Readings

Politics / History/ Biography

(*) especially memorable or recommended

Nuclear War by Abbie Jacobsen

The Hopkins Touch by David Roll

1949: The First Israelis by Tom Segev

King: A Life by Jonathan Eng

Becoming Elijah by Daniel Matt

*Real Enemies by Kathryn Olmstead

*G-Man by Beverly Gage

The Newspaper Axis by Kathryn Olmstead

James Madison by Lynne Cheney

*Confidence Man by Maggie Haberman

Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Kidd

*Churchill by Andrew Roberts

*The Good American by Robert D Kaplan

*A Promised Land by Barack Obama

The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert Paxton

The Nine Lives of Pakistan by Declan Walsh

*The Man Who Ran Washington by Peter Baker

*The Last Kings of Shanghai by Jonathan Kaufman

*Bibi by Anshel Pfeffer

*Rage by Bob Woodward

*Napoleon by Andrew Roberts

*Too Much and Never Enough by Mary Trump

*The Sword and the Shield by Peniel Joseph

The Greeks by Roderick Beaton

Famous Father Girl by Jamie Bernstein

American Prometheus by Kai Bird

Oath and Honor by Liz Cheney

The Real Anthony Fauci by Robert Kennedy

 

 

Fiction

*The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

The Odyssey by Homer

Ulysses by James Joyce

Any Human Heart by William Boyd

Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves

*Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler

*Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

The Physician by Noah Gordon

 

 

Other Non-Fiction

Life is Hard by Kieran Setiya

The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

Free as a Jew by Ruth Wise

Soldiers of God by Robert D Kaplan

People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn

*The Splendid and the Vile  by Erik Larson

How God Works by David DeSteno

When Asia Was the World by Stewart Gordon

*Apollo’s Arrow by Nicholas Christakis

Horizon by Barry Lopez

 

Courses

From Jesus to Constantine: A History by Bart Ehrman

The Apostle Paul by Bart Ehrman

Great Minds of Western Intellectual Tradition – The Great Courses

Great World Religions: Hinduism (Mark Muesse)

The Real Secret Societies (Richard B)

How to Read and Understand Shakespeare (Marc Conner)

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