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Running and thinking in Colorado.

Saturday, July 25, 2026

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Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Hardrock 100 Engineer Pass Backcountry Aide Station

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Wednesday, July 15, 2026

First run in Medellín town

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Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Thunder Pyramid, 13.944', #100 of the Centennials

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Thursday, May 07, 2026

Exploring the hill towns of Tuscany

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Friday, March 27, 2026

2026 Bike Packing back to Creel

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Monday, March 23, 2026

2026 Bicycling from Urique to the Sierra Highlands

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Sunday, March 22, 2026

Cycling to Urique and running the Caballo Blanco Marathon

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Thursday, March 19, 2026

Day 2 of my Copper Canyon Bike Packing Adventure

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Sunday, March 15, 2026

Back to Copper Canyon

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Books I'm reading

  • "Comparative Grammar of Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian and Catalan: Learn 6 Romance Languages at the Same Time" by Robertson B. Kunz
  • "Historia oficial del amor" by Ricardo Silva Romero
  • “The Third Reich at War” by Richard J. Evans
  • "Der Zauberberg" by Thomas Mann
  • "Red Nile: A Biography of the World's Greatest River" by Robert Twigger
  • “When I was a Puerto Rican” by Esmeralda Santiago
  • “A Dead Hand: A Novel of Calcutta” by Paul Theroux
  • “100 Conversations in Simple Italian” by Olly Richards

Books Read in 2026

  • "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump" by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
  • "Inés del Alma Mía" by Isabel Allende
  • "A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness" by Michael Pollan
  • "The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian lands and people" by Tim Flannery
  • "Dixie City Jam" by James Lee Burke
  • "The Beginning comes after the End" by Rebecca Solnit
  • "Tilt: A Novel" by Emma Pattee
  • "The Gardener and the Carpenter" by Alison Gopnik
  • "The Flooded Earth: Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps" by Peter D. Ward
  • "The Red Emperor: Xi Jingping and his new China" by Michael Sheridan
  • "The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions" by Peter Brannen
  • "War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944" by Iris Origo
  • "Italy's Sorrow: A Year of War 1944-1945" by James Holland
  • "Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion" edited by C. M. Mayo
  • "In My Time of Dying" by Sebastian Junger
  • "The Violence: My Family's Colombian War" by Adriana E. Ramirez
  • "The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything: How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World" by Peter Brannen
  • "Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund" by Molly Crabapple
  • "The Darién Gap: A Reporter's Journey through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas" by Belén Fernández
  • "The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya" by David Stuart
  • “The Talisman” by Stephen King
  • "Blood River: The Terrifying Journey Through the World's most Dangerous Country"
  • "Mother Mary comes to me" by Arundhati Roy
  • "Camp Echo" by Paul Theroux
  • "The Director" by Daniel Kehlmann
  • "The Story of Spanish" by Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow
  • "Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life" by Jonathan Lee Anderson
  • "The Last Train to Zona Verde" by Paul Theroux
  • "Prisoner's Dilemma: a Novel" by Richard Powers
  • "Lo Que Yo Vi" by Laura Esquivel
  • "Volga Blues: A Journey into the Heart of Russia" by Marzio J. Mian
  • "En el Tiempo de las Mariposas" by Julia Alvarez
  • "Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography" by Zora Neale Hurston
  • "Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road" by Kate Harris
  • "Francis I: The Maker of Modern France" by Leonie Frieda
  • "The Summer Without Men" by Siri Hustvedt
  • "The Vanishing Point: Stories" by Paul Theroux
  • "Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility" ed. by Rebecca Solnit
  • "Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin" by Sue Prideaux
  • "PFKNR: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance" by Vanessa Díaz & Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
  • "The Lion House: The Coming of a King" by Christopher de Bellaigue
  • "Cowboys and East Indians: Stories" by Nina McConigley
  • "By the Fire They Carry--The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land" by Rebecca Nagle
  • "Memories of the Future: a Novel" by Siri Hustvedt
  • "Into the Thaw: Witnessing Wonder Amid the Arctic Climate Crisis" by Jonathan Waterman
  • "Train Dreams" by Denis Johnson
  • "The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance" by Ron Chernow
  • "Annie Bot: A Novel" by Sierra Greer
  • "Confluence: Navigating the Personal & Political on Rivers of the New West" by Zak Podmore
  • "Tupac Amaru II: The Life and Legacy of the Peruvian Leader Who Rebelled Against the Spanish Empire" by Charles River Editors
  • "Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster" by Jacob Soboroff
  • "Whose Story is This?" by Rebecca Solnit
  • "The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes" by Orin Starn and Miguel La Serna
  • "History of Copper Canyon and the Tarahumara Indians: Unknown Mexico and Silver Magnet" by Carl Lumholtz, Grant Shepherd, and edited by Richard Fisher
  • "Government" by B Traven
  • "Fela Kuti: Fear no Man" Produced by Jab Abumrad
  • "A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains" by Max Bennett
  • "38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia" by Philippe Sands
  • "Unknown Mexico: Volume I" by Carl Lumholtz
  • "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" by Omar El Akkad

Books Read in 2025

  • "Maximiliano Intimo: Maximiliano y su corte: Memorias de un Secretario Particular" by Jose Luis Blasio
  • "Bread of Angels" by Patti Smith
  • "All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America" by Michael Wolff
  • "Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West" by Peter Hessler
  • "Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity" by Paul Kingsnorth
  • "Innocents Abroad" by Mark Twain
  • "The Gold Coast" by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • "Reborn on the Run: My Journey from Addiction to Ultramarathons" by Catra Corbett
  • "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
  • "Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice" by Virginia Roberts Guiffre
  • "Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337 - 1485" by John Julius Norwich
  • "The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga" by Sylvain Tesson
  • "Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department" by Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis
  • “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - 10th anniversary edition: A Year of Food Life” by Barbara Kingsolver
  • "Antisemitism: Part One of The Origins of Totalitarianism" by Hannah Arendt
  • "The Wild Shore" by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • “Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of our Planet” by Ben Goldfarb
  • “The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World “ by David Graeber
  • "107 Days" by Kamala Harris
  • “So Far Gone” by Jess Walter
  • "Esperanza Renace" by Pam Muñoz Ryan
  • "Ines of My Soul: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
  • “Science Be Dammed: How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River” by Eric Kuhn and John Fleck
  • "Unpublished work on the Caballo Blanco races in Copper Canyon" by Michael Miller
  • "The Burning Earth: A History" by Sunil Amrith
  • "A Book of Migrations" by Rebecca Solnit
  • “The Every” by Dave Eggers
  • "Wounded Tigris: A River Journey Through the Cradle of Civilization" by Leon McCarron
  • "Tequila Wars: José Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico" by Ted Genoways
  • "Operation Wandering Soul" by Richard Powers
  • "Free: My Search for Meaning" by Amanda Knox
  • "Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology" by Chris Miller
  • "It's Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground" by David Litt
  • "To Lose a War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban" by Jon Lee Anderson
  • "Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis" by Robert D. Kaplan
  • "Fever Beach: A Novel" by Carl Hiaasen
  • "In the Sierra Madre" by Jeff Biggers
  • "Is a River Alive?" by Robert Macfarlane
  • "If It Bleeds: Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, If It Bleeds, Rat" by Stephen King
  • “Pedro Páramo” by Juan Rulfo
  • "Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe" by Carl Zimmer
  • "Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company" by Patrick McGee
  • "A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children" by Haley Cohen Gilliland
  • "Mark Twain: A Life" by Ron Powers
  • “Where the Mountains are Nameless: Passion and Politics in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge” by Jonathan Waterman
  • "The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century" by Tim Weiner
  • "Nomads: The Wanderers who Shaped our World" by Anthony Sattin
  • "Mark Twain" by Ron Chernow
  • "No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain" by Rebecca Solnit
  • "Abundance" by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
  • "Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr." by Ron Chernow
  • "We All Want to Change the World: My Journey Through Social Justice Movements from the 1960s to Today" by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • “Burma Sahid” by Paul Theroux
  • "José Martí: A Revolutionary Life” by Alfred J. López
  • “The Wind that Swept Mexico: The History of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1942” by Anita Brenner
  • “Holly” by Stephen King
  • “Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future” by Neil Shubin
  • “The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip” by Stephen Witt
  • “The Outsider: a Novel” by Stephen King
  • "Titan Unveiled: Saturn's Mysterious Moon Exposed" by Ralph Lorenz and Jacqueline Mitton
  • "Our Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives" by David Carey, Jr.
  • "Wolf Totem" by Jiang Rong
  • “El Palacio de la Medianoche” by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  • "The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future" by Mustafa Suleyman
  • "The Amur River: Between Russia and China" by Colin Thubron
  • "Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography" by Ignacio Ramonet and Fidel Castro
  • “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival” by John Vaillant
  • "The Faraway Nearby: A Field Guide to Getting Lost" by Rebecca Solnit
  • "The Wind Knows my Name" by Isabel Allende
  • “Five Smooth Stones” by Ann Fairbairn
  • "Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America" by Michael Reid
  • "The Zero" by Jess Walter
  • "Something Lost, Something Gained" by Hillary Clinton
  • "Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala" by Rachel Nolan
  • "The Vegetarian" by Han Kang
  • "The Silver of the Sierra Madre: John Robinson, Boss Shepherd, and the People of the Canyons" by John Mason Hart
  • "Villa and Zapata: A Biography of the Mexican Revolution" by Frank McLynn
  • "A Most Hostile Mountain : Re-Creating the Duke of Abruzzi's Historic Expedition on Mount St. Elias" by Jonathan Waterman
  • "Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism" by Sarah Wynn-Williams
  • "Source Code: My Beginnings" by Bill Gates
  • "The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness" by James Campbell
  • "The Jaguar's Children" by John Valliant
  • "Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future" by Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato
  • “The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West” by Megan Kate Nelson
  • “The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York” by Robert Caro
  • “A Visit from the Goon Squad” by Jennifer Egan
  • “Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that explain everything about the World” by Tim Marshall
  • "Conquering The Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery" by Andrés Reséndez
  • “Peron: A Biography” by Joseph A. Page
  • “Mr. Bones: Short Stories” by Paul Theroux
  • “Profiting from the Peak: Landscape and Liberty in Colorado Springs” by John Harner
  • "El Príncipe de la Niebla" by Carlos Ruíz Zafón
  • "The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024" edited by Bill McKibben
  • “ The Anasazi of Chaco Canyon: Greatest Mystery of the American Southwest” by Kyle Widner
  • "Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain" by Ronald Hutton
  • “ The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed” by John Vaillant
  • “Unsheltered” by Barbara Kingsolver
  • "Behind the Bears Ears: Exploring the Cultural and Natural Histories of a Sacred Landscape" by R. E. Burrillo
  • "Martyr!: A novel" by Kaveh Akbar
  • "The Singularity is Nearer" by Ray Kurzweil
  • "Saint Jack" by Paul Theroux
  • "Make Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukon View of the Northern Forest" by Richard K. Nelson
  • "Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space" by Adam Higginbotham
  • "Life After Dead Pool: Lake Powell's Last Days and the Rebirth of the Colorado River" by Zak Podmore
  • "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain
  • "La Razón de mi Vida" by Eva Perón
  • "The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture" by Tricia Romano
  • "The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq" by Steve Coll
  • "Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West" by John L. Sullivan
  • "James" by Percival Everett
  • "Reagan: His Life and Legend" by Max Boot
  • "William Walker's Wars: How One Man's Private American Army Tried to Conquer Mexico, Nicaragua, and Honduras" by Scott Martelle
  • "A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon" by Kevin Fedarko
  • "Grizzly Confidential" by Kevin Grange
  • "Metaphysical Odyssey Into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual" by C. M. Mayo

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
  • "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel" by Ocean Vuong
  • "The Message" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • "My Autobiography" by Charles Chaplin
  • "Creation Lake" by Rachel Kushner
  • "El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America" by Carrie Gibson

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

  • New York Review of Books
  • The New Yorker
  • Colorado Springs Independent
  • The Nation
  • Orion
  • Trail Runner
  • National Geographic
  • Harper's
  • Waterkeepers
  • Land and People
  • Audubon
  • High Country News
  • Mother Jones
  • London Review of Books (British)

Running in Colorado

  • Steve Bremner's North American Outdoors
  • Incline Club
  • C.R.U.D. -- Coloradans Running Ultra-Distances
  • Pikes Peak Marathon and more
  • Barr Trail Race

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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