This is from one of those inane notes you get from “friends” that want you to join them in the on-line hell that is Facebook.  The point of the exercise is to list 15 books that made an impact on your life in 15 minutes and send it back to the entire group.  Here’s my list, in the order I thought of them not in order of importance or relevance.

1. The Things They Carried
2. American Creation
3. Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
4. Outliers/Blink
5. Old Man and the Sea
6. The Sun Also Rises
7. Churchill – A Study in Greatness
8. Wild at Heart
9. The Last Kingdom (Viking series by Bernard Cornwell)
10. In Defense of Food
11. Boys Adrift
12. The Martian Chronicles.
13. Bringing Up Boys
14. Founding Brothers
15. Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons

There are others of course.  Can’t forget the Bible, but since the person that sent my the exercise is a flaming liberal I figured they’d never heard of it before.  Thus I left it off.