I try to read at least one book a month for pleasure or to learn something not directly related to my work. This year I read 17 books to completion, four fiction and 13 non-fiction titles.
Here they are, in the order that I finished them:
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot
“Super Sad True Love Story” by Gary Shteyngart
“Eating the Dinosaur” by Chuck Klosterman
“The Blind Side” by Michael Lewis
“American Fried” by Calvin Trillin
“Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs” by Chuck Klosterman
“Unfamiliar Fishes” by Sarah Vowell
“Friday Night Lights” by H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger
“The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World” by Eric Weiner
“The Lost City of Z” by David Grann
“Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer
“Lost in Shangri-La” by Mitchell Zuckoff
“A Visit from the Goon Squad” by Jennifer Egan
“Berlin Blues” by Sven Regener
“Eleven” by Mark Watson
“Boomerang” by Michael Lewis
“The Pirates of Somalia: Inside their Hidden World” by Jay Bahadur
Two issues of “Granta: The Magazine of New Writing”
One-third to two-thirds of each issue of “The New Yorker”
Hi Chris,
I also read Rebecca Skloot’s book and found myself staying up at night because I could not put it down. It is such an amazing story, from a medical ethics point of view and from the family’s point of view.
I also read “In the Gardens of the Beast,” by Erik Larson, that takes place in Berlin as Hitler takes power. You and Sarah might be interested in reading it also.