2025 SRP

Summer reading program: 2025

• Reference: Super Simple Math, The Ultimate Bite-Size Study Guide, Smithsonian, DK Penguin Random House, glossy; a nice book for parents to review when helping their children through public school, elementary to high school.
• The Innovators: How A Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, Walter Isaacson, c. 2015. 
  
• The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created The Modern World, Simo Winchester, c. 2018.
  
• Life in Ancient Egypt, Adolf Erman, c. 1971; Translated by H. M. Tirard with an introduction by Jon Manchip White; notes here.
  
• The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, T. J. Stiles, c. 2009.
  
• Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography, Laura Ingalls Wilder, editor, Pamela Smith Hill, c. 2014; South Dakota Historical Society Press.
  
• The Rough Riders: An Autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt, c. 2004. Really, really good. Series: The Library of America. 
• The Cocktail, Parragon Publishing, 2010.
  
• The Story of Semiconductors, John Orton, Oxford Press, c. 2004.
  
• The Seven Storey Mountain: An Autobiography of Faith, Thomas Merton, c. 1998.
  
• The Daring Invention of Logarithm Tables: How Jost Bürgi, John Napier, and Henry Briggs Simplified Arithmetic And Started The Computing Revolution, Klaus Truemper, the color edition, c. 2020.
  
• Lockheed -130, FlightCraft 32, British publication, $24.95, through Amazon, Ben Skipper, c. 2024.
• The Annotated Great Gatsby: 100th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, editor, James L. W. West III, c. April 10, 2025
• Assyria: The and Fall of the World's First Empire, Eckart Frahm, c. 2023.
  Stories From Ancient Canaan, Second Edition, Michael D. Coogan, c. March 15, 2012. Notes here.
• The Invention Of Hebrew, Seth L. Sanders, c. 2009. Notes here.
• Who Really Wrote The Bible? The Story Of The Scribes, William M. Schniedewind, c. 2024, Princeton University Press. Notes here.
• 1177 BC The Year Civilization Collapsed, Eric H. Cline, c. 2021. Updated. Tracked here.
• Thutmose III and Hatshepsut Pharaohs of Egypt: Their Lives and Afterlives, Aidan Dodson, c. 2025, The American University in Cairo Press (wow)
• The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion, Ford Madox Ford, c. 1915.