This page is to share the books I am currenlty reading and those that I've previously read.
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Books
Currently Reading
| Title | Author | Year | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|
| By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners | Margaret A. Burnham | 2022 | Non-Fiction |
| A Leg To Stand On | Oliver Sacks | 1984 | Non-Fiction |
| With Regrets | Lee Kelly | 2023 | Fiction |
| The Art of War | Sun Tzu | 2004 | Non-Fiction |
| Gather: Balck Food,Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness | Ashante M. Reese | 2026 | Non-Fiction |
2026
| Title | Author | Year | Genre | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Just One Look | Harlan Coben | 2004 | Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| I Am Not Your Enemy | Reality Winner | 2025 | Non-Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| Orbital: A Novel | Samantha Harvey | 2023 | Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| The Echo Wife | Sarah Gailey | 2021 | Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| The Ascent Of Money: A Financial History of the World | Niall Ferguson | 2018 | Non-Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI | Karen Hao | 2025 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| Levels of Life | Julian Barnes | 2013 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| The Couple Next Door | Shari Lapena | 2016 | Fiction | Can't Recommend |
| Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home | Stephen Starring Grant | 2025 | Non-Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life | Michael Warner | 1999 | Non-Fiction | Can't Recommend |
| I'll Be Gone In The Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer | Michelle McNamara | 2018 | Non-Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds | Charles Mackay | 1852 | Non-Fiction | Can't Recommend |
| 1929 | Andrew Ross Sorkin | 2025 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| Awakenings | Oliver Sacks | 1973 | Non-Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| A Random Walk Down Wall Street | Burton G. Malkiel | 1985 | Non-Fiction | Can't Recommend |
| The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America | Richard Rothstein | 2017 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty | Patrick Radden Keefe | 2021 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| Fleishman Is In Trouble | Taffy Brodesser-Akner | 2019 | Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| The Power of Gold : The History of An Obsession | Peter L. Bernstein | 2000 | Non-Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 1890 | Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| The Other Passenger | Louise Candlish | 2019 | Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| Land of Milk and Honey | C Pam Zhang | 2023 | Fiction | Can't Recommend |
| Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune | Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe | 2023 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy | James Stewart | 2023 | Non-Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows | Steven Pinker | 2025 | Non-Fiction | Can't Recommend |
| Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run | Paul McCartney | 2025 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| Demon Copperhead | Barbara Kingsolver | 2022 | Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race | Walter Isaacson | 2021 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| How Not To Invest: The ideas, numbers, and behaviors that destroy wealth―and how to avoid them | Barry Ritholtz | 2025 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| What My Father and I Don’t Talk About | Michele Filgate | 2025 | Fiction | Can't Recommend |
| Had Me a Real Good Time: The Faces Before During and After | Andy Neil | 2011 | Non-Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements | Sam Kean | 2010 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut | 1963 | Fiction | Can't Recommend |
| Player Piano | Kurt Vonnegut | 1952 | Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| The Girl On The Train | Paula Hawkins | 2015 | Fiction | Worth Your Time |