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Bob Aikin: Books you should read (or give)

Cover: Raylan by Elmore Leonard
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Cover: Raylan by Elmore Leonard

The breakdown today includes a continuation of last week's list of books that might make great stocking stuffers, and are great reads anyway.

 

Mr. Aikin's complete suggested list includes the following:

Non-Fiction

  • Niall Ferguson - Civilisation
  • Colin Woodard - American Nations
  • Nicholas Wapschot - Keynes Hayek
  • John Miller - The Big Scrum
  • Jules Tygiel - Past Time

Fiction

  • Christa Faust - Choke Hold
  • Alan Furst - Spies of the Balkans
  • Elmore Leonard - Raylan

Biographies

  • Robert Greenfield - The Last Sultan
  • Eric Larson - In the Garden of Beasts
  • Jacqueline Kennedy - Historic Conversations
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