Category: 52 Books

William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience meets a sort-of AA for people with “personalities incompatible with life” – a detailed character study.

Semi-academic treatise on man’s relationship with alpha predators: lions, tigers, bears, crocodiles.

Violent hard-boiled P.I. Fiction, set in New Orleans; this one’s about Nazi sadists.

Catholic priest, Alaska, Shamen, WWII, Balloons

Holocaust survivor’s tale, as graphic novel, by son

Improbable hack from the writer of Jurassic Park, etc.