anybody need a book?

one of the great benefits of retirement is the luxury of purty much unlimited reading, although sometimes i'm afraid i'll wind up like the colyer brothers --- i updated my reading list from 2018 --- in no particular order, but the ones in boldface are highly recommended --- best in show is memoirs of hadrian ----

1. Scott Weidensaul, Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds (1999)
2. Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian (1954) 
3. Jonathan Barden, A History of Ulster (1999)
4. Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk (2018)
5. Steve Inskeep, Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab (2015)
6. Craig Childs, Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession (2015)
7. Marc Morris, A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain (2016)
8. Peter Irons, A People's History of the Supreme Court (1999)
9. Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Explain Everything About the World       (2015)
10. Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House (2018)
11. Ulysses S Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant (1885) 
12. Alistair Moffat, Bannockburn: The Battle for a Nation (2014)
13. Ziaddin Sardar, Mecca, The Sacred City (2014) 
14. Michiko Kakutani, The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump (2018)
15. Jean Manco, Ancestral Journeys: . . . . from the First Venturers to the Vikings (2015)
16. Craig Childs, Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Future of the Earth (2012)
17. Craig Childs, Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America (2018)
18. Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: .... the New Science of Psychedelics .... (2018)
19. Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World      (2018) 
20. Douglas Preston, Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest in Pursuit of Coronado (1992)
21. L. A. Vocelle, Revered and Reviled: A Complete History of the Domestic Cat (2016)
22. Caleb Everett, Numbers and the Making of Us (2017)
23. David M. Gwynn, The Goths: Lost Civilizations (2018)
24. Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin, An American Life (2004)
25. Candice Millard, The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (2006)
26. Walter Isaacson, Einstein (2007)
27. Jonathan Kandell, La Capital: The Biography of Mexico City (1990)
28. Walter Isaacson, Leonardo da Vinci (2017)
29. Marvin T Smith, Coosa: The Rise and Fall of a Southeastern Mississippian Chiefdom (2000)
30. Bettany Hughes, Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities (2017)
31. Jonathan Conlin, Tales of Two Cities: Paris, London and the Birth of the Modern City (2013)