Key
Favorites (*), Kindle (K), Nook (N), Libby (B), Library (L), Librevox (V), and Own (O).
Introduction
Purpose: This article, which is used as an Amazon Goodreads substitute, is continuously updated.
Ebook Dangers: I read books using Kindle and Libby thorough Pennsylvania’s and New York City’s public library systems. Although there are cost and accessibility benefits (i.e., font size changes) to using ebooks, there are many dangers to using ebooks. If you, like me, read ebooks, consider donating to your local public library or donating anonymously to authors.
Resources:
- Libby: Many public libraries host books and audiobooks on Libby. You can checkout and return books through the app. You can read books on Libby or through Kindle products.
- Kindle Web
- O’Reilly: RIT students have access to all books and audiobooks from RIT. Note that there is a mobile and tablet app too, so you can read on the go.
2022
- December
- How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job by Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith (L.B.)*
- Things You Should Already Know About Dating, You F*cking Idiot by Ben Schwartz and Laura Moses (L.B.)*
- November
- Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler (L.B.)*
- Intercultural Communications report: A Privileged Life: Celebrating Wasp Style by Susanna Salk (L.B.)
- October
- How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don’t by Lane Moore (L.B.)
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson (L.B.)*
- September
- I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (L.B.)
- August
- The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy: How to Be Creative, Show Your Work, and Keep Going by Austin Kleon (L.B.)*
- You Don’t Look Your Age…and Other Fairy Tales by Sheila Nevins (L.B.)
- Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life by Judith Orloff (L.B.)
- July
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance (L.B.)
- June
- Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang (L.B.)*
- Snobs: A Novel of Modern Manners by Julian Fellowes (L.B.)
- Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump and Tony Schwartz (L.B.)
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2021
- December
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (L.B.)
- The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google by Scott Galloway (L.B.)
- September
- Platform: The Art and Science of Personal Branding by Cynthia Johnson (L.B.)*
- July
- The Art of Product Design: Changing How Things Get Made by Hardi Meybaum (L.B.)
- Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker (L.B.)
- Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School by Philip Delves Broughton (L.B.)
- Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women by Kate Manne (L.B.)
- Napalm & Silly Putty by George Carlin (L.B.)
- June
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight (L.B.)
- We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (L.B.)
- Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty by Nancy Etcoff (L.B.)*
- A Promised Land by Barack Obama (L.B.)
- The Arrangements by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (L.B.)
- Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (L.B.)*
- March
- February
- Tiger Woods by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian (L.B.)
- January
- Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz (L.B.)
- American Royals by Katharine McGee (L.B.)
- How To Get Into Grad School: Even if You’re Broke, Dimwitted, or Spent Your Undergrad Years so Smashed You Can’t Even Spell GPA by Janice Harper (O.)
- The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger (L.B.)
2020
- December
- The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison (L.B.)
- The War on Normal People: The Truth About America’s Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future by Andrew Yang (L.B.)*
- The Big Four: The Curious Past and Perilous Future of the Global Accounting Monopoly by Ian D. Kells and Stuart Gow (L.B.)*
- Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People by Vanessa Van Edwards (L.B.)
- Permanent Record by Edward Snowden (L.B.)
- November
- Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goes Too Far by Paul A. Offit (L.B.)
- Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday (L.B.)
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson (L.B.)
- October
- How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone by Brian McCullough (L.B.)*
- Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar (L.B.)
- You Know You Love Me (Gossip Girl #2) by Cecily von Ziegesar (L.B.)
- True Prep: It’s a Whole New Old World by Lisa Birnbach and Chip Kidd (L.B.)
- September
- Never Grow Up by Jackie Chan (L.B.)
- Born to Run by Christopher McDougall (L.B.)
- August
- The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls (L.B.)
- Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin (L.B.)
- July
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (L.B.)
- The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama (L.B.)
- Settle for More by Megyn Kelly (L.B.)
- Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan (L.B.)
- Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life’s Adversities by Elizabeth Edwards (L.B.)
- Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle by Jeff Flake (L.B.)
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) by Suzanne Collins (O.)
- June
- Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg (L.K.)*
- 41: A Portrait of My Father by George W. Bush (L.B.)
- Becoming by Michelle Obama (L.B.)*
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell (L.B.)
- May
- The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (L.)
- The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide by Mary Lou Heiss (K.)
- March
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo (L.)
- Night by Elie Wiesel (N.)
- February
- Polish Your Poise with Madam Chic by Jennifer L. Scott (K.)*
- The Naked Roommate (college advice book) by Harlan Cohen (O.)
- January
- Essential: Essays by The Minimalists by Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus (O.)
2019
- December
- How to Survive Your Freshman Year: By Hundreds of Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors Who Did by Lisa Rothstein and Alison Cowan (O.)*
- Killing Us Softly: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine by Paul A. Offit (L.)*
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (L.)*
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