Brad Taylor's Reading List

"Characters, characters, characters," says the novelist, whose new Pike Logan thriller is "American Traitor."

By the Book: Brad Taylor (2021)

NYT By the Book column (2021-01-21).

"It's a fantastic book that belongs in the pantheon of other war novels such as The Things They Carried or Dispatches, but it has never really gotten its due."

The Spy Who Came In From the Cold

John le Carre · Buy on Amazon

"That's easy: Alec Leamas from John le Carre's The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. One of the best spies and spy novels — if not the best spy novel — ever written."

Watership Down

Richard Adams · 1972 · Buy on Amazon

"one of my favorite books and it had a huge impression on me as a child."

This Kind of War

T. R. Fehrenbach · Buy on Amazon

"The best book I've ever read on the subject of the military and its culture — as it relates to the United States society at large."

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Unknown · Buy on Amazon

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Anything that is hell and gone from today's politics. Reading should be an escape."

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