For the first time, I kept track of all the books I read in one year. There’s some observation bias at work; I sometimes made it a point to finish a book on principle when otherwise I would have moved on, and I think I read fewer anthologies and the like, because bits and pieces of a book wouldn’t count for the rules I made up for this silly little list. But here are the books, trivial or profound, for scholarship or entertainment, those I sought out and those I stumbled upon in closeout bins. Not all are necessarily recommended, but I’d be happy to talk about any of them if you’re curious. Linked to Google Books.<\/p>\n
Bring Me the Rhinoceros<\/a>, John Tarrant For the first time, I kept track of all the books I read in one year. There’s some observation bias at work; I sometimes made it a point to finish a book on principle when otherwise I would have moved on, and I think I read fewer anthologies and the like, because bits and pieces […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbija.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbija.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbija.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbija.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbija.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbija.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbija.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbija.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbija.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbija.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nConnect<\/a>, Web Worker Daily
\nA Buddhist in the Classroom<\/a>, Sid Brown
\nZen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate<\/a>, Brad Warner
\nThe Little Book of Atheist Spirituality<\/a>, Andre Comte-Sponville
\nThe Thief and the Dogs<\/a>, Naguib Mahfouz
\nThe Sinner’s Guide to the Evangelical Right<\/a>, Robert Lanham
\nOrdinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within<\/a>, Kim Addonizio
\nThe Fortune Cookie Chronicles<\/a>, Jennifer 8 Lee
\nX Saves the World<\/a>, Jeff Gordinier
\nSeeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World<\/a>, Mary Pipher
\nGet Known Before the Book Deal<\/a>, Christina Katz
\nThe Maharishi Effect<\/a>, Geoff Gilpin
\nHow to Work a Room<\/a>, Susan RoAne
\nJoyful Wisdom<\/a>, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
\nOur Magnificent Bastard Tongue<\/a>, John McWhorter
\nThe Life You Can Save<\/a>, Peter Singer
\nWhy Beautiful People Have More Daughters<\/a>, Alan S. Miller, Satoshi Kanazawa
\nThe Glass-Maker’s Daughter<\/a>, V. Briceland
\nThe Living Buddha: An Interpretive Biography<\/a>, Daisaku Ikeda
\nThe Raft Is Not the Shore: Conversations toward a Buddhist-Christian Awareness<\/a>, Thich Nhat Hanh and Daniel Berrigan
\nThree Mistakes of My Life<\/a>, Chetan Bhagat
\nThe Elephant Paradigm: India Wrestles with Change<\/a>, Gurcharan Das
\nJeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi<\/a>, Geoff Dyer
\nThe Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals<\/a>, Jane Mayer
\nStealing Buddha’s Dinner<\/a>, Bich Minh Nguyen
\nTelling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writer’s Guide<\/a>
\nGood Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe<\/a>, Greg Epstein
\nHow to Make Friends and Oppress People<\/a>, Vic Darkwood
\nLibyrinth<\/a>, Pearl North
\nDreaming Me: Black, Baptist, and Buddhist – One Woman’s Spiritual Journey<\/a>, Jan Willis
\nTurtle Feet<\/a>, Nikolai Grozni<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"