My Top Books Read in 2020
2020 was an unpredictable year. It threw most everyone's best laid plans into chaos. Much of what I hoped to accomplish this year was wholly unattainable. However, one area where I accomplished more than I expected in 2020 was reading. I did not set a specific goal this year, rather I wanted my reading to be driven more by my desire to read, than by trying to read a certain volume of books. I very much enjoyed the books I read in 2020. I want to share some thoughts on the top ten books I read this year:
Fredrik Backman is my favorite author. His writing is whimsical and heartwarming. This book is right in his wheelhouse, it is the perfect mix of tragic and hilarious, believable and absurd. At its core, this book deals with human connection and the impact people have on each other. Once I picked it up, I could not put it down. I don't really want to talk about the details of this book, because I hope you read it and that it takes you on a journey, with all the twist and turns and surprises the author intended. This book definitely pulled at my heartstrings. Backman once again wrote an excellent piece of literature.
1. The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry
Quotes:
“You don't manage the truth. You tell the truth.”
“So the final lesson of 1918, a simple one yet one most difficult to execute, is that those who occupy positions of authority must lessen the panic that can alienate all within a society. Society cannot function if it is every man for himself. By definition, civilization cannot survive that. Those in authority must retain the public’s trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best. A leader must make whatever horror exists concrete. Only then will people be able to break it apart.”
Thoughts:
This book was an apropos read for 2020. While it describes events that occurred more than 100 years ago, there are many corollaries between that pandemic and the one the world grapples with today. It is maddening that our society does not seem to have learned much from that pandemic. In 1918 skepticism of scientific experts lead people to ignore recommendations to social distance and wear masks and lead to needless death. Similar to what we have seen in 2020.
One of the most important lessons this book emphasizes is that leadership matters. Pandemics do not simply impact individuals, they impact the society. Through concerted efforts the society can overcome a pandemic, but leaders who tell the truth, build trust, and inspire individuals to sacrifice for the good of the society are necessary. The United States did not have that type of leadership in 1918, and we do not have it today in 2020.
There is hope to be found in the story of the 1918 pandemic. The pandemic ended, the 2020 pandemic will also end. It may take time, but we will get there. In 1918 doctors and scientists focused considerable efforts and resources into overcoming the pandemic. They eventually succeeded and their efforts led to incredible advances in the field of medicine. Like those doctors a century ago, doctors and scientists are exploring avenues to curb the pandemic. While much of the US approach has been disappointing the way the medical and scientific community has mobilized is nothing short of miraculous. Reading this book gave me renewed hope even in the darkest moments that this pandemic will end.
2. Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
Quotes:
“Cosby, 60. Weinstein, 87. Nassar, 169. The news used phrases like avalanche of accusations, tsunami of stories, sea change. The metaphors were correct in that they were catastrophic, devastating. But it was wrong to compare them to natural disasters, for they were not natural at all, solely man-made. Call it a tsunami, but do not lose sight of the fact that each life is a single drop, how many drops it took to make a single wave. The loss is incomprehensible, staggering, maddening—we should have caught it when it was no more than a drip. Instead society is flooded with survivors coming forward, dozens for every man, just so that one day, in his old age, he might feel a taste of what it was like for them all along.”
“I didn’t know that money could make the cell doors swing open. I didn’t know that if a woman was drunk when the violence occurred, she wouldn’t be taken seriously. I didn’t know that if he was drunk when the violence occurred, people would offer him sympathy. I didn’t know that my loss of memory would become his opportunity. I didn’t know that being a victim was synonymous with not being believed.”
And if you don't ever read this book you should at least read the statement written and read by Chanel Miller at the trial of Brock Turner:
"And finally, to girls everywhere, I am with you. On nights when you feel alone, I am with you. When people doubt you or dismiss you, I am with you. I fought everyday for you. So never stop fighting, I believe you. As the author Anne Lamott once wrote, "Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining." Although I can’t save every boat, I hope that by speaking today, you absorbed a small amount of light, a small knowing that you can’t be silenced, a small satisfaction that justice was served, a small assurance that we are getting somewhere, and a big, big knowing that you are important, unquestionably, you are untouchable, you are beautiful, you are to be valued, respected, undeniably, every minute of every day, you are powerful and nobody can take that away from you. To girls everywhere, I am with you. Thank you."
Thoughts:
This book is heartbreaking, but also a necessary read. Miller writes about being sexual assaulted and the subsequent trial of her assailant. While her story is deeply personal, it is also many women's story. Her story encompasses the world we live in where institutions are built to protect men and traumatize victims. A world where, too often, when a man experiences the consequences of his exploitation of women the world asks - does his life deserve to be ruined? Where too often, victims are forced to fight tooth and nail for justice. I think everyone who reads this book will gain a little more compassion and be a little less quick to judge the victim in cases of sexual assault. In this poetic, beautifully written memoir Miller brilliantly lays bare the failings of our society. In doing so she reclaims her story. She strips away the Jane Doe moniker and puts a name, a face, and a life to her story. She is a light to survivors everywhere.
3. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Quotes:
“An America that asks what it owes its most vulnerable citizens is improved and humane. An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.”
“Every Trump voter is certainly not a white supremacist, just as every white person in the Jim Crow South was not a white supremacist. But every Trump voter felt it was acceptable to hand the fate of the country over to one.”
“Power was what mattered, and what characterized the differences between black and white America was not a difference in work ethic, but a system engineered to place one on top of the other”
Thoughts:
This book is a collection of essays by Ta-Nehisi Coates. He originally wrote this thoughtful, sobering collection of essays for The Atlantic magazine during the Barack Obama administration. The overarching topic that unites these essays into a book is his analysis of race in America. Coates writes urgently and eloquently about race, history, mass incarceration, redlining, the Civil War, reparations, the Black power movement, and politics in an accessible way. Given the national dialogue around race in 2020 this book remains relevant and provides insight into America's history and hints at where we may be headed. Through these essays Coates examines the triumphs and shortcomings of the Obama presidency. Which led to the "American tragedy" referenced in the title, the tragedy came in what followed those eight years, a shattering of the dream of a post-racial America - the election of Donald Trump.
While I read this book, I thought a lot about America. I love America. I consider myself to be a patriot. That being said I strongly believe we need to reconcile with our nations past and continuing issues. One of the essays in this book is "The Case for Reparations." It made me pause to consider the issue in a whole new way. I agree with Coates that we ought to at least study the issue in more depth on a national level. Just studying this issue would be a huge step toward processing the impact slavery has and continues to have on our nation.
I also thought a lot about how to judge the current state of America. The way we treat the vulnerable, the oppressed, and marginalized says a lot about our society. If we truly want to make America a better place we need to be better by them.
4. Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose by Joe Biden
Quotes:
“So how do I want to spend the rest of my life? I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, and I want to help change the country and the world for the better. That duty does much more than give me purpose; it gives me something to hope for. It makes me nostalgic for the future.”
“I believe we have to end the divisive partisan politics that is ripping this country apart, and I think we can. It’s mean-spirited. It’s petty. And it’s gone on for much too long. I don’t believe, like some do, that it’s naïve to talk to Republicans. I don’t think we should look at Republicans as our enemies. They are our opposition, not our enemies. And for the sake of the country, we have to work together.… Four more years of this kind of pitched battle may be more than this country can take.”
“Never tell a man what his interests are. Be straight and open with him about your own interests. And try to put yourself in his shoes. Try to understand his hopes and his limitations, and never insist that he do something you know he cannot.”
Thoughts:
This book was also an apropos read for 2020. I read it before I cast my vote for Joe Biden. This book, which focuses on the events that occurred during the last year of his son, Beau's battle with cancer, gives a little window into the soul of Joe Biden. As I listened to a piece of his story, I found a man who has suffered tragedy, a man who is empathetic, a man who is deeply religious, a man who devoted his life to public service. Building this country up is in Joe's skillset. He has consistently spoken of being a public servant for all Americans - those that vote for him and those that do not. He has a long history of reaching across the aisle to build consensus. His history may not be perfect, and I may not agree with all of his policy proposals, but I know he is a good man and his heart is in the right place. If I could choose anyone, he may not be my first choice to be President of the United States of America, but he is the President we desperately need now. He will work to bring people together and to inspire America with a guiding vision that will elevate our country.
I am very happy Joe Biden was elected to be our 46th President.
5. The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates
Quotes:
“Being a feminist means believing that every woman should be able to use her voice and pursue her potential, and that women and men should all work together to take down the barriers and end the biases that still hold women back.”
“…contraceptives are the greatest life-saving, poverty-ending, women-empowering innovation ever created.”
“It is especially galling that some of the people who want to cut funding for contraceptives cite morality. In my view, there is no morality without empathy, and there is certainly no empathy in this policy. Morality is loving your neighbor as yourself, which comes from seeing your neighbor as yourself, which means trying to ease your neighbor’s burdens—not add to them.”
“When women can decide whether and when to have children, it saves lives, promotes health, expands education, and creates prosperity—no matter what country in the world you’re talking about.”
Thoughts:
In this book Melinda Gates makes a simple claim - when we lift up women, we lift up humanity. Combining stories from her own life, with stories from the lives of women around the world and with cutting edge research, she makes a compelling case for the way we can address many of the pressing issues facing humanity today. In this book Melinda Gates provides the reader with the data, but also goes a step further and illustrates the point with powerful stories of women around the globe.
I found this book to be enlightening and inspiring. I wholeheartedly agree with Melinda Gate's analysis many problems in this world could be addressed in impactful ways by doing more to empower, engage, and ease burdens for women around the world.
6. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Quotes:
“The power of just mercy is that it belongs to the undeserving. It’s when mercy is least expected that it’s most potent—strong enough to break the cycle of victimization and victimhood, retribution and suffering. It has the power to heal the psychic harm and injuries that lead to aggression and violence, abuse of power, mass incarceration."
“The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.”
“The death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question of capital punishment in this country is, Do we deserve to kill?”
“My work with the poor and the incarcerated has persuaded me that the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice.”
Thoughts:
This memoir by Bryan Stevenson, a lawyer for Equal Justice Initiative, is a story about justice, race, and mercy. In this book he describes some of the situations he has witnessed and people he has represented. Through the stories of death penalty appeal cases he litigated in Alabama, Bryan Stevenson illuminates aspects of the US criminal justice system and explores the impact on the larger community when someone is unjustly found guilty. Through it all Stevenson passionately advocates for the poor and disadvantaged. The themes of justice and mercy run throughout this story. While many lessons can be learned from this story, my main takeaway was that we must reform a criminal justice system that treats people better if they are rich and guilty than if they are poor and innocent. The current system's extreme focus on serving justice ignores the power of mercy to transform lives, and ultimately our entire society.
7. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Quotes:
“Some people accept that they will never be free of their anxiety, they just learn to carry it. She tried to be one of them. She told herself that was why you should always be nice to other people, even idiots, because you never know how heavy their burden is.”
“God doesn't protect people from knives, sweetheart. That's why God gave us other people, so we can protect each other.”
“I didn’t say that money was happiness. I said happiness is like money. A made-up value that represents something we can’t weigh or measure.”
“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
Thoughts:
8. We Should All Be Feminists by Ngozi Adichie
Quotes:
“We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case. We don’t teach boys to care about being likable. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons. All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women.”
“My own definition is a feminist is a man or a woman who says, yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better. All of us, women and men, must do better.”
“A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.”
Thoughts:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie developed this book from the Tedx talk of the same name. She personally and eloquently advocates for a better world - she asks the reader to envision a better, more equal world, and then encourages them to take action to make that vision a reality. She does all of this in a succinct, matter of fact way. Many powerful ideas are packed into a few short pages - I would highly recommend this book.
9. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
Quotes:
“Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It’s everything in between we live for.”
“There are always those perfect times with the people we love, those moments of joy and equality that sustain us later on...These moments are the foundation upon which we build the house that will shelter us into our final years, so that when love calls out, "How far would you go for me?" you can look it in the eye and say truthfully, "Farther than you would ever have thought was possible.”
“I imagine there are people out there who got a dog when what they wanted was a baby, but I wonder if there aren't other people who had a baby when all they really needed was a dog.”
“... the story of my marriage, which is the great joy and astonishment of my life, is too much like a fairy tale, the German kind, unsweetened by Disney.”
Thoughts:
This book is a marvelous collection of essays by novelist Ann Patchett. This collection of essays showcases her observant, warm, candid, and intelligent writing. Through the essays the reader is given a glimpse into the life and mind of Ann Patchett. When I read this book I laughed, I cried, I raged, and felt joy. When I finished this book I was left wanting more. I think anyone would enjoy this book. I particularly enjoyed the essays about dogs. Ann loves dogs and shares many heartwarming, as well as some sad stories about her dog. My absolute favorite essay is about the time a movement grew to censor her book, "Truth and Beauty" due to what some considered to be its salacious nature, when it was assigned to the freshmen class of Clemson. Her impassioned defense of the right to read is very inspiring.
Below is an excerpt or you can read her entire speech:
The people who oppose the assignment of Truth & Beauty and who oppose my presence here on campus today do not do so for themselves. After all, nobody’s making them read my book. They are opposing on your behalf. They want to protect you from me, even if they were unable to protect you from Grand Theft Auto. Since you’re just starting out as freshmen, let’s take a minute to think of what else you’re going to need protecting from. I used all possible restraint in making this list because I could go on for the entire four years you are in college: you don’t want to pay good money to have to read about immoral behavior, so Anna Karenina is out. It’s about adultery, a married woman’s affair with another man and her eventual suicide. It’s scandalous, but it’s also really long. The Great Gatsby has more adultery, in addition to alcoholism and murder, so that has to go as well. It will be harder to let go of that one because it’s short, and you may have already read it in high school. In One Hundred Years of Solitude, you’ve got incest, which is a shame because it is a spectacular novel. My uncontested pick for the best novel of the 20th century is Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, and if I start talking about Lolita, I feel certain the National Guard would come and remove me from this stage. Faulkner is gone. Hemingway is gone. Toni Morrison, John Updike, and Philip Roth, our greatest living American authors are off limits to you. There is so much sex and filthy language in their books that I should probably not even say their names....The implicit assumption in trying to protect you from the likes of me is that you have no filters, no life experience, no judgment, and very little intellect. You are so malleable that reading an assigned book which mentions drugs and sex will make you throw the book to the floor and rush out to engage in all of those activities yourself, the chances of which seem about as likely to me as the chances that reading Anna Karenina will make you throw yourself beneath a train. It also assumes that Tolstoy’s book is not more importantly about the inherent beauty of life and that my book is not about the deep value of loyalty.
10. My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Mary Harnett, and Wendy W. Williams
Quotes:
“For both men and women the first step in getting power is to become visible to others, and then to put on an impressive show. . . . As women achieve power, the barriers will fall. As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.”
“We children of public school age can do much to aid in the promotion of peace. We must try to train ourselves and those about us to live together with one another as good neighbors for this idea is embodied in the great new Charter of the United Nations. It is the only way to secure the world against future wars and maintain an everlasting peace.”
“We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.”
“A question I am often asked: What does women’s participation in numbers on the bench add to our judicial system? It is true, as Jeanne Coyne of Minnesota's Supreme Court famously said: at the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision. But it is also true that women, like persons of different racial groups and ethnic origins, contribute what the late Fifth Circuit Judge Alvin Rubin described as “a distinctive medley of views influenced by differences in biology, cultural impact, and life experience.” Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges. It was poorer when nearly all of its participants were cut from the same mold.”
Thoughts:
This book was also an apropos read for 2020. The United States of America lost a truly remarkable Justice in 2020. This book is largely made up of excerpts from Justice Ginsberg's writings and speeches along with needed context detailing how these fit into the larger narrative of her life and career. The book covers many subjects of personal and professional interest to Justice Ginsberg: her relationship with her life partner Marty Ginsburg, how the Supreme Court operates, profiles of historical and contemporary individuals who influenced her, her defense of the ERA, the concept of judicial independence, the roll of dissents, the importance equality for women in all areas of life, and her views on collegiality.
I found this book to be insightful, funny, educational and inspiring. Ruth Bader Ginsburg led an incredible life. Listening to her own words, curated from a lifetime of experience, provided a sense of the thoughtfulness she put into each of her positions. There were a few clear themes that reoccur in many sections of the book. One that particularly stood out to me was Justice Ginbsburg's commitment to collegiality. She would often speak to differences of opinion she would have with a colleague, but she would stress the importance maintaining collegiality. While there may be differences in ideology, she and her colleagues shared a respect for the institution of the Supreme Court and for each other.
Below is a list of the books I read in 2020:
1. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
2. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans Rosling, and Ola Rosling
4. A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
5. I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t): Telling the Truth about Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power by Brené Brown
6. What Red Was by Rosie Price
7. The Andromeda Evolution by Daniel H. Wilson and Michael Crichton
8. The Bourne Legacy by Eric Van Lustbader and Robert Ludlum
9. The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
10. Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For by Susan Rice
11. Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
12. A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
13. Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward by Chilu Lemba and Valerie Jarrett
14. The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates
15. A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
16. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
17. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
18. Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski
19. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
20. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
21. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
22. A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
23. A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin
24. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
25. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
26. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
27. The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
28. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
29. Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
30. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
31. What Matters Most: The Get Your Shit Together Guide to Wills, Money, Insurance, and Life's "What-ifs" by Chanel Reynolds
32. Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself by William Li
33. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
34. Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh
35. Needful Things by Stephen King
36. Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein
37. Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
38. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
39. Dune by Frank Herbert
40. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
41. Normal People by Sally Rooney
42. The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes by Suzanne Collins
43. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
44. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
45. True Grit by Charles Portis
46. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
47. Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez
48. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
49. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
50. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
51. Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
52. Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) by Eve Rodsky
53. How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
54. What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
55. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
56. Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
57. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
58. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
59. Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
60. So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
61. Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
62. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
63. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
64. The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
65. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba
66. The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry
67. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
68. Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program that Works by Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole
69. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
70. Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
71. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
72. American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
73. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
74. The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict by The Arbinger Institute
75. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
76. Anxious People: A Novel by Fredrik Backman
77. Dear Evan Hansen: THE NOVEL by Val Emmich, Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul
78. Love Is Not Enough by Mark Manson
79. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
80. Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose by Joe Biden
81. Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
82. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
83. The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir by Samantha Power
84. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
85. Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
86. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
87. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
88. The Witches by Roald Dahl
89. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett
90. The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die by Keith B Payne
91. Warren Buffett's Ground Rules: Words of Wisdom from the Partnership Letters of the World's Greatest Investor by Jeremy C. Miller
92. The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite by David A. Kessler
93. A Promised Land by Barak Obama
94. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
95. Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
96. My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Mary Harnett, and Wendy W. Williams
97. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
98. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
99. As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes and Joe Layden
100. Actress: A Novel by Anne Enright
101. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
102. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
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