Here’s a list of the books I read in 2016, in chronological order:

• Interactive Data Visualization for the Web, Scott Murray
• Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, Jon Meacham
• The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, Walter Isaacson (first part)
• The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why, Arthur Benjamin
• The English and Their History, Robert Tombs (first half)
• Project Future: The Inside Story Behind the Creation of Disney World, Chad Denver Emerson
• Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church, The Investigative Staff of the Boston Globe
• Three Years in Wonderland: The Disney Brothers, C. V. Wood, and the Making of the Great American Theme Park, Todd James Pierce (first few chapters)
• The Oxford History of the French Revolution, William Doyle
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari
• Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, Simon Baker
• John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit, James Traub
• America’s Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union, Fergus M. Bordewich
• Test-Driven Development with Python, Harry Percival (most of it)
• Hitler: Ascent, 1889-1939, Volker Ullrich
• The Nix, Nathan Hill
• Death’s End, Cixin Liu
• Time Travel: A History, James Gleick
• Herbert Hoover: A Life, Glen Jeansonne
• Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency, Charles Rappleye
• The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution, Michael J. Klarman
• Moonglow, Michael Chabon
• The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon
• Jefferson the Virginian (Jefferson and His Time, Vol. 1), Dumas Malone
• Jefferson and the Rights of Man (Jefferson and His Time, Vol. 2), Dumas Malone