Schwabsters
You are what you read
Completed
When Breath becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. Biography. Book. 2023.
The Russian Origins of the First World War by Sean McMeekin. History. Book. 2022.
The Barbarian Empires of the Steppes by Kenneth Harl. History. Audio. 2023/2024
The World of Byzantium by Kenneth Harl. History. Audio. 2023
Sailing from Byzantium by Colin Wells. History. Audio (9 h, 100%). 2023
Istanbul by Bettany Hughes. History. Audio (25 h, 100%). 2023
God's Shadow by Alan Mikhail. History. Audio (16 h, 100%). 2023
The Ottoman Empire by Kenneth Harl. History. Audio. 2023
The Fall of the Ottomans by Eugene Rogan. History. Audio (17 h, 100%). 2023
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin. Historic Fiction. Audio (11 h, 100%). 2023
Birds without Wings by Louis de Bernières. Historic Fiction. Book. 2023
The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine by Michael Scott. History. Audio. 2023
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson. Biography. Audio. 2023
The Great Siege by Ernie Bradford. History. Audio (7 h, 100%) . 2023
The Man who Knew by Sebastian Mallaby. Biography. Audio (29 h, 100%). 2023
2666 by Roberto Bolaño. Audio (39 h, 100%). 2022
The Gunslinger by Stephen King. Audio (7 h, 100%). 2022
Partially completed
The World by Simon Sebag. Audio. 2023/2024
Absolute Monarchs by John Julius Norwich. Book. 2023/2024
Four Princes by John Julius Norwich. History. Audio (8 h, 21%). 2023
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham. Book. 2023/2024
What Would the Great Economists do? by Linda Yueh. Audio (14 h, 33%). 2023
Two Years before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana. Audio. 2023
Here I am by by Jonathan Safran Foer. Audio (17 h, 26%). 2023
Kissinger by Walter Isaacson. Biography. Audio (35 h, 34%). 2023
Listened to the audiobook with my son J. as we drove across the US.
The book was too detailed. I did not continue once we reached home.
There is only so much Kissinger one needs in one's life.
The Body by Bill Bryson. Sciences. Audio (14 h, 39%). 2023.
Sampled and rejected
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel. Audio. 2023
Fool Me Once by Kelly Richmond. Audio. 2023
Beyond the Grave by Gerald M. Condon. Book. 2023
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk. Fiction. Audio. 2023
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake. Fiction. Audio. 2022