Tag: book-review

Reading Log for 2025 (That’s a Wrap!)

  1. James: A Novel by Percival Everett
  2. Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller
  3. The Half-Life of Facts by Samuel Arbesman
  4. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chobsky
  5. Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers by Deborah Tuerkheimer
  6. The Hike: A Novel by Drew Magary
  7. Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck by Adam Cohen
  8. Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford
  9. Sold by Patricia McCormick
  10. This Book is Gay by June Dawson
  11. Carl’s Doomsday Scenario: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 2 by Matt Dinniman
  12. Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  13. Ask for Andrea by Noelle West Ihill
  14. Black Pill by Elle Reeve
  15. Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman
  16. How Propaganda Works by Jason Stanley
  17. My Eyes are Up Here by Laura Zimmermann
  18. We Refuse by Kellie Carter Jackson
  19. Confessions of a Recovering Skinhead by Frank Meeink
  20. The Crumbling of a Nation by Ryan David Gainsberg
  21. 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
  22. 19 Minutes Jodi Picoult
  23. Hidden History of American Oligarchy by Thom Hartmann
  24. The Most by Jessica Anthony
  25. Yours Cruely, Elvira by Cassandra Peterson
  26. The Unworthy: A Novel by Agustina Bazterrica
  27. Writing with AI by Sidney Dubrin
  28. Burn Book by Kara Swisher
  29. Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel
  30. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
  31. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams
  32. Yr Dead by Sam Sax
  33. White Fear by Roland S. Morton
  34. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot
  35. Never Flinch by Stephen King
  36. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
  37. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
  38. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
  39. Half Truths: God Helps Those Who Help Themselves and Other Things the Bible Doesn’t Say by Adam Hamilton
  40. Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity by Sander van der Linden
  41. A Heart that Works by Rob Delaney
  42. Coming Home by Britney Griner
  43. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (5X Total!)
  44. Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willington
  45. The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes
  46. The Tell by Amy Griffin
  47. Address Unknown: A Novel by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
  48. Verity by Colleen Hoover
  49. Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person’s Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds by John Fugelsang
  50. Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World by Carl T. Bergstrom, Jevin D. West
  51. The Giver by Lois Lowry
  52. Don’t Believe Everything You Think (Expanded Edition) Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering by Joseph Nguyen
  53. Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy by Randi Weingarten
  54. The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
  55. Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children by Noliwe Rooks
  56. Find the Helpers: What 9/11 and Parkland Taught Me About Recovery, Purpose, and Hope by Fred Guttenberg
  57. Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can’t Look Away by Coltan Scrivner PhD
  58. A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict by Ilan Pappe
  59. Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
  60. Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathaniel West
  61. Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigations of a Lifetime by Ron Stallworth
  62. The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts Are Wrecking Science by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
  63. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins
  64. Monumental: It Was Never About a Statue by Dr. Wes Bellamy
  65. ‘Night Mother by Marsha Norman (Second Time Reading)
  66. There Is No Good Card for This: What To Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love by Kelsey Crowe, Emily McDowell
  67. The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann
  68. Dear Black Girls by A’ja Wilson
  69. Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy Politics and Culture by Jonathan Rauch
  70. King of Ashes by S. A. Cosby
  71. Savage Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie