Books I Read in Prison

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde  (a short, clean and wise classic)

Dear Leader  (about an intelligence officer's escape from North Korea)

To Remain a Jew  (about Rabbi Yitzchak Zilber's miraculous survival in the USSR)

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit  (a memoir by the daughter of an Egyptian Jewish family)

Rebel Yell  (about General Stonewall Jackson)

Tarzan of the Apes  (first published in 1912; the author wrote 23 sequels)

Fathers and Sons  (a Russian classic by Ivan Turgenev)

The Last Imperialist  (about Sir Alan Burns [1887-1980])

A Lucky Child  (a Holocaust memoir)

From Jailer to Jailed  (by Bernie Kerik, former police commissioner of NYC)

In Defense of Flogging  (an argument for an alternative to incarceration)

Heirs of the Founders  (about Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun)

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Sam Houston and the Avengers of the Alamo  (by FOX's Brian Kilmeade)

Truman and the Bomb  (a vigorous defense of dropping the A-bomb)

The Crusades

The Man Who Saved the Union  (a biography of Ulysses S Grant)

A Thousand Miles to Freedom  (one woman's harrowing account of escaping North Korea)

Brewster’s Millions  (a playful 1902 novel)
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates  (by FOX's Brian Kilmeade)

The Fire Within  (about the Mussar movement)

The Prince  (by Machiavelli [1469-1527])

Facets and Faces  (essays and speeches by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan)

Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn  (an Isaac Asimov novel)

A Dictionary of Jewish Names and Their History  (I only read half the book)

The Rise and Fall of Athens  (biographies excerpted from Plutarch's famous Parallel Lives)
The Conquest of Gaul  (by Julius Ceasar)

Sabbath: Day of Eternity  (by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan)

Mozart  (a biography by Paul Johnson)

Theodor Herzl  (a biography)

Eichmann in Jerusalem  (Hannah Arendt's classic work)

Irena’s Children  (about a Holocaust hero)

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties

The Clandestine History of the Kovno Ghetto Police  (secretly written by the police themselves)

A Call to the Infinite  (excerpts on prayer from classic Jewish sources, by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan)

Selected Letters of Maimonides

The Rise of Rome  (by Livy, the famed Roman historian)

Foundation  (a famous Isaac Asimov novel)

The Brothers of Slavita  (about the famed chassidic publishers)

The First Family Detail  (about the Secret Service)

The Age of Alexander  (biographies excerpted from Plutarch's famous Parallel Lives)

Journey to the Edge of Reason  (about Kurt Goedel, the renowned 20th-century logician)

Krueger’s Men  (about a secret Nazi operation)

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The Bomber Mafia  (about World War II, by Malcolm Gladwell)

Yes to Life: Despite Everything  (a series of lectures by Victor Frankl)

Harpo Speaks  (by Harp Marx – I only read half the book)

Pogrom  (about the Kishinev pogrom)

Grover Cleveland  (a biography)

The Ghosts of Canae  (about Hannibal)

Kidnapped  (a novel by Robert Luis Stevenson)

Full Moon Over Noah’s Ark  (about a trek to the top of Mt. Ararat – I only read half the book)

The Goldilocks Enigma (about the origin of the universe, by Paul Davies)

Napoleon  (a biography)

Outliers  (on the nature of success, by Malcolm Gladwell)

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