This year I kept having the sense that I was way behind my normal reading pace, but somehow I still ended up reading 25 books. I wouldn’t say it was a great year. There was nothing particularly outstanding. Nevertheless, I really enjoyed The Lonesome Dove series, The Tress and Purgatorio. The Spanish Game, a spy novel set in the early 2000s Madrid, made me think I should go off somewhere to write a story about my first years in the city.
The big disappointments were the Stephane Crane biography which I found unreadable and Zorba the Greek which was just so bad and outdated. Anyways, here is the entire list in reverse chronological order:
- Empire of Ice and Stone: the Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk by Buddy Levy (currently reading).
- Historic Tales of Gasparilla Island by David Futch.
- Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4) by Larry McCurtry
- Dead Man’s Walk (Lonesome Dove, #3) by Larry McCurtry
- Slammed (Slammed, #1) by Colleen Hoover
- The Trees by Percival Everett
- Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
- Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder
- A Heart So White by Javier Marias
- Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant
- Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gumah
- Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa by Susan Gilson Miller
- The Spanish Game (Alec Milius #2) by Charles Cumming
- The First 90 Days: Cri#cal Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels by Michael D. Watkins
- The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
- Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom
- The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond by Chris Blackwell
- The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (a re-read)
- In the Country of Others by Leila Slimani
- Purgatorio by Jon Sistiaga
- Streets of Laredo (Lonesome Dove, #2) by Larry McCurtry
- Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
- Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1) by Larry McCurtry
- Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich by Harald Jähner
- Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane by Paul Auster
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