Book Recommendations: 2019

Out of the 144 audiobooks and 3 print books I listened to/read in 2019, these represent my favorites, in no particular order:

• The Idiot (2017) - Elif Batuman
• Everything's Trash, But It's Okay (2018) - Phoebe Robinson
• The Cooking Gene (2017) - Michael W. Twitty
• Educated: A Memoir (2018) - Tara Westover
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It (2016) - Christopher Voss
• Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook (2010) - Anthony Bourdain (and his first book as well, but trying to limit to one per author)
• The Last Black Unicorn (2017) - Tiffany Haddish
• As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride (2014) - Cary Elwes
• Everything Trump Touches Dies (2018) - Rick Wilson
• The House of Broken Angels (2018) - Luís Alberto Urrea
• The Island of Sea Women (2019) - Lisa See
• No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir (2019) - Ani DiFranco
• Becoming Superman: My Journey From Poverty to Hollywood (2019) - J. Michael Straczynski
• The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California (2019) - Mark Arax
• Exhalation: Stories (2019) - Ted Chiang

I would wholeheartedly recommend these and consider reading/listening to them again (in at least one case I have).

Note: a special recognition for audiobook "High School (2019) - Tegan Quin and Sara Quin", for enhancing the narrative inline with musical performances and other spoken word articulations. Brava!