Famous Bookshelves

Occasionally, we take a look at famous bookshelves and see what we can find in the Friday BWF emails. When we do, we consolidate them here.

Christopher Hitchens

• Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East by Quil Lawrence ($)

• The Music of Pythagoras by Kitty Ferguson ($)

• Le Mal D'afrique: A Journey into Old And New Africa by Guillaume Bonn ($)

• Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker ($)

• Camp 020: M15 and the Nazi Spies by Oliver Hoare ($)

• No End in Sight: Iraq's Descent into Chaos by Charles Ferguson ($)

• The Unbearable Saki: the Work of H. H. Munro by Sandle Byrne ($)

• At Home in the World: A Memoir by Joyce Maynard ($)

• Live From the Campaign Trail by Michael Cohen ($)

• Courting Disaster by Marc Thiessen ($)

• Eco-freaks: Environmentalism Is Hazardous to Your Health! by John Berlau ($)

• The World’s Most Dangerous Places by Robert Pelton ($)

Charlie Munger

• Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin ($)

• Capital (El Capital) by Karl Marx ($)

• David Sarnoff: A Biography by Eugene Lyons ($)

• Einstein by Walter Isaacson ($)

• Go East Young Man by Justice William Douglas ($)

• Great Short Biographies by B. H. Clark ($)

• Harvard Classics: The Five Foot Shelf of Books (~1910 version, I believe) ($)

• Influence by Cialdini ($)

• Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War by Brandon Brown ($)

• The Federalist by Jacob Cooke ($)

• The Great American Newspaper: The Rise and Fall of the Village Voice by Kevin McAuliffe ($)

• The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page by Burton Hendrick ($)

• Will Rogers: The Man and His Times by Richard Ketchum ($)

• Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (1991) by Justin Kaplan ($)

• Edwin Arlington Robinson (1948) by Emery Neff ($)

• The Canterbury Tales (1400) by Geoffrey Chaucer ($)

• Distant Force: A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and the Man Who Created It (2007) by George Roberts ($)

• Shakespeare's Principal Plays (1924) by Charles Brooke ($)

• The American Mind: Selections From the Literature of the United States (1947) by Warfel, Gabriel & Williams ($)

• Great English Short Stories (1930) by Melville Lewis ($)

• The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1967) by Paul Harvey ($)

• The Wit and Humor of America (1907) by Marshall P. Wilder ($)

• Alexander Hamilton and the Idea of Republican Government (1970) by Gerald Stourzh ($)

• Truth and Other Tall Tales (2011) by Richard Holland

• A Life of James Boswell (2002) by Peter Martin ($)

• Samuel Johnson: A Biography (1975) by John Wain ($)

• The Story of Philosophy (1926) by Will Durant ($)

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (2012) by Jon Meacham ($)

• The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (2002) ($)

• Franklin and the Ladies (1926) by Peter Pauper Press ($)

• Benjamin Franklin (1938) by Carl Van Doren ($)

• A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America (2005) by Stacy Schiff ($)

• The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II (2017) by Winston Groom ($)

• Andrew Carnegie (2007) by David Nasaw ($)

• Thinking, Fast and Slow (2013) by Daniel Kahneman ($)

• The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (2013) by Doris Kearns Goodwin ($)