Books Read in 2018

59 titles

French Exit
Patrick DeWitt
★★★★☆
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
David Foster Wallace
★★★★★
Arbitrary Stupid Goal
Tamara Shopsin
★★★★★
The Fifth Risk
Michael Lewis
★★★★☆
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Henry Miller
★★☆☆☆
Investing in Your 20s and 30s for Dummies
Eric Tyson
★★★☆☆
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull & Amy Wallace
★★★☆☆
The Gone-Away World
Nick Harkaway
★★★★☆
Motherless Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem
★★★☆☆
Pragmatism: an Open Question
Hilary Putnam
★★☆☆☆
The Constant Gardener
John Le Carré
★★★☆☆
Artemis
Andy Weir
★★★☆☆
Redesigning Leadership
John Maeda
★★★☆☆
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
★★★★☆
The Rings of Saturn
W.G. Sebald
★★★☆☆
A Burglar’s Guide to the City
Geoff Manaugh
★★★★☆
29 Master Prints
M.C. Escher
★★★★★
M Train
Patti Smith
★★★★★
Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
Rebecca Solnit & Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
★★★★☆
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
★★★★★
The Prince of Tides
Pat Conroy
★★★☆☆
Lanterne Rouge: The Last Man in the Tour de France
Max Leonard
★★★☆☆
City on Fire
Garth Risk Hallberg
★★★☆☆
Priestdaddy: A Memoir
Patricia Lockwood
★★★★★
Transit
Rachel Cusk
★★★★☆
The 25th Hour
David Benioff
★★★☆☆
Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
Norman Ohler
★★★☆☆
Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
Durga Chew-Bose
★★★★☆
Calypso
David Sedaris
★★★★★
Ties
Domenico Starnone
★★★★☆
Reporter: A Memoir
Seymour Hersh
★★★★☆
The Giant, O’Brien
Hilary Mantel
★★★☆☆
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
David Graeber
★★★★★
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built
Stewart Brand
★★★★★
Normal
Warren Ellis
★★★☆☆
Pulse: Stories
Julian Barnes
★★★☆☆
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Joshua Ferris
★★☆☆☆
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
James Comey
★★★☆☆
The Invisibility Cloak
Ge Fei
★★★☆☆
The New CSS Layout
Rachel Andrew
★★★★☆
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
★★★★★
Beautiful Ruins
Jess Walter
★★★★☆
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Lindy West
★★★☆☆
Sharks in the Rivers
Ada Limón
★★★★☆
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
Maggie Nelson
★★★★☆
Binti
Nnedi Okorafor
★★★★☆
Acceptance
Jeff VanderMeer
★★★☆☆
Authority
Jeff VanderMeer
★★★☆☆
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
★★★★☆
If on a winter’s night a traveler
Italo Calvino
★★★☆☆
A Colony in a Nation
Chris Hayes
★★★☆☆
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan
★★★★☆
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★☆☆
Outline
Rachel Cusk
★★★★★
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Roxane Gay
★★★☆☆
Montaigne
Stefan Zweig
★★★★☆
How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
Alan Jacobs
★★★☆☆
The Last Samurai
Helen DeWitt
★★★★★
The White Album
Joan Didion
★★★★★