Winter (great escape) reading list for both men and women:

1. A Long Way from Home by Beth O'Shea (charming and captivating account of two young women who drive cross-country in a Model T Ford in the just after WWI)
2. The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey (when the world's biggest map scandal breaks, Harvey sets out to understand why)
3. Ranch on the Laramie by Ted Olsen (growing up in Wyoming in turn-of-the-century America)
4. The Umpire Strikes Back by Ron Luciano (unbelievably hilarious book on baseball, even if you don't like the game)
5. Strike Two by Ron Luciano (almost as funny and worth the read)
6. Alice: God Still Speaks by Roberta Kells Dorr (even the stiffest of the frozen chosen among us will find it hard to deny the miraculous way God worked through Alice in this little-noticed book by a reputable author and Christian not given to overstatement)
7. Jan Karon's "Mitford" series. (you'll feel like you live there)
8. Storms and Shipwrecks of New England by Edward Rowe Snow (even if you're reading this book in the middle of the Gobi Desert in the hottest month of the year, it will feel like the seas are climbing up the banks of the lighthouse walls to get you)
9. Women of the Sea by Edward Rowe Snow (it wasn't just men who rescued sailors from the deep in the days of old)
10. Once Upon A Town by Bob Greene (the remarkable tale of the Great Platte Canteen in World War II)

Winter (more serious) reading list for both men and women:

1. The Silence of God by Helmut Thielicke (only the truly mature need read this book)
2. Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God by David McCasland (McCasland tells us what we've never known about our favorite early 20^th century Bible teacher; and the most remarkable devotional writer who never wrote a devotional)
3. They Call Me Coach by John Wooden (only Wooden ever managed to dominate the NCAA finals like this, and his faith was part of the reason he did; everyone can learn something from this book about living ALL of life)
4. Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel (the best book about work you've never read; no one should be allowed an MBA if they haven't read this)
5. Will the Circle Be Unbroken by Studs Terkel, and then The Light That Never Dies by William Hendricks (when Mr. Terkel's wife died, the atheist/agnostic author went on a search for answers about eternity; answers Bill Hendricks gives in his heartwrenching, eloquent, and important book on loss and God in that loss)
6. The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life by Dr. Armand Nicholi (possibly the most creative way to answer life's hard questions; immensely satisfying!)
7. The Good War by Studs Terkel (Mr. Terkel's recounting of how World War II impacted people the media usually makes fun of)
8. Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard (one of today's best Christian writers doing his best work)
9. Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy (everybody's favorite football coach talks about life and faith in triumph and trial)
10. Character Counts by Os Guinness (four lives lived in ways that really, really mattered)

Winter (deeper bonds) reading list for men:

1. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen Ambrose (this is the book that made the sacrifices of our World War II generation real to this generation; making it possible for lots of World War II vets to tell their families their own stories)
2. Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters by Dick Winters and Cole Kingspeed (one of the real heroes, in his own refreshingly humble words)
3. Brothers in Battle: Best of Friends by William Guarnere and Edward Heffron (two Philly tough guys meet for the first time overseas in the same unit, and are lifelong friends in battle and beyond)
4. Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich by David Kenyon Webster (Kenyon hated soldiering but didn't want to let his friends, or his country, down)
5. Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers" by Don Malarkey (another view of Easy Company, from the soldier who saw the most combat)
6. Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, The Man Who Led the Band of Brothers by Larry Alexander (the best of the lot, better even than Winters own account)
7. Flags of Our Father: Heroes of Iwo Jima by James Bradley (the deeply moving story of the soldiers who raised the flag on Iwo Jima that was the model for the Arlington National Cemetery memorial and World War II's most famous photo. Bradley's father was a medic and one of the soldiers in the picture, but beware, the younger Bradley is decidedly anti-American, failing in his politically correct naiveté to grasp his father's story 'til it was nearly too late, and then quickly forgot it, as evidenced by his terribly inaccurate work in Flyboys.
8. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo by Ted W. Dawson and Robert Considine (when America desperately needed good news, ANY good news, after Pearl Harbor, Jimmy Doolittle's raiders slipped off a carrier and took the war to Tokyo, rallying a nation and shaking the Japanese war machine)
9. The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion by Douglas Brinkley (when Ronald Reagan spoke from D-Day's shores, he unleashed a wave of remembrance deeper than a speech)
10. Best Little Ironies, Oddities, and Mysteries of the Civil War by C. Brian Kelly and Ingrid Smyer-Kelly (wave after wave after wave of moments when humanity and human nature broke into America's darkest years)