Books read in 2024
Weapons of the Lewis and Clark Expedition - Jim Garry
The Indispensables - Patrick O’Donnell
From Falling Bombs to Radio Waves - Emilie Serge
New Cold Wars - David Sanger
The Fifties - David Halberstam
For Blood and Money - Nathan Vardi
Madame Curie - Eve Curie
Physics in the Twentieth Century - Victor Weisskopf
I’ve Been Thinking - Daniel Dennett
Letters - Oliver Sacks
Uncle Tungsten - Oliver Sacks*
On the Move - Oliver Sacks*
Awakenings - Oliver Sacks*
A Leg to Stand On - Oliver Sacks
Deadly Feasts - Richard Rhodes
The Man With a Shattered World - A. R. Luria
The Golden Road - William Dalrymple
Campaigning with Grant - Horace Porter
Poor Charlie’s Almanack - Charlie Munger*
Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwin - Howard Markel
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction - Fergus Bordewich
No Ordinary Time - Doris Kearsn Goodwin
Playground - Richard Powers
Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine - Angela Creager
Areopagitica - John Milton
The Uranium Club - Miriam Hiebert
America’s Cold Warrior - James Wilson
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
Quanta and Fields - Sean Carroll
The Peacemaker - William Inboden
Reagan - Max Boot
Why We Die - Venki Ramakrishnan
Genius Talk - Denis Brian
Trust - Hernan Diaz
Waves in an Impossible Sea - Matt Strassler
Material World - Ed Conway
More than Curious - William Press
American Spring - Walter Borneman
Valley Forge - Bob Drury, Tom Clavin
American Colonies - Alan Taylor
Breaking the Spell - Daniel Dennett
Strategies of Containment - John Lewis Gaddis
Hinge Points - Siegfried Hecker
Washington: The Indispensable Man - James Flexner
The Best Minds - Jonathan Rosen
Fire Weather - John Vaillant
Inside the O’Briens - Lisa Genova
The Revolutionary - Stacy Schiff
Blind Spots - Marty Makary
The Quiet Damage - Jesselyn Cook
Foundation for the Future: The ABM Treaty and National Security - Arms Control Association
The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War - S. C. M. Paine
The Gravity of Math - Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis
In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam - Robert McNamara*
The Fog of War - Robert McNamara and Erroll Morris
Because Our Fathers Lied - Craig McNamara
Making Weapons, Talking Peace - Herbert York