These are books that have been recommended to me lately and a few of them that I have stumbled on serendiptiously. Either way I will need to grow more bookmarks.
Age of Anger by Pankaj Mishra (via Bruce Woods)
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
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).
The End of Baseball by Peter Schilling (Mark Burrell)
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Maggie Carini) Currently Reading It!
