Talking Sense: Exploring the hill towns of Tuscany

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
"Inés del Alma Mía" by Isabel Allende
"Italy's Sorrow: A Year of War 1944-1945" by James Holland
"War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944" by Iris Origo
"Relato de Navidad en La Gran Via" by Ricardo Silva Romero
"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
"The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian lands and people" by Tim Flannery

Books Read in 2026

"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
"The Apache Diaries: A Father-Son Journey" by Grenville Goodwin and Neil Goodwin

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.
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"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

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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