amazing. The Washington bio is also amazing as well, seriously one of the best bios ever written. As for 9/11, a recent overview of the day "Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11," was amazing. Very well written. Other non-fiction I'd recommend:

• The River of Doubt
• Victory: The Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union
• We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
• With the Old Breed
• Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

These ones are all real page turners...then again, I'm a historian and history teacher, so I'm a little biased, but that still doesn't make me immune from boring and poorly written books, of which there are many. As for fiction, Shusaku Endo's "Silence" is a very profound historical fiction about early Jesuit missionaries in Japan and it's a really powerful look into the true depth of one's faith.