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Reading List for November 2022

Cover for the book Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow

The holidays are now upon us, so it is time for the November reading list. Last month I listened to 15 books, and two of them were first-time listens.

The book I want to highlight this month is "Ordinary Heroes" by Scott Turow.

Stewart Dubinsky knew his father had served in World War II. And he'd been told how David Dubin (as his father had Americanized the name that Stewart later reclaimed) had rescued Stewart's mother from the horror of the Balingen concentration camp. But when he discovers, after his father's death, a packet of wartime letters to a former fiancée, and learns of his father's court-martial and imprisonment, he is plunged into the mystery of his family's secret history and driven to uncover the truth about this enigmatic, distant man who'd always refused to talk about his war.

As he pieces together his father's past through military archives, letters, and, finally, notes from a memoir his father wrote while in prison, secretly preserved by the officer who defended him, Stewart starts to assemble a dramatic and baffling chain of events. He learns how Dubin, a JAG lawyer attached to Patton's Third Army and desperate for combat experience, got more than he bargained for when he was ordered to arrest Robert Martin, a wayward OSS officer who, despite his spectacular bravery with the French Resistance, appeared to be acting on orders other than his commanders'. In pursuit of Martin, Dubin and his sergeant are parachuted into Bastogne just as the Battle of the Bulge reaches its apex. Pressed into the leadership of a desperately depleted rifle company, the men are forced to abandon their quest for Martin and his fiery, maddeningly elusive comrade, Gita, as they fight for their lives through carnage and chaos the likes of which Dubin could never have imagined.

In reconstructing the terrible events and agonizing choices his father faced on the battlefield, in the courtroom, and in love, Stewart gains a closer understanding of his past, of his father's character, and of the brutal nature of war itself.

Last month I mentioned that I started a couple of books but did not finish them, including a new title. I did not continue listening to that title. I may finish it in the future, but I may not.


Title Author First Listen Amazon Apple
The Martian Andy Weir No Amazon Apple
A Door Into Time: An Alex Hawke Time Travel Adventure Shawn Inmon Yes Amazon Apple
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone J.K. Rowling No Amazon Apple
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J.K. Rowling No Amazon Apple
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban J.K. Rowling No Amazon Apple
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J.K. Rowling No Amazon Apple
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J.K. Rowling No Amazon Apple
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J.K. Rowling No Amazon Apple
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J.K. Rowling No Amazon Apple
Ordinary Heroes Scott Turow No Amazon Apple
Band of Brothers Stephen Ambrose No Amazon Apple
Forerunner (AI Fleet Book 1) Isaac Hooke No Amazon Apple
Warship (Black Fleet Trilogy Book 1) Joshua Dalzelle No Amazon Apple
Call to Arms (Black Fleet Trilogy Book 2) Joshua Dalzelle No Amazon Apple
Counterstrike (Black Fleet Trilogy Book 3) Joshua Dalzelle Yes Amazon Apple
Total   15    

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