Wednesday, January 1, 2020

What I Read In 2019

Here are the books I read in 2019. Goodreads tells me that it was 34,268 pages.  This is more for my information, but I would recommend most of them.
  1. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
  2. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
  3. A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill
  4. A Call for Revolution: A Vision for the Future by The Dalai Lama with Sofia Stril-Rever
  5. A Complaint Free World by Will Bowen
  6. A Good Dog: The Story of Orson, Who Changed My Life by Jon Katz
  7. A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
  8. Aftermath by Chuck Wendig
  9. All-American Murder: The Rise and Fall of Aaron Hernandez, The Superstar whose Life Ended on Murderers' Row by James Patterson
  10. American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America by Chris Hedges
  11. American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer
  12. An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Col. Chris Hadfield
  13. An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography by Paul Rusesabagina
  14. Artemis by Andy Weir
  15. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
  16. Barnum: An American Life by Robert Wilson
  17. Baseball Cop: The Dark Side of America's National Pastime by Eddie Dominguez
  18. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
  19. Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken
  20. Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
  21. Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien" by Jeremy N. Smith
  22. Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
  23. Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors and Secret Intelligence by Stansfield Turner
  24. Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger by Lee Israel
  25. Choosing Gratitude: Learning to Love the Life You Have by James A. Autry
  26. Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator by Gregory B. Jaczko
  27. Death Need Not Be Fatal by Malachy McCourt and Brian McDonald
  28. Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
  29. Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World by Rob Sheffield
  30. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl
  31. Earn. Save. Give. Wesley's Simple Rules for Money by James A. Harnish
  32. Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
  33. Faith by Jennifer Haigh
  34. Filthy Rich: The True Story Behind the Jeffrey Epstein Sex Scandal by James Patteron, with John Connolly and Tim Malloy
  35. Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War by Linda Hervieux
  36. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
  37. Genesis: The Deep Origin of Society by Edward O. Wilson
  38. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
  39. God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
  40. God's Favorites: Judaism, Christianity and the Myth of Divine Chosenness by Michael Coogan
  41. Grateful: The Subversive Practice of Giving Thanks by Diana Butler Bass
  42. Gridiron Genius: A Master Class in Winning Championships and Building Dynasties in the NFL by Michael Lombardi
  43. Guardians of the Whills by Greg Rucka
  44. Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter
  45. Help. Thanks. Wow: The Three Essential Prayers by Anne Lamott
  46. Here and Now by Henri J.M. Nouwen
  47. Home by Toni Morrison
  48. Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Jerry Kaplan
  49. I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend by Martin Short
  50. In My Father's House: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family by Fox Butterfield
  51. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
  52. Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community by Jon Hunner
  53. Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women by Sarah Bessey
  54. Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling it the Way it Was: An Oral History by Arlene Alda
  55. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
  56. Lady Almina and the Real Life Downtown Abbey by Fiona Carnarvon
  57. Laika's Window: The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog by Kurt Caswell
  58. Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
  59. Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious by David Dark
  60. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
  61. Lord, Teach Us: The Lord's Prayer and the Christian Life by William Willimon and Stanley Hauerwas
  62. Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy
  63. Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City by Mark Adams
  64. Monday Morning Leadership: Eight Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss by David Cottrell
  65. Mountains of the Pharaohs: The Untold Stories of the Pyramid Builders by Zaho A. Hawass
  66. Names for the Messiah by Walter Brueggemann
  67. No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future by Samuel L. Schwartz and Karen Kelly
  68. No One is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
  69. Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
  70. One Stick Song by Sherman Alexie
  71. Out of Step: A Memoir by Anthony Moll
  72. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: Letters of Richard P. Feynman edited by Michelle Feynman
  73. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
  74. Retrograde by Peter Cawdron
  75. Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis by Robert M. Edsel
  76. Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: Lessons from Google, Search Inside Yourself and a Zen Monastery Kitchen by Marc Lesser
  77. Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America by Alissa Quart
  78. Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View edited by Elizabeth Schaefer
  79. Stealing Your Life: The Ultimate Indentity Theft Protection Plan by Frank Abagnale, Jr.
  80. Storm Kings: The Untold History of America's First Storm Chasers by Lee Sandlin
  81. Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants by Mathias Enard, translated by Charlotte Mandell
  82. The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story by Edwidge Danticat
  83. The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai by Ha Jin
  84. The Battle of Fort Negro: The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community by Matthew J. Clavin
  85. The Bible Doesn't Say That by Joel M. Hoffman
  86. The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right by Max Boot
  87. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to do About It by Michael Gerber
  88. The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War by Meal Bascomb
  89. The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race edited by Jesmyn Ward
  90. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
  91. The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance and Empower the Mind by Michio Kaku
  92. The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell KIng
  93. The Greatest Prayer: A Revolutionary Manifesto and Hymn of Hope by John Dominic Crossan
  94. The Guardians by John Grisham
  95. The Heart Led Leader: How Living and Leading from the Heart Will Change Your Organization and Your Life by Tommy Spaulding
  96. The Last Jedi by Michael Reaves and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
  97. The Library Book by Susan Orlean
  98. The Lord and His Prayer by N.T. Wright
  99. The Man Who Loved Books too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett
  100. The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence by Henry A. Girouz
  101. The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch by Jonathan Gottschall
  102. The Real All-Americans: The Team that Changed a Game, a People, a Nation by Sally Jenkins
  103. The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sallry Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman
  104. The Reckoning by John Grisham
  105. The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
  106. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner
  107. The Sin of Certainty by Peter Enns
  108. The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meachem
  109. The Story of My Father by Sue Miller
  110. The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age by John Heider
  111. The Tao of Happiness: Stories from Chung Tzu for Your Spiritual Journey by Derek Lin
  112. The Time is Now: A Call to Uncommon Courage by Joan Chittister, OSB
  113. The Unmaking of the President 2016 by Lanny David
  114. The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 by James Shapiro
  115. There There by Tommy Orange
  116. Three Simple Rules: A Wesleyan Way of Living by Reuben P. Job
  117. Treason by Timothy Zahn
  118. Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
  119. Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts by David E. McCraw
  120. Trying to Save Piggy Sneed by John Irving
  121. Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt
  122. Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls by Lisa Damour
  123. War Dogs: The True Story of How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History by Guy Lawson
  124. We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
  125. What in God's Name? by Simon Rich
  126. What Truth Sounds Like: RFK, James Baldwin and Our Unfinished Conversation about Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
  127. Why Religion? A Personal Story by Elaine Pagels
  128. Why Women Have Better Sex under Socialism and Other Arguments for Economic Independence by Kristen R. Ghodsee
  129. Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter by Tom Clavin
  130. You Throw Like a Girl: The Blind Spot of Masculinity by Don McPherson

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