These are books that have been recommended to me lately and a few of them that I have stumbled on serendipitously. Either way I will need to grow more bookmarks. A simple strikethrough means the book was purchased.
Age of Anger by Pankaj Mishra (via Bruce Woods) Read
From the Ruins of Empire by Pankaj Mishra (via Bruce)
Games Without Rules: The Oft Interrupted History of Afghanistan by Tamin Ansary (via Bruce)
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change, and Catastrophe in the 17th Century by Geoffrey Parker (via Bruce)
The East was Read by Vijay Prahsad look for Georgetown Speech (via Bruce)
The Rise of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt (via Bruce)
Grand Union by Zadie Smith (NY Times BR) Read It Too!
Interior Chinatown: A Novel by Charles Yu (NY Times BR)
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald Read
Churchill & Orwell: A Fight For Freedom by Thomas Ricks (Francis Walker)
The Noir Forties: From Victory to the Cold War by Richard Lingeman (Dave Dintenfass)
The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene (via Jim Simpson) Read It Too!
Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War by Thomas J. Andrews (Dr. Cynthia Browne)
A Pitcher's Story: Innings with David Cone by Roger Angell (Tom Bowen)
Baseball When the Grass Was Real by Donald Honig (Tom Bowen)
New York in the Fifties by Dan Wakefield (Leonard Dintenfass)
Deacon King Kong or The Good Lord Bird by James McBride (NY Times BR)
The Secret Lives of Bab Segi's Wives by Lola Shonyin (C.N. Adichie, NY Times BR)
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John Dower (Francis Walker)
The Geography of Genius: Lessons from the World's Most Creative Places by Eric Weiner (Francis Walker)
Self-Portrait in Black and White by Thomas Chatterton Williams (met him virtually through the blog).
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Maggie Carini) Read it, blogged about it!
The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Finding America, Finding Myself (borrowed from Eric Easley) Read it, I guess I should return it.
Seasons in Hell by Mike Shropshire (borrowed from Eric Easley) - read!
Black No More by George S. Schuler (a satire recommended by Isabell Wilkerson in NY Times) - read and blogged about it!
Ripples of Battle by Victor Davis Hanson (recommended by Francis Walker) Read it!
National Geographic Atlas of the World $215 (NY Times BR)
Atlas of Geographic Wonders from Mountain Top by Princeton Archeological Press
In the Distance (2017) by Herman Diaz (recommended by Rachel Leach)
Private Means (2020) by Cree LaFavour (recommended by Bill Gwin)
Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer (2016) by Frederik Backman (novella recommended by Bill Gwin)
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel (2020) by Kim Stanley Robinson (recommended Eric Morales-Franceschini of ToM) - read it and blogged about it.
The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War by Michael Gorra (2020) - read and blogged about it.
Vineland Reread by Peter Coviello (NYBR) in house
A Place of Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders. (NYBR) (in house for Desty)
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo -- West Indian women in Britain, recommended by Denise
Fallen Idols by Alex Von Tunzelman. (NYTBR) - The controversy over statues and how we commemorate
Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War 1931-1945 by Richard Overy. Fueled by imperial fantasies, the second world war sounded the death knell of the colonial era.
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 by Harold Jahner (NYTBR)
Exit Zero Family and Class in Post Industrial Chicago by Christine Walley. (Cynthia) Examination of one's family.
Red and Black by Stendhal (new translation from University of Minnesota Press.) Available in June 2022. (in house GRSG)
Indigo: Essays by Padgett Powell
The Trials of Harry S. Truman by Jeffery Frank
Wonderlands Essays - Charles Baxter - got it
Rickey: THe Life and Legend of an American Original - Howard Bryant
Little Caesar - W.R. Burnett. Crime Novels of the 30s, 40s and 50s. - Dave Dintenfass
Affinities: On Art and Fascination (Essays) by Brian Dillion
In the Steps of Mr. Kurtz by Michaela Wrong A 'humorous book about the Congo" The Economist
Directions of Myself by Heide Julavits
For Destination Books
Arctic Dreams, and or Horizon by Barry Lopez ( a travel and environment component) (In house)
Encounters with the Archdruid and Annals of the Former World, John McPhee (the latter Annals is 700 pages, so probably not)
The Forest Unseen, David George Haskill - he was in the booth in August, 2021
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have by Tatiana Schlossberg - Read in house
Weather for Dummies – Bill Gates recommended it
Square Foot Gardening – Mel Bartholomew (in house)
Square Foot Gardening for Kids – Mel Bartholomew (in house)
The Earth Moved on the Remarkable Achievements for Earth Worms by Amy Stewart Read Great! Blogged about it.
The New Climate War by Michael Mann
Animal, Vegetable, Junk by Mark Bittman
Shoddy: From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags by Hanna Rose Shell (Cynthia) Check out University of Chicago Press (in house and sold at Farmer's Market)
Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and Media of Renaissance by Hanna Rose Shell (Cynthia)
Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future by Saul Griffith (in house - read)
Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time (2014) by Craig LeHoullier (New York Times) in house
Planting in a Post Wild World by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West (Shades of Green)
The American Meadow Garden by John Greenlee ( Shades of Green)
Planting by Piet Oudolf (Shades of Green)
The Insect Crisis by Oliver Millman (NYTBR)
Life on the Rocks. Building a Future for Coral Reefs by Juli Berwald
Naturalist by E.O. Wilson - in house
Harrow: A Novel by Joy Williams (Also author of The Quick and the Dead) - tried it, didn't like it, sold it.
Plant Partners and Attracting Beneficial Bugs by Jennifer Walliser (NYT) - in house
Portable Magic by Emma Smith (Mark Burrell)
A Road Running Southward (about Chattahoochie) Following John Muirs Journey - house and read
Border Crossings by Emma FIck (Order for Denise) - done
Hiroshige's Japan: On the Trail of the Great Woodblock Print by Phillippe Deford (Denise )- done
You Grow Girl Plant Kween's Lush Guide -Christopher Griffin, New York Times BR -in house, finally sold
Plants Are My Favorite People A Relationship Guide for Plants and Their Parents by Alessia Resta NYTimes BOok Review - in house
Two Wheels Good (A Social History of Bicycles) by Jody Rosen NYTBR - (in house reading - good)
The Grid (2016) by Gretchen Bakke
Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits and Cocktails by Camper English
Supposing by Alaistair Reid Children's book - NYTBR
A Mermaid Girl by Sana Rafi - Children's book - NYTBR
Radical Mycology - Pete McCoy, a rare book about mushrooms. Sheldrake really loves this book
A Bigger Picture - My Fight to Bring New African Voice by Vanessa Nakata NYT Climate letter (tried it, but no)
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human Center Planet -- BY John Green
The Home Place Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affiar with Nature, Drew Lanham. -- Tries to be Sand County Almanac but isn't
Birds and Us, a 12,000 Year History of Cave Art to Conversation by Tim Birkland
Venomous Lumpsucker - Ned Beauman
the Hungry Tide - Amitov Ghosh -read the library's copy. Very good
The Half Known Life by Pico Iyer (Denise wants this book)- got it for Denise
London; The Biography by Peter Ackroyd - In case I go to the U.K.
Black Empire by George S. Schuler -- a black writer from the 1930s - got it
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton - fiction environmentalists and a doomsday prepper want the same land (NYTBR) - had it but sold it.
Hands of Time by Rebecca Struthers -- a book about watches and time.
No Dig: Nurture Your Soil to Grow Better Vegetables with Low Effort - Charles Dowding English - got it in
The Blue Zones American Kitchen by Dan Buttner0 ordered it
How to Catch a Mole: Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature by Marc Hamer. NYTimes and people who stopped by the booth.- ordered the book and read
Keeping the Chattahoochee by Sally Bethea, UGA Press, $24.
The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading about Eating, and Eating While Reading by Dwight Garner- got it
The Heat Will Kill You First by Jeff Goodell. NYTimes and The Economist recommended. Got it in
Encyclopedia of Shade Perennials, by Schmidt, George M., 2002- supposedly a definitive book but old.
The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading about Eating and Eating While Reading by Dwight Garner. Done
100 Bike Rides of a Lifetime by National Geographic (PW. Available Nov. 23)
The Breakaway by Jennifer Weiner When Abby Stern is invited to lead a cycling expedition, she jumps at the chance and find the sustenance to fuel she deserves NYTBR (In house)
Larry McMurtry: A Life by Tracy Daugherty - Entertaining chronicles covers his prolific writing life, his long career as a bookseller and his time in Hollywood. NTYBR
Murphy, Devla Full Tilt Ireland to India with a Bicycle.
Tremor by Teju Cole Brian Dillon reviewed in the NYTR -- compared it to Sebald
Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux (about Orwell's days in Burma)
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit (in house)
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia by Simon Garfield
Colored Television by Danzy Senna
The Weight of Nature by Clayton Page Aldern
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld
"muses on the merits of indulgence - prioritizing utility over sentimenality"
No Judgment: Essays by Lauren Oyler Bookslut, I've always hated Roxanne Gay's writing.
Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Berry. Recommended by Dwight Garner in NYT Review
The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing for Desty, but Denise didn't think that much of it.
Counter-Intelligence: What the Secret World Can Teach Us About Problem-solving and Creativity. By Robert Hannigan. A possibility for GRSG in 2025
The Book Makers by Adam Smith For GRSG, offers lively profiles of booksellers and the stores they’ve overseen, from the 18th century to today.
Plant Partners by Jessica Walliser
Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation by TIm Birkhead Princeton (IPS?)
Birkhead's enthusiasm is infectious in this sweeping history of humans relationship with birds.
