Friday, January 12, 2024

Books I've Read - 2023

 

BOOKS I'VE READ - 2023

  • God Save the Child - Robert B Parker (12/28)
  • World Within A Song - Jeff Tweedy (12/22)
  • The Partisan - Patrick Worrall (12/13)
  • Kennedy 35 - Charles Cumming (11/26)
  • The Godwulf Manuscript - Robert B. Parker (11/2)
  • Pietr the Latvian - Georges Simenon (10/27)
  • Judas 62 - Charles Cumming (10/15)
  • No-Nonsense Buddhism for Beginners - Noah Rasheta (10/12)
  • Maigret's Mistake - Georges Simenon (9/14)
  • Under Occupation - Alan Furst (9/6)
  • Ikigai - the Japanese Secret to Life - Hector Garcia (8/25)
  • Box 88 - Charles Cumming (8/19)
  • The Haunting of Hajji Hotak - Jamil Jan Kochai (8/11)
  • Jar City - Arnaldur Indridasun (8/16)
  • Consequences - Manual Munoz (6/27)
  • The Mulberry Bush - Charles McCarry (5/23)
  • The Discovery of Pasta - Luca Cesari (4/21)
  • Another Kind of Eden - James Lee Burke (3/25)
  • Again to Carthage - John L Parker (3/22)
  • Stay True - Hua Hsu (3/1) NY Times
  • Don't Know Tough - Eli Cranor (2/15)
  • The Final Case - David Guterson (1/24)

Thursday, January 5, 2023

Books I Read - 2022

 

  • Down and Out in Paradise - Charles Leerhsen (12/5)
  • The Dark Clouds Shining - David Downing (11/20)D tss to
  • Hamburgers and Fries - John T. Edge (8/28) FF
  • Churchill and Orwell - Thomas E. Ricks (8/22)
  • The Angel of Rome - Jess Walter (8/1)
  • Every Cloaked Rolled in Blood - James Lee Burke (7/19)
  • A Spy Among Friends - Ben MacIntyre (7/11)
  • A Runner's High - Dean Karna with sszes (6/21)
  • Lenin's Roller Coaster - David Downing (6/12)
  • Diary of a Dead Man on Leave - David Downing (5/18)
  • The Hell Bent Kid - Charles O. Locke (4/26)
  • Tenth of December - George Saunders (3/10)
  • On Juneteenth - Annette Gordon-Reed (2/26, NY Times))
  • One Man's Flag - David Downing (2/23)
  • Taste - Stanley Tucci (1/26)
  • No One is Talking About it - Patricia Lockwood (1/23, NY Times)
  • Atomic Habits - James Clear (1/19)
  • Silverview - John Le Carre (1/17)
  • Where the Deer and the Antelope Play - Nick Offerman (1/2)

Sunday, January 2, 2022

Books I Read - 2021

 

BOOKS I'VE READ - 2021

  • Legends of the North Cascades - Jonathan Evison (12/24)
  • The Last Tourist - Olen Steinhauer (12/2)
  • The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (11/8)
  • Jack of Spies - David Downing (10/31)
  • Wedding Station - David Downing (10/15)
  • Running with Sherman - Christopher MacDougall (10/6)
  • End of Spies - Alex Gerlis (9/11)
  • The Sniper - Chang Kuo-Li (9/3)
  • The Big Oyster - Mark Kurlansky (8/19)
  • The Hunter - Richard Stark (8/5)
  • Slough House - Mick Herron (7/28)
  • The End of the Affair - Graham Greene (7/6)
  • The Premonition - Michael Lewis (6/6)
  • Ring of Spies - Alex Gerlis (6/18)
  • The Cold Millions - Jess Walter (6/2)
  • Beginners - Tom Vanderbilt (5/22)
  • Sea of Spies - Alex Gerlis (5/16)
  • Sarah Jane - James Sallis (5/2)
  • Blood of Victory - Alan Furst (4/26)
  • Olive, Mabel & Me - Andrew Cotter (4/17)
  • Prince of Spies - Alex Gerlis (4/14)
  • I Hate Running and You Can Too - Brendan Leonard (4/7)
  • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami (3/5)
  • Deacon King Kong - James McBride (2/8) NYTimes
  • Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevksy (1/26)
  • It Was All a Lie - Stuart Stevens (1/15)
  • The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway (1/9)

Saturday, January 2, 2021

Books I Read - 2020

 

BOOKS I'VE READ - 2020

  • Night Train to Turkistan - Stuart Stevens (12/16)
  • Above Suspicion - Helen Macinnes (12/11)
  • The Last Good Kiss - James Crumley (11/25)
  • Ride a Pale Horse - Helen Macinnes (11/8)
  • Wounded - Percival Everett (10/15)
  • When the Emperor was Divine - Julie Otsuka (10/10)
  • Nowhere to Run - CJ Box (9/13)
  • The Soul of Care - Arthur Kleinman (9/4)
  • Trouble Is My Business - Raymond Chandler (8/15)
  • The Hope of Glory - Jon Meacham (7/29)
  • Below Zero - CJ Box (7/25)
  • The Survivors - Adam P Frankel (7/15)
  • Blood Trail - CJ Box (7/5)
  • The Sisters Brothers - Patrick deWitt (6/24)
  • Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata (6/13)
  • Free Fire - CJ Box (6/6)
  • Chancy - Louis L'Amour (5/29)
  • In Plain Site - CJ Box (5/20)
  • Out of Range - CJ Box (5/17)
  • Monstrum - Donald James (5/11)
  • The Call of the Wild - Jack London (4/26)
  • Trophy Hunt - CJ Box (4/18)
  • Good Work The Chairmaking Life of John Brown - Christopher Williams (4/16)
  • Chinaberry Sidewalks - Rodney Crowell (3/28)
  • Night Boat to Tangier - Kevin Barry (3/14, NY Times)
  • The Yellow House - Sarah M. Broome (3/1, NY Times)
  • Under Occupation - Alan Furst
  • Agent Running in the Field - John le Carre
  • Teach Us to Sit Still - Tim Parks

Thursday, January 2, 2020

Books I Read - 2019

  • Heaven, My Home - Attica Locke
  • American Spy - Lauren Wilkinson
  • Lehrter Station - David Downing
  • A Delicate Truth - John let Carre
  • A Job You Mostly Won't Know How to Do - Pete Fromm
  • Potsdam Station - David Downing
  • The Maryleybone Drop - Mick Herron
  • If Not for This - Pete Fromm
  • Joe Country - Mick Herron
  • Stettin Station - David Downing
  • Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene
  • Silesian Station - David Downing
  • Zoo Station - David Downing
  • The Middleman - Olen Steinhauer
  • Lie in the Dark - Dan Fesperman
  • Warlight - Michael Ondaatje
  • The Moroccan Girl - Charles Cumming
  • Take the Cannoli - Sarah Vowell
  • Educated - Tara Westover
  • The Fifth Risk - Michael Lewis
  • Lake City - Thomas Kohnstamm
  • The Incomplete Book of Running - Peter Sagal
  • Transcription - Kate Atkinson
  • There There - Tommy Orange
  • A Perfect Spy - Henry Porter

Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Books I Read in 2018

BOOKS I'VE READ - 2018

  • A Divided Spy - Charles Cumming
  • Bluebird, Bluebird - Attica Locke
  • A Colder War - Charles Cumming
  • A Foreign Country - Charles Cumming
  • Shaman Pass - Stan Jones
  • Bad Blood - John Carreyrou
  • The Trinity Six - Charles Cumming
  • Typhoon - Charles Cumming
  • Winterkill - C.J. Box
  • What You Break - Reed Farrel Coleman
  • Sunburn - Laura Lippman
  • Upstream - Langdon Cook
  • White Sky, Black Ice - Stan Jones
  • Lawn Boy - Jonathan Evison
  • This Is What Happened - Mick Herron
  • The Spanish Game - Charles Cummng
  • Robicheaux - James Lee Burke
  • The Hidden Man - Charles Cumming
  • Friends and Traitors - John Lawton
  • A Spy By Nature - Charles Cumming
  • The Names of the Stars - Pete Fromm
  • Furnishing Eternity - David Giffels
  • The Quiet American - Graham Greene
  • The Smell of Other People's Houses - Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
  • Priestdaddy - Patricia Lockwood
  • Bobby Kennedy - Chris Matthews
  • Love and Other Consolation Prizes - Jamie Ford

Friday, January 5, 2018

Books I Read in 2017

  • Savage Run - C. J. Box
  • An Honorable Man - Paul Vidich
  • Thanks Obama - David Litt
  • Razor Clams - David Berger
  • The Yard - Alex Grecian
  • Real Tigers - Mick Herron
  • Gone to Dust - Matt Goldman
  • Open Season - C. J. Box
  • Defectors - Joseph Kanon
  • A Legacy of Spies - John Le Carre
  • Dead Lions - Mick Herron
  • The Dramatist - Ken Bruen
  • Men without Women - Haruki Murakami
  • The Madness of July - James Naughtie
  • The Magdalene Martyrs - Ken Bruen
  • Slow Horses - Mick Herron
  • Churchill and Orwell - Thomas Ricks
  • Spook Street - Mick Herron
  • The Killing of the Tinkers - Ken Bruen
  • The Guards - Ken Bruen
  • Paris Spring - James Naughtie
  • The Trespasser - Tana French
  • Willnot - James Sallis
  • A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
  • City of Secrets - Stewart O'Nan
  • New Orleans Mourning - Julie Smith
  • Food Rules - Michael Pollan