1. A Nervous Splendor, Vienna 1888/1889 ~ frederic morton   *
   
   
2. Zlata's Diary ~ zlata filipovic
   
   
3. The Serbs, The Guardians of the Gate ~ r.g.d. laffon
   
   
4. Russka, The Novel of Russia ~ edward rutherfurd
   
   
5. Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1, 1884-1933 ~ blanche wiesen cook   *
   
   
6. The Price of Glory - Verdun 1916 ~ alistair horne   *
   
   
7. Frauen - German Women Recall the Third Reich ~ alison owings
   
   
8. Children of the Arbat ~ anatoli rybakov   *
   
   
9. The Horse Whisperer ~ nicholas evans   *
   
   
10. The Shipping News ~ e.annie proulx
    
    
11. Hitler's Willing Executioners - Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust ~ daniel jonah goldhagen   *
    
    
12. To the White Sea ~ james dickey
    
    
13. The Don Flows Home to the Sea ~ mikhail sholokhov    * (2nd read)
    
    
14. Inside the Third Reich - Memoirs ~ albert speer   *
    
    
15. Stones From the River ~ ursula hegi   *
    
    
16. Seven Story Mountain ~ thomas merton    * (3-4 reads)
    
    
17. Exodus ~ leon uris
    
    
18. The Lord of the Rings ~ j.r.r. tolkien    * (2nd read)
    
    
19. Rise and Fall of the Third Reich ~ william shirer   *
    
    
20. The Fifties ~ david halberstam
    
    
21. A Soldier in the Great War ~ mark helprin