Last year, I managed almost one book a week—but this year was upended by a baby arriving four months in. Still, I got through 42 books and wanted to share them along with my bolded favorites.
If you want to know more about what I thought, I post my impressions/reviews over on Goodreads.
- Dispatches by Michael Herr
- Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures by Mark Fisher
- The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning by Maggie Nelson
- The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made by Walter Isaacson & Evan Thomas
- China in Ten Words by Yu Hua
- The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts & Hank Klibanoff
- James Baldwin: A Biography by David Leeming
- The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump by Corey Robin
- The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D. Carter
- All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
- This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy by Matthew Karp
- Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick
- The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison
- A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies by Martin J. Sherwin
- Philosophy and Social Hope by Richard Rorty
- Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder
- Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson
- Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet by Katie Hafner & Matthew Lyon