Well, for the first time in awhile, this list of books I’ve read represents (I think) a calendar year. I can’t tell whether I should be proud of how much I read without having to make an effort… or embarrassed by how much I don’t get out! Either way, I think I set a personal record for reading books written by people I know, and we can all agree that’s pretty nifty.
In the order I read them:
- What I Think Happened: An Underresearched History of the Western World, Evany Rosen
- The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, Steven Pinker
- Tenth of December, George Saunders
- Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002), David Sedaris
- The Library at Mount Char, Scott Hawkins
- We Are Never Meeting In Real Life, Samantha Irby
- The Unmaking of the President 2016: How FBI Director James Comey Cost Hillary Clinton the Presidency, Lanny J. Davis
- I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better, Monica Heisey
- The Last Black Unicorn, Tiffany Haddish
- From Animal House to Our House: A Love Story, Ron Tanner
- Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
- SPARKS, Ian Boothby & Nina Matsumoto
- Boys Among Men: How the Prep-to-Pro Generation Redefined the NBA and Sparked a Basketball Revolution, Jonathan Abrams
- Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer, Barbara Ehrenreich
- I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, Michelle McNamara
- Failure Is An Option: An Attempted Memoir, H. Jon Benjamin
- Like Brothers, Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass
- How to Archer: The Ultimate Guide to Espionage and Style and Women and Also Cocktails Ever Written, Sterling Archer*
- Land Mammals and Sea Creatures, Jen Neale
- Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City, Tanya Talaga
- All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire, Jonathan Abrams
- Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, Kory Stamper
- Just the Funny Parts … And a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking into the Hollywood Boys’ Club, Nell Scovell
- The Men Who Stare at Goats, Jon Ronson
- How to Fall in Love With Anyone, Mandy Len Catron
- The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World, Steven Johnson
- Hits & Misses, Simon Rich
- Sweet Affliction, Anna Leventhal
- A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age, Daniel J. Levitin
- Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture, Ken Jennings
- Property Values, Charles Demers
- Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most, Steven Johnson
- The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy, Paul Myers
- The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis
- I’ll Be There For You: The One about Friends, Kelsey Miller
- How To Be Alone (If You Want To, and Even If You Don’t), Lane Moore
- The Library Book, Susan Orlean
- A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
- All the Answers, Michael Kupperman
- Moon of the Crusted Snow, Waubgeshig Rice
Boy, when I finally get around to making a Goodreads page, it’s going to be a lot of work, and my reviews will be quite arbitrary! But hey, it’s nice to have a record of all this wonderful reading. Read on, my invisible book club!