Books List - 2017

Ordered by most recently listened to, first.

Audiobooks 

1. F*ck Feelings (2015) - Michael Bennett
2. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (2016) - Jane Mayer
3. When Breath Becomes Air (2016) - Paul Kalanithi
4. The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time (2016) - Arianna Huffington
5. Bossypants (2011) - Tina Fey
6. In Search of Lost Time (Remembrances of Things Past) - Within a Budding Grove (1913-1927) - Marcel Proust 
7. The Princess Diarist (2016) - Carrie Fisher
1. We miss you Carrie
8. Yes Please (2015) - Amy Poehler
9. Night (1960) - Elie Wiesel
10. Just Getting Started (2016) - Tony Bennett
11. In Search of Lost Time (Remembrances of Things Past) - Swann's Way (1913-1927) - Marcel Proust 
12. Gravity's Rainbow (1973) - Thomas Pynchon
1. Much respect for this work--sublime, vulgar...
13. Kabloona (1941) -  Gontran de Poncins
14. What Happened (2017) - Hillary Rodham Clinton
15. Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart (2016) - James Doty
1. Liked this book
16. Are You Anybody? A Memoir (2017) - Jeffrey Tambor
17. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (2011) - Marie Kondo
1. Started putting a few things into practice immediately
18. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (2017) - Roxane Gay
19. So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley (2017) - Roger Steffens
20. Boys in the Trees – A Memoir (2015) - Carly Simon
21. All the Light We Cannot See (2014) - Anthony Doerr
1. Ate a jar of peaches
22. Minecraft: The Island (2017) - Max Brooks
23. Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking (2013) - Douglas R. Hofstadter, Emmanuel Sander
24. The Divine Comedy (1320) - Dante Alighieri
1. "...[H]e followed false images of goodness, which never pay their promises in full." - Purgatorio 30 (note: President Trump's pattern of behavior came to mind)
25. Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) - D. H. Lawrence
26. Anna Karenina (1878) - Leo Tolstoy
27. Ulysses (1922) - James Joyce
1. Utterly baffled and amazed
28. My Life on the Road (2015) - Gloria Steinem
29. No Dream Is Too High (2016) - Buzz Aldrin
1. You're the average of the five people you spend the most time with...Show me your friends, and I will show you your future
30. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2006) - Haruki Murakami
1. Let the exhilaration...at the end of each run carry over to the next day
2. Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness (note: on completion of personal run to Marathon)
3. Local sake, especially Shimehari Tsuru is outstanding
31. You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) (2015) - Felicia Day 
32. The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life (2016) - John le Carré
33. Born on a Blue Day (2006) - Daniel Tammet
34. Jane Eyre (1847) - Charlotte Brontë
35. Based on a True Story: Not A Memoir (2016) - Norm Macdonald
36. Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens (2017) - Eddie Izzard
37. My Own Words (2016) - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
38. Confessions of an Economic Hitman (2004) - John Perkins
39. Wishful Drinking (2008) - Carrie Fisher
40. Dust Tracks On A Road (1942) - Zora Neal Hurston 
41. Between the World and Me (2015) - Ta-Nehisi Coates
42. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (2017) - Phil Knight 
43. The Romanovs: The Final Chapter (1996) - Robert K. Massie
44. The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo (2016) -  Amy Schumer
1. "...like an annoying human zamboni..."
45. The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee (2014) - Marja Mills
46. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (2015) - Ashlee Vance 
47. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (2011) - Robert K. Massie
1. Empress Elizabeth's sunburn rinse: lemon juice, egg white, and French Brandy
2. 34 hours labor for first son Paul: 2:00 a.m. through noon the following day
3. The Annals of Tacitus: caused a singular revolution in her brain
48. Peter the Great: His Life and World (1980) - Robert K. Massie
49. Born To Run (2016) - Bruce Springsteen
50. Shocked (2014) - Carrie Fisher
51. Wild: From lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail (2013) - Cheryl Strayed
52. No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (2006) - Edmund Viesturs
53. Twelve Years a Slave (1853) - Solomon Northup
54. The Greatest: My Own Story (1975) - Muhammad Ali
55. Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings from the Road (2012) - Willie Nelson
56. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly (1852) - Harriet Beecher Stowe
57. Just Mercy (2014) - Bryan Stevenson
58. The 250 Job Interview Questions You'll Most Likely Be Asked (1999) - Peter Veruki
59. Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (2010) - Piper Kerman
60. Chronicles, Volume One (2004) - Bob Dylan (note: abridged, at 4 hours, vs. 10 hours, unabridged)
61. A Burglar's Guide to the City (2016) - Geoff Manaugh
62. Clapton: The Autobiography (2007) - Eric Clapton
• Big fan of The Baby Whisperer books
• Visvim, his favorite shoe
63. Walk Through Walls: A Memoir (2016) - Marina Abramović
64. In Other Words (2016) - Jhumpa Lahiri
65. Girl Undressed (2008) - Ruth Fowler
66. Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (1885) - Ulysses S. Grant
67. Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo (2010) - Vanessa Woods
68. Life (2011) - Keith Richards

Using the Overdrive app.

Print

1. The Colour of Magic (1983) - Terry Pratchett *

* Purchased from Bookshop Santa Cruz.