The books that blew my hair back

I really hope you find a book on here you haven't read yet. These books receive my highest praise. You may click on any of them to buy them on Bookshop.org - an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. 

Einstein's Fridge - Paul Sen

Bravo Company - Ben Kesling

Cynical Theories - Helen Pluckrose

Manhunt - Peter Bergen

The Misinfo Age - Caitlin O'Conner

Team of Rivals - Doris Kearns Goodwin

Last of the Amazons - Steven Pressfield

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Ann Jacobs

The Island at the Center of the World - Russell Shorto

Tribe - Sebastian Junger

The Gutenberg Parenthesis - Jeff Jarvis

Freedom's Child - Jax Miller

The Tyranny of Merit  - Michael J. Sandel

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville

Attention Service Member - Ben Brody

Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain

Between Two Worlds - Roxana Saberi

A Promised Land - Barack Obama

Merchants of Truth - Jill Abramson

Locking up Our Own - James Forman Jr. 

We Don't Want You Uncle Sam - Matthew Weiss

Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari

The Arawak - Charles River Editors

Huck Finn - Mark Twain 

The Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger

Decision Points - George Bush

The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley

The Once and Future Worker - Oren Cass

The Moral Animal - Robert Wright

The Tao te Ching - Lao Tzu (Stephen Mitchel Translation)

The War of Art - Steven Pressfield

A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 

Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond

The Bully Pulpit - Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B Du Bois

Last Words: a Memoir - George Carlin

Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield

Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes

What Unites Us - Dan Rather

The Fourth Age - Byron Reese