The books I read in 2025

Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition The Unit: My Life Fighting Terrorists as One of America’s Most Secret Military Operatives Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy China After Mao Year of Living Constitutionally Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives Ghost Wars American Soldier Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East The Wire Someone Who Isn’t Me Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House Why I Cook Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007) Unrestricted Warfare Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy Comanches: The History of a People The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder None of This Rocks: A Memoir The Guns of August Down with the System: A Memoir Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future Odyssey: The Greek Myths Reimagined Stories of Your Life and Others Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America Sailing True North: Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character Right Moves: The Conservative Think Tank in American Political Culture since 1945

December 31, 2025 · 2 min · Kimo B

Recap of the books I read in 2024

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century Surf When You Can: Lessons in Life, Loyalty, and Leadership from a Maverick Navy Captain Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbs The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style Enough The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall On the Road Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Burn Book: A Tech Love Story Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever 2054: A Novel Three Pianos: A Memoir New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Demon Copperhead The CIA: An Imperial History Mill Town Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin’s Spies We Fed an Island Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 Capital and Ideology Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

December 31, 2024 · 2 min · Kimo B

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

Recap of the books I read in 2022

Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War’s Most Audacious Espionage Operation Farm and Other F Words: The Rise and Fall of the Small Family Farm There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future Eisenhower in War and Peace This is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race 32 Yolks: From My Mother’s Table to Working the Line Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment The New Geography of Jobs You Are Worth It: Building a Life Worth Fighting For American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears The Caine Mutiny The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History The Day of the Jackal Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors Of Mice and Men How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going Musashi Why We’re Polarized The Road Taken: A Memoir An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You Threat Hunting with Elastic Stack The above are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

December 31, 2022 · 2 min · Kimo B

Recap of the books I read in 2021

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Touching the Dragon: And Other Techniques for Surviving Life’s Wars Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever How to Be an Anti Racist You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington The Order of Time The Topeka School: A Novel The Space Barons Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict The Threat Intelligence Handbook The Security Engineer Handbook A Promised Land We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman No Time for Spectators: The Lessons That Mattered Most from West Point to the West Wing Cannery Row Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need These Truths: A History of the United States Grant The Stranger 2034: A Novel of the Next World War A Separate Peace The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory Mythos Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works Blue on Green The Making of a Miracle: The Untold Story of the Captain of the 1980 Gold Medal–Winning U.S. Olympic Hockey Team The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World’s Greatest Creatures The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding… its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America The above are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

December 31, 2021 · 2 min · Kimo B

Recap of the books I read in 2020

Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 For Whom the Bell Tolls Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World’s Deadliest Special Operations Force Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality Mastery I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer The Body: A Guide for Occupants Snow Crash White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution On Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA’s Clandestine Service Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare The President Is Missing: A Novel The above are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

December 31, 2020 · 2 min · Kimo B

Recap of the books I read in 2019

On Cyber: Towards an Operational Art for Cyber Conflict Red Badge of Courage Can American Capitalism Survive?: Why Greed Is Not Good, Opportunity Is Not Equal, and Fairness Won’t Make Us Poor Catcher in the Rye Catch-22 Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World Mercy Watson au cine-parc Endurance: My Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery Capital in the 21st Century How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman–Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual Shortest Way Home: One Mayor’s Challenge and a Model for America’s Future The Wright Brothers John Adams On China Chesty: The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War Never Grow Up Alexander Hamilton Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America Starship Troopers Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World The above are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

December 31, 2019 · 2 min · Kimo B

Recap of the books I read in 2018

On War Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution Violence of Action: Untold Stories of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the War on Terror Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War The Sun Also Rises Grapes of Wrath Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground Unbreakable: A Navy SEAL’s Way of Life A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City The Future of War: A History A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government’s Secret Germ Laboratory Leonardo da Vinci The Phoenix Project (A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win) Energy and Civilization: A History Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress Brave New World The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age Black Hearts: One Platoon’s Descent into Madness in Iraq’s Triangle of Death Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln Radical Inclusion: What the Post-9/11 World Should Have Taught Us About Leadership Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals A Long Way Home: A Memoir Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security The above are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

December 31, 2018 · 2 min · Kimo B

Recap of the books I read in 2017

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration Red Team: How to Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance Cryptonomicon A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age Einstein: His Life and Universe Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise 1776 Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman’s Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder Cosmos: A Personal Voyage Between the World and Me The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea Viper Pilot: The Autobiography of One of America’s Most Decorated Combat Pilots How to Win Friends and Influence People Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed The above are Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

December 31, 2017 · 2 min · Kimo B