Started off with a really good pace this year, only to run aground for a few months due to travel and other interruptions. Still, finished 38 different books, including some ones I really enjoyed and bolded.
Some additional thoughts at the bottom, and I also post impressions/reviews throughout the year on Goodreads.
- Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis by George Makari
- JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century 1917-1956 by Fredrick Logevall
- Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Batallion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning
- Years of Peril and Ambition: US Foreign Relations, 1776-1921 by George C. Herring
- No Pasaran: Matt Christman’s Spanish Civil War by Matt Christman
- Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca by Alexander Star (and others)
- The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of US Primacy by Stephen M. Walt
- An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital by Michael Heinrich
- Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War by Paul Kennedy
- Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager by Keith Gessen (re-read)
- Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature by Richard Rorty
- The American Revolution: A History by Gordon S. Wood (re-read)
- The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
- Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction by Richard S. Newman
- Two Cheers for Politics: Why Democracy is Flawed, Frightening, and Our Best Hope by Jedediah Purdy
- Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America by Harry L. Watson
- Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong by Sanford Levinson
- The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm