Category: Annual Review

  • Ranking the 23 books I read in 2022

    Ranking the 23 books I read in 2022

    It’s the eight installment (wow) of my annual year in reading. You can see past lists here. 23. God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut Jr. It’s pretentious and doesn’t have much of a plot. Read Cat’s Cradle or Slaughterhouse Five instead. Wikipedia 22. Cold Mountain – Charles Fraiser Struggled to finish this novel […]

  • Ranking the 27 books I read in 2021

    Another year, another reading list.

  • Ranking the 40 books I read in 2020

    Ranking the 40 books I read in 2020

    Headlined by Master Switch and Nickel Boys, 2020 was a big year in readings.

  • Ranking the 35 best books I read in 2019

    Ranking the 35 best books I read in 2019

    Like most people online, I’m always looking for book recommendations. So each year I’ve made it a habit of recapping every book I’ve read. If book recommendations are you thing, here are my book recommendations from 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2018. On to 2019’s list. 35. Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics – Stephen Greenblatt A Harvard […]

  • Ranking the 28 Books I Read In 2018

    Ranking the 28 Books I Read In 2018

    2018 was a year of contrasts. From a personal level, things have never been better. I got promoted, bought a house, and got married. As I said, for me, things have never been better. However, America seems to be edging itself closer and closer to outright fascism. Migrant children are dying because Government agents are […]

  • Ranking the 29 best books I read in 2016

    Ranking the 29 best books I read in 2016

    2016 was a bizarre year. Donald Trump won the Presidential election. The Chicago Cubs won the World Series. Uber grew its revenue and still lost $3 billion. It’s been 1,000 days since a major American suburb has poisonous water–and nothing has been done. General Electric re-made itself–again. A 74-year-old socialist almost won a major party’s Presidential nomination. The long-awaited digital […]

  • Ranking the Best 34 Books I Read in 2015

    Ranking the Best 34 Books I Read in 2015

    Contrary to what I want to believe 2015 is nearing an end and that means it is time to create my annual list of recommended books. If 2014 was my personal apocalypse, 2015 was the most demanding, unpredictable, and rewarding year of my life. Reading-wise I found myself diving head first into the civil rights […]

  • Ranking the 38 Books I Read in 2014

    Ranking the 38 Books I Read in 2014

    It’s the end of the year, which means it is time for ugly sweater parties and “best of lists”. 2014 was a pretty eclectic year in reading for me. For a short time I got obsessed with the journalism of Jon Ronson and then the novels of David Benioff, only to meander down to Presidential biographies. […]