Thursday, December 31, 2020

The Year In Books

 I read 22 this year.  The Covid thing helped, I guess

The Powers That Be:
Within the Kingdom of the Media: How Luce's
Time
Paley's CBS; the Graham's Washington Post
and the Chandler's Los Angeles Times
Became Rich and Powerful and Changed Forever
the Shape of American Politics and Society
David Halberstam

12 Years A Slave, Solomon Northup

The Magician, Sol Stein

The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire, Stephen Kinzer

Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife,
Bart D. Ehrman

Mickey and Willie: Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age, Allen Barra

Summer of '68: The Season That changed Baseball-And America-Forever
Tim Wendel

Leadership In Turbulent Times, Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game,
Edward Achorn

Gulag: A History, Anne Applebaum

Swinging '73: Baseball's Wildest Season, Matthew Silverman

21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari

The Final Season: Fathers, Sons an d One Last Season In A Classic American Ballpark
, Tom Stanton

Red Famine: Stalin's War On Ukraine, Anne Applebaum

Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, Robert A. Caro

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500 Year History,
Kurt Andersen

Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America, A Recent History
Kurt Andersen

Alice In Chains: The Untold Story, David de Sola

Lawrence In Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East, Scott Anderson

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture In Crisis
,
J.D. Vance

Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads, David Rundell

Highest Duty: My Search For What Really Matters
Capt. Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger with Jeffrey Zaslow

Bushville Wins: The Wild Saga of the 1957 Milwaukee Braves and the Screwballs, Sluggers, and Beer Swiggers Who Canned The New York Yankees and Changed Baseball, John Klima

Friday, January 3, 2020

The Previous Year In Books

Here is the list of books I read in 2019.  Doesn't count any of the ones that I started but didn't finish.  Weren't quite so many of those this year ...


Out Of Their League, Dave Meggyesy
The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking The Long Peace
Paul Thomas Chamberlin


Things Fall Apart, C
hinua Achebe
All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir
Erin Lee Carr


Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
Mary Shelley
The Night Of The Gun: A Reporter investigates The Darkest Story Of His Life.
His Own
, David Carr

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

The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy
in Vietnam
, Max Boot