{"id":992,"date":"2016-11-20T21:57:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T05:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/?p=992"},"modified":"2016-11-25T08:50:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T16:50:18","slug":"the-best-books-i-read-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/20\/the-best-books-i-read-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Books I Read in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previous editions: <a href=\"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/27\/the-best-books-i-read-in-2015\/\">2015<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/30\/the-best-books-i-read-in-2014\/\">2014<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/29\/the-best-books-i-read-in-2013\/\">2013<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/24\/the-best-books-i-read-in-2012\/\">2012<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/08\/the-best-books-i-read-in-2011\/\">2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fewer books read this year&#8211;toddlers take attention!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2g8yTPG\">Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy<\/a><br \/>\nChristoper Hayes<br \/>\nPerceptively anticipating current events, this book argues that America?s?ostensibly meritocratic elite has become self-dealing and detached from the concerns of the larger population, undermining governance and stability.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2gtRWbG\">Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot<\/a><br \/>\nMark Vanhoenacker<br \/>\nA beautiful, elegiac mediation by a professional airline pilot on the human experience of air travel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2gzZzxY\">Lactivism<\/a><br \/>\nCourtney Jung<br \/>\nExamines the history, science, and sociology behind today?s widespread consensus that ?breast is best.?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2gtNny3\">Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles<\/a><br \/>\nLes Standiford<br \/>\nA forgiving biography tracing the life and achievements of one of America&#8217;s great executors of public works.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2gtN9a2\">Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline<\/a><br \/>\nBecky Bailey<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s challenging to read and harder to implement, but this book presents a powerful philosophy of parental discipline as teaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous editions: 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011. Fewer books read this year&#8211;toddlers take attention! Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy Christoper Hayes Perceptively anticipating current events, this book argues that America?s?ostensibly meritocratic elite has become self-dealing and detached from the concerns of the larger population, undermining governance and stability. Skyfaring: A Journey with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bellm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}