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Non-fiction 2024      (01 November 2023-October 31 2024)  #NonFicNov

  1. Picasso tout contre Cocteau – Claude Arnaud – REVIEW
  2. The Palestine Laboratory – A. Loewenstein – REVIEW
  3. The Biggest Estate on Earth – Bill Gammage – REVIEW
  4. Black Lives, White Law – Russell Marks – REVIEW
  5. The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi – REVIEW
  6. Revolutionary Spring 184-1849 – C. Clark – REVIEW
  7. Paul Guillaume – S. Daranyi – REVIEW
  8. Chip War – C. Miller – REVIEW
  9. The Lumumba Plot – Stuart A. Ried – REVIEW
  10. Bookworm – L. Mangan (memoir) – REVIEW
  11. The Road to Wigan Pier – G. Orwell – REVIEW
  12. Gustave Moreau: Le Moyen Âge Retrouvée – Musée Gustave Moreau – READING
  13. All the Beauty in the World – P. Bringley – REVIEW
  14. Orwell – Michael Shelden – REVIEW
  15. Red Comet – Heather Clark (biography Sylvia Plath) – READING
  16. Outlive – P. Attia – REVIEW
  17. Intimate City: Dublin – Peter Sirr (27 essays) – REVIEW
  18. How Not To Die – M. Greger, MD – REVIEW
  19. Gustave Moreau: Le Moyen Age Retrouvée– Musée Gustave Moreau – REVIEW
  20. Mythical Ireland  – A. Murphy – REVIEW
  21. Le Japonisme, un art français – REVIEW
  22. Henri Rivière – Art history  – REVIEW
  23. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II  – G. Bass (2023) REVIEW
  24. Rough Beast – M. Cahill – REVIEW
  25. Le Piège Nord Stream – Marion van Renterghem – REVIEW
  26. Les fossoyeurs (Gravediggers)  – V. Castanet – REVIEW
  27. Camille et Paul – D. Bona – REVIEW
  28. Le Siècle des intellectuels – N. Winock – REVIEW (cleaning up TBR  Kindle)
  29. On ne peut pas tout dire – S. Fontenelle – REVIEW (cleaning up TBR  Kindle)
  30. La Traversée des jours – F. Bott – REVIEW (cleaning up TBR Kindle)
  31. Boxe – J. Henric (essays) – REVIEW (cleaning up TBR Kindle)
  32. Impunité – H. Devynck – REVIEW (cleaning up TBR Kindle)
  33. Madame de Sévigné – Geneviève Haroche-Bouzinac – REVIEW

 

 

New to Non-ficton TBR

  1. I’ve found so many new non-ficton books in 2023.
  2. I will do my best to actually READ the selected books in 2024!

 

  1. The Intrepid Angeleno
  2. Letters To Monica – P. Larkin
  3. A Life Long Passion – S. Mironenko
  4. Based on a True Story
  5. How Not To Die – M. Greger
  6. ReaderBuzz
  7. Down and Out in Paris and London – G. Orwell
  8. Born a Crime – Trevor Noah
  9. Volatile Rune
  10. The Story of Art – K. Hessel
  11. All the Beauty in the World – P. Bringley – READING
  12. Typings
  13. The Iliad – Emily Wilson
  14. Homer and His Iliad – Robin Lane Fox
  15. Schoenberg: Why He Matters – Harvey Sachs – 2023 (272 pg)
  16. This Reading Life
  17. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life – A. Fnder
  18. Anz LitLovers Blog
  19. Aprodite’s Breath – S. Johnson
  20. I Had a Fater om Karratha – A. Trevitt
  21. BooksPlease
  22. Ultra-Processed People –  Chris van Tulleken
  23. Maphead’s Books Blog
  24. The Good Assassin – W. Talth
  25. Goodbye Easern Europe – J. Mikanowski
  26. In Other Words – J. Lahiri
  27. Savage Continent – Keith Lowe
  28. Bibliographic  Manifestations
  29. Cuba: An American History – Ana Ferrer
  30. Market Garder Reader
  31. Three Funerals For My Father – Jolie Phuong Hoang
  32. Wicked Witch’s Blog 
  33. Spring Cannot Be Cancelled – D. Hockney
  34. The Border – Erika Fatland
  35. Making It So: A Memoir – Patrick Stewart

 

 

Non-Fiction: 2023

  • TOP 5  non-fiction books

 

  1. Why We Sleep  NF – M. Walker (BookBingo science) – REVIEW
  2. A Very Easy Death – S. de Beauvoir – memoir – REVIEW
  3. A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast – Dorthe Nors – REVIEW
  4. La panthère des neiges – S. Tesson  NF (French)  #WorldFromMyArmchair – REVIEW
  5. Hong Kong and  Macao – J. Kessel  – REVIEW
  6. My Fourth Time, We Drowned – Sally Hayden – REVIEW
  7. De Doorsons – Roline Redmond (Dutch book)  – REVIEW
  8. Love Songs W.E. Du Bois – Honorée  F. Jeffers – REVIEW
  9. Punch Me Up to the Gods (memoir) – Brian Broome – REVIEW
  10. Halfway Home –  R.J. Miller  – REVIEW
  11. A Knock At Midnight – Brittany K. Barnett (NF)  – REVIEW
  12. Short History of Irish Literature – F. O’ Connor, 1968  Intro  – REVIEW     
  13. L’Armée du silence – G. Pollack, 2022  (NF) – REVIEW
  14. On Becoming an American Writer – J. McPherson – REVIEW
  15. Do Not Disturb  – M. Wrong, 2021  – REVIEW
  16. The Man with Miraculous Hands – Joseph Kessel – REVIEW
  17. Georges Perec – Claude Burgelin (2023) – REVIEW
  18. The Scheme – Sheldon Whitehouse – REVIEW
  19. My Own Words –  Ruth Bader Ginsburg (memoir)  – REVIEW
  20. Mike Nichols: A Life – Mark Harris – REVIEW  
  21. The Fall: The End of Fox News – Michael Wolff  (2023) – REVIEW
  22. Killing for Country – David Marr (NF) (2023) – REVIEW
  23. Australia’s China Odyssey – James Curran  (2022) – REVIEW
  24. The Passion of Private White – Don Watson (2022) – REVIEW 
  25. Bulldozed – Niki Savva  (2022)  – REVIEW
  26. Crossing the Line – N. McKenzie  (2023) – REVIEW
  27. Currowan: Story of a Fire – Bronwyn Adcock  (2021) – REVIEW
  28. Toxic – R. Flanagan – REVIEW

 

Non-Fiction: 2022

  • TOP 5  non-fiction books
  1. How the Word Is Passed – Clint Smith (336 pg).   REVIEW
  2. Red Zone – P. Hartcher –  REVIEW
  3. The Road to Unfreedom – T. Snyder  – REVIEW
  4. The Little Devil in America –398 pg H. Abdurraqib  REVIEW
  5. Empire of Pain – P. R. Keefe – REVIEW

 

  1. A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson (travelogue) – REVIEW
  2. A Cultural History of Causality – S. Kern- REVIEW
  3. The Dawn of the Belle Epoque – M. McAuliffe – REVIEW
  4. The Crossroads of Should and Must – E. Luna – REVIEW
  5. John Adams – David McCullough  biography – REVIEW
  6. All That She Carried – T. Miles (NF) – REVIEW
  7. Unbound – Tarana Burke (memoir) – REVIEW
  8. Thomas Becket – J. Guy (NF) biography – REVIEW
  9. Theatre & Ireland – L. Pilkingkton – REVIEW
  10. Patrick Kavanagh – Antoinette Quinn biography – REVIEW
  11. The Best of Frank O’Connor – F. O’Connor (essays) – REVIEW
  12. Cézanne: Puissant et solitaire – M. Hoog – REVIEW
  13. Le maniérisme –  P.  Falguières  – REVIEW
  14. Bring the War Home – K. Belew – REVIEW
  15. Writing Deep Scenes – M. Alderson – REVIEW
  16. Caravaggio – José Frèches – REVIEW
  17. Les délassiés – T. Porcher – REVIEW
  18. Le fagot de ma mémoire – S. Diagne – REVIEW
  19. The Road to Unfreedom – T. Snyder – REVIEW
  20. The Age of the Strongman – G. Rachman – REVIEW
  21. La guerre des idées – E. Bastié – REVIEW
  22. Shadow Strike: Inside Israel’s Secret Mission – Y. Katz – REVIEW
  23. Flyboy in the Buttermilk – Greg Tate – REVIEW
  24. Stony the Road (NF) – H.L. Gates jr. – REVIEW
  25. All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep – A. Henry – REVIEW
  26. Hooked: Art and Attachment – Rita Felski – REVIEW
  27. When Harlem Was In Vogue – D. Lewis – REVIEW
  28. Until Justice Be Done – K. Masur – REVIEW
  29. Stages of Struggle: Modern Playwrights – J. DiGaetani – REVIEW
  30. Unfollow Me – J. Busby – REVIEW
  31. Why We Did It – Tim Miller – REVIEW
  32. Invisible Storm – Jason Kander – REVIEW
  33. Le Dieu de Dostoïevski – Marguerite Souchon – REVIEW
  34. Thank You For Your Servitude – M. Leibovich – REVIEW
  35. Red Zone – P. Hartcher – REVIEW
  36. Out of Africa – I. Dinesin (memoir)
  37. Tunnel 29 – H. Merman – REVIEW
  38. Freezing Order  (2022)- B. Browder (memoir) – REVIEW
  39. The Periodic Table – Primo Levi  (memoir) – REVIEW
  40. The Man Who Could Move Clouds  (memoir) – Ingrid Rojas Contreras – REVIEW
  41. Plot and Structure – J.S. Bell (240 pg )   2004 REVIEW
  42. The Figure of the Detective – C. Brownson   (216 pg) 2014  REVIEW 
  43. Bloods – Wallace Terry (320 pg) 1984 (NF)  REVIEW
  44. Pushout  – M.W. Morris ((303 pg) 2018 (NF)  REVIEW
  45. How the Word Is Passed – Clint Smith (336 pg) 2021 (NF)  REVIEW
  46. The Little Devil in America -398 pg) H. Abdurraqib (300 pg) (essays) 2021 REVIEW
  47. Empire of Pain – P. R. Keefe (NF)  ….excellent!!  – REVIEW
  48. The 1619 Project: The New American Origin Story – Nikole Hannah-Jones (590 pg) REVIEW

 

#Non-fiction:  2021

  1. AI  Superpowers – Kai-Fu Lee – Excellent!  5 star
  2. Society 4.0 – B. de Wit – Review
  3. How Fascism Works – Jason Stanley – REVIEW
  4. Kill Switch – Adam Jentleson – REVIEW
  5. Pure White and Deadly – J.Yudikn – REVIEW
  6. A Promised Land – Barack Obama  REVIEW
  7. The Jakarta Method – Vincent Bevins  REVIEW 
  8. The Dead Are Arising – Les Payne – REVIEW
  9. How to Make a Slave and Other Essays  – Jerald Walker    REVIEW
  10. Dying of Whiteness – Jonathan Metzl   REVIEW
  11. The Origins of Totalitarianism – Hannah Arendt  REVIEW
  12. Talking To My Country – Stan Grant REVIEW
  13. Wayward Lives – Saidiya Hartman (criticism) REVIEW
  14. Rembrandt and the Female Nude – E. Sluijter REVIEW
  15. Classical Art: From Greece to Rome – M. Beard REVIEW
  16. Has China Won? – K. Muhbubani REVIEW
  17. Gulag Archipelago vol 1 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn REVIEW
  18. Henri Matisse: Rooms with a View – S. Neilsen Blum REVIEW
  19. Bloodlands – T. Snyder –  REVIEW
  20. The Betrayal – W. R. Corson (1968) REVIEW
  21. Entangled Life – M. Sheldrake REVIEW
  22. How the Word is Passed – Clint Smith  REVIEW
  23. The Grand Chessboard – Zbigniew Brzezinski  REVIEW
  24. Anseo – Úna-Mingh Kavanaugh  REVIEW 
  25. Ghost Wars – Steve Coll (2004)  REVIEW
  26. Een Klein Land Met Verre Uithoeken – Floor Milikowski  REVIEW
  27. Revolusi – David van Reybrouck  REVIEW  Longlist Brusse  Prize 2021
  28. Urk – M. Declercq  REVIEW  Longlist Brusse Prize 2021
  29. Mediocre – Ijeoma Oluo REVIEW
  30. Zero Fail (2021) – Carol Leonnig REVIEW
  31. Catch and Kill (2019) – Ronan Farrow REVIEW
  32. Everything Happens for a Riesling – G. de Morgan  REVIEW
  33. A Black Women’s  History of the United States – Daina Ramey Berry  REVIEW
  34. The Anarchy – W. Dalrymple – REVIEW
  35. Say Nothing – P. R. Keefe winner 2019 National Book  Critic’s Circle Award NF – REVIEW
  36. Body Count – Paddy Manning finalist 2020 Australian Walkley Award – REVIEW
  37. How to Do Nothing – J. Odell – REVIEW
  38. How to Make A Slave – J. Walker finalist 2020 National Book Award  – REVIEW
  39. Don’t Touch My Hair – Emma Dabiri  – REVIEW

Literature:

  1. Essayism – Brian Dillon – Review
  2. Nolan on Bradbury – W.F. Nolan – 2013  READ
  3. The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 – J. Shapiro  2015  READ

#ReadIreland

  1. The Spaces of Irish Drama – H. Lojek   READ
  2. The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir – Samantha Power – 2019 READ
  3. The Irish Writer and the World – Declan Kiberd  (2001)   READ

 

#AusReadingMonth2020

  1. Hazelwood – T. Doig – #AusReadingMonth2020 – #NonficNov 2020
  2. We Can’t Say We Didn’t Know – Sophie McNeill – #AusReadingMonth2020
  3. Fallen – Lucie Morris-Marr – #AusReadingMonth2020
  4. Comrade Ambassador – S. FitzGerald #AusReadingMonth2020 – #NonficNov 2020
  5. City On Fire: The Fight For Hong Kong – A. Dapiran #AusReadingMonth2020 – #NonficNov
  6. The Altar Boys – S. Smith #AusReadingMonth2020 – #NonficNov 2020
  7. Penny Wong – M. Simons #AusReadingMonth2020 – #NonficNov 2020
  8. After the Count – Stephanie Convery #AusReadingMonth2020  #NonFicNov

Memoir:

  1. My Vanishing Country – B. Sellers (2020) – Review
  2. Sightlines – K. Jamie – READ
  3. Surrender – Joanna Pocock (2019) – READ
  4. Heavy – Kiese Laymon – Review

Essays:

  1. The Fire This Time – editor Jesmyn Ward – 2016 – Review
  2. Critics, Monsters and Fanatics – C. Ozick – Review
  3. Just Us – C. Rankine – Review
  4. We Live for the We – D. McClain – Review

Biography:

  1. Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait – Denys Turner – 2013 READ
  2. The Churchill Factor – Boris Johnson  – READ
  3. Master of the Senate – R. Caro – READ
  4. Saul Steinberg: A Portrait – D. Bair – Review
  5. Penny Wong – M. Simons #AusReadingMonth2020 – #NonficNov 2020

History

  1. The Influence of George Soros – Emily Tamkin – Review
  2. Tears We Cannot Stop – M. Dyson – Review
  3. The Accidental President – A.J. Baime – Review
  4. Democracy In Black – E. S. Glaude jr. – Review
  5. How To Be An Anti-rascist – I.X. Kendi – Review
  6. The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander – Review
  7. Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates – Review
  8. Brown is The New White – Steve Phillips – Review
  9. Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief – M. Feeney – 2004  READ
  10. Unmaking of the Presidency – S. Hennessey, B.Wittes  READ
  11. From Russia with Blood – Heidi Blake (2019)  READ
  12. Hit List:  Mysterious Deaths Witnesses JFK Assassination  (2013) READ
  13. JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died – J.W. Douglass –  READ
  14. Mary’s Mosaic: CIA Conspiracy to Murder JFK, Mary Meyer– P. Janney READ
  15. The Secret Team: CIA and Allies  – L. Fletcher Prouty (1972) – READ

Economics/Politics:

  1. The Room Where It Happened – John Bolton – Review
  2. Too Much and Never Enough – Mary Trump – Review
  3. White Too Long – Robert P. Jones – Review
  4. Donald Trump v. The United States – M. Schmidt – Review
  5. Compromised – Peter Strozk – Review
  6. The China Model – Daniel Bell – Review
  7. Front Row at the Trump Show – J. Karl – Review
  8. A Warning – Anonymous 2019 – Review

Science

  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

#Non-fiction 2019

Non-fiction  2019

Memoirs/personal essays

  1. A Woman’s Experiences in the Great War – L. Mack
  2. Thick – Tessie Cottom
  3. Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger  – F. Wright
  4. Can You Tolerate This? – A. Young –>   #HiddenGem  most recommended
  5. A Time of Gifts – Patrick Leigh Fermor
  6. The First Casualty – Peter Greste
  7. We Can Make a Life – C. Henry
  8. Le Lambeau – P. Lançon
  9. Aunts Up the Cross – R. Dalton
  10. Memoir: J McGahern
  11. Everywhere I Look – H. Garner
  12. The Thinking Woman – J. van Loon
  13. Boys Will Be Boys – Clementine Ford
  14. Nine Lives: Postwar Women Writers – S. Sheriden
  15. True Stories – Helen Garner

Biography:

  1. In Extremis: War Correspondent Marie Colvin – L. Hilsum
  2. Sisters In Law (S. Day ‘O Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsberg) – L. Hirshman
  3. Pulitzer – J. McGrath Morris
  4. The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke – J.C. Stewart
  5. No Friend but the Mountains – B. Boochani
  6. Teacher – G. Stroud
  7. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom – D. Blight
  8. Fouché – E. de Waresquiel
  9. Je suis fou de toi – D. Bona (Jeanne Voilier and lover poet Paul Valéry)
  10. Beyond Words: A Year with Kenneth Cook – J. Kent
  11. James Tiptree, jr. The Double Life Alice Sheldon – J. Phillips
  12. Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing – Ashleigh Wilson

Theatre

  1. Twenty-First Century American Playwrights – C. Bigsby
  2. 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write – S. Ruhl
  3. August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle: 13 critical essays – editor S. Shannon

Health

  1. All-Day Fat Burning Diet – Y. Elkaim (…I lost weight!)

History

  1. Deep Time Dreaming – B. Griffiths
  2. Age of Eisenhower – W. Hitchcock
  3. The Mueller Report – R. Mueller
  4. The Art of Time Travel – T. Griffiths
  5. Stamped From the Beginning – I.X. Kendi
  6. The History of the Church – Eusebius
  7. The Twelve Caesars – Suetonius
  8. The Billion Dollar Spy – D. Hoffman
  9. America’s War for the Greater Middle East – A. Bacevich
  10. These Truths – Jill Lepore
  11. Ghosts of the Tsunami – R. L. Parry
  12. Sea People – C. Thompson   NSW General History Award 2019
  13. Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin – Dr. Fiona Hill
  14. Blowout – Rachel Maddow

Social History

  1. Evicted: Poverty and Profit – M. Desmond
  2. The Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture – S. Pinsker
  3. The Coddling of the American Mind – G. Lukianoff, J. Haidt –>   #MustRead  #Eye-opener!!

Literature

  1. Writers on Writers: Patrick White – Christos Tsiolkas
  2. Poemcrazy – S. Wooldridge
  3. On Poetry – Glyn Maxwell
  4. The British Short Story – A. Maunder
  5. The Cambridge Introduction to The American Short Story – M. Scofield
  6. Moby-Dick as Philosophy – M. Anderson
  7. Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll – G. Beer
  8. Literary Brian Friel Companion – M. Snodgrass
  9. Essay: From Monaghan to the Grand Canal ( Dublin) – S. Heaney 
  10. The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe – S. Peeples

Indigenous (Aboriginal, Indonesian)

  1. The Tall Man – Chloe Hooper
  2. Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia – editor Anita Heiss
  3. Indonesia etc: Exploring the Improbable Nation – E. Pisani
  4. Not Just Black and White – Lesley and Tammy Williams

True Crime

  1. The Arsonist – C. Hooper
  2. Trace: who killed Maria James?
  3. The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island – C. Hooper

Science

    1. The Best Australian Science Writing 2018 – editor J. Pickre
    2. Dr Space Junk vs Universe: Archaeology the Future – A. Gorman #AUSReadingMonth

Art:

  1. The American Dream: American Realism 1945-2001

#Non-fiction 2018

 

Non-fiction  2018

  1. Seamus Heaney – H. Vendler – READ  (7 essays) – READ  (biography)
  2. The Path to Power – R. Caro (LBJ) – READ
  3. Means of Ascent – R. Caro (LBJ) – READ
  4. The Hidden Life of Trees –  P. Wohlleben – READ
  5. Wild Kingdom – S. Moss – READ
  6. Psychanalyse de Victor Hugo –   C. Baudouin – READ
  7. Art Chrétien / Art Sacré – Isabelle Saint-Martin – READ  L’ Art France 19th-20th C
  8. (difficult read…too many quotes art historians….not much  analysis!)
  9. Victor Hugo,  vol 1   Avant l’exile – J. Hovasse – READ (1159 pg)  (biography)
  10. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze – P.  Hessler – READ
  11. Border – K. Kassabova – READ
  12. Mapping Irish Theatre – C. Morash/S. Richards – READ
  13. Tracker -A. Wright – READ
  14. Simon Leys: Navigator Between Worlds – P. Paquet – READ (biography)
  15. Quicksilver – N. Rothwell – READ  (6 essays)
  16. Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry (16 essays) – READ
  17. A Writing Life Helen Garner and Her Work – B. Brennan – READ  (biography)
  18. Blood in the Water – H. Thompson – READ
  19. Feeling the Heat – J. Chandler – READ
  20. Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays in Hunger – F. Wright – READING
  21. The Trauma Cleaner – S. Krasnostein – READ (biography)
  22. Locking Up Our Own – J. Forman jr. – READ
  23. Joan: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor – S. Fenwick – READ (biography)
  24. The Butchering Art – L. Fitzharris – READ
  25. Wounds – F. Keane – READ
  26. Kitchen Sink Realisms – D. Chansky – READ
  27. Her Father’s Daughter – A. Pung  – READ
  28. Saga Land – R. Fidler and K. Gislason – READ
  29. Brit(ish) – A. Hirsch – READ
  30. Essays: The Australian Face (editor C. Menzies-Pike) – READ (17 essays)
  31. How To Get There – M. Mackellar – READ (memoir)
  32. Deep South – P. Theroux – READ
  33. A Very Expensive Poison – L. Harding – READ
  34. Why Horror Seduces – M. Clasen – READ
  35. Islander: Journey Around Our Archipelago – P. Barkham (NF) – READ
  36. From the Edge: Australia’s Lost Histories – M. McKenna (NF) – READ
  37. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich – W. Shirer – READ
  38. Berthe Morisot – D. Bona ( biography) – READ (french edition) – (biography)
  39. Chateaubriand – Jean-Claude Berchet – READ (french edition) – (biography)
  40. Letters From a Stoic – Seneca – READ
  41. The Revolutionary Road – L. Pryce – READ (Iran)
  42. Darkness Visible – W. Styron – READ (memoir/essay)
  43. Our Man in Charleston – C. Dickey – READ
  44. A Spy Named Orphan – R. Philipps – READ  (biography)
  45. Hawthorne – Henry James – READ (essay/biography)  176 pages
  46. The Pillow Book – Sei Shonagon – READ
  47. A Vindication of the Rights of Women – M. Wollstonecraft – READ
  48. A Kim Jong-IL Production – Fischer, P. – READ
  49. The Enigmatic Mr. Deakin – J. Brett – READ #AWW2018  (biography)
  50. Atomic Thunder – E. Tynan – READ #AWW2018
  51. The Life of Johnson – T. Boswell – READ #Classic – (biography)
  52. Maupassant – F. Martinez – READ (biography)
  53. Just Enough Liebling – J. Liebling – READ
  54. James Wright: A Life in Poetry – J. Blunk – READ  (biography)
  55. An Ordinary Day – Leigh Sales  – READ  #AWW2018
  56. Looking for Lorraine – I. Perry – READ (biography)
  57. Nobel Streven  – F. van Oostrom – READ    WINNER!  #LibrisPrijs2018  Dutch history
  58. De Sigarenfabriek van Isay Rottenberg – H/S Rottenberg – READ  Dutch History
  59. Thorbecke Wil Het – R. Aerts – READ – winner Prinsjesboekenprijs  (best political book)
  60. Adieu Montaigne – J. Delacomptée – READ  ( 50%…gave up, read why!)
  61. Pulitzer – J. McGrath Morris (biography) – READ  #NonFicNov
  62. Christ Stopped at Eboli – C. Levi – READ  #NonFicNov
  63. Evicted: Poverty and Profit – M. Desmond – READ  #NonFicNov
  64. The Best Australian Science Writing 2018 – editor J. Pickrell – READ  #NonFicNov
  65. Moby-Dick as Philosophy – M. Anderson – READ
  66. The History of the Church – Eusebius – READ
  67. Alice in Space – G. Beer (literary criticism)  – READ
  68. In Extremis: War Correspondent Marie Colvin – L. Hilsum – READ  #TBRnovember2018
  69. Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia – Editor Anita Heiss – READ  #AWW2018
  70. Indonesia etc. – E. Pisani – READ  #WorldFromMyArmchair
  71. The Tall Man – Chloe Hooper – READ #AWW2018  2009 Queensland Premier’s Literary Prize
  72. Sisters In Law – L. Hirshman (S. Day O’Connor/Ruth Bader Ginsberg) – READ
  73. The Rich Brew – S. Pinsker – READ

Non-fiction:  2017

  1. Badinter, E. – Le pouvoir au féminin
  2. Milligan, L. – Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell
  3. Bautman, E. – The Possessed
  4. Mac Cormaic, R. – The Supreme Court
  5. Zapruder, M. – Why Poetry?
  6. Tóibin, C. – On Elizabeth Bishop
  7. Brodsky, J. – On Grief and Reason
  8. White, H.   Essay: Without America: Australia in the New Asia
  9. Scott-Mobley, J. – Female Bodies on the American Stage
  10. Barry, B. – Georgiana Molloy: The Mind That Shines
  11. Canetti, E. – The Voices of Marrakesh
  12. Du Bois, W.E.B. – Of Our Spiritual Striving
  13. Mahood, K. – Position Doubtful
  14. Franklin, R. – Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
  15. Eltchanihoff, M. –  Dans la tête de Marine Le Pen
  16. Fosse, J. –  An Angle Walks Through the Stage
  17. Galbraith, J.K. – The Great Crash, 1929 – READ…interesting!
  18. Veil, S. – Un Vie
  19. Greenwald, G. – No Place to  Hide – READ….”eye-opener”
  20. Trumpington, J. – Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir
  21. Hegarty, N. – The Story of Ireland
  22. White, E.B. – Collection of Essays
  23. Hochschild, A. – Strangers in their own Land – READ…very interesting!
  24. Brands, H.W. – The General and the President
  25. Tye, Larry – Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon 
  26. Jablonka, I. – Laëtitia
  27. Sophocles’ ‘Oepidus The King: a Reader’s Guide – S. Sheehan
  28. Jones, L. – Foxes Unearthed – READ…interesting!
  29. Kaplan, G. – Bird Minds – READ…very good Australian non-fiction
  30. Peraino, K. – A Force So Swift: Mao, Truman and Birth of Modern China
  31. Brown, E. – The Bloody Mary Book
  32. Lee, L. – Village Christmas – READ….quaint
  33. Massimino, M. – Spaceman
  34. Levingston, S. – Kennedy and King 
  35. Lamb, K. – Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather
  36. Massie, R. –  Catherine the Great
  37. McCoole, S. – Easter Widows
  38. Ogien, R. – My Thousand and One Nights
  39. Prescott, T. – Neil Gaiman in the 21st Century
  40. Rebanks, J. – The Shepherd’s Life
  41. Katz, Yaakov – Weapon Wizards
  42. Robinson, M. – The Death of Adam – READ…..bah!
  43. Verdier, F. – Passagère du Silence
  44. Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi – Dear Ijeawele
  45. Sayarer, J. Interstate – READ
  46. Lewis-Stempel, J. – The Running Hare
  47. Sinha, M. – The Slave’s Cause – READ….very academic
  48. Wood, L. – Walking the Nile
  49. Shestokas, D. – Constitutional Sound Bites – READ…informative
  50. Williamson, G. – The Best Australian Essays 2016
  51. White, R.C. – American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
  52. Briant, L. – Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism
  53. Lahr, J. – Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh: Tennessee Williams
  54. White, R.C. – American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
  55. Tuchman, B. – A Distant Mirror – READ…interesting
  56. Viner, K. – How Technology Disrupted The Truth – READ …interesting essay
  57. De Tocqueville, A. – Democracy in America – READ…classic!
  58. Plutarch – Plutarch’s Lives
  59. Paxton, R. – The Anatomy of Fascism 
  60. Meade, M. – Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This
  61. Paine, T. – Common Sense
  62. Leovy, J. – Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
  63. Plato – The Republic
  64. Yong, E. – I Contain Multitudes
  65. Madigan, K. – Medieval Christianity: A New History
  66. Sands, P. – East West Street 
  67. Vinciguerra, T. – Cast of Characters
  68. McLennan, C. – Salt Water
  69. Butterss, P. – The Life and Work of C.J. Dennis
  70. Taylor, R. – Into the Heart of Tasmania
  71. Ormsby, E. – Silk Road
  72. Pao, E. – Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
  73. Citron, D.K. – Hate Crimes in Cyberspace
  74. Gaiman, N. – Norse Mythology