Mark Twain spent years writing his autobiography in many forms – essays, transcripts, transcribing and notes producing an immense, and amazing body of work.

“Three Seconds” by Anders Roslund and Borge Hellström has many things going in one book. The novel is a bleak crime drama, a conspiracy story and a detective story. The story is morally complex, visceral and the reading is demanding but well worth the effort.

The Secret History of the Mongol Queens tells a gripping story of lost history and the role the female heirs of Genghis Khan played in his Empire.

The book follows a young boy named Daniel and has possibly one of the best literary inventions of the decade the “Cemetery of Forgotten Books”.

Jay Kirk has done the impossible, Kingdom Under Glass is a book about a taxidermist not only interesting, but entertaining as well. A job well done.

This is the kind of history book I love. Mr. Chernow tells of little known anecdotes which not only tell of of the character, but even relevant to this day

The Soprano State: New Jersey’s Culture of Corruption by Bob Ingle & Sandy McClure is informative, funny and entertaining yet horrifying at the same time

Reading about the process from an industry expert with a mind to teach rather than just boast, is enlightening to any fan of animation.

The book is written in a way which the reader understands the socio-economic realities the Mongols lived in, as well as the brutality of how wealth was won.

In this biography, we meet Alexander Hamilton as a young boy in the Caribbean, a bastard son, soon an orphan, to a mother who has been jailed for adultery