In 2018 we bought our first home, a hundred year old house in North Knoxville. I think I listened to more audiobooks in this year becuase of the painting and other jobs that had to be done during my free time...in addition to the walks with the dog.

As always, this is not a list of endorsements—just an honest list of books I consumed. I will use a ⭐ star emoji to denote books I thoroughly enjoyed or would recommend. I'll also use emoji to denote whether I consumed each item on this list as a 📖 paper book, 📱ebook, or listened as 🎧 audio.

1. Two-Dimensional Man
   by Paul Sahre
   📖 Finished on Jan. 4
    

2. What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia ⭐
   by Elizabeth Catte
   📖 Finished on Jan. 6
    

3. Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table
   by Ellen Wayland-Smith
   🎧 Finished on Jan. 6
    

4. No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
   by Reza Aslan
   🎧 Finished on Jan. 14
    

5. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
   by Michael Eric Dyson
   🎧 Finished on Jan. 16
    

6. The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
   by Linda Gordon
   📱 Finished on Jan. 28
    

7. Blacks in Appalachia
   by William H. Turner
   📖 Finished on Feb. 3
    

8. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877 ⭐
   by Eric Foner
   🎧 Finished on Feb. 5
    

9. Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America
   by Patrick Phillips
   🎧 Finished on Feb. 15
    

10. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism ⭐
    by Edward E. Baptist
    🎧 Finished on Feb. 17
     

11. American Culture in the 1950s
    by Martin Halliwell
    📱 Finished on March 8
     

12. Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump
    by David Neiwert
    📱 Finished on March 29
     

13. The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
    by Frances FitzGerald
    🎧 Finished on April 2
     

14. Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America ⭐
    by Nancy MacLean
    🎧 Finished on April 10
     

15. Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology ⭐
    by Ellen Ullman
    📖 Finished on April 12
     

16. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation ⭐
    by Jon Gertner
    🎧 Finished on April 21
     

17. Knowledge for Sale: The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education
    by Lawrence Busch
    📖 Finished on April 29
     

18. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide ⭐
    by Carol Anderson
    🎧 Finished on May 1
     

19. Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley ⭐
    by Corey Pein
    🎧 Finished on May 5
     

20. The Underground Railroad
    by Colson Whitehead
    🎧 Finished on May 8
     

21. A Confederacy of Dunces ⭐
    by John Kennedy Toole
    🎧 Finished on May 19
     

22. Breakfast of Champions
    by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    🎧 Finished on May 28
     

23. Cat's Cradle ⭐
    by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    🎧 Finished on June 3
     

24. The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan ⭐
    by Rick Perlstein
    🎧 Finished on June 6
     

25. Octavia Butler's Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
    Adapted by Damian Duffy and John Jennings
    📱 Finished on June 8
     

26. The Plot Against America
    by Philip Roth
    🎧 Finished on June 20
     

27. Slaughterhouse-Five ⭐
    by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    🎧 Finished on June 23
     

28. Batman: Year One
    by Frank Miller
    📱 Finished on June 27
     

29. The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains
    by Robert H. Lustig
    🎧 Finished on June 28
     

30. Sing, Unburied, Sing ⭐
    by Jesmyn Ward
    🎧 Finished on June 30
     

31. Sourdough
    by Robin Sloan
    🎧 Finished on July 2
     

32. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
    by Robin Sloan
    🎧 Finished on July 3
     

33. Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby
    by Candida R. Moss and Joel S. Baden
    📖 Finished on July 13
     

34. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America ⭐
    by Richard Rothstein
    🎧 Finished on July 19
     

35. Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
    by Brian Alexander
    🎧 Finished on Aug. 3
     

36. Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age ⭐
    by Cory Doctorow
    📱 Finished on Aug. 4
     

37. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
    by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
    📖 Finished on Aug. 9
     

38. Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
    by Malcolm Harris
    📖 Finished on Sept. 11
     

39. When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
    by Ira Katznelson
    🎧 Finished on Sept. 11
     

40. The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason
    by Chapo Trap House
    📖 Finished on Oct. 16
     

41. The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump ⭐
    by Corey Robin
    🎧 Finished on Nov. 18
     

42. How to Speak Midwestern
    by Edward McClelland
    📖 Finished on Dec. 20
     

43. Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin
    by Lawrence Weschler
    📖 Finished on Dec. 26
     

44. New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
    by James Bridle
    📱 Finished on Dec. 29