A Year of Books
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| A Book: photo by Cliff Hutson |
Here’s my annual list of all the books I read the previous year. (For comparison, this is the one for 2023.) I read 48 books of fiction, science fiction and nonfiction. While it was two sort of my goal, that seemed like a decent total. But, it is said that; "Comparison is the thief of joy". Thus I felt a bit down when I saw that David Allen, whom I have been measuring myself against for the past few years, read 55.
However, this morning, when The Guardian saw fit to print a headline proclaiming ‘I read 35 books this year!’ I perked up a bit.
Anyway here is my list:
1. "The Hammer of God," Arthur C. Clark
2. "My Gun Has Bullets," Lee Goldberg
3. "Dead Space," Lee Goldberg
4. "The Left Hand of Darkness," Ursula K. Le Guin
5. "A People's Guide to Orange County," Gustavo Arellano et al.
6. "Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team," John Steinbeck
7. "Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly," John Cardina
8. "Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories," Elmore Leonard
9. "The Seed Detective," Adam Alexander
10. "The Secret," Lee Child and Andrew Child
11. "Basketball for Dummies," Richard "Digger Phelps, et al.
12. "The Big Goodbye," Sam Wasson
13. "Ten Birds That Changed the World," Stephen Moss
14. "Shock Wave," John Sandford
15. "Basketball (and Other Things)," Shea Serrano
16. "Movies (and Other Things)," Shea Serrano
17. "The Four Foundations of Golf," Jon Sherman
18. "Sacred Mounds," Jim Metzner
19. "The Talk," Darrin Bell
20. "Unnatural Habitat," Craig Stanford
21. "Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging," Sebastian Junger
22. "The Last Rose of Shanghai," Wein Dai Randel
23. "Four Fish," Paul Greenberg
24. "Farewell Amethystine," Walter Mosley
25. "Wildlife Preserves: A Far Side Collection," Gary Larson
26. "Eats, Soots & Leaves," Lynne Truss
27. "The Perfect Protein," Andy Sharpless and Suzannah Evans
28. "The Invention of Prehistory," Stefanos Geroulanos
29. "The Bogey Man," George Plimpton
30. "Golf in the Kingdom," Michael Murphy
31. "Golf Dreams," John Updike
32. "Up on the Woof Top," Spencer Quinn
33. "A Farewell to Arfs," Spencer Quinn
34. "Paper Lion," George Plimpton
35. "The Silk Roads," Peter Frankopan
36. "Outside Lanes," A.J. Stewart
37. "The Waiting," Michael Connelly
38. "Football for Dummies," Howie Long, John Czarnecki
39. "Women," Charles Bukowski
40. "The Backyard Bird Chronicles," Amy Tan
41. "The Downhill Lie," Carl Hiaasen
42. "Hoops," Walter Dean Myers
43. "Falling Is Not An Option," George Locker
44. "Black Ball," Theresa Runstedtler
45. "Tooth and Claw," Craig Johnson
46. "Big Jim and the White Boy," David F. Walker, Marcus Kwame Anderson
47. "The Breaks of the Game," David Halberstam
48. "Evergreen," Naomi Hirahara
Does anybody care to share what they read last year?
