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Ford County Stories written by John Grisham published by Random House
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EMPEROR
A NEW LIFE OF CHARLES V
Geoffrey Parker
Yale University Press, copyright 2019
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WAFFEN-SS
Hitler's Army at War
Adrian Gilbert
Da Capo Press, copyright 2019
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ALL THE POWERS OF EARTH
THE POLITICAL LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1856 - 1860
Sidney Blumenthal
Simon & Schuster, copyright 2019
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A Warning
A SENIOR TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL
Anonymous
Twelve, Hachette Book Group, copyright 2019
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Ah somewhere to dump the list I've been keeping of all the books I've read in the last 12 months or so...

Fiction I've read in 2019:

  • The Ministry of Upmost Happiness - Arundhati Roy
  • The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
  • The Steel Remains - Richard K. Morgan
  • Collected Plays - Oscar Wilde (Includes Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance, & Salome)
  • Perdido Street Station - China Meiville
  • The Welsh Fairy Book- William Jenkyn Thomas
  • Crime and Punishment - Froydor Dostoyevski
  • The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
  • On the Road - Jack Kerouac
  • The Gold Finch - Donna Tartt
  • The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch


Non-fiction I've read in 2019:

  • My Life - Leon Trotsky
  • The Island of Knowledge - Marcelo Gleiser
  • Chartism - Edward Boyle
  • Neanderthal Man - Svante Paabo
  • Power Systems - Noam Chompsky
  • Illustrated History of the USSR - Kontantin Trarnovsky
  • Rasputin - Frances Welch
  • Danse Macabre - Stephen King
  • Quest for Franklin - Noel Wright
  • Audition - Michael Shurtleff


My current piece of fiction that I am reading is The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin and my current non-fiction that I am reading is Seneca's On the Shortness of Life.

Favourite thing I've read all year? Probably The Wise Man's Fear, but since its a sequel, my favourite new fiction I've read is either The Song of Achilles or The Goldfinch although Lathe of Heaven may well usurp both of these as Ursula K. Le Guin is amazing.

Favourite non fiction? Probably Quest for Franklin, but its old and real out of date and just plain wrong a lot so don't read it unless your already well versed in the history of the Franklin Expedition. Frances Welch's Rasputin biography was pretty damn good as well, short and engaging read, well referenced but not overly academic.
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COLD WARRIORS
WRITERS WHO WAGED THE LITERARY COLD WAR
Duncan White
HarperCollins Books, copyright 2019
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THE BASTARD BRIGADE
THE TRUE STORY of the RENEGADE SCIENTISTS AND SPIES WHO SABOTAGED THE NAZI ATOMIC BOMB
Sam Kean
Little Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group, copyright 2019
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THE EDUCATION OF AN IDEALIST
A Memoir
Samantha Power
Dey St, an imprint of William Morrow, copyright 2019
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PERMANENT RECORD
Edward Snowden
Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company, copyright 2019
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i'll check this out:

the shining
Stephen king
reprint of original book but the same story
much different than the movie.
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GODS OF THE UPPER AIR
HOW A CIRCLE of RENEGADE ANTHROPOLOGISTS REINVENTED RACE, SEX, and GENDER in the TWENTIETH CENTURY
Charles King
Doubleday, a division of Random House, copyright 2019
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MINDHUNTER
INSIDE THE FBI ELITE SERIAL CRIME UNIT (Media Tie-in Edition)
John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker
Arrow Books Ltd, an imprint of Cornerstone, copyright 2018
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DOMINION
HOW THE CHRISTIAN REVOLUTION REMADE THE WORLD
Tom Holland
Basic Books, copyright 2019
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AMERICAN DESPERADO
MY LIFE AS A COCAINE COWBOY
Jon Roberts & Evan Wright
Ebury Press, an imprint of Ebury Publishing, copyright 2011
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I'm finishing up MWF Seeking BFF and I've just started The Burning White (Lightbringer #5) :3
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THE IMMORAL MAJORITY
Why Evangelicals Chose Political Power over Christian Values
Ben Howe
Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, copyright 2019

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KOCHLAND
THE SECRET HISTORY OF KOCH INDUSTRIES AND CORPORATE POWER IN AMERICA
Christopher Leonard
Simon & Schuster, copyright 2019
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Currently reading the ASOIAF series and rereading The Lost World (jurassic park yeee boi), but it's been awhile since I had time to read anything so I might just restart from the beginning lol
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THE ANARCHY
THE EAST INDIA COMPANY, CORPORATE VIOLENCE, AND THE PILLAGE OF AN EMPIRE
William Dalrymple
Bloomsbury Publishing, copyright 2019
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THE MAKING OF A JUSTICE
Reflections on My First 94 Years
John Stevens
Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, copyright 2019
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