@alvalvano

@alvalvano

Al Valvano

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🚜 Lives on a small farm
💼 Investor, entrepreneur and former tech executive
❤️ Outdoors, cooking, gardening and guitar
📘 Favorite genres: mystery, thriller, fantasy, sci-fi, history & biographies

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Fall City, WA

Al Valvano's Books by Status

68 Books

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Land: A Novel
Theo of Golden
Grave Empire
Apple: The First 50 Years
The Quiet American
The Secret History
The Collaborators

Al Valvano's Reading Goals

Goal

44/100 books
44%

2026 Reading Goal

Read 100 books by . They're 2 books ahead of schedule. 🙌

Al Valvano's Pinned Prompts

Featured Prompt

5,932 books

What are your favorite books of all time?

When you think back on every book you've ever read, what are some of your favorites? These can be from any time of your life – books that resonated with you as a kid, ones that shaped your personal...

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Team
Demon Copperhead
There Is No Antimemetics Division
Open
A Drop of Corruption
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Lonesome Dove

Al Valvano's Most Popular Reviews

The series continue to ripen. Tight plotting and continued character development. The narrator is also gifted in bringing the various personalities to life.

Andrew Ross Sorkin does a great job of bringing key characters to life, and narrating a complex story with style and humanity. It's impossible to not draw parallels to today's climate.

Great story arc, with a well developed and memorable cast of characters. But the ending doesn’t do the rest of the book justice.

Likeable protagonist and good pacing. I feel like only one plot line was actually resolved.

Lovely, wistful, spare, heartbreaking. Astonishing.