Books and Media

John Walker's Reading List New additions to and comments about John Walker’s Reading List at Fourmilab. New postings to that list, which began in January 2001, are mirrored here.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Books and Media category Books and Media	0	352	6 October 2021
This Week’s Book Review - The Greatest Scientific Gamble Books and Media history , book-review , world-war-ii , nuclear-weapons , 20th-century-history	0	2	15 March 2026
Half Broke Books and Media horses , convicts	4	30	15 March 2026
This Week’s Book Review - Lost Books and Media book-review , aviation , amelia-erhart , conspiracy-theorie , 20th-century-history	6	30	9 March 2026
The Falklands Play Books and Media falklands-conflict , margaret-thatcher , bbc	4	39	8 March 2026
King of Dogs: Life is the training ground for death Books and Media	34	953	4 March 2026
This Week’s Book Review - The Redline Heist Books and Media science-fiction , book-review , baen-books , auto-racing , michael-mersault	0	16	1 March 2026
This Week’s Book Review - Texan in Blue Books and Media book-review , texas , biography , american-civil-war , history-texas	3	26	24 February 2026
Relativity -- The Path Not Taken Books and Media einstein , general-relativity	40	1007	15 February 2026
This Week’s Book Review - The Boundless Deep Books and Media book-review , biography , tennyson , english-literature , victorian-england	0	12	15 February 2026
This Week’s Book Review - The Man Who Stopped the Sultan Books and Media military-history , book-review , military-history-occupied-france , siege-of-rhodes , gabriele-tadino	0	19	8 February 2026
This Week’s Book Review - Crash Landing Books and Media science-fiction , book-review , boys-adventure , raconteur-press , christopher-g-nuttall	0	19	1 February 2026
This Week’s Book Review - Twelve Months Books and Media book-review , fantasy , urban-fantasy , harry-dresden , jim-butcher	0	19	25 January 2026
This Week’s Book Review - 99 Ways to Die Books and Media book-review , disease , medicine , death , accidents	0	14	18 January 2026
2000 Mules Books and Media voter-fraud , dinesh-dsouza	10	403	14 January 2026
This Week’s Book Review - The Old Alcalde Books and Media history-texas , biography , book-review , legal-history	0	18	11 January 2026
This Week’s Book Review - Gold Dust Books and Media science-fiction , baen-books , hard-science-fiction , book-review , catherine-asaro	0	13	4 January 2026
This Week’s Book Review - The Relentless War on Masculinity Books and Media culture , book-review , society , modern-relations , societ	10	72	2 January 2026
A Book Worth Reading Books and Media technology , politics , china , usa	17	180	1 January 2026
2025 Reading Books and Media	1	26	31 December 2025
This Week’s Book Review - The Rise of Houston as a Global City Books and Media history-texas , texas , book-review , houston	0	17	21 December 2025
The Brightest Star in the Sky Books and Media musings , music	17	67	15 December 2025
This Week’s Book Review - The Captains Dinner Books and Media law , maritime-history , military-history , book-review , legal-history	0	23	14 December 2025
This Week’s Book Review - Accidental Pirates Books and Media fantasy , book-review , boys-adventure , raconteur-press , pirates-and-dragons	0	24	7 December 2025
The Brian Williams Memorial Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect Reading Room Books and Media gell-mann-amnesia	78	2733	5 December 2025
This Week’s Book Review - Earth Dragon Run Books and Media fiction , book-review , novel	0	19	30 November 2025
A Worthwhile Mystery Movie Books and Media crime , mystery	0	22	29 November 2025
This Week’s Book Review - Midnight Flyboys Books and Media world-war-ii , book-review , military-history-occupied-france	0	26	23 November 2025
This Week’s Book Review - Diogenes Books and Media ancient-greece , philosophy , biography , book-review , diogenes	0	25	16 November 2025
This Week’s Book Review - Ringer Books and Media science-fiction , baen-books , hard-science-fiction , book-review , joelle-presby	0	28	9 November 2025