Books I Like

I would like to keep a list of books that I like somewhere. And I am open to recommendations – please! There’s nothing better than finding a good book.

Currently reading:

  • Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson

In no particular order:

  • Ring of Steel, by Alexander Watson
  • The Thief at the End of the World, by Joe Jackson
  • Korolev, by James Hartford
  • The Berlin-Baghdad Express, by Sean McMeekin
  • Das Boot, by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim
  • A Death in Brazil, by Peter Robb
  • Space Race, by Deborah Cadbury
  • Comrade J, by Pete Earley
  • Baghdad, by Justin Marozzi
  • Alamut, by Vladimir Bartol
  • Enchantress of Florence, by Salman Rushdie
  • Debriefing the President, by John Nixon
  • Sabra Zoo, by Mischa Hiller
  • From Beirut to Jerusalem, by Thomas L. Friedman
  • Dust of Empire, by Karl E. Meyer
  • Septembers of Shiraz, by Dalia Sofer
  • The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, by Masha Gessen
  • Nothing But the Truth, by Anna Politkovskaya
  • Red Notice, by Bill Browder
  • My Friend the Mercenary, by James Brabazon
  • Overthrow, by Stephen Kinzer
  • A Time to Betray, by Reza Khalili
  • The Bookseller of Kabul, by Asne Seierstad
  • The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
  • And the Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini
  • Merchant of Death, by Douglas Farah
  • Road Works, by Mark Bowden
  • The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bugalkov
  • Ghost Wars, by Steve Coll
  • Vengeance, by George Jonas
  • American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis
  • See No Evil, by Robert Baer
  • Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
  • Microtrends, by Mark J. Penn