Still Life with Bookshelf

Working my way through the bookshelves to recommend some great reads.

Starting from top left and working clockwise (skipping a few that I haven't read):

• The 1929 World Almanac Reprint: amazing glimpse of a bygone era. I have no idea if this is still reprinted, but every page is a revelation.
• American Caesar: the ultimate biography of Douglas MacArthur. Fantastic.
• Crisis and Command: an outstanding history of the power of the Executive.
• Unhinged: how Democrats politicized 9/11 starting about seven minutes after the catastrophic terrorist attack.
• Culture of Corruption: if you want to truly understand the Obama administration, you must read this book.
• John Adams: the classic biography of perhaps the country's most important founder and our second president.
• Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: fascinating biography of the first Westerner to visit Mecca.
• The Fair Tax Book: a look at our future (I hope). The most compelling book about taxes you will ever read. I guarantee it.
• A Distant Mirror: Europe in the 14th century, complete with Great Plague, knights on the rampage and corruption.
• A Confederacy of Dunces: the quintessential outsider's novel (fiction).
• Soul on Ice: A rebel comes of age.
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: native Americans and the expansion of the continental U.S.
• O, Jerusalem: in the shadow of the Holocaust, the maelstrom that led to the founding of Israel.
• The Gulag Archipelago: life in Stalin's Democrat Utopia.
• Moscow, 1812: Napoleon, denied.
• Flags of our Fathers: Iwo Jima and the heroes who saved our country.
• Six Frigates: the founding of the U.S. Navy under Jefferson -- told in as exciting a fashion as you could imagein.
• 1776: one year that changed the world -- a phenomenal book.
• Admiral of the Ocean Sea: the Pulitzer Prize-winning story of Columbus and his discovery of the New World.
• The Way Things Ought to Be: Rush Limbaugh's timeless classic.
• If it's not close they can't cheat: Hugh Hewitt's compelling advice for conservatives.

I only have about 4,800 more books to cover. Just let me know if this is a waste of time.