A couple of these were not completely finished, either because the point was overdrawn (1434) or the writing just short of terrible (Templar, a vacation book, and O, a gimmick).
- My Favorite: Born to Run
- Unexpectedly Good: Freakonomic series
- Unexpectedly Bad: 1434, a follow up to 1421, was a 200 page book, stretched to 350, full of salesmanship of his theory of Admiral He's sole-source cause of the European Renaissance.
- Wanderings - Chaim Potak
- Liar's Poker - Michael Lewis
- 1434 - Gavin Menzies
- The Big Short - Michael Lewis
- Foundation - Isaac Asimov
- Ordeal of Innocence - Agatha Christie
- War - Sebastian Junger
- The Burden of Southern History - C. Vann Woodward
- The Legacy of Atlanta - Webb Garrison
- When Character was King - Peggy Noonan
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Fair Tax: The Truth - Neal Boortz
- The Fair Tax Book - Neal Boortz
- Thunderball - Ian Fleming
- A Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie
- Whose Body - Dorothy Sayers
- Our Kind of Traitor - John LeCarre
- The Templar Legacy - Steve Berry
- O: A Presidential Novel - anonymous (didn't finish)
- When Helping Hurts - Brian Fikkert
- Leading on Empty - Wayne Cordiero
- Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior - Ori Brafman
- The Secret Pilgrim - John LeCarre
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John LeCarre
- True Grit - Charles Portis
- Strengthfinder 2.0 - Tom Rath
- Good to Great - Jim Collins
- SuperFreakonomics - Levitt/Dubner
- Freakonomics - Levitt/Dubner
- The Complete Tales of Sherlock Holmes, vol. 1 - Conan Doyle
- Born to Run - Chris McDougall