Thursday, January 02, 2025

Books List - 2025

 

Ordered by most recently listened to, first.

Audiobooks 

  1. Queued:
    1. Conundrum (1974) - Jan Morris
    2. Angela Davis: An Autobiography (1974) - Angela Davis
    3. Masha Gessen books
    4. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer  (2005) - Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
    5. The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters (2017) - Tom Nichols
    6. 24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai (1985) - Roger Zelazny
    7. Samurai William : the Englishman who opened Japan (2003) - Giles Milton
    8. The Silver Snarling Trumpet: The Birth of the Grateful Dead―The Lost Manuscript of Robert Hunter (2024) - by Robert Hunter (Author), Dennis McNally (Introduction), Brigid Meier (Afterword), John Mayer (Foreword)
    9. The Pillars of the Earth (1989) - Ken Follett
    10. Solar Express (2015) - L.E. Modesitt Jr. (suggested perhaps mistakenly as by David Weber)
    11. The Creative Act: A Way of Being (2023) - Rick Rubin
    12. Perfume books by Luca Turin
    13. Connie: A Memoir (2024) - Connie Chung
    14. Patriot: A Memoir (2024) -  Alexei Navalny 
    15. Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America (2024) - Talia Lavin
    16. The Covid Safety Handbook (2024) - Violet Blue 
  2. James: A Novel (2024) - Percival Everett

Using the Libby app (via Overdrive).

E-Books

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Print


Suggestions

  • Barack Obama's reading list
    • Favorite Books of 2024:
    • Summer 2024 reading list:
    • 2023 Favorites, end-of-year:
      • The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride
      • The Maniac - Benjamin Labatut
      • Poverty, By America - Matthew Desmond
      • How To Say Babylon - Safiya Sinclair
      • The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder - David Grann
      • Chip War - Chris Miller
      • The Vaster Wilds - Lauren Groff
      • Humanly Possible - Sarah Bakewell
      • King: A Life - Jonathan Eig
      • The Covenant Of Water - Abraham Verghese
      • The Best Minds - Jonathan Rosen
      • All The Sinners Bleed: A Novel - S.A. Cosby
      • The Kingdom, The Power, And The Glory - Tim Alberta
      • Some People Need Killing - Patricia Evangelista
      • This Other Eden - Paul Harding
    • Summer 2023 reading list:
      • Small Mercies: A Detective Mystery - Dennis Lehane
      • Hello Beautiful: A Novel - Ann Napolitano
      • Birnam Wood: A Novel - Eleanor Cotton
      • What Napoleon Could Not Do: A Novel - DK Nnuro
      • Blue Hour: A Novel - Tiffany Clarke Harrison
    • Dec 2019 (via):
      • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power () - Shoshana Zuboff
      • The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company () - William Dalrymple (note: ebook only)
      • Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee () - Casey Cep
      • Girl, Woman, Other () - Bernardine Evaristo
      • The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present () - David Treuer
      • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy () - Jenny Odell
      • Lost Children Archive () - Valeria Luiselli
      • Lot: Stories () - Bryan Washington
      • Normal People () - Sally Rooney
      • The Orphan Master's Son () - Adam Johnson
      • The Yellow House () - Sarah M. Broom (note: ebook only)
      • Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland () - Patrick Radden Keefe b;
      • Solitary () - Albert Woodfox (note: ebook only)
      • The Topeka School () - Ben Lerner
      • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion () - Jia Tolentino
      • Trust Exercise () - Susan Choi
      • We Live in Water: Stories () - Jess Walter
      • A Different Way to Win: Dan Rooney's Story from the Super Bowl to the Rooney Rule () - Jim Rooney (note: not on Overdrive yet; published Nov 2019)
      • The Sixth Man () - Andre Iguodala
    • Aug 2019 (via):
      • Toni Morrison: Beloved, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, Sula, everything else
      • The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
      • Exhalation by Ted Chiang
      • Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel­
      • Haruki Murakami’s Men Without Women
      • American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
      • The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
      • Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
      • Inland by Téa Obreht
      • How to Read the Air, by Dinaw Mengestu
      • Maid by Stephanie Land
    • Dec 2018:
      • Becoming by Michelle Obama (Overdrive)
      • An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (Overdrive)
      • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Overdrive)
      • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die by Keith Payne (Overdrive)
      • Educated by Tara Westover (Overdrive)
      • Factfulness by Hans Rosling
        • Note: ebook only (Overdrive)
      • Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging by Alex Wagner (Overdrive)
      • A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
        • Note: ebook only (Overdrive)
      • A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul (Overdrive: Recommended 01/01/2019)
      • How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt (Overdrive)
      • In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History by Mitch Landrieu (Overdrive)
      • Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela (Overdrive)
      • The New Geography of Jobs by Enrico Moretti
        • Note: recommended 01/01/2019 (Northern California Public Library)
      • The Return by Hisham Matar
        • Note: ebook only (Overdrive)
      • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (read)
      • Warlight by Michael Ondaatje (Overdrive)
      • Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick Deneen
        • Note: ebook only (Overdrive)
      • The World As It Is by Ben Rhodes (Overdrive)
      • American Prison by Shane Bauer  (Overdrive)
      • Arthur Ashe: A Life by Raymond Arsenault (Overdrive)
      • Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday  (Overdrive)
      • Feel Free by Zadie Smith  (Overdrive)
      • Florida by Lauren Groff  (Overdrive)
      • Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight (Overdrive)
      • Immigrant, Montana by Amitava Kumar (Overdrive)
      • The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson (Overdrive)
      • Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark  (Overdrive)
      • There There by Tommy Orange  (Overdrive)
      • Washington Black by Esi Edugyan (Overdrive)
  • Josh Marshall 2018 Holiday recommendations:
    • Eric H. Cline: Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World. Nicholas Ostler
      • 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Turning Points in Ancient History)
      • Only History of Ancient Greece available
    • Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
      • Note: ebook only (Overdrive)
    • Barry Cunliffe: By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia
      • Nothing as of 01/01/2019
    • Felipe Fernandez-Armesto: Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration
      • Note: ebook only (Overdrive)
    • David Anthony: The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
      • Recommended 12/31/2018
    • Roger Crowley: Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World
      • City of Fortune and Conquerers recommendable as audiobooks
    • David Abulafia: The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
      • Nothing as of 07/18/2018
    • James Romm: Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for His Empire
      • ebook only (Overdrive) as of 07/18/2018
    • Peter Heather: 
      • The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
      • Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe
      • The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders
      • Note: ebook only; audiobook not recommendable (Overdrive) as of 07/18/2018
    • Hugh Thomas: Conquest: Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico
      • Nothing available as of 07/18/2018
    • Lionel Casson: Libraries in the Ancient World
      • Unavailable in any format (Overdrive)
      • Life in Ancient Rome recommendable as Audiobook (Overdrive)
  • Josh Marshall 1066 Norman Conquest Discussion:
    • Short History of the Normans (2016) - Leonie V. Hicks
    • The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England (2013) - Marc Morris
    • The Norman Conquest: England after William the Conqueror (Critical Issues in World and International History) (2007) - Hugh M. Thomas
    • Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070 (2011) - Robin Fleming
    • William, King and Conqueror (2013) - Mark Hagger
    • Conquest and Colonisation: The Normans in Britain, 1066-1100 (1994) - Brian Golding
    • The Normans in Europe (2000) - Elisabeth van Houts
    • William the Conqueror (The English Monarchs Series) (2016) - David Bates
  • 2018-01-08: David Finkel's The Good Soldiers (via)
    • Note: ebook only (Overdrive)
  • Mike Liebhold (via):
    • Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah 
    • Granada: A Pomegranate in the Hand of God 
    • Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East
  • UCSC LIT 61U - Introduction to SF (online class):
    • The Left Hand of Darkness, Book I of the Lilith's Brood Trilogy (1969) - Ursula K. Le Guin
    • Dawn (1987) - Octavia E. Butler (note: not on Overdrive)
    • Childhood's End (1953) - Arthur C. Clarke (note: not on Overdrive)
    • "The Cold Equations" (1954) - Tom Godwin (note: not on Overdrive)
    • Sail On! Sail On! (1952) - Philip José Farmer (note: not on Overdrive)
  •  John Cole (via):
  • Bookshop Santa Cruz - Winter 2023 reading list:
    • North Woods: A Novel - Daniel Mason 
    • Signal Fires: A Novel - Dani Shapiro
    • Swimming Back to Trout River: A Novel - Linda Rui Feng
    • Elder Race - Adrian Tchaikovsky
    • More Than You'll Ever Know - Katie Gutierrez
    • The Sun Is a Compass: My 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds - Caroline Van Hemert 
    • The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession - Michael Finkel 
    • Poet Warrior: A Memoir - Joy Harjo
  • Ask A Manager 2023 recommendations (she bolded her favorites of the favorites):
    • How Lucky - Will Leitch
    • Ms. Demeanor - Elinor Lipman
    • Mouth to Mouth - Antoine Wilson
    • L.A. Weather - María Amparo Escandón
    • Lolly Willowes - Sylvia Townsend Warner
    • Silver Sparrow - Tayari Jones
    • A Quiet Life - Ethan Joella
    • None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive - Carolyn Prusa
    • Happy All the Time - Laurie Colwin
    • All Together Now - Matthew Norman
    • Vintage Contemporaries - Dan Kois
    • The Sweet Spot - Amy Poeppel
    • Sam - Allegra Goodman
    • Small Admissions - Amy Poeppel
    • The Helpline - Katherine Collette
    • Pineapple Street - Jenny Jackson
    • Romantic Comedy - Curtis Sittenfeld
    • Limelight - Amy Poeppel
    • Liars and Saints - Maile Meloy
    • Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - Jesse Q. Sutanto
    • Yellowface - R.F. Kuang
    • Bad Summer People - Emma Rosenblum
    • Games and Rituals - Katherine Heiny
    • Every Heart a Doorway - Seanan McGuire
    • By the Book - Jasmine Guillory
    • Barbara Isn’t Dying - Alina Bronsky
    • My Last Innocent Year - Daisy Alpert Florin
    • The Guest - Emma Cline
    • The Truth and Other Hidden Things - Lea Geller
    • The Innocents - Francesca Segal
    • The Appeal - Janice Hallett
    • Sunshine Nails - Mai Nguyen
    • Heartburn - Nora Ephron
    • Maame - Jessica George
    • The Connellys of County Down - Tracey Lange
    • Tom Lake - Ann Patchett
    • You Can’t Stay Here Forever - Katherine Lin
    • Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl - Renee Rosen
    • The Whispers - Ashley Audrain
    • An Available Man - Hilma Wolitzer
    • Daughters-in-Law - Joanna Trollope
    • Flight - Lynn Steger Strong
    • High Maintenance - Jennifer Belle
    • Mrs. Caliban - Rachel Ingalls
    • Hello Beautiful - Ann Napolitano
    • A Family Daughter - Maile Meloy
    • Family Happiness - Laurie Colwin
    • The Man I Never Met - Elle Cook
  • Bill Gates 2023 reading list:
    • The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human - Siddhartha Mukherjee
    • Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet - Hannah Ritchie
    • Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure - Vaclav Smil

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