Books I Read in the First Quarter of 2021

My goal was to read to read 60 books in 2021.  Three months in and I have read 24 books.  Is this the year that I break 100 books?  We shall see.  Below is what I have completed in the first quarter of the year:

• Troubled Water: What’s Wrong with What We Drink by Seth M. Siegel
• Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America by Christopher Leonard
• With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene Sledge
• The Force: The Legendary Special Ops Unit and WWII’s Mission Impossible by Saul David
• Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against a Fascist State in Iraq and the Levant, 1941 by John Broich
• A Better Planet: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future edited by Daniel C. Esty
• The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina
• The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What’s Possible in the Age of Warming by Eric Holthaus
• The Falcon and the Snowman by Robert Lindsey
• Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America’s First Female Terrorist Group by William Rosenau
• Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America by Michael Hiltzik
• Severance: A Novel by Ling Ma
• Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy by Talia Lavin
• Hawk: A Novel by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet
• Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt’s American Wilderness by David Gessner
• A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan
• The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
• The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
• Before They are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie
• Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie
• Sensation Machines: A Novel by Adam Wilson
• Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness by Amy Irvine
• The Golden Thread: The Cold War and the Mysterious Death of Dag Hammarskjöld by Ravi Somaiya
• American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West by Betsy Gaines Quammen

Note: I borrowed most of these books from one of several local libraries.  If you click on a link and buy a books from Powell’s I receive nothing.  I am just linking to an independent online bookseller because I am down on Amazon.