I'm off to a really slow start this year. Last year I already finished five books by now, this year i'm about halfway through my third.
Last year's list:
2024 reading list
Wright and New York: The making of America’s architect
The Greatest Railroad Story Ever Told
Into The Distance: The lost world of long haul trucking
Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman
Tiki Pop by Sven Kirsten
What the Dead Know by Barbara Butcher
A History of Howard Johnson’s by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco
The Dirty Tricks Department by John Lisle
Chop Suey USA: the story of Chinese food in America by Yong Chen
Across the Airless Wilds: the lunar rover and the triumph of the final moon landings by Earl Swift
The Radio Operator by Ulla Lenze
When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion by Julie Satow
The Quiet Americans: four spies at the dawn of the Cold War by Scott Anderson
Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets by David Simon
The Big Roads: the untold story of the engineers, visionaries, and trailblazers who created the American superhighways by Earl Swift
Survival of the Fastest: weed, speed, and the 1980s drug scandal that shocked the sports world by Randy Lanier and AJ Baime
I Never Did Like Politics: How Fiorello LaGuardia became America’s Mayor by Terry Golway
I'm about halfway through a biography on New York governor Al Smith. It's an older book so the author couldn't have had any idea what was coming, but in some was history is starting to repeat in some interesting ways.
