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Books I finished in 2017
- Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler
- Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil by Ron Rosenbaum
- Hate or Be Hated: How I Survived Right-Wing Extremism by JG Daniel
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
- Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the American Circus by Matt Taibbi
- The Trump Phenomenen: How One Man Conquored America by Crispin Rovere
- The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
- The Other Wind by Ursula K Le Guin
- Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin
- Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin
Books I finished in 2016
- The Farthest Shore by Ursula K Le Guin
- The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K Le Guin
- A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin
- Losers: the Road to Everyplace but the White House by Michael Lewis
- The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
- The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Mark Twain
- Christian Science by Mark Twain
- Old Times on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
- The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
- The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
- Roughing It by Mark Twain
- Octopussy and The Living Daylights by Ian Fleming
- The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming
- You Can Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming
- The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming
- Thunderball by Ian Fleming
- For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming
- Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming
- Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
- Goldfinger by Ian Fleming
- Dr. No. by Ian Fleming
- From Russia, with Love by Ian Fleming
- Fair Game: The Incredible Untold Story of Scientology in Australia by Steve Cannane
- The Elephant In The Room by Jon Ronson
- The Gilded Rage: A wild ride through Donald Trump's America by Alexander Zaitchick
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- The American President: from Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton by William E Leuchtenburg
- A Dance with Dragons, Part 2: Fire and Blood by George R. R. Martin
- A Polar Bear Ate my Head: Misadventures in Magazines by Paul Merrill
- Enemy within: American politics in the time of Trump, Quarterly Essay 63, 2016 by Don Watson
- Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money and Power by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher
- Firing Line: Australia's Path to War, Quarterly Essay 62, 2016 by James Brown
- The Making of Donald Trump by David Cay Johnston
- JUST BORIS: A Tale of Blond Ambition by Sonia Purnell
- Hawaii by James A Michener
- Moonraker by Ian Fleming
- The Road to Ruin: how Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin destroyed their own government by Niki Savva
- The Prince, Faith, Abuse and George Pell, Quarterly Essay 51, 2013 by David Marr
- The Speechwriter: A Brief Education in Politics by Barton Swaim
- Party Like a President: True Tales of Inebriation, Lechery, and Mischief From the Oval Office by Brian Abrams, illustrations by John Mathias
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol. 1) by Alan Moore, Ben Dimagmaliw, Bill Oakley
- Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
- A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness by S. Nassir Ghaemi
- Faction Man Bill Shorten's Path to Power, Quarterly Essay 59, 2015 by David Marr
- Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
Books I finished in 2015
- Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales
- Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success by Michael D’Antonio
- The BOX: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson
- Out with Consequences: a journey out of Jehovah's Witnesses by Debbie L McDaniel
- Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic State, Quarterly Essay, Issue 58, 2015 by David Kilcullen
- Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth
- The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth
- A Dance with Dragons, Part I: Dreams and Dust by George R. R. Martin
- A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
- That's the way it is—a History of Television News in America by Charles L. Ponce De Leon
- Nixon Volume 3: Ruin and Recovery 1973–1990 by Stephen E Ambrose
- Nixon Volume 2: The Triumph of a Politician 1962–1972 by Stephen E Ambrose
- Nixon Volume I: The Education of a Politician 1913–1962 by Stephen E Ambrose
- Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs by Charles Falco
- Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga by Hunter S Thompson
- A Storm of Swords (Part 2): Blood and Gold by George R R Martin
- The Someone You're Not: True Stories of Sports, Celebrity, Politics & Pornography by Mike Sager
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol. 1) by Alan Moore, Ben Dimagmaliw, Bill Oakley
- Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence by Bryan Burrough
- So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
- Recollections Of A Bleeding Heart 10th Anniversary Edition by Don Watson
- The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
- Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All by Frank Schaeffer
- So, Anyway... by John Cleese
- The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order 1916-1931 by Adam Tooze
- Trial By Fury: Internet Savagery and the Amanda Knox Case by Douglas Preston
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Books I finished in 2014
- Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him by David Henry and Joe Henry
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
- SECDEF: The Nearly Impossible Job of Secretary of Defense by Charles A. Stevenson
- Clivosaurus: the politics of Clive Palmer by Guy Rundle
- Yes please by Amy Poehler
- No Future for You: Salvos from The Baffler by John Summers and Chris Lehmann
- The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System by David Skarbek
- Counterinsurgency by David Kilcullen
- To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party by Heather Cox Richardson
- Isla's Inheritance by Cassandra Page
- The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
- Angry White Men by Michael Kimmel
- Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (American Empire Project) by Nick Turse
- Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II by Jennet Conant
- Black Kettle and Full Moon: Daily Life in a Vanished Australia by Geoffrey Blainey
- Born Losers: A History of Failure in America by Scott A. Sandage
- The Invisible Bridge by Rick Pearlstein
- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson
- The New Hate: a history of fear and loathing on the populist right by Arthur Goldwag
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: A Study in Strategic Leadership by Daniel A. Shaarda and U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
- Another Great Day At Sea by Geoff Dyer
- Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, the Illmuniati, Skull & Bones, Black Helicopters, the New World Order, and Many, Many More by Arthur Goldwag
- Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live by Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad
- The Divide: American injustice in the age of the wealth gap by Matt Taibbi
- Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges
- The lies of Sarah Palin by Geoffrey Dunn
- Blowing Smoke: Why the Right Keeps Serving Up Whack-Job Fantasies about the Plot to Euthanize Grandma, Outlaw Christmas, outlaw Christians and turn Junior into a raging homosexual by Michael Wolraich
- Bachmannistan behind the lines: a report from the inside by Peter Waldron and John Gilmore
- The Science of Monsters: the origins of the creatures we love to fear by Matt Kaplan
- Hubris: the inside story of spin, scandal, and the selling of the Iraq war by Michael Isikoff and David Corn
- Villains, Scoundrels, and Rogues: Incredible True Tales of Mischief and Mayhem by Paul Martin
- Thirty-nine years of short-term memory the early days of SNL by somebody who was there by Tom Davis
- What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer
- Revenge of the Donut Boys by Mike Sager
- American Desperado: My life as a Cocaine Cowboy by Jon Roberts
- Griftopia: A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History by Matt Taibbi
- The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion by Matt Taibbi
- Idiot America by Charles P. Pierce
- Hella Nation by Evan Wright
- Fox Nation Vs. Reality by Mark Howard
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- An Atheist in the FOXhole: A Liberal's Eight-Year Odyssey Inside the Heart of the Right-Wing Media by Joe Muto
- The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
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