Tropics' 2019 Non-Fiction Books Read

1. No Good Alternative: Volume Two Of Carbon Ideologies - William T. Vollmann

2. Trump On The Couch: Inside The Mind Of The President - Justin A. Frank

Carol, your choices are always fascinating and provide plenty of fill for the ol' TBR mountain.

Thanks, Sandydog1.

3. Poor People - William T. Vollmann

4. The Fifth Risk - Michael Lewis

5. Homo Deus: A Brief History Of Tomorrow - Yuval Noah Harari

6. 21 Lessons For The 21st Century - Yuval Noah Harari

7. North On The Wing: Travels With The Songbird Migration Of Spring - Bruce M. Beehler

8. How The Right Lost Its Mind - Charles J. Sykes

9. Europe: A Natural History - Tim Flannery

10. Team Of Vipers - Cliff Sims

11. Survival In Auschwitz - Primo Levi

12. The Reawakening: The Companion Volume To Survival In Auschwitz - Primo Levi

13. A Rumor Of War - Philip Caputo

14. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy - Max Hastings

15. Dispatches - Michael Herr

16. A Train In Winter: An Extraordinary Story Of Women, Friendship, And Resistance In Occupied France - Caroline Moorhead

17. Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming - David Wallace-Wells

18. Mr. Lear: A Life Of Art And Nonsense - Jenny Uglow

19. Black Rednecks And White Liberals - Thomas Sowell

20. The Gospel Of Trees: A Memoir - Apricot Irving

>2 tropics:

Scary?

Limelite: Extremely.

21. Migrations And Cultures: A World View - Thomas Sowell

22. The Buried: An Archaeology Of The Egyptian Revolution - Peter Hessler

23. Mean Girl: Ayn Rand And The Culture Of Greed - Lisa Duggan

Finished The Cuckoo's Egg. Cliff Stoll kept me on the edge of my seat with the thrill of the chase and had me chortling over his irreverent descriptions of his Berkeley colleagues and various "G-men" he had to convince needed to do something about a persistent hacker who has gained access to academic, industrial, and military computers through a myriad of insecure networks. Is anyone worried by cyber-espionage? Is anyone even in charge of the Nation's network of sensitive machines that guard our advances, plans, and confidential information?

How am I going to top "Egg" in my next nonfiction read? I'll have to select carefully. Have read about 100 pp of Barbara Tuchman's pre-WW I history of what was going on in Western Europe, titled The Proud Tower. Excellent so far. Think I'll keep plowing.

24. Greek To Me: Adventures Of The Comma Queen - Mary Norris

25. Moneyland: The Inside Story Of The Crooks And Kleptocrats Who Rule The World - Oliver Bullough

26. Unbelievable - Katy Tur

27. The Daily Show (The Book) - Chris Smith

28. Black Sea - Neal Ascherson

29. Immoral Majority: Why Evangelicals Chose Political Power Over Christian Values - Ben Howe

30. Wily Violets And Underground Orchids - Peter Bernhardt

31. Nine Pints - Rose George

32. In Pharaoh's Army: Memories Of The Lost War - Tobias Wolff

33. God's Dust: A Modern Asian Journey - Ian Buruma

34. Plastic: A Toxic Love Story - Susan Freinkel

>41 tropics: Thanks for the nudge. I'd forgotten that was on my wishlist. Just ordered it.

35. They Called Us Enemy - George Takei

36. The Vikings And Their Origins - David M. Wilson

reread

37. Behind The Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo

38. The Balkan Express - Slavenka Drakulic

39. Audience Of One: Donald Trump, Television, And The Fracturing Of America - James Poniewozik

40. The Man Who Sold America - Joy-Ann Reid

41. Astrophysics For People In A Hurry - Neil deGrasse Tyson

42. The American Way Of Poverty - Sasha Abramsky

43. Proof Of Conspiracy: How Trump's International Collusion Is Threatening American Democracy - Seth Abramson

44. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century - Timothy Snyder