Posts about books, reading, and literature.
John Kuipers's 'Het bedrog van Göring' follows detective Charlie Swieninck in occupied The Hague in 1941. A murdered art expert and the theft of a Frans Hals painting draw him into Nazi art looting and the schemes of Hermann Göring.
John Kuipers's 'Musserts schaduw' follows detective Charlie Swieninck in occupied The Hague in 1940. He investigates the murder of an NSB official and the trail leads straight to Anton Mussert and other Dutch Nazis.
Beene Dubbelboer's Geheim Verzet follows two boys, Wim and Geert, in a Dutch village near the German border during World War II. They overhear German soldiers plotting the 1940 invasion of the Netherlands and alert their families.
In Terry Hayes’ The Year of the Locust, a sprawling espionage thriller, CIA Denied Access Area spy Ridley Kane ventures into the volatile borderlands of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan to extract an informant with critical intelligence on a rising terrorist threat.
The Secret, co-authored with Andrew Child, places Reacher on a 1992 task force hunting killers of scientists linked to a bioweapon project from the 1960s.
It is the fortieth book in the Asterix series. Caesar sends a wellness guru to the village. He spreads calm and positivity to weaken the Gauls from within.
Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs In His Own Words, curated by the Steve Jobs Archive, gathers speeches, emails, interviews, and personal notes from Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder who reshaped technology and culture.
Tony Fadell’s Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making distills lessons from his 30-year career in Silicon Valley, where he led teams creating the iPod, iPhone, and Nest Learning Thermostat.
Viktor E. Frankl’s Man's Search for Meaning recounts his survival in Nazi concentration camps during World War II and introduces his psychological theory, logotherapy.
No Plan B, co-authored with Andrew Child, witnesses Reacher a 'suicide' that's murder, leading to a prison release scheme and organ harvesting.
An animal-loving idealist named Ovide Byrde takes in Rantanplan and tries to turn a cattle town vegetarian, until a Mexican bandit twists his cause into a scheme to seize the place.
Charlie Kirk’s The College Scam: How America's Universities Are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America's Youth challenges the value of traditional college education, arguing it burdens students with debt while promoting progressive ideologies.
Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library follows Nora Seed, a woman overwhelmed by regret, who attempts suicide and finds herself in a magical library between life and death.
Better Off Dead, co-authored with Andrew Child, has Reacher searching for a missing twin in a desert town, clashing with a bomber plotting deadly attacks.
It is the thirty-ninth book in the Asterix series. The Gauls travel east to the frozen lands of the Sarmatians. They must protect a legendary griffin from Roman capture.
Charlie Kirk’s The College Scam: How America's Universities Are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America's Youth challenges the value of traditional college education, arguing it burdens students with debt while promoting progressive ideologies.
Abigail Shrier's Irreversible Damage examines the rapid increase in teenage girls identifying as transgender. Shrier argues this surge is driven by social contagion, with online platforms like Tumblr and TikTok influencing girls struggling with anxiety or depression to identify as trans.
Jordan B. Peterson's Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life builds on his first book with twelve new rules to help people face chaos and find balance.
Co-authored with Andrew Child, The Sentinel sees Reacher save an IT manager from kidnappers in Tennessee, uncovering a ransomware plot threatening local elections.
Lucky Luke unwillingly inherits a Louisiana cotton plantation and hands it to the enslaved people who work it, turning every planter in the parish against him.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3] chronicles the later stages of the Gulag system, including hard labor prisons, exile, and the post-Stalin era.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2] delves into the heart of the Soviet labor camps, describing the brutal daily life, forced work, and psychological toll on prisoners.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1] exposes the Soviet Union's vast prison camp system through a blend of personal stories, historical facts, and sharp analysis.
Jordan B. Peterson's 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos gives clear advice on how to live better. He draws from psychology, old stories, religion, and his own life.
Charlie Kirk’s Right Wing Revolution: How to Beat the Woke and Save the West argues that “wokeism” threatens American freedom and traditional values.