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Books I'm reading
- "The Great Courses: The Story of Human Language" by Prof. John McWhorter
- "The Great Courses: Food: A Cultural Culinary History" by Prof. Ken Albala
- "The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon"by Brad Stone
- "Acceptance: A Novel (The Southern Reach Trilogy Book 3)" by Jeff VanderMeer
- "Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River" by Ellen Meloy
- "The Call from Algeria : Third Worldism, Revolution, and the Turn to Islam" by Robert Malley
Books Read in 2017
- "New York 2140" by Kim Stanley Robinson
- "Zone One" by Colson Whitehead
- "The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution" by Dominic Lieven
- "From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation" by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- "Authority: A Novel (The Southern Reach Trilogy Book 2)" by Jeff VanderMeer
- "Hatching Twitter" by Nick Bilton
- "Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution" by Diane McWhorter
- "All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation" by Rebecca Traister
- "The Souls of Black Folk" by W. E. B. Dubois
- "Analysis and Critique: How to Engage and Write about Anything; The Great Courses" by Professor Dorsey Armstrong
- "The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America" by Michael Eric Dyson
- "Annihilation" by Jeff Vandermeer
- "Redefining Reality" by Janet Mock
- "The Secret History of Wonder Woman" by Jill Lepore
- "Swing Time" by Zadie Smith
- "Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday" by Angela Davis
- "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877" by Eric Foner
- "Shadows of Revolution: Reflections on France, Past and Present" by David A. Bell
- "Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet" by Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope
- "Alone on the Wall" by Alex Honnold with David Roberts
- "A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: The Journey of Doaa Al Zamel: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival" by Melissa Fleming
- "The Roads to Sata: A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan" by Alan Booth
- "Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga" by Pamela Newkirk
- "Celine" by Peter Heller
- "1632 (Ring of Fire Series)" by Eric Flint
- "Vinegar Girl" by Anne Tyler
- "NW" by Zadie Smith
- "The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin" by Masha Gessen
- "A World out of Time" by Larry Niven
- "I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen" by Silvie Simmons
- "Tears we cannot stop: A Sermon to White America" by Michael Eric Dyson
- "Turn Right at Machu Picchu" by Mark Adams
- "The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election" by Malcolm Nance
- "Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation" by Alan Burdick
- "Crossing the Darien Gap" by Andrew N. Egan
- "Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg" by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
- "Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education" by Mychal Denzel Smith
- "The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End" by Robert Gerwarth
- "Waking Lions" by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
- "Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America" by John M. Barry
- "A Colony in a Nation" by Chris Hayes
- "The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water" by Charles Fishman
- "The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere" by Pico Iyer
- "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century" by Timothy Snyder
- "The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy" by Masha Gessen
- "Great Courses: Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon" by Professor Suzanne M. Desan
- "America at War with Itself" by Henry A. Giroux
- "The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War Book 2)" by John Scalzi
- "Rain: A Natural and Cultural History" by Cynthia Barnett
- "The Coming of the Third Reich" by Richard J. Evans
- "Homegoing" by Yaa Gyasi
- "Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country" by Alex Cuadros
- "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" by John Berendt
- "Training Essentials for Ultrarunning" by Jason Koop
- "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" by Yuval Noah Harari
- "Thaddeus Stevens: Scourge of the South" by Fawn M. Brodie
- "Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad" by Eric Foner
- "Tepui: The Last Journey" by John Oehler
- "Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1945" by Saul Friedlander
- "Go Tell it on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
- "Splinterlands" by John Feffer
- "Man's Search for Meaning" by Victor E. Frankl
- "Lovecraft Country: A Novel" by Matt Ruff
- "Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America" by Ibram X. Kendi
- "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen
- "My Struggle: Book 2: A Man in Love" by Karl Ove Knausgaard
- "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead
- "The Wolf Road: A Novel" by Beth Lewis
- "How Great Science Fiction Works: The Great Courses" by Prof. Gary K. Wolfe
- "Hag-Seed (Hogarth Shakespeare)" by Margaret Atwood
- "Chasing Summits: In Pursuit of High Places and an Unconventional Life" by Garry Harrington
- "Shoe Dog" by Phil Knight
- "Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women" by Sarah Helm
- "East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity" by Philippe Sands
- "Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America" by Jill Leovy
- "Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped" by Garry Kasparov
- "Nutshell: A Novel" by Ian McEwan
- "When Breath becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi
- "Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety" by Eric Schlosser
- "The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939–1945" by Nicholas Stargardt
Books Read in 2016
- "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
- "William Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies: The Great Courses" by Peter Saccio
- "The Sellout: A Novel" by Paul Beatty
- "Scrappy Little Nobody" by Anna Kendrick
- "They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement" by Wesley Lowery
- "On Trails: An Exploration" by Robert Moor
- "The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon" by Kevin Fedarko
- "Trail Ways, Path Wise: A 2,147-Mile Through-Hike Up the Appalachian Trail" by John Illig
- "Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy" by Heather Ann Thompson
- "A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization" by Jonathan Kirsch
- "The Terror Years" by Lawrence Wright
- "Basque Country: Spain and France" by Rick Steves
- "The Idiot" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- "Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson" by Peter C. Mancall
- "Demand the Impossible!: A Radical Manifesto" by Bill Ayers
- "The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness" by Sy Montgomery
- "Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging" by Sebastian Junger
- "Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939" by Adam Hochschild
- "Barkskins: A Novel" by Annie Proulx
- "Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage" by Kathleen Winter
- "American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst" by Jeffrey Toobin
- "Hot Milk" by Deborah Levy
- "Man of the World: The Further Endeavors of Bill Clinton" by Joe Conason
- "Shakespeare" by Bill Bryson
- "Trump Nation: The Art of Being The Donald" by Timothy L. O'Brien
- "In the Darkroom" by Susan Faludi
- "Life and Death in the Andes: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries" by Kim MacQuarrie
- "A Kingdom of Their Own: The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster" by Joshua Partlow
- "The Last Days of the Incas" by Kim MacQuarrie
- "A Basque History of the World" by Mark Kurlansky
- "No Man Knows my History: The Life of Joseph Smith" by Fawn Brodie
- "Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy" by David O. Stewart
- "Devil's Defender: My Odyssey Through American Criminal Justice from Ted Bundy to the Kandahar Massacre" by John Henry Browne
- "Razor Girl" by Carl Hiaasen
- "The Peregrine" by J. A. Baker
- "The Sun the Moon and the Rolling Stones" by Rich Cohen
- "A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel" by Marlon James
- "Ghana Must Go: a Novel" by Taiye Selasi
- "America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History" by Andrew J. Bacevich
- "Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914" by Peter Gay
- "The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait" by Blake Bailey
- "Boomsday: a Novel" by Christopher Buckley
- "Heroes of the Frontier" by Dave Eggers
- "Winds of Skilak: A Tale of True Grit, True Love and Survival in the Alaskan Wilderness" by Bonnie Rose Ward
- "Bad Monkey" by Carl Hiaasen
- "The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks" by Terry Tempest Williams
- "White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide" by Carol Anderson, PhD
- "Voyager: Travel Writings" by Russell Banks
- "Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland" by Ken Ilgunas
- "Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power" by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher
- "End of Watch" by Stephen King
- "Hearing Birds Fly: A Nomadic Year in Mongolia" by Louisa Waugh
- "Oxygen: The Molecule that made the World" by Nick Lane
- "Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom" by Ken Ilgunas
- "Lincoln: A Novel" by Gore Vidal
- "Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security" by Sarah Chayes
- "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to his White Mother" by James McBride
- "Hitler's Thirty Days to Power: January 1933" by Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. Save
- "Empire of Cotton: A Global History" by Sven Beckert
- "Henderson the Rain King" by Saul Bellow
- "Putin Country: A Journey Through the New Russia" by Anne Garrels
- "A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World" by Tony Horwitz
- "The Great Courses: King Arthur: History and Legend" by Prof. Dorsey Armstrong
- "Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage that Redrew the Map of the New World" by Douglas Hunter
- "In America: A Novel" by Susan Sontag
- "Cuba in Splinters: Eleven Stories from the New Cuba" by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
- "Joe Gould's Teeth" by Jill Lepore
- "The Wonder Trail: True Stories from Los Angeles to the End of the World" by Steve Hely
- "The General in His Labyrinth" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- "Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War" by Fred Kaplan
- "Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle" by Chris Hedges
- "The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts" by Joshua Hammer
- "Assata: An Autobiography" by Assata Shakur
- "The Genius of Birds" by Jennifer Ackerman
- "Finders, Keepers" by Stephen King
- "The Art of Tough: Fearlessly Facing Politics and Life" by Barbara Boxer
- "God's Gravediggers: Why no Deity Exists" by Raymond Bradley
- "The Meaning of Human Existence" by Edward O. Wilson
- "Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News" by Dan Rather
- "Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul" by James McBride
- "Consequence: A Memoir" by Eric Fair
- "The Road to Oxiana" by Robert Byron
- "The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge" by Michael Punke
- "American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood" by Marie Arana
- "Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement" by Jean Casella et. al.
- "The Great Courses: Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills" by Steven Novella
- "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- "Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration" by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
- "Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran" by Barry Meier
- "Zorba the Greek" by Nikos Kanzantzakos
- "Alfred Wegener: Science, Exploration, and the Theory of Continental Drift" by Mott T. Greene
- "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" by Eduardo Galeano
- "The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program" by Jeremy Scahill
- "In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond" by Robert D. Kaplan
- "Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Stael" by J. Christopher Herold
- "The Old Ways: A Journey on foot" by Robert MacFarlane
- "Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty" by Dan Jones
- "MaddAddam" by Margaret Atwood
- "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain
- "Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science" by Alice Dreger
- "The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science" by Richard Holmes
- "Guantánamo Diary" by Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Author), Larry Siems (Editor)
- "One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway -- And its Aftermath" by Asne Seierstad
- "Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement" by Angela Davis
- "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander
- "Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution" by Laurie Penny
- "The Great Courses: History's Greatest Voyages of Exploration" by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Ph.D
- "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" by Ben Fountain
- "The Widow Clicquot" by Tilar J. Mazzeo
- "A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America" by Oscar Martinez
- "Flaubert's Parrot" by Julian Barnes
- "Loitering: New and Collected Essays" by Charles D'Ambrosio
- "Rekyavik Nights" by Arnaldur Indridasson
- "The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606" by James Shapiro
- "Hobo Boxer" by Johnny T. Noctor
- "M Train" by Patti Smith
- "Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe" by Lisa Randall
- "Into The Heart: One Man's Pursuit of Love and Knowledge Among the Yanomami" by Kenneth Good
- "Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology" by Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili
- "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the rise of the Radical Right" by Jane Mayer
- "My Brilliant Friend" by Elena Ferrante and Ann Goldstein
- "Cherry" by Mary Karr
- "The Ancestor's Tale" by Richard Dawkins
- "Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality" by Max Tegmark
- "Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics" by Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon
- "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy O'Toole
- "Drawing Blood" by Molly Crabapple
- "The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain" by Bill Bryson
- "Strange Shores" by Arnaldur Indridasson
- "Bolivar: American Liberator" by Marie Arana
- "Living History: Experiencing Great Events of the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: The Great Courses" by Professor Robert Garland
- "Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before" by Tony Horwitz
- "Fates and Furies: A Novel" by Lauren Groff
- "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
- "The Art of Memoir" by Mary Karr
- "The Way Around: Finding My Mother and Myself Among the Yanomami" by David Good
- "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" by Alison Weir
- "The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour through America's Food" by Matthew Gavin Frank
- "Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier" by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- "Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War" by James Risen
- "Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us" by David Neiwert
- "The Paris Winter: A Novel" by Imogen Robertson
- "The Story Factor: Secrets Of Influence From The Art Of Storytelling" by Annette Simmons
- "Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption: by Bryan Stevenson
- "Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science" by Richard Dawkins
- "Writing Creative Non-Fiction: The Great Courses" by Tilar J. J. Mazzeo
- "A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design" by Frank Wilczek
- "Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes -- the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists" by Napoleon A. Chagnon
- "Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum" by Gavin Francis
- "Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion" by Robert Gordon
- "The Life of Elizabeth I" by Alison Weir
- "The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World" by Andrea Wulf
- "The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr" by H. W. Brands
- "Germinal" by Emile Zola
Books Read in 2015
- "The Fly Trap" by Fredrik SjÖBerg
- "Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World " by Greg Critser
- "The Last of the President's Men" by Bob Woodward
- "Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Futures)" by Franco Berardi
- "The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen" by Stephen R. Bown
- "World's End" by T. C. Boyle
- "The Children of Henry VIII " by Alison Weir
- "One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon" by Tim Weiner
- "My Struggle: Book 1" by Karl Ove Knausgaard
- "War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation" by John Sedgwick
- "My Life on the Road" by Gloria Steinem
- "Fallen Founder: the Life of Aaron Burr" by Mary Isenberg
- "The Sympathizer: A Novel" by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- "Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George H. W. Bush" by Jon Meacham
- "Packing for Mars" by Mary Roach
- "Book was there: Reading in Electronic Times" by Andrew Piper
- "Men Who Stare at Goats" by Jon Ronson
- "The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey" by Rinker Buck
- "The Origin and Evolution of Earth: From the Big Bang to the Future of Existense" Great Courses by Robert Hazen
- "Hopeful Monsters" by Nicholas Mosley
- "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future" by Ashlee Vance
- "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
- "The Heart of the Sound: An Alaskan Paradise Found and Nearly Lost " by Marybeth Holleman
- "Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life: by Eva Jablonka et al
- "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- "The Liar's Club: A Memoir" by Mary Karr
- "Out of Africa" by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
- "The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy" by Valerie Hudson et al
- "The French Lieutenant's Woman" by John Fowles
- "Deep South" by Paul Theroux
- "The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason can lead us to Truth, Justice, and Freedom" by Michael Shermer
- "Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping And The Fate Of America's Fresh Waters" by Robert Glennon
- "Redefining Reality: The Intellectual Implications of Modern Science" by Steven Gimbel
- "Here comes Trouble" by Michael Moore
- "The Nation: A Biography" by D. D. Guttenplan
- "Old Calabria" by Norman Douglas
- "The Epigenetics Revolution" by Nessa Carey
- "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw
- "Mrs. Warren's Profession" by George Bernard Shaw
- "Misalliance" by George Bernard Shaw
- "The Black Cloud" by Fred Hoyle
- "The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us" by Diane Ackerman
- "Transylvania and Beyond: A Travel Memoir" by Dervla Murphy
- "What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology" by Addy Pross
- "Stephen Sondheim: a Life" by Meryle Secrest
- "The Lost Book of Mormon: A Journey Through the Mythic Lands of Nephi, Zarahemla, and Kansas City, Missouri" by Avi Steinberg
- "Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution" by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith
- "Freedom: A Novel" by Jonathan Franzen
- "In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette" by Hampton Sides
- "Seveneves: A Novel" by Neal Stephenson
- "Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest " by Gregg Olsen
- "Why our Children will be Atheists" by Albert Williams
- "Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays" by Siri Hustvedt
- "The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers" by Thomas Fleming
- "Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman" by Greg Grandin
- "Below Another Sky: A Mountain Adventure in Search of a Lost Father" by Rick Ridgeway
- "Revolution" by Russell Brand
- "Son of the Circus" by John Irving
- "South Wind" by Norman Douglas
- "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam" by Fredrik Logevall
- "Major Barbara" by George Bernard Shaw
- "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" by Haruki Murakami
- "The Book of Illusions" by Paul Auster
- "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- "Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure" by Artemis Cooper
- "Metatropolis: Cascadia" by various
- "The Doctor's Dilemma" by George Bernard Shaw
- "The Signal and the Noise" by Nate Silver
- "A Place of my Own" by Michael Pollan
- "The Virgin Suicides" by Jeffrey Eugenides
- "Memory and the Mediterranean" by Fernand Braunel
- "The Gunslinger" by Stephen King
- "The Winter Sea" by Susanna Kearsley
- "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Hariri
- "Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics" by Ruth Lewin Sime
- "H is for Hawk" by Helen Macdonald
- "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein
- "On the Move: A Life" by Oliver Sacks
- "The Origins of Life" by Robert D. Hazen
- "The Blind Watchmaker" by Richard Dawkins
- "1177 B.C.: The Year that Civilization Collapsed" by Eric H. Cline
- "The Whale Warriors" by Peter Heller
- "Thru-Hiking will break your Heart: An Adventure on the PCT" by Carrot Quinn
- "Contact" by Carl Sagan
- "An Unspoken Hunger" by Terry Tempest Williams
- "Superpower: Three choices for America's Power in the World" by Ian Bremmer
- "Candida" by George Bernard Shaw
- "A Pale Blue Dot" by Carl Sagan
- "Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town" by Jon Krakauer
- "Oaxaca Journal" by Oliver Sacks
- "Man and his Arms" by George Bernard Shaw
- "The Mill on the Floss" by George Eliot
- "San Miguel" by T. C. Boyle
- "Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the end of a Stable Pacific" by Robert D. Kaplan
- "George Bernard Shaw" by G.K. Chesterton
- "Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle" by Andreas Wagner
- "To the top of Central America: Bagging Volcanoes in Guatemala" by Mark Horrell
- "Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance" by Christopher McDougall
- "Geology of Colorado, Illustrated" by Dell R. Foutz
- "Man and Superman" by George Bernard Shaw
- "To a Mountain in Tibet" by Colin Thurbon
- "The Demon Haunted World" by Carl Sagan
- "Eminent Victorians" by Lytton Strachey
- "Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power" by Steve Coll
- "The Alfred Russel Wallace Reader" edited by Jane R. Camerini
- "The Plantagenets" by Dan Jones
- "The Blazing World" By Siri Hustvedt
- "The World's Cheapest Destinations" by Tim Leffel
- "A New History of Life: The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth"" by Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink
- "Deep Down Dark: The Untold Story of 33 Men buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that set them Free" by Hector Tobar
- "My Life in Middlemarch" by Rebecca Mead
- "To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science" by Steven Weinberg
- "All the Light we Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
- "African Calliope" by Edward Hoagland
- "The Brendan Voyage" by Tim Severin
- "The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder" by David Quammen
- "Mr. Mercedes" by Stephen King
- "The Painter" by Peter Heller
- "Living and Retiring in Cuenca: 101 Questions Answered" by Connie Pombo
- "The Master of Confessions: The Making of a Khmer Rouge Torturer" by Thierry Cruvellier
- "Enemies: A History of the FBI" by Tim Weiner
- "Sea of Poppies" by Amitav Ghosh
- "Hell or high Water: Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River" by Peter Heller
- "The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in and Age of Extinctions" by David Quammen
- "Our Ecuador Retirement...Part 2: The Second Year and Why We Didn't Stay" by Donald Murray
- "Lock-in" by John Scalzi
- "In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale" by Amitav Ghosh
- "Our Equador Retirement: The First Eight Months" by Donald Murray
- "What I talk about when I talk about Running" by Haruki Murakami
- "My Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn
- "This Changes Everything" by Naomi Klein
- "8,000 Miles across Alaska: A Runner's Journeys on the Iditarod Trail" by Jill Homer
- "The Cider House Rules" by John Irving
- "My Journey to Mongolia: A Reporter's Journal" by Charles S. Rice
- "Putin's Kleptocracy: Who owns Russia?" by Karen Dawisha
- "Losing our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America" by Bob Herbert
- "Proving History: Bayes Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus" by Richard Carrier
- "To End all Wars" by Adam Hochschild
- "Burr" by Gore Vidal
- "A Morning for Flamingos" by James Lee Burke
- "Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David" by Lawrence Wright
- "Exploring Diabetes with Owls" by David Sedaris
- "Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow
- "The Great Backpacking Adventure" by Chris Townsend
- "True North: Travels in Arctic Europe" by Gavin Francis
- "Run Like Crazy" by Tristan Miller
- "The Zookeeper's Wife" by Diane Ackerman
- "The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities " by Caleb Scharf
- "Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry that forged the Nation" byJohn Ferling
- "The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan" by Rick Perlstein
- "Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World" by Jack Weatherford
- "Alexander Hamilton: A Life" by Willard Sterne Randall
- "How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City" by Joan DeJean
- "On the Trail of Ghengis Khan: An Epic Journey through the Land of the Nomads" by Tim Cope
- "The Telling" by Ursula K. LeGuin
- "Retire Overseas: Costa Rica Edition" by Greg Simonds
- "The Accidental universe: The World you thought you knew" by Alan Lightman
- "Costa Rica Chica: Retiring early, simplifying my life, & realizing that less is best " Jen Beck Seymour
- "The Martian" by Andy Weir
- "Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science" by Carl Sagan
- "Inherent Vice" by Thomas Pynchon
- "Fixing Your Feet: Prevention and Treatments for Athletes" by John Vonhof
- "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" by Michael Chabon
- "Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace" by Leon Panetta
Books Read in 2014
- "Happier Than A Billionaire: The Escape Manual" by Nadine Hays Pisani
- "Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals" by Ken Ballen
- "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" by Charles M. Blow
- "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War" by Robert M. Gates
- "Happier than a Billionaire: The Sequel" by Nadine Hays
- "Flash Forward" by Robert J. Sawyer
- "The Invention of Religion" by Alexander Drake
- "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- "Grizzly Bears and Razor Clams: Walking America's Pacific Northwest Trail " by Chris Townsend
- "Transhuman" by Ben Bova
- "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens
- "The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers" by Alan Lightman
- "High Summer: Backpacking the Canadian Rockies" by Chris Townsend
- "Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking" by Daniel Dennett
- "Central American Cost of Living" by Cory Gearhart
- "Happier Than A Billionaire: Quitting My Job, Moving to Costa Rica, and Living the Zero Hour Work Week" by Nadine Pisani
- "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
- "A Wolf Named Romeo" by Nick Jans
- "Shame of Man (Geodyssey) by Piers Anthony
- "Farside" by Ben Bova
- "Hal Koerner's Field Guide to Ultrarunning" by Hal Koerner
- "Beyond the Blue Horizon" by Brian Fagan
- "Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video, New and Expanded Edition (Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series)" by Barry Keith Grant
- "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
- "Trying to Save Piggy Sneed" by John Irving
- "Timeless Reality: Symmetry, Simplicity, and Multiple Universes" by Victor J. Stenger
- "The Human Division" by John Scalzi
- "For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge Of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics" by Walter Lewin
- "Black Skies: An Inspector Erlendur Novel " by Arnaldur Indridason
- "An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist" by Richard Dawkins
- "The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change" by Al Gore
- "The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance" by Eric R. Scerri
- "The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements" by Sam Kean
- "The Dragon Masters" by Jack Vance
- "The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human" by Jonathan Gottschall
- "Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder " by Richard Dawkins
- "Calculating God" by Robert J. Sawyer
- "Isle of Woman: An Novel of Human History" by Piers Anthony
- "Pontoon" by Garrison Keillor
- "State of the World 2014: Governing for Sustainability" by The Worldwatch Institute
- "America, You Sexy Bitch: A Love Letter to Freedom " by Megan McCain and Michael Ian Black
- "Swiss Watching: Inside the Land of Milk and Money" by Diccon Bewes
- "Einstein's Cosmos" by Michio Kaku
- "At the Mountains of Madness" by H.P. Lovecraft
- "The Documentary Film Book" by Brian Winston
- "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: A novel" by Haruki Murakami
- "The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence" by Carl Sagan
- "Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle" by Thor Hanson
- "The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking" by Brendan I. Koerner
- "Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth" by Craig Childs
- "Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic" by David Quammen
- "Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power" by Seth Rosenfeld
- "Capitalism in the 21st Century" by Thomas Piketty
- "Born in Africa: The Quest for the Origins of Human Life" by Martin Meredith
- "Finding Ultra" by Rich Roll
- "A Most Wanted Man" by John le Carre
- "The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals died out and we survived" by Clive Finlayson
- "The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth" by Mark Mazzetti
- "The Sixth Extinction: An UnNatural History" by Elizabeth Kolbert
- "Fire and Ice (Liam Campbell Book 1)" by Dana Stabenow
- "The Stardust Revolution: The New Story of our Origin in the Stars" by Jacob Berkowitz
- "Speak, Memory" by Vladimir Nabokov
- "Documentary Storytelling" by Sheila Curran Bernard
- "How to Shoot Video that doesn't Suck" by Steve Stockman
- "AWOL on the Appalachian Trail " by David Miller
- "The Lost Fleet: Dauntless" by Jack Campbell
- "The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology" by Robert Wright
- "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
- "Honor Bound: My Journey to Hell and Back with Amanda Knox" by Raffaele Sollecito
- "Galveston" by Nic Pizzolatto
- "Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes" by Svante Paabo
- "A Calculated Life" by Anne Charnock
- "Badlands (Lonely Planet Travel Literature)" by Tony Wheeler
- "Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabokov
- "BOOM: Oil, Money, Cowboys, Strippers, and the Energy Rush That Could Change America Forever. A Long, Strange Journey Along the Keystone XL Pipeline" by Tony Horwitz
- "The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet " by Robert M. Hazen
- "One Summer: America, 1927" by Bill Bryson
- "Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam" by Nick Turse
- "A Tale for the Time Being" by Ruth Ozeki
- "A Feast Day of Fools" by James Lee Burke
- "Cro-Magnon" by Brian Fagan
- "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf
- "Hominids (Neaderthal Paradox)" by Robert J. Sawyer
- "Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Oceans" by Lisa-Ann Gershwin
- "Existence" by David Brin
- "A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History" by Nicholas Wade
- "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis
- "Wilderness: A Novel" by Lance Weller
- "Becoming Human: Our Past, Present, and Future" by Scientific American Editors
- "A Fighting Chance" by Elizabeth Warren
- "Pathfinder: Blazing a New Wilderness Trail in Modern America" by Ron Strickland
- "The Stuff of Thought" by Steven Pinker
- "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by Thomas S. Kuhn
- "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping" by Robert Sapolsky
- "Lone Survivors: How we came to be the only Humans on Earth" by Chris Stringer
- "Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived" by Chip Walter
- "The Dog Stars" by Peter Heller
- "Run or Die" by Killian Jornet
- "Watchers" by Dean Koontz
- "A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America" by David K. Shipler
- "The Great Trapline" by Donald B. Smith
- "Death of the Black Haired Girl" by Robert Stone
- "On the Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin
- "The Unwinding" by George Packer Edit Delete ↑ ↓
- "How the Mind Works" by Steven Pinker
- "The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country" by Gabriel Sherman
- "12 Years a Slave" Solomon Northrup
- "The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival" by Melanie McGrath
- "Outrage: An Inspector Erlendur Novel" by Arnaldur Indridason
- "Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown
- "Animals make us Human: Creating the best life for Animals" by Temple Grandin
- “The Great Agnostic” by Susan Jacoby
- "Doctor Sleep" by Stephen King
- "Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools" by Diane Ravitch
- "The Spine of the Continent" by Mary Ellen Hannibal
- "Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths" by Nancy Marie Brown
- "Arctic Chill" by Arnaldur Indridason
- "The Spine of the Continent" by Mary Ellen Hannibal
- "The Universe Within: The Deep History of the Human Body" by Neil Shubin
- "WWW: Wonder" by Robert J. Sawyer
- "The Good Lord Bird: A Novel" by James McBride
- "WWW: Watch" by Robert J. Sawyer
- "WWW: Wake" by Robert J. Sawyer
- "Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape" by Jenna Miscavige Hill
- "Hypothermia: An Inspector Erlendur Novel" by Arnaldur Indridason
- "Sixty Days and Counting" by Kim Stanley Robinson
- "The Sheltering Sky" by Paul Bowles
- "Attack of the Theocrats" by Sean Faircloth
- "Showdown: The Inside Story of How Obama Fought Back Against Boehner, Cantor, and the Tea Party" by David Corn
- "Orphan Train: A Novel" by Christina Baker Kline
- "The Draining Lake" by Arnaldur Indridason
- "Voices: An Inspector Erlendur Novel" by Arnaldur Indridason
- "50 Degrees below Zero" by Kim Stanley Robinson
- "Swann's Way" by Marcel Proust
- "Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West" by Cormac McCarthy
- "The Things they carried" by Tim O'Brien
- "The Shining" by Stephen King
- "40 Signs of Rain" by Kim Stanley Robinson
- "Silence of the Grave: An Inspector Erlunder Novel" by Arnaldur Indridason
- "Madiba A to Z: the Many Faces of Nelson Mandela" by Danny Schechter
- "Altered Carbon" by Richard K. Morgan
Magazines and newspapers I subscribe to
Running in Colorado
Books Read for 2013
- "Whipping Star" by Frank Herbert
- "Jar City: An Inspector Erlendur Novel" by Arnaldur Indridason
- "How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain" by Gregory Berns
- "The Elephant Whisperer" by Lawrence Anthony and Graham Spence
- “The Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela” by Nelson Mandela
- “2312” by Kim Stanley Robinson
- "Burial Rites" by Hannah Kent
- "The Evolution of God" by Robert Wright
- "The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present" by Eric Kandel
- “Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power” by Robert Dallek
- "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith
- "Stonemouth" by Iain Banks
- "The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey" by Walter Mosley
- "English Creek" by Ivan Doig
- "The Circle" by Dave Eggers
- "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach
- “The Bartender’s Tale” by Ivan Doig
- “Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless” by Greta Christina
- “Debt: The First 5,000 years” by David Graeber
- “Umbrella” by Will Self
- “The Shadow of the Wind” by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- “State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?” by The Worldwatch Institute
- “Bart Ehrman and the Quest of the Historical Jesus of Nazareth” by Richard Carrier Ph.D., D.M. Murdock, René Salm, Earl Doherty, David Fitzgerald
- “A World Made by Hand” by James Howard Kunstler
- “The Long Ships” by Frans G. Bengtsson
- “Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction” by Patricia Aufderheide
- “Buildings without Architects: A Global Guide to Everyday Architecture” by John May
- “Arctic Glass: Six years of adventure in Alaska and Beyond” by Jill Homer
- “Tales of Iceland or "Running with the Huldufólk in the Permanent Daylight" by Stephen Markley
- “The Center Holds: Obama and his Enemies” by Jonathan Alter”
- “Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England” by Thomas Penn
- “Manhattan Transfer” by John Dos Passos
- “Waiting to be Heard” by Amanda Knox
- “Trial By Fury: Internet Savagery and the Amanda Knox Case” by Douglas Preston
- “The Orphan Master’s Son” by Adam Johnson
- “Redshirts” by John Scalzi
- “Introduction to Documentary, 2nd edition” by Bill Nichols
- “Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think” by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Kenneth Cukier
- “The Fastest Growing Religion on Earth: How Genealogy Captured the Brains and Imaginations of Americans” by Doug Bremner
- “The Windows of Brimnes: An American in Iceland” by Bill Holm
- “Dividing the Great” by John Metcalf
- “The Android’s Dream” by John Scalzi
- “Beautiful Ruins” by Jess Walter
- “Death by Blackhole” by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- “The Pluto Files” by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- “Quicksilver: Book one of the Baroque Cycle” by Neal Stephenson
- “Old Man’s War” by John Scalzi
- “The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden world of th Tour de France” by Tyler Hamilton
- “Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief” by Lawrence Wright
- “Little Fuzzy” by H. Piper Beam
- “Fuzzy Nation” by John Scalzi
- “The Bloodletter's Daughter (A Novel of Old Bohemia)” by Linda Lafferty
- “A Planet of Viruses” by Carl Zimmer
- “The Cellist of Sarajevo” by Steven Galloway
- “The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates” by Harold Bloom
- “Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic” by Marla Cone
- “Be Brave be Strong: A Journey across the Great Divide” by Jill Homer
- “Ghost Trails: Journeys through a Lifetime” by Jill Homer
- “Inside Scientology: The Story of America’s most Secretive Religion” by Janet Reitman
- “The Selfish Gene” by Richard Dawkins
- “Daughter of Time” by Josephine Tey
- “The Yellow Birds” by Kevin Powers
- “Eat and Run: my unlikely Journey to Ultra-marathon greatness” by Scott Jurek
- “The Lonely Polygamist” by Brady Udall
- “The Neon Rain” by James Lee Burke
- "Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield" by Jeremy Scahill
- “A Town like Alice” by Nevil Shute
- "The Benghazi Hoax" by David Brock
Books Read in 2012
- "The Rogue: The Search for the Real Sarah Palin" by Joe McGinnis
- "Classified Woman" by Sibel Edmonds
- "Why I am not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith" by Richard Carrier
- "A Town like Alice" by Nevil Shute
- "The Best American Travel Writing 2011" by Sloane Crosley and Jason Wilson
- "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving
- "The Best American Essays 2011" by Edwidge Danticat and Robert Atwan
- "When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice" by Terry Tempest Williams
- "It's Even Worse than it Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism" by Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein
- "The Best American Sampler: The Best American Series 2011"
- "The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal" by Jared Diamond
- "The Round House" by Louise Erdrich
- "Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design and the Easter Bunny" by Barrett Brown and Jon P. Alston
- "The Pseudo Science Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe" by Michael D. Gordin
- "The History of the World in Ten and a half Chapters" by Julian Barnes
- "The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future" by Joseph Stiglitz
- "Bring up the Bodies" by Hilary Mantel
- "Clockwork Angels" by Kevin J. Anderson and Neil Peart
- "Winner Take all Politics: How Washington made the Rich Richer--and turned its back on the Middle Class" by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
- "The Thirty Year Plan: Thirty Writers on What We Need to Build a Better Future" by Orion Books
- "Barack Obama: The Story" by David Maraniss
- "The Samurai's Garden: A Novel" by Gail Tsukiyama
- "Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power" by Rachel Maddow
- "The Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2011" by Mary Roach
- "Bird Cloud: A Memoir" by Annie Proulx
- "Knowing too Much: Why the American Jewish Romance with Israel is coming to an end" by Norman Finkelstein
- "Zombie Banks: How Broken Banks and Debtor Nations Are Crippling the Global Economy" by Yalman Onaran and Sheila Bair
- "Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at all" by David Fitzgerald
- "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming" by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. M. Conway
- "The Way of the Peaceful Warrior" by Dan Millman
- "A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown" by Julia Scheeres
- "Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy" by Christopher Hayes
- "Messiah" by Gore Vidal
- "Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity" by Katherine Boo
- "The Lower River" by Paul Theroux
- "Washington: A Life" by Ron Chernow
- "Running Dry: A Journey From Source to Sea Down the Dying Colorado River" by Jonathan Waterman
- "Do not ask what Good we do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives" by Robert Draper
- "Hell on Two Wheels" by Amy Snyder
- "The World as it is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress" by Chris Hedges
- "War" by Sebastian Junger
- "Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War" by Tony Horwitz
- "The Journeys of Socrates" by Dan Millman
- "The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine" by David Brock
- "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail" by Cheryl Strayed
- "Arguably: Essays" by Christopher Hitchens
- "So Much Pretty" by Cara Hoffman
- "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Safran Foer
- "Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President" by Ron Suskind
- "Hannah Coulter" by Wendell Berry
- "The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World" by Edward Dolnick
- "Gutenberg the Geek" by Jeff Jarvis
- "The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next" by Lee Smolin
- "iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It" by Steve Wozniak
- "Paradise Beneath her Feet" by Isobel Coleman
- "The Year of the Flood" by Margaret Atwood
- "The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation" by Jay Elliot and William L. Simon
- "Then Again" by Diane Keaton
- "One Flew over the Cuckoo Nest" by Ken Kesey
- "Nothing to be Frightened of" by Julian Barnes
- "The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan" by Michael Hastings
- "Wool" by Hugh Howey
- "The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin" by Corey Robin
- "Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer" by David Roberts
- "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
- "Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi" by Justin Wintle
- "Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics" by Nicholas Wapshott
- "Why Read Moby Dick" by Nathaniel Philbrick
- "11/22/63: A Novel" by Stephen King
- "Ham on Rye" by Charles Bukowski
- "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" by Laura Hillenbrand
Books Read for 2011
- "The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity" by Jeffrey D. Sachs
- "The Lost Memory of Skin" by Russell Banks
- "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson
- "Life Itself" by Roger Ebert
- "God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer" by Bart D. Ehrman
- "A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides" by David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill
- "Bossy Pants" by Tina Fey
- "The Next Decade" by George Friedmann
- "October 1, 2011: The Battle of the Brooklyn Bridge" by Will Bunch
- "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides
- "Einstein's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe" by Evalyn Gates
- "Homer and Langley" by E. L. Doctorow
- "The Goose that laid the Golden Egg" by Doug Bremner, M.D.
- "Charles I" by Jacob Abbott
- "Freddie and Fredericka" by Mark Helprin
- "Endless Forms most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo" by Sean B. Carroll
- "Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History" by S. C. Gwynne
- "Postcards from a Dead Girl: A Novel (P.S)" by Kirk Farber
- "William the Conqueror: Makers of History" by Jack Abbott
- "CK-12 21st Century Physics: A Compilation of Contemporary and Emerging Technologies" by Andrew Jackson
- "Acing the Interview: How to Answer the Questions that will get you the job" by Tony Beshara
- "The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Trials of Amanda Knox" by Nina Burleigh
- "The Amanda Knox Story: A Murder in Perugia" by Kimberly Brown
- "The Pioneer Photographer: Rocky Mountain Adventures with a Camera" by William Henry Jackson and Howard R. Driggs
- "Herzog" by Saul Bellow
- "At Home" by Bill Bryson
- "Murder in Italy: The Shocking Slaying of a British Student, the Accused American Girl, and the International Scandal" by Candace Dempsey
- "Injustice in Perugia: a book detailing the wrongful conviction of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito" by Bruce Fisher
- "The Monster of Perugia: The Framing of Amanda Knox" by Mark Waterbury
- "Shalimar the Clown" by Salman Rushdie
- "Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex" by Oksana Zabuzhko and Halyna Hryn
- "The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Revision of Capitalism" by Harold Bloom
- "The Memory of Running" by Ron McLaren
- "Solar" by Ian Mcewan
- "Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River" by Ellen Meloy
- "A Stained White Radiance" by James Lee Burke
- "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration" by Isabel Wilkerson
- "The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God" by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
- "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Nelle Harper Lee
- "Star Island" by Carl Hiaasen
- "Big Con: Crackpot Economics and the Fleecing of America" by Jonathan Chait
- "My Detachment: A Memoir" by Tracy Kidder
- "Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner's Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across America" by Marshall Ulrich
- "LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay" by Warren Kozak
- "Nature Girl" by Carl Hiaasen
- "When the Killing's Done" by T.C. Boyle
- "Bob Dylan in America" by Sean Wilentz
- The Masked Rider" by Neil Peart
- "On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society" by Lt Col Dave Grossman
- "The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver
- "Valis" by Philip K. Dick
- "Mosquito Coast" by Paul Theroux
- "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea" by Barbara Demick
- "How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution" by Jack Horner
- "Life" by Keith Richards
- "Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil" by Peter Maass
- "Cybill Disobedience" by Cybill Shepherd
- "The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda" by Peter L. Bergen
- "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
- "Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown" by Paul Theroux
- "The Warden" by Anthony Trollope
- "The Age of Wikileaks" by Greg Mitchell
- "Darwin's Lost World: The Hidden History of Animal Life" by Martin Brasier
- "Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit" by Daniel Quinn
- "Blood's a Rover" by James Ellroy
- "Accelerando" by Charles Stross
- "Obama's War" by Bob Woodward
- "The Future of Life" by Edward O. Wilson
- "Just Kids" by Patti Smith
- "Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti-war Activist" by Bill Ayers
- "Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con that is Breaking America" by Matt Taibbi
- "Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans" by Wendell Potter
- "Ubik" by Philip K. Dick
- "Midnight on the Mavi Marmara" by Moustafa Bayoumi
- "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood
- "American Way of War" by Tom Englehardt
Books Read for 2010
- "Tourist Season" by Carl Hiassen
- "War is a Lie" by David Swanson
- "Suite Francaise" by Irene Nemirovsky
- "Tortilla Curtain" by T. C. Boyle
- "Wolf Totem: a novel" by Jiang Rong
- "Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance" by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm
- "Man Made God: A Collection of Essays" by Barbara G. Walker
- "Lethal Warriors: When the New Band of Brothers Came Home" by David Philipps
- "Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century" by P. W. Singer
- "Third World America: How our Politicians are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream" by Adrianna Huffington
- "Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope (American Empire Project)" by Chalmers Johnson
- "Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War" by Karl Marlantes
- "American Pastoral" by Philip Roth
- "Tear Down this Myth: How the Reagan Legacy has Distorted our Politics and Haunts our Future" by Will Bunch
- "The Wapshot Chronicles" by John Cheever
- "Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance" by Alexander Zaitchik
- "Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free" by Charles P. Pierce
- "Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance" by Derrick Jensen
- "Hitch-22: A Memoir" by Christopher Hitchens
- "The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that saved America" by Timothy Egan
- "Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy" by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- "Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War" by Andrew J. Bacevich
- "Cheever: A Life" by Blake Bailey
- "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson
- "American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right" by Markos Moulitsas
- "Rivers in Time: The Search for Clues to Earth's Mass Extinctions" by Peter Ward
- "Over the Cliff: How Obama's Election Drove the American Right Insane" by John Amato and Dave Neiwert
- "The Vanishing Face of Gaia" by James Lovelock
- "Swan Peak" by James Lee Burke
- "The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage" by Anthony Brandt
- "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture" by Darrel W. Ray
- "Basket Case" by Carl Hiaasen
- "The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory" by Brian Greene
- "A Room with a View" by E. M. Forster
- "The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy" by David Hoffman
- "The Private Patient" by P.D. James
- "Econned" by Yves Smith
- "Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization" by Derrick Jensen
- "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
- "A Friend of the Earth" by T. C. Boyle
- "Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East" by Robin Wright
- "The Necessity of Atheism" by David Marshall Brooks
- "The Monster of Florence" by Douglas Preston
- "Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream" by William Powers
- "Mars Life" by Ben Bova
- "This Time we went too far: Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion" by Norman Finkelstein
- "The March" by E. L. Doctorow
- "Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet" by Bill McKibben
- "Community: The Structure of Belonging" by Peter Block
- "Why Evolution is True" by Jerry A. Coyne
- "The Great Fire of London: In That Apocalyptic Year, 1666" by Neil Hanson
- "Continental Drifter" by Tim Moore
- "The Life of the Cosmos" by Lee Smolin
- "A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon" by Neil Sheehan"
- "Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution" by Caroline Fraser
- "Trial by Ice: The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition" by Richard Parry
- "Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle" by Daniel L. Everett
- "The Power of One" by Bryce Courtenay
- "Wolf Hall: A Novel" by Hilary Mantel
- "Beyond the Aspen Grove" by Ann Zwinger
- "Unknown Mexico: A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre, Vol I" by Carl Lummholtz
- "In the Sierra Madre" by Jeff Biggers
- "PMP Exam Prep, Sixth Edition: Rita's Course in a Book for Passing the PMP Exam" by Rita Mulcahy
- "Things I've been silent about" by Azar Nafisi
- "The Golden Goose" by J. Douglas Bremner, M.D.
- "Daughter of Time" by Josephine Tey
- "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch
- "The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason" by Victor Stenger
- "How to Find a Job on Linked-In, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and other Social Networks" by Brad Schepp and Debra Schepp
- "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" by David Wroblewski
- "Now or Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future" by Tim Flannery
- "Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution" by Iain McCalman
- "The Castle in the Forest" by Norman Mailer
- "Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon" by Daniel Dennett
- "The Women" by T. C. Boyle
- "With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change" by Fred Pearce
Books read for 2009
- "The Wrecking Crew" by Thomas Frank
- "Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists " by Dan Barker
- "Eichmann in Jerusalem" by Hannah Arendt
- "Going Rouge: An American Nightmare" by Richard Kim and Betsy Reed
- "The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution" by Richard Dawkins
- "The Weight of a Mustard Seed" by Wendell Steavenson
- "The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Spanish Phrases" by Gail Stein
- "The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story ever told" by Acharya S.
- "Mexico's Copper Canyon Country: A Hiking and Backpacking Guide to Tarahumara-land" by M. John Fayhee
- "Venus" by Ben Bova
- "The Dogma of Christ" by Erich Fromm
- "True Compass" by Edward M. Kennedy
- "The Forever War" by Dexter Filkins
- "Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajo Land" by Terry Tempest Williams
- "The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon" By David Grann
- "Where Men Meet Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman" by Jon Krakauer
- "Republican Gomorrah" by Max Blumenthal
- "Born to Run" by Christopher Mcdougall
- "Loving Frank: A Novel" by Nancy Horan
- "Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry may be bad for your Health" by J. Douglas Bremner, M.D.
- "The Death of Conservatism" by Sam Tanenhaus
- "Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain" by John J. Ratey
- "Shadow Country" by Peter Matthiessen
- "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power" by Jeff Sharlet
- "Heat: How to stop the Planet from Burning" by George Monbiot
- "Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J. P. Morgan was Corrupted" by Gillian Tett
- "Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix" by Charles R. Cross
- "Merle's Door: Lessons from a Free-thinking Dog" by Ted Kerasote
- "The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild" by Craig Childs
- "2666" by Roberto Bolano
- "Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and the American Prospects" by Dmitri Orlov
- "Emma's War: An Aid Worker, a Warlord, Radical Islam, and the Politics of Oil--A True Story of Love and Death in Sudan" by Deborah Scroggins
- "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
- "The Visitant: The Anasazi Mysteries" by Kathleen Gear and Michael Gear
- "The Limits of Power" by Andrew Bacevich
- "The GunPowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605" by Antonia Fraser
- "Duel" by Tariq Ali
- "Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body" by Neil Shubin
- "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" by Bill Bryson
- "House of Wittgenstein: Family at War" by Alexander Waugh
- "The Post-American World" by Fareed Zakaria
- "The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science" by Natalie Angier
- "Revolutionary Road" by Jeff Yates
- "The Memory of Old Jack" by Wendell Berry
- "Anansi Boys" by Neil Gamain
- "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
- "Guantanamo's Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr" by Michelle Shephard
- "The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox" by Jennifer Lee Carrell
- "Sundiver" by David Brin
- "Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet" by Jeffrey D. Sachs
- "Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America" by Walter R. Borneman
- "In a Sunburned Country" by Bill Bryson
- "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House" by John Meacham
- "The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature" by Steven Pinker
- "The Looming Tower" by Lawrence Wright
- "God's Middle Finger: Into the Heart of the Sierra Madre" by Richard Grant
- "When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change" by Mohammed El-Erian
- "Hollywood Crows" by Joseph Wambaugh
Books Read in 2008
- "An American Hedge Fund" by Timothy Sykes
- "Speck: The Life and Times of Spencer Penrose" by Robert C. Olsen
- "Nemesis" by Chalmers Johnson
- "The Gnostic Gospels" by Elaine Pagels
- "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency" by Barton Gellman
- "Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries" by Naomi Wolf
- "Napoleon's Egypt" by Juan Cole
- "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" by Tim Weiner
- "The Worst Hard Time" by Timothy Egan
- "In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead" by James Lee Burke
- "Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City 1842-1949" by Stella Dong
- "A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate" by Marc Reisner
- "The Courage to Survive" by Dennis Kucinich
- "Life Before Man" by Margaret Atwood
- "Appaloosa" by Robert B. Parker
- "Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America" by Rick Perlstein
- "Terra Incognito: Travels in Antarctica" by Sara Wheeler
- "The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800" by Jay Winik
- "Hell and High Water: The Global Warming Solution" by Joe Romm
- "Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics" by Joe Biden
- "My Sister, My Love" by Joyce Carol Oats
- "Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West" by Benazir Bhutto
- "Mike's Election Guide" by Michael Moore
- "Teacher Man" by Frank McCourt
- "The Way of the World" by Ron Suskind
- "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals" by Jane Mayer
- "Forever on the Mountain: The Truth Behind One of Mountaineering's Most Controversial and Mysterious Disasters" by James M. Tabor
- "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
- "The Federalist Papers" by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, et al.
- "Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 8, No. 50, December, 1861"
- "Rough Crossings: The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution" by Simon Schama
- "Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches" by John W. Dean
- "It's not About the Bike" by Lance Armstrong
- "Plan B version 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization" by Lester R. Brown
- "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder" by Vincent Bugliosi
- "Daughter of Fortune" by Isabele Allende
- "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow
- "The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington" by David Sirota
- "The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials" by Phillip Pullman
- "Becoming Native to This Place" by Wes Jackson
- "Skin Tight" by Carl Hiaasen
- "Ukridge" by P. G. Wodehouse
- "Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism" by Kevin Phillips
- "The Room of Lost Souls: a Sci Fi Novella" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- "The J Curve: A New Way to Understand why Nations Rise and Fall" by Ian Bremmer
- "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- "Witch Hunts: From Salem to Guantanamo Bay" by Robert Rapley
- "Buddha: A Biography" by Karen Armstrong
- "The Great transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions" by Karen Armstrong
- "The New Paradigm for Financial Markets" by George Soros
- "Leap! What will we do with the rest of our Lives?" by Sara Davidson
- "The Bush Tragedy" by Jacob Weisburg
- "The Lectures of Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll, Volume 1" by Col R. G. Ingersoll
- "The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama
- "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell
- "The Tin Roof Blow Down" by James Lee Burke
- "Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the Election of 2004 & Why They'll steal the next one too (Unless we stop them)" by Mark Crispin Miller
- "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollen
- "The Last Empire: Essays 1992 - 2000" by Gore Vidal
- "Mere Anarchy" by Woody Allen
- "Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence" by Alan Dershowitz
- "The Age of American Unreason" by Susan Jacoby
- "Nazism and War" by Richard Bessel
- "Orientalism" by Edward Said
- "Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir" by Gore Vidal
- "The Fall of the House of Bush" by Craig Unger
- "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time" by Greg Mortenson
- "Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War" by Nathaniel Philbrick
- "The Shadow of the Sun" by Ryszard Kapuscinski
- "A Year in the World" by Frances Mayes
- "Shakespeare: The Biography" by Peter Ackroyd
- "Dreams from my Father" by Barack Obama
- "Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism" by Michelle Goldberg
Books Read for 2007
- "A Bull in China" by Jim Rogers
- "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein
- "The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America" by Susan Faludi
- "Truth and Duty" by Mary Mapes
- "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
- "Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future" by Bill McKibben
- "Villages" by John Updike
- "Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet" by Steven Squyres
- "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot" by Naomi Wolf
- "The Places in Between" by Rory Stewart
- "Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power by Garry Wills
- "Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys into the Time Before Bones" by Sue Hubbel
- "Wandering Home: a long walk across America's most hopeful landscape, Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks" by Bill McKibben
- "The Terror Presidency: Law and Justice inside the Bush Administration" by Jack Goldsmith, Former Asst Atty General, Office of Legal Counsel
- "Attack Poodles and other media mutants: The Looting of the News in a time of terror" by James Wolcott
- "God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" by Christopher Hitchens
- "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration" by James Risen
- "First into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and its Prisoners of War" by George Weller
- The Authoritiarians by Robert Altemeyer
- "Eating for Endurance" by Dr. Philip Maffetone
- "The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11" by Ron Suskind
- "The Fracture Zone: A Return to the Balkans" by Simon Winchester
- "House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization across the American Southwest" by Craig Childs
- "Where late the Sweet Birds Sang" by Kate Wilhelm
- "The Devil came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur" by Brian Steidle and Gretchen Steidle Wallace
- "The Amateur Marriage" by Anne Tyler
- "Sandstone Spine: Seeking the Anasazi on the First Traverse of the Comb Ridge" by David Roberts
- "Magic Seeds" by V.S. Naipaul
- "Finding my Voice" by Diane Rhem
- "Lucky You" by Carl Hiaasen
- "Seven Years to Seven Figures: The Fast Track Plan to becoming a Millionaire" by Michael Masterson
- "The Conscience of a Conservative" by Barry Goldwater
- "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein
- "Strip Tease" by Carl Hiaasen
- "This Moment on Earth: The New Environmentalists and their Vision for the Future" by John and Teresa Heinz Kerry
- "The Assault on Reason" by Al Gore
- "Conservatives without Conscience" by John W. Dean
- "Skinny Dip" by Carl Hiaasen
- "When The Rivers Run Dry: Water -- The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century" by Fred Pearce
- "Tom Brown's Field Guide: Living with the Earth" by Tom Brown, Jr.
- "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books" by Azar Nafisi
- "Everyman" by Philip Roth
- "The Darling" by Russell Banks
- "Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild" by Greg Palast
- "The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America" by Erik Larson
- "United States v. George W. Bush: The Case for Impeachment" by Elizabeth de la Vega
- "The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, And the Secret Mission of 1805" by Richard Zacks
- "Gaudi: The Complete Buildings" by Rainer Zerbst
- "Madagascar: The Bradt Travel Guide 8th Edition" by Hilary Bradt
- "Jane Fonda's War: A Political Biography of an Antiwar Icon" by Mary Hershberger
- "Mao: The Unknown Story" by Jung Chang and Jan Halliday
- "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight" by Thom Hartman
- "Native Tongue" by Carl Hiaasen
- "The Anatomy Lesson" by Philip Roth
- "Healthy at 100" by John Robbins
- "The Tatooed Girl" by Joyce Carol Oates
- "Bush on the Couch" by Justin Frank, M.D.
- "The Planets" by Dava Sobel
- "Revolutionary Wealth" by Alvin and Heidi Toffler
- "Extinction: How Life on Earth nearly ended 250 Million Years ago" by Douglas H. Erwin
Books Read for 2006
- "Quicksilver: Book one of the Baroque Cycle" by Neil Stephenson
- "The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror" by George Soros
- "Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis" by William Bonner and Addison Wiggin
- "Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire" by Morris Berman
- "Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism" by Dore Gold
- "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins
- "The Dark Genius Of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons" by Edward J. Renehan, Jr
- "Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives" by George Lakoff
- "Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum" by Michael T. Klare
- "Cinderella Man: James Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History" by Jeremy Schaap
- "Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance" by Noam Chomsky
- "In Siberia" by Colin Thurbon
- "Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq" by Michael Gordon and General Bernard Trainer
- "Our Final Hour: A Scientist's warning : How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future in This Century--On Earth and Beyond" by Sir Martin Rees
- "A Great Improvisation : Franklin, France, and the Birth of America" by Stacy Schiff
- "Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating" by Jane Goodall
- "Assasination Vacation" by Sarah Vowell
- "American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century" by Kevin Phillips
- "The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies" by Richard Heinberg
- "The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell" by Mark Kurlansky
- "Ultra Marathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner" by Dean Karnazes
- "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren
- "Nature's Keepers: The Remarkable Story of how the Nature Conservancy became the largest Environmental Organization in the World" by Bill Birchard
- "The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey" by Candice Millard
- "Adventure without End" by Richard Bangs
- "The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality" by the Dalai Lama
- "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" by Jared Diamond
- "Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide" by Maureen Dowd
- "The Natural House: A Complete Guide to Healthy, Energy-Efficient, Environmental Homes" by Daniel D. Chiras
- "Typee" by Herman Melville
- "Minus 148: The First Winter Ascent of Mt. McKinley" by Art Davidson
- "Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England" by Alison Weir
- "The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth" by Tim Flannery
- "A Field Guide to Getting Lost" by Rebecca Solnit
- "Three Weeks with my Brother" by Nicholas Sparks
- "Mexico" by James A. Michener
- "Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change" by Elizabeth Kolbert
- "Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes" by Paul Strathern
- "They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967" by David Maraniss
- "1984" by George Orwell
- "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China" by Jung Chang
- "Leadville: The Struggle to Revive an American Town" by Gillian Klucas
- "Permaculture: A Designer's Manual" by Bill Mollison
- "Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War" by Anthony Shadid
- "The Price of Loyalty" by Paul O'Neill
- "The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq" by George Packer
- "Chronicles: Part One" by Bob Dylan
Books Read for 2005
- "Brunelleschi's Dome : How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture" by Ross King
- "Where the Waters Divide: A Walk Along America's Continental Divide" by Karen Berger and Daniel R. Smith
- "Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Alaskan Dog-Racing" by Gary Paulsen
- "The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance : How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World" by Paul Robert Walker
- "Walking the Big Wild: From Yellowstone to the Yukon on the Grizzly Bear's Trail" by Karsten Heuer
- "Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak" by Kenneth S. Deffeyes
- "Isaac Newton" by James Gleick
- "Mormon Country" by Wallace Stegner
- "The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth
- "Twilight in the Desert: The coming Saudi oil shock and the world economy" by Matthew R. Simmons
- "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins
- "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau
- "Under the Banner of Heaven: a Story of Violent Faith" by John Krakauer
- "Nature Noir : A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra" by Jordan Fisher Smith
- "Brown: The Last Dicovery of America" by Richard Rodriguez
- "The Abstract Wild" by Jack Turner
- "Yellowstone to Yukon" by Douglas H. Chadwick
- "Faust's Metropolis: A History of Berlin" by Alexandra Richie
- "The 9-11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions" by David Ray Griffin
- "What Would Jefferson Do?" by Thom Hartmann
- "The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Graib"
- "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
- "Sea Biscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
- "The Hammer: Tom Delay: God, Money and the Rise of the Republican Congress" by Lou Dubose, Jan Reid
- "The Republican Noise Machine: How Right wing media distorts our Democracy" by David Brock
- "Chain of Command: From 9-11 to Abu Graib" by Seymour Hersh
- "Encounters with the Arch Druid" by John McPhee
- "Antipode: Seasons in Madagascar" by Heather Heying
- "Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis--And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster" by Ross Gelbspan
- "Animal Liberation" by Peter Singer
Books Read for 2004
- "Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them" by Al Franken
- "The Rumsfeld Way: The Leadership Wisdom of a Battle-Hardened Maverick" by Jeffrey A. Krames
- "Bushwacked" by Molly Ivins
- "Crimes against Nature: How George W. Bush and his Corporate Pals are Plundering the Country and Hijacking our Democracy" by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
- "In Denali's Shadow" by Jon Waterman
- "The Open Space of Democracy" by Terry Tempest Williams
- "Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century" by Bev Harris
- "The Official Report of the 9-11 Commission"
- "The Age of Sacred Terror" by Benjamin Nelson
- "An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood" by Jimmy Carter
- "Desire and Ice: Searching for Perspective atop Denali" by David Brill
- "The Trouble with Islam" by Irshad Manji
- "Against all Enemies" by Richard Clarke
- "Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle" by Moritz Thomsen
- "A Season on the Mat: Dan Gable and the Pursuit of Perfection" by Nolan Zavoral
- "Islam Unveiled" by Robert Spencer
- "Who Killed Daniel Pearl?" by Henri Levy
- "So long, see you tomorrow" by William Maxwell
- "The Iron Road: A Stand for Truth and Democracy in Burma" by James Mawdsley
- "Crazy Horse" by Larry McMurtry
- "My Invented Country: a Memoir" by Isabel Allende
- "National and Joint Force Planning" Air Command and Staff College
- "The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World" by John Robbins
- "Vagabonding" by Rolf Potts
- "The Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World" by Jan Goodwin
- "Modern Mongolia: a Concise History" by Tsedenambyn BatBayer
- "Me Against my Brother: at war in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda" by Scott Peterson
Books Read in 2003
- "Teach Yourself Korean"
- "Homelands: Kayaking the Inside Passage" by Byron Ricks
- "Looking for Mr. Kurtz: Living on the brink in Mobutu's Congo" by Michela Wrong
- "Bucking the Sun" by Ivan Doig
- "A Problem from Hell: America in the age of Genocide" by Samantha Power
- "Spirit of the Mountains: Korea's San-Shin" by David Mason
- "Women of Mongolia" by Martha Avery
- "No Gun Ri: A Military History" by Robert Bateman
- "We Wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda" by Philip Gourevitch
- "Thin Air" by Greg Child
- "The Gate" by Francois Bizot
- "Gobi: Tracking the Desert" by John Man
- "War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir and Tibet" by Eric Margolis
- "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power" by Daniel Yergin
- "The Koreans" by Michael Breen
- "See no Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism" by Robert Baer
- "The River's Tale: a Year on the Mekong" by Edward A. Gargan
- "Reading the Korean Cultural Landscape" by Je-Hun Ryu
- "Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag" by Kang Chol Hwan
- "Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos" by Robert Kaplan
- "Burying Mao" by Richard Baum
- "The New Emperors: Deng and Mao" by Harrison Salisbury
- "Soul Mountain" by Xingjian Gao
Books Read in 2002
- "The Bridge at No Gun Ri" by Charles Hanley, Sang Hun Choe, Martha Mendoza
- "Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader" by Dai-Sook Suh
- "Black Tea and Yak Butter: a Journey into Forbidden China" by Wade Blackenbury
- "My Dark Places" by James Ellroy
- "Metaplanetary" by Tony Daniel
- "Ultimate Journey: Retracing the Path of an Ancient Buddhist Monk Who Crossed Asia in Search of Enlightenment" by Richard Bernstein
- "Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam" by Andrew Pham
- "Deadly Feasts: Tracking The Secrets Of A Terrifying New Plague" by Richard Rhodes
- "Koreas's Place in the Sun" by Bruce Cummings
- "On Writing" by Stephen King
- "Over the Edge: The True Story of Four American Climbers' Kidnap and Escape in the Mountains of Central Asia" by Greg Child
- "The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History" by Dan Oberdorfer
- "What Went Wrong: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East" Bernard Lewis
- "A Newer World: Kit Carson John C Fremont And The Claiming Of The American West" by David Roberts
- "The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology " by Simon Winchester
- "By any means Necessary: America's Secret Air War in the Cold War" William E. Burrows
- "Hotel Honolulu" by Paul Theroux
- "Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus" by David Kaplan
- "Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War " by Mark Bowden
Books Read in 2001
- "The War Against America: Saddam Hussein and the World Trade Center Attacks: A Study in Revenge" by Laura Mylroie
- "The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910" by Peter Duus
- "Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden " by Peter I. Bergen
- "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America" by Yossef Bodansky
- "Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia" by Ahmed Rashid
- "John Adams" by David McCullough
- "The Cold 6,000" by James Ellroy
- "American Tabloid" by James Ellroy
- "Compass Points: How I Lived" by Edward Hoagland
- "The Girl who loved Tom Gordon" by Stephen King
- "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser
- "The Loop" by Nicholas Evans
- "The Shipping News" by Annie Proulx
- "Return to Mars" by Ben Bova
- "A Case of Rape" by Chester B. Himes
- "Darwin's Radio" by Greg Bear
- "My Secret History" by Paul Theroux
Books Read in 2000
- "King Leopold's Ghost" by Adam Hochschild
- "North to the Night: A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic " by Alvah Simon
- "Love thy Neighbor: A Story of War" by Peter Maas
- "Flash 4"
- "Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written" by Edmund Sir Hillary
- "The Age of Spiritual Machines" by Ray Kurzweil
- "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared Diamond
- "Parachutes and Kisses" by Erica Jong
- "The Hours" by Michael Cunningham
- "Passage to Juneau : A Sea and Its Meanings" by Jonathan Raban
- "Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
- "Trespassing" by John Hanson Mitchell
- "Sacred Land, Sacred View"
- "Snow Crash" by Neil Stephenson
- "Plainsong" by Kent Haruf
- "On the Rez" by Ian Frazier
- "River Horse" by William Least Heat-Moon
- "Why They Kill" by Richard Rhodes
- "Fire on the Mountain" by John McLean
- "Travel in a Stone Canoe" by Harvey Arden and Steve Wall
- "Sir Vidia's Shadow" by Paul Theroux
- "Moments of Doubt" by David Roberts
- "The Lost Explorer" by David Roberts and Conrad Anker
- "Last Days" by John Roskelly
- "History of the English" by Paul Johnson
- "The Life of Thomas More" by Peter Akyroyd
- "The Songlines" by Bruce Chatwin
- "In a Dark Wood" by Alston Chase
- "Eiger Dreams" by John Krakauer
- "Basin and Range" by John McPhee
- "Geronimo" by Alexander B. Adams
- "Operation Shylock" by Philip Roth
- "In Suspect Terrain" by John McPhee
- "Loon Magic"
- "Centennial" by James Michener
- "The Spanish Armada"
- "Rising from the Plains" by John McPhee
- "Assembling California" by John McPhee
- "The First Immortal" by John Halperin
- "The Eternal Frontier: an Ecological History of North America and its Peoples" by Tim Flannery
Books Read in 1999
- "In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest" by David Roberts
- "Once They Moved Like The Wind : Cochise, Geronimo, And The Apache Wars" by David Roberts
- "The Ends of the Earth : From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy" by Robert Kaplan
- "Desert Solitaire" by Edward Abbey
- "Down the River" by Edward Abbey
- "Abbey's Road" by Edward Abbey
- "The Colorado Plateau"
- "An Empire Wilderness : Travels into America's Future" by Robert Kaplan
- "Lonesome Dove" by Larry McMurtry
- "Streets of Laredo" by Larry McMurtry
- "Widow for one Year" by John Irving
- "The Ghost Writer" by Philip Roth
- "Cold Oceans: Adventure in a Kayak, Rowboat , And Dogsled" by Jon Turk
- "Zuckerman Unbound" by Philip Roth
- "The Ninemile Wolves" by Rick Bass
- "The Tracker" by Tom Brown, Jr.
- "Cowboys and Cave Dwellers: Basketmaker Archaeology in Utah's Grand Gulch " by Fred Blackburn
- "Dead Man Walking" by Larry McMurtry
- "Killing Mister Watson" by Peter Matthiessen
- "Gerald's Game" by Stephen King
- "Lost Man's River" by Peter Matthiessen
- "The New Wolves" by Rick Bass
- "Winter: Notes from Montana" by Rick Bass
- "Desert Notes" by Barry Lopez
- "Homage to Catalonia" by George Orwell
- "Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation"
- "Bone by Bone"by Peter Matthiessen
- "Black Lamb, Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia (1941)" by Rebecca West
- "The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia" by Tim Judah
- "Turkey in Europe" by Charles Elliot
- "The Croat Question" by Jill Irvine
- "War Crimes: Brutality, Genocide, Terror, and the Struggle for Justice" by Aryeh Neier
- "To End a War" by Richard Holbrooke
- "Seasons in Hell: Slaughter and Betrayal in Bosnia" by Ed Vulianny
- "Burn this House: The Making and Unmaking of Yugoslavia" by Jasminka Udowicki and James Ridgeway
- "Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water" by Mark Reisner
- "Martin Dressler" by Steven Millhauser
- "End game: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II" by David Rohde
- "Forging War: The media in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina" by Mark Thompson
- "One for the Road" by Tony Horwitz"
- "Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey" by V. S. Naipaul
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