Books in bold are superior favorites.
January
(1) Strange Weather in Tokyo, Hiromi Kawakami. Trans. Allison Powell
(2) My Holiday in North Korea: The Funniest/Worst Place on Earth, Wendy Simmons
(3) Biking and Brotherhood: My Journey, Dave Spurgeon
(4) Sword Brethen, Jon Byrne
(5) Primate Made: How the World We Made is Changing Us, Vybarr Cregan-Reid
(6) Before We Forget Kindness, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, trans. Geoffrey Trousselot.
(7) If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Already, Chris Ingraham
(8) Trump: The Art of the Comeback, Donald Trump
(9) The Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry. Audio read by Nick Offerman
(10) Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution, Chuck Marohn. Read by Matthew Boston
(11) Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War, William Manchester
(12) Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear, Eve Holland
(13) The Light Eaters: The Unseen World of Plant Intelligence, Zoe Schlanger
February
(14) 1984 (reread), George Orwell
(15) Conversations with Carl Sagan, ed. Tom Head
(16) Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, Timothy Snyder
(17) Ends of the Earth, Neil Shubin
(18) Sidetracks: 40 True Stories of Hunting and Fishing, Gary Oberg & Trina Holt
(19) Red Dead’s History, Tore C. Olsson
(20) Savage Gods, Paul Kingsnorth
(21) One No, Many Yeses, Paul Kingsnorth
(22) Return of the Great Powers, Jim Sciutto
(23) Lisbon: War in the Shadows, Neill Lochery
(24) The Mature Flâneur, Tim Ward
(25) The Half-Blood Heir, Andrew Wareham
March
(26) Camino Ghosts, John Grisham
(27) The Brass Verdict, Michael Connelly
(28) Open Season, C.J. Box
(29) Savage Run, C.J. Box
(30) The Late Show, Michael Connelly
(31) Winterkill CJ Box
(32) Trophy Hunt, CJ Box
(33) Out of Range, CJ Box
(34) In Plain Sight, CJ Box
(35) Free Fire, CJ Box
(35) Blood Trail, CJ Box
(37) Below Zero, CJ Box
(38) Nowhere to Run, CJ Box
(39) Images of America: Fenway Park, various authors
(40) The Innovators, Walter Isaacson
(41) Cold Wind, CJ Box
(42) Bringing Back the Beaver, Derek Gow
April
(43) Force of Nature, CJ Box
(44) The Last Man in Europe, Dennis Glover
(45) Real England: Battle against the Bland, Paul Kingsnorth
(46) Birds, Beasts, and Bedlam, Derek Gow
(47) Breaking Point, CJ Box
(48) Stone Cold, CJ Box
(49) Endangered, CJ Box
(50) The Professionals, Max Hennessey
(51) Vicious Circle, CJ Box
(52) The Disappeared, CJ Box
(53) Wolf Pack, CJ Box
(54) Long Range, CJ Box
(55) Shots Fired: Stories from Joe Pickett Country, CJ Box
(56) Dark Sky, CJ Box
(57) Shadow Reel, CJ Box
(58) Storm Watch, CJ Box
(59) Three Inch Teeth, CJ Box
(60) Battle Mountain, CJ Box
(61) The Poacher’s Son, Paul Doiron
(62) Massacre Pond, Paul Doiron
(63) Selma’s Mayor: Lessons Learned from the Queen City’s Native Son, Jenney Egertson & George Evans
(64) Trespasser, Paul Doiron
(65) South and West: From a Notebook, Joan Didion
May
(66) The Precipice, Paul Doiron
(67) Stay Hidden, Paul Doiron
(68) Bad Little Falls, Paul Doiron
(69) Trail Mix: Volume 1, Louis L’Amour. Read by Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson.
(70) Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty, Charles Leehrsen
(71) Baseball When the Grass was Real, Donald Honig
(72) For the Love of Country, Tulsi Gabbard
(73) Dead Man’s Wake, Paul Doiron
(74) Baseball Between the Lines, Donald Honig
(75) Fenway 1912, Glenn Stout
(76) Red Metal, Mark Greaney and Rip Rawlings
(77) Assault by Fire, Rip Rawlings
(78) Memories from the Microphone, Curt Smith
(79) Coming to Palestine, Sheldon Richman
(80) Original Sin, Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson
June
(81) The Nixon Conspiracy, Geoff Shepard
(82) The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll. Read by Scarlett Johansson.
(83) Provoked: How Washington Created the New Cold War, Scott Horton
(84) The Presidents and the Pastime, Curt Smith
(85) Star Trek Strange New Worlds: Asylum, Una McCormack
(86) Black Badge: Ace in the Hole, Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle
(87) SHELLI: Murder Mind, Doug Brode
(88) Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan
(89) War, Bob Woodward
(90) Content, Cory Doctorow
(91) Context, Cory Doctrow
(92) Grease: The Phenomenon, Gustavo Jimenez
(93) The House Divided: The Story of the First Congressional Baseball Game, J.B. Manheim
(94) Chernobyl’s Wild Kingdom, Rebecca Johnson
(95) Uncharted, Chris Whipple
July
(96) Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling. Read by Stephen Fry
(97) King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Benedict Flynn. Read by Sean Bean.
(98) Twelve Angry Men. Original teleplay by Reginald Rose, read by ensemble cast.
(99) Friends Divided, Gordon S. Wood
(100) Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates, Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger
(101) Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library, Amanda Oliver
(102) The Magician’s Nephew, C.S. Lewis. Read by Kenneth Branagth
(103) Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, Walter Isaaacson
(104) The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis.Read by Michael York
(105) Crunchy Cons, Rod Dreher
(106) Declaration, William Hogeland
(107) Fawlty Towers: The Complete Collection. John Cleese, Connie Booth, Andrew Sachs, et. al.
(108) For Race and Nation: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party, William Schmaltz
(109) The Fighting Little Judge: The Life and Times of George C. Wallace, Jeffrey K. Smith
(110) Bittersweet, Nevada Barr
(111) When the Moon Hits Your Eye, John Scalzi
August:
(112) Roswell High: The Outsider, Melinda Metz
(113) Roswell High: The Wild One, Melinda Metz
(114) Roswell High: The Seeker, Melinda Metz
(115) Roswell High: The Watcher, Melinda Metz
(116) Roswell High: The Intruder, Melinda Metz
(117) Roswell High: The Stowaway, Melinda Metz
(118) In the Forests of the Night, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
(119) Roswell High: The Vanished, Melinda Metz
(120) Roswell High: The Rebel, Melinda Metz
(121) Roswell High: The Dark One, Melinda Metz
(122) Roswell High: The Salvation, Melinda Metz
(123) Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson, David S. Reynolds
(123) Cancelled: The Shape of Things to Come, Danny King
(124) The Henchmen’s Book Club, Danny King
(125) Husk, Nathaniel Eliason
(126) Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend, Jason Bailey
(127) Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Lost it to Revolution, T.J. English
(128) Operation Underworld: How the Mafia and the US Government Teamed up to Win WW2, Matthew Black
(129) Acts of War, James Young
— September —
(130) Stars and Stripes Forever, Harry Harrison
(131) The Great Deluge, James Brinkley
(132) The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World, Tom Roston
(133) From the Inside Out: Narrow Escapes from the Twin Towers, Erik Ronnigen
(134) Escape from the World Trade Center, Leslie Haskin
(135) SPQR, Mary Beard
(136) Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11, Mitchell Zuckoff
(137) The Storm of the Century, Al Roker
(138) Dominus, Steve Saylor
(139) Riding with Evil, Ken Croke & Dave Wedge
(140) Backcountry Lawman: True Stories from a Florida Game Warden, Bob H. Lee
(141) Knife Creek, Paul Doiron
(142) I Gave You All I Had, M. Humaidh
(143) The Day of Battle, Rick Atkinson
— October —
(144) Merlin’s Tour of the Universe, Neil deGrasse Tyson
(145) American Orthodox, Robert John Hammond
(146) The Iron Dream, Norman Spinrad
(147) Dynasty, Tom Holland
(148) In Distant Lands: A Short History of the Crusades, Lars Brownsworth
(149) The Normans: From Raiders to Kings, Lars Brownsworth
(150) The Accidental Nazi, Ward Wegher
(151) The Improbable Nazi, Ward Wegher
(152) The Impossible Nazi, Ward Wegher
(153) 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey, Kathryn Tucker Windham
(154) Against the Machine, Paul Kingsnorth
November
(155) Time Traveler’s Passport collection. John Sclazi, etc.
(156) All Systems Red, Martha Wells
(157) Star Trek: The Entropy Effect, Vonda McIntyre
(158) The Adventures of Reverend Samuel Entwhistle, Thomas V. Barrett
(160)The Nazi Seizure of Power, William Sheridan Allen
(161) The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science Fiction, D.J. Butler
(162) The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South, Clint Johnson
(162) Over Yonder, Sean Dietrich
(163) For Cause and Comrade, James M. McPherson
(164) Wildlife Wars, Terry Grosz
(165) “Shadowlands“, William Nicholson
(166) The Life of Billy Yank, Bell Irwin Wiley
(167) The Horse and his Boy, C.S. Lewis. Read by Alex Jennings.
(168) The Plain People of the Confederacy, Bell Irwin Wiley
(169) Prince Caspian, C.S. Lewis. Read by Lynn Redgrave.
December
(170) The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography, Alan Jacobs
(171)A Man of Iron, Troy Senik
(172) The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C.S. Lewis. Read by Derek Jacobi.
(173) The Battle Cry of Freedom, James McPherson
(174) Confederate Women, Bell Irwin Wiley
(175)Martin van Buren, Ted Widmer
(176) Franklin Pierce, Michael F. Holt
(177) The Expatriation of Franklin Pierce, Gary Boulard
(178) The Silver Chair, C.S. Lewis. Read by Jeremy Northam.
(179) 1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See, Bruce Chadwick
(180) James Buchanan, Jean H. Baker
Short Stories:
“This Long Vigil“, Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle
“Into the Comet”, Arthur C. Clarke
“The Feeling of Power“, Isaac Asimov
“The Hammer of God“, Arthur C. Clarke
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