One of the pleasures of travel and retirement is having additional time to read or listen to books. Below is a list of books I read or listened to (listed in chronological order).
If you are looking for recommendations or want to discuss any of these titles, please respond. Additionally, I am always seeking new recommendations, please send them my way.
I Don’t Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony – Nick Corasaniti
Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success – Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig
All the Worst Humans: Shady Confessions of a PR Fixer – Phil Elwood
Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music – David Browne
War – Bob Woodward
Conversations with Myself – Nelson Mandela
Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India – Suchitra Vijayan
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
The Name of This Band is R.E.M. – Peter Ames Carlin
The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll’s Best-Kept Secret – Kent Hartman
The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O’Neil’s America – Joe Posnanski
Silent Spring – Rachel Carson
The Zelensky Effect – Olga Onuch, Henry E. Hale
Titan of Tehran: From Jewish Ghetto to Corporate Colossus to Firing Squad – My Grandfather’s Life – Shahrzad Elghanayan
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering – Malcolm Gladwell
The Match: Two Outsiders Forged a Friendship and Made Sports History – Bruce Schoenfeld
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike – Phil Knight
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Peter Wohlleben
Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses – Peter Wolf
James – Percival Everett
Slouching Toward Bethlehem – Joan Didion
What Retirees Want: A Holistic View of Life’s Third Age – Ken Dychtwald, Robert Morison
The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World – Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company – Alice Driver
The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis – George Stephanopoulos, Lisa Dickey
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup – John Carreyrou
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service – Michael Lewis
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Properties Broke the Engine of American Opportunity – Yoni Applebaum
Abundance – Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company – Patrick McGee
You’re Welcome, Cleveland: How I Helped Lebron James Win a Championship and Save a City – Scott Raab
Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show – Tommy Tomlinson
To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other – Viet Thanh Nguyen
Comedy Samurai: Forty Years of Blood, Guts, and Laughter – Larry Charles
Why We’re Polarized – Ezra Klein
The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball – John W. Miller
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood – Trevor Noah
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning – Peter Beinart
Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America – Robert B. Reich
The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant – Tae Kim
Till the End – CC Sabathia, Chris Smith
Late to the Ball: A Journey into Tennis and Aging – Gerald Marzorati
The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West – Aleander C. Karp, Nicholas W. Zamiska
Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring – Brad Gooch
The 48 Laws of Power – Robert Greene
Naked Lunch – William S. Burroughs
The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham – Ron Shelton
Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock – Jonathan Gould
Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home – Stephen Starring Grant
Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream – Megan Greenwell
Turf Wars: The Fight for the Soul of America’s Game – DeMaurice Smith
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson – Gardiner Harris
Ghosts of Hiroshima – Charles Pellegrino
One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton and the Prague Kindertransport – Barbara Winton
How the Talmud Can Change Your Life: Surprisingly Modern Advice from a Very Old Book – Liel Leibovitz
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History – and How it Shattered a Nation – Andrew Ross Sorkin
Matisse at War: Art and Resistance in Nazi-Occupied France – Christopher C. Gorham
Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World – Michael E. Mann, Peter J. Hotez
Why Baseball Matters – Susan Jacoby
How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle – Ray Dalio
Notes on Being a Man – Scott Galloway
Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run – Peter Ames Carlin
The Big Sea – Langston Hughes
I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey – Langston Hughes
Open – Andre Agassi
Misunderstood: A Memoir – Allen Iverson, Ray Beauchamp
How Music Works – David Byrne
Vaccinated: One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases – Paul A. Offit
A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever: The Story of Spinal Tap – Rob Reiner
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis – Jared Diamond
Evergreen: The Trees That Shaped America – Trent Preszler
Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity – Laura Meckler
Backbeats: A History of Rock and Roll in Fifteen Drummers – John Lingan
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows…Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life – Steven Pinker
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