Favorites of 2019

[Rob Wick]

This is the first year in I don't know how long that I haven't read one Lincoln-related book. The best book I read in 2019 was Susan Orleans' book The Library Book. She took the story of the 1986 fire that heavily damaged the main branch of the Los Angeles Public Library. In addition to giving a history of the library, Orleans talked about how a library serves its community and the importance it holds. The fire reached temperatures of 2000 degrees and destroyed 400,000 books and heavily damaged 700,000 more.

I also liked Robert Caro's collection of essays called Working, which is likely the closest thing to a memoir we'll ever get from Caro, who is working to finish his biography of Lyndon Johnson. I finished the second volume of his biography as well, but I started it in 2018.

Not sure what I'll try to read in 2020.

Best
Rob