There's lots of
reading time while traveling as you're getting from one place to another
(except when cycling, of course). No requirement to navigate or drive during
the overland trips. The free time allows me to fill my knowledge gaps.
For example, I know very little about the civil war in Yugoslavia or the
Vietnam War, therefore, I downloaded a few books on the subjects. With almost
two years of traveling planned, I hope I'll be able to close some of these
personal knowledge gaps.
Economics
“The Economic
History of Latin America Since Independence” Victor Bulmer-Thomas
“The Great Crash
1929” John Kenneth Galbraith
“The Next
America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generation” Pew Research and
Paul Taylor
Politics
“White
Trash: The 400-year Untold History of Class in America” Nancy Isenberg
“Fractured:
Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide” Joy-Ann Reid
“Listen Liberal:
Or, Whatever Happen to the Party of the People” Thomas Frank
“Hillbilly
Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” J.D. Vance
“Stranger in Their Own Land: Anger and
Mourning on the American Right” Arlie Russell Hochschild
“Black
Flags: The Rise of ISIS” Joby
Warrick
African-American
“The
Mis-Education of the Negro” Carter Godwin Woodson
“Native Sons”
Richard Wright
“The
Underground Railroad” by Colson
Whitehead
“No god, but
God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam” Reza Asian
“Souls: A
Genealogical Collection” Gwendolyn J. Hatcher
Vietnam War
“Dispatches”
Michael Herr
“The
Things They Carried” Tim O’Brien
Former Yugoslavia
“The Problem
from Hell: America and
the Age of Genocide” Samantha Powers
“The Bosnia
List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return” Kenan
Trebincevic and Susan Shapiro
“Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of
War” Peter Maass – Hardcopy
Art
“Jackson Pollack: An American Saga” Gregory Smith
Steven Naifeh
“Van Gogh: The Life” Gregory Smith Steven Naifeh
“Diane Arbus: A Biography” Patricia Bosworth
“The Magic of
Angel Acosta Leon” Rosa A Chediak
Entertainment
“The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” by Junot
Díaz
“Behind the
Beautiful Forever: Life, death and hope in a Mumbai Undercity” Katherine Boo
“Flash Boys: A
Wall Street Revolt” Michael Lewis
“Picture
Perfect” Kordale Lewis
“Let’s Explore
Diabetes with Owls” David Sedaris
Sailing
“Sailing for
Dummies” Peter Isler and JJ Isler
“Buy, Outfit,
and Sail” Cap’n Fatty Goolander
Biographies
“American
Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House” Jon Meacham
“Hitler:
Ascent 1889 - 1939” by Volker Ullrich
Travel
“Breaking
Borders: Travels in Pursuit of an Impossible Record” James Asquith
“1000 Places to
See Before You Die” Patricia Schultze
“Funny Boy” by Shyam Selvaduri
“Mastering the
Art of French Eating: From Paris to Farmhouse” Ann Mah
“The
Essential Guide to Being Polish” Anna Spysz and Marta Turek
Dating
“The Sex Myth:
The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality” Rachel Hills
“Date-onomics: How
Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game” Jon Birger
“Modern Romance”
Eric Klinenberg and Aziz Ansari
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