6. Old Man's War, by John Scalzi
7. The Ghost Brigades, by John Scalzi
I've heard good things about Scalzi's sf books & finally picked up a couple. I enjoyed these quite a lot - very much in the vein of Starship Troopers, Forever War and Ender's Game, with the twist that the soldiers are 70-year-old humans who are placed via consciousness-transfer ( Read more... )

5. The Graveyard Book, by Neil GaimanThe story of Nobody Owens, orphaned as a toddler by the murder of his family, who is adopted by a graveyard of ghosts in England. He has various misadventures with vampires, ghouls, werewolves, and tomb guardians, plus encounters with the living, from the assassins who still search for him to a schoolyard bully ( Read more... )

3. The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
One of my favorite books that I dig out & re-read from time to time. Two monks investigate a series of deaths at an Italian monastery famed for its labyrinthian library.

4. Miracle at Midway, by Gordon Prange
Non-fiction history of the Battle of Midway in 1942, by the author of At Dawn We Slept, on the ( Read more... )

1. The Princes in the Tower, by Alison Weir
Nonfiction book on Richard III and the mysterious fate of his nephews, the rightful heirs to the throne. A follow-up to The Wars of the Roses, by the same author, which covers the first half of the dynastic struggle between York and Lancaster. Very interesting read about a period of English history I ( Read more... )