1jonerthon
Enjoyed my first year of this challenge in 2020, so I'm back for more!
About me: Jonathan, live in Washington, DC, 37, partnered, and work in consulting. I lean heavily toward wonky non-fiction, but pepper in anything I find interesting in between.
Prior history: I completed 42 titles in 2020, 27 titles in 2019, and 32 titles in 2018. I'm hoping this group, plus a willingness to abandon books I'm not feeling, will provide the motivation to get to a somewhat ambitious 75 this year.
A taste of my recent reading history
Favorite title of 2020: Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time by Michael Perry
Favorite title of 2019: Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials by Malcolm Harris
Most anticipated release of 2021: My Life as an Architect in Tokyo by Kengo Kuma
Best reading spot of 2020: Dolores Park in San Francisco
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About me: Jonathan, live in Washington, DC, 37, partnered, and work in consulting. I lean heavily toward wonky non-fiction, but pepper in anything I find interesting in between.
Prior history: I completed 42 titles in 2020, 27 titles in 2019, and 32 titles in 2018. I'm hoping this group, plus a willingness to abandon books I'm not feeling, will provide the motivation to get to a somewhat ambitious 75 this year.
A taste of my recent reading history
Favorite title of 2020: Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time by Michael Perry
Favorite title of 2019: Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials by Malcolm Harris
Most anticipated release of 2021: My Life as an Architect in Tokyo by Kengo Kuma
Best reading spot of 2020: Dolores Park in San Francisco
2jonerthon
Quarter 1 Tracker
Completed (10)
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (2.5*)
The Library Book by Susan Orlean (4*)
The Chalk Artist: A Novel by Allegra Goodman (4*)
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America by Conor Dougherty (2*)
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (4*)
Memorial: A Novel by Bryan Washington (4.5*)
A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle (3.5*)
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari with Eric Klinenberg (3.5*)
The Step Back by J.T. Bushnell (3*)
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit (2.5*)
Moved to Q2 (2)
City Rules: How Regulations Affect Urban Form by Emily Talen
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King
Total completed YTD = 10
Completed (10)
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (2.5*)
The Library Book by Susan Orlean (4*)
The Chalk Artist: A Novel by Allegra Goodman (4*)
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America by Conor Dougherty (2*)
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (4*)
Memorial: A Novel by Bryan Washington (4.5*)
A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle (3.5*)
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari with Eric Klinenberg (3.5*)
The Step Back by J.T. Bushnell (3*)
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit (2.5*)
Moved to Q2 (2)
City Rules: How Regulations Affect Urban Form by Emily Talen
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King
Total completed YTD = 10
3FAMeulstee
Happy reading in 2021, Jonathan!
5thornton37814
Have a great year of reading!
6PaulCranswick
And keep up with my friends here. Have a great 2021.
8jonerthon
Quarter 2 Tracker
Completed (8)
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King (2*)
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami (4*)
When a Heart Turns Rock Solid: The Lives of Three Puerto Rican Brothers On and Off the Streets by Timothy Black (5*)
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin (4*)
A Promised Land by Barack Obama (4.5*)
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America by Alec MacGillis (2*)
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky (4.5*)
Business Improvement Districts and the Contradictions of Placemaking: BID Urbanism in Washington, DC by Susanna F. Schaller (3.5*)
Moved to Q3 (2)
City Rules: How Regulations Affect Urban Form by Emily Talen
Ten Restaurants That Changed the World by Paul Freedman
On Deck (1)
Mud Creek Medicine: The Life of Eula Hall and the Fight for Appalachia by Kiran Bhatraju
Total read YTD = 18
Completed (8)
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King (2*)
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami (4*)
When a Heart Turns Rock Solid: The Lives of Three Puerto Rican Brothers On and Off the Streets by Timothy Black (5*)
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin (4*)
A Promised Land by Barack Obama (4.5*)
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America by Alec MacGillis (2*)
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky (4.5*)
Business Improvement Districts and the Contradictions of Placemaking: BID Urbanism in Washington, DC by Susanna F. Schaller (3.5*)
Moved to Q3 (2)
City Rules: How Regulations Affect Urban Form by Emily Talen
Ten Restaurants That Changed the World by Paul Freedman
On Deck (1)
Mud Creek Medicine: The Life of Eula Hall and the Fight for Appalachia by Kiran Bhatraju
Total read YTD = 18
9jonerthon
Q3 Tracker
Completed (8)
Ten Restaurants That Changed the World by Paul Freedman (3.5*)
Temp: The Real Story of What Happened To Your Salary, Benefits, and Job Security by Louis Hyman (3.5*)
City Rules: How Regulations Affect Urban Form by Emily Talen (4.5*)
Lost in the Taiga: One Family's Fifty-Year Struggle for Survival and Religious Freedom in the Siberian Wilderness by Vasily Mikhailovich Peskov (4.5*)
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking About Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives by Jarrett Walker (4.5*)
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago by Eric Klinenberg (4*)
The One Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming by Masanobu Fukuoka (4*)
Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health by Dr. Leana Wen (4*)
Moved to Q4 (1)
Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco by Calvin Trillin
Total read YTD = 26
Completed (8)
Ten Restaurants That Changed the World by Paul Freedman (3.5*)
Temp: The Real Story of What Happened To Your Salary, Benefits, and Job Security by Louis Hyman (3.5*)
City Rules: How Regulations Affect Urban Form by Emily Talen (4.5*)
Lost in the Taiga: One Family's Fifty-Year Struggle for Survival and Religious Freedom in the Siberian Wilderness by Vasily Mikhailovich Peskov (4.5*)
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking About Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives by Jarrett Walker (4.5*)
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago by Eric Klinenberg (4*)
The One Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming by Masanobu Fukuoka (4*)
Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health by Dr. Leana Wen (4*)
Moved to Q4 (1)
Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco by Calvin Trillin
Total read YTD = 26
10jonerthon
Q4 Tracker
Completed (11)
Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco by Calvin Trillin (3*)
High Line: The Inside Story of New York City's Park in the Sky by Joshua David and Robert Hammond (3.5*)
GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History by Diane Coyle (3.5*)
Locked in the Cabinet by Robert Reich (3.5*)
Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History by Jaipreet Virdi (4*)
Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux by Boris Kachka (4.5*)
Mud Creek Medicine: The Life of Eula Hall and the Fight for Appalachia by Kiran Bhatraju (4.5*)
The Middlesteins: A Novel by Jami Attenberg (4*)
Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places and Policies That Transformed a City edited by Nicholas Dagen Bloom and Matthew Gordon Lasner (4.5*)
The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book by Wendy Welch (4*)
The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts (2.5*)
Moved to 2022 (1)
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl
Total read for 2022 = 37
Completed (11)
Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco by Calvin Trillin (3*)
High Line: The Inside Story of New York City's Park in the Sky by Joshua David and Robert Hammond (3.5*)
GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History by Diane Coyle (3.5*)
Locked in the Cabinet by Robert Reich (3.5*)
Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History by Jaipreet Virdi (4*)
Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America's Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux by Boris Kachka (4.5*)
Mud Creek Medicine: The Life of Eula Hall and the Fight for Appalachia by Kiran Bhatraju (4.5*)
The Middlesteins: A Novel by Jami Attenberg (4*)
Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places and Policies That Transformed a City edited by Nicholas Dagen Bloom and Matthew Gordon Lasner (4.5*)
The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book by Wendy Welch (4*)
The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts (2.5*)
Moved to 2022 (1)
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl
Total read for 2022 = 37
12FAMeulstee
Happy New Year!
14jonerthon
>12 FAMeulstee: Happy new year to you as well!
>13 drneutron: Thank you! Yes, I am about to create my 2022 thread.
>13 drneutron: Thank you! Yes, I am about to create my 2022 thread.
