Every year, I try to read between fifty and sixty books. That’s about a book a week and seems pretty reasonable to me, especially when you factor in all of the blogs, magazines, comic books, and random Internetery that takes up a lot of my reading time these days. Then, at the end of the year, I go through my list of books read (yes, I keep a list), and recommend the best of them to you. And then you can go ahead and ignore me for a year until I do it again. 🙂
This year, I’m a little disappointed to say that I read only about thirty books. It was a very busy year — I wrote three books, launched two, and prepped for a new barrylyga.com, coming soon! — so this year’s recommendation list is a little shorter than usual. Still, there’s good stuff in here — fiction, non-fiction, YA, adult… A little something for everyone.
- A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester
- You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier
- Stay With Me by Paul Griffin
- Smile by Raina Telgemeier
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (trans. Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O’Connor)
- Vertical Run by Joseph R. Garber
- Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer
- The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King (ed. Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller)