Books Recently Read

Back in May 2006 I added a "Recent Reading" widget to my navigation menu, which displayed book covers for the five (now nine) most recent books I have been reading. The idea came from Billmon's Whiskey Bar blog. I appreciated the tips, and figured I'd add a few of my own. Since then I've added new books to the top of the list (usually mid-way, can't guarantee I've finished them all, but I've certainly finished most). At the time, I also went through my on-line notebooks and backfilled the list with books I mentioned or recalled reading, so the period from 2000-2006 is a bit shady (especially as to order). Also, because I never displayed more than the first five books, I didn't bother looking up the publishing details of books that (I thought then) would never be displayed. I included them only so I could search through the plain text file.

In September 2019, it occurred to me that I would like to make this list presentable: hence, this little program. Of course, then lots of other ideas popped into my head: sorting and searching, subject tags, more detailed notes -- things that need more data, if not a full-blown database. One design decision was whether to include the cover images, since their links were already in the table. Showing all of them all of the time would look clunky, so I initially decided just to offer links to the images. Then I wondered whether I could use mouseover on those links. Haven't had time to figure that out yet.

  • Marshall Berman: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity (1983, Verso Books) [cover]
  • Ilan Pappe: A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (2024, Oneworld) [cover]
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Message (2024, One World) [cover]
  • James Oseland: Cradle of Flavor: Home Cooking from the Spice Islands of Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia (2006, WW Norton) [cover]
  • Desmond Tan/Kate Leahy: Burma Superstar: Addictive Recipes from the Crossroads of Southeast Asia (2017, Ten Speed Press) [cover]
  • Naomi Duguid: Burma: Rivers of Flavor (2012, Artisan) [cover]
  • Ned Blackhawk: The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (2023, Yale University Press) [cover]
  • Timothy Egan: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis (2013, Harper Collins) [cover]
  • Annie Proulx: Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis (2022, Simon & Schuster) [cover]
  • Joan Didion: Where I Was From (2004, Vintage Books) [cover]
  • Gretchen Eick/Cora Poage, eds: The Death Project: An Anthology for the Living (2024, Blue Cedar Press) [cover]
  • Lewis H Lapham: Age of Folly: America Abandons Its Democracy (2016, Verso Books) [cover]
  • Jamie Stern-Weiner, ed: Deluge: Gaza and Israel From Crisis to Cataclysm (2024, OR Books) [cover]
  • Avi Shlaim: Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations (2010, Verso Books) [cover]
  • Amy Kaplan: Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance (2018, Harvard University Press) [cover]
  • H Bruce Franklin: Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever War (2024, Rutgers University Press) [cover]
  • Marshall Berman: Adventures in Marxism (2001, Verso Books) [cover]
  • Cisco Bradley: Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker (2021, Duke University Press) [cover]
  • Rick Lopez: The William Parker Sessionography: A Work in Progress (2014, Centering) [cover]
  • Steve Hahn: Illiberal America: A History (2024, WW Norton) [cover]
  • Leah Hunt-Hendrix/Astra Taylor: Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea (2024, Pantheon) [cover]
  • Richard Slotkin: A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America (2024, Belknap Press) [cover]
  • George Marshall: Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change (2015, Bloomsbury) [cover]
  • Cory Doctorow: The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (2023, Verso) [cover]
  • Tricia Romano: The Greaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture (2024, PublicAffairs) [cover]
  • Astra Taylor: The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart (2023, House of Anansi Press) [cover]
  • Shlomo Avineri: The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State (2017, Basic Books) [cover]
  • Norman G Finkelstein: Method and Madness: The Hidden Story of Israel's Assaults on Gaza (2014, OR Books) [cover]
  • Thomas Geoghegan: The History of Democracy Has Yet to Be Written: ow We Have to Learn to Govern All Over Again (2022, Belt Publishing) [cover]
  • Greg Grandin: The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America (2020, Metropolitan Books) [cover]
  • Linda Dittmar: Tracing Homelands: Israel, Palestine, and the Claims of Belonging (2023, Olive Branch Press) [cover]
  • Christopher Clark: The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1984 (2014, Harper Perennial) [cover]
  • Richard J Evans: The Third Reich in History and Memory (2015, Oxford University Press) [cover]
  • Norman G Finkelstein: Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom (2018, University of California Press) [cover]
  • Viet Tranh Nguyen: Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (2016, Harvard University Press) [cover]
  • China Miéville: A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto (2022, Haymarket Books) [cover]
  • Christopher Clark: Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World: 1848-1849 (2023, Crown) [cover]
  • EJ Hobsbawm: The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 (1962, New American Library) [cover]
  • Philipp Ther: How the West Lost the Peace (2023, Polity) [cover]
  • Hope Jahren: The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go From Here (2020, Vintage) [cover]
  • David A Bell: Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution (2021, Picador) [cover]
  • Peter Turchin: End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration (2023, Penguin Press) [cover]
  • Hope Jahren: Lab Girl (2017, Vintage) [cover]
  • John Quiggin: Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly (2019, Princeton University Press) [cover]
  • Karen Greenberg: Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy From the War on Terror to Donald Trump (2021, Princeton University Press) [cover]
  • Kevin M Kruse/Julian E Zelizer, eds: Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past (2023, Basic Books) [cover]
  • Kurt Andersen: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire (2017, Random House) [cover]
  • Willard Jenkins, ed: Ain't but a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story (2022, Duke University Press) [cover]
  • Brian T Watson: Headed Into the Abyss: The Story of Our Time, and the Future We'll Face (2019, Anvilside Press) [cover]
  • Michael Tomasky: The Middle Out: The Rise of Progressive Economics and a Return to Shared Prosperity (2022, Doubleday) [cover]
  • Nathan J Robinson: The Current Affairs Rules for Life: On Social Justice & Its Critics (2018, Demilune Press) [cover]
  • Heather Cox Richardson: How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America (2020, Oxford University Press) [cover]
  • Nathan J Robinson: Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments (2023, St Martin's Griffin) [cover]
  • Timothy Shenk: Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy (2022, Farrar Straus and Giroux) [cover]
  • Ryan Cooper: How Are You Going to Pay for That?: Smart Answers to the Dumbest Questions in Politics (2022, St Martin's Press) [cover]
  • Denise Low: Jigsaw Puzzling: Essays in a Time of Pestilence (2022, Meadowlark) [cover]
  • Fred Kaplan: 1959: The Year Everything Changed (2009, Wiley) [cover]
  • Jill Lepore: The Name of War: King Phillip's War and the Origins of American Identity (1998, Vintage Books) [cover]
  • Matt Taibbi: Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another (2019, OR Books) [cover]
  • Serhii Polkhy: The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (2021, Basic Books) [cover]
  • Barbara Ehrenreich: Living With a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth About Everything (2020, Twelve) [cover]
  • Rick Lopez: The Sam Rivers Sessionography: A Work in Progress (2022, self-released) [cover]
  • David Corn: American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy (2022, Twelve) [cover]
  • J Bradford DeLong: Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century (2022, Basic Books) [cover]
  • Mark Leibovich: Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission (2022, Penguin Press) [cover]
  • Tariq Ali: The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan: A Chronicle Foretold (2022, Verso Books) [cover]
  • Tariq Ali: Churchill: His Times, His Crimes (2022, Verso) [cover]
  • Heather Cox Richardson: To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party (2021, Basic Books) [cover]
  • Christopher H Achen/Larry M Bartels: Democracy for Realists: Who Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (2017, Princeton University Press) [cover]
  • Suzanne Mettler/Robert C Lieberman: Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy (2020, St Martin's Press) [cover]
  • Ian Millhiser: Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted (2016, Bold Type Books) [cover]
  • Vaclav Smil: How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going (2022, Viking) [cover]
  • Sebastian Haffner: Defying Hitler: A Memoir (2003, Picador) [cover]
  • Barbara Ehrenreich: Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer (2019, Twelve) [cover]
  • William Dalrymple: The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (2022, Bloomsbury) [cover]
  • Louis Menand: The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War (2021, Farrar Straus and Giroux) [cover]
  • Astra Taylor: Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions (2021, Haymarket Books) [cover]
  • Astra Taylor: The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age (2014, Metropolitan Books) [cover]
  • Astra Taylor: Democracy May Not Exist: But We'll Miss It When It's Gone (2019, Metropolitan Books) [cover]
  • Barbara Walter: How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them (2022, Crown) [cover]
  • David Graeber/David Wengrow: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021, Farrar Straus and Giroux) [cover]
  • Greg Tate: Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader (2016, Duke University Press) [cover]
  • David Graeber: Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (2019, Simon and Schuster) [cover]
  • Studs Terkel: P.S.: Further Thoughts From a Lifetime of Listening (2008, New Press) [cover]
  • Amitav Ghosh: The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis (2021, University of Chicago Press) [cover]
  • Adam Serwer: The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America (2021, One World) [cover]
  • Warren Ashworth/Susan Kander: We, the House (2021, Blue Cedar Press) [cover]
  • Kim Stanley Robinson: The Ministry for the Future (2020, Orbit) [cover]
  • David Bianculli: The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific (2017, Anchor) [cover]
  • Sandra Newman/Howard Mittelmark: Read This Next: 500 of the Best Books You'll Ever Read (2010, Harper Perennial) [cover]
  • Ed Ward: The History of Rock & Roll: Volume II 1964-1977: The Beatles, the Stones, and the Rise of Classic Rock (2019, Flatiron Books) [cover]
  • Ed Ward: The History of Rock & Roll: Volume One 1920-1965 (2016, Flatiron Books) [cover]
  • Rana Foroohar: Don't Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech (2021, Currency) [cover]
  • Steve Benen: The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics (2021, Harper Collins) [cover]
  • Michael Lewis: The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (2021, WW Norton) [cover]
  • Tom Segev: A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion (2019, Farrar Straus and Giroux) [cover]
  • Jack E Davis: The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea (2017, Liveright) [cover]
  • Michael Booth: The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia (2016, Picador) [cover]
  • Russell Cobb: The Great Oklahoma Swindle: Race, Religion, and Lies in America's Weirdest State (2020, Bison Books) [cover]
  • James A Moronie: Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal From George Washington to Donald Trump (2020, Basic Books) [cover]
  • Michael W Twitty: The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Cullinary History in the Old South (2017, Amistad) [cover]
  • Lizabeth Cohen: A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (2004, Vintage Books) [cover]
  • Mike Konczal: Freedom From the Market: America's Fight to Liberate Itself From the Grip of the Invisible Hand (2021, New Press) [cover]
  • Stephen Wertheim: Tomorrow the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy (2020, Belknap Press) [cover]
  • Allen Lowe: "Turn Me Loose White Man": Or: Appropriating Culture: How to Listen to American Music, 1900-1960: Volume 1 (2020, Constant Sorrow) [cover]
  • Daniel Immerwahr: How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (2020, Picador) [cover]
  • Kurt Andersen: Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History (2020, Random House) [cover]
  • Emily Nussbaum: I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution (2020, Random House) [cover]
  • Arno J Mayer: The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War (2010, Verso) [cover]
  • Sheri Berman: Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day (2019, Oxford University Press) [cover]
  • Ruth Reichl: Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir (2020, Random House) [cover]
  • Zachary D Carter: The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes (2020, Random House) [cover]
  • Thomas Frank: The People, NO!: The War on Populism and the Fight for Democracy (2020, Metropolitan Books) [cover]
  • Danielle Allen: Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality (2015, Liveright) [cover]
  • Jacob S Hacker/Paul Pierson: Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Economic Inequality (2020, Liveright) [cover]
  • David Bromwich: Moral Imagination: Essays (2016, Princeton University Press) [cover]
  • David Bromwich: American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell Us (2019, Verso) [cover]
  • Rutger Bregman: Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (2016, The Correspondent) [cover]
  • Kevin C O'Leary: Madison's Sorrow: Today's War on the Founders and America's Liberal Ideal (2020, Pegasus) [cover]
  • Sarah Kendzior: Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America (2020, Flatiron Books) [cover]
  • Erwin Chemerinsky: We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century (2018, Picador) [cover]
  • Joan C Williams: White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America (2020, Harvard Business Review Press) [cover]
  • Ezra Klein: Why We're Polarized (2020, Simon & Schuster) [cover]
  • Adam Gopnik: A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism (2019, Basic Books) [cover]
  • Bill Bryson: The Body: A Guide for Occupants (2020, Doubleday) [cover]
  • Caitlin O'Connor/James Owen Weatherall: The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread (2019, Yale University Press) [cover]
  • Ani DiFranco: No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir (2019, Viking) [cover]
  • Eric Foner: The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution (2019, WW Norton) [cover]
  • Charles Postel: Equality: An American Dilemma 1866-1896 (2019, Farrar Straus and Giroux) [cover]
  • Suketu Mehta: This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto (2019, Farrar Straus and Giroux) [cover]
  • Nicholas Lemann: Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream (2019, Farrar Straus and Giroux) [cover]
  • Emmanuel Saez/Gabriel Zucman: The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay (2019, WW Norton) [cover]
  • Anthony Bourdain: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2019, Melville House) [cover]
  • Stanley B Greenberg: R.I.P. G.O.P.: How the New America Is Dooming the Republicans (2019, Thomas Dunne Books) [cover]
  • David Wallace-Wells: The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future (2019, Tim Duggan Books) [cover]
  • James Poniewozik: Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America (2019, Liveright) [cover]
  • Robert L O'Connell: Revolutionary: George Washington at War (2019, Random House) [cover]
  • Jill Lepore: This America: The Case for the Nation (2019, Liveright) [cover]
  • Joseph E Stiglitz: People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent (2019, WW Norton) [cover]
  • Tim Alberta: American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump (2019, Harper) [cover]
  • Robert Christgau: Book Reports: A Music Critic on His First Love, Which Was Reading (2019, Duke University Press) [cover]
  • Alexander Nazaryan: The Best People: Trump's Cabinet and the Siege on Washington (2019, Hachette Books) [cover]
  • Bhaskar Sunkara: The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality (2019, Basic Books) [cover]
  • Reed Hundt: A Crisis Wasted: Barack Obama's Defining Decisions (2019, Rosetta Books) [cover]
  • Nancy Isenberg/Andrew Burstein: The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality (2019, Viking) [cover]
  • Matt Farwell/Michael Ames: American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the US Tragedy in Afghanistan (2019, Penguin Books) [cover]
  • Kate Brown: Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future (2019, WW Norton) [cover]
  • Jay Sexton: A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History (2018, Basic Books) [cover]
  • Nathaniel Rich: Losing Earth: A Recent History (2019, MCD) [cover]
  • Steve Fraser: Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion (2018, Yale University Press) [cover]
  • Martha C Nussbaum: The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis (2018, Simon & Schuster) [cover]
  • Jason Stanley: How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (2018, Random House) [cover]
  • John McPhee: Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process (2017, Farrar Straus and Giroux) [cover]
  • Benjamin Carter Hett: The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic (2018, Henry Holt) [cover]
  • Michael Tomasky: If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How It Might Be Saved (2019, Liveright) [cover]
  • Michael Lewis: The Fifth Risk (2018, WW Norton) [cover]
  • Mike Davis: Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World (2002, Verso) [cover]
  • James Q Whitman: Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law (2017, Princeton University Press) [cover]
  • Quinn Slobodian: Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2018, Harvard University Press) [cover]
  • Ben Fountain: Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution (2018, Harper Collins) [cover]
  • Kevin Peraino: A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China, 1949 (2018, Broadway Books) [cover]
  • Suzy Hansen: Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World (2017, Farrar Straus and Giroux) [cover]
  • Robert Gerwarth: The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End (2007, Farrar Straus and Giroux) [cover]
  • Dahr Jamail: Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches From an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq (2007, Haymarket) [cover]
  • Robert Christgau: Is It Still Good to Ya?: Fifty Years of Rock Criticism 1967-2017 (2018, Duke University Press) [cover]
  • Sarah Smarsh: Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth (2018, Scribner) [cover]
  • Tom Smucker: Why the Beach Boys Matter (2018, University of Texas Press) [cover]
  • Jill Lepore: These Truths: A History of the United States (2018, WW Norton) [cover]
  • Gregg Carlstrom: How Long Will Israel Survive?: The Threat From Within (2017, Oxford University Press) [cover]
  • David Satter: The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep: Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship Under Yeltsin and Putin (2016, Yale University Press) [cover]
  • Timothy Snyder: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (2018, Tim Duggan Books) [cover]
  • Thomas Frank: Rendezvous With Oblivion: Reports From a Sinking Society (2018, Metropolitan Books) [cover]
  • Masha Gessen: The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (2017, Riverhead) [cover]
  • Andrew Bacevich: America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History (2016, Random House) [cover]
  • Gordon S Wood: Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (2009, Oxford University Press) [cover]
  • Pankaj Mishra: Age of Anger: A History of the Present (2017, Farrar Straus and Giroux) [cover]
  • Michael Ruhlman: Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America (2017, Henry N Abrams) [cover]
  • Katy Tur: Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History (2017, Dey Street Books) [cover]
  • Steve Coll: Directorate S: The CIA and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan (2018, Penguin Press) [cover]
  • Ganesh Sitaraman: The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic (2017, Knopf) [cover]
  • Allen Frances: Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump (2017, William Morrow) [cover]
  • Cathy O'Neil: Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (2017, Broadway Books) [cover]
  • David Frum: Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic (2018, Harper Collins) [cover]
  • Tony Judt: When the Facts Change: Essays, 1995-2010 (2015, Penguin) [cover]
  • Nancy McLean: Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America (2017, Viking) [cover]
  • Jeff Madrick: Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged the World (2014, Knopf) [cover]
  • Mark E McCormick: Some Were Paupers, Some Were Kings: Dispatches From Kansas (2017, Red Cedar Press) [cover]
  • China Miéville: October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (2017, Verso Books) [cover]
  • Chris Hayes: A Colony in a Nation (2017, WW Norton) [cover]
  • Sean Wilentz: The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics (2017, WW Norton) [cover]
  • Mark Lilla: The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics (2017, Harper Collins) [cover]
  • Mark Singer: Trump and Me (2016, Duggan Books) [cover]
  • David Daley: Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy (2016, Liveright) [cover]
  • Jeffrey Yoskowitz/Liz Alpern: The Gefilte Manifesto: New Recipes for Old World Jewish Foods (2016, Flatiron) [cover]
  • Jonathan Allen/Amie Parnes: Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign (2017, Crown) [cover]
  • Barry C Lynn: Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction (2010, Wiley) [cover]
  • Rosa Brooks: How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales From the Pentagon (2016, Simon & Schuster) [cover]
  • Jacob S Hacker/Paul Pierson: American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper (2016, Simon & Schuster) [cover]
  • Bernie Sanders: Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In (2016, Thomas Dunne) [cover]
  • Noam Chomsky: Who Rules the World? (2017, Picador) [cover]
  • Ilan Pappe: Ten Myths About Israel (2017, Verso Books) [cover]
  • Eric Foner: Battles for Freedom: The Use and Abuse of American History (2017, Nation Books) [cover]
  • John W Dower: The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II (2017, Haymarket Books) [cover]
  • Gail Pellett: Forbidden Fruit: 1980 Beijing (2015, VanDam) [cover]
  • Ian Kershaw: Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941 (2007, Penguin Press) [cover]
  • Ira Katznelson: Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time (2013, Liveright) [cover]
  • Matt Taibbi: Insane Clown President: Dispatches From the 2016 Circus (2016, Spiegel & Grau) [cover]
  • Jeremy Scahill: Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield (2013, Nation Books) [cover]
  • Peter Frase: Four Futures: Life After Capitalism (2016, Verso Books) [cover]
  • Corey Robin: The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin (2011, Oxford University Press) [cover]
  • Judith Jones: The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food (2008, Anchor) [cover]
  • Michael Ruhlman: The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chef's Craft for Every Kitchen (2010, Scribner) [cover]
  • Wenonah Hauter: Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment (2016, New Press) [cover]
  • James Bradley: The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia (2015, Little Brown) [cover]
  • James K Galbraith: Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe (2016, Yale University Press) [cover]
  • Tariq Ali: The Extreme Centre: A Warning (2015, Verso) [cover]
  • Richard Rhodes: The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons (2010, Knopf) [cover]
  • Richard Rhodes: Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made (2015, Simon & Schuster) [cover]
  • James Risen: Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War (2014, Houghton Mifflin) [cover]
  • Bill Bryson: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (2007, Broadway Books) [cover]
  • Karen Armstrong: Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence (2015, Anchor) [cover]
  • Joseph E Stiglitz: Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity (2015, WW Norton) [cover]
  • Thomas Frank: Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? (2016, Metropolitan Books) [cover]
  • Jane Mayer: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (2016, Doubleday) [cover]
  • Sarah Vowell: Lafayette in the Somewhat United States (2015, Riverhead) [cover]
  • Padraig O'Malley: The Two State Delusion: Israel and Palestine -- A Tale of Two Naratives (2015, Viking) [cover]
  • Roberto Vivo: War: A Crime Against Humanity (2014, Hojas Del Sur) [cover]
  • Tim Niland: Music and More: Selected Blog Posts 2003-2015 (2015, self-published) [cover]
  • Eugene D Genovese: From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World (1981, LSU Press) [cover]
  • Timothy H Parsons: The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall (2012, Oxford University Press) [cover]
  • Nomi Prins: All the President's Bankers: The Hidden Alliances That Drive American Power (2014, Nation Books) [cover]
  • Thomas Geoghegan: Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement (2015, New Press) [cover]
  • Steve Fraser: The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power (2015, Little Brown) [cover]
  • Christian G Appy: American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity (2015, Viking Books) [cover]
  • Robert Christgau: Going Into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man (2015, Dey Street Books) [cover]
  • Ian Buruma: Year Zero: A History of 1945 (2014, Penguin Books) [cover]
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  • Edward W Said: The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After
  • Robert D Kaplan: Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucusus
  • Robert D Kaplan: Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  • Robert D Kaplan: The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, From Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy
  • Ahmed Rashid: Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
  • Robert D Kaplan: The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War
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  • Jason Goodwin: Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire
  • David Fromkin: A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
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  • Tom Segev: Elvis in Jerusalem: Post Zionism and the Americanization of Israel
  • Daniel Yergin: The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
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  • Paul William Roberts: A War Against Truth: An Intimate Account of the Invasion of Iraq
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  • Seymour Hersh: Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib (2004, Harper Collins)
  • Reza Aslan: No Got but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam: 2005, Random House
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  • Richard Rhodes: Masters of Death: The SS Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust
  • Ward Churchill: A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present
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  • Michael Lewis: Next: The Future Just Happened
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  • Clifton Daniel, ed: 20th Century Day by Day
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  • Adam Hochschild: King Leopold's Ghost
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  • Stephen Zunes: Tinderbox
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  • R Stephen Humphreys: Between Memory and Desire: The Middle East in a Troubled Age
  • Reg Theriault: The Unmaking of the American Working Class
  • Molly Ivins/Lou Dubose: Bushwhacked: Life in George W Bush's America
  • Michael Moore: Dude, Where's My Country?
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  • Dan Savage: Skipping Toward Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America
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  • Baruch Kimmerling/Joel S Migdal: The Palestinian People: A History
  • Norman Finkelstein: The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
  • Ian Black/Benny Morris: Israel's Secret Wars: A History of Israel's Intelligence Services
  • Jonathan Schell: The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
  • Thomas Homer-Dixon: The Ingenuity Gap
  • Mark Kurlansky: The Basque History of the World
  • Norman G Finkelstein: Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History
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  • Robert Fisk: The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
  • Daniel Altman: The Neoconomy: George Bush's Revolutionary Gamble With America's Future
  • Anonymous: Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror
  • Amy Chua: World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
  • David Corn: The Lies of George W Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception
  • Joan Didion: Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 (2003, New York Review Books)
  • Stan Goff: Full Spectrum Disorder
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  • Mazin Qumsiyeh: Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle
  • Peter Singer: The President of Good & Evil: Questioning the Ethics of George W Bush
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  • Adam Cohen: Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America (2009, Penguin Press) [cover]
  • Alexander Cockburn/Jeffrey St Clair: Al Gore: A User's Manual (2000, Verso Books)
  • Francis Davis: The History of the Blues: The Roots, the Music, the People (1995, Hyperion)
  • Barbara Crossette: The Great Hill Stations of India: 1999 (Basic Books, 268)

Total book count: 752