Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for June 17–23

This week’s selection features a potent biography on Sam Houston’s late career and a perfect Father’s Day gift—life lessons from a golf champion.

Fiction

An American Naval Adventure

‘Shores of Tripoli: Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates’ By James L. Haley

Packed with naval battles and marine heroism, this work of historical fiction is the first of the “Bliven Putnam Naval Adventure Series.” Set against the ongoing threat of the Barbary pirates and full of history, it recreates the earliest years of the U.S. Navy.