Readings 2019 - Nonfiction

 

My reading list of nonfiction books read in 2019. 24 nonfiction books. 

I really enjoyed both of Jill Lepore's books and liked her perspective on American history. I read several political books and some anti-Trump books.

I was disappointed with the biography of Babe Ruth. I've read a bio on him many years ago but this one was more about his media activities.

Some books I particularly liked were The Club about the English Premier soccer league, Living Hell about the civil war and a couple of good journalism collections.

Music books included All Hopped Up about the New York City music scene and Under the Big Black Sun about the LA punk scene.

1. These Truths: A History of the United States - Jill Lepore, 2018
2. This America: The Case for the Nation - Jill Lepore, 2019
3. All Hopped Up and Ready To Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927-1977 - Tony Fletcher, 2009
4. Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War - Michael Adams, 2014
5. Piecework: Writings on Men & Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Calamities and How the Weather Was - Pete Hamill, 1997
6. The Resistance Handbook: 45 Ways to Fight Trump - Markos Mulitsas, 2017
7. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming - David Wallace-Wells, 2019
8. The End of the End of the Earth: Essays - Jonathan Franzen, 2018
9. World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech - Franklin Foer, 2017
10. Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk - John Doe, 2016
11. The Romanovs: 1613-1918 - Simon Sebag Montefiore, 2016
12. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future - Steven Levitsky, 2018
13. The Map Book - Peter Barber, 2006
14. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equinino: Written by Himself - Olaudah Equinino, 2006
15. The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest and Most Destructive Force in Sports - Joshua Robinson, 2018
16. Rules For Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals - Saul Alinsky, 1969
17. Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Fight to Break America - Christopher Wylie, 2019
18. The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War - Joanne Freeman, 2018
19. Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles - Bernard Cornwell, 2014
20. Great Maps - Jerry Brotton, 2014
21. Philadelphia Fire - John Edgar Wideman, 2005
22. Target: My Inside Story of Cambridge Analytica and How Trump and Facebook Broke America - Brittany Kaiser, 2019
23. The Mexican Pet: More New Urban Legends and Some Old Favorites - Jan Harold Brunvald, 1988
24. The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created - Jane Leavy, 2018