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Book Title Author Reviewer Date
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Stephen Greenblatt Michael Dirda
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond David Brown
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers Elizabeth R. Varon
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago Alex Kotlowitz Clifford Thompson
The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts Joan Biskupic Geoffrey R. Stone
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming David Wallace-Wells Fred Pearce
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Daniel Immerwahr Adam Hochschild
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely Andrew S. Curran Scott Russell Sanders
We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom Joel Simon Jason Rezaian
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present David Treuer Paul Andrew Hutton
Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology Adrienne Mayor Matthew Hutson
Seven Types of Atheism John Gray Costica Bradatan
Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life Diarmaid MacCulloch Rory Rapple
The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us about Ourselves Eric R. Kandel Eliezer Sternberg
These Truths: A History of the United States Jill Lepore H.W. Brands
Fear: Trump in the White House Bob Woodward Jill Abramson
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt Michael S. Roth
The Lies That Bind Kwame Anthony Appiah Clifford Thompson
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World Adam Tooze Simon Johnson
The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies Michael V Hayden Mark Galeotti
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America Beth Macy Susan Okie
The Dying of the Light Robert Goolrick Bethanne Patrick
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers Diogenes Laertius, Trans. by Pamela Mensch Michael Dirda
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age Stephen R. Platt John Pomfret
The Order of Time Carlos Rovelli, Trans. by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell Joseph Peschel
Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence James R. Clapper Christopher Dickey
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership James B Comey Carlos Lozada
Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics R. Marie Griffith Jodi Eichler-Levine
Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science Karl Sigmund Alan Lightman
How Democracies Die Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt Christian Caryl
War in 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century David Patrikarakos Matti Friedman
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner Daniel Ellsberg Garrett M. Graff
The Evolution of Beauty Richard O. Prum Nick Romeo
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News Kevin Young Michael Dirda
The Testament of Mary Colm Tóibín Ron Charles
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve Stephen Greenblatt Annalisa Quinn
Freud: The Making of an Illusion Frederick Crews Matthew Hutson
Parrot & Olivier in America Peter Carey Ron Charles
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Karen Joy Fowler Ron Charles
Thank You For Your Service David Finkel Andrew Bacevich
The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace Alexander Klimburg Gordon M. Goldstein
The Seventh Function of Language Laurent Binet, Trans. by Sam Taylor Michael Dirda
Life After Life Kate Atkinson Steve Donoghue
Henry David Thoreau: A Life Laura Dassow Walls Michael Sims
The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes Jeff Turrentine
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro Jonathan Yardley
The Kite Runner Khaled Hossini Pamela Constable
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot Eric Roston
The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao Ian Johnson Richard Madsen
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet Lyndal Roper Michael Dirda
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