Another rough year of reading; entering my second year of being a stay-at-home dad, and the kid gets ever more mobile and up to trouble. I could tell you more than you ever want to know about Sesame Street characters and tropes, but will limit myself to sharing the 36 books I finished this year, along with my bolded favorites.
If you want to know more about what I thought, I post my impressions/reviews over on Goodreads.
- High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies by Eric Davis
- The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut
- The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand
- Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-Fein
- Suddenly, a Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret
- Songs of a Dead Dreamer & Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti
- The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam by James William Gibson
- Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
- Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive James
- The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
- Fault Lines: A History of the United States since 1974 by Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer
- White Noise by Don DeLillo
- In the Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm
- The Age of Nixon: A Study in Cultural Power by Carl Freedman
- Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
- The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next by Lee Smolin
- I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole by Elias Canetti
- The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer