A curator’s work is never done! I’m still compiling my list of books I read pre-blog (not all of them, but a selection of the ones that matter), but since I’ve recently posted, I thought I should probably do the no-brainer task of adding the books I’ve read since the last time I added the books I’ve read! (Speaking of no-brainers, this is also proof I’ve read more books in the last couple years than the current POTUS has in his lifetime!) Enjoy!
- Lizz Free or Die, Lizz Winstead
- Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love, Thomas Maier
- Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today’s Top Comedy Writers, Mike Sacks
- Hollywood Said NO!: Orphaned Film Scripts, Bastard Scenes, and Abandoned Darlings from the Creators of Mr. Show, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, with Brian Posehn
- The Gun Seller, Hugh Laurie
- UNorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, Deborah Feldman
- Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times of John Belushi, Bob Woodward
- Science…for HER!, Megan Amram
- Yes Please, Amy Poehler
- Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, Stephen Greenblatt
- So, Anyway…, John Cleese
- Spoiled Brats, Simon Rich
- So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson
- I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend, Martin Short
- 11/22/63, Stephen King
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief, Lawrence Wright
- Will Not Attend: Lively Stories of Attachment and Isolation, Adam Resnick
- A Load of Hooey, Bob Odenkirk
- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel
- Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy, Judd Apatow
- Show Me A Hero: A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption, Lisa Belkin
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power, Robert A. Caro
- The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, Michael Lewis
- The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, A.J. Jacobs
- Let’s Start a Riot: How a Young Drunk Punk Became a Hollywood Dad, Bruce McCulloch
- Modern Romance, Aziz Ansari (with Eric Klinenberg)
- Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Gregory Maguire
- Why Not Me?, Mindy Kaling
- Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes, Ted Conover
- The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny, Peter McGraw and Joel Warner
- Half Empty, David Rakoff
- Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, Sarah Vowell
- The Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean
- Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker, Kevin Mitnick
- The Wealthy Barber Returns, David Chilton
- Rivethead: Tales From The Assembly Line, Ben Hamper
- The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment, A.J. Jacobs
- Farewell, My Lovely, Raymond Chandler
- The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories, Marina Keegan
- Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama, Alison Bechdel
- The Story of Yiddish: How a Mish-Mosh of Languages Saved the Jews, Neal Karlen
- The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, Amy Schumer
- The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests, Chris Smith
- You’ll Grow Out of It, Jessi Klein
- Thanks for the Money: How to Use My Life Story to Become the Best Joel McHale You Can Be, Joel McHale, Brad Stevens, and Boyd Vico
- Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen, David Sax
- You Blew It!: An Awkward Look at the Many Ways In Which You’ve Already Ruined Your Life, Josh Gondelman and Joe Berkowitz
- Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, Art Spiegelman
- I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President, Josh Lieb
Wow. I actually didn’t know the list was at exactly 50 when I decided now would be a nice time to post. There’s a nice little bit of synergy!
If you’ve read any of these and want to discuss…there’s a good chance I’ve forgotten them thoroughly, because I feel like I’m like that with books. But let’s try anyway! And if you haven’t, get on it!!