Best Books You Read This Year

Cafe Society
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Note that these don’t have to have been published this year. I’m only including books I read for the first time, but you can choose ones you’ve reread.

I’m doing my Top Ten, but feel free to put in as few or as many as you choose.

  1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
  2. The Control of Nature, by John McPhee
  3. Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik
  4. The Library Book, by Susan Orlean
  5. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis
  6. Good Omens, or The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
  7. Autonomous, by Annalee Newitz
  8. The Starship and the Canoe, by Kenneth Brower
  9. Bunch of Amateurs: Inside America’s Hidden World of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Job Creators, by Jack Hitt
  10. Early Riser, by Jasper Fforde
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Looking over the books I read this past year, I see that the ones to which I gave 5 stars on Goodreads are

Math With Bad Drawings, by Ben Orlin
So Brave, Young and Handsome, by Leif Enger
Joyland, by Stephen King
The Wind Through the Keyhole, by Stephen King
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, by Sydney Padua