Books

I track my reading here. You can find older pre-2018 reading lists on LibraryThing. Click a title to see ISBN lookup links. Books I've reviewed (either here or elsewhere) are noted by a review badge.

readingBread and Wine
ISBN 9780874869262 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop
readingRightful Heritage
ISBN 9780062089250 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop
readingThe Mysterious Mrs. Nixon
ISBN 9781250274359 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop

2026

Bad Mexicans 2022
ISBN 9781324004370 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — National Geographic Books
What We Can Know 2025
ISBN 9780593804735 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Knopf Canada
The Unsettling of America 1978
ISBN 9781619026964 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Random House (NY)
The Undiscovered Country 2025
ISBN 9781524746131 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Penguin Group
Lonesome Dove 2010
ISBN 9781439195260 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Simon and Schuster
Love for the Land 2024
ISBN 9780300280104 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop
The Wilderness Warrior 2009
ISBN 9780061940576 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Harper Collins
The American Revolution and the Fate of the World 2025
ISBN 9780593719510 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Penguin Group

2025

American Gun 2023
ISBN 9780374722005 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Journey to the Center of the Earth 2025
ISBN 9781416596882 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Union Square Kids
Harvesting Labour 2022
ISBN 9780228012702 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
American Zion: A New History of Mormonism 2024
ISBN 9781631498664 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Liveright Publishing
Rooted at the Edge 2025
ISBN 9781496240439 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — U of Nebraska Press
Outdoor Kids in an Inside World 2022
ISBN 9780593129685 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Random House
Oathbreakers 2024
ISBN 9780063336681 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — HarperCollins
Coyote America 2016
ISBN 9780465098538 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop
Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America 2022
ISBN 9781324006176 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — W. W. Norton & Company
Crooked 2023
ISBN 9780306826153 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Grand Central Publishing
American Visions: The United States, 1800-1860 2023
ISBN 9780393881271 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — W. W. Norton & Company
The Age of Acrimony 2021
ISBN 9781635574630 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Bloomsbury Publishing USA
The Hobbit 1997
ISBN 9780547951973 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Mariner Books
The Battle of the Little Bighorn 1966
ISBN 9780803291003 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop
Sandoz Studies, Volume 2 2025
ISBN 9781496241603 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop
Making the Presidency 2024
ISBN 9780197653845 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Oxford University Press
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Book 3) 2022
ISBN 9780007322558 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — HarperCollins
The Message 2024
ISBN 9798217014248 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Random House
Standing At Armageddon 1989
ISBN 9780393331929 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — W. W. Norton & Company
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction 2011
ISBN 9780199831678 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Oxford University Press, USA
The Midlife Cyclist 2021
ISBN 9781472961372 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Bloomsbury Publishing
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America 2020
ISBN 9780525560210 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Penguin
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Book 2) 2009
ISBN 9780007322503 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — HarperCollins UK
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore 2012
ISBN 9780374214913 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Macmillan
Illiberal America 2025
ISBN 9780393635928 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — W. W. Norton
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Book 1) 1988
ISBN 9780007322497 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Del Rey
Moonbound 2024
ISBN 9780374610616 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — MCD

2024

Cattle Kingdom 2017
ISBN 9780544369979 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — HarperCollins
The Lies of the Land 2024
ISBN 9780226826905 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — University of Chicago Press
The Missile Next Door 2012
ISBN 9780674070882 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Harvard University Press
Every Farm a Factory 2008
ISBN 9780300133417 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Yale University Press
Cities of the Plain 1998
ISBN 9780679423904 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — B E Trice Pub
The Settler Sea 2021
ISBN 9781496229625 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — U of Nebraska Press
Uprooted 2021
ISBN 9780593084038 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Penguin
The Crossing 2010
ISBN 9780330474931 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Vintage
Wild Idea 2014
ISBN 9780803250963 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — U of Nebraska Press
Cow Talk 2023
ISBN 9780806192338 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — University of Oklahoma Press
The Solace of Open Spaces 1986
ISBN 9780140081138 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Penguin
The Need to Be Whole 2022
ISBN 9798985679809 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Shoemaker + Company
A Year and a Day on Just a Few Acres 2014
ISBN 9781495499579 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Born in the Country 1995
ISBN 9780801884597 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop
Wallace Stegner's Unsettled Country
ISBN 9781496236173 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop

2023

The Peace of Wild Things 2018
ISBN 9780141987132 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Penguin Group
All the Pretty Horses 1993
ISBN 9780307481306 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Vintage
My Antonia 2006
ISBN 9780525562863 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — OUP Oxford
This Land is My Land 2020
ISBN 9780197500705 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Oxford University Press
The Big Empty 2011
ISBN 9780816529728 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — University of Arizona Press
Atheist Delusions 2009
ISBN 9780300155648 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Yale University Press
Rodeo 2020
ISBN 9780806167053 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — University of Oklahoma Press
All the Little Live Things 1991
ISBN 9781101075791 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Penguin
Shaped by the State 2023
ISBN 9780226596464 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop
Billionaire Wilderness 2021
ISBN 9780691217123 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Princeton University Press
Continental Reckoning 2023
ISBN 9781496234452 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — U of Nebraska Press
The Honourable Schoolboy 1985
ISBN 9781101528754 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Bantam
Colony and Empire 1994
ISBN 9780700607501 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop
Permission to Feel 2019
ISBN 9781250212849 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Celadon Books
Chemical Lands 2018
ISBN 9780817319731 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — University of Alabama Press
Call for the Dead 2012
ISBN 9781101603758 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Penguin
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 2002
ISBN 9780143119784 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Simon and Schuster
The Overstory: A Novel 2018
ISBN 9780393635539 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — W. W. Norton & Company

2022

Valley of Heart's Delight 2022
ISBN 9780520389588 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Univ of California Press
The Overstory 2019
ISBN 9780393356687 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — W. W. Norton
Silent Spring Revolution 2022
ISBN 978-0063212916 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — HarperCollins
Between Earth and Empire 2019
ISBN 9781629636481 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — PM Press
How to Blow Up a Pipeline 2021
ISBN 9781839760259 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Verso Books
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World 2016
ISBN 9781455586691 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Grand Central Publishing
The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America 2021
ISBN 9780674238091 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Harvard University Press
Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them 2022
ISBN 9781250872173 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Macmillan
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth 2022
ISBN 9781250270238 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — St. Martin's Press
Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality 2022
ISBN 9781541757004 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Public Affairs
Why the New Deal Matters 2021
ISBN 9780300252002 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Yale University Press
The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights 2022
ISBN 9780300256680 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Yale University Press
What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party 2022
ISBN 9780374200237 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church 2018
ISBN 9780674972100 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Harvard University Press
The Thirty Years War 2005
ISBN 9781590171462 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — NYRB Classics
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process 2017
ISBN 0374142742 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pollution Is Colonialism 2021
ISBN 9781478014133 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Duke University Press
Thinking about History 2017
ISBN 9780226109473 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — University of Chicago Press
The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe 2021
ISBN 9780062980892 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — HarperCollins
reviewed At Home in the World: California Women and the Postwar Environmental Movement 2021
ISBN 9781496207470 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — University of Nebraska Press

2021

Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World 2021
ISBN 1982113340 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Scribner
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America 2021
ISBN 9780316492935 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Little, Brown and Company
The Seed Keeper: A Novel 2021
ISBN 9781571311375 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Milkweed Editions
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 2005
ISBN 9780143037750 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Penguin Books
The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism 2018
ISBN 9780231165884 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Columbia University Press
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait 2020
ISBN 0393358321 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — W.W. Norton & Company
Cuba: An American History 2021
ISBN 9781501154553 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Scribner
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England 2021
ISBN 9781643133126 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Pegasus Books
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth 2021
ISBN 9781984880093 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Penguin Press
The Human Factor 2008
ISBN 9780143105565 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Penguin Classics
The Idle Parent: Why Laid-Back Parents Raise Happier and Healthier Kids 2010
ISBN 1585428000 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — TarcherPerigee
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy 2021
ISBN 006290860X — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Ecco
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone 2021
ISBN 1568589395 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Bold Type Books
Calhoun: American Heretic 2021
ISBN 0465096441 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Basic Books
Visualization and Interpretation: Humanistic Approaches to Display 2020
ISBN 0262044730 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — MIT Press
Little Platoons: A Defense of Family in a Competitive Age 2021
ISBN 1541645596 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Basic Books
A Promised Land 2020
ISBN 9781524763169 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Crown Publishing Group

2020

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Making of America 2019
ISBN 978-0-399-56218-1 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Penguin Press
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings 2020
ISBN 9780465096985 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Basic Books
Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind 2015
ISBN 9780399175664 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — TarcherPerigee
Thinking in Systems: A Primer 2008
ISBN 9781603580557 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Chelsea Green Publishing
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less 2014
ISBN 9780804137386 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Currency
The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783-1798 2014
ISBN 9780062248688 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — HarperCollins
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States 2019
ISBN 9780374172145 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters 1982
ISBN 0060150300 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Harper & Row
Recycling 2019
ISBN 9780262537827 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — MIT Press
A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal 2009
Winter War 2018
ISBN 9780465094592 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Basic Books
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable 2017
ISBN 9780226526812 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — University of Chicago Press

2019

Tim Cook 2019
ISBN 9780525537601 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Penguin
The Nordic Theory of Everything 2016
ISBN 9780062316561 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — HarperCollins
reviewed The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation 2018
ISBN 9781421426976 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Johns Hopkins University Press
Radicalized 2019
ISBN 9781250228581 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Tor Books
Unafraid 2018
ISBN 9781501853746 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Abingdon Press
The Uninhabitable Earth 2019
ISBN 9780525576709 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop
The Fifth Risk 2018
ISBN 9781324002659 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — W. W. Norton & Company
The Carbon Code 2017
ISBN 9781421422541 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — JHU Press
Social Startup Success 2018
ISBN 9780738219912 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Da Capo Lifelong Books
Radical Candor 2017
ISBN 9781509845354 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Pan Macmillan
Conspiracy 2019
ISBN 9780735217652 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Penguin
An Everyone Culture 2016
ISBN 9781625278630 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Harvard Business Review Press
Alt-America 2017
ISBN 9781786634238 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Verso Books
Becoming 2018
ISBN 1524763136 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Random House
Managing Humans 2016
ISBN 9781484221587 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Apress
Color Coded: Party Politics in the American West, 1950-2016 2018
ISBN 9780806161693 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — University of Oklahoma Press

2018

Bobby Kennedy
It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work
ISBN 97800628774788 — WorldCat · Open Library · Bookshop — Harper
Algorithms of Oppression

Readings before 2018 are logged on LibraryThing.