Okay, it actually took me substantially longer than a year. But it turns out I’ve read 52 books since last I posted my reading list, so this seemed like a good theme. Read one of these books a week, and a year from now, we’ll have SO MUCH to talk about! (If nothing else, we can talk about my eclectic tastes.) This is my reading list, in the order I read them:
- Sex, Drugs & Gefilte Fish: The Heeb Storytelling Collection, Edited by Shana Liebman
- The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy, by Bill Simmons
- The Second City Unscripted: Revolution and Revelation at the World-Famous Comedy Theater (oral history), by Mike Thomas
- Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Undermined America, by Barbara Ehrenreich
- Too Fat To Fish, by Artie Lange
- Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies
- Fraud, by David Rakoff
- The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee, by Sarah Silverman
- And the Dead Shall Rise, Steve Oney
- Bad Monkeys, by Matt Ruff
- The Murder of Little Mary Phagan, by Mary Phagan
- Flow the Tears, the Policeman Said, by Philip K. Dick
- A Complicated Kindness, by Miriam Toews
- I Know I Am, But What Are You?, by Samantha Bee
- Official Book Club Selection, by Kathy Griffin
- The Box: An Oral History of Television 1920-1961, by Jeff Kisseloff
- The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett
- Elliot Allagash, by Simon Rich
- The Stuff of Thought, by Steven Pinker
- Girl, Interrupted, by Susanna Kaysen
- Bossypants, by Tina Fey
- Your Call is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit, by Laura Penny
- Unfamiliar Fishes, by Sarah Vowell
- I Found This Funny: My Favorite Pieces of Humor and Some That May Not Be Funny At All, Edited by Judd Apatow
- The Power of Ignorance: 14 Steps to Using Your Ignorance, by Vaguen (with Chris Gibbs and TJ Dawe)
- The View from Castle Rock, by Alice Munro
- Superstud (Or How I Became a 24-Year-Old Virgin), by Paul Feig
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- And Here’s the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft, by Mike Sacks
- Game Change, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
- Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, by Chuck Klosterman
- Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won, by Tobias J. Moskowitz and L. Jon Wertheim
- After Claude, by Iris Owens
- Disaster Preparedness, by Heather Havrilesky
- A Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin
- Fresh at Twenty: The Oral History of Mint Records, by Kaitlin Fontana
- A Clash of Kings, by George R.R. Martin
- Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream, by Barbara Ehrenreich
- Disquiet, Please: More Humor Writing from the New Yorker, Edited by David Remnick and Henry Finder
- The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life), by Chris Hardwick
- Paying for It: a comic-strip memoir about being a john, by Chester Brown
- Picnicface’s Canada, by Picnicface
- A Storm of Swords, by George R.R. Martin
- Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, by Patton Oswalt
- A Feast for Crows, by George R.R. Martin
- I Don’t Care About Your Band, by Julie Klausner
- A Dance with Dragons, by George R.R. Martin
- Moneyball, by Michael Lewis
- The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture, by Nathan Rabin
- Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns), by Mindy Kaling
- We’re With Nobody: Two Insiders Reveal the Dark Side of American Politics, by Alan Huffman and Michael Rejebian
- Cool, Calm & Contentious, by Merrill Markoe
Thus proving that in many significant ways, I’m a better person than Oprah. See you in a year. Your time starts…now.