More books, books, books.

Last year, I read 62 books over 52 weeks - but I was unemployed for about 36 of those weeks. I knew I would never be able to do that when employed so, this year, I settled on reading 12 books. I would only need to read one book per month and that seemed easy enough. See, I know math.

I reached that halfway through the year, so I doubled my goal to 24. At the rate I had been reading, I would reach that goal without any problems. I reached that goal sometime in September. To keep this story short, thanks to several flights across the country and frequent bus rides through the beautiful Canadian countryside, I had more time than expected and read 40 books this year.

Onto the next one.


A Nearly Normal Family

M.T. Edvardsson


A Serial Killer’s Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming

Kerri Rawson


American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Maureen Callahan


Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

Ronan Farrow


Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders

Billy Jensen


Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders

Christopher Goffard


Do You Mind If I Cancel? (Things That Still Annoy Me)

Gary Janetti


The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America

Jim Acosta


Everything is Awful and Other Observations

Matt Bellassai


The Fifth Risk

Michael Lewis


Find Me

André Aciman


For Better and Worse

Margot Hunt


The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness

Susannah Cahalan


Had It Coming: What’s Fair in the Age of #MeToo

Robyn Doolittle


High School

Sara Quin and Tegan Quin


Home Work

Julie Andrews and Emma Walton


I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff

Abbi Jacobson


Inside Out

Demi Moore


The Kind Worth Killing

Peter Swanson


Know My Name

Chanel Miller


Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of “The View”

Ramin Setoodeh


Losing Earth: A Recent History

Nathaniel Rich


Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family

Amanda Jetté Knox


Me

Elton John


No Exit

Taylor Adams


The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11

Garrett M. Graff


Parkland: Birth of a Movement

Dave Cullen


Permanent Record

Edward Snowden


Promise and Peril: Justin Trudeau in Power

Aaron Wherry


She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey


So Here’s the Thing: Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut

Alyssa Mastromonaco


Someone We Know

Shari Lapena


Something in the Water

Catherine Steadman


The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, The FBI, The Media, and Richard Jewell, The Man Caught in The Middle

Kent Alexander and Kevin Salwen


The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump

Andrew G. McCabe


Too Much is Not Enough

Andrew Rannells


Trudeau: The Education of a Prime Minister

John Ivison


Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law

Beverley McLachlin


The Whisper Man

Alex North


The Woman in the Window

A.J. Finn

Riley Lange