{"id":4867,"date":"2020-01-01T15:09:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T22:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/?p=4867"},"modified":"2020-01-01T15:09:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T22:09:57","slug":"books-for-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/archives\/4867","title":{"rendered":"Books for 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been cold here, and we had snow between Christmas and New Years (though it didn’t last long). Today was the first day it was warm enough that we wanted to take a good long walk. The sun felt good.<\/p>\n

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Here is my reading list from 2019. As usual, my favorites or ones I’d particularly recommend are in bold (but with not as much thought to this as usual).<\/p>\n

Lots of sci fi this year with an emphasis on series about people colonizing other galaxies and all the attendant challenges of how to organize a society, manage conflict, etc. Both the Expanse series and the Coyote books were very good and helpful to reflect on in light of the current world situation. (The best that I’ve read in this genre is Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars series which I read last year.) I also finally read Harry Potter. (I started listening to the ebook with a kid. We didn’t get very far into it but it prompted me to take the books off my shelf and read them.) <\/p>\n

Many of these books I read as ebooks for whatever that’s worth. The fact that I finally got a phone with this century’s capabilities probably affected that.<\/p>\n

1. Down by the River<\/em> by Charles Bowden
\n2. Letters to a Young Farmer<\/em>, compiled by the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture
\n3. Notes on a Foreign Country<\/em> by Suzy Hansen
\n4. Little Fires Everywhere<\/em> by Celeste Ng
\n5. Goat Song<\/em> by Brad Kessler
\n6. The Emerald Mile<\/em> by Kevin Fedarko
\n7. A Map of Betrayal<\/em> by Ha Jin
\n8. The Power<\/em> by Naomi Alderman
\n9. Everything I Never Told You<\/em> by Celeste Ng
\n10. The Brave Cowboy<\/em> by Edward Abbey
\n11. One Life At a Time, Please<\/em> by Edward Abbey
\n12. Postcards from Ed<\/em> by Edward Abbey
\n13. Into the Beautiful North<\/em> by Luis Urrea
\n14. Look Homeward Angel<\/em> by Thomas Wolfe
\n15. Appetite for Life<\/em> by Noel Riley Fitch
\n16. Doing Justice<\/em> by Preet Bharara<\/strong>
\n17. The Reckoning<\/em> by John Grisham
\n18. Gray Mountain by John Grisham
\n19. A Call for Revolution<\/em> by Dalai Lama
\n20. Leviathan Wakes<\/em> by James S.A. Corey
\n21. Caliban’s War<\/em> by James S.A. Corey
\n22. Abbadon’s Gate<\/em> by James S.A. Corey
\n23. Cibola Burn<\/em> by James S.A. Corey
\n24. Nemesis Games<\/em> by James S.A. Corey
\n25. Babylon’s Ashes<\/em> by James S.A. Corey
\n26. Persepolis Rising<\/em> by James S.A. Corey
\n27. Tiamat’s Wrath<\/em> by James S.A. Corey
\n28. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone<\/em> by JK Rowling
\n29. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets<\/em> by JK Rowling
\n30. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban<\/em> by JK Rowling
\n31. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire<\/em> by JK Rowling
\n32. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix<\/em> by JK Rowling
\n33. The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez<\/em> by Aaron Bobrow-Strain<\/strong>
\n34. Full Circle<\/em> by Michael Palin
\n35. The Old Man’s Love Story<\/em> by Rudolfo Anaya
\n36. A Stranger at My Door<\/em> by Peg Bowden<\/strong>
\n37. Mindfulness for Kids<\/em> by Carole Roman
\n38. On the Margins<\/em> by Johannes Wilm
\n39. After the Flood<\/em> by Kassandra Montag
\n40. Wherever You Go, There You Are<\/em> by Jon Kabat-Zinn
\n41. Coyote<\/em> by Allen Steele
\n42. Coyote Rising<\/em> by Allen Steele
\n43. Coyote Frontier<\/em> by Allen Steele
\n44. Spindrift<\/em> by Allen Steele
\n45. Galaxy Blues<\/em> by Allen Steele
\n46. Coming Home to Eat<\/em> by Gary Paul Nabhan
\n47. Coyote Horizon<\/em> by Allen Steele<\/strong><\/p>\n

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