I’ve gotten a lot of reading done this year.
Just finished “Bluebird Bluebird”. Very taut murder mystery - Black Texas Ranger investigating two murders in small town in East Texas where the Aryan Brotherhood is quite active and there are long-hidden secrets, all of which makes things very very dicey. I couldn’t put it down.
“American War” was very dark reading. I stopped reading a few times because it was so dark, but then I’d get curious about the characters and their world (the US about 150 years in the future during the Second American Civil War) and kept going back to it.
“Being Mortal” was an excellent overview of the process of aging and death in the US, how those experiences have become so medicalized, and ideas on how those experiences can be improved.
I liked “Lincoln in the Bardo” but I think it’s one of those book you either love or hate.
Loved “Code Girls” - the forgotten story of the hundreds of women recruited and trained to break German and Japanese codes during WWII.
