Books I've Actually Finished

Priya Nair

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Chart review of everything that survived the T commute this year. Rated like labs, argued like a bullpen decision. If it's on here it beat the differential — most books don't make it past chapter two before I'm asleep on the Orange Line.

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Books I've Actually Finished — 9 items
Name	Title	Author	Genre	Pages	Status	Where I Read It	My take	Reread Rate
1The Emperor of All Maladies	The Emperor of All Maladies	Siddhartha Mukherjee	Medical history	571	Finished, dog-eared	Orange Line, Forest Hills to Downtown Crossing	Best oncology biography written. Cried once, near Copley.	.280 — solid, not annual
2Being Mortal	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
3The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	Rebecca Skloot	Science journalism	381	Finished	Waiting room, my own appointment	Consent as a plot device. Should be mandatory orientation reading.	.250
4The Great Believers	The Great Believers	Rebecca Makkai	Historical fiction	421	Finished, wrecked	Porch, Centre Street	AIDS-era Chicago. Structured like extra innings, guts you the same way.	.200 — too much to run it back
5When Breath Becomes Air	When Breath Becomes Air	Paul Kalanithi	Memoir	228	Finished in one sitting	J.P. Licks, Centre Street	Neurosurgeon narrates his own decline. Short book, long recovery.	.150 — once was enough
6The Sports Gene	The Sports Gene	David Epstein	Sports science	352	Finished, annotated	Fenway, between innings, don't judge	VO2 max meets bloodlines. Explains why I'll never hit a slider.	.333 — my comfort nonfiction
7The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	Mark Haddon	Fiction	226	Finished, ages ago	Green Line, standing room only	Unreliable narrator done right. Diagnostically messy in the best way.	.260
8Complications	Complications	Atul Gawande	Medical essays	269	Finished, keep rereading chapters	Lobby, waiting on labs	Fallibility as a feature, not a bug. Nurses already knew this.	.290
9The Boys of Summer	The Boys of Summer	Roger Kahn	Baseball history	442	Finished, loaned out and never returned	Arnold Arboretum bench	Dodgers elegy. Made me nostalgic for a Brooklyn I never saw.	.220