A listing of the 76 books read in 2017. Clicking on the image will take you to the Amazon (paid link) page for the book; clicking on the title will take you to my blog entry for the book.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
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Dead Run
by P. J. Tracy
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The Comedians — Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy
by Kliph Nesteroff
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Born to Run
by Bruce Springsteen
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Personal
by Lee Child
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Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
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Getting Risk Right — Understanding the Science of Elusive Health Risks
by Geoffrey C. Kabat
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The Boys in the Boat — Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
by Daniel James Brown
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The Guns of Avalon
by Roger Zelazny
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Nexus
by Ramez Naam
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The Upside of Inequality — How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class
by Edward Conard
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Moonglow
by Michael Chabon
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Specialization and Trade — A Re-introduction to Economics
by Arnold Kling
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Refusal
by Felix Francis
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From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez — Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship
by Paul Hollander
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Red Planet
by Robert A. Heinlein
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The Cleanup
by Sean Doolittle
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The Art of Being Free — How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us from Ourselves
by James Poulos
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Snow Blind
by P. J. Tracy
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The Death of Expertise — The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
by Tom Nichols
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Chasing Midnight
by Randy Wayne White
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The Undoing Project — A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
by Michael Lewis
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Zodiac
by Neal Stephenson
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The Black Box
by Michael Connelly
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Darwin's Unfinished Symphony — How Culture Made the Human Mind
by Kevin N. Laland
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Little White Lies
by Ace Atkins
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Wonderland — How Play Made the Modern World
by Steven Johnson
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The Cake and the Rain — A Memoir
by Jimmy Webb
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Nemesis
by Isaac Asimov
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Diving In
by M. Bleekis
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The Kings of Cool
by Don Winslow
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Nabokov's Favorite Word is Mauve — What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing
by Ben Blatt
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Under the Beetle's Cellar
by Mary Willis Walker
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Hillbilly Elegy — A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by J. D. Vance
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The Gods of Guilt
by Michael Connelly
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The Girl on the Train
by Paula Hawkins
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Biting the Hands that Feed Us — How Fewer, Smarter Laws Would Make Our Food System More Sustainable
by Baylen J. Linnekin
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Cold Wind
by C. J. Box
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The Three Languages of Politics — Talking Across the Political Divides
by Arnold Kling
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Sign of the Unicorn
by Roger Zelazny
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Weaponized Lies — How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era
by Daniel J. Levitin
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No Second Chance
by Harlan Coben
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Make Me
by Lee Child
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Who in Hell is Wanda Fuca?
by G. M. Ford
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One Nation Undecided — Clear Thinking about Five Hard Issues That Divide Us
by Peter H. Schuck
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The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland
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The Burning Room
by Michael Connelly
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Unwanted Advances — Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus
by Laura Kipnis
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Shift
by Hugh Howey
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Y is for Yesterday
by Sue Grafton
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An Object of Beauty
by Steve Martin
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Freddy and Frederika
by Mark Helprin
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Rediscovering Americanism — And the Tyranny of Progressivism
by Mark R. Levin
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Night Moves
by Randy Wayne White
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The Unlikely Spy
by Daniel Silva
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The Tipping Point — How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
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Surfing Uncertainty — Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
by Andy Clark
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The Crossing
by Michael Connelly
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Esquire Presents: What It Feels Like — To Walk on the Moon, etc.
edited by A.J. Jacobs
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The Hand of Oberon
by Roger Zelazny
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Against the Grain — A Deep History of the Earliest States
by James C. Scott
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Funny Money
by James Swain
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The Feast of the Goat
by Mario Vargas Llosa
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A Foot in the River — Why Our Lives Change -- and the Limits of Evolution
by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
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The Puppet Masters
by Robert A. Heinlein
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Force of Nature
by C.J. Box
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The Infidel and the Professor — David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
by Dennis C. Rasmussen
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Forward the Foundation
by Isaac Asimov
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The Wrong Side of Goodbye
by Michael Connelly
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Rights Angles
by Loren E. Lomasky
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Shoot to Thrill
by P. J. Tracy
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Testosterone Rex — Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
by Cordelia Fine
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To The Hilt
by Dick Francis
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The Captured Economy — How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality
by Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles
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The Wanted
by Robert Crais
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