A friend’s recent post prodded me to finally write up last year’s reading. My plan is to break this into a few posts, starting with the list here. In borrowing from my friend’s post, I’ll asterisk my favorites. You can read my thoughts the books by following the linked genre titles.
- The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man – James Weldon Johnson
- Loving Day – Mat Johnson
- Imperium in Imperio – Sutton E. Griggs
- *Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
- Another Brooklyn – Jacqueline Woodson
- *When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
- *Truth & Beauty – Ann Patchett
- *Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic – Alison Bechdel
- Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
- *The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August – Claire North
- *The Girl With All The Gifts – Mike Carey
- The Education of Little Tree – Asa Carter
- *A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness
- A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
- We Should All Be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- *Tiny Beautiful Things – Cheryl Strayed
- Cosmopolitanism – Kwame Athony Appiah
- The United States Constitution (in graphic novel form) – Jonathan Hennessey
- Without You, There Is No Us (non-fiction) – Suki Kim
- Searching for Sunday – Rachel Held Evans
- Accidental Saints – Nadia Bolz-Weber
- *Short Stories by Jesus – Amy-Jill Levine
- *The Buried Giant – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Orphan Train – Christina Baker Kline
- I Love I Hate I Miss My Sister – Amelie Sarn
- *The Patron Saint of Liars – Ann Patchett
- Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
- *Our Souls at Night – Kent Haruf
- Benediction – Kent Haruf
- *The Orphan Master’s Son (fiction) – Adam Johnson