Books Read

Elmer Kelton

Lone Star Rising -- 3 in 1 Trilogy
Badger Boy
Buckskin Line
Honor at Daybreak
Cloudy in the West
Texas Vendetta
Jericho Road
Slaughter
The Time it Never Rained
Sons of Texas -- (First book in trilogy)
Sons of Texas, The Raiders (4/08)
Sons of Texas, The Rebels (4/18/08)
Sons of Texas, The Proud (4/22/08)
Sons of Texas, The Bold (4/28/08)
The Pumpkin Rollers (4/08)
Six Bits a Day (4/08)
Barbed Wire (4/23/08)
Joe Pepper (4/27/08)
Stand Proud (5/6/08)
Eyes of the Hawk (9/4/08)
Ranger's Trail (9/9/08)
The Way of the Coyote (9/10/08)

Norman Zolinger

The Road to Sante Fe
Rage in Chupadera
Riders to Cibola
Corey Lane
Chapultepec
Passage to Quivira

Gary Jennings

Aztec Autumn
Aztec Rage
Aztec Blood
Roadshow Vol 1 (4/26/09)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love in the Time of Cholera (10/16/08)

Nelson Demille

Pulm Island
Up Country
Generals Daughter
Spencerville
The Gold Coast

Bonnie MacDougal

Breach of Trust

W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear

People of the Earth
People of the Fire
People of the Wolf
People of the Mist (6/4/08)
People of the Masks (8/3/08)

James Sheehan

The Mayor of Lexington Avenue

Taylor Caldwell

Bright Flows the River
A Pillar of Iron
Captains and the Kings(7/20/08)
Answer As A Man (8/26/08)
I,Judas (12/08)
Great Lion of God (2/26/09)
Ceremony of the Innocent (3/10/09)
Melissa (3/31/09)
To Look and Pass (7/6/10)
The Wide House (9/7/10)
The Final Hour (3/10/11)

Louis L'Amour

1. The Riders of High Rock
2. Lonesome Gods
3. Matagorda
4. The Tall Stranger
5. Kilkenny
6. Hondo
7. Showdown at Yellow Butte
8. Fair Blows the Wind
9. Flint
10. The Burning Hills
11. The Quick and the Dead
12. The Empty Land
13. Under the Sweetwater Rim
14. Silver Canyon
15. Sitka
16. The Key-Lock Man
17.The Proving Trail
18. The Man from Skibbereen
19. War Party
20. The Smiling Country
21. Crossfire Trail
22. Showdown at Yellow Butte (3/08)
23. Down the Long Hills (3/08)
24. The Man called Noon (4/1/08)
25. Comstock Lode (4/13/08)
26. Catlow (4/16/08)
27. Bendigo Shafter (5/3/08)
28. Sackett (8/15/08)
29. The Sackett Brand (8/17/08)
30. The Warriors Path (8/20/08)
31. End of The Drive (10/22/08)

B. Traven

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

David Nevin

Dream West (John Charles Fremont) (3/08)

Linda Howard

Touch of Fire

Cassie Edwards

Savage Tempest

Dee Brown

The Way to Bright Star
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee (9/03/08)

John Sharpe

Blood Oath

Michael Crichton

Congo (2/08)
Timeline (11/12)

Trevanian

Shibumi (4/08)

Paul I. Wellman

The Comancheros (4/24/08)

Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner (excellent 5/10/08)

Robert A. Heinlein

Friday (5/19/08)
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (8/13/08)

Terry C Johnston

The Plainsmen Series:
Sioux Dawn (6/13/08)
Red Clouds Revenge (6/17/08)
The Stalkers (6/28/08)
Black Sun (5/25/08)
Devil's Backbone (7/06/08)
Shadow Riders (7/26/08)

Andrew Neiderman

Amnesia (6/21/08)

John Jakes

The American Bicentennial Series:
Vol. I - The Bastard (10/27/08)
Vol. II - The Rebels (11/08)
Vol. III- The Seekers (11/08)
Vol. IV - The Furies (11/08)
Vol. V - The Titans (11/08)
Vol. VI - The Warriors (10/08/08)
Vol. VII- The Lawless (12/08)
Vol.VIII- The Americans (12/08)
Homeland (06/01/09)
North and South (12/15/08)(First in Trilogy)
Heaven and Hell (9/26/08)(Last in Trilogy)
California Gold (3/22/09)
American Dreams (9/29/09)
IN the Big Country (11/09)

Ian Frazier

Great Plains (10/03/08)

Gaylord Larsen

Trouble Crossing the Pyrenees

Nels Jorgensen

No Quarter (12/08)

Jan Karon

In This Mountain (3/01/09)
Home to Holly Springs (Father Tim Novels) (3/14/09)

Elmore Leonard

Get Shorty (4/8/09)

Mark Helprin

A Soldier of the Great War (4/19/09)

Dana Fuller Ross

(Lyle Kenyon Engel)
Wagons West Series
01. Independence (6/17/09)
02. Nebraska (6/24/09)
03. Wyoming (6/12/09)
04. Oregon (6/27/09)
05. Texas (7/2/09)
06. California (7/7/09)
07. Colorado (7/09)
08. Nevada (7/09)
09. Washington (7/09)
10. Montana (7/09)
11. Dakota (6/8/09)
12. Utah (5/1/09)
13. Idaho (5/6/09)
14. Missouri (5/10/09)
15. Mississippi (8/09)
16. Louisiana (8/09)
17. Tennessee (8/16/09)
18. Illinois (8/20/09)
19. Wisconsin (8/21/09)
20. Kentucky (8/25/09)
21. Arizona (8/29/09)
22. New Mexico (9/1/09)
23. Oklahoma (9/4/09)
24. Celebration (9/7/09)
The Holts
Oregon Legacy (9/11/09)
Oklahoma Pride (9/18/09)
Carolina Courage (9/25/09)
California Glory (10/8/09)
Hawaii Heritage (10/27/09)
Sierra Triumph (11/09)
Yukon Justice (11/09)

Christiane Heggan

Where Truth Lies (11/09)

John Updike

The Centaur (11/21/09)
Rabbit Run

Rudolfo Anaya

Alburquerque (11/26/09)
Bless Me, Ultima (12/07/09)

David Debin

Nice Guys Finish Dead (12/01/09)

Hunter S. Thompson

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (12/04/09)

Duane A. Smith

Horace Tabor, His Life and the Legend (12/15/09)

Jung Chang

Wild Swans (12/20/09) excellent

Irwin Shaw

Rich Man, Poor Man (12/29/09)
Bread Upon the Waters ***** (2/28/24)

V.C. Andrews

Ruby (01/04/10)
Pearl in the Mist (01/13/10)
All That Glitters (01/15/10)
Hidden Jewel (01/17/10)

Olivce Ann Burns

Cold Sassy Tree (01/18/10)

Ken Towery

The Chow Dipper (01/22/10)

C.D.B. Bryan

P.S. Wilkinson (01/26/10)

John Barth

The Sot-Weed Factor (02/23/10)

James Clavell

Whirlwind (03/28/10)

Harold Elvin

The Ride to Chandigarh (04/06/10)

C.J.Sansom

Winter in Madrid (04/22/10)

Hampton Sides

Blood and Thunder (05/15/10) (Kit Carson)

Frederick Forsyth

The Afghan (05/27/10)

Vince Flynn

Memorial Day (06/10/10)
Act of Treason (8/01/10)
Consent to Kill (8/12)

James A. Michener

Hawai
Mexico (07/02/10)
Poland (11/30/21)
Covenant (12/21/21)
Journey (01/22)
Caravans (17/Jan/22) ***

Louis Sachar

Holes (7/10/10)

James Gould Cozzens

Morning Noon and Night (8/10/10)

Tony Hillerman

Three Jim Chee Mysteries (8/20/10)
Skinwalkers (3/13)

Franz Kafka

The Penal Colony (8/28/10)

Sidney Sheldon

If Tomorrow Comes (9/20/10)
Windmills of the Gods (9/27/10)
The Sands of Time (10/05/10)
The Doomsday Conspiracy (11/15/10)
Rage of Angels (12/08/10)
Are You Afraid of the Dark? (12/18/10)
The Best Laid Plans (4/15/11)
Mistress of the Game (7/6/11) by Tilly Bagshawe

Robin Cook

Vector (9/24/10)

Robert v. Remini

Andrew Jackson and the Bank War (10/11/10)

Irvin Wallace

The Prize (10/28/10)
The Fan Club (11/07/10)

Chaim Potok

I Am the Clay (11/15/10)

Jack Smith

Alive in LaLa Land (1/3/11)

Joe Parkin

A Dog in a Hat (1/9/11)

Tim Allen

Don't Stand to Close to a Naked Man (1/11/11)

Ken Follett

A Place Called Freedom (1/17/11)
The Third Twin (1/27/11)
Code to Zero (2/02/11)
The Hammer of Eden (3/21/11)
The Pillars of the Earth (3/18/23)*****

Lesley Downer

On the narrow road (1/21/11) (Journey into a lost Japan)

Robert Fulghum

It was on fire when I lay down on it (1/25/11)

David Pallister, Sarah Stewart, Ian Lepper

South Africa Inc. (2/12/11)

Conrad Hilton

Be My Guest (3/29/11)

Thomas Thompson

Serpentine (5/2/11)

Nathaniel Philbrick

In the Heart of the Sea (5/10/11)

James Ramsey Ullman

Tiger of the Snows (5/19/11)

John Irving

A Widow for One Year (6/2/11)

Robert Ludlum

The Bourne Objective (6/21/11)
The Tristan Betrayal (2/12)
The Matlock Paper (4/12)
The Chancellor Manuscript (4/12)
The Road to Gandolfo (6/12)
The Cry of the Halidon (9/12)
The Janson Directive (7/18)

Frances Parkinson Keyes

The Explorer (6/11)

Nicholas Sparks

The Guardian (7/23/11)

Tami Hoag

Deeper then the Dead (8/11)

Clive Cussler

Serpent (8/25/11)

John Sandford

Rough Country (9/4/11)
Storm Prey (4/12)
Winter Prey (11/12)

Sandra Brown

Charade (9/8/11)

Stuart Woods

Two Dollar Bill (9/13/11)
Loitering With Intent (10/25/11)
Strategic Moves (11/22/11)
Cold Paradise (12/01/11)
Swimming to Catalina (12/24/11)
Worst Fears Realized (1/20/12)
Dead in the Water (2/12)
Santa Fe Dead (8/12)
Contraband (9/7/2021)
Treason (9/14/21)
Sex, Lies and Serious Money (9/20/21)
Barely Legal (9/25/21)
Indecent Exposure (10/01/21)
Below The Belt (10/08/21)

Lee Child

61 Hours (9/17/11)
Make Me (Mar 18)

James Patterson

Private (9/21/11)
Honeymoon (10/28/11)
Pop Goes the Weasel (2/12)
Four Blind Mice *** (4/10/24)

Lisa Jackson

Malice (9/27/11)
Left to Die (2/21/12)

William Lashner

Past Due (10/4/11)

John Grisham

The Testament (10/12/11)
Camino Island (6/18)
The Rooster Bar (7/18)
The Guardians (2/27/23)
The Reckoning (6/13/23) *****
Playing For Pizza (6/28/23) *****
The Judge's List (01/07/24)
The Runaway Jury ***** (4/1/24)

Jerome Preisler

Zero Hour (10/20/11)

Eric Van Lustbader

Jian (11/15/11)

Dan Brown

Digital Fortress (11/10/11)

Michael Scott Clifton

The Treasure Hunt Club (11/20/11)

Evan Hunter

Criminal Conversation (11/28/11)

Stephen Coonts

Hong Kong (12/13/11)

Lewis B Puller Jr

Fortunate Son (1/10/12)

Stieg Larsson

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (1/24/12)

Scott Smith

The Ruins (2/12)

William Kent Krueger

Thunder Bay (2/12)

Dale Brown

Storming Heaven (2/12)

Lawrence Sanders

The Fourth Deadly Sin (2/12)

Christopher Hyde

The Second Assassin (3/12)

Anne Tyler

The Accidental Tourist (3/12)

Ralph "Sonny" Barger

Hell's Angel (3/12)

Norman Mailer

The Fight (4/12)

Ira Levin

The Boys From Brazil (4/12)

Tony Horwitz

Confederates in the Attic (7/12

Paul Erdman

The Swiss Account (7/12)

Jon Krakauer

Into the Wild (6/12)
Into Thin Air (12/12)

Gary Kinder

Ship of Gold in the Dp Blue Sea (6/12)

Arthur Miller

Death of a Salesman (5/12)

Stephan Crane

The Red Badge of Courage (5/12)

Pearl S. Buck

Peony (8/12)

John LeCarre

A Perfect Spy (9/12)

Christopher New

Shanghai (10/12)

Tom Clancy

Red Storm Rising (10/12)

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray (10/12)

David Grann

The Lost City of Z (11/12)

Tony Hillerman

A Thief of Time (11/12)

Larry McMurtry

Roads (Driving America's Great Highways)

Paul Howard

Sex, Lies and Handlebar Tape (12/12)

William J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick

Sarkhan (12/12)

Harold Robbins

Yycoon (1/13)

Scott Turow

Pleading Guilty (1/13)

Victor Hugo

Les Miserables (2/13)

Lance Armstrong

It's Not About the Bike (3/13)

J. Grigsby Crawford

The Gringo (3/13)

Josef Svatek

The Memoirs of a Prague Executioner (4/13)

Ted Bell

Hawke 5/13

Eric Newby

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush 5/13

Jeff Wilser

The Maxims of Manhood (6/13)

Frank McCourt

Teacher Man (6/13)
Tis (6/13)
Angela's Ashes (7/13)
*****
Updatted: 21/Jan/22