Books
This is a list of most of the books that I have read since the end of 2004. Use filters, show links, or view book statistics.
| Date | Book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2012-01-29 | Philip Roth | Portnoy's Complaint |
| 2012-01-28 | Olivia Munn Mac Montandon | Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek |
| 2012-01-21 | Dave Barry | Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need |
| 2012-01-11 | Adam Carolla | In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks ... And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-Aged White Guy |
| 2012-01-01 | Lexi Ryals | Taylor Swift: Country's Sweetheart |
| 2011-12-08 | Barack Obama | The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream |
| 2011-11-23 | Kathryn Stockett | The Help |
| 2011-09-24 | David Ball | China Run |
| 2011-09-16 | Diane Duane | Spider-Man: The Octopus Agenda |
| 2011-09-06 | Diane Duane | Spider-Man: The Venom Factor |
| 2011-08-30 | Neil Gaiman | Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions |
| 2011-08-25 | George Orwell | Animal Farm |
| 2011-08-13 | François Ponchaud | Cambodia: Year Zero |
| 2011-07-27 | J. K. Rowling | The Tales of Beedle the Bard |
| 2011-06-23 | Ron Jeremy | Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz |
| 2011-05-22 | Justin Halpern | Sh*t My Dad Says |
| 2011-05-15 | David Baldacci | The Winner |
| 2011-04-15 | Sarah Silverman | The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee |
| 2010-12-27 | Steve Berry | The Amber Room |
| 2010-11-01 | Philip K. Howard | The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America |
| 2010-09-19 | Dan Brown | The Lost Symbol |
| 2010-09-18 | Gordon Thomas Max Morgan Witts | Enola Gay |
| 2010-08-15 | Tana French | The Likeness |
| 2010-07-01 | Stephen Kotkin | Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization |
| 2010-06-01 | Winona Hollar Ondra | Lonesome & Coping |
| 2010-05-16 | Tony Horwitz | Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War |
| 2010-05-16 | Daniel Jonah Goldhagen | Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust |
| 2010-04-20 | Arthur Cotterell | Western Power in Asia: Its Slow Rise and Swift Fall, 1415-1999 |
| 2010-04-06 | Teresa A. Meade | A Brief History of Brazil |
| 2010-03-23 | Peter Robb | A Death in Brazil: A Book of Omissions |
| 2010-03-07 | Herbert Knapp Mary Knapp | Red, White, and Blue Paradise: The American Canal Zone in Panama |
| 2010-01-19 | Matthew Parker | Panama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time - The Building of the Panama Canal |
| 2009-12-28 | Tom Robbins | B Is for Beer |
| 2009-12-26 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly |
| 2009-12-21 | John Grisham | The Testament |
| 2009-11-03 | Zachary M. Schrag | The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro |
| 2009-10-16 | Siegfried Lenz | The German Lesson |
| 2009-09-27 | John Christopher | The Little People |
| 2009-09-27 | James Baldwin | Go Tell It on the Mountain |
| 2009-09-09 | Lawrence Cortesi | Bloody Friday Off Guadalcanal |
| 2009-09-03 | William Manchester | American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964 |
| 2009-07-06 | Rick Steves | Travel as a Political Act |
| 2009-07-01 | Barack Obama | Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance |
| 2009-06-24 | Al Franken | Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot |
| 2009-06-04 | Victor Cherkashin | Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer |
| 2009-05-20 | Gay Talese | Thy Neighbor's Wife |
| 2009-04-16 | Stephen Baxter | Flux |
| 2009-03-30 | Robert Charles Wilson | Mysterium |
| 2009-03-19 | Mike Resnick | A Miracle Of Rare Design |
| 2009-03-13 | Dean Koontz | The Voice of the Night |
| 2009-03-11 | Erik Larson | Thunderstruck |
| 2009-02-27 | Doris Kearns Goodwin | Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln |
| 2009-02-26 | Michael Crichton | Timeline |
| 2009-01-14 | Sara Gruen | Water for Elephants |
| 2008-11-29 | Mark Salzman | Iron & Silk |
| 2008-10-13 | Steve Almond | Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America |
| 2008-10-13 | Nick Hornby (editor) | Speaking with the Angel |
| 2008-10-13 | Garry Wills | Mr. Jefferson's University |
| 2008-09-22 | Martin Meredith | The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair |
| 2008-08-27 | Stephen Jay Gould | The Mismeasure of Man |
| 2008-08-06 | Carl Hiaasen | Stormy Weather |
| 2008-04-28 | Roberto Suro | Strangers Among Us: Latino Lives in a Changing America |
| 2008-04-10 | John Holt | How Children Fail |
| 2008-03-18 | Alexander Saxton | The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California |
| 2008-03-01 | Bjørn Lomborg | Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming |
| 2008-02-11 | Noel Ignatiev | How the Irish Became White |
| 2008-02-02 | Alexander McCall Smith | The Good Husband of Zebra Drive |
| 2007-10-21 | Jan Willem Honig Norbert Both | Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime |
| 2007-10-21 | Emmanuel Todd | After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order |
| 2007-10-18 | Massimo Livi-Bacci | A Concise History Of World Population |
| 2007-09-15 | Isabelle Maynard | China Dreams: Growing Up Jewish In Tientsin |
| 2007-09-10 | Bruce Cumings | North Korea: Another Country |
| 2007-08-25 | V.C. Andrews | Flowers In The Attic |
| 2007-08-19 | Kang Chol-Hwan Pierre Rigoulot | Aquariums Of Pyongyang |
| 2007-08-09 | J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
| 2007-06-16 | Lilian Jackson Braun | The Cat Who Smelled A Rat |
| 2007-06-11 | David Baldacci | Saving Faith |
| 2007-05-21 | Philip Short | Mao: A Life |
| 2007-05-08 | Qiu Xiaolong | Death of a Red Heroine |
| 2007-04-13 | Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped |
| 2007-03-04 | John Lescroart | The Second Chair |
| 2007-02-01 | John Pomfret | Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China |
| 2007-01-12 | Geoffrey Nunberg | Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show |
| 2006-12-20 | Frank Worsley | Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure |
| 2006-11-21 | Tom Standage | The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine |
| 2006-11-11 | Bob Harris | Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy! |
| 2006-10-19 | Chris Anderson | The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More |
| 2006-10-17 | Malcolm Gladwell | Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking |
| 2006-09-22 | Todd Tucker | The Great Starvation Experiment: The Heroic Men Who Starved so That Millions Could Live |
| 2006-09-13 | Robert V. Remini | The House: The History of the House of Representatives |
| 2006-09-06 | Mark Haddon | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| 2006-08-22 | Philip Pullman | The Amber Spyglass |
| 2006-08-15 | Bart Ehrman | Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why |
| 2006-08-14 | A. J. Jacobs | The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World |
| 2006-08-02 | Philip Pullman | The Subtle Knife |
| 2006-07-28 | Robert W. Rydell John E. Findling Kimberly D. Pelle | Fair America: World's Fairs in the United States |
| 2006-07-07 | Philip Weiss | American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps |
| 2006-07-01 | Philip Pullman | The Golden Compass |
| 2006-06-21 | Mike Mullane | Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut |
| 2006-06-13 | Rafi Mohammed | The Art of Pricing: How to Find the Hidden Profits to Grow Your Business |
| 2006-06-09 | Edwin A. Abbott | Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions |
| 2006-06-02 | Gail Saltz | Anatomy of a Secret Life: The Psychology of Living a Lie |
| 2006-05-28 | Grace Grant P.J. MacAllister | Flyover States |
| 2006-05-16 | Malcolm Gladwell | The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference |
| 2006-05-09 | Alexander McCall Smith | Blue Shoes and Happiness |
| 2006-05-02 | Laurence J. Kotlikoff Scott Burns | The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future |
| 2006-04-25 | Tod Lindberg (editor) | Beyond Paradise and Power: Europe, America, and the Future of a Troubled Partnership |
| 2006-04-20 | Tom Standage | A History of the World in Six Glasses |
| 2006-04-14 | Tamara Draut | Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead |
| 2006-04-10 | Charles Peters | Five Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of 1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World |
| 2006-04-03 | Jared Diamond | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies |
| 2006-03-28 | Alexander McCall Smith | In the Company of Cheerful Ladies |
| 2006-03-25 | Phillip Longman | The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity And What to Do About It |
| 2006-03-13 | John F. Kennedy | Profiles in Courage |
| 2006-03-12 | Alexander McCall Smith | The Full Cupboard of Life |
| 2006-03-07 | Alexander McCall Smith | The Kalahari Typing School for Men |
| 2006-03-06 | Alexander McCall Smith | Tears of the Giraffe |
| 2006-03-02 | Alexander McCall Smith | Morality for Beautiful Girls |
| 2006-02-24 | Alexander McCall Smith | The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency |
| 2006-02-21 | Iris Chang | The Rape of Nanking |
| 2006-02-15 | Jack Du Brul | The Medusa Stone |
| 2006-02-13 | Harry J. Huang (editor) | An Anthology of Chinese Short Short Stories |
| 2006-01-31 | Pamela Paul | Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families |
| 2006-01-26 | Ariel Levy | Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture |
| 2006-01-23 | Harm de Blij | Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism |
| 2006-01-17 | Dolores Hayden | Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000 |
| 2006-01-02 | Chris Mooney | The Republican War on Science |
| 2005-12-29 | Linda Greenhouse | Becoming Justice Blackman |
| 2005-12-23 | Desmond Morris | The Naked Woman |
| 2005-12-21 | Steven Johnson | Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter |
| 2005-12-17 | Jon Spoelstra | Marketing Outrageously |
| 2005-12-12 | Mark Monmonier | How to Lie with Maps |
| 2005-12-08 | Barrett Seaman | Binge: Campus Life in an Age of Disconnection and Excess |
| 2005-12-01 | Ted Fishman | China, Inc. |
| 2005-11-25 | Dalton Conley | The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why |
| 2005-11-18 | Steven D. Levitt Stephen J. Dubner | Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything |
| 2005-11-14 | Jim Schutze | Bully: Does Anyone Deserve to Die? |
| 2005-11-13 | Robert Neuwirth | Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World |
| 2005-11-11 | Elizabeth Royte | Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash |
| 2005-10-31 | Michael Pollan | The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World |
| 2005-10-28 | Jake Morrissey | The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome |
| 2005-10-22 | Eric Burns | The Spirits of America |
| 2005-10-16 | Marvin Harris | Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches |
| 2005-10-14 | Mark Kurlansky | Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World |
| 2005-10-05 | J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince |
| 2005-10-03 | Stephen Budiansky | The Covenant of the Wild |
| 2005-09-26 | Philip Wylie | Generation of Vipers |
| 2005-09-13 | Barry Schwartz | The Paradox of Choice |
| 2005-09-10 | J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix |
| 2005-09-05 | Jim Wallis | God's Politics |
| 2005-09-01 | William Julius Wilson | The Truly Disadvantaged |
| 2005-08-31 | Jérôme Carcopino | Daily Life in Ancient Rome |
| 2005-08-27 | Diane Garey | Defending Everybody: A History of the American Civil Liberties Union |
| 2005-08-11 | T. R. Pearson | A Short History of a Small Place |
| 2005-07-30 | Erik Larson | The Devil in the White City |
| 2005-07-23 | Peter L. Bernstein | The Power of Gold |
| 2005-07-14 | Peter Irons | A People's History of the Supreme Court |
| 2005-07-09 | Philip Roth | Portnoy's Complaint |
| 2005-06-25 | Stephen Ambrose | Undaunted Courage |
| 2005-06-12 | Thomas Frank | What's the Matter with Kansas |
| 2005-06-11 | James Howard Kunstler | The Geography of Nowhere |
| 2005-06-05 | Rick Perlstein | Before the Storm |
| 2005-05-30 | Barbara Ehrenreich | Nickel and Dimed |
| 2005-05-16 | Kenneth C. Davis | Don't Know Much About History |
| 2005-05-05 | Joseph J. Ellis | Founding Brothers |
| 2005-04-30 | Ron Chernow | Alexander Hamilton |
| 2005-04-21 | Al Franken | Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them |
| 2005-03-21 | Richard Heinberg | Powerdown |
| 2005-03-17 | David Brock | The Republican Noise Machine |
| 2005-02-05 | Alex Marshall | How Cities Work |
| 2005-01-21 | Burton G. Malkiel | The Random Walk Guide to Investing: Ten Rules for Financial Success |
| 2005-01-10 | Robert Shogan | Bad News: Where the Press Goes Wrong in the Making of the President |
| 2004-12-24 | Mark W. Smith | The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy |
| 2004-12-22 | Thomas Sowell | Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy |
| 2004-11-16 | Charles Murray | What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation |
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