One (mostly short) Sentence on Every Book I Read Last Year

Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

I would like to read these in French.

The Girl on the Train: A Novel

I read it in 36 hours.

Pilgrim’s Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier

Homeboy is grosser than gross.

Wind/Pinball: Two novels

Murakami has had a unique voice from the very beginning, apparently.

Infected: A Novel

I didn’t read the second one.

The Last Sherlock Holmes Story

I should have stuck with the Zen series.

Dead Lagoon: An Aurelio Zen Mystery

I eat these books up.

A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel

Never go to Jamaica.

The Deadly Dinner Party: and Other Medical Detective Stories

Weird medical mysteries are awesome.

Killing Pretty: A Sandman Slim Novel

He could write these forever and I’d just keep reading them.

The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking

These skyjackings present an interesting parallel to the mass shooting phenomenon.

The Martian: A Novel

Better than it should have had any right to be.

Seveneves: A Novel

Stephenson’s good is better than most people’s best.

Forge of Darkness (The Kharkanas Trilogy Book 1)

Interminable.

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

No one brings as much life, color and detail to historical writing as Erik Larson.

The Buried Giant: A novel (Vintage International)

I finished this book.

The Kills: Sutler, The Massive, The Kill, and The Hit

I wish I’d only read Sutler.

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