A Few of Thom's  
All-Time Favorites
Pillars of the Earth - David Darling

A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn

When the Poor Boys Dance - G.F. Borden

World Without End - Ken Follett

A Gift Upon the Shore - M. K. Wren

The Gate To Women's Country - Sherri Tepper

A Rumor of War - Philip Caputo

A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

The Source - James A. Michener

Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein

The Milagro Beanfield War - John Nichols

Dispatches - Michael Herr

The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

Earth Abides - George R. Stewart

The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien

The Word - Irving Wallace

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett

Fall of Giants - Ken Follett