This year I read fewer books in total, but revisited several classics and spent much time reading essay collections. What follows is the ten best books I read this year, in no particular order. If you’re interested in hearing about the titles I’m reading each month, you’ll enjoy my monthly newsletter.
The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis
The White Album by Joan Didion
Literary Democracy by Larzer Ziff
Leisure, the Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper
Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins
Tribe by Sebastian Junger
The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
Also noteworthy were Jackie Robinson’s I Never Had It Made and George Orwell’s “Notes on Nationalism”, which is not a book but an essay, and worthy of a mention here regardless.
Image: “An old man seated and writing in a book (an evangelist?)” by Guido Reni, 17th Century. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
