Book List, 2019
1) Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! Ralph Leighton, Edward Hutchings
2) Shetland Bus: A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival and Adventure. David Howarth
3) The Proverbs of Middle-Earth. David Rowe
4) Aristotle’s Children: How Christians, Muslims and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages. Richard E. Rubenstein
5) Crazy Rich Asians. Kevin Kwan
6) Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo.” Zora Neale Hurston
7) Moloka’i: A Novel. Alan Brennert
8) Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History. Keith O’Brien
9) The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II. Denise Kiernan
10) The Bride Price. Mai Neng Moua
11) The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies. Jason Fagone (Interesting tidbit: The Friedmans started the framework for the NSA)
12) The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris
13) Dreyer’s English, Benjamin Dreyer. Throw out your tattered Strunk &White book.
14) Iran, a Modern History. Abbas Amanat. I started this last year; it’s a heavy tome (over 900 packed pages) but it gives a good perspective on why the Middle East is the way it is today.
15) The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919. Mark Thompson. Picked this one, because my Grandfather was a soldier in this war, in the general vicinity of the Italian Alps
16) A River Sutra. Gita Mehta
17) Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. Gail Honeyman
18) A Gentleman in Moscow. Amor Towles
19) The Guide for the Perplexed. Moses Maimonides
20) The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier’s Education. Craig Mullaney
21) Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory. Deena Kastor (holds American record for the marathon, 2:19:36)
22) Calypso. David Sedaris
23) Educated. Tara Westover
24) Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.: American: An Autobiography. About America’s first Black General.
25) The Wives of Los Alamos. TaraShea Nesbit
26) The Preacher’s Wife Drinks a Little. Gina Hirt
27) A Thousand Splendid Suns. Khaled Hosseini
28) Five Presidents. Clint Hill
29) Before We were Yours. Lisa Wingate
30) Rules of Civility. Amor Towles
31) Hillbilly Elegy. J.D. Vance
32) Where’d You Go, Bernadette. Maria Semple
33) 1776. David McCullough
34) The Weight of Ink. Rachel Kadish
35) The Great Alone. Kristin Hannah
36) Bear Town. Fredrik Backman
37) Love Does. Bob Goff
38) One Thousand White Women. Jim Fergus
39) The Last Mrs. Parrish. Liv Constantine
40) Eligible. Curtis Sittenfeld
41) Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love. Dani Shapiro
42) Storyworthy. Matthew Dicks
43) Homegoing. Yaa Gyasi
44) The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
45) Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World. Clive Thompson
46) Gingerbread. Helen Oyeyemi
47) The Old Drift. Namwali Serpell
48) Unaccustomed Earth. Jhumpa Lahiri
49) When We Left Cuba. Chanel Cleeton
50) The Binding. Bridget Collins
No comments:
Post a Comment