Posting yearly reading lists has become risky as of late, but that won’t stop me. As with last year’s this is more of a guide than a mandate: I may — but probably won’t — read all of them. Odds are, my favorite book of the year won’t even be one on the list.
- The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again (M. John Harrison)
- Hitler (Joachim C. Fest)
- NRSV, The C. S. Lewis Bible (C. S. Lewis et al.)
- 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Eric H. Cline)
- Rules of Civility (Amor Towles)
- The Odyssey (Homer, Emily Wilson translation)
- Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (Plutarch, Dryden translation)
- Station Eternity (Mur Lafferty)
- Talent (Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross)
- Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life (Luke Burgis)
- The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success (Albert-László Barabási)
- An Immense World (Ed Young)
- From Baghdad to Boardrooms: My Family’s Odyssey (Ezra K. Zikha and Ken Emerson)
- Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection (Sam Apple)
- How to Listen to Jazz (Ted Gioia)
- Whole Earth Discipline (Stewart Brand)
- The Revolt of the Masses (Ortega y Gasset)
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years (David Graeber)
- Against Method (Paul Feyerabend)
- I Am a Strange Loop (Douglas R. Hofstadter)
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Annie Dillard)
- Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
- Empty Space: A Haunting (M. John Harrison)