Fiction: Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Memoir: Whipping Boy: the Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully, by Allen Kurzweil

Non-fiction: The Obstacle Is the Way, by Ryan Holiday

History: Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns, and other Prized Professions in the Ancient World, by Vicky León

Music: People Gonna Talk, James Hunter

TV: Catastrophe, Ben Taylor, Amazon Video

Movie: The Trip to Italy, Michael Winterbottom

Ancient Inspiration: “The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”  Marcus Tullius Cicero