The Hundred Year’s War on Palestine,
Men Who Hate Women,
How to Say Babylon
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The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
**Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe**
**Know My Name by Chanel Miller**
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
**Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez**
Those are the best ones I read. I bolded the three I absolutely wouldn’t want someone to miss but they were all excellent.
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*The Invention of God* by Thomas Römer. It’s a synthesis of current scholarship about how specific historical events in the history of Israel/Palestine prompted the theological evolution in Israelite religion from polytheism to henotheism (and eventually monotheism).
*Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B. Calhoun* by Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden. It’s about the work of John B. Calhoun, whose intense study of the ecology of the Norway Rat (and later of mice) prompted a great deal of academic and popular response about the relationship between environment and behavior.
*Frog* by Charlotte Sleigh. It’s about frogs and their history in human culture.
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The Contrarian by Max Chafkin; Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper; The View from Flyover Country by Sarah Kendzior
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Determined by Robert Sapolsky, Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton, The Case Against Reality by Donald Hoffman
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*First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers* by Loung Ung.
*Black Sunday: When Weather Claimed the U.S. Fifth Air Force* by Michael John Claringbould.
*A Chindit’s Chronicle* by MAJ Bill Towill, 3rd Bn., 9th Gurka Rifles.
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Atomic habits, Sapiens, Man’s search for meaning
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Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned by John Strausbaugh
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall
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By the Fire We Carry, Rebecca Nagle.
The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson.
The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon.
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While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger
Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction by David Sheff (this was a re-read and it was still excellent)
My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward by Mark Lukach (also a re-read, also still excellent)
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“it was all a lie: how the republican party became donald trump” by stuart stevens.
“longitude: the true story of a genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time” by dave sobel
“outliers: the story of success” by malcom gladwell
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The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
Sapiens: Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
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Among the Thugs, A Soldier’s War
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*Night* by Elie Wiesel
*The Roman Way* by Edith Hamilton
*1913: The Year Before the Storm* by Florian Illies
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The Butterfly Cage by Rachel Zemach (stunning account of deaf education in American public schools, also talks about the author’s own education and identity journeys.)
Crossings by Ben Goldfarb (all about road ecology; how roads change nature and how we’re responding to that.)
A Quiet Foghorn by Raymond Luczak (essay collection; many topics.)
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Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham;
The Wager by David Grann (same dude who wrote Killers of the Flower Moon);
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
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The Hundred Year’s War on Palestine,
Men Who Hate Women,
How to Say Babylon
The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore
**Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe**
**Know My Name by Chanel Miller**
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
**Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez**
Those are the best ones I read. I bolded the three I absolutely wouldn’t want someone to miss but they were all excellent.
*The Invention of God* by Thomas Römer. It’s a synthesis of current scholarship about how specific historical events in the history of Israel/Palestine prompted the theological evolution in Israelite religion from polytheism to henotheism (and eventually monotheism).
*Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B. Calhoun* by Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden. It’s about the work of John B. Calhoun, whose intense study of the ecology of the Norway Rat (and later of mice) prompted a great deal of academic and popular response about the relationship between environment and behavior.
*Frog* by Charlotte Sleigh. It’s about frogs and their history in human culture.
The Contrarian by Max Chafkin; Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper; The View from Flyover Country by Sarah Kendzior
Determined by Robert Sapolsky, Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton, The Case Against Reality by Donald Hoffman
*First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers* by Loung Ung.
*Black Sunday: When Weather Claimed the U.S. Fifth Air Force* by Michael John Claringbould.
*A Chindit’s Chronicle* by MAJ Bill Towill, 3rd Bn., 9th Gurka Rifles.
Atomic habits, Sapiens, Man’s search for meaning
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned by John Strausbaugh
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall
By the Fire We Carry, Rebecca Nagle.
The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson.
The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon.
While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence by Meg Kissinger
Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction by David Sheff (this was a re-read and it was still excellent)
My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward by Mark Lukach (also a re-read, also still excellent)
“it was all a lie: how the republican party became donald trump” by stuart stevens.
“longitude: the true story of a genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time” by dave sobel
“outliers: the story of success” by malcom gladwell
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
Sapiens: Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Among the Thugs, A Soldier’s War
*Night* by Elie Wiesel
*The Roman Way* by Edith Hamilton
*1913: The Year Before the Storm* by Florian Illies
The Butterfly Cage by Rachel Zemach (stunning account of deaf education in American public schools, also talks about the author’s own education and identity journeys.)
Crossings by Ben Goldfarb (all about road ecology; how roads change nature and how we’re responding to that.)
A Quiet Foghorn by Raymond Luczak (essay collection; many topics.)
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham;
The Wager by David Grann (same dude who wrote Killers of the Flower Moon);
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman