Top nonfiction books from my 2024 reading list. Another year of wonderful reads! As we head into 2025, I recommend these nonfiction gems...

When I was 10 years old, my father abandoned my mother. He packed up everything we owned, ordered his four children into the car, and fled.

Here are my top 11 fiction and nonfiction books from 2023.

During our long drives through the desert, my dad would often talk about his prestigious job at San Quentin.

When Dad was in San Quentin, his score on the IQ test brought him special attention and privilege.

When I was a boy, my dad took me on car rides and often blurted out stories about his time in San Quentin State Prison.

I love both fiction and nonfiction, and here are some of the best books I read in 2022.

Bob Rosebrough’s book about Gallup, New Mexico, A Place of Thin Veil, offers an excellent history lesson about a fascinating town.

Readers often ask me how I deal with dyslexia. I tell them that I’m also deaf in my left ear and extremely nearsighted.

Here’s my second annual Holiday Book Guide. Sharing my love of books is a wonderful way to kick off the holiday season! For the serious...

When we lived on the Navajo Indian Reservation in the 1960s, Mr. Rex Kontz was Fort Defiance’s postmaster. He was also my surrogate father.

Of the dozens of books I’ve read recently, I singled out a collection of nine fiction and nonfiction works that stand apart from the rest.

Having read books on all 45 of the US presidents, I’ve grown to realize that many of them were misunderstood during their lifetime.