Books to Read

Books

Books

Trying to keep a list of the books that come across my radar while I do this to remember to try to read at some point. Bold means I have red it. Italics means I own it.

  • Pill City: How Two Honor Roll Students Foiled the Feds and Built a Drug Empire by Kevin Deutsch
  • Public Opinion by Walter Lippman
  • The New Geography of Jobs by Enrico Moretti
  • How May I Help You?: An Immigrant’s Journey From M.B.A. to Minimum Wage by Deepak Singh
  • A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman
  • The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy by Tressie McMillan Cottom
  • All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
  • An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution by Charles A. Beard
  • The Revolution of Robert Kennedy: From Power to Protest After JFK by John R. Bohrer
  • Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked by Adam Alter
  • All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer
  • How To Be Both by Ali Smith
  • Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer
  • Against the Country by Ben Metcalf 
  • I Saw a Man by Owen Sheers
  • Two Across by Jeff Bartsch
  • Avid Reader by Robert Gottlieb
  • This Starry Deep by Adam P. Knave
  • Good as Gone by Amy Gentry
  • All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda
  • You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott
  • Dancing with the Tiger by Lili Wright
  • Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner
  • Number 11 by Jonathan Coe
  • Leopard at the Door by Jennifer McVeigh
  • IQ by Joe Ide
  • The Winter in Anna by Reed Karaim
  • The Heart of Henry Quantum by Pepper Harding
  • City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
  • The Complete Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett
  • The Populist Explosion by John B. Judis
  • Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
  • Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
  • Broken River: A Novel by J. Robert Lennon
  • Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean
  • Eagle Forgotten, the Life of John Peter Altgeld by Harry Barnard
  • The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh
  • Berlin Noir by Phillip Kerr
  • Hyperfocus: The New Science of Attention, Production, and Creativity by Chris Bailey