Books Read

title / author / date completed – – – – bolded titles are year’s favorite(s)

2022

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Betty Smith); Jan 4
Fidelity (Grace Paley); Jan 11
The Weil Conjectures: On Math And The Pursuit Of The Unknown (Karen Olsson); Jan 16
In Search of Small Gods (Jim Harrison); Jan 27
The Undressing (Li-Young Lee); Jan 27
Solutions and Other Problems (Allie Brosh); Jan 30
Mao II (Don DeLillo); Feb 4
A Little Devil in America (Hanif Abdurraqib); March 21
How Should A Person Be? (Sheila Heti); April 8
Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel); April 10 (audiobook)
Why Fish Don’t Exist (Lulu Miller); May 17
On Bicycles: A 200 Year History of Cycling in New York City (Evan Friss); May 30
Also A Poet (Ada Calhoun); June 16
This Time Tomorrow (Emma Straub); July 19
Fear City (Kim Phillips-Fein); July 22
Red Notice (Bill Browder); July 23 (audiobook)
My Year Abroad (Chang-Rae Lee); July 31
Art Quake (Susie Moore); Aug 5
Poems of New York (selected and edited by Elizabeth Schmidt); Aug 6
Bewilderment (Richard Powers); Aug 31
Why Poetry (Matthew Zapruder); Sept 2
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Gabrielle Zevin); Sept 8
Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore 1994-2007 (Dan Ozzi); Sept 14
frank: sonnets (Dianne Seuss); Sept 23
Escape Into Meaning (Evan Puschak); Sept 30
Long Road: Pearl Jam & The Soundtrack of a Generation (Steven Hyden); Oct 9
The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake (Breece D’J Pancake); Oct 20
The Hunters (James Salter); Nov 6
The National’s Boxer (33 1/3, 162) (Ryan Pickard); Dec 14
A Visit From The Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan); Dec 24
The Candy House (Jennifer Egan); Dec 26

2021

White Tiger (Aravind Adiga); Jan 10
Born A Crime (Trevor Noah); Jan 16 (audiobook)
A Moveable Feast (Ernest Hemingway); Jan 17
A Whirlwind Tour of Python (Jake VanderPlas); Jan 30
Teacher Man (Frank McCourt); Feb 13
Wild Ones (Jon Mooallem); Mar 2
The Silent Patient (Alex Michaelides); Mar 7
The Overstory (Richard Powers): Apr 6
How to Prevent a Climate Disaster (Bill Gates); Apr 19
Strangers on a Train (Patricia Highsmith); May 16
The Kingdom (Emmanual Carrere); June 6
The Professor and the Madman (Simon Winchester): June 9
Satan Says (Sharon Olds); June 13
The Bomber Mafia (Malcolm Gladwell); Augu 4 (audiobook)
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell); Aug 14
Nothing to See Here (Kevin Wilson); Sept 4
The Plot (Jean Hanff Korelitz); Sept 23
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 (Rachel Kushner); Oct 6
The World According to Garp (John Irving); Oct 22
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr); Oct 24
The Lincoln Highway (Amor Towles); Oct 27
No One Is Talking About This (Patricia Lockwood); Oct 30
Dream Work (Mary Oliver); Nov 12
A Children’s Bible (Lydia Millet); Nov 25
Stories Of Your Life and Others (Ted Chiang); Dec 12
A Gate At The Stairs (Lorrie Moore); Dec 14
Please Scream Inside Your Heart (Dave Pell); Dec 30

2020

The Right Stuff (Tom Wolfe); Jan 3
Life Studies (Robert Lowell); Jan 16
Bel Canto (Anne Patchett); Jan 26
Atomic Habits (James Clear); Feb 1
Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides); Feb 7
The Geography of Bliss (Eric Weiner): Mar 5
Dusk and Other Stories (James Salter); Mar 15
The Nix (Nathan Hill); Mar 20
The Power Broker (Robert Caro); Apr 9
Begin Mortal (Atul Gawande); Apr 11
Antipoems (Nicanor Parra, trans Liz Werner); Apr 15
There Is No Good Card For This (Kelsey Crowe, Emily McDowell); Apr 22
Think and Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill); Apr 25
This Side of Brightness (Collum McCann); May 2
House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski); June 3
Hitomi (NIck Jaina); June 7
True Grit (Charles Portis); June 20
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Jean-Dominique Bauby); June 30
Loving Frank (Nancy Horan); July 25
Buddha’s Office (Dan Zigmond); July 31
Build A Career in Data Science (Emily Robinson, Jacqueline Nolis); Aug 3
The Biggest Bluff (Maria Konnikova); Aug 14
The Alienist (Caleb Carr); Aug 21
The Devil In The White City (Erik Larson); Aug 22 – audiobook
On The Move (Oliver Sacks); Sept 4
The Natural (Bernard Malamud); Sept 10
We Ride Upon Sticks (Quan Barry); Sept 16
The Bronx is Burning (Jonathan Mahler); Sept 26
City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara (Brad Gooch); Oct 7
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (John Berendt); Oct 21
Sweet Theft: A Poet’s Commonplace Book (J.D. McCatchy); Nov 12
A Gentleman In Moscow (Amos Towles) Nov 27
The Wolf of Sarajevo (Matthew Palmer): Dec 17
Fates & Furies (Lauren Groff); Dec 24
How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (Jordan Ellenberg); Dec 25
Night Sky With Exit Wounds (Ocean Vuong); Dec 26

2019

Dotcom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company (Russell Brunson); Jan 2
Parable Of The Sower (Octavia E. Butler); Jan 5
Dr. Zhivago (Boris Pasternak); Jan 20
Building A Storybrand (Donald Miller); Feb 4
Crossing To Safety (Wallace Stegner); Feb 6
Midwives (Chris Bohjalian); Feb 22
How To Change Your Mind (Michael Pollan); Feb 24
The Spirit of Science Fiction (Roberto Bolaño); Mar 4
The Mastermind (Evan Ratliff); Mar 12
Light Years (James Salter); Mar 21
This is The Story Of A Happy Marriage (Ann Patchett); Apr 16
The Sportswriter (Richard Ford); May 1
Asymmetry (Lisa Halliday); June 13
The Boys In The Boat (Daniel James Brown); June 26
To Sell Is Human (Daniel Pink); June 29
Wildlife (Richard Ford); July 9
Inherent Vice (Thomas Pynchon); July 18
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari); July 29 (audiobook)
The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen); Aug 18
Under The Volcano (Malcolm Lowry); Aug 26
The Moviegoer (Walker Percy); Sept 3
Robert Lowell in Love (Jeffrey Meyers); Sept 9
Don’t Save Anything: Uncollected Essays (James Salter); Sept 10
The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible (Lance Fortnow); Sept 25
Neon In Daylight (Hermione Hoby); Sept 30
How To Do Nothing (Jenny Odell); Oct 10
On Earth, We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Ocean Vuong); Oct 24
The Vegetarian (Han Kang); Nov 1
722 Miles: The Building of the Subways…. (Clifton Hood); Nov 3
The Botany of Desire (Michael Pollan); Nov 7
Garden Time (W.S. Merwin); Nov 14
Cigarettes, Inc. (Nan Enstad); Nov 18
Marshall McLuhan: The Medium And the Messenger (Philip Marchand); Dec 5
Lost in Translation (Eva Hoffman); Dec 15
Tribe Of Mentors (Tim Ferriss); Dec 18
The Dolphin (Robert Lowell); Dec 21
Man’s Search For Meaning (Victor Frankl); Dec 24

2018

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Michael Chabon); March 25
The Secret History (Donna Tartt); April 23
The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt); May 6
Horace and Me (Harry Eyres); May 9
The Little Friend (Donna Tartt); May 20
Notes on Camp (Susan Sontag); June 12
Siddhartha (Herman Hesse); June 16
Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Marisha Pessl); July 13
The Caveman’s Valentine (George Dawes Green); July 19
The Immortalists (Chloe Benjamin); July 21
My Absolute Darling (Gabriel Tallent); July 23
Less (Andrew Sean Greer); July 26
Your Heart Is A Muscle The Size Of a Fist (Sunil Yapa); Aug 2
Colorless Tsukuru Tazkai And His Years Of Pilgrimage (Haruki Murakami); Aug 6
A Little Life (Hanya Yanagihara); August 18
American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis); August 24
Old School (Tobias Wolff); September 1
Lincoln In The Bardo (George Saunders); September 23
The City In Which I Love You (Li-Young Lee): September 25
The Hours (Michael Cunningham); September 27
A Way In The World (V.S. Naipaul); Oct 1
The Rosie Project (Graeme Simsion); Oct 3
What Wast Lost (Catherine O’Flynn); Oct 8
The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead); Oct 21
The Game (Neil Strauss); Oct 23
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers (Renni Browne, Dave King); Oct 23
The Circle (Dave Eggers); Oct 26
The Sellout (Paul Beatty); Nov 13
Poetry Will Save Your Life (Jill Bialosky); Nov 21
Letters To A Young Writer (Colum McCann): Nov 27
Draft #4 (John McPhee); Dec 1
Angle of Repose (Wallace Stegner); Dec 13
Memory Wall (Anthony Doerr); Dec 16
The Locals (Jonathan Dee); Dec 21
Bright Lights, Big City (Jay McInerney) Dec 23