Book update - currently reading Somewhere In The Crowd by Katrina Logan (a pen name for Katy Birchall)

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I learned some really unexpected and interesting things about the Hemingway family. If you read books, if you're curious about Hemingway (I'm not a huge fan, but respect his work) you should pick up a copy.

This month’s reading list.
And yes, Jill Lepore’s book is repeated from last month because I haven’t finished it.
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Favorite Books I Read in 2022:

I've been keeping a record of the books I read (on the back of bookmarks) and giving each of them a score as to how I felt/thought about each book upon completing it. Interestingly, at least to me, as I look back over the year, my top favorite now, is not the book I gave the highest score to at the time.

This past year I read 41 different books. (One of them twice.) Not that these works were necessarily written or published in 2022, but that is just the year I read them. (And the book I am currently reading, I am only about a quarter of they though, so doubt I will finish that this year.)

So here I present a totally subjective list of my favorite books I have read this past year (not necessarily in any order).

1. "Gangsters of Capitalism - Smedley Butler, The Marines, And The Making And Breaking Of America's Empire" by Jonathan M. Katz (2021)
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2. "Not 'A Nation Of Immigrants' - Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, And A History Of Erasure And Exclusion" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2021)

3. "The Women's House of Detention - A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison" by Hugh Ryan (2022) @HughRyan

4.) "Border and Rule - Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism"
by Harsha Walia (2021)

5) "Begin The World Over" by Kung Li Sun (2022 by AK Press)

and base on how I feel today, what I would say is my favorite of the year is:

6) "Everything For Everyone - An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072" by M.E. O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi (2022 by Common Notions)

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Two strong shoot outs also go to:
"OHIO - On The Validity of Bob's Lanes" by Sean Swain (2022 by Little Black Cart/ LBC Books)

and

"Opposing Torture" by Sean Swain (2022 by Ardent Press)
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