2023 Books I've Read

 

 

Here are my ratings for the 50 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 worldview. 

Please weigh in with recommendations. Especially seeking to diversify into more fiction and more non-white and female authors. Also trying to sprinkle in longer reads and classics. Tell me your must-reads!
  1. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Peterson) 4
  2. K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches (Kepner) 3
  3. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Bandele, Cullors) 3
  4. Iliad (Homer) 3
  5. Odyssey (Homer) 3
  6. Them: Why We Hate Each Other and How to Heal (Sasse) 3
  7. We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True (Union) 3
  8. Get Out of Your Own Way: A Skeptic’s Guide to Growth and Fulfillment (Hollis) 3
  9. The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power (Mask) 4
  10. Americanah (Adichie) 4
  11. Goldfinch (Tartt) 4
  12. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (DiAngelo) 3
  13. The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great (Shapiro) 3
  14. As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock (Gilio-Whitaker) 3
  15. The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers (King) 4
  16. Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram (Sesay) 4
  17. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death (Doughty) 4
  18. The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays (Wang) 3
  19. The Poetry of Strangers: What I Learned Traveling America with a Typewriter (Sonia-Wallace) 3
  20. Soul Care: 7 Transformational Principles for a Healthy Soul (Reimer) 3
  21. Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas (Raff) 4
  22. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (Beaton) 3
  23. Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Pessl) 2
  24. Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life (Peterson) 3
  25. A Test for Our Time: Crisis Leadership in the Next Normal (Tang) 4
  26. Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away (Duke) 4
  27. Crazy Rich Asians (Kwan) 4
  28. China Rich Girlfriend (Kwan) 4
  29. Rich People Problems (Kwan) 4
  30. Sex and Vanity (Kwan) 3
  31. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Yong) 4
  32. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Mukherjee) 4
  33. Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet (Homans) 3
  34. Prayer for the City (Bissinger) 3
  35. Making a Scene (Wu) 3
  36. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us (Aviv) 3
  37. Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America (Fallows) 4
  38. Phenotypes (Scott) 2
  39. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story (Bono) 3
  40. Golf for Enlightenment: The Seven Lessons for the Game of Life (Chopra) 3
  41. Say You're One of Them (Akpan) 2
  42. The Anomaly (Le Tellier) 4
  43. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Hämäläinen) 4
  44. Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America (Eustace) 3
  45. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir (Perry) 3
  46. This Is Your Time (Ruby Bridges) 3
  47. Poverty, by America (Desmond) 4
  48. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity (Price) 4
  49. Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime (Stallworth) 4
  50. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Noah) 3
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