Christmas book list -- part 1
-----Of historical note...
Running Through the Ages -- Edward S. Sears
Bunion Derby: The 1928 Footrace Across America -- Charles B. Kastner
C.C.Pyle's Amazing Foot Race: The True Story of the 1928 Coast-to-Coast Run Across America -- Geoff Williams
Indian Running: Native American History and Tradition -- Peter Nabokov
King of the Peds -- P.S.Marshall
The Longest Race: A Lifelong Runner, an Iconic Ultramarathon, and the Case for Human Endurance -- Ed Ayres
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running -- Haruki Murakami
Why We Run-A Natural History -- Bernd Heinrich
42 Peaks: The story of the Bob Graham Round -- Roger Smith (1982), Paddy Buckley (2005)

-----Some by women...
Becoming Odyssa: Adventures on the Appalachian Trail -- Jennifer Pharr Davis
Mud, Sweat and Tears: An Irish Woman's Journey of Self-Discovery -- Moire O'Sullivan
Bold Spirit : Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America -- Linda Lawrence Hunt
Honey, Do You Need a Ride? Confessions of a Fat Runner -- Jennifer Graham
A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey -- Chrissie Wellington
Pretty Good for a Girl: An Athlete's Story -- Leslie Heywood
I Remember Running: The Year I Got Everything I Ever Wanted - and ALS -- Darcy Wakefield
Running Past Midnight: A Woman's Ultra-Marathon Adventure -- Molly Sheridan
Sisterhood in Sports: How Female Athletes Collaborate and Compete -- Joan Steidinger
The Summit Seeker -- Vanessa Runs
Under an Equatorial Sky -- Rebekah Trittipoe
Walking to the Mountain -- Wendy Teasdill

-----Really long...
The Death Valley 300 : Near-Death And Resurrection On The Toughest Endurance Course -- Richard Benyo
Getting to the Point. In a dozen pairs of shoes -- Brian R. Stark
Fartleks and Flatulence -- David Berridge
Extreme Running -- Kym McConnell & Dave Horsley
to the EDGE: A man, Death Valley, and the mystery of endurance -- Kirk Johnson

*****If you can find any one of these, buy it (or them)*****
Meditations From the Breakdown Lane: Running Across America -- James E. Shapiro
A Cold Clear Day: The Athletic Biography of Buddy Edelen -- Frank Murphy
Joss Naylor, MBE, Was Here -- Joss Naylor, M.B.E.
Serious Runner's Handbook -- Tom Osler
Running the Himalayas -- Richard Crane & Adrian Crane
The Complete Book of Running -- James E. Fixx
Ultramarathon -- James E. Shapiro
Ultramarathoning: The Next Challenge -- Tom Osler and Ed Dodd
A Walk Across America -- Peter Jenkins

-----Odds and end because we tend to like not-quite mainstream writing:
Annapurna -- Maurice Herzog
As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me -- Josef M. Bauer
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & the Fire That Saved America -- Timothy Egan
The Boys in the Boat : Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics -- Daniel James Brown
The Curve of Time -- M. Wylie Blanchet
The Golden Spruce : A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed -- John Vaillant
The Last Empty Places : A Past and Present Journey Through the Blank Spots on the American Map -- Peter Stark
The Last Season (P.S.) -- Eric Blehm
The Last Wild Edge: One Woman's Journey from the Arctic Circle to the Olympic Rain Forest -- Susan Zsinger
The Long Walk -- Slavomir Rawicz
The Long Walk -- Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman)
Ravens in Winter -- Bernd Heinrich
The Things They Carried -- Tim O'Brien
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival -- Joe Simpson
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption -- Laura Hillenbrand
Winterdance : The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod -- Gary Paulsen

John, is that you?  Where is the world did Snizzle come from?  Guys, I think John's joined a gang...we need an intervention.

It can't be John, he's way too busy on FB to stop by and see his old friends. 

Nice list,

Gee... hadn't really noticed--penalties of multiple personalities, real or otherwise.

Yes, Mandy, it is me -- desk computer is sick, using old laptop with lots of weirdo personnas.

Thanks AT -- I wish I had a marketing budget instead of using social media.

wcrunner2 -- Wasn't worth the personal anger I received in PMs; had not thought of it as abandonment.