This was a really terrible book-reading year for me. Three surgeries clouded my head enough to make sustained concentration difficult: I started a lot of books, but finished precious few. The only novels I finished were, frankly, pulpy stuff. I hope to get my game back in 2012.
Here are some of the books I read to completion this year:
"Bossypants" by Tina Fey.
"The Conscience of a Liberal" by Paul Krugman.
"Winner-Take-All Politics" by Paul Pierson and Jacob S. Hacker.
"Cooking Solves Everything" by Mark Bittman (Kindle Single).
"The Gated City" by Ryan Avent (Kindle Sngle).
"The Great Stagnation" by Tyler Cowen (Kindle Single).
"Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain.
"Star Trek: The Lost Years" by J.M. Dillard.
"Power Wars" by Charlie Savage (Kindle Single).
"The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction" by Alan Jacobs.
"Empire of Illusion" by Chris Hedges.
"The Score" by Richard Stark.
UPDATE: "The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood" by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Surprised I forgot this one, since it unsettled me so.
It's cheating, really, to count the Kindle Singles. Like I said: It was a horrible reading year for me. I have an excuse, but it still feels like I wasted time. Grrr. 2012, excelsior!
UPDATE II: A week later, I've added Kurt Vonnegut's "Mother Night," Justin Blessinger's "The Favorite," and Founding Fathers' "The Federalist Papers" to my list of completed books for 2011. That makes the list a bit less lame.
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Do you use GoodReads to keep track of your books -- or do you just write them down?
I'm really bad about remembering to use GoodReads, frankly. But you prompted me to look and reminded me of a book that actually made a big impact on me this year.
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