Books Read 2017

1. Alexander Rose, Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring
2. Alistair Horne, The Age of Napoleon
3. Patrick O'Brian, Blue at the Mizzen
4. Angus Konstam, Horatio Nelson
5. Len Deighton, The IPCRESS File
6. Len Deighton, Horse Under Water
7. Len Deighton, Funeral in Berlin
8. Len Deighton, Billion-Dollar Brain
9. Znex Jvfrzna, Zvaq Cynl
10. Len Deighton, Berlin Game
11. Colin Woodard, The Republic of Pirates
12. Umberto Eco, Baudolino
13. Andy Weir, The Martian
14. Paul Johnson, Churchill
15. David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest
16. David L. Anderson (ed.), The Columbia History of the Vietnam War
17. Rudyard Kipling, The Man Who Would Be King
18. Carlos Bueno, Lauren Ipsum
19. H.R. McMaster, Dereliction of Duty
20. Jonathan D. Sarna, When General Grant Expelled the Jews
21. Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
22. Edward O. Thorp, A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
23. George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (re-read)
24. George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings (re-read)
25. George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords (re-read)
26. George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows (re-read)
27. George R.R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons (re-read)
28. Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher
29. Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet
30. Christopher Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger
31. Tim Weiner, One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon
32. Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein, All the President’s Men
33. Neil Gaiman, American Gods (re-read)
34. Martin Millar, The Anxiety of Kalix the Werewolf
35. Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
36. Connie Willis, Crosstalk
37. Connie Willis, Blackout
38. Connie Willis, All Clear
39. Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
40. John A. Farrell, Richard Nixon: the Life
41. Carlo D’Este, Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life
42. John Scalzi, Redshirts
43. John W. Dean, Blind Ambition: The White House Years
44. Bill Kreutzmann & Benjy Eisen, Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead
45. Margaret MacMillan, The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914
46. Jack Kerouac, On the Road
47. Max Hastings, Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
48. Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology
49. William Poundstone, Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System that Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
50. Ian Graham, Scarlet Women: The Scandalous Lives of Courtesans, Concubines, and Royal Mistresses
51. Alison Weir, The Life of Elizabeth I
52. Dava Sobel, Longitude
53. Blair Jackson & David Gans, This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead
54. Michael Keane, Patton: Blood, Guts, and Prayer
55. Michael Pilhofer, Music Theory for Dummies
56. Diane Johnson, Into a Paris Quartier: Reine Margot’s Chapel and Other Haunts of St.-Germain
57. Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express