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Re: What are we Reading 2022 split from 2021

Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2023 3:28 pm
by The Hot Corner
2022
1. Baseball 100 by Joe Posnanski
2. The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O’Neil’s America by Joe Posnanski
3. Comeback Season by Cam Perron with Nick Chiles
4. Americana by Hampton Sides
5. The Body by Bill Bryson
6. The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam
7. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer
8. Walt Disney: The Triumph of American Imagination by Neal Gabler
9. Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antartic Night by Julian Sancton
10. Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy
11. Blood & Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight For America’s First Frontier by Bob Drury
12. The Last Icon: Tom Seaver & His Times by Steven Travers
13. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard
14. The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and His Times by Steven Travers
15. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
16. American Brutus by William Kauffman
17. The Big Burn by Timothy Egan
18. K – A history of Baseball in Ten Pitches by Tyler Kapner
19. The Winners by Fredrik Backman
20. Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
21. The Last Castle by Denise Kiernan

The titles in bold are books that I found particularly interesting and/or enjoyable.

A rather slow reading year for me. Mainly because I was physically exhausted most of the fall (from early August into early December) and I couldn't read long without falling asleep. Feeling much better, the past few weeks and slowly getting back to a more normal routine. Hope to get back to a more normal reading output in 2023.

Re: What are we Reading 2022 split from 2021

Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2023 5:48 pm
by Edgy MD
I feel like we may need to have a The Winners discussion group.

Re: What are we Reading 2022 split from 2021

Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2023 6:52 pm
by Frayed Knot
The Hot Corner wrote: Sun Jan 01, 2023 3:28 pm Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
This guy has written several (non-fiction) cold war era spy books that I've liked, most notably 'A Spy Among Friends' on infamous British
spy Kim Philby and other secret upper-crust English communists. Hadn't heard about this one though I'll have to check it out.

Re: What are we Reading 2022 split from 2021

Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2023 8:26 pm
by The Hot Corner
Frayed Knot wrote: Sun Jan 01, 2023 6:52 pm
The Hot Corner wrote: Sun Jan 01, 2023 3:28 pm Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
This guy has written several (non-fiction) cold war era spy books that I've liked, most notably 'A Spy Among Friends' on infamous British
spy Kim Philby and other secret upper-crust English communists. Hadn't heard about this one though I'll have to check it out.
I had previously read two of his books (Agent ZigZag & The Spy and the Traitor) and enjoyed them both. I believe Prisoners of the Castle is his latest work. It is an in depth look and the personalities and the indomitable human spirit of the allied prisoners in Nazi Germany's maximum security POW camp. I will have to check out A Spy Among Friends.