My 41 Books for 2010

I just realized that I’ve gone an entire year without posting my reading list. Obviously I didn’t do a lot of writing this year but I did do a lot of reading. Here is the list in chronological order with the ones I’m still reading on top.
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• The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language by Melvyn Bragg
• The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul by Mario Beauregard and Denyse O’Leary
• The New King James Version of the Bible
• Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down by John P. Kotter, Lorne A. Whitehead
• Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
• The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
• The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris, Daniel Simons
• 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

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• The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe by Theodore Gray
• The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World by Walter Kiechel
• Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart
• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
• How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like by Paul Bloom
• Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
• Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution by Richard Beeman
• Landmark: The Inside Story of America’s New Health Care Law and What It Means for Us All by The Washington Post
• God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World – and Why Their Differences Matter by Stephen Prothero
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
• The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth’s Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe by Anil Ananthaswamy
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
• Anticancer, A New Way of Life by David Servan-Schreiber

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• Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
• From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time by Sean Carroll
• The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
• The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran by Robert Spencer
• Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne
• What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
• The ESP Enigma: The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena by Diane Hennacy Powell
• The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
• The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn by Louisa Gilder
• Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos by Michio Kaku
• The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
• Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun by Wess Roberts
• The Death of Conservatism: A Movement and Its Consequences by Sam Tanenhaus
• Tao Te Ching: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell
• Taj Mahal: Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire by Diana Preston and Michael Preston
• In the Line of Fire: How to Handle Tough Questions…When It Counts by Jerry Weissman

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