This is one of the most interesting threads I've ever participated in and I took the liberty to compile a list of book recommendations AND a list of un-attributed quotes that resonated with me.
Apologies for lack of formatting, spelling or editing corrections, and THANKS to all!
(BTW: There are about 100 things I should have been doing!!)
Book Recommendations
I have a complete set of T.R.'s hunting books. They are outstanding.
My favorite is still Waters' and Roberts' "The Breech Loading Single Shot Rifle."
Steven Bodio's "Good Guns"
Speaking of Crossman I have just scanned “The Metamorphosis of the New Springfield”
Kelver published a book of Pope letters titled 'Respectfully Yours, H.M. Pope".
Sporting Rifles and Rifle Shooting by Caswell 1920
The Rifle It's Development for Big Game Hunting S.R. Truesdell 1947
"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" trilogy! Three Fat books of Swedish mystery/intrigue...
anything new by James Lee Burke
I highly recommend Lee Child's Jack Reacher Novels, they also should be read in order.
Interested in early flying in the Arctic? Find a copy of "An Old Captivity". Interested in the D-Day preparations? Find the novel called "Requiem for a Wren" or "The Breaking Wave". "Most Secret" is a book about Royal Navy ops in Occupied France. His novel In the Wet is a masterpiece of political thought and his Round the Bend will still bring tears to these old eyes.
recommend Patrick O'Brian unreservedly.
Bernard Cornwell's Agincourt (and others)
Another favorite is Havilah Babcock
Corey Ford my eyes water from just thinking about "The Road to Tinkhamtown".
anything by Donald Hamilton and specifically Line Of Fire about a gunsmith no less.
Gerald Hammond who writes about a Scottish gunsmith and hunting.
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart 1949
The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle
series of murder mysteries by ANDREA CAMILLERI
Neal Stephenson's three-volume historical epic The Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World).
TC Boyle's masterwork WORLD"S END
Raurk's Old Man & the Boy and along the same lines Reflections, Man and Boy by Ron Forsyth are two good books that need to be read.
I keep forgetting to say I like Thomas Perry's Jane Whitefield Novels.
Barry Eisler's Rain novels are also good and I've enjoyed Tony Hillerman and James Hall as well. James Carlos Blake is also splendid, his Under the Skin is as hardboiled and authentic as they come.
also HIGHLY recommend William Fortschen's One Second After. This is perhaps the most compelling disaster novel
Farley Mowat "The Boat that Wouldn't Float"
The Daily Coyote by Shreve Stockton.
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