The Atheist
(Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins explains why God is a delusion, religion is a virus, and America has slipped back into the Dark Ages.)
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Running and thinking in Colorado.
About Me
Books I'm reading
- "Complete Spanish Grammar"
- "Make Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukon View of the Northern Forest" by Richard K. Nelson
- "El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America" by Carrie Gibson
- "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel" by Ocean Vuong
- "The Message" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- "Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain" by Ronald Hutton
- "La Razón de mi Vida" by Eva Perón
- "My Autobiography" by Charles Chaplin
Books Read in 2024
- “Zone of Interest” by Martin Amis
- “The Searcher” by Tana French
- “The History of Spain: Land on a Crossroad” by Joyce E. Salisbury
- “The Year Of Decision, 1846” by Bernard Devoto
- “Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest” by Matthew Restall
- “Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism” by Rachel Maddow
- “Outside Looking In” by T. C. Boyle
- “Out West: A Journey Through Lewis and Clark’s America” by Dayton Duncan
- “Observer” by Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress
- “Mother Land: a Novel” by Paul Theroux
- “Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatán” by John Lloyd Stephens
- “Gilded Mountain: a Novel” by Kate Manning
- “Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe” by John Julius Norwich
- “Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook” by Martin Dugard
- “Emperor: A New Life of Charles V” by Geoffrey Parker
- “Como agua para Chocolate” by Laura Esquivel
- “Coffee First, then the World: One Woman’s Record-Breaking Pedal Around the World” by Jenny Graham
- “Best American Travel Writing 2020” edited by Robert MacFarlane
- “ Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir” by Martha Gellhorn
- “ Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants” by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The Rebels: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Struggle for a New American Politics" by Joshua Green
- "Zero Visibility Possible: A Novel" by Nina Burleigh
- "You Dreamed of Empires" by Álvaro Enrigue
- "Wild Child and other Stories" by T. C. Boyle
- "We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)" by Eddie Glaude Jr.
- "Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole" by Sarah Dry
- "Warlords of Ancient Mexico: How the Mayans and Aztecs Ruled for More Than a Thousand Years" by Peter J. Tsouras
- "Wandering Stars" by Tommy Orange
- "Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens" by David Mitchell
- "To the Gorge: Running, Grief, Resilience & 460 Miles on the Pacific Crest Trail" by Emily Hanlon
- "The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began" by Valerie Hansen
- "The Yaquis and Empire: Violence, Spanish Imperial Power, and Native Resilience in Colonial Mexico" by Raphael Brewster Folsom
- "The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook" by Hampton Sides
- "The Prince of Tides" by Pat Conroy
- "The Noise of Time" by Julian Barnes
- "The Moors in Spain" by Stanley Lane Poole
- "The Maya (Ninth Edition)" by Michael D. Coe and Stephen Houston
- "The Last Navigator" by Stephen D. Thomas
- "The Last Days of the Sioux Nation" by Robert M. Utley
- "The House of Spirits" by Isabel Allende
- "The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise" by Pico Iyer
- "The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents" by John Dinges
- "The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World" by Max Fisher
- "The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689" by Jonathan Healey
- "The Best American Short Stories 2021" Edited by Jesmyn Ward and Heidi Pitlor
- "Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening" by Douglas Brinkley
- "Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World" by Jen Psaki
- "Red Strangers" by Elspeth Huxley
- "Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain" by Maryann Wolf
- "Pills, Shills, and the Psychiatry Wars: Musings from the Drug Safety & Healthcare News Blog (Book 2 of a Series) (Pimps, Whores, and Chiggers)" by Doug Bremner M.D.
- "On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service" by Anthony Fauci M.D.
- "North to Alaska" by Trevor Lund
- "Mr. President" by Miguel Ángel Asturias
- "Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico" by C. M. Mayo
- "Million Dollar Movie" by Michael Powell
- "Mayan Civilization: A History From Beginning to End" by Henry Freeman
- "Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici" by Miles J. Unger
- "Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies" by Laura Esquivel
- "LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority" by Marie Arana
- "La Casa de los Espíritus" by Isabel Allende
- "Kowloon Tong: A Novel of Hong Kong" by Paul Theroux
- "Kayaking La Paz" by Graham MacKintosh
- "Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap" by David Roberts
- "Incidents of Travel in Yucatán Part II" by John Lloyd Stephens
- "Incidents of Travel in Yucatán Part I" by John Lloyd Stephens
- "In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin" by Erik Larsen
- "Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope" by Sarah Bakewell
- "How to Say Babylon: A Memoir" by Safiya Sinclair
- "How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer" by Sarah Bakewell
- "Guardian Angel Island" by Graham MacKintosh
- "Grit, Guts and Determination: My Tale of a Cowboy, a Hundred Miles of Dirt and a Town so Magical They Had to Save It" by Cole Chlouber
- "Geronimo (The Lamar Series in Western History)" by Robert M. Utley
- "Galatea 2.2" by Richard Powers
- "Everyone Who is Gone is Here" by Nathan Blitzer
- "Danube" by Claudio Magirs
- "Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire" by Roger Crowley
- "Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)" by Rebecca Solnit
- "Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State" by Kerry Howley
- "Beloved" by Toni Morrison
- "Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph" by Jan Swafford
- "American Dirt" by Jeanine Cummins
- "A Viking Odyssey: Around the World 1,000 Years Ago" by John Man
- "The Road to Wellville" by T. C. Boyle
- "Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir" by Werner Herzog
- "Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives " by Siddharth Kara
- "Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy" by David Rohde
- "Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country" by Patricia Evangelista
- "Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World" by Naomi Klein
- "Darien: A Journey in Search of Empire" by John McKendrick
- "Las Batallas en el Desierto" by José Emilio Pacheco
- "An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s" by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- "Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story" by Maria Arana
- "The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel's Borderlands" by Amir Tibon
- "War" by Bob Woodward
- "Under the Wave at Waimea" by Paul Theroux
- "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz
- "A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East" by David Fromkin and read by David Devries
- "Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI" by Yuval Noah Harari
- "The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present" by Ronald Hutton
Books Read in 2023
- "El Alquimista" by Paulo Coelho
- ¡baja! by Doug Peacock
- "Into a Desert Place: A 3,000 mile Walk Around the Coast of Baja California"" by Graham MacKintosh
- "My Name is Barbra" by Barbra Streisand
- "The Log from the Sea of Cortez" by John Steinbeck
- "The Best American Travel Writing 2018" ed. Cheryl Strayed
- "Stay True: A Memoir" bu Hua Hsu
- "Madonna: A Rebel Life" by Mary Gabriel
- "Downloaded" by Robert J. Sawyer
- "Being Henry: The Fonz... and Beyond" by Henry Winkler
- "Small Mercies" by Dennis Lehane
- "Off-Trail Adventures in Baja California: Exploring Landscapes and Geology on Gulf Shores and Islands" by Markes E. Johnson
- "The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet" by Jeff Goodell
- "The Horse the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World" by David W. Anthony
- "The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance" by Rebecca Clarren
- "The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future" by Franklin Foer
- "The Fraud" by Zadie Smith
- "All Over Creation" by Ruth Ozeki
- "Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy" by David Roberts
- "The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China" by Kevin Rudd
- "Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff" by Rosemary Mahoney
- "Insight Guides: Italy"
- "Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas, Public Advocate and Conservation Champion" by M. Margaret McKeown
- "The Best American Travel Writing 2016" edited by Bill Bryson
- "The Making of another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece" by Tom Hanks
- "La Música para Clara" by Elizabeth Subercascaux
- "The Blue Flower" by Penelope Fitzgerald
- "The Stones of Florence" by Mary McCarthy
- "Island of the Lost" by Joan Druett
- "Delusions of Certainty" by Siri Hustvedt
- “Fire Weather: A True History from a Hotter World” by John Vaillant
- “ The Venetians: A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova” by Paul Strathern”
- “The Seven Moons of Maale Aleida” by Shehan Karunatilaka
- "The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World" by Lincoln Payne
- “ The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys—and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy” by James Risen
- “ Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self” by Andrea Wulf
- “Venice Observed” by Mary McCarthy
- “Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War” by Jeff Sharlet
- “Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth “ by Sarah Smarsh
- “City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas” by Roger Crowley
- “Blue Skies” by T. C. Boyle
- “ Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory: The Father of Modern Anthropology” by Patrick Whilcken
- “An Immense World” by Ed Yong
- The Last Chairlift" by John Irving
- Rudolf Virchow: Four Lives in One" by Leslie Dunn
- Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners" by Travis Elborough
- "What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump" by Carlos Lozado
- "The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America" by Douglas Brinkley
- "The Stones of Venice" by John Ruskin
- "The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet" by Arthur Turrell
- "The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- "The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us" by Steve Brusatte
- "The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle" by Francisco Goldman
- "The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna" by Tim Parks
- "The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present" by David Treuer
- "The Hare with Amber Eyes" by Edmund de Waal
- "The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics" Edited by Greg Grandin, Deborah Levenson, & Elizabeth Oglesby
- "The Getaway" by Jim Thompson
- "The Florentines" by Paul Strathern
- "The Catch Me If You Can: One Woman's Journey to Every Country in the World" by Jessica Nabongo
- "Spanish Short Stories for Beginners: Volume I"
- "Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir" by Linnie Marsh Wolfe
- "Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia" by Christina Thompson
- "Riven Rock" by T. C. Boyle
- "Red Team Blues" by Cory Doctorow
- "On Critical Race Theory: Why it Matters and Why You Should Care" by Victor Ray
- "My Old Man and the Mountain: A Memoir" by Leif Whittaker
- "Monkey Boy" by Francisco Goldman
- "Italian Neighbors" by Tim Parks
- "Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America" by Pekka Hämäläinen
- "In Sardinia: An Unexpected Journey in Italy" by Jeff Biggers
- "How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America" by John Dvorak
- "Ho Chi Minh: A Life" by William J. Duiker
- "Harsh Times" by Mario Vargas Llosa
- "Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Aftermath of Mass Incarceration" by Rueben Jonathan Miller
- "Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure" by Tim Jeal
- "Donald Trump vs. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President" by Michael Schmidt
- "Citizen Illegal (BreakBeat Poets)" by José Olivarez
- "Cinema Speculation" by Quentin Tarantino
- "Cajas de cartón" by Francisco Jiménez
- "Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune" by Kevin Thomson
- "Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands" by Kelly Lytle Hernández
- "Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age" by Robert D. Kaplan
- "After Lives: A Novel" by Abdulrazak Gurnah
- "A Life on the Edge: Memoirs of Everest and Beyond" by Jim Whittaker
- "A History of Venice" by John Julius Norwich
- "A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman who Stopped Them" by Timothy Egan
Books Read in 2022
- "The Cold Millions: A Novel" by Jess Walter
- "A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman: A Memoir" by Lindy Elkins-Tanton
- “Shake Hands with the Devil” by Romeo Dallaire
- "Marathon Man" by Bill Rodgers
- "Act of Oblivion: A Novel" by Robert Harris
- “ Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire” by Joseph M. Katz
- “ American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis” by Adam Hochschild
- “What we Owe the Future” by William MacAskill
- "My Broken Language" by Quira Alegría Hudes"
- "The Vagrants" by Yiyun Li
- "Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin" by Timothy Snyder
- "Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone" by Martin Dugard
- "Virus: Vaccinations, the CDC, and the Hijacking of America's Response to the Pandemic" by Nina Burleigh
- "Nicholas and Alexandra" by Robert K. Massie
- "Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations" lectures by Prof. Brian Fagan
- "Livingstone" by Tim Jeal
- "The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines" by Cate Lineberry
- "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" by Charles C. Mann
- "The Nineties" by Chuck Klosterman
- "The Braindead Megaphone: Essays" by George Saunders
- "My Year of Meats" by Ruth Ozeki
- "Prince Henry 'the Navigator': A Life" by Peter Russell
- "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" by David Graeber and David Wengrow
- "The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie
- "Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945" by Tony Judt
- "The Twilight World" by Werner Herzog
- "The Book of Form and Emptiness" by Ruth Oseki
- "A Sacred Landscape: The Search for Ancient Peru" by Hugh Thomson
- "This America of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild" by Nate Schweber
- "The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened" by Bill McKibben
- "The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment" by Thom Hartmann
- "The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism" by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- "Reservoir 13: A Novel" by Jon McGregor
- "Warriors of the Clouds: A Lost Civilization in the Upper Amazon of Peru" by Keith Muscutt
- "Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again" by Johann Hari
- "Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest" by Fernando Cervantes
- "Learn Advanced Spanish Bundle"
- "Dam Nation: How Water Shaped the West and Will Determine Its Future" by Stephen Grace
- "Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba…and Then Lost It to the Revolution" by T. J. English
- "The Lincoln Highway" by Amor Towles
- "Jungle of Stone: The Extraordinary Journey of John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya" by William Carlsen
- "Educated: A Memoir" by Tara Westover
- "Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland" by Neal Ascherson
- "Champlain's Dream" by David Hackett Fischer
- "Silent Invasion: The Untold Story of the Trump Administration, Covid-19, and Preventing the Next Pandemic Before It's Too Late" by Deborah Birx
- "Independent People" by Haldor Laxness
- "At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig: Travels Through Paraguay" by John Gimlette
- "Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused" by Melissa Maerz
- "The Watchdogs Didn't Bark: The CIA, NSA, and the Crimes of the War on Terror" by Ray Nowosielski and John Duffy
- "Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation" by David A. Price
- "Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): An American History" by Ada Ferrer
- "Andean Adventures: An Unexpected Search for Meaning, Purpose and Discovery Across Three Countries" by A. J. Alonzo Wind
- "Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia" by Peter Pomerantsev
- "Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas" by Roberto Lovato
- "The Puma Years: A Memoir" by Laura Coleman
- "Kayaking the Vermilion Sea" by Jonathan Waterman
- "The Other Queen" by Philippa Gregory
- "How to Take Over the World" by Ryan North
- "The Lying Life of Adults" by Elena Ferrante
- "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon" by Crystal Zevon
- "Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928" by Stephen Kotkin
- "The Taming of the Queen" by Philippa Gregory
- "World War II in Simple Spanish" by Olly Richards
- "Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II" by Douglas A. Blackmon
- "A Life in the Movies" by Michael Powell
- "Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast" by Marjoleine Kars
- "Justice in the Age of Judgement: From Amanda Knox to Kyle Rittenhouse and the Battle for Due Process in the Digital Age" by Anne Bremner, JD and Doug Bremner, MD
- "The Greater Chaco Landscape: Ancestors, Scholarship, and Advocacy" by Ruth M. Van Dyke (Ed) and Carrie C. Heltman (Ed)
- "The Boleyn Inheritance" by Philippa Gregory
- "The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story" by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- "The Gold Machine: In the Tracks of the Mule Dancers" by Iain Sinclair
- "The Breath of a Whale: The Science and Spirit of Pacific Ocean Giants" by Leigh Calvez
- "The Fall of Robespierre" by Colin Jones
- "Three Singles to Adventure" by Gerald Durrell
- "1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows" by Ai Weiwei
- "The Best American Science and Nature Writing of 2020" Edited by Michio Kaku
- "A Handful of Dust" by Evelyn Waugh
- "Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge" by John Gimlette
- "Walking with Ghosts in Papua New Guinea: Crossing the Kokoda Trail in the Last Wild Place on Earth" by Rick Antonson
- "Billy Summers" by Stephen King
- "Stones of Aram: Pilgrimage" by Tim Robinson
- "Numbers don't Lie" by Vaclav Smil
- "Walking to Samarkand: The Great Silk Road from Persia to Central Asia" by Bernard Ollivier
- "The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain" by Annie Murphy Paul
- "Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World" by Simon Winchester
- "Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth" by Tony Hiss
- "From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life" by Arthur C. Brooks
- "Conversations in Stone: A Celebration of Hugh Miller's Legacy" Edited by Larissa Reid and Elsa Panciroli
- "Out of Istanbul: A Journey of Discovery along the Silk Road" by Bernard Ollivier
- "The Other Boleyn Girl" by Philippa Gregory
- "The Invention of Yesterday" by Tamim Ansary
- "Cloud Cuckoo Land" by Anthony Doerr
- "Lean Fall Stand" by Jon McGregor
- "Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and his Followers" by John W. Dean with Robert Altemeyer
- "Blow Sand in his Soul: Bates Wilson, The Heart of Canyonlands" by Jen Jackson Quintano
- "Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish" by Margarita Madrigal
- "Creatures of Passage" by Morowa Yejidé
- "Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture" by Sudhir Hazareesingh
- "Four Against the Arctic: Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World" by David Roberts
- "The Scots: A Genetic Journey" by Alistair Moffat
- "Three Sisters, Three Queens" by Philippa Gregory
- "Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy" by Jamie Raskin
- "Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois" by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
- "101 Conversations in Social Media Spanish" by Olly Richards
- "The Sentence: A Novel" by Louise Erdrich
- "Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs" by Camilia Townsend
- "Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy" by Adam Tooze
- "Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing" by Peter Robison
Books Read in 2021
- "Aurora" by Kim Stanley Robinson
- "The Romantic Revolution: A History" by Tim Blanning
- "Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer" by Tim Jeal
- "Philip Roth" by Blake Bailey
- "On Juneteenth" by Annette Gordon-Reed
- "Life's Edge: The Search for what it means to be Alive" by Carl Zimmer
- "The Chaco Meridian" by Stephen Lekson
- "The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made" by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas
- "Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy" by Adam Jentleson
- "The Good American: The Epic Life of Bob Gersony, the U.S. Government's Greatest Humanitarian" by Robert D. Kaplan
- "The Lost City of the Monkey God" by Douglas Preston
- "The Emotional Life of the Toddler" by Alicia F. Lieberman
- "The Ice Shirt" by William T. Vollman
- "The Bears Ears" by David Roberts
- "How Did We Get Here? -- From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump" by Robert Dallek
- "The Last Tudor" by Philippa Gregory
- "Limits of the Known" by David Roberts
- "Klara and the Sun" by Kazuo Ishiguro
- "Dragon's Egg" by Robert Forward
- "The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race" by Walter Isaacson
- "The Buried Giant" by Kazuo Ishiguro
- "Beyond the Mexique Bay" by Aldous Huxley
- "The Virgin's Lover" by Philippa Gregory
- "Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future" by Elizabeth Kolbert
- "Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality" by Frank Wilczek
- "Rain of Gold" by Victor Villaseñor
- "Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980" by Rick Perlstein
- "His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life" by Jonathan Alter
- "The Physics of Climate Change" by Lawrence M. Krauss
- "Trekking in Bolivia: A Traveler's Guide" by Yossi Brain
- "Aftershocks: A Memoir" by Nadia Owusu
- "The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice" by Greil Marcus
- "This is what America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman"" by Ilhan Omar
- "Squeeze Me" by Carl Hiaasen
- "The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto" by Charles M. Blow
- "Asshole Nation: Trump and the Rise of Scum America" by Scott McMurrey
- "Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World" by Nicholas Ostler
- "The Night Watchman" by Louise Erdrich
- "Don’t Go There: From Chernobyl to North Korea—one man’s quest to lose himself and find everyone else in the world’s strangest places (Weird Travel Book 1) " by Adam Fletcher
- "Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil" by Susan Neiman
- "JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956" by Fredrik Logevall
- "The Audacity of Inez Burns" by Stephen G. Bloom
- "When Montezuma Met Cortes: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History" by Matthew Restall
- "First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country" by Thomas Ricks
- "Hamnet" by Maggie O'Farrell
- "Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius" by Ray Monk
- "An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873" by Benjamin Madley
- "Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society" by Brian Fagan
- "The Premonition" by Michael Lewis
- "Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society" by Brian Fagan
- "The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together" by Heather McGhee
- "Homeland Elegies: A Novel" by Ayad Akhtar
- "The Agitators: Three Friends who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights" by Dorothy Wickenden
- "The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War" by Louis Menand
- "Four Hundred Souls" by Ibram X. Kendi
- "Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West" by Rebecca Solnit
- "Magicians of the Gods" by Graham Hancock
- "Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service" by Carol Leonnig
- "Lady of the Rivers" by Philippa Gregory
- "The Hellfire Club" by Jake Tapper
- "Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History" by Kurt Andersen
- "No Time to Spare" by Ursala K. Le Guin
- "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" by Frederick Douglass
- "The White Queen" by Philippa Gregory
- "Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons" by Kris Newby
- "Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art " by James Nestor
- "The Red Queen" by Philippa Gregory
- "The Golden Age" by Gore Vidal
- "Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act" by Nicholson Baker
- "Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island" by Will Harlan
- "The Kingmaker's Daughter" by Philippa Gregory
- "Digging in the Southwest" by Ann Axtell Morris
- "Pelosi" by Molly Ball
- "Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World" by Michele Gelfand
- "Going to Extremes" by Joe McGinnis
- "I Alone can fix it: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year" by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker
- “Understanding Spanish Conversation “ by Joe Kozlowski
- "This Country" by Chris Matthews
- "101 Conversations in Simple Spanish" by Olly Richards
- "Spanish Short Stories for Beginners"
- “ Fluent in Spanish” by My Daily Spanish
- “ Disposable City: Miami's Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe” by Mario Alejandro Ariza
- “The True Life of Mary Queen of Scots” by John Guy
- “Symphony in C: Carbon and the evolution of (Almost) Everything” by Robert M. Hazen
- "The Land of Big Numbers: Stories" by Te-Ping Chen
- "Culture of Terrorism" by Noam Chomsky
- "The Romantic Revolution: A History" by Tim Blanning
- "Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream" by Sasha Abramsky
- "Lessons from Colorado Fires and Floods" by Julia L. Wright
- "The Backbone of the World: A Portrait of the Vanishing West Along the Continental Divide" by Frank Clifford
- ""A Grain of Wheat" by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- "A Paradise Built in Hell" by Rebecca Solnit
- “101 Conversations in Intermediate Spanish” by Olly Richards
- "The Murders of Richard III" by Elizabeth Peters
- "There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century" by Fiona Hill
- "The White Princess" by Philippa Gregory
- "The Last Gift" by Abdurazak Gurnah
- "True Summit: What Really Happened on the Legendary Ascent of Annapurna" by David Roberts
- "Peril" by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa
- "Fall of Giants" by Ken Follett
- "Read until you Understand" by Farrah Jasmine Griffin
- "The End of Bias: A Beginning" by Jessica Nordell
- "The Constant Princess" by Philippa Gregory
- "Accelerated Spanish, Volume I" by Timothy Moser
- "The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations" by Brian Fagan
- "The Prague Orgy" by Philip Roth
- "Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir" by Natasha Trethewey
- "Good Prose" by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd
- "The Woman Lit by Fireflies" by Jim Harrison
- "Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel" by Carl Safina
- "Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy" by David Zucchino
- "Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns and the Future of Chasing Snow" by Heather Hansman
- "That Wild Country: An Epic Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands" by Mark Kenyon
- "The King's Curse" by Philippa Gregory
- "The Best American Non-Required Reading 2011"
- "Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives" by Karin Wieland and Shelley Frisch
- "How Beautiful We Were: A Novel" by Imbolo Mbue
- "The Magician: A Novel" by Colm Toibin
- "Orwell's Roses" by Rebecca Solnit
- "Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could" by Adam Schiff
Books Read in 2020
- "Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live" by Nicholas Christakis MD PhD
- "The Ministry for the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson
- "The Queen's Fool: A Novel" by Philippa Gregory
- "Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears" by Jacqueline Keeler
- "Europe: a History Part VI, 1914 -- 1991" by Norman Davies
- "His Truth is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope" by Jon Meacham
- "Europe: a History Part V, Dynamo: Powerhouse of the World, 1815 -- 1914" by Norman Davies
- "Washington D.C." by Gore Vidal
- "Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future" by James Shapiro
- "Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East" by Kim Ghattas
- "The Aran Islands" by John M. Synge
- "Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon" by Michael Engelhard
- "American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America" by David O. Stewart
- "Europe: A Natural History" by Tim Flannery
- "Europe: A History Part 4" by Norman Davies
- "A Promised Land" by Barack Obama
- "Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy" by Wolfram Eilenberger
- "Europe: A History Part 3" by Norman Davies
- "Deep Thinkers: Inside the Minds of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises" by Janet Mann
- "Blood on the Tracks: The Life and Times of S. Brian Willson" by S. Brian Willson"
- "November Road" by Lou Berney
- "Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States" by Bradley W. Hart
- "The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century" by Clay Risen
- "Zanzibar to Timbuktu" by Theodore Dalrymple
- "Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World Hardcover" by Fareed Zakaria
- "True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump" by Jeffrey Toobin
- "Rage" by Bob Woodward
- "Intimations: Six Essays" by Zadie Smith
- "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man" by Mary Trump
- "Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump" by Michael Cohen
- "Memoirs and Misinformation" by Jim Carrey
- "Cross Country: A 3,700-Mile Run to Explore Unseen America" by Rickey Gates
- "Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth" by Brian Stelter
- "Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime" by Jennifer Taub
- "Make Russia Great Again" by Christopher Buckley
- "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" by Isabel Wilkerson
- "A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love" by Richard Dawkins
- "Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray" by Sabine Hossenfelder
- "Polemical Judo: Memes for our Political Knife-fight" by David Brin
- "The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another" by Ainissa Ramirez
- "Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump" by Peter Strzok
- "The Continental Divide: Exploring America's Ridgeline Trail" by Barney Scout Mann
- "Hitler: Ascent: 1889-1939" by Volker Ullrich
- "Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus" by Rick Perlstein
- "Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party" by Joshua Bloom and Walter E. Martin Jr.
- "Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration" by David Roberts
- "The Coming Plague" by Laurie Garrett
- "Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In" by Roger Fisher et. al.
- "The Books That Changed My Life: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians, and Other Remarkable People" by Bethanne Patrick
- "Escalante's Dream" by David Roberts
- "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- "Running to the Mountain" by Jon Katz
- "Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West" by Hampton Sides
- "The Room Where it Happened" by John Bolton
- "The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71" by Alistair Horne
- "Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own" by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- "At Play in the Fields of the Lord" by Peter Matthiessen
- "The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest" by David Roberts
- "August" by Callan Wink
- "1919 Versailles: The End of the War to End All Wars" by charles L. Mee Jr.
- "Hollywood" by Gore Vidal Edit Delete ↑ ↓
- "Europe: A History Part 2" by Norman Davies
- "What Kind of Creatures Are We?" by Noam Chomsky
- "How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America" by Heather Cox Richardson
- "Arctic Crossing: A Journey Through the Northwest Passage and Inuit Culture" by Jonathan Waterman
- "The Grand Canyon: Between River and Rim" by Pete McBride
- "The White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr" by Leanda De Lisle
- "Cantoras: a Novel" by Carolina De Robertis
- "All for Nothing" by Walter Kempowski
- "Where Rivers Run: A 6,000-mile Exploration of Canada by Canoe" by Gary and Joanie McGuffin
- "Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back" by Mark O'Connell
- "Ordinary Girls" by Jaquira Diaz
- "Heaven's Prisoners" by James Lee Burke
- "Dominicana" by Angie Cruz
- "West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story" by Tamim Ansary
- "Europe: A History Part I" by Norman Davies
- "Plagues and Peoples" by William McNeill
- "West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War" by Heather Cox Richardson
- "The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History" by John M. Barry
- "Sor Juana" by Octavio Paz
- "The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes" by Zachary D. Carter
- "Cosmos: Possible Worlds" by Ann Druyan
- "The Mirror & the Light (Wolf Hall Trilogy Book 3)" by Hilary Mantel
- "One Wild Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives" by Bernd Heinrich
- "The End of October" by Lawrence Wright
- "Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire" by William Rosen
- "Dog Run Moon" by Callan Wink
- "River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West" by Rebecca Solnit
- "To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret" by Jedidiah Jenkins
- "Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre" by Heather Cox Richardson
- "The Rise of Athens" by Anthony Everitt
- "Mornings in Mexico" by D. H. Lawrence
- "Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues" by Martin J. Blaser
- "Deacon King Kong: A Novel" by James McBride
- "Many Mexicos" by Lesley Bird Simpson
- "Lost Children Archive" by Valeria Luiselli
- "Station Eleven: A Novel" by Emily St. John Mandel
- "Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs" by Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker
- "Mexico: Biography of Power, a History of Modern Mexico, 1819 - 1996" by Enrique Krauze
- "Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction" by David Enrich
- "The Soul of the White Ant" by Eugéne Marais
- "Pukka's Promise: The Quest for Longer-Lived Dogs" by Ted Kerasote
- "Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss" by Margaret Renkl
- "Agency" by William Gibson
- "Arctic Solitaire: A Boat, a Bay, and the Quest for the Perfect Bear" by Paul Souders
- "Recollections of my Nonexistence" by Rebecca Solnit
- "Why We're Polarized" by Ezra Klein
- "Travels with Rachel: In Search of South America" by George Mahood
- "Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World " by David Epstein
- "The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy Book 1)" by Rick Atkinson
- "Under Land: A Deep Time Journey" by Robert MacFarlane
- "A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America" by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig
- "West of the Thirties: Discoveries Among the Navajo and Hopi" by Edward T. Hall
- "The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age" by Leo Damrosch
- "Survivors in Mexico" by Rebecca West
- "The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War" by Fred Kaplan
- "Crossfire Hurricane: Inside Donald Trump's War on the FBI" by Josh Campbell
- "Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gotlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control" by Stephen Kinzer
- "Rough-Hewn Land: A Geological Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains" by Keith Heyer Meldahl
- "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
- "The Comanche Empire" by Pekka Hämäläinen
- "Caesar and Cleopatra" by George Bernard Shaw
- "Bears Ears: Views from a Sacred Land" by Stephen E. Strom
- "Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law" by James B. Stewart
- "This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland" by Gretel Ehrlich
- "Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin (Geopolitics in the 21st Century) " by Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy
- "Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster" by Adam Higginbottom
- "Exhalation: Stories" by Ted Chiang
- "Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland" by Patrick Radden Keefe
- "Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet" by Tim Flannery
- "The Great Clod: Notes and Memoirs on Nature and History in East Asia" by Gary Snyder
- "The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America" by Nicholas Buccola
- "Querencia" by Stephen Bodio
- "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family" by Annette Gordon-Reed
- "Rebecca West: A Modern Sibyl" by Carl Rollyson
- "Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling" by Thomas Hager
- "Zorba the Greek" by Nikos Kazantzakis
- "Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America's Forgotten Border" by Porter Fox
- "A Warning" by Anonymous
- "Kings of the Yukon: One Summer Paddling Across the Far North" by Adam Weymouth
- "The Best American Essays 2019" Edited by Rebecca Solnit
- "In the Woods" by Tana French
- "Driftwood Valley" by Theodora C. Stanwell-Fletcher
- "A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith" by Timothy Egan
- "The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir" by Samantha Power
- "Brave" by Rose McGowan
- "Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming" Edited by Paul Hawken
Books Read in 2019
- "Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump" by Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch
- "Catch and Kill" by Ronan Farrow
- "What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance" by Carolyn Forché
- "Inside Out: A Memoir" by Demi Moore
- "The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts" by Maxine Hong Kingston
- "Fleishman Is in Trouble: A Novel" by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- "Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon" by Tucker Malarkey
- "On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey" by Paul Theroux
- "American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump" by Tim Alberta
- "Quichotte: A Novel" by Salman Rushdie"Quichotte: A Novel" by Salman Rushdie
- "Regarding the Pain of Others" by Susan Sontag
- "How to Be an Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi
- "American Smoke" by Iain Sinclair
- "Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming" by MacKenzie Funk
- "Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For " by Susan Rice
- "Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero" by Christopher McDougall
- "My Journey to Lhasa" by Alexandra David-Neel
- "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel" by Neal Stephenson
- "Sontag: Her Life and Work" by Benjamin Moser
- "The Solace of Open Spaces: Essays" by Gretel Erlich
- "Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman" by Robert K. Massie
- "Open: An Autobiography" by Andre Agassi
- "Blowout" by Rachel Maddow
- "100 Favorite North American Climbs" by Fred Beckey
- "The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government" by David Talbot
- "Permanent Record" by Edward Snowden
- "Year of the Monkey" by Patti Smith
- "On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal" by Naomi Klein
- "The Witch Elm" by Tana French
- "The Rise and Fall of Alexandria" by Justin Pollard "The Rise and Fall of Alexandria" by Justin Pollard and Howard Reidand Howard Reid
- "A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father" by David Maraniss
- "Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America" by Eliza Griswold
- "Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America" by Kathleen Belew
- "Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short" by William D. Cohan
- "The King Must Die" by Mary Renault
- "The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures" by William DeBuys
- "There There" by Tommy Orange
- "A River Runs Through It" by Norman MacLean
- "The War on Normal People" by Andrew Yang
- "Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West" by Heather Hansen
- "Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century" by George Packer
- "To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 (The Penguin History of Europe)" by Ian Kershaw
- "Heart Berries: A Memoir" by Terese Marie Mailhot
- "Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities" by Rebecca Solnit
- "Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle" by Matthew Klingle
- "Negroland: A Memoir" by Margo Jefferson
- "Empire" by Gore Vidal
- "Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of:" Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder
- "The Sisters Brothers" by Patrick DeWitt
- "Unstuff Your Life!: Kick the Clutter Habit and Completely Organize Your Life for Good" by Andrew Mellen
- "Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World" by Adam Tooze
- "Winter" by Adam Gopnick
- "Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis" by Jared Diamond
- "Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the last Trial of Harper Lee" by Casey Cep
- "At the Stranger's Gate" by Adam Gopnick
- "Country Girl" by Edna O'Brien
- "1876: a Novel" by Gore Vidal
- "Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance" by Nick Estes
- "How to do Nothing" by Jenny Odell
- "Zoo Nebraska" by Carson Vaughan
- "Call Them by Their True Names" by Rebecca Solnit
- "The World of Yesterday" by Stefan Zweig
- "Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- "Wave" by Sonali Deraniyagala
- "Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975" by Sir Max Hastings
- "Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process" by John McPhee
- "Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide" by Tony Horwitz
- "A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism" by Adam Gopnick
- "Losing Earth: A Recent History" by Nathaniel Rich
- "Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea" by Steven Callahan
- "Yellowstone Drift: Floating the Past in Real Time" by John Holt
- "The Big Rock Candy Mountain" by Wallace Stegner
- "Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country" by Pam Houston
- "Trailerpark" by Russell Banks
- "The Mueller Report"
- "Levels of Life" by Julian Barnes
- "The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West" by Patricia Nelson Limerick
- "Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People" by Danny Katch
- "Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History" by Robert Hughes
- "The Angel on the Roof: and other Stories" by Russell Banks
- "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power" by Shoshanna Zuboff
- "Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump" by Vicky Ward
- "On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle" by Hampton Sides
- "Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future" by Pete Buttigieg
- "Orfeo" by Richard Powers
- "Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone" by Douglas W. Smith and Gary Ferguson
- "Lucky: A Memoir" by Alice Sebold
- "My Struggle: Book 6" by Karl Ove Knausgaard
- "Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow" by Henry Louis Gates
- "Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World" by Cal Newport
- "Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?" by Bill McKibben
- "Down from the Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear" by Bryce Andrews
- "Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink" by Elvis Costello
- "The Outrun: A Memoir" by Amy Liptrot
- "Gallatin Canyon" by Thomas McGuane
- "The Counterlife" by Philip Roth
- "The Gifts of Reading" by Robert MacFarlane
- "Horizon" by Barry Lopez
- "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business" by Charles Duhigg
- "Homes: A Refugee Story" by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, Winnie Yeung
- "The Battle For Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists" by Naomi Klein
- "Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North" by Blair Braverman
- "The River" by Peter Heller
- "All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West" by David Gessner
- "God's Mercies: Rivalry, Betrayal, and the Dream of Discovery" by Douglas Hunter
- "Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War" by Amanda Vaill
- "In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing" by Walter Murch
- "The Third Reich in Power" by Richard J. Evans
- "The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels" by Jon Meacham
- "Northern Heights: North America's Highest Peaks" by Gerry Roach
- "Dopesick" by Beth Macy
- "These Truths: A History of the United States" by Jill Lepore
- "Take A Thru-Hike: Dixie's How-To Guide for Hiking the Appalachian Trail" by Jessica "Dixie" Mills
- "Giovanni's Room" by James Baldwin
- "Thick: And Other Essays" by Tressie McMillan Cottom
- "Love and Ruin" by Paula McClain
- "Sixty Meters to Anywhere" by Brendan Leonard
- "The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump" by Andrew McCabe
- "Tiger Woods" by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian
- "Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life" by Caroline Moorehead
- "Walking up and down in the World: Memories of a Mountain Rambler" by Smoke Blanchard
- "Paris Echo" by Sebastian Faulks
- "Black Cherry Blues" by James Lee Burke
- "A Massacre in Mexico: The True Story Behind the Missing Forty-Three Students" by Anabel Hernandez
- "Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare" by Stephen Greenblatt
- "The Hollywood Standard, 2nd Edition: The Complete and Authoritative Guide to Script Format and Style" by Christopher Riley
- "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming" by David Wallace-Wells
- "Cinematography for Directors: A Guide for Creative Collaboration" by Jacqueline Frost
- "Fever Dream" by Samanta Schweblin
- "The Old Gringo" by Carlos Fuentes
- "Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America" by Seth Abramson
- "Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger" by Rebecca Traister
- "The Face of War" by Martha Gellhorn
- "Smart on Crime" by Kamala Harris
- "American Dialogue: The Founders and Us" by Joseph J. Ellis
- "The Truths we Hold: An American Journey" by Kamala Harris
- "The Line becomes a River" by Francisco Cantú
- "On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin" by Marie Colvin
- "In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin" by Lindsey Hilsum
- "I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa" by Charles Brandt
- "The Threat Matrix: Inside Robert Mueller's FBI and the War on Global Terror " by Garrett M. Graff
- "God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist" by Victor J. Stenger
- "Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention" by David Shields
- "America: The Farewell Tour" by Chris Hedges
- "The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State" by Nadia Murad
- "Trump / Russia: A Definitive History" by Seth Hettena
- "Small Fry: a Memoir" by Lisa Brennan Jobs
- "The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War" by Joanne B. Freeman
- "Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road" by Kate Harris
- "One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy" by Carol Anderson
Books Read in 2018
- "Yes We (Still) Can" by Dan Pfeiffer
- "Fluent Forever: How to learn any Language and Never Forget it" by Gabriel Wyner
- "Empire Falls" by Richard Russo
- "Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England" by Charles Firth
- "Jesus: Mything in Action, Vol. I (The Complete Heretic's Guide to Western Religion Book 2)" by David Fitzgerald
- "The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life" by Richard Russo
- "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
- "Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics" by Stephen Greenblatt
- "Solar Bones" by Mike McCormack
- "The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy" by Greg Miller
- "Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House" by Omarosa Manigault Newman
- "Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems" by Robin Coste Lewis
- "Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance " by Alex Hutchison
- "The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism" by Steve Kornacki
- "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- "Wanderlust: A History of Walking" by Rebecca Solnit
- "Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America" by Craig Childs
- "The Blood of Emmett Till" by Timothy B. Tyson
- "From Here to Eternity" by James Jones
- "Full Disclosure" by Stormy Daniels
- "The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House" by Ben Rhodes
- "From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia" by Michael McFaul
- "The Definitive Guide to DaVinci Resolve 15" by Dion Scoppettuolo and Paul Saccone
- "The Great Courses: Biology, the Science of Life" by Prof. Stephen Nowicki, PhD
- "The Coming Storm" by Michael Lewis
- "Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past" by David Reich
- "Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story" by Timothy B. Tyson
- "I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan" by Khalida Brohi
- "Brief Encounter with Che Guevera: Stories" by Ben Fountain
- "Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution" by Ben Fountain
- "Fear: Trump in the White House" by Bob Woodward
- "What Unites Us" by Dan Rather
- "God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State " by Lawrence Wright
- "Every Day Is Extra" by John Kerry
- "Red Notice" by Bill Browder
- "A Time to Die: The Attica Prison Revolt" by Tom Wicker
- "Becoming Odyssa : Adventures on the Appalachian Trail" by Jennifer Pharr Davis
- "The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life" by David Quammen
- "My Struggle: Book 5" by Karl Ove Knausgaard
- "Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism--From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond"by E. J. Dionne
- "Make Trouble" by Cecile Richards
- "The History of the Highland Clearances" by Alexander Mackenzie
- "House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia" by Craig Unger
- "Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War" by Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple
- "On My Way Up" by Alyson Kirk
- "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World" by Anand Giridharadas
- "Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News" by Clint Watts
- "Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence" by James Clapper
- "Reporter: A Memoir" by Seymour M. Hersh
- "The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend" by Glenn Frankel
- "The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors" by David George Haskell
- "Plowing the Dark" by Richard Powers
- "Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America" by James and Deborah Fallows
- "The Pursuit of Endurance Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience" by Jennifer Pharr Davis
- "To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells" by Mia Bay
- "Macbeth" by Jo Nesbo
- "Thinking the Twentieth Century" by Tony Judt and Timothy Snyder
- "Energy: A Human History" by Richard Rhodes
- "Welcome to the Universe" by Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Michael Strauss
- "Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away" by Rebecca Goldstein
- "Journey" by James Michener
- "The Echo Maker: A Novel" by Richard Powers
- "An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy" by Rick Atkinson
- "The Man Who Climbs Trees" by James Aldred
- "Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress" by Steven Pinker
- "The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero" by Timothy Egan
- "The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam" by Max Boot
- "Fascism: A Warning" by Madeline Albright
- "The Great Movies" by Roger Ebert
- "The White Album" by Joan Didion
- "Jesus Did Not Exist: A Debate Among Atheists" by Raphael Lataster
- "Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found" by Suketu Mehta
- “Locking up our Own” by James Forman Jr.
- “The Overstory” by Richard Powers
- "To Catch A King: Charles II's Great Escape" by Charles Spencer
- "Russian Roulette" by David Isikoff and David Corn
- "The Wild Places (Landscapes)" by Robert Macfarlane
- "Genesis (Memory of Fire Book 1)" by Eduardo Galeano
- "Feel Free: Essays" by Zadie Smith
- "War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence" by Ronan Farrow
- "Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes" by Robert Lewis Stevenson
- "Documentary Storytelling" by Sheila Curran Bernard
- "Around the Sacred Sea: Mongolia and Lake Baikal on Horseback" by Bartle Bull
- "Tropic of Kansas" by Christopher Brown
- "The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth Book 1)" by N. K. Jemisin
- "Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane" by Patrick McGilligan
- "A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes" by Adam Rutherford
- "Swanson on Swanson" by Gloria Swanson
- "A Higher Loyalty" by James Comey
- "The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google" by Scott Galloway
- "Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan " by Steve Coll
- "Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose" by Joe Biden
- "Molly's Game" by Molly Bloom
- "Stop Drinking Now (Allen Carr's Easyway)" by Allen Carr
- "My Struggle: Book 4" by Karl Ove Knausgaard
- "Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine" by Joe Hagan
- "The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire" by Stephen Kinzer
- "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI" by David Grann
- "Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel" by Max Blumenthal
- "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" by Antonio Garcia Martinez
- "The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War" by Stephen Kinzer
- "Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics" by Lawrence O'Donnell
- "The United States of Fear" by Tom Engelhardt
- "Pulphead: Essays" by John Jeremiah Sullivan
- "The Collapsing Empire" by John Scalzi
- "The Last Days of Stalin" by Joshua Rubenstein
- "Sanity in Acting" by Galina Boulgakova
- "Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst" by Robert M. Sapolsky
- "Wild by Nature: From Siberia to Australia, Three Years Alone in the Wilderness on Foot" by Sarah Marquis
- "Grant" by Ron Chernow
- "American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West" by Nate Blakeslee
- "Blasphemy" by Sherman Alexie
- "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner" by Daniel Ellsberg
- "Leonardo Da Vinci" by Walter Isaacson
- "The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World" by Jeff Goodell
- "Wild Horse Country: The History, Myth, and Future of the Mustang" by Dave Philipps
- "Manhattan Beach" by Jennifer Egan
- "The Secret History of Costaguana" by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
- "American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains" by Dan Flores
- "Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History" by Dan Flores
- "Film Production Technique: Creating the Accomplished Image" by Bruce Mamer
- "Change Agent" by Daniel Suarez
- "Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States" by James C. Scott
- "The One Man" by Andrew Gross
- "Easy Riders Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock 'N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood" by Peter Biskind
- "Artemis" by Andy Weir
- "Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom" by Thomas E. Ricks
- "36 Books that Changed the World" The Great Courses
- "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" by Michael Wolff
- "No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need" by Naomi Klein
- "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" by Joan Didion
Books Read in 2017
- "SPQR: A History of Rome" by Mary Beard
- "From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds" by Daniel C. Dennett
- "I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street" by Matt Taibbi
- "My Struggle: Book Three" by Karl Ove Knausgaard
- "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America" by Nancy MacLean
- "The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World" by Maya Jasanoff
- "A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube (Journey Across Europe Book 1)" by Patrick Leigh Fermor
- "The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock" by Donald Spoto
- "Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win" by Luke Harding
- "Station Eleven" by Emily St. John Mandel
- "Avenue of Mysteries" by John Irving
- "Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe" by Jane Goodal
- "Understanding Movies" by Louis Giannetti
- "Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot by Masha Gessen
- "Wayfaring Stranger: A Novel (A Holland Family Novel)" by James Lee Burke
- "Alfred Hitchcock" by Peter Ackroyd
- "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Truman Capote
- "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green
- "Religion and the Decline of Magic -- Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England" by Keith Thomas
- "Run the World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe" by Becky Wade
- "Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film" by Peter Biskind
- "The Dead Zone" by Stephen King
- "The Cinema of Cruelty" by Andre Bazin
- "Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River" by Ellen Meloy
- "The Short Screenplay: Your Short Film from Concept to Production" by Dan Gurskis
- "The Grammar of the Edit" by Christopher Bowen and Roy Thompson
- "Voice and Vision: A Creative Approach to Narrative Film and DV Production" by Mick Hurbis-Cherrier
- "Never let me go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
- "Libra" by Don DeLillo
- "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
- "Autobiography of Black Hawk" by Black Hawk
- "Napoleon: A Life" by Andrew Roberts
- "Bear Town" by Fredrik Backman
- "The Lives of Rocks" by Rick Bass
- "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline
- "What Happened" by Hillary Clinton
- "Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History" by Katy Tur
- "American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road" by Nick Bilton
- "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn
- "Full-Rip 9.0 -- The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest" by Sandi Doughton
- "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson
- "The Fault in our Stars" by John Green
- "The Lives of Frederick Douglass " by Robert S. Levine
- "Zoe's Tale" by John Scalzi
- "The Call from Algeria : Third Worldism, Revolution, and the Turn to Islam" by Robert Malley
- "The Last Colony" by John Scalzi
- "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
- "Water is for Fighting Over" by John Fleck
- "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare
- "Glory" by Vladimir Nabokov
- "The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New" by Annie Dillard
- "Acceptance: A Novel (The Southern Reach Trilogy Book 3)" by Jeff VanderMeer
- "The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon"by Brad Stone
- "The Great Courses: Food: A Cultural Culinary History" by Prof. Ken Albala
- "The Great Courses: The Story of Human Language" by Prof. John McWhorter
- "New York 2140" by Kim Stanley Robinson
- "Zone One" by Colson Whitehead
- "The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution" by Dominic Lieven
- "From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation" by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- "Authority: A Novel (The Southern Reach Trilogy Book 2)" by Jeff VanderMeer
- "Hatching Twitter" by Nick Bilton
- "Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution" by Diane McWhorter
- "All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation" by Rebecca Traister
- "The Souls of Black Folk" by W. E. B. Dubois
- "Analysis and Critique: How to Engage and Write about Anything; The Great Courses" by Professor Dorsey Armstrong
- "The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America" by Michael Eric Dyson
- "Annihilation" by Jeff Vandermeer
- "Redefining Reality" by Janet Mock
- "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" by Jill Lepore
- "Swing Time" by Zadie Smith
- "Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday" by Angela Davis
- "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877" by Eric Foner
- "Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France, Past and Present" by David A. Bell
- "Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet" by Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope
- "Alone on the Wall" by Alex Honnold with David Roberts
- "A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: The Journey of Doaa Al Zamel: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival" by Melissa Fleming
- "The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan" by Alan Booth
- "Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga" by Pamela Newkirk
- "Celine" by Peter Heller
- "1632 (Ring of Fire Series)" by Eric Flint
- "Vinegar Girl" by Anne Tyler
- "NW" by Zadie Smith
- "The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin" by Masha Gessen
- "A World out of Time" by Larry Niven
- "I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen" by Silvie Simmons
- "Tears we cannot stop: A Sermon to White America" by Michael Eric Dyson
- "Turn Right at Machu Picchu" by Mark Adams
- "The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election" by Malcolm Nance
- "Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation" by Alan Burdick
- "Crossing the Darien Gap" by Andrew N. Egan
- "Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg" by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
- "Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education" by Mychal Denzel Smith
- "The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End" by Robert Gerwarth
- "Waking Lions" by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
- "Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America" by John M. Barry
- "A Colony in a Nation" by Chris Hayes
- "The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water" by Charles Fishman
- "The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere" by Pico Iyer
- "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century" by Timothy Snyder
- "The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy" by Masha Gessen
- "Great Courses: Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon" by Professor Suzanne M. Desan
- "America at War with Itself" by Henry A. Giroux
- "The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War Book 2)" by John Scalzi
- "Rain: A Natural and Cultural History" by Cynthia Barnett
- "The Coming of the Third Reich" by Richard J. Evans
- "Homegoing" by Yaa Gyasi
- "Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country" by Alex Cuadros
- "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" by John Berendt
- "Training Essentials for Ultrarunning" by Jason Koop
- "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" by Yuval Noah Harari
- "Thaddeus Stevens: Scourge of the South" by Fawn M. Brodie
- "Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad" by Eric Foner
- "Tepui: The Last Journey" by John Oehler
- "Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1945" by Saul Friedlander
- "Go Tell it on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
- "Splinterlands" by John Feffer
- "Man's Search for Meaning" by Victor E. Frankl
- "Lovecraft Country: A Novel" by Matt Ruff
- "Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America" by Ibram X. Kendi
- "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen
- "My Struggle: Book 2: A Man in Love" by Karl Ove Knausgaard
- "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead
- "The Wolf Road: A Novel" by Beth Lewis
- "How Great Science Fiction Works: The Great Courses" by Prof. Gary K. Wolfe
- "Hag-Seed (Hogarth Shakespeare)" by Margaret Atwood
- "Chasing Summits: In Pursuit of High Places and an Unconventional Life" by Garry Harrington
- "Shoe Dog" by Phil Knight
- "Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women" by Sarah Helm
- "East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" by Philippe Sands
- "Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America" by Jill Leovy
- "Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped" by Garry Kasparov
- "Nutshell: A Novel" by Ian McEwan
- "When Breath becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi
- "Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety" by Eric Schlosser
- "The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939–1945" by Nicholas Stargardt
Books Read in 2016
- "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
- "William Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies: The Great Courses" by Peter Saccio
- "The Sellout: A Novel" by Paul Beatty
- "Scrappy Little Nobody" by Anna Kendrick
- "They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement" by Wesley Lowery
- "On Trails: An Exploration" by Robert Moor
- "The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon" by Kevin Fedarko
- "Trail Ways, Path Wise: A 2,147-Mile Through-Hike Up the Appalachian Trail" by John Illig
- "Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy" by Heather Ann Thompson
- "A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization" by Jonathan Kirsch
- "The Terror Years" by Lawrence Wright
- "Basque Country: Spain and France" by Rick Steves
- "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson" by Peter C. Mancall
- "Demand the Impossible!: A Radical Manifesto" by Bill Ayers
- "The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness" by Sy Montgomery
- "Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging" by Sebastian Junger
- "Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939" by Adam Hochschild
- "Barkskins: A Novel" by Annie Proulx
- "Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage" by Kathleen Winter
- "American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst" by Jeffrey Toobin
- "Hot Milk" by Deborah Levy
- "Man of the World: The Further Endeavors of Bill Clinton" by Joe Conason
- "Shakespeare" by Bill Bryson
- "Trump Nation: The Art of Being The Donald" by Timothy L. O'Brien
- "In the Darkroom" by Susan Faludi
- "Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries" by Kim MacQuarrie
- "A Kingdom of Their Own: The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster" by Joshua Partlow
- "The Last Days of the Incas" by Kim MacQuarrie
- "A Basque History of the World" by Mark Kurlansky
- "No Man Knows my History: The Life of Joseph Smith" by Fawn Brodie
- "Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy" by David O. Stewart
- "Devil's Defender: My Odyssey Through American Criminal Justice from Ted Bundy to the Kandahar Massacre" by John Henry Browne
- "Razor Girl" by Carl Hiaasen
- "The Peregrine" by J. A. Baker
- "The Sun the Moon and the Rolling Stones" by Rich Cohen
- "A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel" by Marlon James
- "Ghana Must Go: a Novel" by Taiye Selasi
- "America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History" by Andrew J. Bacevich
- "Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914" by Peter Gay
- "The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait" by Blake Bailey
- "Boomsday: a Novel" by Christopher Buckley
- "Heroes of the Frontier" by Dave Eggers
- "Winds of Skilak: A Tale of True Grit, True Love and Survival in the Alaskan Wilderness" by Bonnie Rose Ward
- "Bad Monkey" by Carl Hiaasen
- "The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks" by Terry Tempest Williams
- "White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide" by Carol Anderson, PhD
- "Voyager: Travel Writings" by Russell Banks
- "Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland" by Ken Ilgunas
- "Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power" by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher
- "End of Watch" by Stephen King
- "Hearing Birds Fly: A Nomadic Year in Mongolia" by Louisa Waugh
- "Oxygen: The Molecule that made the World" by Nick Lane
- "Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom" by Ken Ilgunas
- "Lincoln: A Novel" by Gore Vidal
- "Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security" by Sarah Chayes
- "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to his White Mother" by James McBride
- "Hitler's Thirty Days to Power: January 1933" by Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. Save
- "Empire of Cotton: A Global History" by Sven Beckert
- "Henderson the Rain King" by Saul Bellow
- "Putin Country: A Journey Through the New Russia" by Anne Garrels
- "A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World" by Tony Horwitz
- "The Great Courses: King Arthur: History and Legend" by Prof. Dorsey Armstrong
- "Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage that Redrew the Map of the New World" by Douglas Hunter
- "In America: A Novel" by Susan Sontag
- "Cuba in Splinters: Eleven Stories from the New Cuba" by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
- "Joe Gould's Teeth" by Jill Lepore
- "The Wonder Trail: True Stories from Los Angeles to the End of the World" by Steve Hely
- "The General in His Labyrinth" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- "Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War" by Fred Kaplan
- "Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle" by Chris Hedges
- "The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts" by Joshua Hammer
- "Assata: An Autobiography" by Assata Shakur
- "The Genius of Birds" by Jennifer Ackerman
- "Finders, Keepers" by Stephen King
- "The Art of Tough: Fearlessly Facing Politics and Life" by Barbara Boxer
- "God's Gravediggers: Why no Deity Exists" by Raymond Bradley
- "The Meaning of Human Existence" by Edward O. Wilson
- "Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News" by Dan Rather
- "Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul" by James McBride
- "Consequence: A Memoir" by Eric Fair
- "The Road to Oxiana" by Robert Byron
- "The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge" by Michael Punke
- "American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood" by Marie Arana
- "Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement" by Jean Casella et. al.
- "The Great Courses: Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills" by Steven Novella
- "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- "Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration" by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
- "Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran" by Barry Meier
- "Zorba the Greek" by Nikos Kanzantzakos
- "Alfred Wegener: Science, Exploration, and the Theory of Continental Drift" by Mott T. Greene
- "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" by Eduardo Galeano
- "The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program" by Jeremy Scahill
- "In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond" by Robert D. Kaplan
- "Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Stael" by J. Christopher Herold
- "The Old Ways: A Journey on foot" by Robert MacFarlane
- "Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty" by Dan Jones
- "MaddAddam" by Margaret Atwood
- "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain
- "Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science" by Alice Dreger
- "The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science" by Richard Holmes
- "Guantánamo Diary" by Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Author), Larry Siems (Editor)
- "One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway -- And its Aftermath" by Asne Seierstad
- "Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement" by Angela Davis
- "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander
- "Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution" by Laurie Penny
- "The Great Courses: History's Greatest Voyages of Exploration" by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Ph.D
- "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" by Ben Fountain
- "The Widow Clicquot" by Tilar J. Mazzeo
- "A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America" by Oscar Martinez
- "Flaubert's Parrot" by Julian Barnes
- "Loitering: New and Collected Essays" by Charles D'Ambrosio
- "Rekyavik Nights" by Arnaldur Indridasson
- "The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606" by James Shapiro
- "Hobo Boxer" by Johnny T. Noctor
- "M Train" by Patti Smith
- "Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe" by Lisa Randall
- "Into The Heart: One Man's Pursuit of Love and Knowledge Among the Yanomami" by Kenneth Good
- "Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology" by Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili
- "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the rise of the Radical Right" by Jane Mayer
- "My Brilliant Friend" by Elena Ferrante and Ann Goldstein
- "Cherry" by Mary Karr
- "The Ancestor's Tale" by Richard Dawkins
- "Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality" by Max Tegmark
- "Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics" by Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon
- "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy O'Toole
- "Drawing Blood" by Molly Crabapple
- "The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain" by Bill Bryson
- "Strange Shores" by Arnaldur Indridasson
- "Bolivar: American Liberator" by Marie Arana
- "Living History: Experiencing Great Events of the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: The Great Courses" by Professor Robert Garland
- "Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before" by Tony Horwitz
- "Fates and Furies: A Novel" by Lauren Groff
- "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
- "The Art of Memoir" by Mary Karr
- "The Way Around: Finding My Mother and Myself Among the Yanomami" by David Good
- "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" by Alison Weir
- "The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour through America's Food" by Matthew Gavin Frank
- "Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier" by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- "Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War" by James Risen
- "Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us" by David Neiwert
- "The Paris Winter: A Novel" by Imogen Robertson
- "The Story Factor: Secrets Of Influence From The Art Of Storytelling" by Annette Simmons
- "Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption: by Bryan Stevenson
- "Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science" by Richard Dawkins
- "Writing Creative Non-Fiction: The Great Courses" by Tilar J. J. Mazzeo
- "A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design" by Frank Wilczek
- "Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes -- the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists" by Napoleon A. Chagnon
- "Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum" by Gavin Francis
- "Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion" by Robert Gordon
- "The Life of Elizabeth I" by Alison Weir
- "The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World" by Andrea Wulf
- "The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr" by H. W. Brands
- "Germinal" by Emile Zola
Books Read in 2015
- "The Fly Trap" by Fredrik SjÖBerg
- "Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World " by Greg Critser
- "The Last of the President's Men" by Bob Woodward
- "Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)" by Franco Berardi
- "The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen" by Stephen R. Bown
- "World's End" by T. C. Boyle
- "The Children of Henry VIII " by Alison Weir
- "One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon" by Tim Weiner
- "My Struggle: Book 1" by Karl Ove Knausgaard
- "War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation" by John Sedgwick
- "My Life on the Road" by Gloria Steinem
- "Fallen Founder: the Life of Aaron Burr" by Mary Isenberg
- "The Sympathizer: A Novel" by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- "Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George H. W. Bush" by Jon Meacham
- "Packing for Mars" by Mary Roach
- "Book was there: Reading in Electronic Times" by Andrew Piper
- "Men Who Stare at Goats" by Jon Ronson
- "The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey" by Rinker Buck
- "The Origin and Evolution of Earth: From the Big Bang to the Future of Existense" Great Courses by Robert Hazen
- "Hopeful Monsters" by Nicholas Mosley
- "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future" by Ashlee Vance
- "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
- "The Heart of the Sound: An Alaskan Paradise Found and Nearly Lost " by Marybeth Holleman
- "Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life: by Eva Jablonka et al
- "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- "The Liar's Club: A Memoir" by Mary Karr
- "Out of Africa" by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
- "The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy" by Valerie Hudson et al
- "The French Lieutenant's Woman" by John Fowles
- "Deep South" by Paul Theroux
- "The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason can lead us to Truth, Justice, and Freedom" by Michael Shermer
- "Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping And The Fate Of America's Fresh Waters" by Robert Glennon
- "Redefining Reality: The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science" by Steven Gimbel
- "Here comes Trouble" by Michael Moore
- "The Nation: A Biography" by D. D. Guttenplan
- "Old Calabria" by Norman Douglas
- "The Epigenetics Revolution" by Nessa Carey
- "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw
- "Mrs. Warren's Profession" by George Bernard Shaw
- "Misalliance" by George Bernard Shaw
- "The Black Cloud" by Fred Hoyle
- "The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us" by Diane Ackerman
- "Transylvania and Beyond: A Travel Memoir" by Dervla Murphy
- "What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology" by Addy Pross
- "Stephen Sondheim: a Life" by Meryle Secrest
- "The Lost Book of Mormon: A Journey Through the Mythic Lands of Nephi, Zarahemla, and Kansas City, Missouri" by Avi Steinberg
- "Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution" by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith
- "Freedom: A Novel" by Jonathan Franzen
- "In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette" by Hampton Sides
- "Seveneves: A Novel" by Neal Stephenson
- "Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest " by Gregg Olsen
- "Why our Children will be Atheists" by Albert Williams
- "Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays" by Siri Hustvedt
- "The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers" by Thomas Fleming
- "Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman" by Greg Grandin
- "Below Another Sky: A Mountain Adventure in Search of a Lost Father" by Rick Ridgeway
- "Revolution" by Russell Brand
- "Son of the Circus" by John Irving
- "South Wind" by Norman Douglas
- "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam" by Fredrik Logevall
- "Major Barbara" by George Bernard Shaw
- "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" by Haruki Murakami
- "The Book of Illusions" by Paul Auster
- "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- "Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure" by Artemis Cooper
- "Metatropolis: Cascadia" by various
- "The Doctor's Dilemma" by George Bernard Shaw
- "The Signal and the Noise" by Nate Silver
- "A Place of my Own" by Michael Pollan
- "The Virgin Suicides" by Jeffrey Eugenides
- "Memory and the Mediterranean" by Fernand Braunel
- "The Gunslinger" by Stephen King
- "The Winter Sea" by Susanna Kearsley
- "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Hariri
- "Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics" by Ruth Lewin Sime
- "H is for Hawk" by Helen Macdonald
- "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein
- "On the Move: A Life" by Oliver Sacks
- "The Origins of Life" by Robert D. Hazen
- "The Blind Watchmaker" by Richard Dawkins
- "1177 B.C.: The Year that Civilization Collapsed" by Eric H. Cline
- "The Whale Warriors" by Peter Heller
- "Thru-Hiking will break your Heart: An Adventure on the PCT" by Carrot Quinn
- "Contact" by Carl Sagan
- "An Unspoken Hunger" by Terry Tempest Williams
- "Superpower: Three choices for America's Power in the World" by Ian Bremmer
- "Candida" by George Bernard Shaw
- "A Pale Blue Dot" by Carl Sagan
- "Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town" by Jon Krakauer
- "Oaxaca Journal" by Oliver Sacks
- "Man and his Arms" by George Bernard Shaw
- "The Mill on the Floss" by George Eliot
- "San Miguel" by T. C. Boyle
- "Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the end of a Stable Pacific" by Robert D. Kaplan
- "George Bernard Shaw" by G.K. Chesterton
- "Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle" by Andreas Wagner
- "To the top of Central America: Bagging Volcanoes in Guatemala" by Mark Horrell
- "Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance" by Christopher McDougall
- "Geology of Colorado, Illustrated" by Dell R. Foutz
- "Man and Superman" by George Bernard Shaw
- "To a Mountain in Tibet" by Colin Thurbon
- "The Demon Haunted World" by Carl Sagan
- "Eminent Victorians" by Lytton Strachey
- "Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power" by Steve Coll
- "The Alfred Russel Wallace Reader" edited by Jane R. Camerini
- "The Plantagenets" by Dan Jones
- "The Blazing World" By Siri Hustvedt
- "The World's Cheapest Destinations" by Tim Leffel
- "A New History of Life: The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth"" by Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink
- "Deep Down Dark: The Untold Story of 33 Men buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that set them Free" by Hector Tobar
- "My Life in Middlemarch" by Rebecca Mead
- "To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science" by Steven Weinberg
- "All the Light we Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
- "African Calliope" by Edward Hoagland
- "The Brendan Voyage" by Tim Severin
- "The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder" by David Quammen
- "Mr. Mercedes" by Stephen King
- "The Painter" by Peter Heller
- "Living and Retiring in Cuenca: 101 Questions Answered" by Connie Pombo
- "The Master of Confessions: The Making of a Khmer Rouge Torturer" by Thierry Cruvellier
- "Enemies: A History of the FBI" by Tim Weiner
- "Sea of Poppies" by Amitav Ghosh
- "Hell or high Water: Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River" by Peter Heller
- "The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in and Age of Extinctions" by David Quammen
- "Our Ecuador Retirement...Part 2: The Second Year and Why We Didn't Stay" by Donald Murray
- "Lock-in" by John Scalzi
- "In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale" by Amitav Ghosh
- "Our Equador Retirement: The First Eight Months" by Donald Murray
- "What I talk about when I talk about Running" by Haruki Murakami
- "My Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn
- "This Changes Everything" by Naomi Klein
- "8,000 Miles across Alaska: A Runner's Journeys on the Iditarod Trail" by Jill Homer
- "The Cider House Rules" by John Irving
- "My Journey to Mongolia: A Reporter's Journal" by Charles S. Rice
- "Putin's Kleptocracy: Who owns Russia?" by Karen Dawisha
- "Losing our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America" by Bob Herbert
- "Proving History: Bayes Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus" by Richard Carrier
- "To End all Wars" by Adam Hochschild
- "Burr" by Gore Vidal
- "A Morning for Flamingos" by James Lee Burke
- "Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David" by Lawrence Wright
- "Exploring Diabetes with Owls" by David Sedaris
- "Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow
- "The Great Backpacking Adventure" by Chris Townsend
- "True North: Travels in Arctic Europe" by Gavin Francis
- "Run Like Crazy" by Tristan Miller
- "The Zookeeper's Wife" by Diane Ackerman
- "The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities " by Caleb Scharf
- "Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry that forged the Nation" byJohn Ferling
- "The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan" by Rick Perlstein
- "Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World" by Jack Weatherford
- "Alexander Hamilton: A Life" by Willard Sterne Randall
- "How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City" by Joan DeJean
- "On the Trail of Ghengis Khan: An Epic Journey through the Land of the Nomads" by Tim Cope
- "The Telling" by Ursula K. LeGuin
- "Retire Overseas: Costa Rica Edition" by Greg Simonds
- "The Accidental universe: The World you thought you knew" by Alan Lightman
- "Costa Rica Chica: Retiring early, simplifying my life, & realizing that less is best " Jen Beck Seymour
- "The Martian" by Andy Weir
- "Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science" by Carl Sagan
- "Inherent Vice" by Thomas Pynchon
- "Fixing Your Feet: Prevention and Treatments for Athletes" by John Vonhof
- "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" by Michael Chabon
- "Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace" by Leon Panetta
Books Read in 2014
- "Happier Than A Billionaire: The Escape Manual" by Nadine Hays Pisani
- "Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals" by Ken Ballen
- "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" by Charles M. Blow
- "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War" by Robert M. Gates
- "Happier than a Billionaire: The Sequel" by Nadine Hays
- "Flash Forward" by Robert J. Sawyer
- "The Invention of Religion" by Alexander Drake
- "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- "Grizzly Bears and Razor Clams: Walking America's Pacific Northwest Trail " by Chris Townsend
- "Transhuman" by Ben Bova
- "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens
- "The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers" by Alan Lightman
- "High Summer: Backpacking the Canadian Rockies" by Chris Townsend
- "Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking" by Daniel Dennett
- "Central American Cost of Living" by Cory Gearhart
- "Happier Than A Billionaire: Quitting My Job, Moving to Costa Rica, and Living the Zero Hour Work Week" by Nadine Pisani
- "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
- "A Wolf Named Romeo" by Nick Jans
- "Shame of Man (Geodyssey) by Piers Anthony
- "Farside" by Ben Bova
- "Hal Koerner's Field Guide to Ultrarunning" by Hal Koerner
- "Beyond the Blue Horizon" by Brian Fagan
- "Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video, New and Expanded Edition (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)" by Barry Keith Grant
- "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
- "Trying to Save Piggy Sneed" by John Irving
- "Timeless Reality: Symmetry, Simplicity, and Multiple Universes" by Victor J. Stenger
- "The Human Division" by John Scalzi
- "For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge Of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics" by Walter Lewin
- "Black Skies: An Inspector Erlendur Novel " by Arnaldur Indridason
- "An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist" by Richard Dawkins
- "The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change" by Al Gore
- "The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance" by Eric R. Scerri
- "The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements" by Sam Kean
- "The Dragon Masters" by Jack Vance
- "The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human" by Jonathan Gottschall
- "Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder " by Richard Dawkins
- "Calculating God" by Robert J. Sawyer
- "Isle of Woman: An Novel of Human History" by Piers Anthony
- "Pontoon" by Garrison Keillor
- "State of the World 2014: Governing for Sustainability" by The Worldwatch Institute
- "America, You Sexy Bitch: A Love Letter to Freedom " by Megan McCain and Michael Ian Black
- "Swiss Watching: Inside the Land of Milk and Money" by Diccon Bewes
- "Einstein's Cosmos" by Michio Kaku
- "At the Mountains of Madness" by H.P. Lovecraft
- "The Documentary Film Book" by Brian Winston
- "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: A novel" by Haruki Murakami
- "The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence" by Carl Sagan
- "Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle" by Thor Hanson
- "The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking" by Brendan I. Koerner
- "Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth" by Craig Childs
- "Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic" by David Quammen
- "Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power" by Seth Rosenfeld
- "Capitalism in the 21st Century" by Thomas Piketty
- "Born in Africa: The Quest for the Origins of Human Life" by Martin Meredith
- "Finding Ultra" by Rich Roll
- "A Most Wanted Man" by John le Carre
- "The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals died out and we survived" by Clive Finlayson
- "The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth" by Mark Mazzetti
- "The Sixth Extinction: An UnNatural History" by Elizabeth Kolbert
- "Fire and Ice (Liam Campbell Book 1)" by Dana Stabenow
- "The Stardust Revolution: The New Story of our Origin in the Stars" by Jacob Berkowitz
- "Speak, Memory" by Vladimir Nabokov
- "Documentary Storytelling" by Sheila Curran Bernard
- "How to Shoot Video that doesn't Suck" by Steve Stockman
- "AWOL on the Appalachian Trail " by David Miller
- "The Lost Fleet: Dauntless" by Jack Campbell
- "The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology" by Robert Wright
- "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
- "Honor Bound: My Journey to Hell and Back with Amanda Knox" by Raffaele Sollecito
- "Galveston" by Nic Pizzolatto
- "Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes" by Svante Paabo
- "A Calculated Life" by Anne Charnock
- "Badlands (Lonely Planet Travel Literature)" by Tony Wheeler
- "Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabokov
- "BOOM: Oil, Money, Cowboys, Strippers, and the Energy Rush That Could Change America Forever. A Long, Strange Journey Along the Keystone XL Pipeline" by Tony Horwitz
- "The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet " by Robert M. Hazen
- "One Summer: America, 1927" by Bill Bryson
- "Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam" by Nick Turse
- "A Tale for the Time Being" by Ruth Ozeki
- "A Feast Day of Fools" by James Lee Burke
- "Cro-Magnon" by Brian Fagan
- "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf
- "Hominids (Neaderthal Paradox)" by Robert J. Sawyer
- "Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Oceans" by Lisa-Ann Gershwin
- "Existence" by David Brin
- "A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History" by Nicholas Wade
- "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis
- "Wilderness: A Novel" by Lance Weller
- "Becoming Human: Our Past, Present, and Future" by Scientific American Editors
- "A Fighting Chance" by Elizabeth Warren
- "Pathfinder: Blazing a New Wilderness Trail in Modern America" by Ron Strickland
- "The Stuff of Thought" by Steven Pinker
- "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by Thomas S. Kuhn
- "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping" by Robert Sapolsky
- "Lone Survivors: How we came to be the only Humans on Earth" by Chris Stringer
- "Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived" by Chip Walter
- "The Dog Stars" by Peter Heller
- "Run or Die" by Killian Jornet
- "Watchers" by Dean Koontz
- "A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America" by David K. Shipler
- "The Great Trapline" by Donald B. Smith
- "Death of the Black Haired Girl" by Robert Stone
- "On the Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin
- "The Unwinding" by George Packer Edit Delete ↑ ↓
- "How the Mind Works" by Steven Pinker
- "The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country" by Gabriel Sherman
- "12 Years a Slave" Solomon Northrup
- "The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival" by Melanie McGrath
- "Outrage: An Inspector Erlendur Novel" by Arnaldur Indridason
- "Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown
- "Animals make us Human: Creating the best life for Animals" by Temple Grandin
- “The Great Agnostic” by Susan Jacoby
- "Doctor Sleep" by Stephen King
- "Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools" by Diane Ravitch
- "The Spine of the Continent" by Mary Ellen Hannibal
- "Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths" by Nancy Marie Brown
- "Arctic Chill" by Arnaldur Indridason
- "The Spine of the Continent" by Mary Ellen Hannibal
- "The Universe Within: The Deep History of the Human Body" by Neil Shubin
- "WWW: Wonder" by Robert J. Sawyer
- "The Good Lord Bird: A Novel" by James McBride
- "WWW: Watch" by Robert J. Sawyer
- "WWW: Wake" by Robert J. Sawyer
- "Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape" by Jenna Miscavige Hill
- "Hypothermia: An Inspector Erlendur Novel" by Arnaldur Indridason
- "Sixty Days and Counting" by Kim Stanley Robinson
- "The Sheltering Sky" by Paul Bowles
- "Attack of the Theocrats" by Sean Faircloth
- "Showdown: The Inside Story of How Obama Fought Back Against Boehner, Cantor, and the Tea Party" by David Corn
- "Orphan Train: A Novel" by Christina Baker Kline
- "The Draining Lake" by Arnaldur Indridason
- "Voices: An Inspector Erlendur Novel" by Arnaldur Indridason
- "50 Degrees below Zero" by Kim Stanley Robinson
- "Swann's Way" by Marcel Proust
- "Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West" by Cormac McCarthy
- "The Things they carried" by Tim O'Brien
- "The Shining" by Stephen King
- "40 Signs of Rain" by Kim Stanley Robinson
- "Silence of the Grave: An Inspector Erlunder Novel" by Arnaldur Indridason
- "Madiba A to Z: the Many Faces of Nelson Mandela" by Danny Schechter
- "Altered Carbon" by Richard K. Morgan
Magazines and newspapers I subscribe to
Running in Colorado
Books Read for 2013
- "Whipping Star" by Frank Herbert
- "Jar City: An Inspector Erlendur Novel" by Arnaldur Indridason
- "How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain" by Gregory Berns
- "The Elephant Whisperer" by Lawrence Anthony and Graham Spence
- “The Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela” by Nelson Mandela
- “2312” by Kim Stanley Robinson
- "Burial Rites" by Hannah Kent
- "The Evolution of God" by Robert Wright
- "The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present" by Eric Kandel
- “Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power” by Robert Dallek
- "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith
- "Stonemouth" by Iain Banks
- "The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey" by Walter Mosley
- "English Creek" by Ivan Doig
- "The Circle" by Dave Eggers
- "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach
- “The Bartender’s Tale” by Ivan Doig
- “Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless” by Greta Christina
- “Debt: The First 5,000 years” by David Graeber
- “Umbrella” by Will Self
- “The Shadow of the Wind” by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- “State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?” by The Worldwatch Institute
- “Bart Ehrman and the Quest of the Historical Jesus of Nazareth” by Richard Carrier Ph.D., D.M. Murdock, René Salm, Earl Doherty, David Fitzgerald
- “A World Made by Hand” by James Howard Kunstler
- “The Long Ships” by Frans G. Bengtsson
- “Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction” by Patricia Aufderheide
- “Buildings without Architects: A Global Guide to Everyday Architecture” by John May
- “Arctic Glass: Six years of adventure in Alaska and Beyond” by Jill Homer
- “Tales of Iceland or "Running with the Huldufólk in the Permanent Daylight" by Stephen Markley
- “The Center Holds: Obama and his Enemies” by Jonathan Alter”
- “Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England” by Thomas Penn
- “Manhattan Transfer” by John Dos Passos
- “Waiting to be Heard” by Amanda Knox
- “Trial By Fury: Internet Savagery and the Amanda Knox Case” by Douglas Preston
- “The Orphan Master’s Son” by Adam Johnson
- “Redshirts” by John Scalzi
- “Introduction to Documentary, 2nd edition” by Bill Nichols
- “Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think” by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Kenneth Cukier
- “The Fastest Growing Religion on Earth: How Genealogy Captured the Brains and Imaginations of Americans” by Doug Bremner
- “The Windows of Brimnes: An American in Iceland” by Bill Holm
- “Dividing the Great” by John Metcalf
- “The Android’s Dream” by John Scalzi
- “Beautiful Ruins” by Jess Walter
- “Death by Blackhole” by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- “The Pluto Files” by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- “Quicksilver: Book one of the Baroque Cycle” by Neal Stephenson
- “Old Man’s War” by John Scalzi
- “The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden world of th Tour de France” by Tyler Hamilton
- “Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief” by Lawrence Wright
- “Little Fuzzy” by H. Piper Beam
- “Fuzzy Nation” by John Scalzi
- “The Bloodletter's Daughter (A Novel of Old Bohemia)” by Linda Lafferty
- “A Planet of Viruses” by Carl Zimmer
- “The Cellist of Sarajevo” by Steven Galloway
- “The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates” by Harold Bloom
- “Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic” by Marla Cone
- “Be Brave be Strong: A Journey across the Great Divide” by Jill Homer
- “Ghost Trails: Journeys through a Lifetime” by Jill Homer
- “Inside Scientology: The Story of America’s most Secretive Religion” by Janet Reitman
- “The Selfish Gene” by Richard Dawkins
- “Daughter of Time” by Josephine Tey
- “The Yellow Birds” by Kevin Powers
- “Eat and Run: my unlikely Journey to Ultra-marathon greatness” by Scott Jurek
- “The Lonely Polygamist” by Brady Udall
- “The Neon Rain” by James Lee Burke
- "Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield" by Jeremy Scahill
- “A Town like Alice” by Nevil Shute
- "The Benghazi Hoax" by David Brock
Books Read in 2012
- "The Rogue: The Search for the Real Sarah Palin" by Joe McGinnis
- "Classified Woman" by Sibel Edmonds
- "Why I am not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith" by Richard Carrier
- "A Town like Alice" by Nevil Shute
- "The Best American Travel Writing 2011" by Sloane Crosley and Jason Wilson
- "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving
- "The Best American Essays 2011" by Edwidge Danticat and Robert Atwan
- "When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice" by Terry Tempest Williams
- "It's Even Worse than it Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism" by Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein
- "The Best American Sampler: The Best American Series 2011"
- "The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal" by Jared Diamond
- "The Round House" by Louise Erdrich
- "Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design and the Easter Bunny" by Barrett Brown and Jon P. Alston
- "The Pseudo Science Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe" by Michael D. Gordin
- "The History of the World in Ten and a half Chapters" by Julian Barnes
- "The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future" by Joseph Stiglitz
- "Bring up the Bodies" by Hilary Mantel
- "Clockwork Angels" by Kevin J. Anderson and Neil Peart
- "Winner Take all Politics: How Washington made the Rich Richer--and turned its back on the Middle Class" by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
- "The Thirty Year Plan: Thirty Writers on What We Need to Build a Better Future" by Orion Books
- "Barack Obama: The Story" by David Maraniss
- "The Samurai's Garden: A Novel" by Gail Tsukiyama
- "Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power" by Rachel Maddow
- "The Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2011" by Mary Roach
- "Bird Cloud: A Memoir" by Annie Proulx
- "Knowing too Much: Why the American Jewish Romance with Israel is coming to an end" by Norman Finkelstein
- "Zombie Banks: How Broken Banks and Debtor Nations Are Crippling the Global Economy" by Yalman Onaran and Sheila Bair
- "Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at all" by David Fitzgerald
- "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming" by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. M. Conway
- "The Way of the Peaceful Warrior" by Dan Millman
- "A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown" by Julia Scheeres
- "Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy" by Christopher Hayes
- "Messiah" by Gore Vidal
- "Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity" by Katherine Boo
- "The Lower River" by Paul Theroux
- "Washington: A Life" by Ron Chernow
- "Running Dry: A Journey From Source to Sea Down the Dying Colorado River" by Jonathan Waterman
- "Do not ask what Good we do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives" by Robert Draper
- "Hell on Two Wheels" by Amy Snyder
- "The World as it is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress" by Chris Hedges
- "War" by Sebastian Junger
- "Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War" by Tony Horwitz
- "The Journeys of Socrates" by Dan Millman
- "The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine" by David Brock
- "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail" by Cheryl Strayed
- "Arguably: Essays" by Christopher Hitchens
- "So Much Pretty" by Cara Hoffman
- "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Safran Foer
- "Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President" by Ron Suskind
- "Hannah Coulter" by Wendell Berry
- "The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World" by Edward Dolnick
- "Gutenberg the Geek" by Jeff Jarvis
- "The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next" by Lee Smolin
- "iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It" by Steve Wozniak
- "Paradise Beneath her Feet" by Isobel Coleman
- "The Year of the Flood" by Margaret Atwood
- "The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation" by Jay Elliot and William L. Simon
- "Then Again" by Diane Keaton
- "One Flew over the Cuckoo Nest" by Ken Kesey
- "Nothing to be Frightened of" by Julian Barnes
- "The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan" by Michael Hastings
- "Wool" by Hugh Howey
- "The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin" by Corey Robin
- "Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer" by David Roberts
- "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
- "Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi" by Justin Wintle
- "Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics" by Nicholas Wapshott
- "Why Read Moby Dick" by Nathaniel Philbrick
- "11/22/63: A Novel" by Stephen King
- "Ham on Rye" by Charles Bukowski
- "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" by Laura Hillenbrand
Books Read for 2011
- "The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity" by Jeffrey D. Sachs
- "The Lost Memory of Skin" by Russell Banks
- "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson
- "Life Itself" by Roger Ebert
- "God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer" by Bart D. Ehrman
- "A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides" by David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill
- "Bossy Pants" by Tina Fey
- "The Next Decade" by George Friedmann
- "October 1, 2011: The Battle of the Brooklyn Bridge" by Will Bunch
- "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides
- "Einstein's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe" by Evalyn Gates
- "Homer and Langley" by E. L. Doctorow
- "The Goose that laid the Golden Egg" by Doug Bremner, M.D.
- "Charles I" by Jacob Abbott
- "Freddie and Fredericka" by Mark Helprin
- "Endless Forms most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo" by Sean B. Carroll
- "Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History" by S. C. Gwynne
- "Postcards from a Dead Girl: A Novel (P.S)" by Kirk Farber
- "William the Conqueror: Makers of History" by Jack Abbott
- "CK-12 21st Century Physics: A Compilation of Contemporary and Emerging Technologies" by Andrew Jackson
- "Acing the Interview: How to Answer the Questions that will get you the job" by Tony Beshara
- "The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Trials of Amanda Knox" by Nina Burleigh
- "The Amanda Knox Story: A Murder in Perugia" by Kimberly Brown
- "The Pioneer Photographer: Rocky Mountain Adventures with a Camera" by William Henry Jackson and Howard R. Driggs
- "Herzog" by Saul Bellow
- "At Home" by Bill Bryson
- "Murder in Italy: The Shocking Slaying of a British Student, the Accused American Girl, and the International Scandal" by Candace Dempsey
- "Injustice in Perugia: a book detailing the wrongful conviction of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito" by Bruce Fisher
- "The Monster of Perugia: The Framing of Amanda Knox" by Mark Waterbury
- "Shalimar the Clown" by Salman Rushdie
- "Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex" by Oksana Zabuzhko and Halyna Hryn
- "The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Revision of Capitalism" by Harold Bloom
- "The Memory of Running" by Ron McLaren
- "Solar" by Ian Mcewan
- "Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River" by Ellen Meloy
- "A Stained White Radiance" by James Lee Burke
- "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration" by Isabel Wilkerson
- "The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God" by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
- "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Nelle Harper Lee
- "Star Island" by Carl Hiaasen
- "Big Con: Crackpot Economics and the Fleecing of America" by Jonathan Chait
- "My Detachment: A Memoir" by Tracy Kidder
- "Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner's Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across America" by Marshall Ulrich
- "LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay" by Warren Kozak
- "Nature Girl" by Carl Hiaasen
- "When the Killing's Done" by T.C. Boyle
- "Bob Dylan in America" by Sean Wilentz
- The Masked Rider" by Neil Peart
- "On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society" by Lt Col Dave Grossman
- "The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver
- "Valis" by Philip K. Dick
- "Mosquito Coast" by Paul Theroux
- "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea" by Barbara Demick
- "How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution" by Jack Horner
- "Life" by Keith Richards
- "Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil" by Peter Maass
- "Cybill Disobedience" by Cybill Shepherd
- "The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda" by Peter L. Bergen
- "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
- "Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown" by Paul Theroux
- "The Warden" by Anthony Trollope
- "The Age of Wikileaks" by Greg Mitchell
- "Darwin's Lost World: The Hidden History of Animal Life" by Martin Brasier
- "Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit" by Daniel Quinn
- "Blood's a Rover" by James Ellroy
- "Accelerando" by Charles Stross
- "Obama's War" by Bob Woodward
- "The Future of Life" by Edward O. Wilson
- "Just Kids" by Patti Smith
- "Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti-war Activist" by Bill Ayers
- "Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con that is Breaking America" by Matt Taibbi
- "Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans" by Wendell Potter
- "Ubik" by Philip K. Dick
- "Midnight on the Mavi Marmara" by Moustafa Bayoumi
- "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood
- "American Way of War" by Tom Englehardt
Books Read for 2010
- "Tourist Season" by Carl Hiassen
- "War is a Lie" by David Swanson
- "Suite Francaise" by Irene Nemirovsky
- "Tortilla Curtain" by T. C. Boyle
- "Wolf Totem: a novel" by Jiang Rong
- "Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance" by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm
- "Man Made God: A Collection of Essays" by Barbara G. Walker
- "Lethal Warriors: When the New Band of Brothers Came Home" by David Philipps
- "Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century" by P. W. Singer
- "Third World America: How our Politicians are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream" by Adrianna Huffington
- "Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope (American Empire Project)" by Chalmers Johnson
- "Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War" by Karl Marlantes
- "American Pastoral" by Philip Roth
- "Tear Down this Myth: How the Reagan Legacy has Distorted our Politics and Haunts our Future" by Will Bunch
- "The Wapshot Chronicles" by John Cheever
- "Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance" by Alexander Zaitchik
- "Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free" by Charles P. Pierce
- "Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance" by Derrick Jensen
- "Hitch-22: A Memoir" by Christopher Hitchens
- "The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that saved America" by Timothy Egan
- "Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy" by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- "Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War" by Andrew J. Bacevich
- "Cheever: A Life" by Blake Bailey
- "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson
- "American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right" by Markos Moulitsas
- "Rivers in Time: The Search for Clues to Earth's Mass Extinctions" by Peter Ward
- "Over the Cliff: How Obama's Election Drove the American Right Insane" by John Amato and Dave Neiwert
- "The Vanishing Face of Gaia" by James Lovelock
- "Swan Peak" by James Lee Burke
- "The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage" by Anthony Brandt
- "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture" by Darrel W. Ray
- "Basket Case" by Carl Hiaasen
- "The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory" by Brian Greene
- "A Room with a View" by E. M. Forster
- "The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy" by David Hoffman
- "The Private Patient" by P.D. James
- "Econned" by Yves Smith
- "Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization" by Derrick Jensen
- "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
- "A Friend of the Earth" by T. C. Boyle
- "Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East" by Robin Wright
- "The Necessity of Atheism" by David Marshall Brooks
- "The Monster of Florence" by Douglas Preston
- "Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream" by William Powers
- "Mars Life" by Ben Bova
- "This Time we went too far: Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion" by Norman Finkelstein
- "The March" by E. L. Doctorow
- "Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet" by Bill McKibben
- "Community: The Structure of Belonging" by Peter Block
- "Why Evolution is True" by Jerry A. Coyne
- "The Great Fire of London: In That Apocalyptic Year, 1666" by Neil Hanson
- "Continental Drifter" by Tim Moore
- "The Life of the Cosmos" by Lee Smolin
- "A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon" by Neil Sheehan"
- "Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution" by Caroline Fraser
- "Trial by Ice: The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition" by Richard Parry
- "Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle" by Daniel L. Everett
- "The Power of One" by Bryce Courtenay
- "Wolf Hall: A Novel" by Hilary Mantel
- "Beyond the Aspen Grove" by Ann Zwinger
- "Unknown Mexico: A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre, Vol I" by Carl Lummholtz
- "In the Sierra Madre" by Jeff Biggers
- "PMP Exam Prep, Sixth Edition: Rita's Course in a Book for Passing the PMP Exam" by Rita Mulcahy
- "Things I've been silent about" by Azar Nafisi
- "The Golden Goose" by J. Douglas Bremner, M.D.
- "Daughter of Time" by Josephine Tey
- "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch
- "The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason" by Victor Stenger
- "How to Find a Job on Linked-In, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and other Social Networks" by Brad Schepp and Debra Schepp
- "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" by David Wroblewski
- "Now or Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future" by Tim Flannery
- "Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution" by Iain McCalman
- "The Castle in the Forest" by Norman Mailer
- "Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon" by Daniel Dennett
- "The Women" by T. C. Boyle
- "With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change" by Fred Pearce
Books read for 2009
- "The Wrecking Crew" by Thomas Frank
- "Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists " by Dan Barker
- "Eichmann in Jerusalem" by Hannah Arendt
- "Going Rouge: An American Nightmare" by Richard Kim and Betsy Reed
- "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution" by Richard Dawkins
- "The Weight of a Mustard Seed" by Wendell Steavenson
- "The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Spanish Phrases" by Gail Stein
- "The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story ever told" by Acharya S.
- "Mexico's Copper Canyon Country: A Hiking and Backpacking Guide to Tarahumara-land" by M. John Fayhee
- "Venus" by Ben Bova
- "The Dogma of Christ" by Erich Fromm
- "True Compass" by Edward M. Kennedy
- "The Forever War" by Dexter Filkins
- "Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajo Land" by Terry Tempest Williams
- "The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon" By David Grann
- "Where Men Meet Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman" by Jon Krakauer
- "Republican Gomorrah" by Max Blumenthal
- "Born to Run" by Christopher Mcdougall
- "Loving Frank: A Novel" by Nancy Horan
- "Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry may be bad for your Health" by J. Douglas Bremner, M.D.
- "The Death of Conservatism" by Sam Tanenhaus
- "Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain" by John J. Ratey
- "Shadow Country" by Peter Matthiessen
- "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power" by Jeff Sharlet
- "Heat: How to stop the Planet from Burning" by George Monbiot
- "Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J. P. Morgan was Corrupted" by Gillian Tett
- "Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix" by Charles R. Cross
- "Merle's Door: Lessons from a Free-thinking Dog" by Ted Kerasote
- "The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild" by Craig Childs
- "2666" by Roberto Bolano
- "Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and the American Prospects" by Dmitri Orlov
- "Emma's War: An Aid Worker, a Warlord, Radical Islam, and the Politics of Oil--A True Story of Love and Death in Sudan" by Deborah Scroggins
- "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
- "The Visitant: The Anasazi Mysteries" by Kathleen Gear and Michael Gear
- "The Limits of Power" by Andrew Bacevich
- "The GunPowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605" by Antonia Fraser
- "Duel" by Tariq Ali
- "Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body" by Neil Shubin
- "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" by Bill Bryson
- "House of Wittgenstein: Family at War" by Alexander Waugh
- "The Post-American World" by Fareed Zakaria
- "The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science" by Natalie Angier
- "Revolutionary Road" by Jeff Yates
- "The Memory of Old Jack" by Wendell Berry
- "Anansi Boys" by Neil Gamain
- "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
- "Guantanamo's Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr" by Michelle Shephard
- "The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox" by Jennifer Lee Carrell
- "Sundiver" by David Brin
- "Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet" by Jeffrey D. Sachs
- "Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America" by Walter R. Borneman
- "In a Sunburned Country" by Bill Bryson
- "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House" by John Meacham
- "The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature" by Steven Pinker
- "The Looming Tower" by Lawrence Wright
- "God's Middle Finger: Into the Heart of the Sierra Madre" by Richard Grant
- "When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change" by Mohammed El-Erian
- "Hollywood Crows" by Joseph Wambaugh
Books Read in 2008
- "An American Hedge Fund" by Timothy Sykes
- "Speck: The Life and Times of Spencer Penrose" by Robert C. Olsen
- "Nemesis" by Chalmers Johnson
- "The Gnostic Gospels" by Elaine Pagels
- "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency" by Barton Gellman
- "Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries" by Naomi Wolf
- "Napoleon's Egypt" by Juan Cole
- "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" by Tim Weiner
- "The Worst Hard Time" by Timothy Egan
- "In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead" by James Lee Burke
- "Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City 1842-1949" by Stella Dong
- "A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate" by Marc Reisner
- "The Courage to Survive" by Dennis Kucinich
- "Life Before Man" by Margaret Atwood
- "Appaloosa" by Robert B. Parker
- "Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America" by Rick Perlstein
- "Terra Incognito: Travels in Antarctica" by Sara Wheeler
- "The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800" by Jay Winik
- "Hell and High Water: The Global Warming Solution" by Joe Romm
- "Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics" by Joe Biden
- "My Sister, My Love" by Joyce Carol Oats
- "Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West" by Benazir Bhutto
- "Mike's Election Guide" by Michael Moore
- "Teacher Man" by Frank McCourt
- "The Way of the World" by Ron Suskind
- "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals" by Jane Mayer
- "Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters" by James M. Tabor
- "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
- "The Federalist Papers" by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, et al.
- "Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 8, No. 50, December, 1861"
- "Rough Crossings: The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution" by Simon Schama
- "Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches" by John W. Dean
- "It's not About the Bike" by Lance Armstrong
- "Plan B version 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization" by Lester R. Brown
- "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder" by Vincent Bugliosi
- "Daughter of Fortune" by Isabele Allende
- "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow
- "The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington" by David Sirota
- "The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials" by Phillip Pullman
- "Becoming Native to This Place" by Wes Jackson
- "Skin Tight" by Carl Hiaasen
- "Ukridge" by P. G. Wodehouse
- "Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism" by Kevin Phillips
- "The Room of Lost Souls: a Sci Fi Novella" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- "The J Curve: A New Way to Understand why Nations Rise and Fall" by Ian Bremmer
- "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- "Witch Hunts: From Salem to Guantanamo Bay" by Robert Rapley
- "Buddha: A Biography" by Karen Armstrong
- "The Great transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions" by Karen Armstrong
- "The New Paradigm for Financial Markets" by George Soros
- "Leap! What will we do with the rest of our Lives?" by Sara Davidson
- "The Bush Tragedy" by Jacob Weisburg
- "The Lectures of Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll, Volume 1" by Col R. G. Ingersoll
- "The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama
- "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell
- "The Tin Roof Blow Down" by James Lee Burke
- "Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the Election of 2004 & Why They'll steal the next one too (Unless we stop them)" by Mark Crispin Miller
- "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollen
- "The Last Empire: Essays 1992 - 2000" by Gore Vidal
- "Mere Anarchy" by Woody Allen
- "Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence" by Alan Dershowitz
- "The Age of American Unreason" by Susan Jacoby
- "Nazism and War" by Richard Bessel
- "Orientalism" by Edward Said
- "Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir" by Gore Vidal
- "The Fall of the House of Bush" by Craig Unger
- "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time" by Greg Mortenson
- "Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War" by Nathaniel Philbrick
- "The Shadow of the Sun" by Ryszard Kapuscinski
- "A Year in the World" by Frances Mayes
- "Shakespeare: The Biography" by Peter Ackroyd
- "Dreams from my Father" by Barack Obama
- "Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism" by Michelle Goldberg
Books Read for 2007
- "A Bull in China" by Jim Rogers
- "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein
- "The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America" by Susan Faludi
- "Truth and Duty" by Mary Mapes
- "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
- "Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future" by Bill McKibben
- "Villages" by John Updike
- "Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet" by Steven Squyres
- "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot" by Naomi Wolf
- "The Places in Between" by Rory Stewart
- "Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power by Garry Wills
- "Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys into the Time Before Bones" by Sue Hubbel
- "Wandering Home: a long walk across America's most hopeful landscape, Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks" by Bill McKibben
- "The Terror Presidency: Law and Justice inside the Bush Administration" by Jack Goldsmith, Former Asst Atty General, Office of Legal Counsel
- "Attack Poodles and other media mutants: The Looting of the News in a time of terror" by James Wolcott
- "God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" by Christopher Hitchens
- "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration" by James Risen
- "First into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and its Prisoners of War" by George Weller
- The Authoritiarians by Robert Altemeyer
- "Eating for Endurance" by Dr. Philip Maffetone
- "The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11" by Ron Suskind
- "The Fracture Zone: A Return to the Balkans" by Simon Winchester
- "House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization across the American Southwest" by Craig Childs
- "Where late the Sweet Birds Sang" by Kate Wilhelm
- "The Devil came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur" by Brian Steidle and Gretchen Steidle Wallace
- "The Amateur Marriage" by Anne Tyler
- "Sandstone Spine: Seeking the Anasazi on the First Traverse of the Comb Ridge" by David Roberts
- "Magic Seeds" by V.S. Naipaul
- "Finding my Voice" by Diane Rhem
- "Lucky You" by Carl Hiaasen
- "Seven Years to Seven Figures: The Fast Track Plan to becoming a Millionaire" by Michael Masterson
- "The Conscience of a Conservative" by Barry Goldwater
- "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein
- "Strip Tease" by Carl Hiaasen
- "This Moment on Earth: The New Environmentalists and their Vision for the Future" by John and Teresa Heinz Kerry
- "The Assault on Reason" by Al Gore
- "Conservatives without Conscience" by John W. Dean
- "Skinny Dip" by Carl Hiaasen
- "When The Rivers Run Dry: Water -- The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century" by Fred Pearce
- "Tom Brown's Field Guide: Living with the Earth" by Tom Brown, Jr.
- "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books" by Azar Nafisi
- "Everyman" by Philip Roth
- "The Darling" by Russell Banks
- "Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild" by Greg Palast
- "The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America" by Erik Larson
- "United States v. George W. Bush: The Case for Impeachment" by Elizabeth de la Vega
- "The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, And the Secret Mission of 1805" by Richard Zacks
- "Gaudi: The Complete Buildings" by Rainer Zerbst
- "Madagascar: The Bradt Travel Guide 8th Edition" by Hilary Bradt
- "Jane Fonda's War: A Political Biography of an Antiwar Icon" by Mary Hershberger
- "Mao: The Unknown Story" by Jung Chang and Jan Halliday
- "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight" by Thom Hartman
- "Native Tongue" by Carl Hiaasen
- "The Anatomy Lesson" by Philip Roth
- "Healthy at 100" by John Robbins
- "The Tatooed Girl" by Joyce Carol Oates
- "Bush on the Couch" by Justin Frank, M.D.
- "The Planets" by Dava Sobel
- "Revolutionary Wealth" by Alvin and Heidi Toffler
- "Extinction: How Life on Earth nearly ended 250 Million Years ago" by Douglas H. Erwin
Books Read for 2006
- "Quicksilver: Book one of the Baroque Cycle" by Neil Stephenson
- "The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror" by George Soros
- "Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis" by William Bonner and Addison Wiggin
- "Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire" by Morris Berman
- "Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism" by Dore Gold
- "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins
- "The Dark Genius Of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons" by Edward J. Renehan, Jr
- "Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives" by George Lakoff
- "Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum" by Michael T. Klare
- "Cinderella Man: James Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History" by Jeremy Schaap
- "Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance" by Noam Chomsky
- "In Siberia" by Colin Thurbon
- "Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq" by Michael Gordon and General Bernard Trainer
- "Our Final Hour: A Scientist's warning : How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future in This Century--On Earth and Beyond" by Sir Martin Rees
- "A Great Improvisation : Franklin, France, and the Birth of America" by Stacy Schiff
- "Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating" by Jane Goodall
- "Assasination Vacation" by Sarah Vowell
- "American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century" by Kevin Phillips
- "The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by Richard Heinberg
- "The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell" by Mark Kurlansky
- "Ultra Marathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner" by Dean Karnazes
- "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren
- "Nature's Keepers: The Remarkable Story of how the Nature Conservancy became the largest Environmental Organization in the World" by Bill Birchard
- "The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey" by Candice Millard
- "Adventure without End" by Richard Bangs
- "The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality" by the Dalai Lama
- "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" by Jared Diamond
- "Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide" by Maureen Dowd
- "The Natural House: A Complete Guide to Healthy, Energy-Efficient, Environmental Homes" by Daniel D. Chiras
- "Typee" by Herman Melville
- "Minus 148: The First Winter Ascent of Mt. McKinley" by Art Davidson
- "Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England" by Alison Weir
- "The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth" by Tim Flannery
- "A Field Guide to Getting Lost" by Rebecca Solnit
- "Three Weeks with my Brother" by Nicholas Sparks
- "Mexico" by James A. Michener
- "Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change" by Elizabeth Kolbert
- "Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes" by Paul Strathern
- "They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967" by David Maraniss
- "1984" by George Orwell
- "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China" by Jung Chang
- "Leadville: The Struggle to Revive an American Town" by Gillian Klucas
- "Permaculture: A Designer's Manual" by Bill Mollison
- "Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War" by Anthony Shadid
- "The Price of Loyalty" by Paul O'Neill
- "The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq" by George Packer
- "Chronicles: Part One" by Bob Dylan
Books Read for 2005
- "Brunelleschi's Dome : How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture" by Ross King
- "Where the Waters Divide: A Walk Along America's Continental Divide" by Karen Berger and Daniel R. Smith
- "Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Alaskan Dog-Racing" by Gary Paulsen
- "The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance : How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World" by Paul Robert Walker
- "Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to the Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail" by Karsten Heuer
- "Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak" by Kenneth S. Deffeyes
- "Isaac Newton" by James Gleick
- "Mormon Country" by Wallace Stegner
- "The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth
- "Twilight in the Desert: The coming Saudi oil shock and the world economy" by Matthew R. Simmons
- "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins
- "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau
- "Under the Banner of Heaven: a Story of Violent Faith" by John Krakauer
- "Nature Noir : A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra" by Jordan Fisher Smith
- "Brown: The Last Dicovery of America" by Richard Rodriguez
- "The Abstract Wild" by Jack Turner
- "Yellowstone to Yukon" by Douglas H. Chadwick
- "Faust's Metropolis: A History of Berlin" by Alexandra Richie
- "The 9-11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions" by David Ray Griffin
- "What Would Jefferson Do?" by Thom Hartmann
- "The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Graib"
- "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
- "Sea Biscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
- "The Hammer: Tom Delay: God, Money and the Rise of the Republican Congress" by Lou Dubose, Jan Reid
- "The Republican Noise Machine: How Right wing media distorts our Democracy" by David Brock
- "Chain of Command: From 9-11 to Abu Graib" by Seymour Hersh
- "Encounters with the Arch Druid" by John McPhee
- "Antipode: Seasons in Madagascar" by Heather Heying
- "Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis--And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster" by Ross Gelbspan
- "Animal Liberation" by Peter Singer
Books Read for 2004
- "Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them" by Al Franken
- "The Rumsfeld Way: The Leadership Wisdom of a Battle-Hardened Maverick" by Jeffrey A. Krames
- "Bushwacked" by Molly Ivins
- "Crimes against Nature: How George W. Bush and his Corporate Pals are Plundering the Country and Hijacking our Democracy" by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
- "In Denali's Shadow" by Jon Waterman
- "The Open Space of Democracy" by Terry Tempest Williams
- "Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century" by Bev Harris
- "The Official Report of the 9-11 Commission"
- "The Age of Sacred Terror" by Benjamin Nelson
- "An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood" by Jimmy Carter
- "Desire and Ice: Searching for Perspective atop Denali" by David Brill
- "The Trouble with Islam" by Irshad Manji
- "Against all Enemies" by Richard Clarke
- "Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle" by Moritz Thomsen
- "A Season on the Mat: Dan Gable and the Pursuit of Perfection" by Nolan Zavoral
- "Islam Unveiled" by Robert Spencer
- "Who Killed Daniel Pearl?" by Henri Levy
- "So long, see you tomorrow" by William Maxwell
- "The Iron Road: A Stand for Truth and Democracy in Burma" by James Mawdsley
- "Crazy Horse" by Larry McMurtry
- "My Invented Country: a Memoir" by Isabel Allende
- "National and Joint Force Planning" Air Command and Staff College
- "The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World" by John Robbins
- "Vagabonding" by Rolf Potts
- "The Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World" by Jan Goodwin
- "Modern Mongolia: a Concise History" by Tsedenambyn BatBayer
- "Me Against my Brother: at war in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda" by Scott Peterson
Books Read in 2003
- "Teach Yourself Korean"
- "Homelands: Kayaking the Inside Passage" by Byron Ricks
- "Looking for Mr. Kurtz: Living on the brink in Mobutu's Congo" by Michela Wrong
- "Bucking the Sun" by Ivan Doig
- "A Problem from Hell: America in the age of Genocide" by Samantha Power
- "Spirit of the Mountains: Korea's San-Shin" by David Mason
- "Women of Mongolia" by Martha Avery
- "No Gun Ri: A Military History" by Robert Bateman
- "We Wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda" by Philip Gourevitch
- "Thin Air" by Greg Child
- "The Gate" by Francois Bizot
- "Gobi: Tracking the Desert" by John Man
- "War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir and Tibet" by Eric Margolis
- "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power" by Daniel Yergin
- "The Koreans" by Michael Breen
- "See no Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism" by Robert Baer
- "The River's Tale: a Year on the Mekong" by Edward A. Gargan
- "Reading the Korean Cultural Landscape" by Je-Hun Ryu
- "Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag" by Kang Chol Hwan
- "Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos" by Robert Kaplan
- "Burying Mao" by Richard Baum
- "The New Emperors: Deng and Mao" by Harrison Salisbury
- "Soul Mountain" by Xingjian Gao
Books Read in 2002
- "The Bridge at No Gun Ri" by Charles Hanley, Sang Hun Choe, Martha Mendoza
- "Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader" by Dai-Sook Suh
- "Black Tea and Yak Butter: a Journey into Forbidden China" by Wade Blackenbury
- "My Dark Places" by James Ellroy
- "Metaplanetary" by Tony Daniel
- "Ultimate Journey: Retracing the Path of an Ancient Buddhist Monk Who Crossed Asia in Search of Enlightenment" by Richard Bernstein
- "Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam" by Andrew Pham
- "Deadly Feasts: Tracking The Secrets Of A Terrifying New Plague" by Richard Rhodes
- "Koreas's Place in the Sun" by Bruce Cummings
- "On Writing" by Stephen King
- "Over the Edge: The True Story of Four American Climbers' Kidnap and Escape in the Mountains of Central Asia" by Greg Child
- "The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History" by Dan Oberdorfer
- "What Went Wrong: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East" Bernard Lewis
- "A Newer World: Kit Carson John C Fremont And The Claiming Of The American West" by David Roberts
- "The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology " by Simon Winchester
- "By any means Necessary: America's Secret Air War in the Cold War" William E. Burrows
- "Hotel Honolulu" by Paul Theroux
- "Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus" by David Kaplan
- "Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War " by Mark Bowden
Books Read in 2001
- "The War Against America: Saddam Hussein and the World Trade Center Attacks: A Study in Revenge" by Laura Mylroie
- "The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910" by Peter Duus
- "Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden " by Peter I. Bergen
- "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America" by Yossef Bodansky
- "Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia" by Ahmed Rashid
- "John Adams" by David McCullough
- "The Cold 6,000" by James Ellroy
- "American Tabloid" by James Ellroy
- "Compass Points: How I Lived" by Edward Hoagland
- "The Girl who loved Tom Gordon" by Stephen King
- "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser
- "The Loop" by Nicholas Evans
- "The Shipping News" by Annie Proulx
- "Return to Mars" by Ben Bova
- "A Case of Rape" by Chester B. Himes
- "Darwin's Radio" by Greg Bear
- "My Secret History" by Paul Theroux
Books Read in 2000
- "King Leopold's Ghost" by Adam Hochschild
- "North to the Night: A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic " by Alvah Simon
- "Love thy Neighbor: A Story of War" by Peter Maas
- "Flash 4"
- "Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written" by Edmund Sir Hillary
- "The Age of Spiritual Machines" by Ray Kurzweil
- "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared Diamond
- "Parachutes and Kisses" by Erica Jong
- "The Hours" by Michael Cunningham
- "Passage to Juneau : A Sea and Its Meanings" by Jonathan Raban
- "Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
- "Trespassing" by John Hanson Mitchell
- "Sacred Land, Sacred View"
- "Snow Crash" by Neil Stephenson
- "Plainsong" by Kent Haruf
- "On the Rez" by Ian Frazier
- "River Horse" by William Least Heat-Moon
- "Why They Kill" by Richard Rhodes
- "Fire on the Mountain" by John McLean
- "Travel in a Stone Canoe" by Harvey Arden and Steve Wall
- "Sir Vidia's Shadow" by Paul Theroux
- "Moments of Doubt" by David Roberts
- "The Lost Explorer" by David Roberts and Conrad Anker
- "Last Days" by John Roskelly
- "History of the English" by Paul Johnson
- "The Life of Thomas More" by Peter Akyroyd
- "The Songlines" by Bruce Chatwin
- "In a Dark Wood" by Alston Chase
- "Eiger Dreams" by John Krakauer
- "Basin and Range" by John McPhee
- "Geronimo" by Alexander B. Adams
- "Operation Shylock" by Philip Roth
- "In Suspect Terrain" by John McPhee
- "Loon Magic"
- "Centennial" by James Michener
- "The Spanish Armada"
- "Rising from the Plains" by John McPhee
- "Assembling California" by John McPhee
- "The First Immortal" by John Halperin
- "The Eternal Frontier: an Ecological History of North America and its Peoples" by Tim Flannery
Books Read in 1999
- "In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest" by David Roberts
- "Once They Moved Like The Wind : Cochise, Geronimo, And The Apache Wars" by David Roberts
- "The Ends of the Earth : From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy" by Robert Kaplan
- "Desert Solitaire" by Edward Abbey
- "Down the River" by Edward Abbey
- "Abbey's Road" by Edward Abbey
- "The Colorado Plateau"
- "An Empire Wilderness : Travels into America's Future" by Robert Kaplan
- "Lonesome Dove" by Larry McMurtry
- "Streets of Laredo" by Larry McMurtry
- "Widow for one Year" by John Irving
- "The Ghost Writer" by Philip Roth
- "Cold Oceans: Adventure in a Kayak, Rowboat , And Dogsled" by Jon Turk
- "Zuckerman Unbound" by Philip Roth
- "The Ninemile Wolves" by Rick Bass
- "The Tracker" by Tom Brown, Jr.
- "Cowboys and Cave Dwellers: Basketmaker Archaeology in Utah's Grand Gulch " by Fred Blackburn
- "Dead Man Walking" by Larry McMurtry
- "Killing Mister Watson" by Peter Matthiessen
- "Gerald's Game" by Stephen King
- "Lost Man's River" by Peter Matthiessen
- "The New Wolves" by Rick Bass
- "Winter: Notes from Montana" by Rick Bass
- "Desert Notes" by Barry Lopez
- "Homage to Catalonia" by George Orwell
- "Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation"
- "Bone by Bone"by Peter Matthiessen
- "Black Lamb, Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia (1941)" by Rebecca West
- "The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia" by Tim Judah
- "Turkey in Europe" by Charles Elliot
- "The Croat Question" by Jill Irvine
- "War Crimes: Brutality, Genocide, Terror, and the Struggle for Justice" by Aryeh Neier
- "To End a War" by Richard Holbrooke
- "Seasons in Hell: Slaughter and Betrayal in Bosnia" by Ed Vulianny
- "Burn this House: The Making and Unmaking of Yugoslavia" by Jasminka Udowicki and James Ridgeway
- "Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water" by Mark Reisner
- "Martin Dressler" by Steven Millhauser
- "End game: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II" by David Rohde
- "Forging War: The media in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina" by Mark Thompson
- "One for the Road" by Tony Horwitz"
- "Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey" by V. S. Naipaul
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