2018 Books I've Read

Here are my ratings for the books I read in the past 12 months.  In case you've forgotten, the scale goes like this: 1 - pass, 2 - some good some bad, 3 - recommended, 4 - can't stop raving about it, 5 - fundamentally 
changed my life.

Please weigh in with recommendations.  If you have been following this list over the years, you see an evolution in greater diversity in authors and topics, although still overwhelming non-fiction.  I welcome hearing about must-reads.

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (Grant) 4

The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (Diamond) 3

Every Little Step: My Story (Brown) 3

First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies (Brower) 4

The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds (Lewis) 3

The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 (Curtis) 3

Negroland: A Memoir (Jefferson) 3

Rediscovering Americanism: And the Tyranny of Progressivism (Levin) 3

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars (Sobel) 3

Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama (Garrow) 4

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Adichie) 3

Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him (Henry) 3

First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America's First Black Public High School (Stewart) 3

Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court (Abdul-Jabbar) 3

It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership (Powell) 3

The Turner House (Fluornoy) 4

We Should All Be Feminists (Adichie) 3

Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom  (Rice) 3

168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think (Vanderkam) 3

For Cities to Thrive (Diamond) 3

The Social Innovator's Playbook: A Process to Develop Great Products and Services, Dedicated Employees, and Great Teams: A Company's Guide to Creating Innovation from the Bottom Up (Torres/Hansen-Turton) 3

The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It (McGonigal) 4

Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space (Shetterly) 4

The Bonesetter’s Daughter (Tan) 3

Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House (Mastromonaco) 3

Prince: A Private View (Shahidi) 3

One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays (Koul) 3

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Isenberg) 4

Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 (Murray) 3

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Tyson) 3

Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone (Nadella) 4

Buzzed: The Straight Facts about the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy (Kuhn) 4

Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle (Flake) 3

When Breath Becomes Air (Kalanithi) 4

The Woman Upstairs (Messaud) 3

Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy (Sandberg) 3

It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living (Savage) 4

Written Out of History: The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big Government (Lee) 3

Brave (McGowan) 4

The Underground Railroad (Whitehead) 3

Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose (Biden) 3

Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital (Oshinsky) 3

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Vance) 4

Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors (Ambrose) 3

Where the Past Begins: Memory and Imagination (Tan) 3

Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics (O'Donnell) 4

Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood (Damour) 4

Women & Power: A Manifesto (Mary Beard) 4

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes (Rutherford) 3

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? (Godin) 2

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Coates) 4

The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir (Bui) 3

The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic (Duncan) 3

Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived (Scalia) 4

Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit (Matthews) 3

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Ferguson) 3

Jackie, Janet & Lee: The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill (Taraborrelli) 3

Hands-on Parenting: A Natural Guide to Happier, Healthier, Smarter Kids & Parents (Toporek) 2

Unified: How Our Unlikely Friendship Gives Us Hope for a Divided Country (Scott, Gowdy) 4

1.    On Such a Full Sea: A Novel (Lee) 3