24. Magnificent Obsession

24. Magnificent Obsession – by Lloyd Douglas 

Possibly my favorite in this genre of books remains The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, a book I now feeling like re-reading. The One in that case was Peekay, the young wunderkind who was familiar with meeting and then dispelling failure and hardship, sometimes with a pair of boxing gloves.

27. Terror and Liberalism

27. Terror and Liberalism – by Paul Berman

In Terror and Liberalism, Paul Berman ties together the most irrational and deplorable movements of the previous two hundred years with a yarn of rebellion, out to negate the whole of liberal society.