My List Of Books Consumed

 NOTE SOME BOOKS REPEAT IN THE CATEGORIES BELOW - approximately 575 books total

Now Listening to... Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans form Colonial Times to the Present, Harriet A. Washington

Listening To Books While Running In The Woods…

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Racism, Injustice, Feminism, Discrimination, and Human Rights

  1. How To Be An Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi

  2. The Whiteness of Wealth How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans - and How We Can Fix It, Dorothy A. Brown

  3. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabell Wilkerson

  4. The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood, Julian Rubinstein

  5. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot, Mikki Kendall

  6. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor, Layla F. Saad

  7. Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir, Lacy Crawford

  8. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792

  9. No Name in the Street, James Baldwin

  10. The Devil Finds Work, James Baldwin

  11. The Young Lords: A Radical History, Johanna Fernández

  12. The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X, Les Payne, Tamara Payne

  13. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland, Fintan O'Toole

  14. Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, Jane Mayer, and Jill Abramson

  15. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, Khalil Gibran Muhammad

  16. The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service, Laura Kaplan

  17. Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond, Mark Lamont Hill.

  18. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism, Bell Hooks

  19. South To America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to the Understand the Soul of a Nation, Imani Perry

  20. Gender Trouble: Judith Butler

  21. Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths, Helen Morales

  22. Lead for the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change, Stacy Abrams

  23. The Second Sex, Simone De Beauvoir

  24. The Family Roe: An American Story, Joshua Prager

  25. Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America, Stacey Abrams

  26. How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, Clint Smith

  27. The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero (U.S. Supreme Court), Peter S. Canellos

  28. Hardy/Friedland: David Hardy, Amazing Investigative Reporter, Also takes on the NY Daily News for racial discrimination, and wins, Greg Donahue

  29. Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, Martin Luther King/MLK

  30. Conviction: The Murder Trial That Powered Thurgood Marshall's Fight for Civil Rights, Denver Nicks, John Nicks

  31. Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City, Andrea Elliot

  32. Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment, Linda Hirshman

  33. The Lost Eleven: The Forgotten Story of Black American Soldiers Brutally Massacred in World War II, Denise George and Rob Child

  34. Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority, Tim Wise

  35. Black Boy, Richard Wright

  36. Uncle Tom's Children, Richard Wright

  37. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, David Grann

  38. Silent Sisters, True Story: A Daughter's Horrifying Discovery… a Mother's Secret Shame, Ann Cusack, Joanne Lee, Joe Cusack

  39. White Fragility:Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson - foreword

  40. The Martyrdom of Collins Catch The Bear, Gerry Spence

  41. Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood, Mark Oppenheimer

  42. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, David Treuer

  43. Taking Up Space: Chelsea Kwakye, Ore Ogunbiyi

  44. County: Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital, David A. Ansell, MD

  45. The Song and the Silence: A Story about Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright, Yvette Johnson

  46. We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  47. The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez, Aaron Bobrow-Strain

  48. Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria, Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD

  49. The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

  50. Reflections on the French Revolution, Edmund Burke

  51. What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America, Michael Eric Dyson

  52. A Black Women's History of the United States, Diana Ramey Berry, and Kali Nicole Gross

  53. James Baldwin: a biography, David Leeming

  54. The Soul of a Woman, Isabel Allende

  55. The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why, Jabari Asim

  56. Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement, Angela Y. Davis

  57. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Caroline Criado Perez

  58. The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science is Still A Boy's Club, Eileen Pollack

  59. Suffragette: My Own Story, Emmeline Pankhurst

  60. The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda was Found, her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning, Ben Raines

  61. The New Science of Sex and Gender, Scientific American writers

  62. Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit

  63. Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War, Chandra Manning

  64. The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?, Michael J. Sandel

  65. The Embattled Vote in America: From the Founding to the Present, Allan J. Lichtman

  66. The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet, John Green

  67. So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo

  68. Someone Other than a Mother: Flipping the Scripts on a Woman's Purpose and Making Meaning beyond Motherhood, Erin S. Lane

  69. Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who the Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society, Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate

  70. 30 Days a Black Man, Bill Steigerwald

  71. An Unquenchable Thirst, Mary Johnson

  72. A Ghost in the Throat, Doireann Ni Ghriofa

  73. Uprising (Attica prison, NY, 1971), Clarence B. Jones, and Stuart Connelly

  74. Separate: The Story of Plessy V. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation, Steve Luxenberg

  75. The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America, Edward J. Blum, Paul Harvey

  76. Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian, Hans L. Trefousse

  77. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander

  78. Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America, Adam Cohen

  79. Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea, Mitchell Duneiersss

  80. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans form Colonial Times to the Present, Harriet A. Washington

  81. Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law, Nikole Hannah-Jones

  82. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, Robin D. G. Kelley

  83. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics, Marc Lamont Hill

  84. My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past, Jennifer Teege, and Nikola Sellmair

  85. Radical: My Journey Out of Islamist Extremism, Maajid Nawaz

  86. The Nonsense Factory: The Making and Breaking of the American Legal System, Bruce Cannon Gibney

  87. When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America, Ira Katznelson

  88. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, Carol Anderson

  89. Black Reconstruction in America, W. E. B. Du Bois, David Levering Lewis

  90. A Short History of Reconstruction, Updated Edition: 1863-1877, Eric Foner

  91. Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, Jennifer L. Eberhardt

  92. The Affirmative Action Puzzle: A Living History from Reconstruction to Today, Melvin I. Urofsky

  93. Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration, Emily Bazelon

  94. The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, Mehrsa Baradaran

  95. Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote, Susan Ware

  96. The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression, Peter Joseph

  97. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond

  98. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Frederick Douglass

  99. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, Douglas A. Blackmon

  100. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson

  101. The Immortals: WWII Story of Five Fearless Heroes, Sinking of the Dorchester, and Inspiring Rescue, Steven B. Collis

  102. There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America, Alex Kotlowitz

  103. First: Sandra Day O'Connor, an Intimate Portrait of the First Woman Supreme Court Justice, Evan Thomas

  104. Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development, Sven Beckert - editor, Seth Rockman

  105. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi

  106. The Radical King: Martin Luther King/MLK, Cornel West - editor

  107. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, Edward E. Baptist

  108. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, David W. Blight

  109. The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois

  110. I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Austin Channing Brown

  111. Beautiful Country: Qian Julie Wang

  112. The Battle for Paradigm: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists, Naomi Klein

  113. How the Other Half Lives, Jacob A. Riis

  114. And Now We Have Everything, Meaghan O'Connell

  115. Echoes of my Soul, Robert K. Tannenbaum, story of the case that generated the Miranda Rights ruling

  116. Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  117. The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World, Janice Kaplan

  118. Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues that Made History, Alex von Tunzelmann

  119. The Other Wes Moore, Wes Moore

  120. Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning Of An American City, Wes Moore

  121. The Economics & Politics Of Race, AND Intellectuals & Race, Thomas Sowell

  122. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein

  123. On Juneteenth: (revises conventional renderings of Texas and national history) Annette Gordon-Reed

  124. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination Robin D. G. Kelley

  125. Just Mercy: Justice & Redemption, B. Stevenson

  126. Between The World & Me, Ta-Nihisi Coates

  127. My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, Resmaa Menakem MSW LICSW SEP

  128. Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump, Spencer Ackerman

  129. Negroland: A Memoir, Margo Jefferson

  130. The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot

  131. Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How they are Changing the World, Eliza Reid, First Lady of Iceland

  132. Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans, A Story of Love and War, Catherine Grace Katz

  133. Alan Turing: Unlocking The Enigma, David Boyle

  134. America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System, Steven Brill

  135. Badass Librarians Of Timbuktu: The Race To Save The World’s Most Precious Manuscripts, Joshua Hammer

  136. I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir, Jan Grue

  137. Black Fire, Robert Graysmith

  138. The Grace of Silence, Michele Norris

  139. White Trash, Nancy Isenberg

  140. White Working Class Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America By: Joan C. Williams

  141. Go Set A Watchmen, Harper Lee, fiction

  142. When Women Ruled The World: Six Queens of Egypt, Kara Cooney

  143. The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap, Matt Taibbi

  144. These Truths: A History of the United States, Jill Lepore

  145. Landmark Decisions of the Supreme Court, US Supreme Court papers

  146. Good and Mad: How Women's Anger Is Reshaping America, Rebecca Traister

  147. She Said: That Helped Ignite A (MeToo) Movement, Megan Twohey/Jodi Kantor

  148. Asylum Denied A Refugee’s Struggle for Safety in America, David Ngaruri Kenney, Philip Schrag

  149. The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight To Win The Vote, Elaine Weiss

  150. The Asylum: The Shocking True Story of an Aston Hall Survivor, Carol Minto

  151. The Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 1900, K. Stephen Prince

  152. Liar, Temptress, Soldier Spy, Karen Abbott

  153. Muhammad, The World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait, Mohamad Jebara

  154. Hillbilly Elegy, JD Vance

  155. Superman Is Jewish?, Harry Brod

  156. The Devil’s Highway, Luis Alberto Urrea

  157. Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, Dee Brown

  158. Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, Gail Crowther.

  159. Lincoln On The Verge: Thirteen Days To Washington, Ted Widmer

  160. The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression, Peter Joseph

  161. Mark Twain: Autobiography, Vol. 1

  162. Mark Twain: Autobiography, Vol. 2

  163. The World’s Strongest Librarian, Josh Hanagarne, author’s story about the challenges he faces with Tourette’s Syndrome

  164. The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency, Kathryn Smith

  165. Born On A Blue Day, Daniel Tammet, one of fifty living savants in the world, the first and only to tell his own story

  166. How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy, Mehrsa Baradaran

  167. What It Means to be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics, O. Carter Snead (Conservative).

  168. Adnan’s Story: The Search Truth And Justice After Serial, Rabia Chaudry

  169. Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet: The Favorite Founder's Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity, Michael Meyer

  170. King Richard: Nixon and Watergate - An American Tragedy, Michael Dobbs

  171. The Secret Midwife: Life, Death, and the Truth About Birth, by The Secret Midwife

  172. Woke Racism: How a New Religion has Betrayed Black America, John McWhorter (Conservative)


Inequality, And The Bullionaires

  1. The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die, Keith Payne

  2. The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World, Sally Denton

  3. The Plot to Seize the White Ho The Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR, Jules Archer

  4. An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination, Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang

  5. This City is Killing Me: Community Trauma and Toxic Stress in Urban America, Jonathan Foiles

  6. Antitrust: Taking On Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age, Amy Klobuchar

  7. Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States, Jonathan Levy

  8. The Lords of Creation: The History of America's One Percent, Fredrick Lewis Allen

  9. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Family, Patrick Radden Keefe

  10. The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, Michael Lewis

  11. My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: A Memoir, Mark Lukach

  12. The Storm Before The Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Empire, Mike Duncan

  13. The People, No: A Brief History Of Anti-Populism, Thomas Frank

  14. American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Rich, Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson

  15. The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?, Michael J. Sandel

  16. The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future, Joseph E. Stiglitz

  17. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, Anand Giridharadas

  18. The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy, Peter Temin

  19. The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality, Angus Deaton

  20. The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy, Stephanie Kelton

  21. Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers, Ellen Schultz

  22. The Power Worshipers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, Katherine Stewart

  23. Putinomics: Money and Power in Resurgent Russia, Chris Miller

  24. Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud, Tom Mueller

  25. Capital and Ideology, Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer - translation

  26. Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality, Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson

  27. The Confessions of an Economic Hitman, John Perkins

  28. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, Daron Acemoglu, and James Robinson, Black Death/“free” markets

  29. Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy, Matt Stoller

  30. Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries And Corporate Power, Christopher Leonard

  31. The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay, Emmanuel Saez/Gabriel Zucman

  32. The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality/Dismantles Middle Class/Devours Elite, Daniel Markovits

  33. The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic, Ganesh Sitaraman

  34. The Marginal Revolution: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas, Janek Wasserman

  35. The Lost Bank: Story of Washington Mutual; Biggest Bank Failure in American History, Kirsten Grind

  36. The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets, Thomas Philippon

  37. The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society, Binyamin Appelbaum

  38. The Human Instinct, Kenneth Miller — No Such Thing as Society: 1980s Britain, A. McSmith

  39. American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump, Tim Alberta

  40. Behemoth: The History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World, Joshua B. Freeman

  41. The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896, Richard White

  42. The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century, Walter Scheidel

  43. Pity the Billionaire: The Unlikely Resurgence of the American Right, Thomas Frank

  44. Big Hot Cheap And Right, Erica Grieder

  45. Demagogue: The Life And Long Shadows of Senator Joe McCarthy, Larry Tye

  46. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein

  47. Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, Mark Blyth

  48. Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich, and The Fall of Everyone Else, Chrystia Freeland

  49. Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer/Translator

  50. The Big Con: How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics, Jonathan Chait

  51. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, Erik Conway/Naomi Oreskes

  52. Money Well Spent?: The Truth behind the Trillion-Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History, Michael Grabell

  53. Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth, the Illusion of Consent, and the Fight for Our Future, Raoul Martinez

  54. We Are Better Than This: How Government Should Spend Our Money, Edward D. Kleinbard

  55. The American Experiment, James MacGregor Burns

  56. The Uprising, David Sirota

  57. Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and Destruction of the “GOP”, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party, Geoffrey Kabaservice

  58. Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You’ve Been Told about the Economy Is Wrong, Edward Conard (Conservative)

  59. White Working Class Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America By: Joan C. Williams

  60. The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class, Edward Conard (Conservative)

  61. The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs, and Murder, Sally Denton

  62. The Way the World Works, Jude Wanniski (Conservative)

  63. Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century, George F. Gilder (Conservative)


Economics, Market Crashes, And Political Influence

  1. Whose Freedom: The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea, George Lakoff

  2. The Lords of Creation: The History of America's One Percent, Fredrick Lewis Allen

  3. The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business, Duff McDonald

  4. The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy, Christopher Leonard

  5. Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long, Richard D. White Jr.

  6. The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World, Sally Denton

  7. Fake Politics: How Corporate and Government Groups Create and Maintain A Monopoly on Truth

  8. The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, Michael Lewis

  9. How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy, Mehrsa Baradaran

  10. Behemoth: The History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World, Joshua B. Freeman

  11. Animal Farm, George Orwell

  12. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Printer, Benjamin Franklin, Catherine Drinker Bowen

  13. The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli

  14. Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers, Ellen Schultz

  15. The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street, Justin Fox

  16. Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance, Nouriel Roubini/Stephen Mihm

  17. Dark Money, The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, Jane Mayer

  18. Reimagining Capitalism: In a World on Fire, Rebecca Henderson

  19. Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump, Allison Stanger

  20. The Shifts and the Shocks: What We've Learned - and Have Still to Learn - from the Financial Crisis, Martin Wolf

  21. The Price Of Justice, Laurence Leamer (About Don Blankenship; scummy coal baron)

  22. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, Erik Conway/Naomi Oreskes

  23. First Class Catastrophe: The Road To Black Monday (10/1987), Worst Day in Wall Street History, Diana Henriques

  24. Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America, Matt Taibbi

  25. Flash Boys, Micheal Lewis

  26. Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street, Greg Smith

  27. The End of Wall Street, Roger Lowenstein

  28. The Lost Bank: Story of Washington Mutual; Biggest Bank Failure in American History, Kirsten Grind

  29. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  30. The Big Con: How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics, Jonathan Chait

  31. The House of Morgan, Ron Chernow

  32. Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit, Charles W. Calomiris/Stephen H. Haber

  33. All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances That Drive American Power, Nomi Prins

  34. The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire, Neil Irwin

  35. The Austrian School Of Economics: History of its Ideas, Ambassadors, and Institutions, Schulak and Unterkofler (Conservative)

  36. Lecturing Birds on Flying: Can Mathematical Theories Destroy the Financial Markets, Pablo Triana

  37. The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too, James K. Galbraith

  38. The Age of Oversupply: Overcoming the Greatest Challenge to the Global Economy, Daniel Alpert

  39. How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities, John Cassidy

  40. Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story (Enron), Kurt Eichenwald

  41. Finished Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President, Ron Suskind

  42. The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good, Robert H Frank

  43. Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street, Neil Barofsky

  44. The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It, Scott Patterson

  45. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, Liaquat Ahamed

  46. The Big Short: Inside The Doomsday Machine, Micheal Lewis

  47. The Austrian School of Economics: A History of Its Ideas, Ambassadors, & Institutions, Eugene Maria Schulak, Herbert Unterköfler (Conservative)

  48. This City is Killing Me: Community Trauma and Toxic Stress in Urban America, Jonathan Foiles

  49. The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008, Paul Krugman

  50. End This Depression Now!, Paul Krugman

  51. The Conscience of a Liberal, Paul Krugman

  52. Taking on the Trust: Ida Tarbell, and John D. Rockefeller, Steve Weinberg

  53. The Uprising, David Sirota

  54. Fuzzy Math: The Essential Guide to the Bush Tax Plan, Paul Krugman

  55. Domina: The Women Who Made Imperial Rome, Guy de la Bedoyere

  56. New Deal or Raw Deal?, Burton Folsom (Conservative)

  57. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, Adam Tooze

  58. Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization, Samuel Gregg (Conservative)

  59. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand (Conservative)


Democracy (and the Reverse)

  1. How Democracies Die, Steven Levitsky/Daniel Ziblatt

  2. Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy, Jamie Raskin

  3. The Shattering: America in the 1960s, Kevin Boyle

  4. Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months that Transformed the Supreme Court, Linda Greenhouse

  5. First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How that Shaped our Country, Thomas Ricks

  6. The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840, Akhil Reed Amar

  7. American Demagogue: The Great Awakening and the Rise and Fall of Populism, J.D. Dickey

  8. The Cause: American Revolution and its Discontents, Joseph J. Ellis

  9. First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine, Brendan Borrell

  10. The Plot to Seize the White House: The Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR, Jules Archer

  11. Demagogue: The Life And Long Shadows of Senator Joe McCarthy, Larry Tye

  12. Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, and Iraq, John W. Dower

  13. Dissent: The Radicalization of the Republican Party, and Its Capture of the Court, Jackie Calmes

  14. Surviving Autocracy: Masha Gessen

  15. The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Putin), Masha Gessen

  16. The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas, Gal Beckerman

  17. Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, Mary L. Trump, PH.D.

  18. True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact World, Farhad Manjoo

  19. Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787, Christopher Collier, and James L. Collier

  20. This Book is Overdue (libraries, and info freedom) Marilyn Johnson

  21. The Storm Before The Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Empire, Mike Duncan

  22. The Anatomy of Fascism, Robert O. Paxton

  23. The Marginalized Majority: Claiming Our Power in Post-Truth America, Onnesha Roychoudhuri

  24. Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long, Richard D. White Jr.

  25. Lincoln On The Verge: Thirteen Days To Washington, Ted Widmer

  26. Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President, Michael S. Schmidt

  27. Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump, Sarah Posner

  28. Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba… And Then Lost it to the Revolution, T. J. English

  29. The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era, Jonathan Gienapp

  30. Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville

  31. Animal Farm, George Orwell

  32. The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American, Andrew Seidel

  33. The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty, Daron Acemoglu/James A. Robinson

  34. Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy, Matt Stoller

  35. The Return of History and the End of Dreams, Robert Kagan

  36. It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism, Thomas E. Mann , Norman J. Ornstein

  37. The American Experiment, James MacGregor Burns

  38. The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution, Michael J. Klarman

  39. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, Daniel Immerwahr

  40. The Federalist Papers

  41. The Anti-Federalist Papers

  42. Disturber of the Peace: The Life of H. L. Mencken, William Manchester

  43. Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes, Steven B. Smith

  44. Who Stole the American Dream?, Hedrick Smith

  45. Team Of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin

  46. The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot

  47. 67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence, Howard Means

  48. The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy, Anthony Gottlieb.

  49. From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776, George C. Herring

  50. Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World, Daniel Hannan

  51. Democracy in Chains, Nancy MacLean — Cult of the Constitution, Mary Anne Franks

  52. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, Mary Beard

  53. Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party, Max Blumenthal

  54. Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump, Spencer Ackerman

  55. New Deal or Raw Deal?, Burton Folsom


Science And Discovery: Mind And Matter

  1. The Big Melt: A Journey to Antartica's Doomsday Glacier, Jeff Goodell

  2. The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID, Lawrence Wright

  3. The Urge: Our History of Addiction, Carl Erik Fisher

  4. If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity, Justin Gregg

  5. Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old, Andrew Steele

  6. Archeology from Space: How the Future Shapes our Past, Sarah Parcak

  7. T. Rex and the Crater of Doom, Walter Alvarez

  8. First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine, Brendan Borrell

  9. Rationality: What it is, Why it seems Scarce, and Why it Matters, Steven Pinker

  10. How to Survive a Pandemic: updated mid 2020, Michael Greger, M.D.

  11. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family, Robert Kolker

  12. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, Annalee Newitz

  13. Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

  14. Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites, Alexandra Levitt

  15. Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature, Brian Switek

  16. The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin, and the Making of His Theory of Evolution, David Quammen

  17. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Scientist, Benjamin Franklin, Catherine Drinker Bowen

  18. Fentanyl Inc.: How Rogue Chemists are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic, Ben Westhoff

  19. Third Thoughts, Steven Weinberg

  20. Black Hole Survival Guide, Jana Levin

  21. Redefining Reality: The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science, Steven Gimbel (Great Courses)

  22. Light Falls, Brian Greene.

  23. The New Science of Sex and Gender, Scientific American wrirters

  24. Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe, Ray Jayawardhana

  25. The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, Michael Lewis

  26. Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of Laki, the Volcano that Turned Eighteenth-century Europe Dark, Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe

  27. Gravity's Century: From Einstein's Eclipse to Images of Black Holes, Ron Cowen

  28. How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space, Janna Levin

  29. Conspiracies & Conspiracy Theories: What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why, Michael Shermer

  30. The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty, Robert P. Crease , And Alfred Scharff Goldhaber

  31. A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life, Bill Mesler , H. James Cleaves II

  32. The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World, Sean Carroll

  33. Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality, Manjit Kumar

  34. Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe, parts Lee Smolin

  35. The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next, Lee Smolin

  36. Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein…Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists…Changed Our Understanding of Life & the Universe, M. Livio

  37. The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics was Reborn, Louisa Gilder

  38. How The Hippies Saved Physics, David Kaiser

  39. The 4% Universe, Richard Panek

  40. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality, Max Tegmark

  41. The Grand Design, Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow

  42. Long For This World: The Strange Science of Immortality, Jonathan Weiner

  43. Mind Wide Open, Steven Johnson

  44. How We Got to Now: Six Innovations that Made the Modern World, Steven Johnson

  45. A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking

  46. Seven Brief Lessons On Physics, Carlo Ravelli

  47. The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, Toby Lester

  48. The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics, George Lakoff

  49. David And Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell

  50. Blink, Malcolm Gladwell

  51. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell

  52. The Great Bridge, David McCullough

  53. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best And Worst, Robert Supolsky

  54. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval N. Harari

  55. Conflicted: How Productive Disagreements Lead to Better Outcomes, Ian Leslie

  56. Before The Dawn, Nicholas Wade

  57. 1491, Charles C. Mann


Politics

  1. Lincoln On The Verge: Thirteen Days To Washington, Ted Widmer

  2. Watergate: A New History, Garrett M. Graff

  3. The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny, Ian Davidson

  4. The Storm is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything, Mike Rothschild

  5. Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, Mary L. Trump, PH.D.

  6. The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin, Steven Lee Myers

  7. Dissent: The Radicalization of the Republican Party, and Its Capture of the Court, Jackie Calmes

  8. The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID, Lawrence Wright

  9. Mistakes Were Made (but not by me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts, Carol Travis and Elliot Aronson

  10. Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service, Carol Leonnig

  11. The Cause: American Revolution and its Discontents, Joseph J. Ellis

  12. Here, Right Matters: An American Story, Alexander S. Vindman

  13. The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood, Julian Rubinstein

  14. I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year, Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker.

  15. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, Colin Woodard

  16. Demagogue: The Life And Long Shadows of Senator Joe McCarthy, Larry Tye

  17. True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact World, Farhad Manjoo

  18. The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden, Peter L. Bergen

  19. The Afghanistan Papers A Secret History of the War By: Craig Whitlock, The Washington Post

  20. Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy Seals, David Phillips, Andrew Eiden

  21. Animal Farm, George Orwell

  22. 1984, George Orwell

  23. A Hill To Die On, Palmer/Sherman

  24. Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington D.C., J.D. Dickey

  25. Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America, Robert B. Reich

  26. Attack of the Theocrats!: How the Religious Right Harms Us All - and What We Can Do About It, Sean Faircloth

  27. The Political Mind, George Lakoff

  28. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

  29. Raven Rock: Government’s Secret Plan To Save Itself, Garret Graff

  30. The Uprising, David Sirota

  31. San Fran-sicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities, Michael Shellenberger (Conservative, maybe???)

  32. Testimony, Scott Turow, fiction

  33. Rogue Lawyer, John Grisham, fiction

  34. The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense, Gad Saad (Conservative)

Environment, Climate Change

  1. Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States, Leah Cardamore Stokes

  2. The Power Brokers: The Struggle to Shape and Control the Electric Power Industry, Jeremiah D. Lambert

  3. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and The Unthinkable, Amitav Ghosh

  4. The Price Of Justice, Laurence Leamer (About Don Blankenship; scummy coal baron)

  5. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, Erik Conway/Naomi Oreskes

  6. Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries And Corporate Power, Christopher Leonard

  7. Runaway Planet, Washington Post, climate article collection

  8. Gray Mountain, John Grisham, novel, historic fiction about coal mining/black lung suits in the last 30+ years or so

  9. The Lost City Of The Monkey God, Douglas Preston, a lost city in the deep jungle of Honduras, no humans had visited for 500 years.

  10. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds, Thomas Halliday


Religion And Reason

  1. The Bible, read twice

  2. Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis, John T. McGreevy

  3. The Generation Myth: Why When You're Born Matters Less Than You Think, Bobby Duffy

  4. Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life, Diarmaid MacCulloch

  5. American Demagogue: The Great Awakening and the Rise and Fall of Populism, J.D. Dickey

  6. Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe, Greg M. Epstein

  7. Muhammad, The World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait, Mohamad Jebara

  8. Redefining Reality: The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science, Steven Gimbel (Great Courses)

  9. I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Austin Channing Brown

  10. Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories, Using Facts, Logic, and Respect, Mick West

  11. Radical: My Journey Out of Islamist Extremism, Maajid Nawaz

  12. An Unquenchable Thirst, Mary Johnson, former Mother Teresa nun

  13. The Crusades: Abigail Archer

  14. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know, Malcolm Gladwell

  15. Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party, Max Blumenthal

  16. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Steven Pinker

  17. Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing, Barry Schwartz/Kenneth Sharpe

  18. Here I Stand: A Life Of Martin Luther, Roland H. Bainton

  19. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval N. Harari

  20. Zealot, Reza Aslan

  21. Age Of Reason, Thomas Paine

  22. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics, Marc Lamont Hill

  23. The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief, George M. Marsden

  24. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume

  25. The Benedict Option: A Strategy For Christians In A Post Christian Nation, Rod Dreher

  26. A Companion to Hume, Elizabeth S. Radcliffe

  27. The Critique Of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant

  28. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best And Worst, Robert Supolsky

  29. The Cost Of Discipleship, Dietrict Bonhoeffer

  30. The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity Toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom, Michael Shermer

  31. Perpetual Peace, Immanuel Kant

  32. The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren

  33. Maps Of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, Jordan B. Peterson

  34. The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, Robert Wright

  35. Mind and Cosmos Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False, Thomas Nagel

  36. The Believing Brain: Ghosts/Gods to Politics/Conspiracies - How We Construct Beliefs. Reinforce Them as Truths, Michael Shermer

  37. Church History in Plain Language: Fourth Edition, Bruce L. Shelley

  38. Common Sense, Thomas Paine

  39. Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Daniel C. Dennett

  40. Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them , Joshua Greene

  41. Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens

  42. Am I A Jew?, Theodore Ross

  43. Who Moved My Cheese, Spencer Johnson

  44. God: An Anatomy, Francesca Stavrakopoulou

  45. Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America Robert B. Reich

  46. The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American, Andrew Seidel

  47. The God Delusion: Richard Dawkins

  48. The Heart And The Fist: Education of a Humanitarian, The Making of a Navy Seal, Eric Greitens

  49. What It Is Like To Go To War, Karl Marlantes, Vietnam vet with PTSD/Bronze Star/2 Navy valor Commendations/2 Purple Hearts/10 Air Medals

  50. Attack of the Theocrats!: How the Religious Right Harms Us All - and What We Can Do About It Sean Faircloth

  51. The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels

  52. Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump, Spencer Ackerman

  53. The Dictator Pope: The Inside Story of the Francis Papacy, Marcantonio Colonna, real name, H. J. A. Sire (Conservative)


War And Soldiering

  1. Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness, Elizabeth D. Samet

  2. Code over Country: The Tragedy and Corruption of SEAL Team Six, Matthew Cole

  3. Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, and Iraq, John W. Dower

  4. Here, Right Matters: An American Story, Alexander S. Vindman

  5. Unbroken: A WWII Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption, Laura Hillenbrand

  6. Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy Seals, David Phillips, Andrew Eiden

  7. The Afghanistan Papers A Secret History of the War By: Craig Whitlock, The Washington Post

  8. The Cause: American Revolution and its Discontents, Joseph J. Ellis

  9. Rising in Flames: Sherman's March and the Fight for a New Nation, J.D. Dickey

  10. On Killing, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman

  11. Shooting Ghosts: US Marine And Combat Photographer And Their Journey Back From War, Brennan/Finbarr

  12. Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump, Spencer Ackerman

  13. The Vietnam War, Ken Burns

  14. The Immortals: WWII Story of Five Fearless Heroes, Sinking of the Dorchester, and Inspiring Rescue, Steven B. Collis

  15. Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield, Jeremy Scahill

  16. The Nuremberg Trial: John and Ann Tusa

  17. War, Sebastian Junger

  18. Drone Warfare: Killing By Remote Control, Medea Benjamin

  19. Campaigns Of The Civil War, M.F, Force

  20. Valiant Ambition, Nathaniel Philbrick, the amazing story of a traitor, Benedict Arnold

  21. The Generals, Thomas Ricks

  22. Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel, Julia Keller

  23. The Guns of August (Why WWI occurred, why it played out as it did, etc.) Barbara W. Tuchman.

  24. What It Is Like To Go To War, Karl Marlantes (Vietnam vet with PTSD/Bronze Star/2 Navy valor Commendations/2 Purple Hearts/10 Air Medals)

  25. The Heart And The Fist: Education of a Humanitarian, The Making of a Navy Seal, Eric Greitens

  26. Genghis: Birth of an Empire, C. Iggulden

  27. An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban-Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan, Alex Strick van Linschoten/Felix Kuehn

  28. A Terrible Glory: Custer/Little Bighorn, James Donovan

  29. Alexander The Great, Bill Yenne

  30. Liar, Temptress, Soldier Spy, Karen Abbott

  31. Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service, Michael Bar-Zohar/Nissim Mishal

  32. The Art Of War, Sun Tzu

  33. The Last Days of the Incas, Kim MacQuarrie

  34. George Washington, Ron Chernow

  35. Ulysses S. Grant, Ron Chernow

  36. The Last Lion “Churchill”, Manchester/Reid

  37. The Greatest Knight, Thomas Asbridge

  38. The Finest Hours, M. Tougias and C. Sherman

  39. Unlikely Allies, Joel Richard Paul

  40. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, Rick Perlstein


International, Non-War

  1. I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb

  2. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East, Kim Ghattas

  3. Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding, Husain Haqqani

  4. Indelible City (Hong Kong), Louisa Lim

  5. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, Serhil Plokhy

  6. 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, Eric H. Cline

  7. Asylum Denied A Refugee’s Struggle for Safety in America, David Ngaruri Kenney, Philip Schrag

  8. Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, David Remnick

  9. Putinomics: Money and Power in Resurgent Russia, Chris Miller

  10. City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp (Dadaab, Kenya), Ben Rawlence

  11. Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan, And The Fate Of US Power In The Pacific Century, Richard McGregor

  12. Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization, Lars Brownworth

  13. I Will Never See The World Again, Ahmet Altan, political prisoner in Turkey

  14. The Human Instinct, Kenneth Miller — No Such Thing as Society: 1980s Britain, A. McSmith

  15. The Beautiful Country And The Middle Kingdom: America And China 1776 to the Present, John Pomfret

  16. The Last Days of the Incas, Kim MacQuarrie

  17. The Lost City Of The Monkey God, Douglas Preston, a lost city in the deep jungle of Honduras, no humans had visited for 500 years.

  18. H Is For Hawk, Helen MacDonald

Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs, Historical

  1. Driven By Ideas: The Story of Arthur Bishop: A Great Australian Inventor, Clare Brown; my father is named in the book

  2. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile, Candice Millard

  3. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, Candice Millard

  4. Suffragette: My Own Story, Emmeline Pankhurst

  5. A Ghost in the Throat, Doireann Ni Ghriofa

  6. On Juneteenth: (revises conventional renderings of Texas and national history) Annette Gordon-Reed

  7. The New Czar, (Vladimir Putin), Steven Lee Myers

  8. Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948, Ramachandra Guha

  9. Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed my Life and Why they Matter for a New Generation, Roosevelt Montas

  10. The Nuremberg Trial: John and Ann Tusa

  11. An Unquenchable Thirst (Also about Mother Teresa), Mary Johnson

  12. Unbroken: A WWII Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption, Laura Hillenbrand

  13. The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X, Les Payne, Tamara Payne

  14. The Hitler Virus: The Insidious Legacy of Adolf Hitler, Peter Wyden

  15. Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans, A Story of Love and War, Catherine Grace Katz

  16. The Urge: Our History of Addiction, Carl Erik Fisher

  17. Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas, Harley Rustad

  18. My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: A Memoir, Mark Lukach

  19. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages, Dan Jones

  20. Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, Gail Crowther.Medieval Europe: Chris Wickham (2017, Much better, more recent than A World Lit Only by Fire)

  21. A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind And The Renaissance, Portrait of an Age, William Manchester (check facts, written in 1991)

  22. Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free, Sarah Weinman

  23. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, Mary Beard

  24. Edward III: The Perfect King, Ian Mortimer

  25. I Live a Life Like Yours: A memoir, Jan Grue

  26. The Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan

  27. The Time Traveler's Guide to Restoration Britain: A Handbook for Visitor to Seventeenth Century, 1660-1699, Ian Mortimer

  28. Beautiful Country: Qian Julie Wang

  29. First: Sandra Day O'Connor, an Intimate Portrait of the First Woman Supreme Court Justice, Evan Thomas

  30. How Iceland Changed the World: The BIG history of a small Island, Egill Bjarnason

  31. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs, Camilla Townsend

  32. London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd

  33. Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba… And Then Lost it to the Revolution, T. J. English

  34. Lincoln On The Verge: Thirteen Days To Washington, Ted Widmer

  35. James Baldwin: a biography, David Leeming

  36. The Boys in the Boat: The True Story of an American Team's Epic Journey to Win the Gold at the 1936 Olympics, Daniel James Brown

  37. Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life, Diarmaid MacCulloch

  38. 1774: The Long Year of Revolution, Mary Beth Norton

  39. Notorious RBG, Carmen/Knizhnik

  40. Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet, Jeffrey Rosen

  41. John Adams, David McCullough

  42. An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, Daniel Mendelsohn

  43. Finished Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times

  44. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, Jon Meacham

  45. Malcom X, Manning Marble

  46. Plaintiff in Chief: A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3,500 Lawsuits, James D. Zirin

  47. George Washington, Ron Chernow

  48. Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow

  49. Ulysses S. Grant, Ron Chernow

  50. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Scientist, Printer, Philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin, Catherine Drinker Bowen

  51. Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of Laki, the Volcano that Turned Eighteenth-century Europe Dark, Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe

  52. Lives in Ruins: Archeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble, Marilyn Johnson

  53. A Dark Room in Glitter City (Kentucky): Murder Secrets, and Scandal in old Louisville, David Domine´

  54. The Wright Brothers, David McCullough

  55. Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker, Kevin Mitnick

  56. The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro

  57. Valiant Ambition, Nathaniel Philbrick, the amazing story of a traitor, Benedict Arnold

  58. Hamilton: The Revolution, Lin-Manuel Miranda

  59. Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry, and the Call to a New Nation, Harlow Giles Unger

  60. The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, Rick Perlstein

  61. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, Rick Perlstein

  62. The Robert’s Court: The Struggle for the Constitution, Marcia Coyle

  63. The Writings of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone, Edward Dolnick

  64. Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens

  65. And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I was Ready, Meaghan O'Connell

  66. American Dervish: A Novel, Ayad Akhtar

  67. Genghis: Birth of an Empire, C. Iggulden

  68. Here I Stand: A Life Of Martin Luther, Roland H. Bainton

  69. House Of Stone, Anthony Shadid

  70. Columbine, Dave Cullen

  71. Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long, Richard D. White Jr.

  72. Vigilante Wars, Cecelia Holland

  73. The Art Of War, Sun Tzu

  74. The Crusades, Abigail Archer

  75. Extreme North: A Cultural History, Bernd Brunner

  76. Public Enemy: Memoirs of Dissident Day, Bill Ayers

  77. The Soul of a Woman, Isabel Allende

  78. Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir, Lacy Crawford

  79. Kin: A Memoir, Shawna Kay Rodenberg

  80. Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt

  81. Alexander The Great, Bill Yenne

  82. A Terrible Glory: Custer/Little Bighorn, James Donovan

  83. The Last Lion “Churchill”, Manchester/Reid

  84. My Lobotomy, H. Dully/C. Fleming

  85. I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb

  86. South To America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to the Understand the Soul of a Nation, Imani Perry

  87. Man's Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl

  88. Kant: A Very Short Introduction, Roger Scruton

  89. Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel, Julia Keller

  90. Not My Father’s Son, Alan Cumming

  91. Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard, Liz Murray

  92. The Great Bridge, David McCullough

  93. The Ghost Runner, Bill Jones

  94. Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States, Jonathan Levy

  95. The Death Of Caesar: The Story Of History’s Most Famous Assassin, Barry Strauss

  96. Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, Gordon S. Wood

  97. Index, a History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age, Dennis Duncan

  98. Muhammad, The World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait, Mohamad Jebara

  99. The Kings in the North: Life and Times of Oswald of North Umbria, Max Adams

  100. Here Comes Trouble, Michael Moore

  101. The Heart And The Fist: Education of a Humanitarian, The Making of a Navy Seal, Eric Greitens

  102. Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden 

  103. What It Is Like To Go To War, Karl Marlantes, Vietnam vet with PTSD/Bronze Star/2 Navy valor Commendations/2 Purple Hearts/10 Air Medals

  104. Theodore And Woodrow, Andrew Napolitano

  105. Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington D.C., J.D. Dickey

  106. Murder of King Tut, Patterson/Dugard

  107. Born To Run, Chris McDougall

  108. Caveat Emptor: Secret Life of an American Forger, Ken Perenyi

  109. Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern, Mary Beard

  110. An Unfinished Life: JFK 1917-1963, Robert Dallek

  111. The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1913-1953, Jeffrey Frank

  112. A Free Man (Life in Delhi) Aman Sethi


The Great Courses, Lectures

  1. Capitalism versus Socialism: Comparing Economic Systems, Professor Edward F. Stuart
  2. America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Professor Edward T. O'Donnell

  3. The History of Politics and Race in America: 1968-Present, Professor Candis Watts Smith

  4. Understanding the Misconceptions of Science, Professor Don Lincoln

  5. The Terror of History: Mystics, Heretics, Witches in the Western Tradition, Prof. Teofilo F. Ruiz

  6. The Science of Energy: Resources and Power Explained, Professor Michael E. Wysession

  7. Understanding Economics: Game Theory, Professor Jay R. Corrigan

  8. Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills, Dr. Steven Novella, Neurologist

  9. Redefining Reality: The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science, Steven Gimbel


Fiction

  1. Shaker, Scott Frank
  2. Go Set A Watchmen, Harper Lee
  3. Rogue Lawyer, John Grisham
  4. The Judge's List, John Grisham
  5. Comino Island, John Grisham
  6. The Street Lawyer, John Grisham
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