What I’m Currently Reading
And yes, I like to read multiple books at the same time and create essentially a sampler plate. It’s not the most efficient way to read, but it works for me! (So don’t @ me…)
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
- Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow
- Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, by Gilbert King
2019… so far
- Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal, by Nick Bilton
- Breaking Out of Beginner’s Spanish, by Joseph J. Keenan
- Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri
- An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones
- Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
2018
- The Attention Merchants, by Tim Wu
- Call Me by Your Name, by André Aciman
- I Had a Nice Time And Other Lies…: How to Find Love & Sh*t Like That, by The Betches
- The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond
- Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi
- To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, by Jenny Han
- P.S. I Still Love You, by Jenny Han
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, by John Carreyrou
- Always and Forever, Lara Jean, by Jenny Han
- The Selection, by Keira Cass
- Becoming, by Michelle Obama
2017
- Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS, by Joby Warrick
- Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History, by Rhonda K. Garelick
- The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins
- The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail–but Some Don’t, by Nate Silver
- Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, by J.D. Vance
- The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wright
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson
- Modern Romance, by Aziz Ansari
- Origin, by Dan Brown