Favorite titles in bold, reflection to follow later today or tomorrow.

January

(1) Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto, Alan Stern & David Grinspoon
(2) Think Like an Ecosystem: An Introduction to Permaculture, Amelia des Plantes
(3) People Habitat: 25 Ways to Think About Greener, Healthier Cities, F. Kaid Benfield
(4) Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains, Bethany Brookshire
(5) Buzz Sting Bite :Why We Need Insects, Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
(6) Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey, Jack Loeffler
(7) One Life at a Time, Please, Ed Abbey
(8) Origins: 14 Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith
(9) The Incredible Winston Browne, Sean Dietrich
(10) Revolutionary Characters: Why the Founders were Different, Gordon S. Wood
(11) Serenity: Better Days, Joss Whedon
(12) Dinner on Mars: The Technologies that will Feed the Red Planet, Lenore Newman & Evan Fraser
(13) Laughing all the Way to the Mosque, Zarqa Narwaz
(14) Copenhagenize: The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism, Mikhail Colville-Andersen
(15) The South’s Okayest Writer, Sean Dietrich

February
(16) Cold as Hell; Rhett Bruno, Jaime Castle. Narrated by Roger Clark.
(17) Sean of the South: Whistling Dixie, Sean Dietrich
(18) Hidden History of Chilton County, Alabama, Billy J. Singleton
(19) My Antonia, Willa Cather
(20) The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2, Jane Poynter
(21) Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin
(22) Darkest Hour, James Holland
(23) Early Alabama: An Illustrated Guide to Alabama’s Formative Years (1798 – 1826), Mike Bunn
(24) The Joyful Christian: 127 Readings, C.S. Lewis.
(25) Monroeville and the Stage Production of “To Kill a Mockingbird”, John Williams
(26) The Reactionary Mind: Why Conservative Isn’t Enough, Michael Warren Davis

March
(27) The Romance of Religion, Fr. Dwight Longenecker
(28) Blood of Honour, James Holland
(29) The Other Side of the Bay, Sean Dietrich
(30) The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot, Bart Ehrman
(31) Paul Among the People, Sarah Ruden
(32) Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life, Tish Harrison Warren
(33) Pompey, Plutarch. Transl.
(34) The Caesars, Volume I: Caesar, Colossus of Rome, Lars Brownsworth
(35) The Boys from Biloxi, John Grisham
(36) The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, GP Publishers
(37) Invasion! They’re Coming! Paul Carell
(38) The Other Side of the Bridge, Timothy E. Paul
(39) Weep No More, My Lady: A Southerner Responds to Mrs. Roosevelt, W.B. Debnam
(40) Purgatorio, Dante. Translator Anthony Esolen.
(41) Waters of the World, Sarah Dry
(42) The Nostalgia Nerd’s Retro Tech, Peter Leigh

April
(43) Hitler’s Armada: The Royal Navy and the Defense of Britain, Geoff Hewitt
(44) Essex Dogs, Dan Jones
(45) Invasion: From The Armada to Hitler, Frank McLynn
(46) The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings, adapted by Dan Jones.
(47) The War to End All Wars: Falling into Battle, Andrew Wareham
(48) Blockade Billy, Stephen King
(49) The Beauty of the Beastly, Natalie Angier
(50) Tuck, Stephen Lawhead
(51) Robin Hood: A True Legend, Sean McGlynn
(52) The Glory of their Times: The Story of Early Baseball from the Men Who Played It, Lawrence Ritter
(53) Will the Circle Be Unbroken? A Memoir of Learning to Believe You’re Gonna Be OK, Sean Dietrich
(54) The Acts of King Arthur and his Knights, John Steinbeck
(55) Scenes from Prehistoric Life: from the Ice Age to the Coming of the Romans, Francis Pryor
(56) Dead Acre, Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle Read by Roger Clark.

May
(57) How to Grow Old, Cicero. Read by Roger Clark.
(58) How Baseball Happened, Thomas Gilbert. Read by George Newbern.
(59) Our Man in Charleston: Britain’s Secret Agent in the Civil War South, Christopher Dickey
(60) Britannia, Simon Scarrow
(61) Breaking Down Breaking Bad: Unpeeling the Layers of TV’s Greatest Drama, Eric San Juan
(62) Baseball in Alabama, Doug Wedge
(63) The Confederate Reader: The War as the South Saw it, Richard Harwell
(64) The Life of Johnny Reb: The Common Soldier of the Confederacy, Bell Irwin Riley
(65) Tales from the Deadball Era, Mark Halfon
(66) Log Cabin Pioneers: Songs, Stories, and Sayings, Wayne Erbeson
(67) Humans of New York, Brandon Stanton
(68) Humans, Brandon Stanton
(69) Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe, Ian Stewart
(70) Being Better: Stoicism for a World Worth Living In, Kai Whitling, Leonidas Konstantakos. Read by Liam Gerrard
(71) Air: The Restless Shaper of Our World, William Bryant Logan
(72) The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science, Will Storr
(73) Other Minds: the Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, Peter Godfrey-Smith

June:
(74) Whispers of the Gods: Tales from Baseball’s Golden Age, Peter Golenblock. Read by Mike Chamberlain.
(75) Dignity: Seeking Respect in Backrow America, Chris Arnade
(76) Vein Pursuits, Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle
(77) Sparring Partners, John Grisham
(78) Faces Along the Bar: Lore and Order in Workingmen’s Saloons, 1870-1920. Madelyn Powers
(79) The Island of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells
(80) Paradiso, Dante. Translated Anthony Esolen.
(81) Them: Adventures with Extremists, Jon Ronson
(82) Angels, Barbarians, and Nincompoops, Anthony Esolen
(83) Inside the Klavern: The Secret History of a Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, ed. David Horowitz
(84) The Elephant in the Room, Jon Ronson
(85) Level Up, Craig Anderson
(86) The Dirty Life: on Farming, Food, and Love, Kristin Kimball
(87) Baseball in Blue and Gray: The National Pastime During the Civil War, George Kirsch
(88) Debutante: From High Society to White Supremacy, Jon Ronson
(89) The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson
(90) Bringing it to the Table, Wendell Berry
(91) Nine Pints: The Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood, Rose George
(92) Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, P.G. Wodehouse
(93) A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman
(94) The 99% Invisible City, Roman Mars
(95) Naked at Lunch: A Reluctant Nudist’s Adventures in the Clothing-Optional World, Mark Haskell Smith
(96) A Brief History of Motion, Tom Standage
(-) Beezus and Ramona, Beverly Cleary
Henry and the Paper Route, Beverly Cleary
Ramona and her Father, Beverly Cleary
Goosebumps: One Day at Horrorland, R.L. Stine

July
(97) Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight Before NASA, Amy Shira Teitel
(98) British Soldiers, American War: Voices of the American Revolution,  Don Hagist
(99) The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women, Rosalie Gilbert
(100) The Invisible Man: The Life and Liberties of H.G. Wells, Michael Coren
(101) The Presidents Club: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Fraternity, Nancy Gibbs & Michael Duffy
(102) Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump, Kate Anderson Brower
(103) The Trump White House, Ronald Kessler
(104) The Residence, Kate Anderson Brower
(105) First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power, Kate Anderson Brower
(106) Not Tonight, Josephine! Adventures in Small Town America, George Mahood
(107) Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space, John Young
(108) First Family Detail, Ronald Kessler
(110) Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journeys, Mike Collins
(111) We Have Capture, Tom Stafford

Everyone Else’s Parents Said Yes, Paula Danzinger
Earth to Matthew, Paula Danzinger
The Boxcar Children, Gertrude Chandler Warner
Amber Brown is Not a Crayon, Paula Danzinger
Make Like a Tree and Leave, Paula Danzinger
Not for a Billion Gajillion Dollars, Paula Danzinger
Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
Amber Brown is Green with Envy, Paula Danzinger
Henry and Beezus, Beverly Cleary
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Kristy and the Snobs, Ann M. Martin
Sideways Stories from Wayside High, Louis Sachar

August
(112) The Last Republicans: Inside the Extraordinary Relationship between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, Mark K. Updegrove
(113) My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
(114) The Fight of his Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House, Chris Whipple
(115) 41: A Portrait of my Father, George W. Bush
(116) Hope Never Dies: An Obama/Biden Mystery, Andrew Schaffer
(117) Off the Planet: My Five Months Aboard the Space Station Mir, Jerry M. Lineger
(118) Night Witches: A Novel of World World 2, Kate Latksy
(119) Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone, Brian Switek
(120) Out of Orbit, Chris Jones
(121) Day of Atonement, David Liss
(122) Warcross, Marie Lu
(123) Woke Up this Morning: The Definitive Oral History of the Sopranoes, Michael Imperioli, Steve Schirripa et. al.
(124) The Dumbest Generation, Mark Bauerlein
(125) The Four Winds, Kristin Hannah
(126) The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dustbowl, Timothy Egan
(127) Mythic Realms: The Moral Imagination in Literature and Film, Brad Birzer
(128) Mass Killings: Myth, Reality, and Solutions, David T. Hardy
(129) The Killing Floor, Lee Child
(130) The Parasitic Mind, Gad Saad

September
(131) Friday the Rabbi Slept Late, Harry Kemelman
(132) The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics, Michael Malice
(133) Storm Front, Jim Butcher
(134) The Lives They Saved, L. Douglas Kenney
(135) The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web is Changing What We Read and How We Think, Eli Pariser
(136) The Jewish Annotated New Testament, various authors
(137) Star Trek Strange New Worlds: The High Country, David Mack
(138) Star Trek: Living Memory, Christopher L. Bennett
(139) Star Trek: The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway, Una McCormack. Read by Kate Mulgrew.
(140) Flags of our Fathers, James Bradley
(141) Like, Comment, and Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination, Mark Bergen
(142) Starter Villain, John Scalzi
(143) The Dark Web Dive, John Forsay
(144) The People vs Tech, Jamie Bartlett
(145) The Glass Cage: Automation and Us, Nicholas Carr

October
(146) The Dispatcher, John Scalzi. Read by Zachary Quinto.
(147) Murder by Other Means, John Scalzi. Read by Zachary Quinto.
(148) Millennium, John Varley
(149) James Moriarty, Consulting Criminal, Andy Weir. Read by Graehme Malcolm
(150) True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier, Vernor Vinge. Essays by Richard Stallman, Tim May, etc.
(151) Facebook: the Inside Story, Steven Levy
(152) The Shockwave Rider, John Brunner
(153) The Heinlein Interview (and other Heinleiniana), J. Neil Schulman
(154) Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction, Alec Nevala-Lee
(155) ST TOS: In Harm’s Way, David Mack
(156) ST TOS: A Child of Two Worlds, Greg Cox
(157) Will Storr vs the Supernatural: One Man’s Search for the Truth about Ghosts, Will Storr
(158) The Science of Ghosts: Searching for the Spirits of the Dead, Joe Nickell
(159) Neuromancer, William Gibson
(160) Influx, Daniel Suarez
(161) Metatropolis, ed. John Scalzi
(162) The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Brains, Max Fisher

November
(163) The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier, Ian Urbina
(164) Hellfire, James Holland
(165) Feminism Against Progress, Mary Harrington
(166) Eve in Exile: The Restoration of Femininity, Rebekah Merkle
(167) Uhtred’s Feast, Bernard Cornwell & Suzanne Pollak
(168) The Devil’s Pact, James Holland
(169) The Moral Animal, Robert Wright
(170) The Pilgrim’s Regress, C.S. Lewis
(171) The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein
(173) The Excluded Americans: Homelessness and Housing Policy, William Tucker
(173) With Good Intentions? Reflections on the Myth of Progress, Bill Kauffman
(174) Waste Away: Living and Working on an American Landfill, Joshua Reno
(175) Anti-Social Media, Siva Vaidhyanathan
(176) Ordinary, Average Guy: Uncensored Memoirs of a Trailer Park Refugee, Michael Hankins

December
(177) A Craftman’s Legacy: Why Working With Our Hands Gives Us Meaning, Eric Gorges
(178) Hitler’s American Friends, Bradley W. Hart
(179) Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania, Tom Woods
(180) A Tudor Christmas, Alison Weir and Siobhan Clark
(181) Wooden Churches: A Celebration, Rick Bragg
(182)God Rest Ye Merry, Soldiers, James McIvor
(183) The Six: America’s First Female Astronauts, Loren Grusch
(184) Swimming with Serpents, Sharman Burson Ramsey
(185) All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
(186) The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office From Two Best Friends Who Were There, Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey
(187) The War on Boys, Christina Hoff Sommers
(188) Cemetery Road, Greg Iles
(189) The Master Switch, Tim Wu.
(190) In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat, and Renewal, Richard Nixon
(191) Travel by Bullet, John Scalzi