Art Garfunkel famously keeps track of the books he has read since 1968. As of writing this, the count is 1327 (he does not add a review). I thought I could do something similar but I am adding short reviews of books as I read them, and I rake my brain over what I read over the last decades. This is, evidently, a work-in-progress: there are 566 reviews so far. Titles marked with a * are particular favorites.
Colson Whitehead: Crook manifesto
The second instalment of the Harlem-based crime stories is more like 3 novellas, bound together by the character gallery and the environment. It is still excellent writing, but a rather grim vision: it is a world of corruption where even persons who genuinely want to rise above all that are sucked back in. Nobody can really be trusted, and (almost) all characters have flaws, some light, some deep and dark. Of course, apart from being very good crime writing, it is (in the manner of the best of such writing) much more about society at large. I know that some people do not want that but would prefer this genre to be pure escapism., but on the other hand: you could argue that this is never really genre writing anyway.