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David's Books by Status

438 Books

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The Sense of an Ending
A Conspiracy of Faith
Endurance
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
Alchemised

David's Reading Goals

Goal

11/40 books
27%

2026 Reading Goal

Read 40 books by . They're 6 books behind schedule.

David's Pinned Lists

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The Orwell Prizes: Political Fiction 2025 Finalists

The Orwell Prizes aim to encourage good writing and thinking about politics. The winning entries should strive to meet Orwell’s own ambition ‘to make political writing into an art’. They should be of equal excellence in style and content – the writing must be both political and artful.

Parallel Lines
The Harrow
There are Rivers in the Sky
Dream Count
Heart, Be at Peace
Universality: A Novel
Accidental Immigrants
Precipice

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8 books

The Orwell Prizes: Political Writing 2025 Finalists

The Orwell Prizes aim to encourage good writing and thinking about politics. The winning entries should strive to meet Orwell’s own ambition ‘to make political writing into an art’. They should be of equal excellence in style and content – the writing must be both political and artful.

At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China
Autocracy, Inc.
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence
Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary
The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege
The Baton and the Cross: Russia's Church from Pagans to Putin
The Coming Storm: A Journey into the Heart of the Conspiracy Machine
The World of the Cold War: 1945-1991