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I realized I can't really recommend books to audiences much anymore, because I don't read those types of audience-books as much as I used to.

But still, here are some I probably bought for $0.99 and enjoyed:

Lost Restaurants of Seattle

This Outcast Generation by Taijun Takeda

The Royal Navy Lynx: An Operational History

A Doctor's War by Aidan MacCarthy

Sniping in France by Hesketh-Prichard

The Art of Whittling by Faurot

Moscow Calling by Angus Roxburgh

Feynman's Rainbow by Leonard Mlodinow

Icelandic Folk Tales by Stefansson

If you like any of those topics then you have my random recommendation, and possibly the indulgent vanity of once more having avoided consumer risk, or maybe consumer regret.

These were fun in 2022, in addition to 1) web browsing, which I find is definitely reading, despite all its numbered-pagelessness, and 2) dipping back into lots of classics and favorites, from Blacksad to Darwin to Scaramouche and Tom Sawyer.

(Possibly throwing in a volume on the adventures of Groo, a Weird Tales, a Comics Cavalcade, some TTRPGs, and a Scooby-Doo Team-Up...)



> Lost Restaurants of Seattle

Nice.

For some more local flavor, you might also enjoy Seattle Justice (eg SPD started as a protection racket) and Woodland for the "stone soup" origins of a local institution.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/seattle-justice-the-rise-and-f...

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/woodland-the-story-of-the-anim...




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