So I got tired of waiting around for Donald Trump to post his reading list of 2017 and decided to preempt him and post mine. I have a feeling his was just the outside of Happy Meals and gum wrappers anyways. Plus, this is the only post I make these days so I want to make sure and get it out of the way early in the year.
My goal was to read 52 books this year but probably spent too much time riding my bike. Maybe I'll do better next year.
Anyhow, highlights from this year were American War. Not sure if it was a documentary or a sci-fi novel.
And The Nix was a really funny surreal satire on modern life. I enjoyed it a whole bunch.
If you want to be absolutely terrified, feel free to dive into The Sixth Extinction.
- The Ultimate Bicycle Owner's Manual: The Universal Guide to Bikes, Riding, and Everything for Beginner and Seasoned Cyclists by Eben Weiss (4 stars)
- Home (Binti, #2) by Nnedi Okorafor (4 stars)
- The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France by Tyler Hamilton (3 stars)
- Pro Cycling on $10 a Day: From Fat Kid to Euro Pro by Phil Gaimon (4 stars)
- Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, #4) by Stephen King (4 stars)
- Draft Animals: Living the Pro Cycling Dream by Phil Gaimon (5 stars)
- American War by Omar El Akkad (5 stars)
- Dark Tower: Wastelands by Stephen King (0 stars)
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert (5 stars)
- The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2) by Stephen King (4 stars)
- The Nix by Nathan Hill (5 stars)
- Loving Day by Mat Johnson (4 stars)
- Angels Flight (Harry Bosch, #6) by Michael Connelly (4 stars)
- The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) by Stephen King (4 stars)
- A Darkness More Than Night (Harry Bosch, #7; Terry McCaleb, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #9) by Michael Connelly (3 stars)
- Trunk Music (Harry Bosch, #5; Harry Bosch Universe, #6) by Michael Connelly (3 stars)
- In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick (4 stars)
- Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy (5 stars)
- Benediction by Kent Haruf (4 stars)
- Eventide by Kent Haruf (4 stars)
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (5 stars)
- Hollywood by Charles Bukowski (4 stars)
- Plainsong (Plainsong, #1) by Kent Haruf (4 stars)
- Seveneves by Neal Stephenson (4 stars)
- Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga (4 stars)
- Crosstalk by Connie Willis (4 stars)
- The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch, #4; Harry Bosch Universe, #4) by Michael Connelly (4 stars)
- Carry the One by Carol Anshaw (4 stars)
- The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3) by Michael Connelly (4 stars)
- The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2) by Michael Connelly (4 stars)
- A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder by Michael Pollan (3 stars)
- The Last Good Heist: The Inside Story of The Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast by Tim White (3 stars)
- The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1) by Michael Connelly (4 stars)
- Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2) by Ann Leckie (3 stars)
- The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro (3 stars)
- Apex (Nexus, #3) by Ramez Naam (3 stars)
- Crux (Nexus, #2) by Ramez Naam (4 stars)
- Nexus (Nexus, #1) by Ramez Naam (4 stars)
- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan (2 stars)
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport (4 stars)
- Getting Started with Raspberry Pi by Matt Richardson (4 stars)
- The North Water by Ian McGuire (4 stars)
- The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson (4 stars)
If you are curious, I use a python script to generate the list of books. (You'll need your Goodreads key in order to use it.) Then I just paste it into GNU Emacs.
You can see the other years here. I've managed to do this for 8 years running. Hooray for narcissistic me!