My 2024 reading list

 From time to time, I will share my reading list with everyone. Here is the 2024 edition of my reading list. I hope that some of you take recommendations from this list and find a great read. My five top recommendations are The Barn, The Quiet Damage, The Fall of Roe, Race Against Time, and Coming Out Republican. 

2024 Book List 

1.) Swamp Monsters 

2.) The glory and the dream

3.)Delaying the Dream 

4.) Lincoln’s Melancholy 

5.)JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century 1917-1956

6.) Gun Country 

7.) Nixon Californias Native Son

8.) On this day in Politics 

9.) Trials of Harry S. Truman

10.) 1932

11.) Our ancient faith 

12.) Hitler’s American Friends 

13.) The Presidents

14.) Life After Power 

15.) Tyranny of the Minority 

16.) What the Heck are you up to Mr. President

17.) The American Dream: A cultural history

18.) Why White Liberals Fail

19.) This America

20.) Why Congress?

21.) April 4, 1968

22.) The Achilles Trap

23.) Burn Book

24.) The long Southern strategy 

25.) Accounting for Slavery 

26.) The Hundred-Year War on Palestine 

27.) The Burnout Generation 

28.) Eighteen Days in October 

29.) Resistance from the right 

30.) White Rural Rage

31.) How they broke Britain

32.) The War before the war

33.) American Woman 

34.) The Imposters 

35.) Palestine peace not apartheid 

36.) race against time

37.) The Age of Reagan 

38.) From Colony to Superpower

39.) Saving Yellowstone 

40.) Football for a Buck

41.) Coming out Republican 

42.) The City is up for grabs 

43.) How Democracies Die

44.) From Beirut to Jerusalem 

45.) Titan Sinking

46.) The Run of his life

47.) Covert City

48.) The Decade in Tory

49.) Three-Ring Circus 

50.) The Bad Guys Won

51.) Baseball 100

52.) Boys will be Boys

53.) Pillar of Fire

54.) Four Chancellors and a Funeral 

55.) Landslide

56.) Mourning the Presidents 

57.) The Destructionsits 

58.) The Fall of Roe

59.) The Birds are not real

60.) Whistling Dixie 

61.) Electric City 

62.) Crooked

63.) Wide Awake

64.) The Right to Rule

65.) 1776

66.) Fascism- A very short introduction 

67.) The American South- A very short introduction 

68.) Canada- A very short introduction 

69.) Colonial America- A very short introduction

70.) The Reagan Revolution- A very short introduction 

71.) The Situation Room

72.) Hillbilly Elegy

73.) My life 

74.) The 31st of March 

75.) Our endangered values

76.) The quiet damage 

77.) The Truths we hold: An American journey

78.) Lucky

79.) 1962

80.) Beautiful Things

81.) Trump in Exile

82.) Friday Night Lights 

83.) Playing with Fire

84.) At Canaan’s edge 

85.) Double Down

86.) Game Change 

87.) The Rape of Nanking 

88.) Insurgency

89.) Brutal Campaign 

90.) Ministry of Truth 

91.) This Town 

92.) The Strange Deaths of President Harding

93.) Anything for a vote 

94.) The Rural Voter

95.) Showtime

96.) The Cruelty is the point

97.) Fools on the Hill

98.) The Barn

99.) Character Limt 

100.) A life in full

101.) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 

102.) The Message 

103.) Lucky Loser

104.) Ladies and Gentleman: The Bronx is burning 

105.) War

106.) Something lost, Something Gained 

107.) American Reckoning 

108.) The Communist Manifesto (Penguin classic) 

109.) The Price of Politics 

110.) The Price of Power 

111.) The Longest Con

112.) Disney’s Land 

113.) One Summer 

114.) Giant of the Senate 

115.) It’s even worse than you think 

116.) The Watchdog 

117.) Hate-monger

Yes that’s a lot of potential summer reading material for everyone.