Books, books, books.
Over the past 52 weeks, I have read 62 books. As we head into 2019, I have stacks and stacks of books throughout my apartment that are just begging to be read — and I keep buying more. I bought two more yesterday and my list only continues to grow. See below for the books I read this year, and please share any good ones you have read recently.
A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America
T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
James Comey
A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
Kevin Hazzard
All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
Matt Bai
Are You Sleeping?
Kathleen Barber
Baby Teeth
Zoje Stage
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou
Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction
David Sheff
Becoming
Michelle Obama
Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family
Garrard Conley
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Susannah Cahalan
Call Me by Your Name
André Aciman
Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling
Amy Chozick
Chasing Light: Michelle Obama
Amanda Lucidon
The End of Eddy
Édouard Louis
Enigma Variations
André Aciman
Fear: Trump Inside the White House
Bob Woodward
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Michael Wolff
From the Corner of the Oval
Beck Dorey-Stein
The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
Chris Whipple
History of Violence
Édouard Louis
How to be Safe
Tom McAllister
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Alexander Chee
Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
Nathan H. Lents
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Michelle McNamara
I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Iain Reid
In Pieces
Sally Field
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
Bill Hayes
I’ve Got This Round: More Tales of Debauchery
Mamrie Hart
Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty
Diane Keaton
Many Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s)
Sophie Lucido Johnson
Meaty
Samantha Irby
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
Matthew Sullivan
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Emily M. Danforth
Motherhood
Sheila Heti
My Stories, My Times
Jean Chrétien
Need to Know
Karen Cleveland
Obama: An Intimate Portrait
Pete Souza
One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus
The Poisoned City: Flint;’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy
Anna Clark
Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
Joe Biden
The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, and Other Appreciations
John McCain
Robin
Dave Itzkoff
Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
Michael Isikoff and David Corn
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
Tanya Talaga
Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda
Becky Albertalli
So Close to Being the Shit, Y’all Don’t Even Know
Retta
Spoiler Alert, The Hero Dies: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-Letter Words
Michael Ausiello
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Anthony Ray Hinton
The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife
Lucy Cooke
Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
Portia de Rossi
Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
Katy Tur
Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House
Omarosa Manigault Newman
United States of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists
Peter Bergen
The Visitors
Catherine Burns
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
Ronan Farrow
We the Animals
Justin Torres
West Winging It: An Un-Presidential Memoir
Pat Cunnane
White American Youth: My Descent into America’s Most Violent Hate Movement — and How I Got Out
Christian Picciolini
The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House
Ben Rhodes
Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump
Dan Pfeiffer
You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession
Piper Weiss