Tuesday Teaser
“If you own the corner store, you must know everyone who lives along this
road.”
“Everyone who smokes cigarettes, buys scratch tickets, and drinks beer.”
He had a scratchy laugh. “In other words, yeah. I know everyone who lives
along this road.” KNIFE CREEK, Paul Doiron
Today’s TTT is “Books on Our Fall Reading List”. I’m not great with this kind of list because I don’t plan my reading that way, but let’s see what I can muster up. First, though, I want to look back at the summer reading list.
Books listed in my Summer TBR that I actually read:
Chernobyl’s Wild Kingdom
War, Bob Woodward
Content, Cory Doctorow
The House Divided
Books I didn’t read:
One of Us: Nixon and the American Dream. I spilled coffee on this..
Back of Beyond, CJ Box.
Star Trek Strange New Worlds: Toward the Light
The British are Coming
The Genetic Book of the Dead
Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States
Eh, hit .400 again.
Top Ten Books on my Alleged TBR
So, moving on to this next season’s poor predictions!
(1) Against the Machine:On the Unmaking of Humanity, Paul Kingsnorth. This was just released today, and I’m looking forward to diving in to what Paul has to say about the modern matrix we’re imprisoning ourselves in. It’s already earned laud from Nicholas Carr, Frederica Mathews-Green, and Mary Harrington. (And by “released today”, I mean it was supposed to have, but this post has been scheduled for a few days and I’ve had the book preordered for months.)
(2) Tyranny, Inc. Sohrab Amari — on corporate power.
(3) Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, Judith Herrin. I’ve read books on the Eastern Empire before, of course, but it’s always good to get a refresher.
(4) Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar, Tom Holland
(5) Something by Adrian Goldsworthy. I’ve been wanting to try him; perhaps his biography of Caesar, or his history of Rome and Persia.
(6) Something by Charlie Kirk. He wasn’t someone I was familiar with, though I had heard his name: his murder a week or so ago made me more curious about his work.
(7) Life in a Medieval City, Frances and Joseph Gies. Although this is the book that STARTED me with the Gies, I read it pre-blog and have been eying it as of late.
(8) Bones in Water, Bob H. Lee. A game warden novel written by a game warden!
(9) There is No Place for us: Working and Homeless in America. My hold on this came in, so I need to finish the last third or so.
(10) The King over the Water. A history of Jacobitism, why not?
Reading Freely 
Lots of good history there! And I didn’t know “game warden novel” was a thing but after looking it up, I’m intrigued.
CJ Box has written ~ 25 of them, Doiron has a fair few himself, and there’s another author out there. 😀
I look forward to your views on Against the Machine:On the Unmaking of Humanity, by Paul Kingsnorth.
We really have imprisoned ourselves.
It has arrived, and it’s already enticing!
I think I’ve read a book by Goldsworthy, but I didn’t really remember much about it. 🤔 I thought maybe I wasn’t a big fan, but I seem to have given it 4/5 stars! The one I read was Pax Romana.
I’ll take a look at it! Thanks.
You did better than I did with my summer TBR. LOL! I only managed 1 book. Fingers crossed we both do better with our new lists.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!https://readbakecreate.com/autumn-2025-tbr-ten-books-i-hope-to-read/
Oh! Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire caught my eye! I definitely don’t know near enough on the topic.
Julian Norwich & Lars Brownworth have both done good primers!
Thanks for the recs, I’ll look into them 😀 !
I hope you enjoy all these!
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
The lists I make are usually just suggestions to myself, reminders of books I might like to read. I never go back and see how I did on my list because I tend to cross off a lot of the books I thought I wanted to read.
Bones in Water sounds interesting! I hope you’ll love the books on your list 🙂
If you’d like to visit, here’s my TTT: https://thebooklorefairyreads.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/top-ten-tuesday-books-on-my-fall-2025-to-read-list/
1 and 7 sound great!
https://wordsandpeace.com/2025/09/23/top-ten-books-on-my-2025-fall-tbr-list/