John Adams by David McCullough

"Different Seasons" by Stephen King

anything by James M Cain

"Bible"

"For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway

Charlie

I hate to say it but Dr. Zhivago was a great book.

Far too many books I love to call one favorite but....

The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

Pillars of The Earth by Ken Follett

Aztec by Gary Jennings

I couldn't name just one with a gun pointed at my head but those four are right up there.

Ask me again and I'll have four different ones...

"The Old Man and the Sea was published 1952 after the bleakest ten years in Hemingway's literary career."

The Hobbit. Probably read it 20 times.