Books I Recommend

By David Mendosa

I review and recommend for or against books on diabetes as a part of my work. Here, in alphabetical order, I recommend other books that have made a great impression on me in the past few years:

• Another Life: A Memoir of Other People by Michael Korda
  Great story-telling by the man who knows everyone.

• The Avengers by Rich Cohen
  Normally I wouldn’t recommend such a violent book, but this true story is a great read.

• A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by Sylvia Nasar
  What a comeback! A brilliant mathematicians spirals into schizophrenia. Years later, with his schizophrenia in remission, he wins the Nobel Prize in economics.

• Bobos in Paradise by David Brooks
  Our American culture today.

• Coming Out of the Woods: The Solitary Life of a Maverick Naturalist by Wallace Kaufman
  Going back to the land is a lot harder than it looks.

• Charles Darwin by Janet Browne (2 volumes)
  The best biography of a genius who was a good man.

• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
  Beautifully written Civil War novel.

• The Informant: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald
  A great true crime story.

• Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
  And every other book he has written. Well-told stories of extreme adventure and the emotions of the adventurers.

• Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick
  We are lucky that such a great writer (who is now the editor of The New Yorker) was on the scene when the USSR collapsed.

• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
  John Harrison built a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had been able to do even on land.

• The Man Who Listens to Horses by Monty Roberts
  Monty Roberts is the real horse whisperer. Incredibly successful in “joining up” with horses by listening to them more than talking or whispering, Monty's work and book is truly inspiring.

• The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin
  Awesome in scope, this book makes clear that oil has long been crucial in international relations.

• Secrets by Daniel Ellsberg
  My hero ever since June 28, 1971, the day that he surrended to arrest for leaking the Pentagon Papers.

• The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry by Bryan Sykes
  Mitochondrial DNA shows that nearly all modern Europeans are descendants of one of seven “clan mothers” who lived during the Ice Age.

• Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
  This biography of Meriwether Lewis follows Lewis and Clark on one of the greatest and most successful expeditions of all time.

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