Fiction is in red. Date of first publication in (parentheses).
178. The Passage, Justin Cronin (2010) (readable enough, but WOW, the hype)
179. Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel (2014) (v funny and moving, v Vonnegut-ish)
180. Being Mortal, Atul Gawande (2014)
181. Greywalker, Kat Richardson (2006)
182. Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better, Maya Schenwar (2014) (snaps neatly in two: half compelling memoir, half unconvincing jargon)
183. The Knox Brothers, Penelope Fitzgerald (1977, revised ed. 2000) (like a lost work by Woolf)
184. Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, Atul Gawande (2007)
185. The Art of Asking, Amanda Palmer (2014)
186. As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride, Cary Elwes (2014) (get the audiobook of this, not the hard copy)
187. Stranger, Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith (2014)
188. Persuasion, Jane Austen (1818) (all Woolf comes from this)
189. The Annotated Pratchett File (no idea if this counts as a book, but I downloaded it to my Paperwhite and read it. Stops at around 2002, or Once More with Footnotes)
190. Those Who Save Us, Jenna Blum (2005) (pretty bad)
191. The Invisible Bridge, Julie Orringer (2010) (good - fairly sentimental though)
192. The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life, Andy Miller (2014) (more personal than I was expecting, but v funny)
193. How to Be a Heroine: Or What I've Learned from Reading Too Much, Samantha Ellis (2014) (the less said about this the better) (OF COURSE the "top" reviewer on Goodreads loved it, five stars!!! but it did not move her, any more than anything else ever does, to capitalize any letters at all)
194. To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface, Olivia Laing (2011) (exquisite)
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