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My Reading List

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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).

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2023

  • Safe Houses, by Dan Fesperman*

  • Writing Down the Bones, by Natalie Goldberg

  • The Anomaly, by Hervé Le Tellier and translated by Adriana Hunter

  • Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained, by Richard P. Feynman 

  • The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, by Claire North

  • The Girl from the Metropol Hotel, by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya and translated by Anna Summers

  • TBD!

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2022

  • The Lost Night, by Andrea Bartz

  • The Dollhouse, by Fiona Davis

  • People We Meet on Vacation, by Emily Henry

  • Black Buck, by Mateo Askaripour

  • Our Game, by John le Carré

  • Filthy Animals, by Brandon Taylor

  • You Got Anything Stronger?, by Gabrielle Union

  • Northern Spy, by Flynn Berry

  • The Widow Spy, by Martha D. Peterson

  • Real Life, by Brandon Taylor

  • The Other Woman, by Daniel Silva

  • March Violets, by Philip Kerr

  • Spy Handler, by Victor Cherkashin

  • American Spy, by Lauren Wilkinson

  • The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett

  • Le Petit Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  • The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway

  • Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, by Dave King and Renni Browne

  • Red Widow, by Alma Katsu

  • Agent Running in the Field, by John le Carré

  • This is Ear Hustle, by Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor

  • Mole, by William Hood

  • The Emotional Craft of Fiction, by Donald Maass

  • Blowback, by Valerie Plame

  • In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote

  • Silverview, by John le Carré

  • Among the Russians, by Colin Thubron

  • An Ordinary Spy, by Joseph Weisberg

  • Spy Wednesday, by William Hood

  • Warlight, by Michael Ondaatje*

  • Farmer Giles of Ham, by J.R.R. Tolkien

  • The Spy's Son, by Bryan Denson

  • State of Terror, by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny*

  • The Cossacks, by Leo Tolstoy

  • A Legacy of Spies, by John le Carré

  • The Mirrored Palace, by David Rich*

  • Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Turgenev

  • One by One, by Ruth Ware

  • The Little Drummer Girl, by John le Carré*

  • The Writing Life, by Annie Dillard

  • The Charm School, by Nelson DeMille*

  • His Own Man, by Edgard Telles Ribeiro and translated by Kim Hastings*

  • Dead-End Memories: Stories, by Banana Yoshimoto and translated by Asa Yoneda

  • Novelist as a Vocation, by Haruki Murakami and translated by Philip Gabriel & Ted Goossen

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2021

  • A Slow Fire Burning, by Paula Hawkins

  • The Moscow Rules, by Antonio J. Méndez

  • Seven Drafts, by Allison K. Williams

  • The Writing of Fiction, by Edith Wharton

  • The New Nobility, by Andrei Soldatov

  • A Sort of Life, by Graham Greene

  • Handbook for Spies, by Alexander Foote

  • The Compatriots, by Andrei Soldatov

  • The Mark of the Assassin, by Daniel Silva

  • Steering the Craft, by Ursula K. Le Guin

  • Sonya's Report, by Ruth Werner

  • Here is New York, by E.B. White

  • Several Short Sentences About Writing, by Verlyn Klinkenborg

  • Call for the Dead, by John le Carré

  • Vesper Flights, by Helen Macdonald

  • The Kill Artist, by Daniel Silva

  • Gotham Writers' Workshop: Writing Fiction, by Alexander Steele

  • The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway

  • Cod, by Mark Kurlansky

  • Secret Windows, by Stephen King

  • The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr.

  • Primates of Park Avenue, by Wednesday Martin

  • Russians Among Us, by Gordon Corera

  • Elevation, by Stephen King

  • Life Undercover, by Amaryllis Fox

  • Finding the Mother Tree, by Dr. Suzanne Simard

  • On Writing, by Stephen King

  • Agent Sonya, by Ben Macintyre

  • Let Me Tell You What I Mean, by Joan Didion

  • Writers & Lovers, by Lily King

  • Say Nothing, by Patrick Radden Keefe

  • Blue Nights, by Joan Didion

  • What the Robin Knows, by Jon Young

  • The Library Book, by Susan Orlean

  • Unfamiliar Fishes, by Sarah Vowell

  • The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain

  • Empty Mansions, by Bill Dedman

  • Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng

  • The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion

  • Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott

  • 84, Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hanff

  • Tangled Vines, by Frances Dinkelspiel

  • Whistleblower, Susan Fowler

  • A Big Manhattan Year, by David Barrett

  • In the Woods, by Tana French

  • Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • The Memo, by Minda Harts

  • On Writing Well, by William Zinsser

  • Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke

  • Becoming, by Michelle Obama

  • The Secret Place, by Tana French

  • MI9, by Helen Fry

  • The War Magician, by David Fisher

  • The Plaza, by Julie Satow

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