[Oatka]

I'm at 40-50 per year - (semi-retired).

There are some that I reread every year. Two of them are "On The Bottom" and "Under The Red Sea Sun" by Cmdr Edward Ellsberg. "Bottom" is a hair-raiser about salvaging the S-51 that was rammed and sunk off Block Island in the 20s. "Red Sea" is a marvel of how American ingenuity pulled off the "Massawa Miracle" in 1941 Eritrea. Both make you proud to be an American.

[CGTRWK]

There are some that I reread every year. Two of them are "On The Bottom" and "Under The Red Sea Sun" by Cmdr Edward Ellsberg. "Bottom" is a hair-raiser about salvaging the S-51 that was rammed and sunk off Block Island in the 20s. "Red Sea" is a marvel of how American ingenuity pulled off the "Massawa Miracle" in 1941 Eritrea. Both make you proud to be an American.

And both are the sort you'd never find on a highschool reading list. If captive youth were exposed to patriotic adventure stories instead of Chaucer and Flowers for Algernon, more would read of their own free will later.