Total 44 books
Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic that Changed History by Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta—America’s nightmarish response to COVID
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed—How the gold standard caused the Great Depression
The Lords of Creation: The History of America’s 1 Percent by Frederick Lewis Allen—Why the Great Recession happened—and the Great Depression before it
The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War by Scott Anderson—Four CIA spies who helped set US policy in the 1940s and 50s
The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery by Rick Beyer and Elizabeth Sayles—An entertaining account of deception in World War II
The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King—The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea by Walter R. Borneman—The four men who led the US Navy in WWII
The Mission: A True Story by David W. Brown—Mission to Europa to find extraterrestrial life
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World, by Gregory Clark—Why is the Global North so much richer than the South?
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power by Steve Coll—The truth about ExxonMobil (it ain’t pretty)
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe—They personified Gilded Age excess
The Fall of Japan: The Final Weeks of World War II in the Pacific by William Craig—The ugly background to Japan’s unconditional surrender
The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg by Nicholas Dawidoff—An absorbing biography of Moe Berg, baseball player and WWII spy
The Jews in America by Max I. Dimont—A brilliant account of Jewish history in America
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell—Malcolm Gladwell wades into the debate about strategic bombing in WWII
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann—Pre-Columbian civilization in the Amazon
Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze by Peter Harmsen—The 1937 Battle of Shanghai that started World War II
The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War by Benjamin Carter Hett—How the Western democracies stumbled into war with Nazi Germany
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston—The last living former slave tells his story
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr—A supremely entertaining history of American empire
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson—CRISPR technology may change the world as we know it
Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer by Steven Johnson—Why are people living so much longer these days?
The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D. Kaplan—Geopolitical analysis illuminates history and world politics
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert—In the Anthropocene, the chickens come home to roost
AI 2041 by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan—A troubling but balanced view of artificial intelligence
The Princess Spy: The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones by Larry Loftis—The American fashion model who spied for the Allies in World War II
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America by Alec MacGillis—Assessing the havoc Amazon has created
Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books by Jess McHugh—The bestsellers that shaped the American character
Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live—and How their Wealth Harms Us All by Michael Mechanic—The curious lives of the rich and not-so-famous
Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World by Cade Metz—Teaching machines to make sense of the world
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz—Join archaeologists at work around the world
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America by Daniel Okrent—The racist movement that stopped immigration a century ago
Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour by Lynne Olson—The men behind the British-American partnership in WWII
From Warsaw With Love: Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance by John Pomfret—The long-lasting alliance between Polish spies and the CIA
Geniuses at War: Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age by David A. Price—The top-secret story of the first digital computer
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot—Exposing the dark side of medical history
Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old by Andrew Steele—An aging reviewer tackles a book about aging
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire by Brad Stone—Deconstructing the Jeff Bezos story
By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution by David Talbot and Margaret Talbot—Chronicling the incomplete second American Revolution
The Order of the Day by Éric Vuillard—The men who made Adolf Hitler’s war possible
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock—The lies they told us about the Afghanistan War
Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa—Bob Woodward’s revealing new book about the Trump-Biden transition
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michela Wrong—Why does the West support an African regime gone bad?
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965 by Jia Lynn Yang—What has made America a nation of immigrants?
Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution by Helen Zia—Four young Chinese experience WWII and Revolution
