#Challenge 2020: non-fiction

1. Here is my  2020 non-fiction  reading list.
2. I may add more books as I go along.
3. Status:
4. Read: 16/116
5. In progress:  0
   

The Economist:  read cover-to over

1. 14 December 2019  cover – Victory (Boris Johnson elected Prime Minister UK)
2. 11 January 2020   cover – Masterstroke Or Madness (Trump kills Gen. Soleimani)

 

Literature:

1. Essayism – Brian Dillon – 2017
2. Nolan on Bradbury –    W.F. Nolan – 2013  READ
3. The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 – J. Shapiro  2015  READ
   
4. This Thing Called Literature – A. Bennett and N. Royle – 2015
5. Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays – C Oziek – 2016
6. The Ocean, the Bird and the Scholar – H. Vendler – 2015
7. Orwell: The Authorized Biography – M. Shelden – 1991
8. Joy Ride: Lives of th Theatricals – J. Lahr – 2015
9. The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis – C. Brownson
   
10. A Reader’s Guide to William Faulkner: The Short Stories – E. Volpe – 2004
11. You Could Look It Up: – J. Lynch

#ReadIreland

Ireland:

1. Patrick Kavanagh – A. Quinn – (biography) – 2003
2. The Theatre of Tom Murphy – N. Grene
3. The Spaces of Irish Drama – H. Lojek   READ
4. Elsewhere: One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel – R. Boland
   
5. Constellations – Sinéad Gleeson
   
6. Republic of Shame:  – C. Hogan – 2019
7. The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir – Samantha Power – 2019 READ
8. Say Nothing – Patrick Radden Keefe
9. The Irish Writer and the World – Declan Kiberd  (2001)   READ
10. Essays on John McGahern – editors D. Hand, E. Maher

 

Memoir:

1. Imperfect: How Our Bodies Shape the People We Become –  Lee Koffman
   
2. Her Mother’s Daughter by Nadia Wheatley – July 2018
3. Sightlines – K. Jamie – READ
4. Notes for the Everlost: A Field Guide to Grief – Kate Inglis – 2018
5. Louisbourg or Bust: Surfer’s Wild Ride Down Nova Scotia’s Coast – R. Shaw
6. Following the River:  Traces of Red River Women (indigenous
   
7. Tiny Lights for Travellers – Naomi K. Lewis – 2019
8. To the River: Losing My Brother – Don Gillmor – 2018
9. Homes: A Refugee Story – Abu Baker Al Rabeeah – 2018
10. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone – Olivia Laing – 2016
11. Island Home – Tim Winton – 2015 (landscape memoir)
12. Surrender – Joanna Pocock (2019)- READ
    

 

Essays:

1. Rebellious Daughter – editors Maria Katsonis, Lee Koffman – 2016  #AWW
2. The World Was Whole by Fiona Wright  – 2018 – #AWW
3. Accidental feminists – Jane Caro – 2019  #AWW
4. Stop Being Reasonable – Eleanor Gordon-Smith – 2019  #AWW
5. Remembered Presences – Alison Croggon – 2019  #AWW
   
6. The Rest is Noise – A. Ross – 2007

 

Biography:

1. Napoleon: A Life – Adam Zamoyski
   
2. Bearing Witness: The remarkable life of Charles Bean,  – P. Rees
3. Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics  (science) – Ruth Lewin Sime – 1996
4. Honeysuckle Creek: The Story of Tom Reid – Andrew Tink – 2018
5. Lynn Margulis: The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel – D. Sagan – 2012
6. Our Man Elsewhere: In Search of Alan Moorehead – Thornton McCamish – 2
7. The Strangest Family George III’s Extraordinary Experiment – J Hadlow
8. Threads in the Acadian Fabric: – S. Poirier-Bures
9. The Long Way Home: A Personal History of Nova Scotia – J. Demont
   
10. The Dead Still Cry – H. Lewis – 2018
11. Saul Steinberg: A Biography – Deidre Bair – 2012
12. Richard the Third – P. M. Kendall – 2002
13. Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait – Denys Turner – 2013
14. Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times – A. Walker
15. The Churchill Factor – Boris Johnson  – READ
    
16. Robert Kennedy and His Times – A. Schlesinger 
17. Master of the Senate – R. Caro – READ

 

History / Social History / Political History

1. Leadership: In Turbulent Times – D. K. Goodwin – 2018
2. Appeasing Hitler – Tim Bouverie – 2019
   
3. How to Hide an Empire – Daniel Immerwahr – June 2019
4. Rendezvous With Destiny:  M. Fullilove – 2013 
5. Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth – Paul Ham  2018
6. Serving our Country by J. Beaumont & A. Cadzow – April 2018
7. The Impeachers: Trial of Andrew Johnson – B. Wineapple
8. The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX – D. Kertzer
9. Realpolitik – J. Bew – 2016
10. Medieval Lives -T. Jones – 2005
11. Desert War: The North African Campaign 1940-43 – A. Moorehead – 1944
12. Threads in the Acadian Fabric: – S. Poirier-Bures
13. Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 – B Tuchman – 2001
14. Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief – M. Feeney – 2004  READ
    
15. On the Natural History of Destruction – W.G. Sebald – 2004
16. From Russia with Blood – Heidi Blake (2019)  READ
    
17. An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago –  Alex Kotlowitz
18. Winners Take All:  –  Anand Giridharadas
19. No Visible Bruises –  Rachel Louise Snyder
20. Assad or We Burn the Country –  Sam Dagher
21. The Light that Failed –  Stephen Holmes and Ivan Krastev (PH)
22. Remembering Emmett Till –  Dave Tell
23. Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear – Kim Wagner
24. Red Star Over China:  (1937) E. Snow
    
25. Maoism: A Global History – Julia Lovell
26. How to be a Dictator – Frank Dikötter
27. An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent – Owen Matthews
    
28. Family Papers: ephardic Journey Through the 20th C – Sarah Abrevaya Stein
    
29. Schism –  Paul Blustein
30. First Raise a Flag: How South Sudan Won the Longest War – P Martell
31. Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and MEast
    
32. Rise and Kill First: Secret History Israel’s Assassinations – R. Bergman
33. Hit List:  Mysterious Deaths Witnesses JFK Assassination  (2013) READ
34. JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died – J.W. Douglass –  READ
    
35. Mary’s Mosaic: CIA Conspiracy to Murder JFK, Mary Meyer– P. Janney READ
    
36. Grote Verwachtingen In Europa – 1999-2019 – G. Mak (popular Dutch writer)
37. Scorpions: Battles -Triumphs FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices – N. Feldman
38. The Secret Team: CIA and Allies  – L. Fletcher Prouty (1972) – READ
    
39. The Terrible Mistake – H.P. Albarelli jr  (2008)
40. The Betrayal – W Corson (1968)

 

Geopolitical – Economics/Politics:

1. The Way of the Strangers: Encounters With the Islamic State – G.Wood
   
2. Silent Invasion by Clive Hamilton – 2018
3. The China Model – Daniel Bell – 2016
4. Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism – Y. Varoufakis
   
5. The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies  – Susan Jacoby
6. The Meritocracy Trap – Daniel Markovits (2019)
7. Unbound: How Inequaity Contricts Our Economy – Heather Boushey (2019
8. Comrade Ambassador: Whitlam’s Beijing Envoy  – S. FitzGerald – Sept 2015 
9. Everything Trump Touches Dies:  – R. Wilson
   
10. Siege: Trump Under Fire – M. Wolff
11. The Threat: How FBI Protects America  – A. G. McCabe – 2019
12. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America – G. Packer – 2013
13. Catch and Kill: – Ronan Farrow – 2019
14. A Warning – Anonymous 2019
    
15. Thomas Merton on Peace -T. Merton – 1971
    

 

Science/Climate Change/Technology

1. The Best Australian Science Writing 2017  – M. Sleazak, E. Johnston
2. Cosmic Chronicles: A user’s guide to the universe – Fred Watson
   
3. Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore  – Elizabeth Rush
   
4. The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder – Sean McFate
5. The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future – David Wallace-Wells
   
6. Good Reasons for Bad Feelings –  Randolph Nesse
7. Wild sea: a history of the southern ocean – J. McCann   READ