd | September 2011 |
| All the Little Live Things | Wallace Stegner | September 2011 |
| Rabble in Arms | Kenneth Roberts | July 2011 |
| The Perfect Storm | Sebastian Junger | June 2011 |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | June 2011 |
| Riders of the Purple Sage | Zane Grey | April 2011 |
| One Ranger - A Memoir | H. Joaquin Jackson | April 2011 |
| Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism | Ronald J. Pestritto | April 2011 |
| Dark Summit | Nick Heil | March 2011 |
| Disclosure | Michael Crichton | March 2011 |
| The Guns of August | Barbara W. Tuchman | March 2011 |
| Extreme Measures | Vince Flynn | February 2011 |
| Lusitania - An Epic Tragedy | Diana Preston | January 2011 |
| John Adams | David McCullough | January 2011 |
| Protect and Defend | Vince Flynn | December 2010 |
| Tuxedo Park | Jennet Conant | December 2010 |
| The Worst Hard Time | Timothy Egan | December 2010 |
| Colossus | Michael Hiltzik | December 2010 |
| Matterhorn | Karl Marlantes | November 2010 |
| Act of Treason | Vince Flynn | November 2010 |
| The Big Rock Candy Mountain | Wallace Stegner | November 2010 |
| The Lost Symbol | Dan Brown | October 2010 |
| A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole | Diana Preston | October 2010 |
| The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid | Bill Bryson | October 2010 |
| Separation of Power | Vince Flynn | October 2010 |
| Patriots | A. J. Langguth | October 2010 |
| The Third Option | Vince Flynn | September 2010 |
| Transfer of Power | Vince Flynn | August 2010 |
| Term Limits | Vince Flynn | August 2010 |
| Captain Lightfoot: The Last of the New England Highwaymen | Frederick. W. Waldo | August 2010 |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | August 2010 |
| Mount Washington Reoccupied | Robert Monahan | July 2010 |
| Skull Rack | Ron Braithwaite | July 2010 |
| JFK and the Unspeakable | James Douglass | June 2010 |
| Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen | June 2010 |
| Pursuit of Honor | Vince Flynn | June 2010 |
| Unknown Seas | Ronald Watkins | June 2010 |
| Sailing Alone Around the World | Joshua Slocum | May 2010 |
| Lost and Found | Jacqueline Sheehan | May 2010 |
| Before the Fallout | Diana Preston | May 2010 |
| Seven Years in Tibet | Heinrich Harrar | May 2010 |
| The Professor and the Madman | Simon Winchester | April 2010 |
| Over the Edge of the World | Laurence Bergreen | April 2010 |
| The Last Patriot | Brad Thor | April 2010 |
| Hawke | Ted Bell | March 2010 |
| Fortunes of War | Stephen Coonts | March 2010 |
| The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt | Edmund Morris | March 2010 |
| Consent to Kill | Vince Flynn | March 2010 |
| Empire Falls | Richard Russo | March 2010 |
| The Warburgs | Ron Chernow | March 2010 |
| The Innocent Man | John Grisham | February 2010 |
| Executive Power | Vince Flynn | January 2010 |
| Joseph Stalin | Robert Service | January 2010 |
| Half Broke Horses | Jeanette Walls | January 2010 |
| North Star Over My Shoulder | Bob Buck | January 2010 |
| Time and Chance - Gerald Ford's Appointment with History | James Cannon | January 2010 |
| The Glass Castle | Jeanette Walls | December 2009 |
| Every Man A Tiger | Tom Clancey | December 2009 |
| Flying Crows | Jim Lehrer | December 2009 |
| Andrew Carnegie | David Nasaw | December 2009 |
| Stern Men | Elizabeth Gilbert | October 2009 |
| Sleeper Spy | William Archer | October 2009 |
| As The Crow Flies | Jeffrey Archer | September 2009 |
| Nine Mile Bridge | Helen Hamlin | August 2009 |
| Memorial Day | Vince Flynn | August 2009 |
| A Good Dog | Jon Katz | August 2009 |
| Marching toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq | Michael Scheuer | April 2009 |
| The Forgotten Man | Amity Shlaes | March 2009 |
| The Leisure Seeker | Michael Zadoorian | February 2009 |
| American Prometheus: Triumph & Tragedy of Robert Oppenheimer | Bird & Sherwin | February 2009 |
| IOUSA | Wiggin & Incontrera | January 2009 |
| Dewey - The Small Town Library Cat | Vicki Myron | December 2008 |
| The Bilderberg Group | Daniel Estulin | November 2008 |
| The Creature from Jekyll Island | G. Edward Griffin | November 2008 |