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)
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.
Indigo: Essays by Padgett Powell
The Trials of Harry S. Truman by Jeffery Frank
Wonderlands Essays - Charles Baxter
Rickey: THe Life and Legend of an American Original - Howard Bryant
For Destination Books
Arctic Dreams, and or Horizon by Barry Lopez ( a travel and environment component)
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)
Hide and Seek: Camouflage, Photography, and Media of Renaissance by Hanna Rose Shell (Cynthia)
