I recently asked people for their favorite books of those they had read so far in 2019, and the resulting Twitter thread was kinda wonderful. Like usual, however, it was a lot of work to extract actual links to actual books, so I didn’t do it. I am therefore indebted to @proales for doing the hard work and then emailing the results to me, which I can now share.
• Lonesome Dove
• Thinking in Bets
• The Godfather
• The Beggar’s Opera
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
• Bad Blood
• Shantaram
• AI Superpowers
• All The King’s Men
• Broken Earth Trilogy
• A Man Called Ove
• Principles
• The Sympathizer
• The Wizard and the Prophet
• The Fifth Risk
• Quirky
• Being Mortal
• Adaptive Markets
• Camelot’s End
• Why We Sleep
• Mr Five Percent
• Reasons to Stay Alive
• The Courage to be disliked
• Skunk Works
• Saudi America
• Billion Dollar Whale
• Less
• Myth of Capitalism
• Book of 5 Rings
• Power Ball
• Kitchen Confidential
• Factfulness
• Trial of Strength: Adventures and Misadventures on the Wild and Remote Subantarctic Islands
• Darwin’s first theory
• The Wright Brothers
• The Nexus trilogy (Book 1, Book 2, Book 3)
• So you wanna talk about race
• Culture Code
• All the Light We Cannot See
• A World Undone
• The Periodic Table
• Three body problem
• Prophet of Freedom
• Circe
• Wild Bill
• 13.8 The quest to find the true age of the universe
• The Border
• Giovanni’s Room
• Last Samurai
• Lord of Finance
• The Scarecrow
• The Longevity Solution: Rediscovering Centuries-Old Secrets to a Healthy, Long Life
• Energy and Civilization: A History
• Red Notice
• The Swerve
• The Goodness Paradox
• Guns, Germs and Steel
• Musashi
• The Art of Racing in the Rain
• How Children Succeed
• Can’t Hurt Me
• The Myth of the Rational Market
• Jeff Buckley: From Hallelujah to the Last Goodbye
• The Leopard (Gattopado)
• King killer Chronicles (Book 1, Book 2)
• Siddhartha
• Hooked
• One of Ten Billion Earths
• The Dark Forest
• Shoe Dog
• There Will Be No Miracles Here
• The Sunset Limited
• Just Mercy
• The Dream Machine
• Skin in the Game
• Cadillac Desert
• Exodus
• Endure
• Underbug
• Radical Candor
• The Discovery of Slowness
• The Man Within My Head
• Sir Vidia’s Shadow
• American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassins
• Beyond the 100th Meridian
• Atomic habits
• Nixonland
• Reporter (by Sy Hersch)
• Creative Selection
• The Painter By Peter Heller
• Who is Michael Ovitz
• Master of the Senate
• The beginning of infinity
• From the Diaries of John Henry (???)
• The Gene: An Intimate History
• The Reformation
• Empire on the Edge
• Educated by Tara Westover
• If We Can Keep It
• The History of Love
• Rise and kill first
• The Day the Bubble Burst
• Sapiens
• Nolo contendere
• Total Anecdotal
• Rules of Civility
• Milkman
• Weight of the Earth: Tape Diaries of David Wojnarowicz
• The Witch Elm
• Bloodlands
• Bird by Bird
• Far field
• John McPhee, Draft No. 4
• Inferior
• A Confederacy of Dunces
