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100 Books in 2016

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100 Books in 2016

First of all, I didn’t actually manage to make my goal. So, instead, here are the 88 books I read in 2016.

Matt Muller
Dec 28, 2016
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100 Books in 2016

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First of all, I didn’t actually manage to make my goal. So, instead, here are the 88 books I read in 2016.

tl;dr: Top Fiction

  1. The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

  2. The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie

  3. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller

  4. World War Z, by Max Brooks

  5. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz

Runners-up include anything else Junot Diaz has ever written, The Martian, and The Forever War. Candidate for “most disappointing follow-up to Ready Player One” was Armada by Ernest Cline.

tl; dr: Top Nonfiction

  1. The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan

  2. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

  3. Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

  4. Guantanamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi

  5. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Runners-up include Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus by Douglas Rushkoff, What’s the Matter With Kansas? by Thomas Frank (can you tell I was thinking about politics a lot?) and The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver. The top 5 listed above, however, profoundly impacted my thinking and I would highly recommend them to anyone.

Full List of Fiction

Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton

The Color Purple
Alice Walker

The Martian
Andy Weir

Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe

Fight Club: A Novel
Chuck Palahniuk

A Hologram for the King: A Novel
Dave Eggers

Underworld: A Novel
Don DeLillo

Armada
Ernest Cline

The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway

Dune
Frank Herbert

Thus Spake Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
Gene Kim

Three Lives
Gertrude Stein

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Hunter S. Thompson .

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J.K. Rowling

Deepsix
Jack McDevitt

A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan

The Forever War
Joe Haldeman

East of Eden
John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck

The Winter of Our Discontent
John Steinbeck

Catch-22
Joseph Heller

Drown
Junot Díaz

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz

Bluebeard: The Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916-1988)
Kurt Vonnegut

Galápagos
Kurt Vonnegut

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: A Novel
Kurt Vonnegut

Look at the Birdie: Short Fiction
Kurt Vonnegut

Player Piano: A Novel
Kurt Vonnegut

Slapstick: Or Lonesome No More: A Novel
Kurt Vonnegut

Welcome to the Monkey House: A Collection of Short Works
Kurt Vonnegut

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Max Brooks

The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins

American Pastoral
Philip Roth

Midnight's Children: A Novel
Salman Rushdie

The Satanic Verses: A Novel
Salman Rushdie

The Green Mile
Stephen King

The Things They Carried
Tim O’Brien

The Sympathizer: A Novel
Viet Thanh Nguyen

Full List of Nonfiction

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Brené Brown

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson

Death of the Liberal Class
Chris Hedges

War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
Chris Hedges

I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)
Chuck Klosterman

IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
Chuck Klosterman

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Chuck Klosterman

Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
David Foster Wallace

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
David Talbot

The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge
Doc Searls

Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
Douglas Rushkoff

Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life
Douglas Wilson

The Lean Startup
Eric Ries

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
Eric Schlosser

Orthodoxy
G.K. Chesterton

Democratic by Design: How Carsharing, Co-ops, and Community Land Trusts Are Reinventing America
Gabriel Metcalf

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J.D. Vance

Bush
Jean Edward Smith

The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx

Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
Keith Ferrazzi

Ethics of Big Data: Balancing Risk and Innovation
Kord Davis

Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell

Why We Can't Wait
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou

Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
Michael Hayden

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Michael Pollan

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollan

Guantánamo Diary
Mohamedou Ould Slahi

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't
Nate Silver

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Nicholas Carr

Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
Noam Chomsky

Profit Over People : Neoliberalism and Global Order
Noam Chomsky

The Coming Aristocracy
Oliver DeMille

When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi

Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
Radley Balko

The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
Richard Feynman

How Judges Think
Richard Posner

Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
Saul Alinsky

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Sebastian Junger

Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison
Shaka Senghor

Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Steve Krug

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Susannah Cahalan

Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates

What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
Thomas Frank

Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World
Timothy Morton

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