January 2018 Book List
Amazon
Literature and Fiction
Red Clocks: A Novel by Leni Zumas
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
Green: A Novel by Sam Graham-Felsen
The Boat People: A Novel by Sharon Baia
Heart Spring Mountain: A Novel by Robin MacArthur
Oliver Loving: A Novel by Stefan Merrill Block
The Music Shop: A Novel by Rachel Joyce
A State of Freedom: A Novel by Neel Mukherjee
This Could Hurt: A Novel by Jillian Medoff
Biographies and Memoirs
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD by Bill Minutaglio, Steven L. Davis
Here’s the Real Magic: A Magical Search for Wonder in the Modern World by Nate Staneforth
Winter by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Brave by Rose McGowan
The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta by Kushanava Choudhury
The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica by Laurie Gwen Shapiro
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, ashe bendele
The Wizard and the Prophet, Two Remarkable Scientists and their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World by Charles L. Mann
Furnishing Eternity: A Father, A Son, a Coffin and a Measure of Life by David Giffels
The Girl on the Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century by Simon Baatz
Mysteries and Thrillers
The Wife: A Novel of Psychological Suspense by Alifair Burke
Robicheaux: A Novel by James Lee Burke
The Woman in the Window: A Novel by A. J. Finn
Gnomon: A Novel by Nick Harkaway
The Bomb Maker by Thomas Perry
Anatomy of a Scandal: A Novel by Sarah Vaughan
Need to Know: A Novel by Karen Cleveland
The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
Munich by Robert Harris
The Chalk Man: A Novel by C. J. Tudor
The Wife Between Us: A Novel by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen
Nonfiction
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Kevin Simler and Robin Hansen
The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam by Max Boot
When: The Scientific Study of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World by Charles L. Mann
The Deepest Will: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Nadine Burke Harris, MD
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter by Margareta Magnusson
Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I’m Learning to Say by Kelly Corrigan
Saving Tarboo Creek: One Family’s Quest to Heal the Land by Scott Freeman, Susan Leopold Freeman
Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children by Sara Zaske
Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life and the Next War on Violence by Patrick Sharkey
The New York Times Book Review (Abbreviated Lists at Christmas Time because Special Seasonal Books are Reviewed, which I won’t list here)
December 17th
Nonfiction
Cartoon Country by Collen Murphy
Vacationland by John Hodgeman
The Gifted Generation by Daniel Goldfield
A Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary, translated by John Markham
The Kites by Romain Gary
The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992 by Tina Brown
Bloodlines by Melissa del Boque
The Trade by Jere Van Dyk
Fiction
The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
Timeless by Armand Baltazar
December 24th
Nonfiction
God: A Human History by Reza Aslan
What the Qur’an Meant by Garry Wills
Belonging: 1492-1900 by Simon Schama
The Book of Separation by Tora Mirvis
The Great Shift by James L Kugel
The Exodus by Richard Elliott Friedman
The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah by Adam Valen Levinson
Martin Luther by Eric Metaxas
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
Bethlehem, Tracing the Life of a Storied Little Town by Nicholas Blincoe
Heaven on Earth by Michael Shermer
Finding Oneself in a Coffin by David Giffels
Fiction
Crimes of the Father by Thomas Keneally
By the Book by Francis Ford Coppola
Found object
Harriet Tubman’s hymnal
December 31st
Nonfiction
Windfall by Meghan O’Sullivan
Megafire by Michael Kodas
Firestorm by Edward Struzik
The Great Quake by Henry Fountain
Quakeland by Kathryn Miles
The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen
Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History’s Most Iconic Extinct Creatures by Ben Megrich
Understanding the Mammoth: A Tale of Giants, Unicorns, Ivory, and the Birth of a New Science by John McKay
The Only Girl in the World by Maude Julien
The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg
Inheritance of the Earth by Chris Thomas
So Many Books, Choose Wisely 