This is an index of my notes on books I tried to get through but did not finish (DNF). They’re not all bad books, or books that are all bad, but I had to pull the plug on them for various reasons.

Put another way: as I get older I’ve begun looking at the size of the to-be-read pile and realizing that the numbers don’t add up for reading everything I still want to. So here are some of the titles that got dropped along the way.

The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control by Steven Hassan
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin
Extreme Killers: Tales of the World’s Most Prolific Serial Killers by Michael Newton
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum by Emma Southon
Fools on the Hill by Dana Milbank
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider by Michiko Kakutani
Hell Town: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer on Cape Cod by Casey Sherman
Introducing Postmodernism: A Graphic Guide by Richard Appignanesi and Chris Garratt with Ziauddin Sardar and Patrick Curry
The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus’s Final Days in Jerusalem by Marcus J. Borg and Dominic Crossan
Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar by Steven Murphy and Javier F. Peña
Murder Book: A Graphic Memoir of a True Crime Obsession by Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser
Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth by Elizabeth Williamson
There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America’s Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari
Wild Massive by Scotto Moore