Some Recommended Reading from 2011

Posted on: 12/31/11

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)

 

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