Books I Consumed in 2016

I’d call this post “Books I Read in 2016,” but…well…audiobooks ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A Few Stats

• 77 books completed: 30 eBooks, 25 paperbacks, 18 audiobooks, 4 hardbacks (Average 0f 6.41 books per month)
• Pages read: 18,048 (Average of 305.89 pages per book)
• Audiobook time accrued: 217 hours, 45 minutes (Slightly over 9 total days of listening, mostly during commutes and yardwork)
• Rating Breakdown: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (27), ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (31), ⭐⭐⭐ (14), ⭐⭐ (5) (I was pretty selective this year and put a good deal of thought into each book I started, hence the high volume of fours and fives. I think I might take this selective approach moving forward. Life is too short to read terrible books.)

If you’ve read any of the following books and want to chat, or have questions about specific books, I’d love for you to leave a comment so we can discuss.

Fiction (in no particular order)

(🔥 indicates my top 7 fiction reads of the year)

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• Armada by Ernest Cline
• 🔥 The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1) by Liu Cixin (I’m cheating and applying a single 🔥 for the entire series)🔥
• The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #2) by Cixin Liu
• Death’s End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #3)by Liu Cixin
• The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge by Michael Punke
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker’s Guide #2) by Douglas Adams
• 🔥 The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow 🔥
• Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker’s Guide #3) by Douglas Adams
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• The Quiet American by Graham Greene
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
• A Canticle of Leibowitz by Walter Miller (re-read)
• I, Claudius by Robert Graves
• Claudius the God: And His Wife Messalina by Robert Graves
• A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes #1) by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Doctor is Sick by Anthony Burgess
• The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Cartel by Don Winslow
• 1984 by George Orwell (re-read)
• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Hitchhiker’s Guide #4) by Douglas Adams
• Playback by Raymond Chandler
• Young Zaphod Plays It Safe (Hitchhiker’s Guide #0.5) by Douglas Adams
• Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
• 🔥 Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy 🔥
• 🔥 Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 🔥
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• 🔥 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 🔥
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• 🔥 A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 🔥
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (re-read)
• Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
• The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O’Connor
• Allegra Maud Goldman by Edith Konecky
• The Short Drop by Matthew Fitzsimmons
• Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker’s Guide #5) by Douglas Adams
• 🔥 Dark Matter by Blake Crouch 🔥
• The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway

Non-fiction (also in no particular order)

(🔥 indicates my top 7 non-fiction reads of the year)

• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
• Why Nations Fail by Daren Acemoglu
• 1776 by David McCullough
• 🔥 When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi 🔥
• 🔥 Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 🔥
• The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Lencioni
• The Little Book of Icelanders by Alda Sigmundsdóttir
• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
• 🔥 John Adams by David McCullough 🔥
• Buck by M.K. Asante
• A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton
• Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education by Mychal Denzel Smith
• Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
• Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• 🔥 Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Lawrence Bergreen 🔥
• Basin and Range (Annals of the Former World #1)by John McPhee
• Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens
• Love Wins by Rob Bell
• 🔥 Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing 🔥
• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
• The Pursuing God by Joshua Ryan Butler
• Utah Driving Handbook by Utah Department of Public Safety
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
• 🔥 The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder by Peter Zeihan 🔥
• The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger
• Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie
• High Output Management by Andrew Grove
• Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
• 🔥 The Only Rule Is It Has To Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller 🔥
• Soviet Space Dogs by Olesya Turkina
• Intercom on Customer Engagement by Des Traynor
• Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

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