
I remember when I was younger I loved reading the books about Laura Wilder. They had a sense of adventure, but they were her autobiographies.
I've also enjoyed reading books about Helen Keller over the years and other people who have overcome adversity to accomplish great things. Stories of people like that are so encouraging to me.
A Historical Guide to Arms and Armour by Stephen Bull. Its a huge guide of 224 pages of information and pictures swords and other wepons. I enjoyed it because it didn't ranble on like a lot of the wepons books I have read before.