I usually do these at the end of the month but then I went through a big reading slump March-May. And then I roared back but realized I was behind. So apologies for this being so long. There Will Be Fire **** A good, readable text on a moment in history I knew little about. Even after reading Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing, I still had a lot of problem keeping track of all the socio-political dynamics so it’s good that Rory Carroll makes it accessible […]
May-July Leftovers
There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll
City of Dreams by Don Winslow
Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist by Jennifer Wright
Under Color of Law by Aaron Philip Clark
The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
The Last Quarry by Max Allan Collins
Tripwire by Jack Reacher
Baby Moll by John Farris
Only the Dead Know Brooklyn by Thomas Boyle
The Laundromat: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite by Jake Bernstein
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess by Evan Drellich
X by Davey Davis
Our Last Season: A Writer, A Fan, A Friendship by Harvey Araton
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín
Hard Rain by Samantha Jayne Allen
The Boys From Biloxi by John Grisham
Ex Machina Book Four by Brian K. Vaughan
Jacket Weather by Mike DeCapite
Straight Cut by Madison Smartt Bell
The Crust on Its Uppers by Derek Raymond
That Kind of Danger by Donna Masini
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
Spenser Confidential by Ace Atkins
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
Weyward by Emilia Hart
The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon, I Mean Noel by Ellen Raskin
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
