The Last 10 Books (I added to my Wish List) - September 2026 

Another month, another stack of books added to my Wish List. This month its mostly political (in part at least prompted by Stephen over @ Reading Freely plus a recent politics book I was impressed with) and technological with SO much talk these days about the dangers of AI and surveillance. When my musing goes existential my instinct is to look for (more) books. So.... 

The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter 

Hail to the Chief: The Making and Unmaking of American Presidents by Robert Dallek 

All the Presidents’ Wars: Twenty-Five Years of America’s War on Terror by Peter Bergen 

When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present by Nick Bryant 

Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs by Buddy Levy 

Age of Security: The Rise of a Global Obsession by Ruben Andersson 

The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore 

End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor 

Rivals in the Storm: How Lloyd George Seized Power, Won the War and Lost his Government by Damian Collins 

The Cancelled Prime Minister: The Extraordinary Rise and Tragic Fall of Ramsay MacDonald by Walter Reid 

Lots of easy/casual reading as usual! Politics might even start to edge out History as my main 'go to' subject. Maybe I can compromise by reading political history... [muses]