Today’s TTT is about DNF’s, but I don’t DNF that often and am going to share the last ten books I ordered a Kindle preview for, instead. But first, the Tuesday tease!
“Please remove your weapon. Civilized people don’t eat breakfast wearing guns.”
COLD WIND, CJ Box
However, during the visit she began to suspect that her husband’s friendship with Augusta went beyond the fraternal, especially after he lay on a sofa and asked them both to take turns kissing him. The marriage started to unravel. THE INNOVATORS, Walter Isaacson.

Cavalry: A Global History, Jeremy Black
India’s War: World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia, Srinath Raghavan
Semiosis, Sue Burke. I….don’t even remember what inspired this one. It’s a SF title about humans settling on another planet and having to contend with plant intelligence. Possibly linked to that book on plant intelligence I read a few weeks back.
A Burning: A Novel. Megha Majumdar. Not sure where this one came from. A novel about social stratification and political violence in India.
Growth of the Soil, Knut Hamsun. I forget what inspired this one, too, but Wikipedia says it’s about a man repulsed by modernity and drawn toward primitivism, so I’d lay odds it was inspired by Kingsnorth.
Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression, Alan Brinkey.
The Impossible Community: Realizing Communitarian Anarchism, John P. Clark
We Who Wrestle with God, Jordan Peterson
The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich. A novel about a man who inspired native Americans to resist “Indian termination policies of the 1940s-1960s”.
Orthodox Worship: A Living Continuity with the Synagogue, the Temple, and the Early Church. Benjamin Williams
You mean Kingsnorth was inspired by Hamsun (1859-1952).
Definitely THE major theme in Hamsun. I recently reviewed Pan: https://wordsandpeace.com/2024/11/08/book-review-for-norwayinnovember-pan-by-knut-hamsun/
Orthodox Worship is very good at showing the roots of Judaism in Christian orthodoxy.
I also rarely DNF, so I went with the top 5 meme today:
https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/03/25/top-five-books-with-royalty-in-the-title/
I meant rather that my finding Hamsun would’ve been inspired by Kingsnorth, or the mood I was in was inspired by him. 🙂
Oh lol, I understood it literally
It’s also very possible I saw that review and sent for the preview!
Semiosis was excellent, and I think you’d really like it. Thanks for stopping by earlier.
I hope you enjoy reading all of these when you get the chance.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!https://readbakecreate.com/books-i-dnfed-in-2024/
Ooh I have a lot of books on American Cavalry but not so much other countries, that sounds interesting!
A preview is a great way to sense the flavor of a book. I often DNF books before I ever buy/borrow them.