Thought some of you might be interested in what I’ve been wanting to read. Some of these have been on my list for a while, most notably because my library network doesn’t have them yet, but my birthday is in a couple of months if anyone wants to splurge a little bit! Here’s a partial list:
- Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence
- Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist
- A.I. & Machine Learning – When you don’t know sh#t
- The Cat’s Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa
- Who We Are Now: Stories of What Americans Lost and Found during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn’t Enough
- Convergence: Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing: Social, Economic, and Policy Impacts
- Your Consent Is Not Required
- Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
- Pesos: The Rise and Fall of a Border Family
- The Age-Proof Brain
- The Combat Zone: Murder, Race, and Boston’s Struggle for Justice
- Drinking Games
- Off With Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power
- Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee
- How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
- Split Decision: Life Stories
- Are All Lives Equal?: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Values Rich Lives More and How Philosophy Can Fix It
- Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness
- Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex
- Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation
- Cults: Inside the World’s Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them
- We the Presidents: How American Presidents Shaped the Last Century
- Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are: Essays
- The Memory Thief: The Secrets Behind How We Remember—A Medical Mystery
I think this is a good representative sample of stuff that interests me. Maybe you’ll be intrigued by some of my picks and pick some of these up as well.