Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. Can’t resist finding out if this book is worth the hype.
Definitely let us know. I have been interested in her works for awhile.
I’m 100 pages into it. I will say it’s very readable, but I’m not sure if it will be totally unforgettable. I’m picky with this “genre” though.
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Finished Sons of Valor by Andrews & Wison. (Free on audible). Liked it so much I listened to Collateral by the same authors, (also free).
Now I’m on to Teir One, the first book in the series finished and moving on to War Shadows.
I just finished it. The author is a good storyteller; the way she weaves different characters’ storylines together is interesting. But it’s not one of my favorite books of all-time. I found myself chuckling at times given relevance to our current times. Probably three or three and a half stars.
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An interesting book I’ve been going through recently is the Junji Ito ‘Shiver’ collection. I don’t normally read manga but this would be the exception. If you like body horror it’s a must really
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Commanches.
Man, you did not want to be an enemy of the Commanche.
Timbuktu by Paul Auster. Auf Deutsch 
I just read that! Pretty cool.
Is that a topic you’re interested in? I’ve read some others lately that I thought were good.
It is. I live in a state with significant frontier history. I kick myself every time I drive by the Little Bighorn turnoff because I haven’t stopped there yet to see where Custer got himself killed.
I live in South Dakota, so the Little Bighorn site isn’t super close, but not too far. If you’re going to be in S.D.’s Black Hills, then it’s really not that far.
Lakota America by Pekka Hämäläinen
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
are both really good. I believe Flower Moon is being turned into a movie, and maybe involves some big names. I think Scorsese is directing?
Oh, and Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog. More of an autobiography than a history book, but a very good piece (imo) on a little known aspect of U.S. history.
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I am adding these to my list because Native American culture fascinates me.
I visited the black hills my senior year in high school and it’s by far my favorite place I have gone up to this point.
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Animal by Lisa Taddeo.
Very well written, but to my untrained eye it read like the feminist counter to Incel “culture “.
Never randomly pick up a paperback at an airport!
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I’ll have to check these out. I love the Black Hills. Shot a nice whitetail buck there 2 years ago.
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Love that book. All four of the Bachman books were great.
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Just finished Them by Jon Ronson and Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum
Them was an awesome, albeit frightening, book. He follows around random conspiracy theorists and gets there take on the New World Order.
Twilight of Democracy should have been an Atlantic article. Anne Applebaum and Timothy Snyder have both used the Trump presidency as an excuse to publish laughably short and shallow books about tyranny. Real shame because her book about the Gulag was awesome!
I’ve been reading Hero of Two Worlds by Mike Duncan. Really good biography of Lafayette. If you enjoyed Duncans podcasts this is basically a must read
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“SMERSH: Stalin’s Secret Weapon” by Vadim Birstein
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This one is sooo interesting
You should watch the episode on espionage from Soviet Storm.
Well…
For classes: Great depressions of the 20th century, a game theory text book, an environmental Econ textbook
For fun: still working through Molecules of emotion- this has been put on pause bc of the above
Other: book of proofs by hammack and an abstract algebra textbook for maths group, papers for my independent project, more papers recommended to me by one of my profs
Note: Great depressions of the 20th century is interesting, but extremely repetitive. The structure goes: what caused the depressions to last so long ? Is it government policy? Not really, is it bank failures? Nah, those had little impact. What about sticky wages or inflation/deflation? Nah, very little impact.
Oh! It must be “persistent, severe loss of productivity “ translation: “anything else, we don’t know”