The Atlantic's List of Great American Novels

The Atlantic put out a list of books they consider The Great American Novels. They were very careful to include black authors and Hispanic authors and Injun authors and Asian authors and women authors and black women authors.

I’ve ordered their list by the author’s birth date.

1. 1888 - The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 1939

2. 1890 - Amiable With Big Teeth Claude McKay 2017 (black)

3. 1896 - The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925

4. 1871 - An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser 1925

5. 1873 - Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather 1927

6. 1874 - The Making of Americans Gertrude Stein 1925

7. 1891 - Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 1937 (black)

8. 1891 - Passing Nella Larsen 1929 (black)

9. 1892 - Nightwood Djuna Barnes 1936 (lesbian)

10. 1896 - U.S.A. John Dos Passos 1937

11. 1896 - A Time to Be Born Dawn Powell 1942

12. 1897 - The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 1929

13. 1897 - Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 1936

14. 1898 - East Goes West Younghill Kang 1937 (Korean)

15. 1899 - Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 1955

16. 1899 - Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov 1962

17. 1899 - A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway 1929

18. 1899 - Charlotte’s Web E. B. White 1952

19. 1902 - The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939

20. 1903 - The Day of the Locust Nathanael West 1939

21. 1904 - In a Lonely Place Dorothy B. Hughes 1947

22. 1905 - All the King’s Men Robert Penn Warren 1946

23. 1908 - The Street Ann Petry 1946 (black)

24. 1908 - Native Son Richard Wright 1940 (black)

25. 1909 - Ask the Dust John Fante 1939

26. 1912 - The Group Mary McCarthy 1963

27. 1914 - Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 1952 (black)

28. 1915 - The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow 1953

29. 1915 - The Zebra-Striped Hearse Ross Macdonald 1962

30. 1915 - The Mountain Lion Jean Stafford 1947

31. 1916 - The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson 1959

32. 1917 - Maud Martha, Gwendolyn Brooks 1953 (black)

33. 1917 - A Contract With God Will Eisner 1978

34. 1917 - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers 1940 (lesbian)

35. 1917 - A Summons to Memphis Peter Taylor 1986

36. 1918 - A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle 1962

37. 1919 - The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 1951

38. 1920 - Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 1953

39. 1921 - Deep Water Patricia Highsmith 1957

40. 1922 - On the Road Jack Kerouac 1957

41. 1922 - Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 1969

42. 1923 - Desperate Characters Paula Fox 1970

43. 1923 - Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1961

44. 1923 - No-No Boy John Okada 1957 (Japanese)

45. 1924 - Another Country James Baldwin 1962 (black)

46. 1924 - Giovanni’s Room James Baldwin 1956 (black)

47. 1924 - Peyton Place, Grace Metalious 1956

48. 1925 - A Sport and a Pastime James Salter 1967

49. 1928 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick 1968

50. 1928 - Divorcing Susan Taubes 1969

51. 1929 - The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin 1974

52. 1931 - Beloved Toni Morrison 1987 (black)

53. 1931 - Song of Solomon Toni Morrison 1977 (black)

54. 1931 - Sula Toni Morrison 1973 (black)

55. 1932 - The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath 1963

56. 1932 - Couples John Updike 1968

57. 1933 - Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy 1985

58. 1933 - The Dog of the South Charles Portis 1979

59. 1933 - Portnoy’s Complaint Philip Roth 1969

60. 1933 - Sabbath’s Theater Philip Roth 1995

61. 1933 - Mating Norman Rush 1991

62. 1934 - Play It as It Lays Joan Didion 1970

63. 1935 - The Revolt of the Cockroach People Oscar Zeta Acosta 1973 (Hispanic)

64. 1935 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey 1962

65. 1935 - The Shipping News Annie Proulx 1993

66. 1935 - Oreo Fran Ross 1974 (black)

67. 1936 - Underworld Don DeLillo 1997

68. 1937 - Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine Stanley Crawford 1972

69. 1937 - The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon 1966

70. 1938 - Speedboat Renata Adler 1976

71. 1938 - Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret Judy Blume 1970

72. 1938 - Blonde Joyce Carol Oates 2000

73. 1938 - Mumbo Jumbo Ishmael Reed 1972 (black)

74. 1939 - The Salt Eaters Toni Cade Bambara 1980 (black)

75. 1940 - Tripmaster Monkey Maxine Hong Kingston 1989 (Chinese)

76. 1940 - Winter in the Blood James Welch 1974

77. 1942 - Little, Big: Or, the Fairies’ Parliament John Crowley 1981

78. 1943 - Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson 1980

79. 1944 - Dancer From the Dance Andrew Holleran 1978

80. 1944 - The Quick and the Dead Joy Williams 2000

81. 1945 - Geek Love Katherine Dunn 1989

82. 1947 - Dawn Octavia E. Butler 1987 (black)

83. 1947 - Kindred Octavia E. Butler 1979 (black)

84. 1947 - The Stand Stephen King 1978

85. 1948 - Oxherding Tale Charles Johnson 1982 (black)

86. 1948 - Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko 1977 (Injun)

87. 1949 - Bastard Out of Carolina Dorothy Allison 1992

88. 1949 - Stone Butch Blues Leslie Feinberg 1993 (lesbian)

89. 1949 - Dogeaters Jessica Hagedorn 1990

90. 1949 - Corregidora Gayl Jones 1975 (black)

91. 1950 - How the García Girls Lost Their Accents Julia Alvarez 1991

92. 1951 - I Hotel Karen Tei Yamashita 2010 (Japanese)

93. 1952 - Machine Dreams Jayne Anne Phillips 1984

94. 1953 - So Far From God Ana Castillo 1993 (Hispanic)

95. 1953 - Watchmen Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons 1986

96. 1954 - Caramelo Sandra Cisneros 2004

97. 1954 - The Round House Louise Erdrich 2012

98. 1954 - Veronica Mary Gaitskill 2005

99. 1954 - Under the Feet of Jesus Helena María Viramontes 1995

100. 1955 - I Love Dick, Chris Kraus 1997

101. 1956 - Erasure Percival Everett 2001 (black)

102. 1957 - The Last Samurai Helen DeWitt 2000

103. 1957 - Perma Red Debra Magpie Earling 2002 (Injun)

104. 1958 - Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders 2017

105. 1959 - I, the Divine Rabih Alameddine 2001

106. 1959 - The Corrections Jonathan Franzen 2001

107. 1962 - The Sellout Paul Beatty 2015

108. 1962 - A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan 2010

109. 1962 - Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace 1996

110. 1963 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon 2000

111. 1963 - The Secret History Donna Tartt 1992

112. 1964 - American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis 1991

113. 1965 - Native Speaker Chang-rae Lee 1995 (Korean)

114. 1966 - House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski 2000

115. 1967 - The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2021 (black)

116. 1967 - The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri 2003 (subcontinental Indian)

117. 1968 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz 2007 (Hispanic)

118. 1969 - The Intuitionist Colson Whitehead 1999 (black)

119. 1970 - A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James 2014 (black)

120. 1971 - Family Life Akhil Sharma 2014 (subcontinental Indian)

121. 1971 - The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015 (Vietnamese)

122. 1972 - The Fifth Season N. K. (Nora Keita) Jemisin 2015 (black)

123. 1972 - The Russian Debutante’s Handbook Gary Shteyngart 2002

124. 1975 - Open City Teju Cole 2011 (black)

125. 1977 - Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013 (black)

126. 1977 - Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward 2011 (black)

127. 1978 - Fates and Furies Lauren Groff 2015

128. 1978 - Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson 2019

129. 1979 - Nevada Imogen Binnie 2013

130. 1980 - The Old Drift Namwali Serpell 2019 (black)

131. 1982 - There There Tommy Orange 2018 (Injun)

132. 1983 - Lost Children Archive Valeria Luiselli 2019 (Mexican)

133. 1983 - Severance Ling Ma 2018 (Chinese)

134. 1982- No One Is Talking About This Patricia Lockwood 2021

135. 1985 - Biography of X Catherine Lacey 2023

136. 1989 - Sabrina Nick Drnaso 2018 (comic book artist)

BaT Top 80 of the '80s Car Index

I recently bought Bring A Trailer’s first coffee table book, titled: Top 80 of the '80s. I was surprised that they didn’t include an index of the cars featured in the book in any of the promotional material, so I’ve made my own below.

I’m surprised the Pontiac Fiero is not included — it’s an obvious selection to me.

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1. Alfa Romeo GTV6

2. Alfa Romeo Spider Quadrifoglio

3. Aston Martin Lagonda

4. Aston Martin V8

5. Audi Quattro

6. BMW E24 M6

7. BMW E28 M5

8. BMW E30 325is

9. BMW E30 M3

10. BMW R80G/S Paris-Dakar (motorcycle)

11. BMW M1

12. BMW Z1

13. Buick Grand National

14. Buick GNX

15. Chevrolet Camaro Z28 IROC-Z

16. Chevrolet Corvette

17. Chevrolet K5 Blazer

18. Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS

19. Chevrolet Suburban

20. Chrysler Conquest TSi

21. DeLorean DMC-12

22. DeTomaso Pantera GT5-S

23. Dodge Ram

24. Ferrari 308 GTB QV

25. Ferrari 328 GTS

26. Ferrari 512 BBi

27. Ferrari F40

28. Ferrari Testarossa

29. Fiat Panda 4x4

30. Ford Bronco

31. Ford Mustang LX 5.0 Convertible

32. Ford Mustang SVO

33. Ford RS200

34. Ford Sierra RS Cosworth

35. Ford Taurus SHO

36. Honda Accord

37. Honda CBX Super Sport (motorcycle)

38. Honda Civic Si

39. Honda CRX Si

40. Jaguar XJS V12

41. Jeep XJ Cherokee

42. Jeep Grand Wagoneer

43. Lamborghini Countach 5000 QV

44. Lamborghini Jalpa

45. Lancia 037 Stradale

46. Lancia Delta Integrale

47. Land Rover Range Rover

48. Lotus Esprit Turbo

49. Mazda RX-7 Turbo II

50. Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.3-16

51. Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.5-16 Evolution I

52. Mercedes-Benz 300TD Turbodiesel

53. Mercedes-Benz 300E

54. Mercedes-Benz 560SEC

55. Mercedes-Benz 300GD

56. Nissan R32 Skyline GT-R

57. Peugeot 205 GTI

58. Peugeot 505

59. Pininfarina Spider Azzurra

60. Pontiac Firebird Turbo Trans Am

61. Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2

62. Porsche 911 Turbo

63. Porsche 928 S4

64. Porsche 944 Turbo

65. Porsche 959 Komfort

66. Renault R5 Turbo

67. Saab 900 Turbo SPG

68. Shelby Omni GLH-S

69. Toyota Celica All-Trac

70. Toyota Celica Supra

71. Toyota Supra Turbo

72. Toyota Corolla GTS

73. Toyota Land Cruiser FJ60

74. Toyota MR2 Supercharged

75. Toyota SR5 Pickup

76. Volkswagen Cabriolet

77. Volkswagen Rabbit GTI

78. Volkswagen Scirocco S

79. Volvo 242 Turbo

80. Volvo 740 Turbo Wagon

100 Best-Ever Children's Books, Sorted Chronologically

Penguin put out this nice list, which I’ve rearranged here chronologically:

1. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)

2. Grimms' Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm (1812)

3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)

4. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843)

5. The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley (1863)

6. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)

7. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)

8. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (1870)

9. What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge (1872)

10. Heidi by Johanna Spyri (1880)

11. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)

12. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)

13. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (1877)

14. The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde (1888)

15. The Happy Prince & Other Stories by Oscar Wilde (1888)

16. The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)

17. Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner (1898)

18. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (1898)

19. Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (1902)

20. Five Children and It by E. Nesbit (1902)

21. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1905)

22. The Railway Children by E. Nesbit (1906)

23. The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit (1907)

24. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908)

25. Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery (1908)

26. The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck by Beatrix Potter (1908)

27. Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (1911)

28. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)

29. Winnie-The-Pooh by A. A. Milne (1926)

30. Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner (1929)

31. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome (1930)

32. Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild (1936)

33. The Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett (1937)

34. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein (1937)

35. A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley (1939)

36. The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1943)

37. Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)

38. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947)

39. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (1948)

40. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (1950)

41. My Naughty Little Sister by Dorothy Edwards & Shirley Hughes (1952)

42. The Complete Borrowers by Mary Norton (1952)

43. Brother Dusty-Feet by Rosemary Sutcliff (1952)

44. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White (1952)

45. The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff (1954)

46. Mrs Pepperpot Stories by Alf Proysen (1956)

47. The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier (1956)

48. The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith (1956)

49. Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce (1958)

50. Paddington: Please Look After This Bear & Other Stories by Michael Bond (1958)

51. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake (1961)

52. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (1962)

53. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (1963)

54. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake (1964)

55. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein (1964)

56. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle & Bill Martin Jr (1967)

57. A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines (1968)

58. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (1968)

59. Ladybird Tales: Sleeping Beauty by Vera Southgate (1968)

60. Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer (1969)

61. Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (1970)

62. Watership Down by Richard Adams (1972)

63. The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy (1974)

64. Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake (1975)

65. Dogger by Shirley Hughes (1977)

66. The Twits by Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake (1980)

67. George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake (1981)

68. Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian (1981)

69. The BFG by Roald Dahl (1982)

70. Matilda by Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake (1988)

71. Boy and Going Solo by Roald Dahl (1989)

72. Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie (1990)

73. Northern Lights by Philip Pullman (1995)

74. Zagazoo by Quentin Blake (1998)

75. Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman (2001)

76. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (2002)

77. The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett (2003)

78. The Spook's Apprentice by Joseph Delaney (2004)

79. Biggles and Co. by W. E. Johns (2004)

80. The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall (2005)

81. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (2005)

82. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (2005)

83. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne (2006)

84. The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights translated by Malcolm C. Lyons & Ursula Lyons (2008)

85. Nation by Terry Pratchett (2008)

86. Wonder by R. J. Palacio (2012)

87. Turtles All The Way Down by John Green (2017)

Author Recommendations Circle Jerk

I borrowed a John Lescroart book from the library only to find that it was crap. According to the cover, he is a New York Times Bestselling Author. On the back were five glowing blurbs for John Lescroart from fellow bestselling authors. It’s safe to assume that not only is John Lescroart a crap writer, but so are C.J. Box, Karin Slaughter, Catherine Coulter, Gayle Lynds, and Robert Dugoni … all crap writers supporting one another in one big circle jerk.

Ken Oppel -- Bibliography

Kenneth Oppel was born in 1967.

• The Live-Forever Machine — 1990

• Dead Water Zone — 1992

• Silverwing — 1997

• Sunwing — 1999

• Firewing — 2002

• Airborn — 2004

• Skybreaker — 2005

• Darkwing — 2007

• Starclimber — 2008

• Half Brother — 2010

• This Dark Endeavor — 2011

• Such Wicked Intent — 2012

• The Boundless — 2014

• The Nest — 2015

• Every Hidden Thing — 2016

• Inkling — 2018

• Bloom

• Hatch

• Thrive

Authors and Their Ages

Jonathan Ames — March 23, 1964

Stephen J. Cannell — February 5, 1941

Reed Farrel Coleman — 1956

Eoin Colfer — May 14, 1965 (Irish male)

Michael Connelly — 1956

John Connolly — 1968

Robert Crais — June 20, 1953

Tim Dorsey — January 1, 1961

John Dufresne — January 30, 1948

Allen Eskense — 1963

Michael T. Harvey — 1958

Joe Ide — 1958 (Japanese-American)

Stephen Mack Jones — 1954 (black)

D. Daniel Judson — 1962

William Scott Landay — July 23, 1963

Danny Lopez (pen name) — N/A

Walter Mosley — January 12, 1952 (light-skinned black)

T. Jefferson Parker — December 26, 1953

James Patterson — 1947

George Pelecanos — February 18, 1957

Mercedes Rosende — January 13, 1958 (female)

Alex Segura — 1980 (male)

Karin Slaughter — January 6, 1971 (female)

Martín Solares — 1970

David Swinson — N/A

Joseph Wambaugh — January 22, 1937

William Wells — 1945

Dave White — 1979

Michael Wiley —1961

2020 Media Consumption Diary -- February

• 2020.02.29 … Watched … The Killing (1956) | Stanley Kubrick

• 2020.02.28 … Watched … Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007)

• 2020.02.27 … Abandoned … House of Games (1987) | David Mamet

• 2020.02.26 … Watched … Possessed (1948) | Curtis Bernhardt

• 2020.02.24 … Watched … Thieves’ Highway (1949) | Jules Dassin

• 2020.02.22 … Watched … The Big Clock (1948) | John Farrow

• 2020.02.20 … Read … Be Cool (1999) by Elmore Leonard

• 2020.02.19 … Watched … The Naked City (1948) | Jules Dassin

• 2020.02.18 … Watched … Nightmare Alley (1947) | Edmund Goulding

• 2020.02.17 … Watched … Call Northside 777 (1947) | Henry Hathaway

• 2020.02.16 … Watched … Crossfire (1947) | Edward Dmytryk

• 2020.02.13 … Watched … Brute Force (1947) | Jules Dassin

• 2020.02.12 … Read … Rum Punch (1992) by Elmore Leonard

• 2020.02.10 … Watched … Kansas City Confidential (1952) | Phil Karlson

• 2020.02.09 … Watched … The Maltese Falcon (1941) John Huston

• 2020.02.08 … Watched … Murder, My Sweet (1944) | Edward Dmytryk

• 2020.02.07 … Watched … To Have and Have Not (1944) | Howard Hawks

• 2020.02.07 … Watched … Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) | Anatole Litvak

• 2020.02.05 … Watched … Raw Deal (1948) | Anthony Mann

• 2020.02.04 … Watched … T-Men (1947) | Anthony Mann

• 2020.02.03 … Abandoned … Fail-Safe (1964) | Sidney Lumet

• 2020.02.02 … Watched … Safety Last! (1923) | Fred Neymeyer

• 2020.02.02 … Read … Beautiful Boy (2008) by David Sheff

• 2020.02.01 … Watched … Kiss Me Deadly (1955) | Robert Aldrich

2020 Media Consumption Diary -- January

January

• 2020.01.31 … Watched … Dark Passage (1947) | Delmer Daves

• 2020.01.30 … Watched … He Walked By Night (1948) | Alfred Werker

• 2020.01.28 … Watched … The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) | Lewis Milestone

• 2020.01.27 … Watched … Kiss of Death (1947) | Henry Hathaway

• 2020.01.26 … Watched … My Darling Clementine (1955) | John Ford

• 2020.01.25 … Watched … You (2019) | TV S2E10

• 2020.01.24 … Watched … You (2019) | TV S2E9

• 2020.01.23 … Watched … You (2019) | TV S2E8

• 2020.01.22 … Watched … You (2019) | TV S2E7

• 2020.01.21 … Watched … You (2019) | TV S2E6

• 2020.01.21 … Read … Bomber’s Moon (2019) by Archer Mayor

• 2020.01.20 … Watched … You (2019) | TV S2E5

• 2020.01.20 … Watched … The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) | Tay Garnett

• 2020.01.19 … Watched … You (2019) | TV S2E4

• 2020.01.18 … Watched … You (2019) | TV S2E3

• 2020.01.18 … Watched … Shane (1953) | George Stevens

• 2020.01.17 … Watched … Detour (1945) | Edgar Ulmer

• 2020.01.17 … Watched … You (2019) | TV S2E2

• 2020.01.17 … Read … Good Girl, Bad Girl (2019) by Michael Robotham

• 2020.01.16 … Watched … You (2019) | TV S2E1

• 2020.01.13 … Watched … Booksmart (2019) | Olivia Wilde

• 2020.01.12 … Watched … The Stranger (1946) | Orson Welles

• 2020.01.10 … Watched … Double Indemnity (1944) | Billy Wilder

• 2020.01.09 … Watched … High Noon (1952) | Fred Zinnemann

• 2020.01.09 … Read … The First Rule (2010) by Robert Crais

• 2020.01.08 … Watched … I Wake Up Screaming (1941) | Bruce Humberstone 

• 2020.01.07 … Read … Suspect (2013) by Robert Crais

• 2020.01.06 … Watched … Blow Out (1981) | Brian De Palma

• 2020.01.05 … Read … The Wanted (2017) by Robert Crais

• 2020.01.04 … Watched … Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) | Jack Arnold

• 2020.01.03 … Read … Taken (2012) by Robert Crais

• 2020.01.02 … Watched … The Marriage Circle (1924) | Ernst Lubitsch

• 2020.01.01 … Watched … Hustlers (2019) | Lorene Scafaria

• 2020.01.01 … Read … The Sentry (2011) by Robert Crais

Selected Excerpts from Linda Raschke's Book, 'Trading Sardines'

You can buy the book here.

Too lazy to write that blog post about Linda Raschke's autobiography, "Trading Sardines," I'll just post excerpts I liked in this thread:

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"... most underestimate the time and energy required to achieve consistent profitability."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

When her trading fund reached $145 million, "It was difficult putting more monies to work with my current style of trading."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"Don't trade when tired. PERIOD."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"... sleep is the most important thing for one's health -- more important than diet and exercise."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"Fix mistakes immediately."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"Don't look at the P&L, look only at the price structure and trade it."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"The best trades are often making back losses."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

After a series of losses, "It is a matter of faith that your routine and rituals will eventually give you the edge again."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"Jesse Livermore has a quote, 'Sell down to the sleeping point.'"

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"I made sure my daughter had no interest in trading."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"... brainwash the mind and it will believe. Tell it enough bullshit and it believes."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"The first course of action in a bloodbath is always to get smaller."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"... figure out the [loss] level where you can function [not getting frozen or stressed] and [you will] trade freely...."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"[There is] one simple rule: never let a loss get too big."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"A sharp mind needs a fit body."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"... an excess of cash on the sidelines [is] the number one variable in my book that drives trends."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"Time-based exits are not dependent on the range or volatility conditions, and they are robust."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"Following a process systematically is essential."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"'Don't eat like a bird and shit like an elephant,' i.e., don't take small wins and big losses."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"No profit is yours until it is locked in."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"Winners admit errors."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"... eliminate all the distractions and wasted time engaging in frivolous activities." [ed. except for TWTR :-)]

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"Concentration is the key to everything. Learn to concentrate specifically on the task that is at hand."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"If your goals are not written down, they are worthless."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"The lure [of] the short side [is] markets [go] down a lot faster than they [go] up ... measure profits [by] dollars made per unit of time."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"Trade location is essential when trading on a shorter time frame +

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

" + [whereas] the most important thing with a longer-term trend following approach [is] to get the trade on."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 11, 2019

"... a big part of trading [is] putting in a lot of work without much to show for it."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"The principles in [my book, 'Street Smarts,' written in 1996] remain the same." | [ed. One of the top ten trading books in my collection for sure.]

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"... the market is NEVER wrong."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"... the best trade is a failed seasonal."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"... the markets cannot be reliably won with raw intelligence."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"If the Pritzkers had money with me, everyone had to have money with me."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"I funded 16 different trader over three decades, and only one ever made money -- Bob Buran (@StockBrain99). So, I don't back traders anymore."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"There is no more glorious feeling in the world than capturing a huge trend day. My first seven-digit day came from a short position in the SPs."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"Have backup accounts and backup brokers."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"... if you don't have other things in your life, you will get obsessed with the stimulation. Then it is not a career or a passion, it's an addiction."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"It's hard to take advantage of the opportunities that the opening provides when you are still figuring out what to do with a losing position."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"Emotional control is paramount in trading and poker."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"[You] are going to be wrong a percentage of the time. What do you have to do to stay strong psychologically?"

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"... every statement I make about trading can be applied to poker, and vice versa. There is no right or wrong way to 'trade.'"

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"... discard everything that is not of value: too much data, outside sources, TV, and internet surfing. Kill the distractions..."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"A good trade works right away and never looks back."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"It's not a great idea to hold a loser overnight."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"On the ideal trend day, get long, stay long, and scalp every continuation pattern. Exit on the close."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"... my first 100% mechanical system['s] ... stop was three times as great as the target but the win rate was 85%."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"You can't predict ... where the big wins are going to come from -- just keep taking every system signal."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"... my experience gives me an edge. ... it's hard to muster the necessary confidence in a system unless you develop it yourself."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"NEVER believe any claim a trader makes about their profitability unless you see their statements or they are a registered entity with an audited record."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"This business is crawling with people waiting to sell you a bridge."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"Successful traders follow a disciplined methodology. They do not allow large losses. This is the number one rule."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"... you will always do your best work when you are free from distractions and the influence of others."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"Cinch your profits as the market gives them to you."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"... trading out of [your] home, [you will be] in desperate need of the camaraderie from a community."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"When you are trading the markets, you have to have a separate source of happiness...."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"I believe in positive thinking and the power of visualization."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"Trading is like tennis: Keep the ball in play, don't make unforced errors, be patient, and wait for your opening."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"I do best when I stick to technicals based on the price."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"Averaging a loser is the worst strategy a trader can adopt, especially if one gets away with it."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

Trading is "about positioning yourself so that, once in a while, you might get lucky."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"It's never a problem getting into a market; it's always a problem getting out when you need to." [ed. incl. #StuckAtaProfit]

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"All lessons [are] learned the hard way."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"'How do you know where to put in a stop?' I asked. 'How much money do you want to lose?' he answered."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

"There [is] always a protective stop resting in the market. ... Never risk more than you want to lose."

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

Thus end my selected tidbits from Linda Raschke's autobiography, which I encourage you to order here: https://t.co/XsuMSj9hmq

— C. Maoxian (@maoxian) July 12, 2019

Ten Best Books of 2018

The 10 Best Books of 2018, according to the New York Times Book Review editors:

• Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday — female, no birthdate but looks young

• The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai — female, born in 1978.

• The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani — female, born 1981

• There There by Tommy Orange — male, born in 1982

• Washington Black by Esi Edugyan — female, born in 1978

• American Prison by Shane Bauer — male, no birthdate but looks young

• Educated by Tara Westover — female, born in 1986

• Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight — male, born in 1949

• How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan — male, born in 1955

• Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs — female, born in 1978

The books about Jobs looks interesting… maybe I’ll try to read them all?