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100 Books in 2017

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100 Books in 2017

Every year, I set a personal goal of reading 100 books. This past year, I took the LSAT and started law school, so my list is… somewhat…

Matt Muller
Feb 7, 2018
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100 Books in 2017

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Every year, I set a personal goal of reading 100 books. This past year, I took the LSAT and started law school, so my list is… somewhat lacking, to say the least. So without further ado, here are the 27 books I managed to finish in 2017.

tl;dr: Top Fiction

  1. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

  2. The Pale King by David Foster Wallace

  3. The Sellout by Paul Beatty

tl;dr: Top Non-Fiction

  1. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

  2. Twitter and Tear Gas by Zeynep Tufekci

  3. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Full List of Fiction

We Never Make Mistakes
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Pale King
David Foster Wallace

It Can't Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis

Choke
Chuck Palahniuk

The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood

The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen

Jailbird
Kurt Vonnegut

The Crucible
Arthur Miller

The Sellout
Paul Beatty

Full List of Non-Fiction

Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Jane Meyer

Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
Zeynep Tufekci

Identity and Data Security for Web Development
Jonathan LeBlanc

The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Jeffrey Toobin

Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror
Peter Jan Honigsberg

Gideon's Trumpet: How One Man, A Poor Prisoner, Took His Case to the Supreme Court and Changed the Law of the United States
Anthony Lewis

How Will You Measure Your Life?
Clayton M. Christiansen

The Undercover Economist
Tim Harford

Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Erik Larsen

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder

The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
Masha Gessen

No Is Not Enough: Resisting the New Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
Naomi Klein

Letter to a Christian Nation
Sam Harris

A History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell

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