#27, The Oregon Trail, by Rinker Buck

Rinker Buck sprinkles mini-essays on mules, wagons, and Mormons while engagingly recounting how he and his brother cross the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon. Part history lesson, part personal reflection, and part story of the heart-warming kindness of strangers, if you like American history and true-life adventure, this book is for you. Just ignore his occasional diatribes against religion.