Here’s the second installment of books I’ve read. Most recently read books are listed first. No great discussion, although I’ve ranked them zero to five stars. (reread) means I’ve read it before and am coming back to it.

The Zookeepers Wife by Diane Ackerman (4 stars)

Catching Fire by Susan Collins (2 stars, electronic book).

Until the Sun Falls by Cecelia Holland (4 stars, reread)

Drift, the Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow. 3 stars.

HMS Surprise by Patrick O’Brian (reread) 5 stars.

Pieces of Modesty by Peter O’Donnell, reread, 2 stars.

The Discovery of France by Graham Robb 5 stars.

Don’t look down on the defilements they will laugh at you by Ashin Tejaniya 4 stars.

Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese 5 star novel

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman 5 stars

The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins 2 stars

A Little White Death, John Lawton 4 stars (reread)

Flesh Wounds, John Lawton 3 stars (reread)

Old Flames, John Lawton 4 stars (reread)

Sacred Hoops by Phil Jackson — 3 stars

Creation by Gore Vidal — 3 stars

Blackout by John Lawton — 4 stars (reread)

All the Shah’s Men by Stephen Kinzer — 4 stars

The Ayatollah’s democracy by Hooman Majd — 3 stars

Bluffing Mr. Churchhill, John Lawton, 4 stars. (Reread).

The History of Iran, Elton L. Daniel two stars

The Road — Cormac McCarthy 4 stars

Explosive Eighteen, by Janet Evanovich — 3 stars

The E Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber – 2 stars