It started in March 2015 when I was wondering how many books a year I usually read. I thought “100 sounds about right.” It turns out I was so, so wrong. I managed 100 between March 2015 and March 2016 (see post here: https://celloerin.blogspot.com/2016/05/100-books.html). I then decided 50 books a year is a reasonable goal for me. Now that two years have passed and I’ve read another 100 books, here’s the long, possibly boring lists. I remember most of these books pretty well...mostly.
2016-2017 (bolded books are fiction. Sadly our computer died-died and lost some files, including my list, so some books in December/January are missing.) Two years after this first list, the books that have stayed with me include #3 (Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks), #15 (Women Don’t Ask), #43 (Weapons of Math Destruction), and #48 (A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea).
- 05/20/2016 The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (for bookclub)
- 05/24/2016 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (read aloud to Charlotte)
- 05/28/2016 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- 05/28/2016 Why We Came to the City by Kristopher Jansma
- 05/29/2016 Ways to Disappear by Idra Novey (story of Brazillian writer)
- 06/07/2016 Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe by Greg Ip
- 06/10/2016 The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny (for bookclub; about monks)
- 06/12/2016 The Lost Time Accidents by John Wray
- 06/15/2016 Balanced and Barefoot : How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Capable Children by Angela Hanscom
- 06/25/2016 The Importance of Being Little: What Preschools really Need from Grownups by Erika Christakis
- 07/09/2016 Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
- 07/10/2016 The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde (for bookclub)
- 07/10/2016 “Doing School” How We Are Creating Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students by Denise Clark Pope
- 07/13/2016 Not Working by Lisa Owens (millennial coming-of-age story)
- 07/21/2016 Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever
- 07/22/2016 The Foundation Center’s Guide to Proposal Writing, 6th ed. by Jane C. Geever
- 07/23/2016 Positive Parenting: An Essential Guide by Rebecca Eanes
- 07/23/2016 Maxed Out: American Moms on the Brink by Katrina Alcorn
- 07/28/2016 The Speed of Trust by Stephen Covey
- 08/17/2016 Mother, Can You Not? by Kate Siegel (for sub-bookclub)
- 08/17/2016 The Water-Saving Garden by Pam Penick
- 08/20/2016 The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (for bookclub)
- 09/16/2016 Understanding and Reducing College Student Departure by Braxton, Hirschy, and McClendon
- 09/18/2016 Nonprofit Fundraising Strategy: A Guide to Ethical Decision Making by Janice Gow Petty
- 10/07/2016 Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver (for bookclub)
- 10/23/2016 Vampira: Dark Goddess of Horror by W. Scott Poole
- 11/18/2016 Social Statistics for a Diverse Society, 7th Edition by Chava Frankfort-Nachmias & Anna Leon-Guerrero (for class)
- 11/20/2016 Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly (for bookclub)
- 11/22/2016 The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence by Dacher Keltner
- 11/23/2016 The Gate-Keepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College by Jacques Steinberg
- November The Mountain Shadow by Gregory David Roberts (sequel to 11)
- December Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa by Haruki Murakami
- December Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
- December Book #1 lost – computer died and lost list
- December Book #2 lost – computer died and lost list
- December Book #3 lost – computer died and lost list
- January 2017 Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan (for bookclub)
- January 2017 The Guineveres by Sarah Domet (for bookclub)
- January 2017 Improving Survey Questions by Floyd J. Fowler, Jr. (for class)
- January 2017 Survey Research Methods by Floyd J. Fowler (for class)
- 01/30/2017 Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports is Crippling Undergraduate Education by Murray Sperber
- 02/04/2017 Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
- 02/05/2017 Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
- 02/08/2017 Oh Crap! Potty Training by Jamie Glowacki
- 02/18/2017 Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese O’Neill
- 02/24/2017 Truly, Madly, Guilty by Liane Moriarty
- 03/08/2017 Magpie Murders by Anthony Hororwitz
- 03/16/2017 A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: The Journey of Doaa Al Zamel by Melissa Fleming (for bookclub)
- 03/17/2017 The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
- 03/20/2017 Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky (so, so boring)
2017-2018 (bolded are fiction). I’m still amused that by looking at dates, I can tell as soon as I was out of classes for breaks, because all the books get finished pretty quickly. The gaps in October are from defending and then re-working my dissertation proposal. Good times. Books from the past year that have stayed with me include my introduction Adam Grant #2 (Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World) and #8 (Give and Take). The ideas presented in #9 have given me lots to think about (Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion), all the non-fiction in from 30 to 50 below stayed with me, as did #43 (The Answers).
- 04/09/17 Love and Friendship by Jane Austen. Read aloud to Charlotte
- 04/14/17 Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant
- 04/29/17 After the Quake by Haruki Murakami (for bookclub)
- 04/29/17 UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World by Michele Borba
- 04/30/17 The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality by Walter Benn Michaels
- 05/05/17 Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozzi Adichie. Read aloud to Charlotte. For bookclub.
- 05/10/17 The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
- 05/23/17 Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success by Adam Grant
- 05/27/17 Against Empathy: the Case for Rational Compassion by Paul Bloom
- 06/03/17 The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion. For bookclub.
- 06/14/17 Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly
- 06/23/17 Writing Successful Grant Proposals by Ellen W. Gorsevski
- 07/07/17 All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai (time travel book)
- 07/07/17 Maybe This Time by Jennifer Crusie. For bookclub.
- 07/13/17 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- 07/20/17 Everything You Want Me To Be by Mindy Mejia
- 07/30/17 The Whole Brain Child by Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
- 08/08/17 Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller
- 08/13/17 The Blind Contessa's New Machine by Carey Wallace (sub-bookclub)
- 08/16/17 We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
- 09/03/17 I See You by Clare Mackintosh (train – personal ads)
- 10/02/17 A Change of Climate by Hilary Mantel (missionaries to South Africa)
- 10/03/17 Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
- 10/23/17 Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew Sullivan (bookclub; set in Denver)
- 10/24/17 Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant
- 10/29/17 The Fifth Avenue Artists Society by Joy Callaway
- 11/02/17 Buying the Best: Cost Escalation in Elite Higher Education by Charles T. Clotfelter
- 11/08/17 Austenland by Shannon Hale
- 11/13/17 Midnight in Austenland by Shannon Hale (cheesey sequel to #28)
- 11/14/17 Insight: Why We're Not as Self-Aware as We Think by Tasha Eurich
- 11/16/17 Sourdough by Robin Sloan (for bookclub)
- 11/26/17 Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
- 12/02/17 The New Urban Crisis by Richard Florida
- 12/24/17 Drunk Tank Pink and Other Forces That Shape How We Behave by Adam Alter
- 12/24/17 The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
- 12/25/17 Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker by Gregory Maguire (sub-bookclub)
- 12/30/17 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (bookclub)
- 01/04/18 The Sea House by Elizabeth Gifford
- 01/11/18 Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini
- 01/15/18 The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age by David Callahan
- 01/15/18 Departure by A. G. Riddle
- 01/19/18 A Thousand Coloured Castles by Gareth Brookes
- 01/24/18 The Answers: A Novel by Catherine Lacey
- 01/29/18 The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
- 02/15/18 Murder at the House of Rooster Happiness by David Casarett
- 02/15/18 The Missing Guests of the Magic Grove Hotel by David Casarett (bookclub)
- 02/25/18 The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss
- 03/05/18 The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
- 03/23/18 The Misfortune of Marion Palmer by Emily Culliton (current DU student)
- 03/23/18 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
