Readings 2016 - Nonfiction

I think my favorite nonfiction book this year was M Train by Patti Smith. This is the second of her personal memoirs I've read and I should probably read a regular biography of her some time soon. Another good music memoir was the Elvis Costello book which I enjoyed very much. 

Probably the other favorite book was Ta-Nehisi Coates' amazing Between the World and Me which was a fascinating look at race relations in America. 

So Trump got elected to the shock and surprise of everyone including himself and I spent much of November and December reading books (mostly novels) to try and forget about the disaster that had befallen on our country. I did read a few political books during the year.

I also enjoyed that biography of Budweiser beer and the one about Bush too.

1. M Train - Patti Smith, 2015
2. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right - Jane Mayer, 2016
3. Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015
4. Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink - Elvis Costello, 2015
5. Who Rules the World? - Noam Chomsky, 2014
6. Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America's Kings of Beer - William Knoedelseder, 2012
7. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy - Cathy O'Neil, 2016
8. Enemies: A History of the FBI - Tim Weiner, 2012
9. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 - Rick Atkinson, 2013
10. Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery - Henry Marsh, 2014
11. Bush - Jean Edward Smith, 2016