Alexander Monigold's votes on the list 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks

Listopia > Alexander Monigold's votes on the list 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks (54 Books)

1	The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson 3.64 avg rating — 20,299 ratings Alexander rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli 4.39 avg rating — 16,898 ratings Alexander rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara 3.80 avg rating — 45,105 ratings Alexander rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 24,604 ratings Alexander rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland 4.23 avg rating — 26,692 ratings Alexander rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho 4.38 avg rating — 28,835 ratings Alexander rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits by Reese Witherspoon 3.61 avg rating — 36,094 ratings Alexander rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore 4.40 avg rating — 12,979 ratings Alexander rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 56,724 ratings Alexander rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 21,121 ratings Alexander rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker 3.95 avg rating — 27,202 ratings Alexander rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs 4.17 avg rating — 57,690 ratings Alexander rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob (Goodreads Author) 4.45 avg rating — 26,466 ratings Alexander rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney 3.65 avg rating — 7,695 ratings Alexander rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 29,964 ratings Alexander rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 25,825 ratings Alexander rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction by Michel Foucault 4.02 avg rating — 25,383 ratings Alexander rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano 4.31 avg rating — 26,994 ratings Alexander rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss 3.94 avg rating — 30,626 ratings Alexander rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala 4.53 avg rating — 22,154 ratings Alexander rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold 4.31 avg rating — 35,851 ratings Alexander rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul 3.73 avg rating — 13,626 ratings Alexander rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Liars' Club by Mary Karr 3.94 avg rating — 71,692 ratings Alexander rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss 3.94 avg rating — 11,843 ratings Alexander rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl 4.16 avg rating — 24,913 ratings Alexander rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh 4.30 avg rating — 33,205 ratings Alexander rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Bluets by Maggie Nelson 4.05 avg rating — 56,588 ratings Alexander rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor 4.22 avg rating — 30,559 ratings Alexander rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 59,114 ratings Alexander rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast 4.16 avg rating — 31,900 ratings Alexander rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer (Goodreads Author) 3.81 avg rating — 14,607 ratings Alexander rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 26,367 ratings Alexander rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild 4.12 avg rating — 17,775 ratings Alexander rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 13,023 ratings Alexander rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey (Goodreads Author) 3.65 avg rating — 20,994 ratings Alexander rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating — 25,131 ratings Alexander rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason 4.23 avg rating — 239,038 ratings Alexander rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee 4.62 avg rating — 21,038 ratings Alexander rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Holistic Mysticism: The Integrated Spiritual Path of the Quakers by Amos Smith (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 225 ratings Alexander rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 29,624 ratings Alexander rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan by Jenny Nordberg (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 14,186 ratings Alexander rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki 4.01 avg rating — 29,713 ratings Alexander rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson 3.90 avg rating — 30,511 ratings Alexander rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind by Michio Kaku 4.08 avg rating — 15,466 ratings Alexander rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	On Liberty by John Stuart Mill 3.96 avg rating — 42,679 ratings Alexander rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday (Goodreads Author) 4.37 avg rating — 49,406 ratings Alexander rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien 4.14 avg rating — 342,069 ratings Alexander rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Dry by Augusten Burroughs (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 98,107 ratings Alexander rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad 4.42 avg rating — 123,009 ratings Alexander rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 22,685 ratings Alexander rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg 4.21 avg rating — 31,657 ratings Alexander rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past by Chuck Klosterman 3.66 avg rating — 18,485 ratings Alexander rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams 4.32 avg rating — 25,974 ratings Alexander rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 15,531 ratings Alexander rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars