It’s been way too long since my last post, but life, work, and all the obligations that come and go betwixt and between have conspired to put the kibosh on my blogging mojo. I’m taking advantage of a rare moment of clarity amidst the otherwise rushed holiday season to write the sequel to this post, in which I outlined my reading list for the first half of 2017.
As I write this post, I am juggling three books, which I anticipate will be the last three books I read in 2017. If that ends up being the case, I will have finished the year having read 65 books (50 more than originally intended), by far the most I have ever read in a year as an adult. I plan to put up a separate post in the coming weeks breaking down my 2017 reading habits by format as well as listing my favorites of the year, but for now, here are the books I’ve read/am reading since late summer, in reverse chronological order:
- The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race, by Neda Maghbouleh
(in progress) - Better than Carrots or Sticks, by Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, & Nancy Frey
(in progress) - The Myth of the Spoiled Child, by Alfie Kohn
(in progress) - Racism without Racists, by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
- The Social Life of Information, by John Seely Brown & Paul Duguid
- The Corsican Brothers, by Alexandre Dumas
- The Shock Doctrine, by Naomi Klein
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Wrecking Crew, by Kent Hartman
- We Were Eight Years in Power, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Forty Million Dollar Slaves, by William C. Rhoden
- Creative Schools, by Sir Ken Robinson
- Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight, by M.E. Thomas
- Portnoy’s Complaint, by Philip Roth
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking, by Susan Cain
- Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult, by Bruce Handy
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, by Ibram X. Kendi
- Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002, by David Sedaris
- Meetings Suck, by Cameron Herold
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer, by Donella H. Meadows
- Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, by Roxane Gay
- Fargo Rock City, by Chuck Klosterman
- Teaching What You Don’t Know, by Therese Huston
- Al Franken: Giant of the Senate, by Al Franken
- The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
- Bad Feminist, by Roxane Gay
- The Death of Expertise, by Tom Nichols
- Never Caught: The Washington’s Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge, by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
- No Is Not Enough, by Naomi Klein
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz
As always, I’m open to recommendations – if you’ve read anything good this year, please let me know!
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