{"id":2998,"date":"2017-01-02T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2017-01-02T15:55:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T14:55:55","slug":"books-ive-read-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2017\/01\/02\/books-ive-read-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Books I\u2019ve read in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read 32 books, which is four short of my goal and also four less than the <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2015\/12\/31\/books-ive-read-in-2015\/\">previous year<\/a>. It&#8217;s still not a bad score though and quality wise the list below contains many gems.<\/p>\n<p>I resolved to read mostly books by women and minority authors. This lead to quite a few surprising experiences which I am certainly grateful for.  I think I&#8217;ll continue to push myself to seek out such books in the year to come.<\/p>\n<p>There are only a few comics in the list. I sort of fell off the comics bandwagon this year mainly because I just can&#8217;t seem to find a good place to discover things to read.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s the list, with links to my reviews on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user\/year_in_books\/2016\/1317300\">Goodreads<\/a>. A * denotes a particular favourite.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1468477433\">A Brief History of Seven Killings<\/a>, Marlon James *<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1344858593\">Wild Life<\/a>, Molly Gloss * <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1247174102\">H Is for Hawk<\/a>, Helen MacDonald * <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1570905567\">The Little Book on CoffeeScript<\/a>, Alex MacCaw<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/797128623\">The Incal<\/a>, Alejandro Jodorowsky<\/li>\n<li>Hawkeye, Volume 3: L.A. Woman, Matt Fraction<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1598821448\">Roche Limit, Volume 1<\/a>, Michael Moreci<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1605746742\">Breaking Smart &#8211; Season 1<\/a>, Venkatesh Rao *<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1431346181\">Speak<\/a>, Louisa Hall<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/345155816\">Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed<\/a>, James C. Scott *<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1618015971\">Blood and Guts in High School<\/a>, Kathy Acker<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1633897244\">The Gervais Principle: The Complete Series, with a Bonus Essay on Office Space<\/a>, Venkatesh Rao<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1437736296\">SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome<\/a>, Mary Beard *<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1618024414\">Ice<\/a>, Anna Kavan *<\/li>\n<li>[Microinteractions: Designing with Details](), Dan Saffer<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1550192079\">Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience<\/a>, Jeff Gothelf<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/807099633\">The Shining Girls<\/a>, Lauren Beukes<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1572301858\">Design Sprint: A Practical Guidebook for Building Great Digital Products<\/a>, Richard Canfield<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1066197443\">Valley of the Dolls<\/a>, Jacqueline Susann<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1504830776\">Encounters with the Archdruid<\/a>, John McPhee *<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1522736638\">UX for Lean Startups: Faster, Smarter User Experience Research and Design<\/a>, Laura Klein<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/345162526\">Finite and Infinite Games<\/a>, James P. Carse<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1736258795\">Marx: A Very Short Introduction<\/a>, Peter Singer<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1698917892\">Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)<\/a>, Hilary Mantel *<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1708508210\">Between the World and Me<\/a>, Ta-Nehisi Coates *<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1130572329\">Men Explain Things to Me: And Other Essays<\/a>, Rebecca Solnit *<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1327818398\">Platform<\/a>, Michel Houellebecq<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1791130586\">Designing Conversational Interfaces<\/a>, Alper \u00c7u\u011fun<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1393507175\">The Year of Magical Thinking<\/a>, Joan Didion *<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1618020398\">Nightwood<\/a>, Djuna Barnes<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1789451419\">Machine Learning for Designers<\/a>, Patrick Hebron<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1734470101\">Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers<\/a>, Kwame Anthony Appiah *<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read 32 books, which is four short of my goal and also four less than the previous year. It&#8217;s still not a bad score though and quality wise the list below contains many gems. I resolved to read mostly books by women and minority authors. This lead to quite a few surprising experiences which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2017\/01\/02\/books-ive-read-in-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Books I\u2019ve read in 2016<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[625],"tags":[1039,1141,104,70,105],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-1039","tag-best-of","tag-books","tag-lists","tag-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3003,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions\/3003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}