Saturday Morning Post: Reading List 2024

New York street photo, January 2024. 

1.  Law in American History Volume III, G. Edward White (massive 881 pages.) (P)
2. The Practice, Seth Godin (short essays on creativity.) (E) 
3. Radical Curiosity, Ken Dychtwald (E)
4. Why I Write, George Orwell (political commentary at the start of WWII. (P)
5. True Tales of Alexandria, Ted Pulliam (mostly military history.) (P)
6. The World Central Kitchen Cookbook, Jose Andres (very good, nice text sections.) (P)
7. At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman (P) collection of essays 
8. Burn This Book, edited by Toni Morrison (P) collection of essays on writing 
9. The Blood of Emmett Till, Timothy Tyson (P) a must read for all Americans 
10. Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric, (E)
11. Encore Provence, Peter Mayle, (P) a re-read from 1999
12. The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum (E) I had seen the film and not read the book before. 
13. The Way of the Fearless Writer, Beth  Kempton (P) 
14. The Four Sacred Gifts, Dr. Anita Samchez (P) 
15. The New China Playbook, Keyu Jin (P)
16. The Curious Mind Expanded, Brian Grazer (P) 
17. Poverty in America, Matthew Desmond (P) - parts are good, parts are stupid. 
18. The Garden of Eden, Ernest Hemingway (P) 
19. Illogical, Emmanuel Acho (P) 
20. More Glimpses, Hugh W. Robert (P) 
21. Young China, Zak Dychtwald (E) 
22. Brave New Home, Iana Lind (P) parts of it are good, but parts of it have logical flaws. 
23. Write for Your Life, Anna Quindlen (P)
24. About Us, Pete Catapano et al (P) A collection of essays on living with disabilities from the New York Times - should be required reading for high school students. 
25. The Secret Life of Cows, Rosamund Young (P) 
26. Fine Just The Way It Is, Annie Proulx (P) 
27. Cannery Row, John Steinbeck (P)
28. 100 Places To See After You Die, Ken Jennings (P)
29. Across The River and Into The Trees, Ernest Hemingway (P)
30. Lessons from An American Stoic, Mark Matousek (P)
31. The Upstairs Delicatessen, Dwight Garner (E)(Excellent book) 
32. Soldier Boy, Cynthia Reimer (E)
33. The Dice Man, Luke Rhinehart (E)(terrible, don't waste your time)
34. Boomer, Zoomer, and other Ommers, Marcel Strigberger (E)(very good, funny, sarcastic view of aging.) 
35. Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis ((P)a great re-read)
36. Let's Talk About Aging Parents, Laura Tamblyn Watts. (P)(A keeper of a book about communicating on complex issues in aging.) 
37. my Island Odyssey, Evelyn Kalcas (P) 
38. The Wisdom of Sheep & Other Animals, Rosamund Young (P)
39. Retiring the Generation Gap, Jennifer Deal (P) - well researched
40. Tip of the Iceberg, Mark Adams (P) 
41. Unstill Life, Gabrielle Selz (P) 
42. Remembrance of Things Paris, ed Ruth Reichl (P)
43. The Three-Martini Playdate, Christie Mellor (P) 
44. The Art of Flaneuring, Erika Owen (P) wanders far from the topic 
45. The Art of Looking, Lance Esplund (P) meh! 
46. About Time, David Rooney (P) very good history based on time keeping 
47. 32 Yolks, Eric Ripert (P) biography, I had read this before. 
48. The Ideas That Made America, Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (P) I learned something from reading this one. 
49. Down and Out in Paradise, The Life of Anthony Bourdain, Charles Leerhsen (P) insightful biography 
50. Dusted to Death, Barbara Colley (P) murder mystery. 
51. A Paradise of Small Houses, Max Podemski (P), fails to deliver on premise. 
52. Life Is Filled With Swift Transitions, Karren Jo Pope-Onwukwe (e-page proofs) by a friend read to write a review.
53. The Passenger, Chaney Kwak (P) 
54. What We Talk About When We Talk About Books, Leah Price (P) good read
55. Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh (E) (F)
56. Lord Edgeware Dies, Agatha Christy (P) novel 
57. Reading the Room, Paul Yamazaki (P) 
58. America and Other Myths, Photographs by Robert Frank and Todd Webb (P) 
59. Inventing the Victorians, Matthew Sweet (P) mehh! 
60. Dusty Booze, Aaron Goldfarb (P) 
61. Photography - A Queer History, Flora Dunster and Theo Gordon (P) 
62. American Gothic, Steven Biel (P) 
63. Creative Change, Jennifer Mueller (P) 
64. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens (P) novel 
65. Statistics, David Hand (P) an overview for math phobics. 
66. The Curse of Braeburn Castle, Karen Baugh Menuhin (P) novel 
67. Dawn Light, Diane Ackerman (P) 
68. Find Your Landing Zone, Kevin McGoff (P)
69. How to Die, Seneca edited by James Romm (P) 
70. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald (P) 
71. Its Great to Suck At Something, Karen Rinaldi (P) 
72.  Gmorning Gnight, Lin-Manuel Miranda (P) 
73. Why We Read, Shannon Reed (P) 
74. A Walk Around the Block, Spike Carlsen (P) 
75. Religious Influences on Economic Thinking, Benjamin Friedman (E) 
76. The Book of Scams, Rodney Hobson (P)
77. Identity Theft Alert, Steve Weisman (P) 
78. In My Time of Dying, Sebastian Junger (P) 
79. Reader Come Home, Maryanne Wolf (P) 
80. For You When I Am Gone, Steve Leder (P) 
81. The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester (P) 
82. Be Ready When Luck Happens, Ina Garten (P) 
83. Sunshine State Essays, Sarah Gerhard (P) Not very good. 
84. Unexpected Love, David Edmonds (P) novel 
85. The most they ever had, Rick Bragg (P) The plight of mill workers in the American south. 
86. No Cure For Being Human, Kate Bowler (P) insight into life with a potentially fatal illness. 
87. Idiot Brain, Dean Burnett (P) Why we do some of the things we do. 
88. Old Age, A Beginner's Guide, Michael Kinsley (P) 
89. Brave New Words, How AI Will Revolutionise Education, Salman Khan (P) A quotable book, though a little math heavy. 
90. Taste My Life Through Food, Stanley Tucci (P) Great book. 
91. Six Walks In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau, Ben Shattuck (P) Interesting book. 
92. Pig Years, Ellyn Gaydos (P) life on a small farm
93. Seaweed Chronicles, Susan Hand Shetterly (P) The complex life of coastal waters and the challenge of harvesting the seas. 
94. Backstage with Julia, Nancy Verde Barr (P) a fun inside look at Julia Child
95. Mind the Science, Jonathan N. Stea PhD, (P) Well written book about medical care and quacks. 
96. Visually Speaking, Ted Forbes (P) 

(P) = Print book

(E) = Electronic Book, mostly Kindle