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3rocketjk
I had four that I really loved:
Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty by John M. Barry (biography)
Speak to Me, Dance with Me by Agnes de Mille (memoir)
Hank Greenberg: the Story of My Life by Hank Greenberg with Ira Berkow (autobiography)
Groucho: the Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx by Stefan Kanfer (biography)
Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty by John M. Barry (biography)
Speak to Me, Dance with Me by Agnes de Mille (memoir)
Hank Greenberg: the Story of My Life by Hank Greenberg with Ira Berkow (autobiography)
Groucho: the Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx by Stefan Kanfer (biography)
4dypaloh
I’d be happy to read any of the following again. Well, “happy” isn’t really an appropriate term for most of what Geronimo Pratt endured, but it's a terrific book.
An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie
Back from the Dead by Bill Walton
Downhill: The Life Story of a Gravity Goddess by Marla Streb
Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt by Jack Olsen
Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie
Back from the Dead by Bill Walton
Downhill: The Life Story of a Gravity Goddess by Marla Streb
Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt by Jack Olsen
Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
5LynnB
I have nine that stand out for me (in random order):
Clifford: A Memoir, A Fiction, A Fantasy, A Thought Experiment by Harold R. Johnson
Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill by Charlotte Gray
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavige Hill
The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope by Austen Ivereigh
A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder
Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Pauline Dakin, and
Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire by Leslie Peirce
Clifford: A Memoir, A Fiction, A Fantasy, A Thought Experiment by Harold R. Johnson
Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill by Charlotte Gray
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavige Hill
The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope by Austen Ivereigh
A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder
Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Pauline Dakin, and
Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire by Leslie Peirce
