Quality Reads for Men

Compiled January 2000

Nonfiction that reads like fiction:

A Walk in the woods by Bill Bryson

Into thin air by Jon Krakauer

The Greatest generation by Tom Brokaw

The Perfect storm by Sebatian Junger

The Hungry ocean by Linda Greenlaw

The Endurance by Caroline Alexander

A Town like Alice, The Pied Piper and Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute.

Fiction Authors:

Bagley, Desmond

Connelly, Michael

Cussler, Clive

Francis, Dick

Garve, Andrew

Goddard, Kenneth

Greenleaf, Stephen

Innes, Hammond Kennedy

Kenrick, Tony

LeHane, Dennis

MacLean, Alistair

McDonald, Gregory

McMurtry, Larry

Nance, John

O'Brian, Patrick

O'Connell, Carol

Patterson, Richard North

Pronzini, Bill

Reeman, Douglas

Seymour, Gerald

Smith, Wilbur

Solomita, Stephen

Uhnak, Dorothy

Wiltse, David

Woods, Stuart

Series:

Spenser series by Robert B. Parker

Ed McBain's 87th Precinct novels or Matthew Hope books

George Chesbro's Mongo series

J.A. Jance's Beaumont series

Lawrence Block's Burglar series

Patrick O'Brian novels featuring Jack Aubrey and Steven Maturin

08/28/2006