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Everywhere An Oink Oink, David Mamet 5+
The Bee Sting, Paul Murray 5
Some People Need Killing, Patricia Evangelista 5
Oath and Honor, Liz Cheney 5++
How to Know a Person, David Brooks 2
Larry McMurtry, Tracy Daugherty 4
That Good Night, Sunita Puri 3
Everything Left to Remember, Steph Jagger 1
Chain-Gang All Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 2
The Last Picture Show, Larry McMurtry 5++
Only Say Good Things, Crystal Hefner 4
The Path to Paradise, Sam Wasson 4
Fierce Ambition, Jennet Conant 5++
Moonshot, Mike Massimo 2
Working, Robert A. Caro 5++
Unmade Movies, The Collection 1
Hits, Flops and Other Illusions, Ed Zwick 5++
Grief Is For People, Sloane Crosley 5
The Red Comet, Heather Clark 5+
What It Is Like To Go To War, Karl Marlantes, 4
City In Ruins, Don Winslow 4
All You Need Is Love, Peter Brown & Steven Gaines 3
The Year of the Locust, Terry Hayes 3
Wolf at the Table, Adam Rapp 5
Table for Two, Amor Towles 5+
Eastbound, Maylis de Kerangal 3
The Lede, Calvin Trillin 5++
Going Infinite, Michael Lewis 5
The Formula, Robinson & Clegg 4
Salman Rushdie, Knife 4
There Is No Ethan, Anna Akbari 4
The Executioner’s Song, Norman Mailer 5++
The Work of Art, Adam Moss 5
Into the Silence, Wade Davis 3
How the Best Did It, Talmage Boston 4
I Don’t Want to Talk About It, Terrance Real 2
James, Percival Everett 4
The Friday Afternoon Club, Griffin Dunne 5++
Caledonian Road, Andrew O’Hagan 2
Challenger, Adam Higginbotham 5+
America Fantastica, Tim O’Brien 4
Long Island Compromise, Taffy Brodesser-Akner 5
Beautiful Days, Zach Williams 4
All the Colors of the Dark, Chris Whitaker 5
The Hypocrite, Jo Hamya 3
Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir 5+
How to Say Babylon, Safiya Sinclair 5+
Burn Book, Kara Swisher 5
The Mango Tree, Annabelle Tometich 1
The Siege, Ben Macintyre 5
Sabbath’s Theater, Philip Roth 5+
An Unfinished Love Story, Doris Kearns Goodwin 5++
Health and Safety, Emily Witt 1
Intermezzo, Sally Rooney 5++
Revenge of the Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell 5+
Shred Sisters, Betsy Lerner 5++
All That Glitters, Orlando Whitfield 3
Within You, Without You, Seth Rogovoy 2
The Drowned, John Banville, 5
The Safekeep, Yael van der Wouden 5+
Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar 5+
Stoner, John Williams 5+++
The Barn, Wright Thompson 1
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy 5
Playground, Richard Powers 4
Carson The Magnificent, Bill Zehme 4
Shadow Divers, Robert Kurson, 5++
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante 5
The Rest is Memory, Lily Tuck 5
Full Reading List (2023)
The Light We Carry, Michele Obama 3
Good Poems for Hard Times, Garrison Keillor 5
Code Name Blue Wren, Jim Popkin 5
Faster Than a Cannonball, Dylan Jones 5
Grace, Cody Keenan 5+
The Books of Jacob, Olga Tokarczuk 4
Making Decisions, Ed Smith 3
The Creative Act, a Way of Being, Rick Rubin 5+
Unscripted, James B. Stewart 4
Lives of the Wives, Carmela Ciuraru 5
Strangers to Ourselves, Rachel Aviv 3
All the Beauty in the World, Patrick Bringley 5
The Big Con, Mariana Mazzucato 1
Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus 2
And There Was Light, Jon Meacham 5+
Sandy Hook, Elizabeth Williamson 5
The Obstacle is the Way, Ryan Holiday 4
Ego is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday 3
The Peking Express, James M. Zimmerman 4
The Best Strangers in the World, Ari Shapiro 5+
The Family Roe, Joshua Prager 5+
The Delphi Murders, Nic Edwards 3
The Consequences, Manuel Munoz 4
Small Mercies, Dennis Lehane 5
Ted Kennedy, A Life, John A. Farrell 5
When Genius Failed, Roger Lowenstein 5
The Nineties, Chuck Klostermam 3
Tinkers, Paul Harding 5
Fatherland, Burkhard Bilger 4
Lucy by the Sea, Elizabeth Strout 5++
Standing Heavy, Gauz 2
Hello Beautiful, Ann Napolitano 4
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs, Kerry Howley 3
Case Study, Graeme Macrae Burnet 5+
Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck 5+
Getting Lost, Annie Ernaux, 4
Birnam Wood, Eleanor Catton 5
Master Slave Husband Wife, Ilyon Woo 3
Blue Skies, T.C. Boyle 5
The Chinese Groove, Kathryn Ma 5+
A Fever in the Heartland, Timothy Egan 5
The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy 4
Surviving to Drive, Guenther Steiner 5+
You Don’t Know Us Negroes, Zora Neale Hurston 4
The Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese 5+
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride 5+
The Book of Goose, Yiyun Li 5++
The Art Thief, Michael Finkel 5+
Be Mine, Richard Ford 5+
The Wager, David Gramm 5+
Yellowface, RF Kuang 5+
Somebody’s Fool, Richard Russo 4
The Vaster Wilds, Lauren Groff 5+
Love and Let Die, John Higgs 4
Whalefall, Daniel Kraus 3
Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson, 5++
The Times, Adam Nagourney, 5+
Big Mama Speaks, Sabrina N’Diaye 4
The Masters, Jann Wenner 3
The In-Between, Hadley Vlahos, 4
The In-Between, Hadley Vlahos 3
The Fraud, Zadie Smith 1
George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle, Philip Norman 3
The Escape Artist, Jonathan Freedland 5++
The Best Minds, Jonathan Rosen 5
In The Pines, Grace Elizabeth Hale 3
King, Jonathan Eig 5++
All The Sinners Bleed, SA Cosby 3
Eat Your Mind, Jason McBride 4
Lydia Maria Child, Lydia Moland 4
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver 5+++
Crook Manifesto, Colson Whitehead 2
The Dictionary People, Sarah Ogilvie 5
Collision of Power, Martin Baron 5++
How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith 5+
Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr 5
We Own This City, Justin Fenton 5+
Silverview, John le Carre 4
Catalyst, Louise Clarke and David Kean 5+
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers 5++
Bewilderment, Richard Powers 5+
Legendary, Tommy Breedlove 3
The Great Glorious Goddamn of it All, Josh Ritter 4
The Storyteller, Dave Grohl 4
Influence is Your Superpower, Zoe Chance 5+
Invisible Child, Andrea Elliott 5++
Intimacies, Katie Kitamura 5
We Were Never Here, Andrea Bartz 1
Indigo, Padgett Powell 5
Lost & Found, Kathryn Shultz 3
The Naked Don’t Fear the Dead, Matthieu Adkins 2
Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe 5+
10:04, Ben Lerner, 5
Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama, Bob Odenkirk 5+
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber, Julian Rubinstein 5++
Love in the Time of Contagion, Laura Kipnis 2
The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 3
Shackleton, Ranulph Fiennes 5
Walking the Bowl, Chris Lockhart and Daniel Mulilo Chama 4
Somebody’s Daughter, Ashley C. Ford 2
Index, A History of the, Dennis Duncan 3
The Fred Factor, Mark Sanborn 3
Run Towards the Danger, Sarah Polley 2
When I’m Gone, Look For Me in the East, Quan Barry 3
Bomb Shelter, Mary Laura Philpott, 3
Write for Your Life, Anna Quindlen, 4
The BBC, A Century On Air, David Hendy 5
Riverman: An American Odyssey, Ben McGrath 2
Build, Tony Fadell 5
Hello Molly!, Molly Shannon 5
The Adventures of Herbie Cohen, Rich Cohen 4
The Candy House, Jennifer Egan 3
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn 5+
The Interrupted Journey, John G. Fuller 4
Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel 2
Directed by James Burrows, James Burrows 4
Watergate: A New History, Garrett M. Graff 5++
Four Treasures of the Sky, Jenny Tinghui Zhang 4
Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris 5+
Pay Dirt Road, Samantha Jayne Allen 1
Road Trips, Head Trips and Other Car-Crazed Writings, Jean Lindamood 3
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? Seamus O’Reilly 3
Young Mungo, Douglas Stuart 5
Life Ceremony, Sayaka Murata 2
All That Moves Us, Jay Wellons, 5
Afterparties, Anthony Veasna So 2
The Perfect Other, Kyleigh Leddy 4
Love Marriage, Monica Ali 4
The Church of Baseball, Ron Shelton 5+
Operation Shylock, Philip Roth 3
The Spymasters, Chris Whipple 5
Swerve or Die, Kyle Petty 5
I’d Like to Play Alone, Please, Tom Segura 4
Mindreader, David J. Lieberman 1
Survival of the Fastest, Randy Lanier 2
Oh William!, Elizabeth Strout 4
Nightcrawling, Leila Mottley, 3
The Novelist, Jordan Castro 5
The Rare Find, George Anders, 4
Notes On Your Sudden Disappearance, Alison Espach 5
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan 5+
Profiles in Ignorance, Andy Borowitz 5+
Foreverland, Heather Havrilesky 2
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man, Paul Newman 5++
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, Maddie Mortimer 4
Like a Rolling Stone, Jann S. Wenner 4
The Trees, Percival Everett, 3
Us, Terrence Real 5
Surrender. 40 Songs, One Story Bono 5+
This is Happiness, Niall Williams 5++
Glory, Noviolet Bulawayo 3
Liberation Day, George Saunders 5+
Simple Dreams, Linda Ronstadt 4
Newsroom Confidential, Margaret Sullivan 2
Trust, Hernan Diaz 5++
Stay True, Hua Hsu 4
Indelible City, Louisa Lim 5
If I Survive You, Jonathan Escoffery 5
A Heart That Works, Rob Delaney 5+++
A Giant Win, Tom Coughlin 5
Olga Dies Dreaming, Xochitl Gonzalez 3
Desolation Peak, Jack Kerouac 3
Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Isaac Fitzgerald 2
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin 5+
Inside Voice, Lake Bell 5++
The Rabbit Hutch, Tess Gunty 4
The Latecomer, Jean Hanff Korelitz 5+
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta, James Hannah 5+
The Philosophy of Modern Song, Bob Dylan 5+
Novelist as a Vocation, Haruki Murakami 5
Full Reading List (2021)
Want, Lynn Steger Strong 5
Tokyo Ueno Station, Yu Miri 4
Luster, Raven Leilani 5+
Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam 2
Washington, Ron Chernow 5+
The Ride of a Lifetime, Robert Iger 5+
The Death of Vivek Oji, Akwaeke Emzi 3
A Promised Land, Barack Obama 5+
The Great Eastern, Howard A. Rodman 5
Anxious People, Fredrik Backman, DNF
The Moth and the Mountain, Ed Caesar 5
The Blue View, Rodney Muterspaw 4
Think Again, Adam Grant 5
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders 5+++
The Infinite Game, Simon Sinek 3
The Office of Historical Corrections, Danielle Evans 4
No One is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood 4
Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb 4
The Disappearing Act, Florence De Changy 0
Cleanness, Garth Greenwell 2
The Lying Life of Adults, Elena Ferrante 5
No Rules Rules, Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer 5+
Homeland Elegies, Ayad Akhtar 4
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami 4
Scaling Global Change, Erin Ganju 3
Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell 5
The Ten Faces of Innovation, Tom Kelley 3
The Hidden Habits of Genius, Craig Wright 4
The Cold Millions, Jess Walter 5
Ratline, Philippe Sands 5+
The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White 4
The Lady Whose Mouth I Set On Fire, Dr. McNonymous 3
The Copenhagen Trilogy, Tove Ditlevsen 4
The Hard Crowd, Rachel Kushner 4
The Best of Me, David Sedaris, 5+
How Lucky, Will Leitch 5
In Persuasion Nation, George Saunders 4
Civilwarland In Bad Decline, George Saunders 5
Pastoralia, George Saunders 5
Infinite Country, Patricia Engel 4
The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara 5+
Chasing the Light, Oliver Stone 4
The Light of Day, Judy Batalion 5+
The Third Pole, Mark Synnott 5
Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told? Jenny Diski 4
Yearbook, Seth Rogen 5
The Serious Guide to Joke Writing, Sally Holloway 3
First Person Singular, Haruki Murakami 4
The Wreckage of My Presence, Casey Wilson 3
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro 4
Wild Blueberries, Peter Damm 5+
Managing the Professional Services Firm, David H. Maister 5
Philip Roth, Blake Bailey 5
Collision Course, Greimel and Sposato 4
At Night All Blood is Black, David Diop 4
The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell 5
My Friend Anna, Rachel DeLoache Williams 3
How to Lead a Value-Based Professional Services Firm, Don Scales & Fran Biderman-Gross 0
Libertie, Kaitlyn Greenidge 3
The Hero Code, Admiral William H. McRaven 4
The Sunset Route, Carrot Quinn DNF
The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream, Dean Jobb 4
Razorblade Tears, S.A. Cosby 4
We Begin at the End, Chris Whitaker 4
Great Circle, Maggie Shipstead 5+
Battle For the Big Top, Les Standiford 4
Seven Perfect Things, Catherine Ryan Hyde 2
The Lost Pianos of Siberia, Sophy Roberts 3
The Killer Across the Table, John Douglas and Mark Olshaker 4
Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon 4
Noise, Daniel Kahneman, Oliver Sibony, Cass Sunstein 4
The Story of More, Hope Jahren 5
Meat Eater’s Campfire Stories. Close Calls, Steven Rinella 2
Undisruptable, Aidan McCullen 1
Light Perpetual, Francis Spufford 2
Writing, Written, Stephen Dixon 5
Patrimony, Philip Roth 5
The Five Wounds, Kirstin Valdez Quade 5
My Heart is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones 3
The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters, Julie Klam 4
Based on a True Story, a Memoir, Norm Macdonald 5++
All The Frequent Troubles of Our Days, Rebecca Donner 5+
Travels With George, Nathaniel Philbrick 3
Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner 5
Beautiful World, Where Are You? Sally Rooney 4
A Calling For Charlie Barnes, Joshua Ferris 5+
Facing the Mountain, Daniel James Brown 5+
The Last Black Unicorn, Tiffany Haddish 2
A Carnival of Snackery, David Sedaris 5+
Mike Nichols, A Life, Mark Harris 5+
The Boys, Ron Howard & Clint Howard 5+
Going There, Katie Couric 5+
Harlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead 4
Taste: My Life Through Food Stanley Tucci 5++
Talk to Me, TC Boyle 4
Welcome to Dunder Mifflin, Brian Baumgartner 3
Matrix, Lauren Groff 3
All About Me!, Mel Brooks 5+
Who We Meet Along the Way, Brandon Tosti 0
Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli, Mark Seal 5+
Crossroads, Jonathan Franzen 5++
Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner 5+
How Beautiful We Were, Imbolo Mbue 5+
On Juneteenth, Annette Gordon-Reed 4
Full Reading List (2020)
Mostly Dead Things, Kristen Arnett 5
Night Boat to Tangier, Kevin Barry 4
Midnight in Chernobyl, Adam Higginbotham 5
The Guest Book, Sarah Blake 1
Empire of the Summer Moon, SC Gwynne 4
Range. Why Generalists Triumph, David Epstein 3
Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson 5
Tightrope, N. Kristof and S. WuDunn 4
If You Tell, Gregg Olsen 3
Fight of the Century, Michael Chabon 5
Churchill, Walking With Destiny Andrew Roberts 5++
A Very Stable Genius, Philip Rucker & Carol Leonnig 4
Girl, Woman, Other Bernadine Evaristo 5
Leadership Strategy and Tactics, Jocko Willink 4
The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson 5+
American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins 2
Invisible People, Alex Tizon 5
Bookmarked, Wendy W. Fairley 4
Deacon King Kong, James McBride 5
Long Bright River, Liz Moore 3
Processed Cheese, Stephen Wright 2
Normal People, Sally Rooney 5+
The Cactus League, Emily Nemens 4
Trust Exercise, Susan Choi 2
The Adventurer’s Son, Roman Dial 4
Ducks, Newburyport, Lucy Ellman 4
Doxology, Nell Zink 3
In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado 2
Solitary, Albert Woodfox, 5+
Disappearing Earth, Julia Phillips 3
Underland, Robert Macfarlane 3
The Big Goodbye, Sam Wasson 4
Grand Union, Zadie Smith 2
Franchise, Marcia Chatelain 4
Heart Berries, Terese Marie Mailhot 4
Apropos of Nothing, Woody Allen 5++
A Long Petal of the Sea, Isabel Allende 3
The End of October, Lawrence Wright 5
My Dark Vanessa, Kate Elizabeth Russell 5
How to Pronounce Knife, Souvankham Thammavongsa 5+
Topics of Conversation, Miranda Popkey 2
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me, Bess Kalb 5
wow. no thank you. Samantha Irby 4
The Hilarious World of Depression, John Moe 3
The Buddha and the Badass, Vishen Lakhiani 1
How To Be An Anti-Racist, Ibrahim X. Kendi 5
Future Value, E. Longenhagen & K. McDaniel 4
The Room Where It Happened, John Bolton 2
Springsteen on Broadway, Bruce Springsteen 5++
Tokyo Ueno Station, Yu Miri 3
Savage Son, Jack Carr 3
Think Like a Rocket Scientist, Ozan Varol 4
Sorry For Your Trouble, Richard Ford 3
What’s Left of Me is Yours, Stephanie Scott 4
Heroes, Stephen Fry 5
The Biggest Bluff, Maria Konnikova 5++
Begin Again, Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. 4
Last Couple Standing, Matthew Norman 5
Unspeakable Acts, Sarah Weinman 2
Caste, Isabel Wilkerson 5+++
White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo 5
The Guest List, Lucy Foley 1
Notes on a Silencing, Lacy Crawford 5
The Spy and the Traitor, Ben Macintyre 5+
Intimations, Zadie Smith 4
El Jefe, The Stalking of Chapo Guzman, Alan Feuer 4
If it Bleeds, Stephen King 4
Idiot, Laura Clery 1
The Discomfort of Evening, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, 4
How to Lead, David Rubenstein 3
Memorial Drive, Natasha Trethewey, 4
Sheryl Crow Words and Music, S Crow 5
Broken, Don Winslow 4
It’s a Long Story: My Life, Willie Nelson 5
Putin’s People, Catherine Belton 4
A Short Move, Katherine Hill 2
Had I Known, Barbara Ehrenreich 3
Then the Fish Swallowed Him, Amir Ahmadi Arian 5
Enemy of All Mankind, Steven Johnson 3
Eat The Buddha, Barbara Demick 3
The Stranger in the Woods, Michael Finkel 3
The Moment of Tenderness, Madeline L’Engle 3
How to Write One Song, Jeff Tweedy 5+
The Index of Self-Destructive Acts, Christopher Beha 5+
Is This Anything?, Jerry Seinfeld 5
This Mournable Body, Tsitsi Dangarembga 3
Billion Dollar Loser, Reeves Wiedeman 4
Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart 5++
The Shadow King, Maala Mengiste 2
Monogamy, Sue Miller 3
Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid 2
Tequila Mockingbird, Tim Federle 5
150 Glimpses of the Beatles, Craig Brown 4
Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi 3
Full Reading List (2019)
Dear Los Angeles, David Kipen 5
A House for Mr. Biswas, V.S Naipul 4
The Mars Room, Rachel Kushner 5
Valley of Genius, Adam Fisher 4
Blowing the Bloody Doors Off, Michael Caine 4
Power Ball, Rob Neyer 5
The Library Book, Susan Orlean 5+
Zucked, Roger McNamee 5
American Prison, Shane Bauer 4
A Place For Us, Fatima Farheen Mirza 4
Orbiting The Giant Hairball, Gordon MacKenzie 3
Dreyer’s English, Benjamin Dreyer 5++
The Source of Self-Regard, Toni Morrison 4
Heavy, Kiese Laymon 5
Three Women, Lisa Taddeo 5+
Men Without Women , Haruki Murakami 5
The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead 3
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami 5+
The Opposite of Loneliness, Marina Keegan 5
Outside Looking In, T.C. Boyle 5
Catch and Kill, Ronan Farrow 4
Our Man, George Packer 5
Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain 4
You Know You Want This, Kristen Roupenian 5
These Truths, Jill Lepore 5
Bowlaway, Elizabeth McCracken
The Night Tiger, Yangsze Choo 3
The Largess of the Sea Maiden, Denis Johnson 5+
American Spy, Lauren Wilkinson 3
Lake Success, Gary Shreyngart 5+
The Parade, Dave Eggers 4
Asymmetry, Lisa Halliday 5
Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom, David W. Blight 5*
The Unwinding of the Miracle, Julie Yip-Williams 5
Hold Fast Your Crown, Yannick Haenel 3
Ikigai. Giving Every Day Meaning and Joy, Yukari Mitsubishi 4
Ikigai. The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life 2
The Lager Queen of Minnesota, J. Ryan Stradel 4
She Said, Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey 5
The Travelers, Regina Porter 3
Chances Are, Richard Russo 4
Me, Elton John 5+
Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart 4
Hattiesburg, William Sturkey 4
Survival Math, Mitchell S. Jackson 5+
Once Upon a River, Diane Setterfield 2
Killing Commendatore, Haruki Murakami 5+
An Orchestra of Minorities, Chigozie Obioma 5
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, Alexander Chee 4
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki, Haruki Murakami 5+
The MVP Machine, Ben Lindbergh & Travis Sawchik 5+
Furious Hours, Casey Cep 5+
Erotic Stories For Punjabi Widows, Balli Kaur Jaswal 3
The Way of All Flesh, Ambrose Parry 5
Legacy, James Kerr 5+
Ikigai, Ken Mogi 3
Deep River, Karl Marlantes 4
Mrs. Everything, Jennifer Weiner 3
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong 5
Fleishman Is In Trouble, Taffy Brodesser-Akner 5+
The Monk of Mocha, Dave Eggers 5+
The River, Peter Heller 4
Know My Name, Chanel Miller 5+++
Talking To Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell 4
Full Reading List (2018)
Rogue Heroes, Ben Macintyre 5
Ghacher, Ghochar Vivek Shanbhag 4
milk and honey, rupi kaur 5
The Idiot, Elif Batuman 4
Ghosts of the Tsunami, Richard Lloyd Parry 5
The Alienist, Caleb Carr 5+
The Undoing Project, Michael Lewis 5
What it Means When a Man Falls From the Sky, Lesley Nneka Arimah 5
Leonardo da Vinci, Walter Isaacson 5
Half Empty, David Rakoff 4
Skin and Other Stories, Roald Dahl 5
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy 3
The Stowaway, Laurie Gwen Shapiro 5
An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears 5+
Personal History, Katharine Graham 5+
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion 4
Only Killers and Thieves, Paul Howarth 2
On Writing, Stephen King 5+
The Relive Box, TC Boyle 5
Notes On a Foreign Country, Suzy Hansen 3
The Lock Artist, Steve Hamilton 4
The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah 2
Going For a Beer, Robert Coover 4
The Heart is a Shifting Sea, Elizabeth Flock 3
Grant, Ron Chernow 5
Russian Roulette, Michael Isikoff 4
Look Alive Out There, Sloane Crosley 5+
An American Marriage, Tayari Jones 5
The Sandman, Lars Kepler 3
The Overstory, Richard Powers 5
Enzo Ferrari, Luca Dal Monte 4
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, Michelle McNamara 4
Cloudbursts, Thomas McGuane 5+
The Only Story, Julian Barnes 4
A Long Way From Home, Peter Carey 3
Warlight, Michael Ondaatje 5+
The Destiny Thief, Richard Russo 4
Calypso, David Sedaris 5++
Robin, Dave Itzkoff 5+
The Female Persuasion, Meg Wolitzer 3
Bad Blood, John Carreyrou 5+
Miss Ex-Yugoslavia, Sofija Stefanivic 5+
Futureface, Alex Wagner 3
Reporter, Seymour M. Hersh 5+
Meaty, Samantha Irby 4
Florida, Lauren Groff 4
Heads of the Colored People, Nafissa Thompson-Spires 4
Astroball, Ben Reiter 5+
Beta Ball, Erik Malinowski 3
Laura & Emma, Kate Greathead 2
How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan 3
Dopesick, Beth Macy 3
The Extra 2%, Jonah Keri 3
Social Creatures, Tara Isabella Burton 1
Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari 5++
Factfulness, Hans Rosling 5++
Indianapolis, Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic 5
The Death of Truth, Michiko Kakutani 4
Back Talk, Danielle Lazarin 4
Fruit of the Drunken Tree, Ingrid Rosas Contreras 4
Bibliophile, Jane Mount 4
Belichick, Ian O’Connor 5
The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis 5+
Measure What Matters, John Doerr 5++
The Mars Room, Rachel Kushner 4
Washington Black, Esi Edugyan 5+
Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens 4
In the Distance, Hernan Diaz 5+
Our Man in Charleston, Christopher Dickey 3
The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai 2
Flights, Olga Tokarczk 2
Heartland, Sarah Smarsh 4
Us Against You, Fredrik Backman 3
Creative Selection, Ken Kocienda 5
The Long Take, Robin Robertson 5+
Educated, Tara Westover 5++
Becoming, Michelle Obama 5++
City of Devils, Paul French 3
Everything Under, Daisy Johnson 3
The End of the Affair, Graham Greene 5
Less, Andrew Sean Greer 5+
Leadership During Difficult Times, Doris Kearns Goodwin, 5
There, There Tommy Orange 5+