Goodreads asked James D. Crownover:

What books are on your summer reading list this year?

James D. Crownover I must have a hundred books waiting on the shelf for me to read. Mostly, I read nonfiction like Will Bagley's With Golden Visions Bright Before Them. This is his second book in his Overland West Series. I think Will is the best living historian. The second book on my "summer list" (A list subject to change at any moment) Is Avnon Ben-Tor's archeological report, Back to Masada. Bitter Waters by Patrick Dearen has been creeping toward the top of my list. Patrick could easily bear the title Chronicler of the Pecos Country. I have finally gotten a copy of Odie Faulk's Destiny Road. Then there's Frederick Remington's Selected Writings, George Bird Grinnell's Blackfoot Lodge Tales, Black, Buckskin, and Blue by Art Burton--who has written an excellent biography of Bass Reeves, Black Gun, Silver Star. The First Frontier is about the frontier east of the Mississippi by R.V. Coleman. Evan McHugh has written Outback Heroes about Australia's frontier men and women. Spike Van Cleve talks about his ranching experiences in 40 Years' Gatherin's. If I'm not writing, I like a little fiction by such as Clarence Mulford, Michael
Zimmer, Robert B. Parker, Win Blevins, Max Brand.
These are at the top of my list of dozens . . . it could just be that I will see the snow fly before I'm done.

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