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Beartown.  Fredrik Backman (trans. by Neil Smith).  So grim and brutal that I could not wait to be finished reading it.  Probably good reading for any man.

A Woman of No Importance:  The Untold Story of the American Spy [Virginia Hall] Who Helped Win World War II.  And, had her advice been followed, US military and CIA behavior in Vietnam would have been very different.  I speculate that the outcome would have been as well.

The Orphan-Master's Son:  A Novel.  Adam Johnson.  Grim book, but worthy of its 2012 Pulitzer.

Anointed with Oil:  How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America.  Darren Dochuk (of Canadian origin, but he does know well whereof he speaks.

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