Readings 2018 - Nonfiction

Nonfiction books read in 2018. I read 85 books on my second full year of retirement and 43 books were nonfiction and biographies. That's over half. I read memoir/biographies of Sarah Vaughn, Brian Wilson, Lou Reed, Otis Redding, Muhammad Ali, Gertrude Bell, Carrie Brownstein, Leonard Cohen and Mitch Landrieu. I read several books on London and Paris where we traveled this year. There were 18 books on Trump and the effects of his politics and policies on our country and four books on Vietnam and its effects on our country. The book I really loved was the Silk Roads: A New History of the World. I've always been fascinated with the concept of the silk road in history and especially that part of the world. Overall a good year for reading.

1. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World - Peter Frankopan, 2015
2. Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan - Elaine Hayes, 2017
3. It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art - Jonathan Santlofer, 2018
4. Paris: The Secret History - Andrew Hussey, 2006
5. Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life - Jonathan Gould, 2017
6. Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and It's War - James Edward Wright, 2017
7. London: The Biography - Peter Ackroyd, 2000
8. In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History - Mitch Landrieu, 2018
9. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century - Timothy Snyder, 2017
10. Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam - Mark Bowden, 2017
11. Ali: A Life - Jonathan Eig, 2017
12. Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man - Lynn Vincent, 2018
13. Fear: Trump in the White House - Bob Woodward, 2018
14. The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right - Max Boot, 2018
15. 1968: Radical Protest and Its Enemies - Richard Vinen, 2018
16. Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic - David Frum, 2018
17. Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump - Michael Isikoff, 2018
18. Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right - Angela Nagle, 2017
19. The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders - Stuart Kells, 2018
20. Hunger Made Me a Modern Girl - Carrie Brownstein, 2016
21. We Are All Weird: The Rise of Tribes and the End of Normal - Seth Godin, 2015
22. Age of Anger: A History of the Present - Pankaj Mishra, 2018
23. Lou Reed: A Life - Anthony DeCurtis, 2017
24. The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs - Elaine Sciolino, 2016
25. The Flame - Leonard Cohen, 2018
26. The Battle For Paradise - Naomi Klein, 2018
27. War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence - Ronan Farrow, 2018
28. Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Advisor to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia - Janet Wallach, 2005
29. The Fifth Risk - Michael Lewis, 2018
30. Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America - Nancy MacLean, 2018
31. 1971 - Never a Dull Moment: Rock's Golden Year - David Hepworth, 2016
32. My Mother, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and the Last Stand of the Angry White Man - Kevin Powell, 2018
33. Black April: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75 - George Veith, 2012
34. Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus - Matt Taibbi, 2017
35. The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap - Matt Taibbi, 2014
36. London Fog: The Biography - Christine Corton, 2015
37. I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir - Brian Wilson, 2016
38. Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy - Elaine Tyler May, 2017
39. Love: A Philadelphia Affair - Beth Kephart, 2015
40. The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America - Frances FitzGerald, 2017
41. The Apprentice - Greg Miller, 2018
42. History of Buffalo Music & Entertainment: A Nostalgic Journey into Buffalo New York's Musical Heritage - Rick Falkowski, 2017
43. Outrage, Inc: How the Liberal Mob Ruined Science, Journalism and Hollywood - Derek Hunter, 2018