Recap of the books I read in 2023

Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard―Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy The Creative Gene: How books, movies, and music inspired the creator of Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits’ Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy The Ministry for the Future: A Novel Anna Karenina Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization The Art of Being Indispensable at Work: Win Influence, Beat Overcommitment, and Get the Right Things Done The Nineties: A Book Slaughter House Five Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs The Fifth Act: America’s End in Afghanistan The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay Poverty, by America Defeat into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945 The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety Spies and Lies: How China’s Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World Greenlights Elon Musk

December 31, 2023 · 2 min · Kimo B