100 Books in 2016
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4 min readDec 28, 2016
First of all, I didn’t actually manage to make my goal. So, instead, here are the 88 books I read in 2016.
tl;dr: Top Fiction
- The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
- Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
- World War Z, by Max Brooks
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz
Runners-up include anything else Junot Diaz has ever written, The Martian, and The Forever War. Candidate for “most disappointing follow-up to Ready Player One” was Armada by Ernest Cline.
tl; dr: Top Nonfiction
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
- Guantanamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Runners-up include Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus by Douglas Rushkoff, What’s the Matter With Kansas? by Thomas Frank (can you tell I was thinking about politics a lot?) and The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver. The top 5 listed above, however, profoundly impacted my thinking and I would highly recommend them to anyone.
