I have always enjoyed reading. Reading takes me places traveling never could.  Reading takes me into the lives of people I would never meet, helps me gain an appreciation and understanding for different cultures, and helps me expand my horizon and learn new skills.

Reading is something I do in phases.  There are times that I can’t read enough, then there time where I have no desire to read.  Here lately, I have been reading a lot.

Here’s my reading list …

• Founding Mothers – Cokie Roberts
• The Historians Paradox – Peter Charles Hoffer
• Leading Ladies – Kay Bailey Hutchison
• Founding Mothers and Fathers – Mary Beth Norton
• American Colonies – Alan Taylor
• 1776 – David McCullough
• Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt – H. W. Brands
• His Excellency George Washington – Joseph J. Ellis
• Texas Merchants – Victoria Buenger & Walter Buenger
• Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet – Ian McNeely and Lisa Wolverton
• John Adams – David McCullough
• The First American: The Life and times of Benjamin Franklin – H. W. Brands
• Decision Point – George W. Bush
• True Compass: A Memoir – Edward M. Kennedy
• Nikola Tesla – Sean Patrick
• Marathon: You Can Do it! – Jeff Galloway
• Hard Choices – Hilary Rodham Clinton
• Over-the-Rhine – Michael Morgan
• Overwhelmed – Brigid Schulte
• Everybody’s Got Something – Robin Roberts
• American Sketches – Walter Isaacson
• Know the Past, Find the Future – Various Authors
• Lean In – Sheryl Sandberg
• The Last Lion – William Raymond Manchester
• Thomas Jefferson’s Creme Brûlée – Thomas J. Craughwell
• My Berlin Kitchen – Luisa Weiss
• Indomitable Will – Mark Updergove
• Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
• White House Diary – Jimmy Carter
• Spoken from the Heart – Laura Bush
• Brave Companions – David McCullough
• I’ve Got Your Number – Sophie Kinsella
• American Sketches – Walter Isaacson
• The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism – Edward Baptist
• Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom and Wonder – Arianna Huffington
• Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir – Frances Mayes
• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, SR – Ron Chemow
• Driving Mr. Albert – Michael Paterniti
• The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
• Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different – Gordon S. Wood
• The National Parks: America’s Best Idea – Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns
• Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness – Walter Isaacson
• Wedding Night: A Novel – Sophie Kinsella
• John Adams – David McCullough
• Washington: A Life – Ron Chernow
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life – Walter Isaacson
• No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington
•  Twenties Girl – Sophie Kinsella
• American Creation – Joseph Ellis
• The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge – David McCullough