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Friday, January 31, 2020
"Language is much more than a carrier of information.
Language gives the reader the words she or he needs to manage their internal situation.
This matters."
-Jeanette Winterson
NYTimes
By the Book
9/26/19
Sunday, January 10, 2016
The Tally Over the Last Seven Years
I started keeping a list of the books I read in a given year in 2009.
I read:
40 Books in 2009,
52 Books in 2010,
67 Books in 2011,
68 Books in 2012,
69 Books in 2013,
58 Books in 2014,
44 Books in 2015.
My Year in Books, By the Numbers
Out of the 44 books I read in 2015, there were:
Books Written by Men: 15
Books Written by Women: 29
Fiction Books: 21
Nonfiction Books: 23
Graphic Novels: 8
Young Adult Books: 6
Audio Books: 0
Monday, January 4, 2016
Books Read in 2015
(chronological)
King Dork, Approximately
by Frank Portman
History of the Rain
by Niall Williams
As You Wish
by Cary Elwes
Names For the Sea
by Sarah Moss
Small Victories
by Anne Lamott
The Carrier
by Sophie Hannah
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
by Roz Chast
The Girl On the Train
by Paula Hawkins
The Art of Asking
by Amanda Palmer
Revolution
by Deborah Wiles
Walking Home
by Simon Armitage
Funny Girl
by Nick Hornby
Four Letters of Love
by Niall Williams
Stories of My Life
by Katherine Paterson
Bad Feminist
by Roxane Gay
A Dangerous Place
by Jacqueline Winspear
Mobile Library
by David Whitehouse
The Shadow Cabinet
by Maureen Johnson
My Brilliant Friend
by Elena Ferrante
Unabrow
by Una Lamarche
Black Dove, White Raven
by Elizabeth Wein
March: Book One
by John Lewis
March: Book Two
by John Lewis
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed
edited by Meghan Daum
Displacement
by Lucy Knisley
Spinster
by Kate Bolick
The Folded Clock
by Heidi Julavits
Shotgun Lovesongs
by Nickolas Butler
Find the Good
by Heather Lende
The Sculptor
by Scott McCloud
Meanwhile in San Francisco
by Wendy MacNaughton
The Carnival at Bray
by Jessie Ann Foley
Don't Pigeonhole Me!
by Mo Willems
I'll Give You the Sun
by Jandy Nelson
Luckiest Girl Alive
by Jessica Knoll
Then They Came For Me
by Maziar Bahari
The Story of a New Name
by Elena Ferrante
The Little Paris Bookshop
by Nina George
Woman With a Secret
by Sophie Hannah
Art Before Breakfast
by Danny Gregory
Girl Waits With Gun
by Amy Stewart
Why Not Me?
by Mindy Kaling
Drawn & Quarterly: 25 Years
by Tom Devlin
Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl
by Carrie Brownstein
Saturday, April 11, 2015
Top Books I Enjoyed in 2014
(in alphabetical order)
An Age of License
Being Mortal
The Big Tiny
Drift
Rose Under Fire
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
10% Happier
We Were Liars
Wonder
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