I'm not really good at introducing lists.
So here are some favorite books I read during 2016. Let me know what you think! What should I read in 2017? What were some of your favorites of the year?
Biggest surprise: The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton
So here are some favorite books I read during 2016. Let me know what you think! What should I read in 2017? What were some of your favorites of the year?
Biggest surprise: The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton
Favorite book every white person should read: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Favorite book by an author I read for the first time: Austerlitz by W. G. Seabald
Most beautiful prose on fly fishing I’ve ever read (and some of the most beautiful prose period): A River Runs Through It by Norman MacLean
Favorite canonical novel I should have read a long time ago: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Favorite graphic novel: Saga: Volume 5 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
Favorite novel I should have finished by now: The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
Favorite oral history: Voices From Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
Favorite essay collection: The Death of Adam by Marilynne Robinson
Favorite short story collection: The Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley
Favorite poetry collection: Requiem for Used Ignition Cap by J. Scott Brownlee
Favorite poetry collection: Requiem for Used Ignition Cap by J. Scott Brownlee