I'm still slogging through Unacknowledged by Stephen M Greer, about UFOs.
And, The Fighting Soul by Ari Rabin-Havt, about Bernie Sanders.
Just finished with The Game Is Afoot, about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, forgot the author's name.
I'm a very slow reader, maybe 3 books a year. I fall asleep reading, a lot.
As soon as I finish these, I'm gonna look for banned books. They must be good.
Ha ha ha... If it's banned books you desire, you might want to check out
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe. It had the "honor" of #1 most banned book of 2021... It's a graphic novel and eir* memoir... a window into a different reality that causes a big stink in conservative America... Where it is judged to be "pornography".
It
is good... but seeing as I am one of the characters in it I might be a bit biased... Available at most libraries... or not, depending on where you live.
You are from Florida, right? Might be a bit tough to find, especially at any school library... Check the bonfire out behind of the building itself...
I just finished another of Barbara Tuchman's books called
The March of Folly. You know, it just didn't have the same punch as
Guns of August or
A Distant Mirror. The idea is amazing, a study of how folly and willful ignorance, as symbolized by the Trojans pulling the Greek gift of a horse statute into their city, and how these choices bring on the downfall of some of history's greatest power structures. Solid writing, but the story arc just doesn't hold together as well. I gave up during the Vietnam section.
Right now I'm skimming through
The Travels of Marco Polo as I prepare to make the case that it was the publishing of this book that marked the end of the Renaissance to my Seventh Graders next week. I've read it a couple of times already... a simply astounding tale... and the book that convinced Christopher Columbus to seek a passage to China by going west. What a story! It it probably actually happened... check out the section on what happens during their 40 day long crossing of the Gobi desert...
*Spoiler alert> E, em, and eir are an alternate, non-gendered pronoun system