The WEIRDest People in the World was a really great book. I don't have much of a review to write at the moment, but I highly recommend it.
I loved Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond so I have been looking forward to reading Collapse and I finally got around to it. It…
Confronting The Classics I picked up because Taya had suggested that I might like it given my recent interest in history podcasts…
The Kingdom is both really annoying and amazing. It radically altered how I view Chistrianity, The Bible, and the church. But the author is…
Say Nothing is a history of "The Troubles" which is a part of history that I only vaguely understood before reading this book. This is a…
From the author of An Officer and a Spy comes Munich yet another wonderful piece of historical fiction. This is a fictional spy thriller…
I am not sure why this one got recommeneded to me but The Spy and the Traitor as been on my list for a while now. I am happy to have…
Having children changes your outlook on life. The Last Stone is a true crime story about the kidnapping and murder of two young girls in…
I still need to read Lolita . It is one of the only audiobooks that I have ever made it all the way through and actually felt like I…
Another member of the drug related books on Taya's bookshelf, Acid Test is yet another historical look at psychedelics in the United…
The Harvard Psychedelic Club was recommended to me by Taya as she was surprised I had not read it already. I had a decent understanding of…
I saw a review for Rise and Kill First a month or so ago and immediately put it on my reading list. I decided to read it after I picked up…
Continuing in my reading trend of all things about inequality, The Great Leveler is a history book attempting to find causes for how…
A recommendation from Taya led me to pick up 11/22/63 , yet another Stephen King book that she said I would enjoy. It turns out that I…
Every once in a while a book comes along that many people talk about wanting to read or bragging about having read and I often find it hard…
Country of My Skull is a very good book both in content and style. I had never heard about the Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC) or…
I thoroughly enjoyed Guns, Germs, and Steel as it presented a narrative that was based on the entirety of human history. This long time…
All the Light We Cannot See has been constantly recommended to me, it was a top book of the year a couple years ago, as well as a Pulitzer…
Amazon started a program called Kindle First where you can pick one of six books each month to get for free. Of the six choices for…
Even though this book kept popping up on Amazon recommendations and other lists, for some reason every time I read the description I put off…
After reading a few of the Scot Harvath books by Brad Thor, Amazon recommended The Lost Codex which is part of the OPSIG series by Alan…
I was looking for books related to the history of unconvential warfare, and Spec Ops kept popping up. This book presents a theory for how…
While reading Chosen Soldier , there was a reference to the book Masters of Chaos as a good historical account of the missions of the…
I have been reading a few military books recently, so naturally I would eventually come to read something about Delta Force. What better…
Cryptonomicon was a long and at times convulted read, but overall it was entertaining. Although the book was not ridiculously long (around…
One of the more eye opening books I have read in a while, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a look at why some parts of the world advanced faster…