Tropics' 2023 Book Challenge

1. The Best American Travel Writing 2020 - Jason Wilson

2. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story - Nikole Hannah-Jones

Reread.

3. What We Owe The Future - William MacAskill

4. Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide - Richard Dawkins

5. Elderflora: A Modern History Of Ancient Trees - Jared Farmer

6. The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories From My Life - John Le Carre

7. Prisoners Of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About The World - Tim Marshall

8. Profiles In Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumber And Dumber - Andy Borowitz

9. The Bonobo And The Atheist: In Search Of Humanism Among The Primates - Frans de Waal

10. Beyond The Da Vinci Code: From The Rose Line To The Blood Line - Sangeet Duchane

11. Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl - Harriet A. Jacobs

>11 tropics: I read this last year. Extremely powerful.

12. The Lands Of Charm And Cruelty: Travels In Southeast Asia - Stan Sesser

13. The Island Of The Colorblind - Oliver Sacks.

14. Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are? - Frans de Waal

15. The Crystal Desert: Summers In Antarctica - David G. Campbell

16. Thirty Years In Australia - Ada Cambridge

17. The Best Of Granta Travel - Bill Buford.

18. The Edges Of The Civilized World: A Journey In Nature And Culture - Alison Hawthorne Deming

19. Floods, Famines and Emperors: El Nino And The Fate Of Civilizations - Brian Fagan

20. Solito: A Memoir - Javier Zamora

21. Trust The Plan: The Rise Of QAnon The Conspiracy That Unhinged America - Will Sommer

22. American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation Of How The Republican Party Went Crazy - David Corn

23. The Year 1000: What Life was Like At The Turn Of The First Millennium - Robert Lacey

24. Best American Travel Writing 2015 - Andrew McCarthy.

25. Cameroon With Egbert - Dervla Murphy

26. Imperium - Ryszard Kapuscinski

27. How The Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With The History Of Slavery Across America - Clint Smith

28. In Xanadu: A Quest - William Dalrymple

reread.

29. Tropical Classical: Essays From Several Directions - Pico Iyer

Reread.

30. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives On Civilization - Neil deGrasse Tyson

31. 21 Lessons For The 21st Century - Yuval Noah Harari

Reread.

32. The Devil's Picnic: Around The World In Pursuit Of Forbidden Fruit - Taras Grescoe

Reread.

33. The (Big) Year That Flew By - Arjan Dwarshuis

34. Better Living Through Birding - Christian Cooper

35. The Deadly Rise Of Anti-Science: A Scientist's Warning - Peter J. Hotez

36. The Shadow Of The Sun - Ryszard Kapuscinski

37. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

38. A Wing And A Prayer: The Race To Save Our Vanishing Birds - Anders Gyllenhaal

39. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

Reread with pleasure.

wow thx this is cool

40. The Road To Little Dribbling: Adventures Of An American In Britain - Bill Bryson

41. One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn