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SHORT THREAD: In case you're looking for a last-minute gift or some reading in the break ahead, I wanted to share the best books I read this year. Overall, this was a particularly banner year for narrative nonfiction. Three new books really captured my jealousy as a writer....
1) @HigginbothamA's MIDNIGHT IN CHERNOBYL was a fascinating book and a research tour du force: amazon.com/Midnight-Chern…
2) @cncep's FURIOUS HOURS, about Harper Lee and a lost murder case she hoped would be her IN COLD BLOOD, was packed with sentences more perfect than anything I'll ever write: amazon.com/Furious-Hours-…
3) And @praddenkeefe's well-researched SAY NOTHING, about the Troubles in Northern Ireland, opened up a world I knew little about and makes all-too-real the horror visited on that island for decades by the IRA: amazon.com/Say-Nothing-Mu…
@praddenkeefe 4) Beyond those, I was immensely impressed with @annafifield's GREAT SUCCESSOR, which changed my perception of Kim Jong Un and seems all-too-relevant as we head into another potential crisis on the Korean Peninsula: amazon.com/Great-Successo…
5) @jacklgoldsmith's IN HOFFA'S SHADOW is a great mix of family history and the wild tale of Jimmy Hoffa, the Mafia, the Kennedys, and the FBI: amazon.com/Hoffas-Shadow-…
6) @a_greenberg's SANDWORM taught me so much about the Kremlin, its hacking, and where cyber threats are heading. Read it ahead of the 2020 election:
amazon.com/Sandworm-Cyber…
@a_greenberg 7) I finally read Jill Lepore's THESE TRUTHS, which rewrites and re-teaches so much of what I thought I knew about the story of America. I wish I wrote about anything as authoritatively as Lepore writes about everything. amazon.com/These-Truths-H…
8) @jaloysius's biography NIXON: A LIFE really helped me understand one of the pivotal figures of the 20th Century. amazon.com/Richard-Nixon-…
@jaloysius 9) I read a lot about Vietnam this year and Neil Sheehan's A BRIGHT SHINING LIE, about John Paul Vann and the American fight in Southeast Asia, is just as magisterial as I've always heard. Essential to understanding that time: amazon.com/Bright-Shining…
10) Lastly, I picked up @nicholaslemann's REDEMPTION, about Reconstruction and the south after the Civil War, and it was a horrifying tour of the incredible violence done by white supremacists. Sadly, it seemed far too relevant to our modern politics: amazon.com/Redemption-Las… /END
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What is the best book you read this year?
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