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My Reading Year, 2011
Ten great books I read this year: Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry “I’m sure partial to the evening,’ Augustus said. ‘The evening and the morning. If we just didn’t have to have the rest of the dern day...
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My reading year, 2012
15 great books I read this year, in no particular order: Book I couldn’t believe wasn’t more popular Tim Kreider’s We Learn Nothing Book that introduced me to one of my new favorite thinkers Sarah...
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My reading year, 2013
Breakthrough this year: thinking of books as potential experiences, not just objects. Matching up a book with my mood, life situation, etc… In 2013 I had a book to write and an infant to care for, both...
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My reading year, 2014
I read over 70+ books this year, a personal record. (Here’s how.) In no particular order, here are 20 personal favorites… Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? The perfect blend of...
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My reading year, 2015
I read 60+ books this year, not as much as last year, but I also quit a bunch of books, and we had another baby, so, here are 20 favorites: Tove Jansson, Moomin: The Deluxe Anniversary Edition No book...
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My reading year, 2016
10 books I loved this year, in no particular order: Marilynne Robinson, Gilead I loved this novel, which runs on the voice of the main character, an old preacher named John Ames, who is writing a...
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My reading year, 2017
I read so many good books this year, but here are 15 favorites: Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves To Death Earlier this year Postman’s son Andrew wrote an op-ed with the title, “My dad predicted Trump in...
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My reading year, 2018
Here are 20 good books I read in 2018, in no order other than the order in which I read them: Tape For The Turn of the Year A.R. Ammons In 1963, Ammons got a roll of adding machine tape from the...
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My reading year, 2019
Here are 20 good books I read this year (minus the book I wrote) in roughly the order I read them: The Labyrinth Saul Steinberg First published in 1960. Out of print for years. Now beautifully...
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20 great books I read in 2020
This reading year started out strong, somehow got even stronger during the early spring days of lockdown, peaked in the summer, and then was obliterated by election season. (It has yet to fully...
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My reading year, 2023
Here are all the books I finished in 2023. I am tempted to just leave them here in this big visual pile and say nothing else about them. I’m tired of making these lists! And I often wonder if I stop...
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