Every year as a tip of the hat to my OCD nature I keep a list of all the books I've read.
This does come in handy hosting the occasional book show on WOSU.
Even better, I'm just nosy and I really want to know what everybody else has been reading. It becomes I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours.
So where's my list this year?
I've lost it (!)
New computers, new configurations, forgot to save some files, whatever.
OCD and senility.
But I do remember several of the titles that I Most enjoyed in 2016.
I still want to know what YOU have been reading.
Can you share on this blog?
My favorite reads of 2016:
All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Nearly a fairy tale in the beauty of the writing, but the depiction of war and he aftermath of war makes it vivid and troubling.
Moonglow Michael Chabon
A man sits with his dying grandfather and wonders ensue!
Eileen Otessa Moshfegh
She has no redeemable qualities but Moshfegh is a writer who makes you care about and root for Eileen
The Heavenly Table Donald Ray Pollock
Great characters, completely authentic diction and locales. Another winner from Donald Ray Pollock. So much fun to cheer on the bad guys!
Patient HM Luke Dittrich
Part memoir part horror story. A troubling page turner.
The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead
You ARE there !
Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance
What it is to be poor fifty miles from where I am typing these lines, where drugs are a way out and a death sentence
Evicted: Politics and Profit in the American City Matthew Desmond
On my ten page per day journeys in 2016 I read
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky
Middlemarch George Eliot
and am hoping to begin Tom Wolfe's You Can't Go Home Again
C'mon what did YOU read and love this year:
This does come in handy hosting the occasional book show on WOSU.
Even better, I'm just nosy and I really want to know what everybody else has been reading. It becomes I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours.
So where's my list this year?
I've lost it (!)
New computers, new configurations, forgot to save some files, whatever.
OCD and senility.
But I do remember several of the titles that I Most enjoyed in 2016.
I still want to know what YOU have been reading.
Can you share on this blog?
My favorite reads of 2016:
All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Nearly a fairy tale in the beauty of the writing, but the depiction of war and he aftermath of war makes it vivid and troubling.
Moonglow Michael Chabon
A man sits with his dying grandfather and wonders ensue!
Eileen Otessa Moshfegh
She has no redeemable qualities but Moshfegh is a writer who makes you care about and root for Eileen
The Heavenly Table Donald Ray Pollock
Great characters, completely authentic diction and locales. Another winner from Donald Ray Pollock. So much fun to cheer on the bad guys!
Patient HM Luke Dittrich
Part memoir part horror story. A troubling page turner.The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead
You ARE there !
Hillbilly Elegy J.D. Vance
What it is to be poor fifty miles from where I am typing these lines, where drugs are a way out and a death sentence
Evicted: Politics and Profit in the American City Matthew Desmond
On my ten page per day journeys in 2016 I read
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky
Middlemarch George Eliot
and am hoping to begin Tom Wolfe's You Can't Go Home Again
C'mon what did YOU read and love this year:
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