Why does everyone assume that men only read nonfiction?  I’m recommending two nonfiction and three novels for the men on your list...

• AMERICAN HEROES by Edmund S. Morgan

  AMERICAN HEROES by Edmund S. Morgan, a Pulitzer-Prize winning historian and author of the best-selling biography, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, is a gifted essayist, and his fresh perspective on the nature of heroism is inspiring.
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• ROAD DOGS by Elmore Leonard

  What are “road dogs?”  They’re prison buddies who live among incarcerated gang members but not with them, watching each other’s backs.  In ROAD DOGS by Elmore Leonard, the reigning master of dialogue in American genre fiction, every line that comes out of his characters’ mouths reads like butter and each line of dialogue pushes the action along with just enough spin to keep you reading even as you’re enjoying the previous moment.
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• THE WORLD AT NIGHT by Alan Furst

  Any novel by Alan Furst would send dad to the hammock, and the one I’m recommending, THE WORLD AT NIGHT, takes place in  Paris, 1940, when the civilized, upper class life of a film producer, Casson, is derailed by the German occupation.  A simple mission goes wrong, and Casson has to gamble everything – his career, the woman he loves, and life itself.  Furst brilliantly recreates France and the moment of its defeat and then rebirth.
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• THE GIVEN DAY by Dennis Lehane

  Set in Boston at the end of WWI, THE GIVEN DAY by Dennis Lehane (he also wrote MYSTIC RIVER), captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between the past and the future.  THE GIVEN DAY tells the story of two families – one black, one white—and the entire cast of characters engages in a battle for survival and power.
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• THE FAITHFUL SPY by Alex Berenson

  An engrossing debut novel by Alex Berenson, THE FAITHFUL SPY centers around the only American ever to crack al Quaeda.  John Wells has been an undercover for so long the CIA no longer is sure that he’s loyal—or even alive.  This suspenseful novel probes the complexities and terror of today’s world.
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• The Forever War by Dexter Filkins

  THE FOREVER WAR by Dexter Filkins, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for the NYTimes, has recently been released in  paperback, just in time for Father’s Day.  THE FOREVER WAR makes us see the true human meaning and consequences of the war on terror.  This has been recognized as a Best Book of the Year by the NYTimes, the Washington Post, the LATimes, USA Today, the Boston Globe, the NYTimes, and Time magazine.  In the few days that Filkins was back here before returning to Afghanistan, he taped an interview with Charlie Rose; watch for it.
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