:: Reading List -- Dan Bernstein
Columnist for the Press Enterprise
Remainders of the Day (Memorable books, as recommended by a reader with a fading memory.)
In no order of preference:
Dan’s Picks
Havana Room
by Colin Harrison
Great urban/corporate thriller escapist bathub read. So is Bodies Electric.)
Master of the Senate
by Robert Caro
Long, long and longer than long. But good, good, better than good if you like U.S. politics and enjoy watching a genius — Lyndon Baines Johnson — at work.
Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse
by Steve Bogira
Justice in America — or a year in a sausage factory.
The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
Chas. Lindbergh beats FDR in the 1940 presidential election. Lindbergh's cozy with the Nazis. Bad for the Jews.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon
Even if you're not into comic books, this novel — a Pulitzer Prize winner — will zap you.)
Tie:
Charlie Wilson's War
by George Crile
How the U.S. secretly financed the Taliban against the Afghanistan-invading Russians -- and created a monster);
Submitted July 2005