DEE WILSON CONSULTING
Book Reviews
Dee Wilson reveals what he considers to be the best reading he encountered in 2023, both fiction and non-fiction
LOOKING BACK: Best reads of 2022 | Best reads of 2021
BOOK REVIEWS (listed largely in the order read and reviewed by Dee Wilson)
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
Why Do Foster Care Placements Disrupt? An Investigation of Reasons for Placement Change in Foster Care by Sigrid James
Trauma and Recovery By Judith Herman
Take Me Home: Protecting America’s Vulnerable Children and Families by Jill Duerr Berrick
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael Sandel, Alan Lane
Pandora's Box: A History of the First World War (Part 1) by John Leonard
Pandora's Box: A History of the First World War (Part 2)
The Power Broker by Robert Caro
The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence by Laurence Ralph
iGen: Why Today's Super-connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less happy - and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood by Jean Twenge
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite by Daniel Markovits
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where We Go From Here by Hope Jahren
The Story of More (Part 2)
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner By Daniel Ellsberg
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of The Cold War by Fred Kaplan
Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs by Michael Osterholm and Mark Olshaker
Deaths of Despair By Anne Case and Angus Denton
The Sleeping Beauties And Other Stories of Mystery Illness by Suzanne O'Sullivan
What's Eating the Universe?; and Other Cosmic Questions by Paul Davies
The Upswing by Robert Putnam
White Too Long; The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones
Let Them Eat Tweets: How The Right Rules In An Age of Extreme Inequality by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson
Land of Inopportunity by Save the Children Foundation
Four books reviewed
JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President by Thurston Clarke
The Uninhabitable Earth by Davis Wallace-Wells
Last Witnesses: An Oral History of World War II Svetlana Alexievich
Half Broke by Ginger Gaffney
Fuzz by Mary Roach
The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix, by Howard Markel
Nightbitch by Rachael Yoder
The Ice at the End of The World by Jon Gertner
Out of our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness by Alva Noe
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
The Growing Influence of State Governments on Population Health in the United States by Steven Woolf
The Fourth Child by Jessica Winter and The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette to the Cuban Missile Crisis by Martin Sherwin
A list of the top novels/short stories over two decades by Dee Wilson
The Oracle of Night: The History and Science of Dreams by Sidarta Riberio
The Lonely Century by Noreena Hertz
The Lonely Century by Noreena Hertz (new material)
Notable reviews by Helen Epstein
Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions by Batja Mesquita
The Candy House by Jennifer Egen
Citizen Security in Latin America: Facts and Figures by Robert Muggah and Katherine Aguirre Tobon
Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, The Struggle for Texas by Sam Haynes
Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape our World by Gala Vince
Eight Books: A Deep Dive into the Big Bang
What We Owe Our Fellow Animals by Martha Nussbaum
Fan letter to J. Robert Lennon by Dee Wilson
SanFransicko by Michael Shellenberger
Homelessness is a Housing Problem by Gregg Colburn and Clayton Aldern
The Strange Order of Things by Antonio Damasio
The Angel or Rome and Other Stories by Jess Walter
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Senses by Jackie Higgins
Every Day is Mother's Day by Hilary Mantel
On Writing and Failure by Stephen Marche
The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer
Citizen Security in Latin America: Facts and Figures by Robert Muggah and Katherine Aguirre Tobon
How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World by Christopher Clark
An Homage to Joyce Carol Oates from The New Yorker
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes who Shaped History by Kenneth Harl
Investigating Families by Kelley Fong