August 2016 – books

Best from the Past

Five-star books I read before I started methodically recording stats in 2016:

All Men Are Mortal by Simone de Beauvoir
All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
How I Escaped My Certain Fate by Stewart Lee
I Know Why the Caged Bird

Bits from the Past

A few books I read before I started keeping track of read-dates, minus many Russians & classics:

★★★★½

The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West