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Read in 2020 so far
Wichita Lineman: Searching in the Sun for the World's Greatest Unfinished Song by Dylan Jones
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
Attention All Passengers: The Airlines' Dangerous Descent---and How to Reclaim Our Skies - McGee, William J
When You Read This - Mary Adkins
Poisoner In Chief - Stephen Kinzer
Chuck Klosterman - Raised in Captivity
Tightrope - Nick Kristof
Educated - Tara Westover
America Walks into a Bar: A Spirited History Of Taverns And Saloons, Speakeasies And Grog Shops - Sismondo, Christine
Books read in 2019
Switched On Pop: How Popular Music Works, and Why it Matters How Popular Music Works, and Why it Matters - Sloan, Nate, Harding, Charlie
How the Bible Came to Be - Barton, John
A History of the Bible: The Story of the World's Most Influential Book - John Barton
Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving Great Lives Worth Reliving - Mo Rocca
Waiting To Be Forgotten: Stories of Crime and Heartbreak, Inspired by The Replacements - Stringer, Jay, Nicolay, Franz, Belcamino, Kristi, Shaw, Johnny, Segura, Alex
Machine Learning: The New AI - Alpaydin, Ethem, Mit Press
The Optimist's Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age - Venkataraman, Bina
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World - Epstein, David
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro - Rachel Slade
The Abcs of Metallica - Abrams, McLeer
The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation - Rich Cohen
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live - Rob Dunn
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom - Katherine Eban
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? - Bill McKibben
The Crash Detectives: Investigating the World's Most Mysterious Air Disasters - Christine Negroni
The Inescapable Love of God - Thomas Talbott
Law of Attraction: The Science of Attracting More of What You Want and Less of What You Don't - Michael Losier
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees - Thor Hanson
A Woman Like Me: A Memoir - Bettye Lavette, Davit Ritz
Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America - Patrick Carr
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents a Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo - Twiss, Bundo, Keller
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark - Levy, Baddeley
You Only Rock Once: My Life in Music - Jerry Blavat
A God in Ruins - Kate AtkinsonGod - Reza Aslan
Arctic Dreams - Barry Lopez
Murder Past Due - Miranda James
El Norte - Carrid Gibson
A Course In Miracles - Foundation for Inner Peace
Designing Your Life - Bill BurnettSimon Peter - Adam Hamiton
In the Presidents Secret Service - Richard Kessler
The Looming Tower - Lawrence Wright
Utopia For Realists - Rutger Bregman
Winners Take All - Anand Giridharadas
Your Band Is Killing Me - Steven Hyden
Abominable Science - Laxton and Prothero
Unjust - Noah Rothman
Once Second Ahead - Rasmus Hougaard
Buzz - Thor Hanson
Eager - Ben Goldfarb
Meow If Its Murder - TC LoTempio
Twilight of the Gods - Steven Hyden
Jesus Is Risen - David Limbaugh
Heavy Duty - KK Downing
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
Books read in 2018 (faves noted by *)
A Gentelman In Moscow - Amor Towles
Incarnations: A History of India in Fifty Lives - Sunil Khilnani
The Overstory - Richard Powers
Oracle Year - Charles Soule
From Bacteria to Bach and Back - Daniel C Dennett
Sting-Ray Afternoons: A Memoir - Steve Rushin
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir - Sherman Alexie
What If - Matthew Imes
*Hollowing Out The Middle - Patrick J Carr and Marie J Kafalas
On The Edge - Alison Levine
The Immaculate Inning - Joe Cox
*12 Rules of Life - Jordan Peterson
Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well Being - Esther M. Sternberg
*Janesville: An American Story - Amy Goldstein
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery - Scott Kelly
Blues: A Regional Experience - Bob Eagle and Eric S. Leblanc
World In My Eyes: The Autobiography - Richard Blade
The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial - Maggie Nelson
Cheese Chronicles - Tommy Womack
Bunk - Kevin Young
Wild - Cheryl Strayed
*Evicted - Matthew Desmond
Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life - Jonathan Gould
Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
The Hike - Drew Magary
30 books read in 2017 (faves noted by *)
*Killers of the Flower Moon – David Grann
*The Long Road Home - Martha Raddatz
Under the Big Black Sun - John Doe and Tom DeSavia
Big Chicken – Maryn McKenna
*Dealing with the Crazy Makers in Your Life – David Hawkins
Petty: The Biography - Warren Zanes
Falling Up - Raymond D. Strother
*Odyssey of a Derelict Gunslinger - John Camp
Letters from a Skeptic - Dr. Gregory A. Boyd, Edward Boyd, and David C Cook
*Face the Music – Paul Stanley
Strangers in Their Own Land - Russell Hochschild
Extreme Measures - Dr. Jessica Nutik Zitter M.D.
Flow - Mikhaly Csikszentmihalyi
A Time for Miracles - Kathleen Brown
*No god but God - Reza Aslan
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons Complete Illustrated Guide to Warner Brothers Cartoons - Jerry Beck and Will Friedwald
Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements - Bob Mehr
No Friends but the Mountains - Judith Matloff
The Greatest Story Ever Told So Far - Lawrence M. Krauss
*The Case for Christ – Lee Strobel
*Zero Limits – Joe Vitale
The Shack - William P. Young
There Is No Good Card for This - Kelsey Crowe and Emily McDowell
*The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar -Franz Nicolay
The Chameleon - Mark Rosenberg
The Spy - Paulo Coelho
Blue Ocean Strategy – W Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Carol Dweck
But What If We're Wrong? - Chuck Klosterman
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town - Jon Krakauer