As a voracious reader, I often get asked by friends and clients what I'm reading. And, I periodically recommend books, particulalry those that make me pause and think differently about the world.
Feel free to e-mail me -- andy@plattnercommunications.com -- to ask about the last, best book I read if you are curious. Or tell me if you've fallen in love with a book that I should read. I love independent bookstores, but, to make travel better, I made the transition to a Kindle in early 2009, then to an iPad and back to a smaller Kindle. (Buy from your local bookstore if you can.)
Reading Now: The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles
The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson
Anthem, by Noah Hawley
When No One is Watching, by Alyssa Cole
The Searcher, by Tana French
The Cold Millions, by Jess Walter
The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman
The Man Who Died Twice, by Richard Osman
Writers and Lovers, by Lily King
High Conflict, by Amanda Ripley
Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr
This Tender Land, by Kent Kreuger
The Appocalypse Factory; Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age, by Steve Olson
Us Versus Them, by Frederick Backman
Immigrant, Montana, by Amitava Kumar
Beartown, by Fredrick Backman
Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens
Unsheltered: A Novel, by Barbara Kingsolver
The Road Beyond Ruin, by Gemma Liviero
Winners Take All; the Elite Charade of Changing the World, by Anand Giridharadas
The Overstory, by Richard Powers
Becoming, by Michelle Obama
Educated, by Tara Westover
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth, by Sarah Smarsh
The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabatoge and Fear in the Cyber Age, by David Sanger
Tailspin, by Sandra Brown
The Coming Storm, by Michael Lewis
The Last Cruise, by Kate Christensen
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann
Fear: Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward
The Alice Network, by Kate Quinn
Paris in the Present Tense, by Mark Helprin
News of the World, by Paulette Jiles
Before We Were Yours, by Lisa Wingal
The Wright Brothers, by David McCullough
A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
The Secret Wife, by Gil Paul
Beneath a Scarlet Sky, by Mark Sullivan
Strangers Tend To Tell Me Things, by Amy Dickinson
The Last Bus to Wisdom, by Ivan Doig
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, by Jonas Jonasson
Moon Glow, by Michael Chabon
Barkskins: A Novel, by Annie Proulx
Today Will Be Different, by Maria Semple
A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, by Michael Lewis
Here I Am: A Novel, by Jonathan Safran Foer
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, by J.D. Vance
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry: A Novel, by Fredrik Backman
Before the Fall, by Noah Hawley
The Imperfectionists: A Novel, by Tom Rachman
Door to Door, by Edward Humes
Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients, by Jeremy Smith
The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, by Ashlee Vance
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens, by Steve Olson
Ordinary Grace, by William Kent Krueger
At the Water’s Edge: A Novel, by Sara Gruen
Etta and Otto and Russel and James, by Emma Hooper
The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools? by Dale Russakoff
The Light Between Oceans: A Novel, by M.L. Stedman
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel, by Jamie Ford
The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert
Orphan Train: A Novel, by Christina Baker Kline
The Girl on the Train: A Novel, by Paula Hawkins
The Hearts of Horses, by Molly Gloss
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, by George Packer
The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Euphoria, by Lily King
All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel, by Anthony Doerr
The Glassblower, by Petra Durst-Benning and Samuel Willcocks
Juliet’s Nurse, by Lois Leveen
Those Who Wish Me Dead, by Michael Koryta
The Director, by David Ignatius
The Other Typist, by Suzanne Rindell
The Bartender’s Tale, by Ivan Doig
The Tender Bar, by J.R. Moehringer
Where'd You Go Bernadette, by Maria Semple
Fourth of July Creek, by Smith Henderson
The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton
Dead Wake, by Erik Larson
The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown
David and Goliath, by Malcolm Gladwell
The Husband's Secret, by Liane Moriarty
And the Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, by Jonathan Haidt
Leaving Time: A Novel, by Jody Picoult
Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation, by John Carlin
The Winter People, by Jennifer McMahon
Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot by David Shafer
The Cuckoo's Calling, by JK Rowling
A Firing Offense, by David Ignatius
The Secrets of Mary Bowser: A Novel, by Lois Leveen
City of Thieves, by David Benioff
The Storyteller, by Jodi Picoult
Little Bee, by Chris Cleave
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson
The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession, by Dana Goldstein
Drift, by Rachel Maddow
Bring Up The Bodies, by Hilary Mantel
The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green
How Children Succeed, by Paul Tough
The Dog Stars, by Peter Heller
Frozen in Time, by Mitchell Zukoff
One Day, by David Nichols
Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese
The Fine Green Line, by John Paul Newport
Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools by Steven Brill
Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It, by Malie Meloy
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen
A Hologram for the King, by Dave Eggers
The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It, by Joshua Cooper Ramo
The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
The Age of American Unreason, by Susan Jacoby
Loving Frank: A Novel, by Nancy Horan
Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell
Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America, by Paul Tough
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, by Malcolm Gladwell
Folly, by Laurie R. King
Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America, by Timothy Egan
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, by Diane Ravitch
The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo, by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played With Fire, by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by Stieg Larsson
Miracle on the 17th Green: A Novel, by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge
Reckless: A Novel, by Andrew Gross
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, by Laura Hillenbrand
The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer, by Curtis Wilkie
Room: A Novel, by Emma Donoghue
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories, by Flannery O'Connor
All the Justice Money Can Buy: Corporate Greed on Trial by Snigdha Prakash
The Art of Fielding, a Novel: by Chad Harbach
Before I Go To Sleep: A Novel, by S.J. Watson
11/22/63, by Stephen King