The Last Books of 2018 for me
I have no pretenses that I will complete this list before the year end. But its worth a try. I just finished Wabi-Sabi, Fear,and Scarcity listed below. All interesting books in their own right. I have started Essays Against Everything - and Clouds of Glory. I hope to share the essayists affectation for language, and to discover a bit more of postive parts of the troubled history of Robert E Lee - all the while senstive to the fact that white historians are usually going to be mute on the greater issues of racial reconciliation.
So, here it is, the list, partially started, partially finished, mostly lays waiting for me to go faster.
Essays Against Everything by: Mark Greif
Fear by: Bob Woodward
Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers by: Leonard Koren
Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts by: Leonard Koren
In Praise of Shadows by: Junichiro Tanizaki
Scarcity - Why Having Too Little Means So Much By: Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them - And They Shape Us by: Howard Hughes
Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee by Michael Korda, Jack Garrett
The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age by Tim Wu
The RED and GREEN of WAR by D.R. Lunsford
Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision & Reality By: Scott Belsky
The Fifth Risk By: Michael Lewis
The Messy Middle By: Scott Belsky
Originals- How Non-Conformists Move the World By: Adam Grant
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks By: Rebecca Skloot
Team of Rivals - The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Making Sense of God An Invitation to the Skeptical By: Timothy Keller
Thinking in Systems A Primer By: Donella H. Meadows
Amusing Ourselves to Death Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business By: Neil Postman
A Nice Little Place on the North Side Wrigley Field at One Hundred By: George Will
Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind By: Yuval Noah Harari
Maps of Meaning By: Jordan B. Peterson
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction by Joan Didion
The Square and the Tower Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook By: Niall Ferguson
Civilization The West and the Rest By: Niall Ferguson
Empire How Britain Made the Modern World By: Niall Ferguson
Kissinger 1923-1968: The Idealist By: Niall Ferguson
The Ascent of Money A Financial History of the World By: Niall Ferguson
The House of Rothschild, Volume 1 Money’s Prophets: 1798-1848 By: Niall Ferguson