Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me

Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me

By
Bill Hayes
Bill Hayes
2017 • 294 pages

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14 books

Owned

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Matt
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Exhalation
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Jonny Appleseed
Nation
The Three-Body Problem

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554 books

Non Fiction

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Danielle
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
The Dark Queens
The World's Worst Assistant
The Natural Mother of the Child
America's First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics

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97 books

Short Stories

Lemons
Danielle
A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times
If You Feel Too Much
My Monticello
Man Made Monsters
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays
The Moth Presents All These Wonders

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37 books

Owned

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Phuong Do
Kitchen
A Wild Sheep Chase
Small Pleasures
Ghosts
The Switch
They Both Die at the End
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me

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41 books

2017

Mirk
Miriam
99 Stories of God
Slow River
News of the World
Provenance
State of Wonder
All Our Wrong Todays
The Boy on the Bridge

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Nf Biog Memoirs

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Lisa Francine
All Who Go Do Not Return
Nine Essential Things I've Learned About Life
Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome One Woman's Desperate, Funny, and Healing Journey to Explore 30 Religions by Her 30th Birthday
Anger
The Rules Do Not Apply
When We Rise
Happiness: A Memoir

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15 books

Brainpickings

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Helen
A Nasty Piece of Work
The Golden Calf
Winter Journal
Box 21
Old school
A lesson before dying
The Imperfectionists

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7 books

Favorites

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Eliot
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
Educated: A Memoir
This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of it Back
There Are No Accidents
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me

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2018 Reading List

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
There There
Educated: A Memoir
The Bell Jar
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Devil in the White City

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36 books

Contemporary

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Penance
Nails and Eyes
Still Born
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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20 books

Nonfiction

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When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
When We Cease to Understand the World
Design as Art
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
Intimations

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Memoir

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Jamilya
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy
The Chronology of Water
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
Man's Search for Meaning
Crying in H Mart

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65 books

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Boy Parts
Red, White & Royal Blue
We Are the Ants
This Is How You Lose the Time War
In the Dream House
Tin Man

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176 books

Short

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The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form
Madame Zero
No One Is Talking About This
Tangleweed and Brine
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Rogue Protocol
And the Ocean Was Our Sky

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119 books

Non Fiction

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Tatiana
Words Are My Matter
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
Writing Fiction: The Practical Guide from New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School
Wired for Story
On the Move: A Life
Three Women - Drei Frauen

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5 books

Most Loved

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Where the Line Bleeds
Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
This Census-Taker
The Song of Achilles

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To Read Nonfiction

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The Blank Slate
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
Letters to a Young Poet
The Interpretation of Dreams
The Guns of August

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164 books

Must Read Before I Die

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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Crying in H Mart
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me