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Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live

March 5, 2025

One of my favorite biographies I’ve ever read, and a fascinating profile and biography of arguably the most important media figure of a generation. Really…

The Life of Herod The Great

February 26, 2025

A fascinating look at a character who has become so slanted and distasteful by Biblical history.

North Woods

January 22, 2025

The story follows various groupings of people who are either hiding from something or needing some renewal from nature and the woods, and it is…

Martyr!

December 11, 2024

This story is about a man who is trying to understand himself, and the way that it’s executed and examined is really lyrically elegant and…

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

December 4, 2024

This is not breezy, but the way Harari writes about how information is leveraged by bureaucracy and mythology and how it’s manipulated for various ends…

Henry V

November 13, 2024

I’ve been all in on Dan Jones for a while, and I enjoy how he responsibly adds perspective and speculations to his books. In this…

War

November 6, 2024

This book primarily focuses on the war in Ukraine and how it’s handled and less on the presidential implications. By the end of the book,…

Guilty Creatures: Sex, God and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

October 16, 2024

This book reads like a true crime podcast but resolves in a very satisfying way—a quick, compelling read about fairly recent history.

Disney High

October 9, 2024

I love a good oral history of something that was a cornerstone for a specific time in my life. This book does an excellent job…

The Best Man’s Ghostwriter

September 25, 2024

This is probably the funniest book I’ve ever listened to in my whole life. Written like a TV Show and read by Glen Powell with…