Herewith my annual top books read and recommended list.
(1) Tie:
The Dawning Moon of the Mind: Unlocking the Pyramid Texts
by Susan Brind Morrow
and Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America
by Craig Childs
(2) Bluffing Texas Style: The Arsons, Forgeries and High-Stakes Poker Capers of Rare Book Dealer Johnny Jenkins
by Michael Vinson
(3) W.B. Yeats and the Learning of the Imagination
by Kathleen Raine
(4) Tie:
The Struggle for a Human Future: 5G, Augmented Reality and the Internet of Things
by Jeremy Naydler
and
Not So Fast: Thinking Twice About Technology
by Doug Hill
(5) The Future of the Ancient World: Essays on the History of Consciousness
by Jeremy Naydler
(6) The Gilded Chalet: Off-Piste in Literary Switzerland
by Padraig Rooney
(7) The Philosophers’ Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination
by Patrick Harpur
(8) The Miracle Machine
by Matthew Pennock
(9) My Autobiography
by Charles Chaplin
(10) Just Kids
by Patti Smith
(11) Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons
by Kris Newby
(12) The Star Rover
by Jack London
(13) Ascent to Glory How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic
by Álvaro Santana-Acuña
(14) White Dog
by Katherine Dunn
(15) The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert
by Craig Childs
(16) Global West, American Frontier: Travel, Empire and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression
by David M. Wrobel
> See also the many excellent books by authors featured in this blog’s Q & As.
The Harrowingly Romantic Adventure
of US Trade with Mexico in the
Pre-Pre-Pre NAFTA Era:
Notes on Susan Shelby Magoffin and
Her Diary of 1846-1847, Down the Santa Fe Trail and Into Mexico
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