Tropics' 2021 40 Book Challenge

The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way In The New Century - Paul Krugman

A timely re-read.

2. Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship At The Altar Of Donald Trump - Sarah Posner

3. A Brief History Of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes- Adam Rutherford

4. A Promised Land - Barack Obama

5. Big Cotton: How A Humble Fiber Created Fortunes, Wrecked Civilizations, And Put America On The Map - Stephen Yafa

6. The Rarest Bird In The World: The Search For The Nechisar Nightjar - Vernon R.L. Head

7. The Carpet Wars: From Kabul To Baghdad: A Ten-Year Journey Along Ancient Trade Routes - Christopher Kremmer

8. Baghdad Noir - Samuel Shimon

9. Finding George Orwell In Burma - Emma Larkin

10. Gods In Color: Polychromy In The Ancient World - Vinzenz Brinkmann

11. Modigliani: A Life - Meryle Secrest

12. American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey Into The Business Of Punishment - Shane Bauer

13. What Were We Thinking?: A Brief Intellectual History Of The Trump Era - Carlos Lozada

14. Reading The OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages - Ammon Shea

15. Jesus And John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted A Faith And Fractured A Nation - Kristen Kobes Du Mez

16. Spying On The South: An Odyssey Across The American Divide - Tony Horwitz

17. No-Man's Lands: One Man's Odyssey Through The Odyssey - Scott Huler

Reread with enjoyment.

18. Basquiat - Marc Mayer

19. Milk Of Paradise: A History Of Opium - Lucy Inglis

20. Spitting Blood: The History Of Tuberculosis - Helen Bynum

21. 1984 - George Orwell

22. Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings And Broken Hearts- Kathryn Harkup

23. Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death And Art - Rebecca Wragg Sykes

24. Lies, And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair And Balanced Look At The Right - Al Franken

25. Burmese Days - George Orwell.

26. It Was All A Lie - Stuart Stevens

27. The American War In Afghanistan - Carter Malkasian

>27 tropics: Was this a good account?

>28 rocketjk:

Rocketjk: At 461 pages, a comprehensive, if dispassionate account of the U.S. invasion.

28. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

29. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

30. War Doctor: Surgery On The Front Line - David Nott

31. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

32. A World On The Wing: The Global Odyssey Of Migratory Birds - Scott Weidensaul

33. The Cruelty Is The Point - Adam Serwer

34. One More Warbler: A Life With Birds - Victor Emanuel

35. Vintage Sacks - Oliver Sacks

36. Dirty Work - Eyal Press

37. The News: A User's Manual - Alain de Botton

38. Islamic Empires - Justin Marozzi

39. Consequence: A Memoir - Eric Fair

40. What Have We Done?: The Moral Injury Of Our Longest Wars - David Browne Wood