Political Fictions

Joan Didion

★★★★☆

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations that Made the Modern World

Steven Johnson

★★☆☆☆

Twenty Minutes in Manhattan

Michael Sorkin

★★☆☆☆

I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son

Kent Russell

★★★★☆

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

George Packer

★★★★★

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

Rick Perlstein

★★★★★

The Dylanologists: Adventures in the Land of Bob

David Kinney

★★★★☆

Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual

Michael Pollan

★★★☆☆

The Shadow of the Wind

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

★★★★☆

Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

Richard Burgin

★★★☆☆

Homage to Barcelona

Colm Tóibín

★★★☆☆

President Nixon: Alone in the White House

Richard Reeves

★★★☆☆

How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

Sarah Bakewell

★★★★★

The Rider

Tim Krabbé

★★★☆☆

Sass for Web Designers

Dan Cederholm

★★★★☆

Magic & Loss: The Internet as Art

Virginia Heffernan

★★★★☆

The Fireman

Joe Hill

★★★☆☆

Bright Dead Things

Ada Limón

★★★★☆

Oblivion: Stories

David Foster Wallace

★★★☆☆

Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble

Dan Lyons

★★★☆☆

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams

★★★★☆

William James and the Art of Popular Statement

Paul Stob

★★★☆☆

Stalin: The Kremlin Mountaineer

Paul Johnson

★★★☆☆

Writing on the Wall: Social Media – The First 2,000 Years

Tom Standage

★★☆☆☆

Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride

Lucy Knisley

★★★★☆

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Jon Ronson

★★★★☆

Mycroft Holmes

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse

★★★☆☆

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline

★★★★☆

The Story of the Lost Child

Elena Ferrante

★★★★☆

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Elena Ferrante

★★★★☆

How Google Works

Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg

★★★☆☆

The Story of a New Name

Elena Ferrante

★★★★☆

Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries

Jon Ronson

★★★☆☆

Design Leadership

Richard Banfield

★★★☆☆

The Dog Walker: An Anarchist’s Encounters with the Good, the Bad, and the Canine

Joshua Stephens

★★☆☆☆

The Meursault Investigation

Kamel Daoud

★★☆☆☆

Call for the Dead

John Le Carré

★★★☆☆

The Fry Chronicles

Stephen Fry

★★★☆☆

My Brilliant Friend

Elena Ferrante

★★★★☆

Modern Romance

Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg

★★★☆☆

Moab is My Washpot

Stephen Fry

★★★☆☆

Wolf in White Van

John Darnielle

★★★★☆

The Solid Form of Language

Robert Bringhurst

★★☆☆☆

Show Your Work! 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

Austin Kleon

★★★☆☆

Temptation in the Archives

Lisa Jardine

★★★☆☆

The White House Mess

Christopher Buckley

★★★☆☆

Slaughter-House Five, or, The Children’s Crusade

Kurt Vonnegut

★★★★★