Nelson Runger

37 books

A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

A Journal of the Plague Year

Daniel Defoe

336 pages • first pub 1722 (editions)

fiction classics history literary challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Martin Luther King, Jr., on Leadership: Inspiration and Wisdom for Challenging Times by Donald T. Phillips

Martin Luther King, Jr., on Leadership: Inspiration and Wisdom for Challenging Times

Donald T. Phillips

384 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction business history emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough

Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt

David McCullough

445 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
Never Call Retreat by E.B. Long, Bruce Catton

Never Call Retreat

The Centennial History of the Civil War #3

E.B. Long, Bruce Catton

558 pages • first pub 1965 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It by Neal Bascomb

The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It

Neal Bascomb

322 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography history sports informative medium-paced
Terrible Swift Sword: The Centennial History of the Civil War Series, Volume 2 by Bruce Catton

Terrible Swift Sword: The Centennial History of the Civil War Series, Volume 2

The Centennial History of the Civil War #2

Bruce Catton

558 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign by Stephen W. Sears

To the Gates of Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign

Stephen W. Sears

468 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Truman by David McCullough

Truman

David McCullough

1120 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative reflective slow-paced
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer

Washington's Crossing

David Hackett Fischer

564 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
Why the Allies Won by Richard Overy

Why the Allies Won

Richard Overy

396 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced