Readings - The Book List

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• World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed Music 9/24
• Old Bones 9/24
• Bloodless 9/24
• Thunderhead 8/24
• Reckless: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell 8/24
• Streets of the Cobblestones: A Germantown Mystery 8/24
• The Absent One 8/24
• Murder on Astor Place 8/24
• What Happened Miss Simone: A Biography 8/24
• The Road to Murder 8/24
• The Keeper of Lost Causes 7/24
• Across The Sand 7/24
• Murder in Passy 7/24
• The Hunter 6/24
• Murder in the Palais Royal 6/24
• All Souls Rising 6/24
• Paper Moon 6/24
• Haiti Noir 5/24
• Bad Luck and Trouble 5/24
• Myth America: Historians Take On The Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past 5/24
• Beacon 23 5/24
• Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul 4/24
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• Dark Forrest 4/24
• System Collapse 4/24
• Killing Floor 4/24
• The Graduate 3/24
• Murder in the Latin Quarter 3/11/24
• Parable of the Sower 3/3/24
• Murder on the Vine 2/21/24
• Kingdoms of Sorrow - Book 2 2/18/24
• Barcelona Dreaming: A Novel 2/13/24
• Murder in the Rue de Paradis 2/8/24
• Prequel: An American Fight Against Facism 2/6/24
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• Pieces of Her 1/29/24
• Julian 1/26/24
• The Resistance Man 1/20/24
• Broken Code - Book 1/17/24
• Downward Cycle 1/10/24
• The Wolf Age 1/3/24
• Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI 12/28/23
• Blake or The Huts of America 12/19/23
• Rememberings - Sinead O'Connor RIP 12/14/23
• Standing My Ground: A Capitol Police Officer's Fight for Accountability and Good Trouble After Jan. 6th  12/12/23    trump dystopia
• The Bitter Taste of Murder 11/27/23
• Indigenous Continent: The Epic Conquest of North America 11/22/23
• Night Flight to Paris  11/12/23
• Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul 11/10/23
• The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History 11/4/23
• Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point 10/21/23    trump dystopia
• The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet 9/18/23
• The Shattering: America in the 1960s, 9/15/23
• Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century, 9/9/23
• April in Spain, 7/15/23
• American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Part Went Crazy 7/3/23    trump dystopia
• Murder in Chianti 6/30/23
• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau 5/31/23
• Daisy Jones & The Six 5/17/23
• Music Is History 5/3/23
• Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present 4/2/23
• Hour of the Assassin 3/28/23
• The Alteration 3/13/23
• Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific  3/7/23
• The Untouchable 2/19/23
• Time Travel: A History 2/9/23
• The Bloodless Boy 2/3/23
• Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump 1/24/23    trump dystopia
• The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread 12/30/22    trump dystopia
• The Divider: Trump in the White House 2017-2021 12/22/22    trump dystopia
• The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America 12/16/22    trump dystopia
• White Fear: How the Browning of America is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds 11/30/22    trump dystopia
• Bruno, Chief of Police 11/15/22
• Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975  11/17/22
• This Is Happiness 11/12/22
• The Black Ice 9/27/22
• Why We Did It: A Travelogue From the Republican Road to Hell 9/25/22    trump dystopia
• Wastelands, Hogs & Corporate Racism: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial 9/20/22
• The Hard Stuff
• The Black Echo
• Another First Sentence 8/19/22
• Harlem Shuffle 8/18/22
• The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois 8/15/22
• The Bouncer 8/3/22
• White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s 8/3/22
• The Monkey Wrench Gang 7/29/22
• Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could 7/20/23    trump dystopia
• When She Woke 7/15/22
• This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America's Future 7/3/22    trump dystopia
• Mudbound 6/12/22
• Cloud Cuckoo Land 6/8/22
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent  5/14/22
• All The Light We Cannot See  5/7/22
• Sea of Tranquility 4/23/22
• Shipboard Reading 4/1/22
• Leviathan Falls 2/15/22
• Long Bright River 2/13/22
• Bag Man 2/11/22
• Termination Shock 1/28/22
• Murder in Bel-Air 1/21/22
• The Quiet Americans 1/4/22
• Rain Dogs 1/3/22
• Peril 1/2/22
• Readings 2021 - Nonfiction 12/31/21
• Readings 2021 - Fiction 12/31/21
• Appleseed 12/27/21
• A Love Supreme 12/9/21
• Gun Street Girl 11/26/21
• Crossroads 11/15/21
• Axiom's End 11/6/21
• Ring Shout 10/29/21 
• Havana Noir 10/23/21
• Snow 10/12/21
• The Secret Guests 10/6/21
• Rock Me on the Water - 1974 9/28/21
• Weather... a novel 9/22/21
• The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden 9/18/21
• In the Morning I'll Be Gone 8/29/21
• Forget The Alamo 8/15/21
• The New Rolling Stone Record Guide 8/8/21
• Devil in a Blue Dress 8/7/21
• The Plague Year 8/5/21    trump dystopia
• Manhattan Noir 7/23/21
• Zero Fail 7/16/21
• A History of What Comes Next 7/14/21
• If Then 6/29/21
• The Midnight Library 6/25/21
• The Murderbot Diaries 6/21/21
• Open Door 6/5/21
• Belfast Noir 5/28/21
• Recursion 5/27/21
• The Space Between Worlds 5/25/21
• The Chain 5/21/21
• 2034 5/9/21
• The Three-Body Problem 4/22/21
• To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
• Three Hours in Paris 4/16/21
• Smoke
• Babylon Berlin 3/16/21
• I Hear The Sirens In The Street 3/8/21
• Songs of America
• All The Devils Are Here 2/28/21
• The Cold Cold Ground 2/21/21
• The Cactus League 2/18/21
• Cara Black in Paris 2/14/21
• Squeeze Me
• The Searcher 1/26/21
• Fight of the Century 1/17/21
• Silence
• H. G. Wells 1/2/21
• Readings 2020 - Nonfiction 12/31/20
• Readings 2020 - Fiction 12/31/20
• Strange Stars 12/30/20
• Wastelands: The New Apocalypse 12/29/20
• The Water Dancer 12/27/20
• Reading List - 50 Years 12/19/20
• Hermine Performs - Broken Music 12/18/20
• Restless - Chrissie Hynde 12/18/20
• The Queen's Gambit 12/13/20
• John le Carre 12/12/20
• Gilead 12/4/20
• The Arrest 11/30/20
• Reading About Dylan 11/29/20
• Kindred 11/22/20
• Lovecraft Country 11/19/20
• Every Anxious Wave 11/17/20
• Sapiens 11/16/20
• Janis: Her Life and Music 11/13/20
• Westside 11/10/20
• Homegoing 10/31/20
• Sticky Fingers: Jann Wenner & Rolling Stone Magazine 10/26/20
• The Witcher Series 10/22/20
• Utopia Avenue 10/20/20
• Too Much 10/12/20
• Cottage Gardens 10/1/20
• Barkskins  9/15/20
• James Ellroy  9/14/20
• Arthur C. Clarke  9/13/20
• Lucas Davenport  9/12/20
• Agent Pendergast  9/8/20
• Vampire Chronicles  9/6/20
• James Bond  9/5/20
• Five or More  9/3/20
• Edgar Rice Burroughs  8/31/20
• Blues People  8/28/20
• Dune again  8/9/20
• Revenge of Geography  8/7/20
• Deaths of Despair  7/23/20    trump dystopia
• Slade House  7/20/20
• Cloud Atlas  7/10/20
• In The American Grain  6/27/20
• Pharma  6/22/20    trump dystopia
• The Teachings of Don Juan  6/21/20
• Between the World and Me 6/20/20
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest  6/19/20
• Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee  6/13/20
• Strangers In Their Land  6/12/20    trump dystopia
• The Sixties Unplugged 6/5/20
• Plagues and People 6/2/20
• The Nickel Boys  6/1/20
• The Mysterious Island  5/31/20
• 2666  5/30/20
• Naked Lunch  5/27/20
• Love in the Time of Cholera  5/26/20
• The Handmaid's Tale  5/24/20
• Blindness  5/15/20
• The Day of the Triffids 5/13/20
• The Right Stuff 5/11/20
• The Time Machine 4/26/20
• Silent Spring  4/22/20
• Pale Rider  4/19/20    trump dystopia
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test  4/8/20
• High Fidelity  4/4/20
• The Big Goodbye  3/27/20
• The King at the Edge of the World  3/15/20
• Dark Towers  3/6/20    trump dystopia
• One Nation Two Realities  3/4/20    trump dystopia
• Tom Swift  2/27/20
• The Fixers 2/20/20
• Bowie's Bookshelf  1/20/20
• Agents Running in the Field 1/7/20
• Readings 2019 - Nonfiction 1/5/20
• Readings 2019 - Fiction 1/4/20
• All Hopped Up  12/22/19
• Chances Are  12/8/19
• Jill Lepore  9/26/19
• The Club  9/18/19
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane 8/12/19
• Neuromancer  7/26/19
• Piecework  7/12/19
• Readings 2010  6/10/19
• The Uninhabitable Earth 6/4/19
• Readings 2000  5/10/19
• Under the Big Black Sun 3/17/19
• Readings 1990  2/20/19
• Readings 1980  2/15/19
• Reference Books 1/9/19
• Readings 2018 - Nonfiction 1/6/19
• Readings 2018 - Fiction  12/30/18
• On Tyranny  12/30/18    trump dystopia
• Max Boot and The Corrosion of Conservatism 12/27/18    trump dystopia
• Night of Camp David  12/20/18
• IQ The Novels  12/6/18
• The Library  11/20/18
• The Fifth Risk  11/17/18    trump dystopia
• The Witch Elm  11/10/18
• The Flame  11/4/18
• The Battle For Paradise  10/14/18    trump dystopia
• War On Peace  10/8/18    trump dystopia
• The Angry White Man  10/3/18    trump dystopia
• Fear in the White House  9/25/18    trump dystopia
• Muhammad Ali 9/15/18
• A Shout in the Ruins  9/11/18
• Greeks Bearing Gifts  9/8/18
• The Overstory 8/30/18
• Indianapolis: The True Story... 8/12/18
• Desert Queen  8/1/18
• Black April  7/30/18
• Never a Dull Moment 1971 7/28/18
• London Fog: A Biography 7/21/18
• Hue 1968 7/5/18
• Russian Roulette  6/27/18    trump dystopia
• Johnny Got His Gun 6/12/18
• The Silk Roads  6/10/18
• Neal Stephenson & Cryptonomicon 6/6/18
• A Rumor of War 6/5/18
• The Human Stain 6/3/18
• Paris: A Secret History  5/31/18
• In the Shadows of Statues  5/23/18    trump dystopia
• 2001: A Space Odyssey 4/8/18
• We Are All Weird 4/6/18
• Queen of Bebop  4/1/18
• The Evangelicals 3/15/18
• It Occurs To Me That I Am American 2/28/18
• Kill All Normies 2/19/18
• Trumpocray 2/12/18    trump dystopia
• Age of Anger 2/4/18    trump dystopia
• I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir 2/3/18
• Enduring Vietnam 1/29/18
• Never Let Me Go 1/9/18
• Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life 1/4/18
• Readings 2017 Fiction 12/31/17
• Readings 2017 Nonfiction 12/30/17
• Seduced by Mrs. Robinson  12/12/17
• Testimony 11/30/17
• David Bowie: A Life 11/15/17
• So Much Things To Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley 11/3/17
• Bernie's Guide  10/23/17
• The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.  10/17/17
• Graham Nash: Wild Tales  9/15/17
• You Belong to Me 9/14/17
• Please Kill Me... Punk 9/12/17
• Soul Survivor: A Biography of Al Green 9/10/17
• Bed-Stuy is Burning  9/4/17
• The Moor's Account  8/29/17
• Perfume River 8/19/17
• Mozart in the Jungle - The Memoir  8/5/17
• Infinite Tuesday: An Autobiographical Riff 7/21/17
• A Brief History of Seven Killings  6/29/17
• Coming Apart 6/12/17
• Snow Crash  3/28/17
• White Trash  3/20/17    trump dystopia
• Confederates in the Attic 3/13/17   trump dystopia
• Zero K 2/27/17
• Love For Sale: Pop Music in America 2/26/17
• Everybody's Fool 2/19/17
• Hero of the Empire 1/7/17
• Readings 2016 - Nonfiction  12/27/16
• Readings 2016 - Fiction 12/27/16
• Stranger in a Strange Land 11/24/16
• Dark Money 11/3/16
• On George Bush No. 43  9/4/16
• The Book Thief  8/11/16
• Unfaithful Music  6/30/16
• Do No Harm 2/21/16
• The Black-Eyed Blonde 1/9/16
• Readings 2015  12/16/15
• Days of Rage 12/10/15
• The Word Exchange  11/19/15
• Seveneves  10/13/15
• The Book of Strange New Things 9/14/15
• God's Pocket 8/31/15
• Rain Falls Like Mercy 8/15/15
• The Day of Battle  6/2/15
• Word Virus  3/20/15
• The Time Regulation Institute 2/20/15
• Call Me Burroughs 2/15/15
• Readings 2014 - Nonfiction  1/22/15
• Readings 2014 - Fiction  1/22/15
• Station Eleven 1/5/15
• Ten Songs 10/22/14
• The Sixth Extinction 9/18/14
• Dubliners  6/30/14
• Tree of Smoke 6/26/14
• Life After Life 3/22/14
• The Civil War - The First Year 2/15/14
• In the Woods 2/8/14
• Readings 2013  2/1/14
• Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite 1/30/14
• The Commissariat of Enlightment 1/26/14
• A History of the World in 100 Objects 11/15/13
• Strange Bird  10/8/13
• Equilateral 9/27/13
• Bridge of Sighs 6/10/13
• It was a Harry Potter year  1/1/13
• Readings 2012
• James Brown on the subway  11/1/12
• James Brown: The Godfather of Soul
• The One: The Life and Music of James Brown
• Good Reads 8/30/12
• In The Garden of Beasts  2/14/12
• Reamde   1/22/12
• Readings 2011 - Fiction  12/29/11
• Readings 2011 - Nonfiction  12/28/11
• Nixonland  1/25/10
• The Great Deluge  9/1/08
• The Fortune Cookie Chronicles  8/8/08