Bill Walton's Reading List

David Halberstam, The Children
Irving Stone, The Origin
Tom Wolfe, Bonfire of the Vanities
William H. Dana, 2 Years Before the Mast
Bill Russell, Go Up for Glory
Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore
T. Harry Williams, Huey Long
Robert Caro, The Power Broker
John Wooden, My Personal Best
David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter
Gerde Weissman Klein, All But My life
Edward Dolnick, Down the Great Unknown
Stephen Ambrose, Undaunted Courage
Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
David Axelrod, Believer
Ashley Vance, Ellon Musk
Phil Knight, Shoe Dog
Jane Mayer, Dark Money
John Fogerty, Fortunate Son
Robert Greenfield, Bill Graham Presents
Shep Gordon, Supermensch
Peter Cozzens, The Earth is Weeping
Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius
Rinker Buck, The Oregon Trail
Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Coach Wooden and Me
Road to Valor, The Gino Bartali Story
The Geography of Bliss, Eric Weiner
The Majesty of Calmness, William George Jordan
It Can't Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis
The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguten
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yoval Harari
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
Tiger Head Snake Tails: China Today, How it Got There, and Where it is Heading,
           Jonathan Fenby
The Everything Store, The Age of Amazon
Brad Stone
The Immortal Irishman, Timothy Egan
The Underground Railroad, Coleman Whitehead
Play Bigger, Christopher Lochhead
The Wildness Within, Kenneth Brower
The Golden House, Salmon Rushdie
Eat The Apple, Matt Young
Ecotopia, Ernest Callenbach
Season of the Witch, David Talbot
The Gates of the Alamo, Stephen Harrigan,
Mother American Night, John Perry Barlow, and Robert Greenfield,
The Silk Roads, A New History of the World, Peter Frankopan
Testimony, Robbie Robertson
Sticky Fingers: The Jann Wenner Story, Joe Hagan
How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan
The Good Rain, Timothy Egan
The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown
Born Standing Up, Steve Martin
Zucked, Roger McNamee
Born a Crime, Trevor Noah
Be Fearless, Jean Case
The Wizard of Foz, Dick Fosbury
The Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher, Timothy Egan
Quiet Kingmaker of Las Vegas: E. Parry Thomas, Jack Sheehan,
Trillion Dollar Coach, Eric Schmidt
The World Without Us, Alan Weisman
American Wasteland, Jonathan Bloom,
Sagan, Peter Sagan
The Ride of a Lifetime, Robert Iger
A Pilgrimage To Eternity, Timothy Egan
Blood and Thunder, Hampton Sides
The Collector, Jack Nisbet
Alta California, Nick Neely
Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall
FDR, A Political Life, Robert Dallek

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