A year (2025) long deep dive into America, alternating between fiction and non fiction.
Read
- Party of the People, Ruffini
- East of Eden, Steinbeck
- American Heretics, Copulsky
- Slaughterhouse Five, Vonnegut
- The Unwinding, Packer
- Albion’s Seed, Hackett Fischer
- The Road, McCarthy
- Born Fighting, Webb
- Decadent Society, Douthat
- The Bonfire of the Vanities, Wolfe
- Bobos in paradise, Brooks
- Ethan Frome, Wharton
- One Billion Americans, Yglesias
To read
Fiction
- Song of solomon, Morrison
- White noise, DeLillo
- Atlas shrugged, Rand
- Old man and the sea, Hemingway
- Tropic of cancer, Miller
- On the road, Kerouac
- Biography of x, Lacey
- My year of rest and relaxation, Moshfegh
- As I lay dying, Faulkner
- Uncle tom’s cabin, Stowe
- Infinite jest, Wallace
- Adventures of huckleberry finn, Twain
- James, Everett
Non-fiction
- The Other One Percent Chakravorty
- Class, Fussell
- American colonies, Taylor
- African founders, Hackett Fischer
- Between two worlds, Gaskill
- The nine nations of north america, Garreau
- How the Irish Became White, Ignatiev
- Hillbilly Elegy, Vance
- The Promised Land, Antin
- Harvest of Empire, González
- The Chinese in America, Chang
- Coming Apart, Murray
- Empire of their own, Gabler
- The Shaping of America, Meinig
- Safe Passage, Schake
- The Upswing, Putnam