50 Books in 2017

So 2016’s total was 20, which was a significant improvement from 2015’s 12 or 13. yeesh. Goal is still 50!

01. The Stalin Epigram: A Novel – Robert Littell
02.  The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt (audiobook)*
03. Yes Please – Amy Poehler (audiobook)
04. Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal – Ben Macintyre (audiobook)
05. Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies – Ben Macintyre (audiobook)
06. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Regional Cultures of North America – Colin Woodard (audiobook)
07. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective – Kate Summerscale (audiobook)
08. American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic – Joseph J. Ellis (audiobook)
09. Southern Storm: Sherman’s March to the Sea – Noah Andre Trudeau (audiobook)
10. The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism – Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (audiobook)
11. The Shining – Stephen King
12. Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence – Joseph J. Ellis (audiobook)
13. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House – Jon Meacham (audiobook)
14. The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock – Donald Spoto (audiobook)
15. Russia: The Wild East, Part I: From Rulers to Revolutions – Martin Sixsmith (audiobook)
16. Russia: The Wild East, Part II: The Rise and Fall of the Soviets – Martin Sixsmith (audiobook)
17. On The Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with Richard Obstfeld (audiobook)
18. Legends of the Dragonrealm: Volume I – Richard A. Knaak*
19. Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs (audiobook)
20. Hollow City – Ransom Riggs (audiobook)
21. Norse Mythology – Neil Gaiman
22. The Girl in the Spider’s Web – David Lagercrantz (audiobook)
23. The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 – Joseph J. Ellis (audiobook)
24. The Magicians – Lev Grossman (audiobook)
25. Library of Souls – Ransom Riggs (audiobook)
26. The Woman in Cabin 10 – Ruth Ware
27. The Lampshade: A Holocaust Detective Story From Buchenwald to New Orleans – Mark Jacobson (audiobook)
28. The Wife, The Maid, and the Mistress – Ariel Lawhon (audiobook)
29. Good Hunting: An American Spymaster’s Story – Jack Devine with Vernon Loeb
30. Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook – Anthony Bourdain (audiobook)
31. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly – Anthony Bourdain (audiobook)
32. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus – Bill Wasik & Monica Murphy (audiobook)
33. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches – S.C. Gwynne (audiobook)
34. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
35. The Supernatural Enhancements – Edgar Cantero
36. Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-1934 – Bryan Burrough (audiobook)
37. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien (BBC radio production, audiobook)
38. Carrie – Stephen King (audiobook)
39. Evil Under The Sun – Agatha Christie
40. Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places – Colin Dickey (audiobook)
41. The Jefferson Rule: Why We Think The Founding Fathers Have All The Answers – David Sehat (audiobook)
42. The Badass Librarians of Timbukto (And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts) – Joshua Hammer (audiobook)
43. The Minotaur – Barbara Vine
44. Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot That Avenged the Armenian Genocide – Eric Bogosian (audiobook)
45. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens (audiobook)
46. That’s Not In My American History Book – Thomas Ayers (audiobook)

* – I didn’t actually finish this book.