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After that, you'll want to read the sequels: World Without End and A Column of Fire

The Short & Brilliant Life of Ernest Matthew Mickler

TL;DR

"On November 14, 1988 ... Ernie died at his home in Moccasin Branch, Florida, of AIDS. He was 48."

It's worth reading (but no...

Isn't the author's photo usually on the (outside) back cover?

What a coincidence! Just this past week I recommended both of these to someone on another website. Good taste runs rampant!

After 15 years I'm rereading John Irving's wonderful novel Until I Find You. On-deck is A Prayer For Owen Meany, also by Irving (and also a reread). In-the-hole is Docherty (by William McIlvanney) —...

I'm in the middle of "The Papers of Tony Veitch" -- the second volume in William McIlvanney's "Laidlaw" trilogy. The author is widely held to be the progenitor of the Tartan Noir genre; sadly, he...

Kim Stanley Robinson's Galileo's Dream

"Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever", by Reed Albergotti and Vanessa O'Connell.

This book may well have soured me on any biography written after...

I just started reading the "Mars" trilogy, by Kim Stanley Robinson, this past week. It is, simply, wonderful; it's literature -- literate, well-written, thought-provoking, and enjoyable. Dating from...

Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, by Merle Miller

I'm working my way through Jack McDevitt's "Academy" series. That, and the "Alex Benedict" series, too. Well-written and enjoyable sci-fi; thought-provoking and sensible.

Dan Brown, Inferno. I love the public library!

"The Third Bullet", by Stephen Hunter (a Bob Lee Swagger novel). An interesting "what-if?" take on the assassination of JFK (11/22/1963, 50th anniversary this fall).