My
annual list of books listened, mostly kept by me because I’m curious of the trends
across time (see books label).
Awards
All things Bill Bryson, including
Notes from a Big Country, At Home, Thunderbolt Kid: Can’t Help Myself
The Historian: Outperformed Expectations
In Defense of Food: Most likely affected me
The Historian: Outperformed Expectations
In Defense of Food: Most likely affected me
- Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson
- At Home: A Short History of Private Life - Bill Bryson
- In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto - Michael Pollan
- David Attenborough's Life Stories
- Brother Cadfael's Penance - Ellis Peters
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John LeCarre
- Born to Run - Christopher McDougall
- Notes from a Big Country - Bill Bryson
- Beyond Band of Brothers - Major Dick Winters
- Death of an Expert Witness - P.D. James
- A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - William Manchester
- Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
- Unnatural Causes - P.D. James
- American Front - Harry Turtledove
- Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
- A House Reunited: How America Survived the Civil War - Jay Winik
- How Few Remain - Harry Turtledove
- The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
- Mornings on Horseback - David McCullough
- All the Devils are Here: the Hidden History of the Financial Crisis - Bethany McLean
- Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady - L.A. Meyer
- Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power - Rachel Maddow
- 1493 - Charles Mann