Books I’m reading

Empire of the Summer Moon – Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Commanchies, the most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. Gwynne. Read January 2026

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. Read Dec 25/ January 2026

Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper by Casey Kuhlman, Donald A. Davis, and Jack Coughlin’. Read Dec 2025

Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual by Jocko Willink (U.S. Navy SEAL). Read Nov/Dec 2025

‘Tis: A Memoir by Frank McCourt Read Nov 2025

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. Read Oct 2025.

Artificial Intelligence playbook (2nd ed) by Hargrave, Fisher and Frey. Read Oct 2025

Unpacking AI – Why Artifical Intelligence matters by Chrsitina Siregar. Read Sep 2025.

Who is afraid of AI by Thomas Ramge. Read Sep 2025

The Fifth Discipline: the art and practice of the learning organization by Peter Senge. Read Aug/Sep 2025

RISK– A user’s Guide by Gen Stanley McChrystal U. S. Army Read Aug 2025

Can’tHurt Me by Navy Seal CPO David Goggins. Read July 2025

BOYD. The Fighter Pilot who changed the Art of War by Robert Coram. Read June 2025

Breaking Ice & Breaking Glass by USCG ADM Sandra Stosz. Read May 2025

Log of the Lone Eagle by Robert G. Bugge
Started reading March 30.

Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire by Don Graham.
Read: March 1, 2025 – March 30, 2025.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2S6Y9FSI5LY8B?ref=pf_ov_at_pdctrvw_srp

Novel, by James A Michener
Started reading on Feb 1, 2025 – Feb 20, 2025
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7453282225

The Armor of Light, by Ken Follet
Read Jan 11 – Jan 31, 2025
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7453239538

I See by My Outfit, Cross-Country By Scooter: An Adventure by Peter S. Beagle
Read Dec 26 -Jan 10, 2025
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7453245258

This Tender Land by William Kent Kruger
Read Dec 2024 https://www.amazon.com/review/R2VPYJ3KUEAEPL/ref=pe_123899240_1043597390_SRTC0204BT_cm_rv_eml_rv0_rv

Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
Read Nov 2024 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7077812329

Philosophy of Sailing: Offshore in Search of the Universe by Christian Williams.
Read Oct 2024. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7026409645

The Ammonite by Blaine C. Thomsen
Read (Sept 2024). https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7026397085

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Read (Aug 24 – Sep 30). https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6786419406

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the birth of the FBI by David Grann.
Read (Aug 12 – 24, 2024). https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6753765097

A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind
by Ann Wolbert Burgess and Steven Matthew Constantine.
Read: (July 15 – 30, 2024)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6753704572

All Strangers are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World by Zora O’Neill.
 https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2X10BJNG56FCW?ref=pf_ov_at_pdctrvw_srp

Fire on the Mountain by Edward Abbey
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R24VQWFGZBKHDZ?ref=pf_ov_at_pdctrvw_srp

The Skipper and the Eagle by Gordan McGowan.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1F4EV0K4PHZQW/ref=cm_cr_getr_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0930248090

Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by Ty Seidule
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6599524078?book_show_action=false

All Present and Accounted for by Steven Craig
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5645083324

Ice Brothers by Sloan Wilson
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5437836316

The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3210275201

Appalachian Justice by Melinda Clayton
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3811777806

No Excuses University by Damon Lopez
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3210280610