I was fortunate to be a little light on projects for courses this month, and was thus afforded plenty of pleasure reading time. Because there’s so many titles this month, I won’t provide a book-by-book summary of each one, but here’s a general rundown. And because I’m not putting up any explanatory write-ups, I don’t want to post my ratings of them here either. If you want to know my thoughts about a specific book, go ahead and e-mail me.
Notes: (1) Most of these receive quite a few stars. The reason is if I don’t like a book, I won’t keep reading. It won’t appear on this list. Thus, I consider these to mostly be winners. (2) I consumed many of these as audio books. I commute to campus by bicycle 20 miles each day, and thus have many hours at my disposal for audio listening. And I’ll often enjoy having a book read to me more than actually reading it if the narration is well done.
Here Comes Trouble by Michael Moore, 2011
October ’64 by David Halberstam, 1995
Confidence Men by Ron Suskind, 2011
Meat Market by Bruce Feldman, 2007
Hamlet’s Blackberry by William Powers, 2010
The Influencing Machine by Brooke Gladstone, 2011
The Rogue by Joe McGinniss, 2011
Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam, 1981
The Amateurs by David Halberstam, 2006
Everything They Had by David Halberstam, 2008
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay, 2004
Little Bunch of Madmen by Mort Rosenblum, 2010
The Big Short by Michael Lewis, 2010
Christine by Stephen King, 1983
What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer, 1993
Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King, 1983
On Writing by Stephen King, 2000
Through My Eyes by Tim Tebow, 2011
