Monday, January 15, 2018

Books I read in 2017

Here are the books I read in 2017.  Plus the comics every day.  Thank goodness for the funnies.  These books made me think, made me mad, entertained me and introduced me to new areas to explore.  I even met Dava Sobel at the Library of Congress this year.  That was cool. 
  • A Fighting Chance/ Elizabeth Warren (2014)
  • A game plan for life : John Wooden's lessons on mentoring /John Wooden (2009)
  • All Clear / Connie Willis (2010)
  • Armada : a novel / Ernest Cline (2015)
  • Blackout / Connie Willis (2010)
  • Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court / Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (2017)
  • Elements of jazz from cakewalks to fusion / Bill Messenger(1998)
  • Have Spacesuit Will Travel/ Robert Heinlein (1958),
  • Lazarus. Vol. 1- 5 Family /Lift / Conclave/ Poison/ Cull/ Greg Rucka (2013-2017)
  • Manhattan Beach : a novel / Jennifer Egan (2017)
  • Moonglow : a novel / Michael Chabon (2016)
  • Norse Mythology / Neil Gaiman (2017)
  • On Tyranny / Timothy Snyder (2017)
  • 108 Insights into Tai Chi Chuan A String of Pearls / Michael Gilman (1998)
  • Pirate utopia / Bruce Sterling (2016)
  • Practicing : a musician's return to music / Glenn Kurtz (2007)
  • Ready player one : a novel / Ernest Cline (2011)
  • Self-reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)
  • Speak: A Novel / Louisa Hall (2015)
  • Studio Grace : the making of a record / Eric Sibling (2015)
  • Taijiquan Hand & Sword / Ren Guangyi & Stephan Berwick (2007)
  • The Chickenshit Club:Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives / Jesse Eisinger (2017)
  • The Fifth Season - The Broken Earth / N. K. Jemisin (2015)
  • The jazz of physics : the secret link between music and the structure of the universe /  Stephon Alexander (2016)
  • "The leader's way [the art of making the right decisions in our careers, our companies, and the world at large] / The Dalai Lama & L Muyzenberg (2009)
  • The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto / Mitch Albom (2015)
  • The planets / Dava Sobel (2005)
  • The rise and fall of D.O.D.O. / Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland (2017)
  • "The Tao of Bill Murray : real-life stories of joy, enlightenment, and party crashing / Gavin Edward (2016)
  • What Unites Us / Dan Rather(2017)
  • When She Woke / Hillary Jordan(2011)
  • Writings on the wall : searching for a new equality beyond black and white / Kareem Abdul-Jabbar(2016)

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