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David Mccullough's Reading List

The author, most recently, of “The Wright Brothers” originally planned to write fiction. “Again and again come vivid reminders that the truth often is not only stranger than fiction, but far more remarkable as a story.”

By the Book: David Mccullough (2015)

NYT By the Book column (2015-05-28).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Painting as a Pastime

Winston Churchill · Buy on Amazon

"Winston Churchill's delightful "Painting as a Pastime""

A Night to Remember

Walter Lord · Buy on Amazon

"Walter Lord's "A Night to Remember," about the sinking of the Titanic, was the best book about a disaster I had ever read."

Life on a Little-Known Planet

Howard Ensign Evans · Buy on Amazon

"A book I keep going back to for the sheer pleasure of the writing, as well as all it brings to life about a subject I might otherwise have taken no interest in whatever."

The Elements of Style

William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White · Buy on Amazon

"I read it first nearly 50 years ago and still turn to it as an ever reliable aid-to-navigation."

Present at the Creation

Dean Acheson · Buy on Amazon

"a brilliant, superbly written account of the processes of decision making during the highly eventful Truman years. The book is, along with so much else, a great lesson in courage and loyalty."

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

Tobias Smollett · Buy on Amazon

"The delightful and very funny 18th-century fictional travel adventures"

Moon Tiger

Penelope Lively · Buy on Amazon

Wind, Sand and Stars

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · Buy on Amazon

The Moviegoer

Walker Percy · Buy on Amazon

Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History

Robert Sherwood · Buy on Amazon

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