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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
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