Total: 78 books
Favorites, in no order: Organ Thieves, 1493, Painted Screens,
The Treeline
2. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
3. Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership by Brea Baker
4. Into the Uncut Grass by Trevor Noah
5. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
6. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House by Nancy Pelosi
7. The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists by Naomi Klein
8. Pill City: How Two Honor Roll Students Foiled the Feds and Built a Drug Empire by Kevin Deutsch
9. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
10. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
11. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
12. Lovely One: A Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson
13. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles Mann
14. The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions by Greta Thunberg
15. Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth's Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis by Michael Mann
16. Charm City: A Walk Through Baltimore by Madison Bell Smartt
17. Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
18. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
19. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy by Thomas Schaller
20. The Life of Richard Nixon by John Farrell
21. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
22. Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63 by Taylor Branch
23. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough
24. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
25. The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South by Chip Jones
26. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson
27. The Arctic: A Very Short Introduction by Klaus Dodds
28. The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
29. Bold Forecast: The Hurricane Agnes Deluge by Gary Letcher
30. Playing Politics with Natural Disaster: Hurricane Agnes, the 1972 Election, and the Origins of FEMA by Timothy Kneeland
31. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
32. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas Blackmon
33. Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush
34. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddarth Kara
35. Around the World in 80 Birds by Mike Unwin
36. Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery by Paul Craddock
37. The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
38. How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America by Priya Fielding-Singh
39. Akkadian Empire: A History from Beginning to End by Hourly History
40. Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate by William Ruddiman
41. The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben Rawlence
42. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
43. Panama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time-the Building of the Panama Canal by Matthew Parker
44. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle
45. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
46. Disposable City: Miami's Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza
47. How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships by Leil Lowndes
48. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proul
49. Grant by Ron Chernow
50. On Freedom Road: Bicycle Explorations and Reckonings on the Underground Railroad by David Goodrich
51. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler
52. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney
53. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life by Arnold Schwarzenegger
54. My Name Is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
55. President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier by C. W. Goodyear
56. A Biography of a Map in Motion: Augustine Herrman's Chesapeake by Christian Koot
57. Murder on Maryland's Eastern Shore: Race, Politics and the Case of Orphan Jones by Joseph Moore
58. What Was the Underground Railroad? by Yona Zeldis McDonough
59. The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon Winchester
60. Alone on the Ice by David Roberts
61. Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond by Sonia Shah
62. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell
63. Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany by Katja Hoyer
64. Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky
65. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
66. Isaac Newton by James Gleick
67. Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky
68. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
69. The Painted Screens of Baltimore: An Urban Folk Art Revealed by Elaine Eff
70. Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present by Frank Snowden III
71. NEW-A Tree a Day by Amy-Jane Beer
72. An Island Called Smith by Jon Gower
73. Reservoir Hill by Kelly Dane Terrill
74. Ellicott City by Marsha Wight Wise
75. Catoctin Furnace:: Portrait of an Iron Making Village by Elizabeth Anderson
76. Highlandtown by Gary Helton
77. Guilford by Ann Giroux
78. Maryland Geography: An Introduction by James DiLisio
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