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Brent Parkey

513 Reads

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17 books

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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
A Short History of Nearly Everything
In the Distance
Play it as it lays
The Fifties
The Good Father
Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II

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62 books

Kobo

The Old Devils
Caesar: Life of a Colossus
Brighton Rock
Our Man in Havana
The Comanche Empire
10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works
The Fireman

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0 books

Owned

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357 books

Owned Unread

Giant
Destiny and power
Some Luck
Outliers: The Story of Success
But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
Blood on snow
Midnight sun

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19 books

Presidents

Wilson
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
Truman
Theodore Rex
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1)
John Adams

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19 books

Pulitzer Prize Winners

The Sympathizer
The Goldfinch
A Visit from the Goon Squad
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Road
Gilead
Empire Falls

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14 books

Read 2014

Lonesome Dove
A Storm of Swords
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Dance with Dragons
I Never Met a Story I Didn't Like: Mostly True Tall Tales
Churchill

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35 books

Read 2015

The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
The sports gene
FDR
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Bone Clocks
Cities of the Plain
The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy

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25 books

Read 2016

City of Thieves
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Team of teams
American Tabloid
Eisenhower: in War and Peace
The Quiet Game
Turning Angel

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36 books

Read 2017

Napoleon: A Life
The War That Ended Peace: The Road To 1914
Before the Fall
General of the Army
The White Van
Fourth of July Creek
The Third Reich at war

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44 books

Read 2018

The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes
Monster
Savages
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
Paris, 1919
Mystic River
Force of Nature

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51 books

Read 2019

Tribe
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
The Hazards of Good Fortune
Jahre des Jägers

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54 books

Read 2020

Empire of the Summer Moon
Inland
The Last Lion
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
George Marshall
Cockroaches
Terms of Endearment

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52 books

Read 2021

The Honourable Schoolboy
Alright, Alright, Alright
Smiley's People
The Executioner's Song
The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65
Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam

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52 books

Read 2022

Crossroads
An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History
Slow Horses
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Dead Lions
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

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7 books

Read 2023

The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
Mason & Dixon
Huế 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
The Time It Never Rained
In the Distance
G-Man