My Reading List
A list of books I've read by year. I'm a member of NASIH's Silent Game Book Club (books noted with an asterisk).
2023
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Safe Houses, by Dan Fesperman*
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Writing Down the Bones, by Natalie Goldberg
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The Anomaly, by Hervé Le Tellier and translated by Adriana Hunter
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained, by Richard P. Feynman
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, by Claire North
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The Girl from the Metropol Hotel, by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya and translated by Anna Summers
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TBD!
2022
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The Lost Night, by Andrea Bartz
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The Dollhouse, by Fiona Davis
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People We Meet on Vacation, by Emily Henry
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Black Buck, by Mateo Askaripour
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Our Game, by John le Carré
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Filthy Animals, by Brandon Taylor
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You Got Anything Stronger?, by Gabrielle Union
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Northern Spy, by Flynn Berry
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The Widow Spy, by Martha D. Peterson
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Real Life, by Brandon Taylor
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The Other Woman, by Daniel Silva
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March Violets, by Philip Kerr
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Spy Handler, by Victor Cherkashin
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American Spy, by Lauren Wilkinson
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The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett
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Le Petit Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
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Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, by Dave King and Renni Browne
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Red Widow, by Alma Katsu
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Agent Running in the Field, by John le Carré
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This is Ear Hustle, by Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor
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Mole, by William Hood
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The Emotional Craft of Fiction, by Donald Maass
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Blowback, by Valerie Plame
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In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
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Silverview, by John le Carré
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Among the Russians, by Colin Thubron
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An Ordinary Spy, by Joseph Weisberg
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Spy Wednesday, by William Hood
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Warlight, by Michael Ondaatje*
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Farmer Giles of Ham, by J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Spy's Son, by Bryan Denson
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State of Terror, by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny*
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The Cossacks, by Leo Tolstoy
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A Legacy of Spies, by John le Carré
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The Mirrored Palace, by David Rich*
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Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Turgenev
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One by One, by Ruth Ware
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The Little Drummer Girl, by John le Carré*
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The Writing Life, by Annie Dillard
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The Charm School, by Nelson DeMille*
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His Own Man, by Edgard Telles Ribeiro and translated by Kim Hastings*
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Dead-End Memories: Stories, by Banana Yoshimoto and translated by Asa Yoneda
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Novelist as a Vocation, by Haruki Murakami and translated by Philip Gabriel & Ted Goossen
2021
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A Slow Fire Burning, by Paula Hawkins
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The Moscow Rules, by Antonio J. Méndez
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Seven Drafts, by Allison K. Williams
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The Writing of Fiction, by Edith Wharton
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The New Nobility, by Andrei Soldatov
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A Sort of Life, by Graham Greene
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Handbook for Spies, by Alexander Foote
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The Compatriots, by Andrei Soldatov
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The Mark of the Assassin, by Daniel Silva
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Steering the Craft, by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Sonya's Report, by Ruth Werner
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Here is New York, by E.B. White
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Several Short Sentences About Writing, by Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Call for the Dead, by John le Carré
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Vesper Flights, by Helen Macdonald
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The Kill Artist, by Daniel Silva
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Gotham Writers' Workshop: Writing Fiction, by Alexander Steele
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The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
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Cod, by Mark Kurlansky
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Secret Windows, by Stephen King
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The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr.
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Primates of Park Avenue, by Wednesday Martin
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Russians Among Us, by Gordon Corera
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Elevation, by Stephen King
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Life Undercover, by Amaryllis Fox
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Finding the Mother Tree, by Dr. Suzanne Simard
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On Writing, by Stephen King
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Agent Sonya, by Ben Macintyre
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean, by Joan Didion
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Writers & Lovers, by Lily King
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Say Nothing, by Patrick Radden Keefe
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Blue Nights, by Joan Didion
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What the Robin Knows, by Jon Young
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The Library Book, by Susan Orlean
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Unfamiliar Fishes, by Sarah Vowell
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The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain
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Empty Mansions, by Bill Dedman
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Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng
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The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
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Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
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84, Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hanff
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Tangled Vines, by Frances Dinkelspiel
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Whistleblower, Susan Fowler
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A Big Manhattan Year, by David Barrett
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In the Woods, by Tana French
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The Memo, by Minda Harts
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On Writing Well, by William Zinsser
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Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke
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Becoming, by Michelle Obama
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The Secret Place, by Tana French
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MI9, by Helen Fry
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The War Magician, by David Fisher
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The Plaza, by Julie Satow