The Other Mexico: Critique of the Pyramid, Octavio Paz
The Power of Geography, Tim Marshall
When Women Were Birds, Terry Tempest Williams
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe [re-reading]
Caste, Isabel Wilkerson
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
Voices of Marrakesh, Elias Canetti (re-reading)
The Voice, Seicho Matsumoto (short stories)
A Month in Siena, Hisham Matar
A History of God, Karen Armstrong (re-reading)
Abu Musa's Women Neighbors, Ahmed Toufiq
People Who Walk in Darkness, Stuart Kaminsky
The Wind-Up Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi [post-apocalyptic Bangkok)
In the Country of Men, Hisham Matar (Libya, & his father)
This Could Be Important: My Life and Times with The Artificial Intelligentsia, Pamela McCorduck
Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express, Stuart Kaminsky
The Fall of Paris -- the Siege and the Commune 1870-71, Alistair Horne
Beneath a Scarlet Sky, Mark Sullivan (fict biog/Italy under German Occupation)
The Betrayal, Helen Dunmore (novel, 1950s Leningrad)
The Emissary, Yoko Tawada
Corregidora, Gayl Jones
Twilight of Democracy: the Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, Anne Applebaum
The Naked Eye, Yoko Tawada
Palmares, Gayl Jones (novel, Brazil during slavery)
Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord…& Triumph Beyond, George Friedman
Aleppo: A History, Ross Burns
Romanesque Painting Juan Ainaud
The Vegetarian, Han Kang (novel, Korea)
Arrow of God, Chinua Achebe
A Severed Head, Iris Murdoch
Exposure: Native Art & Political Ecology
The Big Silence, Stuart Kaminsky
The Distant Marvels, Chantel Acevedo (novel, Cuba)
+The Blue Between Sky & Water, Susan Abulhawa (novel, occupied Gaza)
Confessions of a Good Arab, Yoram Kaniuk Israeli writer
Crazy in Poughkeepsie, Daniel Pinkwater
The Unknown Masterpiece & Gambara, Honore de Balzac
The Silence, Don DeLillo
The Door, Magda Szabo (re-reading)
* Every Day is for the Thief, Teju Cole (Nigeria)
Ten White Geese, Gerbrand Bakker (novel, Dutch woman in Wales)
Fear: A Novel of World War I, Gabriel Chevallier
The Exercise of Power (America & post Cold War World), Robert Gates
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, Michael Woolf
* The Shadow of the Sun, Ryszard Kapuscinski [re-reading]
+Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger, Soraya Chemali
Marching Spain, V. S. Pritchett (1927 walking trip)
Master of the Game: Kissinger & Middle East, by Martin Indyk
Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins
Warriors: The New Prophecy: series (cat sagas) Erin Hunter
Paris in the Fifties, Stanley Karnow
The Warriors: Midnight; Moonrise; Dawn
Theatre, Somerset Maugham
Birdcage Walk Helen Dunmore (fiction bk group/rr)
Warriors: Starlight, Erin Hunter
The Last Weynfeldt, Martin Suter
Warriors: Twilight
* The Age of Extremes (the short 20th Century) 1914-1991, Eric Hobsbawm
Warriors: Sunset
Transcendent Kingdom, Ya Gyasi
Young Bloomsbury, Nino Strachey
The Personal Librarian, Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
(fictional biography of Belle da Costa Greene, & the JP Morgan Library)Back to the Garden, Laurie R. King
Bluebeard's Egg & Other Stories, Margaret Atwood
Tribe, Sebastian Junger
The Cat Who Saved Books,
Sight, Erin Hunter
The Narrow Corner, W. Somerset Maugham
A Journey into Matisse’s South of France, Laura McPhee
Firestar’s Quest, Erin Hunter
The Interpretation of Culture, Clifford Geertz (re-reading)
Nations and Nationalism, Ernest Gellner
Dark River, Erin Hunter
The Sea, John Banville
One Foot in Laos, Dervla Murphy
The Future of Nostalgia, Svetlana Boym
Warriors: Outcast
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World, Tom Burgis
Gravel Heart, Abdulrazak Gurnah
Christendom Destroyed Europe 1517-1648, Mark Greengrass (selected portions)
Memory of Departure, Abdulrazak Gurnah
Warriors: Eclipse, Erin Hunter
Planet of Slums, Mike Davis
King Leopold’s Ghost, Adam Hochschild
A Lover’s Discourse, Xiaolu Guo