Best 100 Books I've Read in the Last Decade

Dear readers, today is a special today -- the tenth anniversary of my writing about books!  In the next few days I will have some reflective posts,  but today I'd just like to thank my regular readers for your digital company over the years -- and especially Cyberkitten, who has been coming by at least since 2008.

Five years ago, I celebrated my five-year blogging anniversary by posting a list of fifty of my favorite or most memorable books. It's  time for another round!   In chronological order, the fifty most memorable books read since 2012:

1. Bowling Alone: the Collapse and Revival of American Community, Robert D. Putnam
2. Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back, Jane Holtz Kay
3. Lucifer's Hammer, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (Fiction)
4.  Blood, Iron, and Gold: How Railroads Transformed the World, Christian Wolmar
5. Nickle and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich
6. A Conspiracy of Paper, David Liss
7. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, Eric Schlosser
8. Suburban Nation: the Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck
9. Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood, Jennifer Linn
10. The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community, Ray Oldenburg
11. The Green Metropolis: Why Living Smarter, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability, David Owen
12. John Adams, David McCullough
13. A Man on the Moon, Neil Chaiken
14. No Logo: The Case Against the Brand Bullies, Naomi Klein
15. Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash, Susan Strasser
16. The Arthur Trilogy, Bernard Cornwell
17. Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists are Changing American Cities, Jeff Mapes
18. Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile, Taras Grescoe
19.  The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
20. The Plain Reader: Essays on Making a Simple Life, edited by Scott Savage
21. Jayber Crow, Wendell Berry 
22. The Conservative Mind: From Burk to Eliot, Russell Kirk
23. Religion for Atheists, Alain de Botton
24.  The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, Jonathan Haidt
25. small is beautiful: economics as if people mattered, EF Schumacher
26. Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein 
27.  Look Homeward, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front Porch Anarchists, Bill Kauffman
28. Human Scale, Kirkpatrick Sale
29. Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping,  Rose George.'
30. Antifragile: How Some Things Gain from Disorder, Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
31. Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist, Brant Pitre
32. A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich
33. The Cult of the Presidency, Gene Healy (Politics)
34. The Iron Web, Larken Rose (Political Thriller)
35. Happy City: Transforming Our Lives through Urban Design, Charles Montgomery
36. The Horse in the City,  Clay McShane and Joel Tarr
37. How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had it Coming, Mike Brown (Science)
38. Picking Up:  On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City, Robin Nagle
39. Future Crimes:  Everything is Connected, Everyone is Vulnerable, and What We Can Do About It, Marc Goodman
40. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert Heinlein 
41. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 
42. The Chosen, Chaim Potok 
43. Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR, Neil Thompson
44. Sphere, Michael Crichton 
45. All the Shah's Men,  Stephen Kinzer
46. The Porch and the Cross, Kevin Vost
47. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-Earth, Brad Birzer
48. Musonius Rufus on How to Live, adapted Ben White. 
49. The Twilight of the Presidency, George Reedy
50. Fear no Evil, Natan Sharansky