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Books

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Still working on this page.

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Trying to capture some of the books I want to read and help spur me on a bit here, heh.

In Progress
  • Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern IrelandPatrick Radden Keefe
  • The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New YorkRobert A. Caro
Complete
  • Will Not Attend: Lively Stories of Detachment and IsolationAdam Resnick
  • Wenger: My Life and Lessons in Red and WhiteArsène Wenger
  • Save Yourself: A MemoirCameron Esposito
  • The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and ChangeCamille Fournier
  • We Should All Be FeministsChimamanda Ngozi Adiche
  • Things Fall ApartChinua Achebe
  • Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 StatesColin Quinn
  • Life Happens: And Other Unavoidable TruthsConnie Schultz
  • What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in EssaysDamon Young
  • RobinDave Itzkoff
  • Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of SoftwareEric Evans
  • Metropolitan LifeFran Lebowitz
  • Social StudiesFran Lebowitz
  • The Stench of Honolulu: A Tropical AdventureJack Handey
  • Me, Myself, and Why: Searching for the Science of SelfJennifer Ouellette
  • Creativity: A Short and Cheerful GuideJohn Cleese
  • So Anyway...John Cleese
  • Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-TangLamont U-G-d Hawkins
  • CirceMadeline Miller
  • Song of AchillesMadeline Miller
  • Mike Nichols: A LifeMark Harris
  • All About Me: My Remarkable Life in Show BusinessMel Brooks
  • Funny Man: Mel BrooksPatrick McGilligan
  • When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter MemoirPatrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandela
  • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon JohnsonRobert A. Caro
  • Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon JohnsonRobert A. Caro
  • The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon JohnsonRobert A. Caro
  • The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon JohnsonRobert A. Caro
  • WorkingRobert A. Caro
  • It’s Good To Be The King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel BrooksRobert Parish
  • The Education of an Idealist: A MemoirSamantha Power
  • Real Artists Have Day Jobs: And Other Awesome Things They Don’t Teach You In SchoolSara Benincasa
  • Free Play: Improvisation in Life And ArtStephen Nachmanovitch
  • Between The World And MeTa-Nehisi Coates
  • An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering ManagementWill Larson
Pending
  • Don’t Applaud. Either Laugh or Don’t: at the Comedy CellarAndrew Hankinson
  • A Promised LandBarack Obama
  • Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A MemoirCharles M. Blow
  • The Devil You Know: A Black Power ManifestoCharles M. Blow
  • Daddy’s Boy: A Son’s Shocking Account of Life with a Famous FatherChris Elliott
  • ... and His Lovely WifeConnie Schultz
  • Lyndon Johnson & The American DreamDoris Kearns
  • The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of JournalismDoris Kearns
  • The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American SagaDoris Kearns
  • Colonel RooseveltEdmund Morris
  • EdisonEdmund Morris
  • The Rise of Theodore RooseveltEdmund Morris
  • Theodore RexEdmund Morris
  • The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural HistoryGreg Woolf
  • Furiously Happy: A Funny Book about Horrible ThingsJenny Lawson
  • Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True MemoirJenny Lawson
  • Nature’s Engraver: A Life of Thomas BewickJenny Uglow
  • The Lady With The Borzoi: Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker ExtraordinaireLaura Claridge
  • Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?: (And Other Concerns)Mindy Kaling
  • A Thousand Ships: A NovelNatalie Haynes
  • I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a WomanNora Ephron
  • Even This I Get to ExperienceNorman Lear
  • The Silence of the GirlsPat Barker
  • The Woman of Troy: A NovelPat Barker
  • Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler DynastyPatrick Radden Keefe
  • The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to LearnRichard W. Hamming
  • Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that MattersRyan Singer
  • Heroes: The Greek Myths ReimaginedStephen Fry
  • Mythos: The Greek Myths ReimaginedStephen Fry
  • Troy: The Greek Myths ReimaginedStephen Fry
  • Thomas Bewick: A Memoir written by himselfThomas Bewick
  • Sula: A NovelToni Morrison
  • The Bluest Eye: A NovelToni Morrison
  • LaviniaUrsula K. Le Guin