↓
 

Wilson's Weblog

Larry's thoughts, mostly about the books he's read

Log in
  • Home
  • Books
    • Books I have Read (or listened to)
    • My Reading List
    • My Favorite Books
  • Podcasts
  • Politics
  • Entertainment
  • Sports
  • Travel
  • WordPress
  • About Me
Home - Page 22 << 1 2 … 20 21 22 23 24 … 50 51 >>

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

Last Chance Idea for Workable Market-Based Health Care

Wilson's Weblog Posted on January 10, 2019 by LarryJanuary 10, 2019

The Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) was supposed to be a market-based healthcare system where individuals could shop for the best (and least expensive) health care insurance option for themselves and their families.  The concept (first introduced as “Romneycare” in Massachusetts and then adopted by Republican lawmakers as the best solution for providing consumers with their health care solutions) quickly became anathema to conservatives as it was passed into law under a Democratic administration and Congress.

Now the Democrats are proposing a single-payer “Medicare for All” system to replace Obamacare which would essentially be expanding Medicare to include everybody.  While this would probably be the most efficient and workable system, it likely won’t pass given the opposition to government paid health care by a large segment of the population and the cost associated with this expansion.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), however, created a hodge-podge of insurance offerings and ended up not being very efficient or cost-effective.

What could be done to fix the ACA to make it much for efficient and cost effective, or, more directly, what can be done to make it actually work as a market-based system?  I offer these thoughts, which admittedly might be radical, but also might make a lot of sense:

  1. Create a category of health care insurance options which can be construed as “Qualified Plans.”  These plans would have the following characteristics:
    1. Cover pre-existing conditions
    2. No lifetime caps on the cost of care
    3. Offered to everybody and everywhere (not just in cherry-picked counties as insurers are able to do under the ACA)
    4. Offered by financially sound healthcare insurance companies who have the capacity to pay claims
    5. Not subject to state regulation or cost controls
  2. Consolidate state market exchanges into one national exchange and eliminate all state regulations.  Currently there are over 30 state marketplace exchanges operated by the federal government but with varying rules and regulations imposed by the states as well as multiple state exchanges.  When you buy a car, however, all of them are required to have seatbelts, airbags, other safety features and standard emissions (other than California).  When you buy health care insurance, however, the plans must be approved and priced according to each state regulator.  This is nuts.  We are one country with 50 states, but we are not the Balkans.  Why must we have any state regulation if we were to have something like “Qualified Plans” at the Federal level?
  3. Make all “Qualified Plans” available nation-wide on the national health-care exchange.  A Qualified Plan would be available to everyone everywhere.  Insurers would no longer be able to pick and choose which states and which counties where they would sell their plans.
  4. Eliminate tax deductions and tax credits for all healthcare insurance other than “Qualified Plans” both for businesses and individuals.  Employers would be able to continue offering healthcare benefits to employees but only for a subsidy to purchase a Qualified Plan on a Health Care Exchange if they wish to deduct the cost from their taxes. The tax deduction for “Qualified Plans” only would discourage employer, affinity group and association healthcare plans.  These plans are special deals cut between employers (and other affinity groups and associations) that reduce the number of healthy individuals in the market place, thus substantially driving up the cost of healthcare insurance for those not fortunate enough to belong to one of these organizations.  A Qualified Plan would be one that is available to everyone on the healthcare marketplace.  This is counter to the current thrust to create more of these special healthcare affinity groups or associations which, I contend, only drives up the cost for the rest of the individuals attempting to purchase healthcare insurance as it reduces the number of healthy individuals in the larger pool. (Note that this change would also provide substantial cost savings to employers who would no longer need to have staff on board to negotiate and maintain their employer-based plans.  Employers could simply determine how much of a subsidy they would be willing to pay their employees for healthcare and the employees would choose which Qualified Plan they would sign up for.)
  5. Rather than the “Individual Mandate” that was imposed as part of the ACA and subsequently repealed, impose a surcharge for those healthy Millennials who chose to wait to enroll until they actually need healthcare insurance.  This is what is done for individuals who delay enrolling the Medicare Part “D” drug coverage instead of signing up when they are first eligible.  This would help expand the pool of healthy insured individuals to reduce the cost of the “Qualified Plans.”

Although some the above reforms may be somewhat radical, I believe they could substantially increase competition between health care insurance companies, reduce the cost of regulation, lower costs for employers, while retaining a market-based system using non-governmental payers.  This model would result in a single market place for purchasing health care and would possibly resemble the model of our stock markets where you can buy stock regardless of which state you reside in or whether you are employed by a particular company, affinity group or association.

Posted in Politics | Leave a reply

To the To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration

Wilson's Weblog Posted on December 11, 2018 by LarryJanuary 9, 2019

by Edward J. Larson, 2018, Kindle Edition, William Morrow publisher

One of the topics in this book was especially interesting to me because it depicted Shackleton’s 1909 attempt to reach the South Pole in 1909.  I visited Shackleton’s hut on Cape Royds in Antarctica in 1971 when I was stationed there with the Navy.  I didn’t know much about Shackleton’s expedition, however, so I didn’t have any context regarding the hut.

This book was one of the selections for our men’s book club and I took some of the pictures I had taken in 1971 to our meeting to show the other participants.  It generated some discussion as to why I had been there and what my role was during that time.

The other two topics that were covered in the book was the race to the North Pole and an attempt to climb K-2 in the Himalayas in that same year. I didn’t have any knowledge regarding these two expeditions.

The book itself wasn’t as well-written as I would have liked.  I compare it to a book a read some years ago about Shackleton’s subsequent attempt to reach the South Pole when his ship became frozen in the ice.  This book was written, I believe, in the 1950’s by a man named Roland Hungerford and is now out of print.  It was one of the most exciting books I have ever read, but “To the Edges of the Earth” was pretty boring in places.

Overall, I am glad I read this book, but for reasons other than my enjoyment of the book itself.2 1/2 stars

Posted in Books | Tagged Non-Fiction | Leave a reply

Where the Crawdads Sing

Wilson's Weblog Posted on November 29, 2018 by LarryJanuary 4, 2019

by Della Owens, 2018, Kindle Edition, G.P. Putnam’s Sons

This is a well-written book about a girl who grows up in a coastal area in North Carolina isolated from the rest of the nearby community. She eventually learns how to read and goes on to publish books on the local environment. It also includes a murder of a young man but keeps the mystery the perpetrator to the end of the book. 3 1/2 stars

Posted in Books | Tagged Fiction | Leave a reply

The Lewis Man: The Lewis Trilogy

Wilson's Weblog Posted on November 10, 2018 by LarryMarch 5, 2020

by Peter May, 2015, Kindle Edition

This is a good book that follows up on the first book of the trilogy, but seems quite different from the first.  It starts when a discovery is made of a partially mummified body in a peat bog.  The quest to identify the body leads to some startling discoveries.

Peter May mixes in a detective mystery, genealogy, DNA, and very interesting characters.  Overall, a very well-done novel 3 1/2 stars

Posted in Books | Tagged Fiction | Leave a reply

The Secret Servant

Wilson's Weblog Posted on October 30, 2018 by LarryDecember 15, 2018

by Daniel Silva, 2007, Audiobook narrated by Phil Gigante, Brilliance Audio

I was very disappointed in this book.  I was expecting a suspenseful thriller that would have some unexpected twists and turns.  What I got was a terrorist kidnapping of a young woman who had connections to the U.S. ambassador to the UK and the U.S. President.  The plot then proceeded on a fairly predictable path with Gabriel Elon, the Isreali secret agent, performing heroic tasks to rescue her.

The rather unimaginative plot, coupled with Silva’s distaste for Muslim immigration in Europe and England (which bordered on a rant), did not endear me to this book at all.  Perhaps the fact that it was written way back in 2007 when Islamic terrorism was more front and center provides some excuse, but there were other books written at this time that are much better.

It’s interesting that the reviewers on Amazon give this book a 4.7 out of 5, a lot higher than my 1.5 Stars out of 5.  About 2 per cent give it a one or two rating, but when I read those lower reviews, they echo some of my thoughts.  One individual said he had read quite a few of Silva’s other books and this one was the worst.  The other 98% rated the book a three or higher.  I am swimming upstream on this one, I guess. 1 1/5 stars 

Posted in Books | Tagged Fiction | Leave a reply

Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower’s Final Mission

Wilson's Weblog Posted on October 18, 2018 by LarryOctober 18, 2018

by Brett Baier and Catherine Whitney, 2017, William Morrow

The more I read this book, the more I didn’t like it.  It’s an overview of Ike’s days in the White House, but is built on the premise that his last three days in office were somehow momentous and important.  The book, however, doesn’t have much to say about those three days, and, instead, gives a somewhat condensed biography of Eisenhower and his presidency.  The problem is that it’s a biased account, generally praising (worshiping?) him for about everything, constantly criticizing his predecessor, Harry Truman, and the man who followed him in office, John Kennedy.

What is really the corker for this book, however, is the end of the book where the author(s) attempt to draw a favorable comparison between Ike’s approach to problem solving and that of Donald Trump.  Throughout the book they describe Eisenhower’s very deliberative, respectful, consensus-building style.  They then suggest that there are close parallels between the Eisenhower presidency and Trump’s.  After reading in the book all the steps that Eisenhower would take in coming to a decision and knowing that Trump likes to rely so much on his own instincts and intuition, I found it ludicrous that someone would even attempt to suggest that there are similarities.  Also, the way Ike would treat his subordinates with respect and consideration versus the way Trump denigrates his associates (Jeff Sessions, Wilbur Ross, Rex Tillerson), not to mention his name calling and insults of women, make one wonder if both individuals belong to the same species.

Frankly, this book, while it describes a lot of what went on in the Eisenhower administration, it’s bias in favor of Ike versus the other presidents and it’s absurd comparison of Eisenhower and Trump, lost it for me.2 stars

Posted in Books | Tagged Non-Fiction, Politics | Leave a reply

Killers of the Flower Moon, The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

Wilson's Weblog Posted on September 22, 2018 by LarryNovember 2, 2019

by David Grann, 2007, Vintage Books, A Dividion of Random House LLC, New York

This book chronicles the murders of members of the Osage Indian tribe in Oklahoma in the early part of the 20th century and the efforts of the newly founded FBI to solve the crimes.  The Osage were given land in the 1800’s that was considered worthless but oil was discovered and they became extremely rich.  They then became prey to unscrupulous white persons who rigged the system to get their money and property.  Many were murdered or died under suspicious circumstances.  The local and state authorities and courts were complicit in denying justice until an honest FBI agent, Tom White, pursued the cases.

I was not aware of the atrocities committed against these Indians.  It’s shocking to know how justice can be circumvented by powerful individuals in a community.  The author also describes additional possible murders that were never discovered or prosecuted.

The book was well researched and fairly well written, but due to the subject matter I can’t say that I enjoyed reading it.

2 1/2 stars

Posted in Books | Tagged Non-Fiction, Politics | Leave a reply

The Husband’s Secret

Wilson's Weblog Posted on September 5, 2018 by LarrySeptember 5, 2018

by Liane Moriarty, 2013, Audiobook narrated by Caroline Lee, Penguin Audio

This book is about three women who live in Australia and how they are affected by the murder of a young girl many years ago.

The book is well-written and is believable, although the outcome is fairly predictable.  The epilogue, however, provides some interesting alternative outcomes that are not expected and enhances the total package considerably.

The author does a good job capturing each of the characters. Although I enjoyed listening, it seemed to drag a bit in places. I guess it was necessary to describe each of the characters but some of it was overdone. 2 1/2 stars

Posted in Books | Tagged Fiction | Leave a reply

One Hell of a Gamble, The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Wilson's Weblog Posted on September 3, 2018 by LarrySeptember 5, 2018

by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, 1997, W.W. Norton & Company, New York

This book is a detailes account of the events that led up to and took place during the Cuban Missile Crisis.  The research that went into the writing of the book is well done and the writing is very good.  The only downside is that reading the book requires a lot of concentration on the details to get the full meaning of the book.

The authors’ conclusions were that Kennedy took the right course of action, despite his advisors advocating a more aggressive and belligerent stance.  I was struck, however, with how Khrushchev reacted in a time of crisis.  He clearly had made a colossal mistake in deciding to put nuclear missiles in Cuba, but his reasoned actions to remove them suggest that he was a smart individual who understood the implications of his actions.  It was also interesting that he seemed to have had a much better time dealing with Kennedy, his adversary, than Castro, his ally.

Thank goodness we made it through this one without a nuclear holocaust.  Hopefully, a hothead leader on either side won’t lead us down that path again, although, after reading this book, I am certain that if our current president had been in office in 1962, we would have suffered nothing short of a nuclear holocaust. 4 stars

Posted in Books, Four-Star | Tagged History, Non-Fiction, Politics | Leave a reply

Educated: a Memoir

Wilson's Weblog Posted on August 18, 2018 by LarryFebruary 1, 2019

by Tara Westover, Kindle version, 2018, Random House LLC

This book is a harrowing memoir about a young girl growing up in a dysfunctional family in Idaho with an abusive father and brother. She was discouraged from attending school and told she had to remain at home. Despite her family situation she broke away and went on to get degrees from Cambridge and Harvard.

The book is well written and compelling. She does mention areas where her version may be clouded due to memory lapses which may cast some doubt on actual events as she describes them, but the book overall is believable.

The one question that goes unanswered is how someone with such limited resources and support can go on to achieve so much academic success when our schools, in many cases, can’t always succeed with much more resources. 4 stars

Posted in Books, Four-Star | Tagged Memoir, Non-Fiction | Leave a reply

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

Welcome to My Web Site!

Most of my posts are my thoughts about books I have read. It is primarily a personal reading journal, but you are welcome to register and comment.

Login

  • Log in

Categories

  • Books (486)
    • Five-Star (8)
    • Four-Star (98)
  • Entertainment (4)
  • Podcasts (1)
  • Politics (10)
  • Sports (2)
  • Uncategorized (6)
  • WordPress (5)

Archives

Tag Cloud

Animals Autobiography Biography Business Civil War Classics Commentary Culture Early American Economics Fiction fictrion Finance Florida Historical Novel History Humor Medicine Memoir Mystery Natural History Non-Fiction Politics Religion Science Sports Spy Thriller Travel WWII Young Adult

Books by Title

Books by Author

Books by My Rating

  • 1.0 Star (11) [ - ]
    • Big Trouble
    • Commonwealth
    • Deep Blue
    • Force of Nature
    • Imagined Communities
    • Looking for Alaska
    • Telegraph Days
    • The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
    • The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
    • The Lost Symbol
    • The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
  • 1.5 Stars (15) [ - ]
    • A Secret Kept
    • Call Me Madame Alice
    • Grand Finale
    • Life After Life
    • Monday Mornings: A Novel
    • Potshot
    • Prey
    • The Castaways: A Novel
    • The Chemist
    • The English Girl
    • The Secret Servant
    • The Sentinel
    • The Tragedy of Patton, A Soldier's Date with Destiny: Could World War II's Greatest General Have Stopped the Cold War?
    • Tishomingo Blues
    • Wolves Eat Dogs, An Arkady Renko Novel
  • 2.0 Stars (52) [ - ]
    • A Brutal Telling
    • A Traveller's History of Turkey
    • A Wanted Man: A Jack Reacher Novel
    • American Dirt: A Novel
    • An Irish Country Girl
    • Cleopatra: A Life
    • Con/Artist
    • Death at La Fenice
    • Dreams of Joy: A Novel
    • Everyman
    • Executive Office: A Look at the U.S. Presidents Through the Lens of Leadership
    • Freedom
    • Girls of Riyadh
    • Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip
    • Honor's Voice, The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln
    • Hot Mahogany
    • Hour Game
    • In Morocco
    • Justine
    • Killing Patton
    • Last Sermon for a Sinner
    • Noah's Compass
    • Persuasion
    • Pursuit of Honor
    • Something in the Water
    • Stolen Prey
    • Stormbreaker (Alex Rider Book 1)
    • The American Story, Conversations with Master Historians
    • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
    • The Blacklist, by Sarah Paretsky (A V.I. Warshowsky Mystery, Book 11)
    • The Blacklist, by Sarah Paretsky (A V.I. Warshowsky Mystery, Book 11)
    • The Bridesmaid
    • The Cat Who Went Up The Creek
    • The Devil is Waiting
    • The Good Pilot Peter Woodhouse: A Novel of Love and War
    • The Language of Flowers
    • The Madness of Crowds
    • The Man Who Invented Florida
    • The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
    • The Next Accident
    • The Prague Cemetery
    • The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan - A History of the End of the Cold War
    • The Rider of the Ruby Hills
    • The Searcher
    • The Survivors
    • The Witch Elm: A Novel
    • The Year of the Locust
    • There's Something about St. Tropez
    • Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission
    • Two Dollar Bill
    • Us Against You: A Novel
    • War and Peace
  • 2.5 Stars (81) [ - ]
    • Fishing for Fun, and to Wash your Soul
    • A Green Journey
    • A Question of Belief (Commissario Brunetti Book 19)
    • A Sleeping Life
    • After Annie
    • Almost Hemingway: The Adventures of Negly Farson, Foreign Correspondent
    • American Lion, Andrew Jackson in the White House
    • An Innocent Man, Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
    • Anatomy of a Soldier
    • Armies of the Night
    • Camino Island: A Novel
    • Catch Me: Detective D. D. Warren, Book 6
    • Cooper's Creek: Tragedy and Adventure in the Australian Outback
    • Demon Copperhead
    • Dressed for Death (Commissario Brunetti Book 3)
    • Dressed for Death (Commissario Brunetti Book 3)
    • Dressed for Death (Commissario Brunetti Book 3)
    • Evening Class
    • Fall of Giants
    • Fear: Trump in the White House
    • From the Low and Quiet Sea
    • From This Day Forward
    • Gold: A Novel
    • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
    • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
    • Iron Lake
    • JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
    • Killers of the Flower Moon, The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
    • Killing Lincoln
    • Liar's Poker
    • Lightning Strike
    • Murder at a Vineyard Mansion
    • Mysteries of the Middle Ages, The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe
    • Ocean State
    • One Second After
    • One Summer: America, 1927
    • Out of Africa, Shadows on the Grass
    • Past Tense: A Jack Reacher Novel
    • Protect and Defend
    • Reconciliation, Islam, Democracy, and the West
    • Saturday
    • Skink, No Surrender
    • State of Wonder: A Novel
    • Supreme Commander: MacArthur’s Triumph in Japan
    • Sweet Tooth
    • Teacher Man
    • The Armor of Light
    • The Association of Small Bombs, a Novel
    • The Blue Notebook
    • The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
    • The Cat who Went to Paris
    • The Darwin Conspiracy
    • The Edge of Eternity
    • The Evening and the Morning
    • The House on Biscayne Bay
    • The Husband's Secret
    • The Innocents
    • The Lowland
    • The Madonnas of Leningrad
    • The Maltese Falcon
    • The March: A Novel
    • The Marriage Plot
    • The Only Woman in the Room: A Novel
    • The Reavers
    • The Richest Woman in America: Hettie Green in the Gilded Age
    • The Secret Scripture
    • The Summer Before The War
    • The Summer Before the War: a Novel
    • The Target
    • The Twist of the Knife (Book 4 of the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries)
    • The Walking Wind
    • Thirteen Moons
    • To Capture What We Cannot Keep
    • To the To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration
    • Transfer of Power
    • Under a Wing, A Memoir
    • Warlight: A Novel
    • Whiteout
    • Wild Bill Donovan, The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage
    • Wild Blue, The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24's over Germany
    • Wildfire
  • 3.0 Stars (84) [ - ]
    • 'E' is for Evidence
    • 11/22/63
    • A Beautiful Mystery
    • A Briefer History of Time
    • A Great Reckoning
    • A Line to Kill (Book 3 of the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries)
    • A Line to Kill (Book 3 of the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries)
    • A Noble Radiance (Commissario Brunetti Book 7)
    • A Rope and a Prayer, A Kidnapping from Two Sides
    • A Rule Against Murder
    • A Toxic Inconvenience, Red Tide and Blue-Green Algae on Florida's Coast
    • An American Marriage: A Novel
    • An American Marriage: A Novel
    • Belize Survivor, Darker Side of Paradise
    • City on Fire
    • Clapton: The Autobiograpy
    • Close to Death (Book 5 of the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries)
    • Code Name Verity
    • Dear Edward: A Novel
    • Dr. Finlay's Casebook Omnibus
    • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
    • Endgame, 1945, The Missing Final Chapter of World War II
    • Everglades: Doc Ford Series, Book 10
    • Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
    • Flashman
    • Fly Boys, A True Story of Courage
    • Gone Girl, A Novel
    • Handbook of Great Aircraft of WWII
    • Hornet Flight
    • Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
    • In the Unlikely Event
    • Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
    • Into the Woods
    • Killer Smile
    • Look Again
    • My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry: A Novel
    • Night Over Water
    • North River: A Novel
    • Norwegian by Night
    • One Thousand White Women
    • Parish Priest, Father Michael McGivney and American Catholocism
    • Rasputin's Daughter
    • Red Sparrow: A Novel
    • Santa Fe Dead
    • Shutter Island
    • Team of Rivals
    • Tears in the Darkness
    • Ten Thousand Islands
    • The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
    • The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
    • The Children Act
    • The Convivial Codfish
    • The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
    • The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination
    • The Devil's Daughter
    • The Forgiven
    • The Galton Case
    • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    • The Glass Castle: A Memoir
    • The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism
    • The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
    • The Hour I First Believed
    • The Innocents Abroad or the New Pilgrims' Progress
    • The Lacuna
    • The Lake House: A Novel
    • The Lion
    • The Long Petal of the Sea
    • The Long Way Home
    • The Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
    • The Nickel Boys: A Novel
    • The Nickel Boys: A Novel
    • The Paris Library
    • The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
    • The Private Patient
    • The Stranger in My Genes, a memoir
    • The Swans of Fifth Avenue
    • The Underground Railroad: A Novel
    • Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates, The Forgotten War that Changed American History
    • Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
    • Turning Angel: A Novel
    • Under the Wide and Starry Sky: A Novel
    • Winter of the World: The Century Trilogy, Book 2
    • With Wings Like Eagles, A History of the Battle of Britain
    • World Without End
  • 3.5 Stars (130) [ - ]
    • A Better Man
    • A Column of Fire
    • A Death in Vienna
    • A Fatal Grace
    • A Spy Among Friends, Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
    • A World of Curiosities
    • Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair (Jewish Lives)
    • All Creatures Great and Small
    • All the Devils are Here
    • American Gospel, God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
    • An Irish Country Village
    • Anatomy of Greed, The Unshredded Truth from an Enron Insider
    • Anxious People
    • Atonement
    • Beatles, Books, Bombs, and Beyond
    • Becoming
    • Billy Summers
    • Boom!, Voices of the Sixties, Personal Reflection on the '60's and Today
    • Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
    • Caleb's Crossing
    • Citizens of London
    • Crazy Horse, A Lakota Life
    • Death of a Gossip (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries Book 1)
    • Defending Jacob: a novel
    • Dewey, The Small-Town Library Cat who Touched the World
    • Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
    • Earthly Remains (Commissario Brunetti Book 26)
    • Eat, Pray, Love
    • Executive Privilege
    • Finding Darwin's God, A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution
    • Floreana, A Woman's Pilgimage to the Galapagos
    • For Whom the Bell Tolls
    • George F. Kennan: An American Life
    • Glass Houses
    • Gone Tomorrow
    • Great Expectations
    • Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
    • Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of Family and Culture in Crisis
    • Horse
    • How the Light Gets In
    • How the Light Gets In
    • I Am Pilgrim
    • I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford
    • In Harm's Way
    • Isola
    • J.D. Salinger: A Life
    • Kingdom of the Blind
    • Kingsblood Royal
    • Last Train to Paradise
    • Leonardo da Vinci
    • Machines Like Me: A Novel
    • Mad Honey
    • Me Before You
    • Mudbound
    • My Italian Bulldozer
    • New York: The Novel
    • Northanger Abbey
    • Notre-Dame, A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals
    • Nuclear War: A Scenario
    • Orphan Train: A Novel
    • Outliers, The Story of Success
    • Pillars of the Earth
    • Politics and Pasta: How I Prosecuted Mobsters, Rebuilt a Dying City, Dined with Sinatra, Spent Five Years in a Federally Funded Gated Community, and Lived to Tell the tale
    • Prince of Tides
    • Reinventing American Health Care
    • Robert E. Lee: A Life
    • Room: A Novel
    • Saving Sophie
    • Shantaram
    • Shark River
    • Slow Horses
    • Small Island, A Novel
    • Southern Exposure, A Solo Sea Kayaking Journey Around New Zealand's South Island
    • Suite Française
    • Term Limits
    • The Anomaly
    • The Brass Verdict
    • The Cat's Table
    • The Catcher in the Rye
    • The Chessmen: The Lewis Trilogy
    • The Colorado Kid
    • The Colossus of Maroussi
    • The Cruelest Month
    • The Daughters of Mars: A Novel
    • The Dentist (Detective Sergeant George Cross Mystery, Book 1)
    • The Diamond Eye
    • The Dry
    • The Dubliners
    • The Enemy
    • The Ferguson Affair
    • The Great Alone
    • The Hangman
    • The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
    • The Janson Directive
    • The Last Days of Night: A Novel
    • The Lewis Man: The Lewis Trilogy
    • The Lincoln Lawyer
    • The Lincoln Lawyer
    • The Midnight Library: A Novel
    • The Nature of the Beast
    • The Nightingale
    • The One from the Other
    • The Piano Teacher
    • The Presidents' War
    • The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss
    • The Reluctant Tuscan, How I Discovered My Inner Italian
    • The Rising Tide, a Novel of World War II
    • The Rose Code
    • The Screwtape Letters, How a Senior Devil Instructs a Junior Devil in the Art of Temptation
    • The Sea
    • The Sentence is Death (Book 2 of the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries)
    • The Shadow Man
    • The Shadow of the Wind
    • The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
    • The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
    • The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
    • The Submission
    • The Summer of the Red Wolf
    • The Tenderness of Wolves
    • The Testaments
    • The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel
    • The Towers of Trebizond
    • The Warden
    • The Wright Brothers
    • What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life
    • When Breath Becomes Air
    • Where the Crawdads Sing
    • Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
    • Wishin' and Hopin'
    • Zero Fall: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service 
  • 3.5 stars (1) [ - ]
    • Death of a Cad (Hamish MacBeth Mysteries Book 2)
  • 4.0 Stars (76) [ - ]
    • A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh
    • A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
    • A Long Time Dead (A D.I. Duncan McAdam Mystery)
    • A Separate Peace
    • A Tale of Two Cities
    • A Trick of the Light
    • Alexander Hamilton
    • All the Light We Cannot See
    • An Officer and a Spy
    • An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960's
    • Analogies at War: Korea, Munich, Dien Bien Phu, and the Vietnam Decisions of 1965
    • Babbitt
    • Bear Town
    • Britt-Marie Was Here
    • Bury Your Dead
    • Catherine the Great, Portrait of a Woman
    • Crime and Punishment
    • Cry, The Beloved Country
    • Cutting for Stone
    • Demons of Unrest
    • Desert Queen, The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Advisor to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
    • Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
    • Dreams from My Father
    • Echo Park
    • Educated: a Memoir
    • Founding Brothers, The Revolutionary Generation
    • Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath 
    • Heart of Darkness,
    • Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Excape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
    • I Will Bear Witness, 1933-1941, A Diary of the Nazi Years
    • In the Garden of Beasts, Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
    • James
    • Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela  
    • Mayflower
    • Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
    • Mila 18
    • No Country for Old Men
    • One Hell of a Gamble, The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
    • Origins of a Catastrophe
    • Private Svoboda, Hope is the Last to Die
    • River of Doubt, Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
    • Salt Sugar Fat, How the Food Giants Hooked Us
    • Sea of Glory
    • So Close to Home
    • South of Broad
    • Squeeze Me
    • State of Denial, Bush at War, Part III
    • Still Life
    • Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938
    • The 1st Ladie's Detective Agency
    • The Allure of Immortality, An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet
    • The Big Short, Inside the Doomsday Machine
    • The Book Thief
    • The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
    • The First Salute
    • The Flight of the Falcon
    • The Gift of Rain
    • The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
    • The Giver
    • The Great Gatsby
    • The Handmaid's Tale
    • The Invisible Bridge
    • The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
    • The Maidens
    • The Nix: a novel
    • The Plot Against America
    • The Sellout, How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System
    • The Silent Patient
    • The Swamp, The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
    • The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
    • The Word is Murder (Book 1 of the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries)
    • The World is Flat, A Brief History of the 20th Century
    • Trust
    • Unbroken, A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
    • Washington Square
    • Where the Sea Breaks Its Back
  • 4.5 Stars (23) [ - ]
    • A Land Remembered, A Novel
    • A Thousand Splendid Suns
    • A World Lit Only by Fire, The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance, Portrait of an Age
    • Birds Without Wings
    • Body and Soul
    • Hellhound on His Trail, The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the International Hunt for His Assassin
    • King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
    • Lessons in Chemistry
    • Moscow, 1812, Napolean's Fatal March
    • Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
    • Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
    • Sarah's Key
    • The Black House
    • The Boys in the Boat
    • The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
    • The Coldest Winter
    • The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
    • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Society
    • The Help
    • The Kings Depart, The Tragedy of Germany: Versailles and the German Revolution
    • The Lion Women of Tehran
    • The Night Tiger
    • The Path Between the Seas, The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
  • 5.0 Stars (8) [ - ]
    • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    • Being Mortal : Medicine and What Matters in the End
    • Middlesex
    • Morale
    • Night
    • Relative Danger: A Mystery
    • The Lessons of History
    • Water for Elephants

part: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ]

Book Format

  • 2.5 Stars
  • Audiobook (165) [ - ]
    • A Beautiful Mystery
    • A Better Man
    • A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh
    • A Column of Fire
    • A Death in Vienna
    • A Fatal Grace
    • A Line to Kill (Book 3 of the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries)
    • A Question of Belief (Commissario Brunetti Book 19)
    • A Rule Against Murder
    • A Sleeping Life
    • A Tale of Two Cities
    • A Trick of the Light
    • A Wanted Man: A Jack Reacher Novel
    • A World of Curiosities
    • After Annie
    • All the Devils are Here
    • American Dirt: A Novel
    • American Gospel, God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
    • An Innocent Man, Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
    • An Irish Country Girl
    • An Irish Country Village
    • Anatomy of Greed, The Unshredded Truth from an Enron Insider
    • Arctic Chill
    • Britt-Marie Was Here
    • Bury Your Dead
    • Caleb's Crossing
    • Camino Island: A Novel
    • Catch Me: Detective D. D. Warren, Book 6
    • City on Fire
    • Clapton: The Autobiograpy
    • Close to Death (Book 5 of the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries)
    • Commonwealth
    • Crime and Punishment
    • Dear Edward: A Novel
    • Demon Copperhead
    • Dreams of Joy: A Novel
    • Dressed for Death (Commissario Brunetti Book 3)
    • Earthly Remains (Commissario Brunetti Book 26)
    • Evening Class
    • Everglades: Doc Ford Series, Book 10
    • Everyman
    • Executive Privilege
    • Force of Nature
    • Founding Brothers, The Revolutionary Generation
    • Freedom
    • Girls of Riyadh
    • Gold: A Novel
    • Gone Tomorrow
    • Grand Finale
    • Great Expectations
    • Heart of Darkness,
    • Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
    • Hornet Flight
    • Hot Mahogany
    • Hour Game
    • How the Light Gets In
    • In the Unlikely Event
    • Intervention
    • James
    • King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
    • Leonardo da Vinci
    • Life After Life
    • Machines Like Me: A Novel
    • Mad Honey
    • Me Before You
    • Murder at a Vineyard Mansion
    • My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry: A Novel
    • New York: The Novel
    • Noah's Compass
    • Northanger Abbey
    • Ocean State
    • Orphan Train: A Novel
    • Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
    • Outliers, The Story of Success
    • Past Tense: A Jack Reacher Novel
    • Persuasion
    • Protect and Defend
    • Pursuit of Honor
    • Room: A Novel
    • Saturday
    • Shark River
    • Skink, No Surrender
    • Squeeze Me
    • State of Wonder: A Novel
    • Still Life
    • Stolen Prey
    • Stormbreaker (Alex Rider Book 1)
    • Sweet Tooth
    • Teacher Man
    • Tears in the Darkness
    • Ten Thousand Islands
    • The 1st Ladie's Detective Agency
    • The Armor of Light
    • The Blacklist, by Sarah Paretsky (A V.I. Warshowsky Mystery, Book 11)
    • The Blacklist, by Sarah Paretsky (A V.I. Warshowsky Mystery, Book 11)
    • The Blue Notebook
    • The Brass Verdict
    • The Bridesmaid
    • The Castaways: A Novel
    • The Cat Who Went Up The Creek
    • The Cat's Table
    • The Chemist
    • The Colorado Kid
    • The Cruelest Month
    • The Daughters of Mars: A Novel
    • The Devil is Waiting
    • The Diamond Eye
    • The Dry
    • The Dubliners
    • The Edge of Eternity
    • The Enemy
    • The English Girl
    • The Evening and the Morning
    • The Flight of the Falcon
    • The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
    • The Great Alone
    • The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism
    • The Handmaid's Tale
    • The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
    • The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
    • The Husband's Secret
    • The Janson Directive
    • The Language of Flowers
    • The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
    • The Lincoln Lawyer
    • The Lion
    • The Long Petal of the Sea
    • The Long Petal of the Sea
    • The Long Way Home
    • The Lost Symbol
    • The Lowland
    • The Madness of Crowds
    • The Man Who Invented Florida
    • The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
    • The Nature of the Beast
    • The Nickel Boys: A Novel
    • The Night Tiger
    • The Nightingale
    • The Piano Teacher
    • The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
    • The Private Patient
    • The Richest Woman in America: Hettie Green in the Gilded Age
    • The Rider of the Ruby Hills
    • The Rose Code
    • The Searcher
    • The Secret Scripture
    • The Secret Servant
    • The Silent Patient
    • The Survivors
    • The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel
    • The Twist of the Knife (Book 4 of the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries)
    • The Undoing Project
    • The Walking Wind
    • The Warden
    • The Witch Elm: A Novel
    • The Word is Murder (Book 1 of the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries)
    • There's Something about St. Tropez
    • Thirteen Moons
    • Tishomingo Blues
    • Under the Wide and Starry Sky: A Novel
    • Us Against You: A Novel
    • Warlight: A Novel
    • Washington Square
    • Winter of the World: The Century Trilogy, Book 2
    • Wishin' and Hopin'
  • Book (317) [ - ]
    • 'E' is for Evidence
    • 11/22/63
    • Fishing for Fun, and to Wash your Soul
    • A Brutal Telling
    • A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
    • A Great Reckoning
    • A Green Journey
    • A Land Remembered, A Novel
    • A Long Time Dead (A D.I. Duncan McAdam Mystery)
    • A Noble Radiance (Commissario Brunetti Book 7)
    • A Rope and a Prayer, A Kidnapping from Two Sides
    • A Secret Kept
    • A Separate Peace
    • A Spy Among Friends, Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
    • A Thousand Splendid Suns
    • A Toxic Inconvenience, Red Tide and Blue-Green Algae on Florida's Coast
    • A Traveller's History of Turkey
    • A World Lit Only by Fire, The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance, Portrait of an Age
    • Alexander Hamilton
    • Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair (Jewish Lives)
    • All Creatures Great and Small
    • All the Light We Cannot See
    • Almost Hemingway: The Adventures of Negly Farson, Foreign Correspondent
    • American Lion, Andrew Jackson in the White House
    • An American Marriage: A Novel
    • An Officer and a Spy
    • An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960's
    • Analogies at War: Korea, Munich, Dien Bien Phu, and the Vietnam Decisions of 1965
    • Anatomy of a Soldier
    • Anxious People
    • April 1865
    • Armies of the Night
    • Atonement
    • Babbitt
    • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    • Bear Town
    • Beatles, Books, Bombs, and Beyond
    • Becoming
    • Being Mortal : Medicine and What Matters in the End
    • Belize Survivor, Darker Side of Paradise
    • Billy Summers
    • Birds Without Wings
    • Body and Soul
    • Boom!, Voices of the Sixties, Personal Reflection on the '60's and Today
    • Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
    • Call Me Madame Alice
    • Catherine the Great, Portrait of a Woman
    • Citizens of London
    • Cleopatra: A Life
    • Code Name Verity
    • Con/Artist
    • Cooper's Creek: Tragedy and Adventure in the Australian Outback
    • Crazy Horse, A Lakota Life
    • Cry, The Beloved Country
    • Cutting for Stone
    • Death at La Fenice
    • Death of a Cad (Hamish MacBeth Mysteries Book 2)
    • Death of a Gossip (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries Book 1)
    • Deep Blue
    • Defending Jacob: a novel
    • Demons of Unrest
    • Desert Queen, The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Advisor to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
    • Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
    • Dewey, The Small-Town Library Cat who Touched the World
    • Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
    • Dr. Finlay's Casebook Omnibus
    • Dreams from My Father
    • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
    • Eat, Pray, Love
    • Echo Park
    • Educated: a Memoir
    • Endgame, 1945, The Missing Final Chapter of World War II
    • Executive Office: A Look at the U.S. Presidents Through the Lens of Leadership
    • Fall of Giants
    • Fall on Your Knees
    • Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
    • Fear: Trump in the White House
    • Finding Darwin's God, A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution
    • Flashman
    • Floreana, A Woman's Pilgimage to the Galapagos
    • Fly Boys, A True Story of Courage
    • For Whom the Bell Tolls
    • Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath 
    • From the Low and Quiet Sea
    • From This Day Forward
    • George F. Kennan: An American Life
    • Gila Country Legend: The Life and Times of Quentin Hulse
    • Glass Houses
    • Gone Girl, A Novel
    • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
    • Handbook of Great Aircraft of WWII
    • Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip
    • Hellhound on His Trail, The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the International Hunt for His Assassin
    • Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Excape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
    • Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of Family and Culture in Crisis
    • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
    • Honor Bound, Terror on the F Train
    • Honor's Voice, The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln
    • Horse
    • Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
    • I Am Pilgrim
    • I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford
    • I Will Bear Witness, 1933-1941, A Diary of the Nazi Years
    • Imagined Communities
    • Imagined Communities
    • In Harm's Way
    • In Morocco
    • In the Garden of Beasts, Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
    • Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
    • Into the Woods
    • Iron Lake
    • Isola
    • J.D. Salinger: A Life
    • JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
    • Justine
    • Killer Smile
    • Killers of the Flower Moon, The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
    • Killing Lincoln
    • Killing Patton
    • Kingdom of the Blind
    • Kingsblood Royal
    • Last Sermon for a Sinner
    • Last Train to Paradise
    • Lessons in Chemistry
    • Liar's Poker
    • Lightning Strike
    • Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela  
    • Look Again
    • Looking for Alaska
    • Mayflower
    • Middlesex
    • Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
    • Mila 18
    • Morale
    • Moscow, 1812, Napolean's Fatal March
    • Mudbound
    • My Italian Bulldozer
    • Mysteries of the Middle Ages, The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe
    • Night
    • Night Over Water
    • No Country for Old Men
    • North River: A Novel
    • Norwegian by Night
    • Notre-Dame, A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals
    • Nuclear War: A Scenario
    • One Hell of a Gamble, The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
    • One Second After
    • One Summer: America, 1927
    • One Thousand White Women
    • Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
    • Origins of a Catastrophe
    • Out of Africa, Shadows on the Grass
    • Out of Order
    • Parish Priest, Father Michael McGivney and American Catholocism
    • Pillars of the Earth
    • Politics and Pasta: How I Prosecuted Mobsters, Rebuilt a Dying City, Dined with Sinatra, Spent Five Years in a Federally Funded Gated Community, and Lived to Tell the tale
    • Potshot
    • Prey
    • Prince of Tides
    • Private Svoboda, Hope is the Last to Die
    • Rasputin's Daughter
    • Reconciliation, Islam, Democracy, and the West
    • Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
    • Red Sparrow: A Novel
    • Reinventing American Health Care
    • Relative Danger: A Mystery
    • River of Doubt, Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
    • Robert E. Lee: A Life
    • Salt Sugar Fat, How the Food Giants Hooked Us
    • Santa Fe Dead
    • Sarah's Key
    • Saving Sophie
    • Sea of Glory
    • Shantaram
    • Shutter Island
    • Slow Horses
    • Small Island, A Novel
    • So Close to Home
    • Something in the Water
    • South of Broad
    • Southern Exposure, A Solo Sea Kayaking Journey Around New Zealand's South Island
    • State of Denial, Bush at War, Part III
    • Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938
    • Suite Française
    • Supreme Commander: MacArthur’s Triumph in Japan
    • Team of Rivals
    • Term Limits
    • The Allure of Immortality, An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet
    • The American Story, Conversations with Master Historians
    • The Anomaly
    • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
    • The Association of Small Bombs, a Novel
    • The Big Short, Inside the Doomsday Machine
    • The Black House
    • The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
    • The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
    • The Book Thief
    • The Boys in the Boat
    • The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
    • The Cat who Went to Paris
    • The Catcher in the Rye
    • The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
    • The Chessmen: The Lewis Trilogy
    • The Children Act
    • The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
    • The Coldest Winter
    • The Colossus of Maroussi
    • The Convivial Codfish
    • The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
    • The Darwin Conspiracy
    • The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination
    • The Dentist (Detective Sergeant George Cross Mystery, Book 1)
    • The Devil's Daughter
    • The Ferguson Affair
    • The First Salute
    • The Forgiven
    • The Galton Case
    • The Gift of Rain
    • The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
    • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    • The Giver
    • The Glass Castle: A Memoir
    • The Good Pilot Peter Woodhouse: A Novel of Love and War
    • The Great Gatsby
    • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Society
    • The Hangman
    • The Help
    • The Hour I First Believed
    • The House on Biscayne Bay
    • The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
    • The Innocents
    • The Innocents Abroad or the New Pilgrims' Progress
    • The Invisible Bridge
    • The Kings Depart, The Tragedy of Germany: Versailles and the German Revolution
    • The Lacuna
    • The Lake House: A Novel
    • The Last Days of Night: A Novel
    • The Last Hurrah: A Novel
    • The Lessons of History
    • The Lewis Man: The Lewis Trilogy
    • The Lion Women of Tehran
    • The Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
    • The Madonnas of Leningrad
    • The Maidens
    • The Maltese Falcon
    • The March: A Novel
    • The Marriage Plot
    • The Midnight Library: A Novel
    • The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
    • The Next Accident
    • The Nix: a novel
    • The One from the Other
    • The Only Woman in the Room: A Novel
    • The Paris Library
    • The Path Between the Seas, The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
    • The Plot Against America
    • The Prague Cemetery
    • The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
    • The Presidents' War
    • The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss
    • The Reavers
    • The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan - A History of the End of the Cold War
    • The Reluctant Tuscan, How I Discovered My Inner Italian
    • The Rising Tide, a Novel of World War II
    • The Screwtape Letters, How a Senior Devil Instructs a Junior Devil in the Art of Temptation
    • The Sea
    • The Sellout, How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System
    • The Sentence is Death (Book 2 of the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries)
    • The Sentinel
    • The Shadow Man
    • The Shadow of the Wind
    • The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
    • The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
    • The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
    • The Stranger in My Genes, a memoir
    • The Summer Before The War
    • The Summer Before the War: a Novel
    • The Summer of the Red Wolf
    • The Swamp, The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
    • The Target
    • The Tenderness of Wolves
    • The Testaments
    • The Towers of Trebizond
    • The Tragedy of Patton, A Soldier's Date with Destiny: Could World War II's Greatest General Have Stopped the Cold War?
    • The Underground Railroad: A Novel
    • The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
    • The World is Flat, A Brief History of the 20th Century
    • The Wright Brothers
    • The Year of the Locust
    • Thief River Falls
    • Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates, The Forgotten War that Changed American History
    • Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission
    • To Capture What We Cannot Keep
    • To the To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration
    • Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
    • Transfer of Power
    • Trust
    • Turning Angel: A Novel
    • Two Dollar Bill
    • Unbroken, A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
    • Under a Wing, A Memoir
    • War and Peace
    • Water for Elephants
    • What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life
    • When Breath Becomes Air
    • Where the Crawdads Sing
    • Where the Sea Breaks Its Back
    • Whiteout
    • Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
    • Wild Bill Donovan, The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage
    • Wild Blue, The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24's over Germany
    • Wildfire
    • With Wings Like Eagles, A History of the Battle of Britain
    • Wolves Eat Dogs, An Arkady Renko Novel
    • World Without End
    • Your Heart, My Hands
    • Zero Fall: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service 

Favorite Places

  • goodreads
  • Larry and Jane's Family Tree
  • WordPress
  • WordPress Weaver Theme

Blogroll

  • Maurice on Books
  • The Pavellas Perspective
©2025 - Wilson's Weblog - Weaver Xtreme Theme
↑