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Hadriana in All My Dreams by René Depestreġ6. Lonely Planet Pocket Bilbao & San Sebastian (Travel Guide)ġ5. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppardġ4. Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Norsġ1. The Plague (after La Peste) by Albert Camus, adapted by Neil Bartlettġ0. A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossmanĩ. Madame Verona Comes Down the Hill by Dimitri VerlhurstĨ. The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha MukherjeeĬompleted books: ( TBR = book acquired prior to 1/1/16)Ģ. I'll use a red check mark to indicate which books I've finished reading. As usual I'll follow my favorite literary prizes, namely the Wellcome Book Prize, the Booker Prize, and the Man Booker International Prize, and read as many books about medicine, illness and public health as I can. I'll participate in at least one group read, which will be led by Rachel ( The_Hibernator) and is based on the article 6 Books to Help Understand Trump’s Win, which appeared in The New York Times shortly after Election Day. Obviously there is no way that I'll get to all of these books this year or next, but I want to keep these books on my radar screen, and hopefully finish the majority of them in the next two or three years. With this in mind, I looked through my library and chose books that I was most interested in reading, which I've listed in different categories below. The result of the Brexit vote and the US election came as a shock to many of us on the left, and several LTers have expressed a wish to learn more about the rise of populism, the resentment of the white working and middle classes that is fueling it, and the minority populations in the US and abroad whose liberties are under greater threat from far right wing governments and emboldened xenophobic individuals. I've also read very few of the meatier and more meaningful books that I've purchased over the past few years, as I was more focused on meeting an artificial goal of reading a set number of books. So far I've only read five novels by authors from the African diaspora this year, and only a handful of the nonfiction books in this category. Despite my repeated failures to reduce my massive pile of unread books or restrict my book purchases, I once again vow that this year will be different, and that I will slay the TBR giant in 2017!Ģ016 was the worst reading year I've had in over a decade, and it was a terrible one politically for many liberals and moderates in the US and the UK.
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A new year is nearly upon us, which gives me another opportunity to reflect on the past year in reading, and, in the spirit of Don Quixote, make grandiose proclamations about my plans for the year to come.