Books
What I have read, arranged by subject, with longer notes on the ones that stayed with me.
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2 books · 29 Sep 2026 Steve Coll's two-volume history of America in Afghanistan
Two Pulitzer-winning volumes on how a superpower stumbled into, and never quite won, its longest war.
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3 books · 29 Sep 2026 Walter Isaacson's biographies of genius
Three biographies of people who changed how the rest of us live: Jobs, Leonardo, and the invention of CRISPR.
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2 books · 29 Sep 2026 Where to start with le Carré's George Smiley
The patient mole hunt everyone should read, and the quieter, smaller mystery that came before it.
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3 books · 29 Sep 2026 William Dalrymple, three ways into India's buried history
Delhi as it is now, as it ended, and the country as it was becoming. One writer, three very different books.
Every book on the shelf also has its own page with a shorter note.