The hyperlinks take you to my reviews….
- Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life by Agnes Callard
- The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup
- The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989 by Frederick Taylor
- Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia by Sam Dalrymple
- 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C Mann
- Adrian Goldsworthy’s biographies of:
- Julius Caesar
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Augustus
- The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brussat
- Mother Mary Comes to Me, by Arundathi Roy
- The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality by Hanno Sauer
- Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need by David Edmonds
- Why the Poor Don’t Kill Us by Manu Joseph
- Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang
- The $12 Million Stuffed Shark – The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Don Thompson
- After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso
- How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998 by Helen Garner. (I haven’t finished this but keep dipping into it once in a while. A fascinating peek into the struggles of middle age. Frank and raw!)
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