The books I read in 2017
In addition to the usual science/technology reads, 2016’s serial-killer obsession carried forward into 2017, though I think at this point I’ve read all of the best studies/biographies, and so it may be time to put that topic to bed for a while.
In 2017 I also got sucked back into the JFK assassination and couldn’t read enough about Hitler and the rise and fall of Nazism.
(For those curious, the “master” list of read books is now fully current.)
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- The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman
- 1924: The Year That Made Hitler by Peter Ranges
- Hitler: A Biography by Ian Kershaw
- Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler
- The Michigan Murders: The True story of the Ypsilanti Ripper’s reign of terror by Edward Keyes
- A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon
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- The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination by Lamar Waldron
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
- Oxygen: The molecule that made the world by Nick Lane
- The Evolution of Money by David Orrel
- DEVIL IN THE DARKNESS: The True Story of Serial Killer Israel Keyes by J.T. Hunter
- Depraved: The Shocking True Story of America’s First Serial Killer by Harold Schecter
- Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein
- Monster by Steven Jackson
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- JFK: An American Coup D’etat: The Truth Behind the Kennedy Assassination by Colonel John Hughes-Wilson
- Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK by Gerald Posner
- Hangman: Life and Crimes of Serial Killer & Police Officer Gerard Schaefer by Michael Newton
- Jeffrey Dahmer: A Terrifying True Story of Rape, Murder & Cannibalism by Jack Rosewood
- Reichstag Fire: The Case Against the Nazi Conspiracy by Sven Kellerhoff
- Coral Castle: The Mystery of Ed Leedskalnin and His American Stonehenge by Jack Heffron
- Fleshing Out Skull & Bones: Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society by Kris Millegan
- The Roswell UFO Conspiracy: Exposing A Shocking And Sinister Secret by Nick Redfern
- H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil by Adam Selzer
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- The Basement: True Story of Serial Killer Gary Heidnik by RJ Parker
- Jeffrey Dahmer by Margaret Simpson