The annual Round up…
January
1. The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A.J. Jacobs
March
2. Made In America: My Story by Sam Walton
3. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
4. How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God by Michael Shermer, 2nd Edition
April
5. America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction by the Daily Show Writers
6. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
7. Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
May
8. The Cartoon History of the Universe II by Larry Gonick
9. The Confusion: Volume II of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
June
10. System of the World: Volume 3 of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
July
11. Investment Fables: Exposing the Myths of “Can’t Miss” Investment Strategies by Aswath Damodaran
August
12. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
September
13. The Shakespeare Miscellany by David Crystal and Ben Crystal
14. Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (59 pages, then abandoned)
14. The Science of Good & Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow The Golden Rule by Michael Shermer
October
15. Foucalt’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
November
16. The Truth (with Jokes) by Al Franken
17. How To Buy A Business by Richard A. Joseph, Anna M. Nekoranec, Carl H. Steffens
18. What No One Ever Tells You About Starting Your Own Business, Second Edition: Real Life Startup Advice from 101 Successful Entrepreneurs by Jan Norman.
19. The Small Business Valuation Book by Lawrence W. Tuller
December
20. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 Edited by Dave Eggers, Introduction by Beck
21. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
22. The Slightly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
The Books Not Journaled
23. McSweeneys 15
24. McSweeneys 16
25. McSweeneys 17
26. McSweeneys 18
27. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
28. Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
The Christmas Haul: On the Reading Stand
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
- Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome
- The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001 Edited by Edward O. Wilson
- Our Endangered Values by Jimmy Carter
- The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense by Michael Shermer
- Bull! A History of the Boom, 1982 – 1999 by Maggie Mahar
- All The President’s Spin by Ben Fritz, Bryan Keefer, and Brendan Nyhan
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time byMark Haddon
- Learning Perl – O’Reilly Books
- PayPal Hacks – O’Reilly Books
I have read four of your “read” list and one of your “haul” list. (Actually, I haven’t finished “System of the World” I have about fifty pages left.)
I’ll guess The Confusion, System of the World, America (the Book), Harry Potter and Learning Perl… am I close?
Three out of five!
No Harry Potter for me, and I have not finished America the Book.
The Cartoon History of the Universe II and Foucalt’s Pendulum instead
Re: Three out of five!
I should’ve known Foucalt’s… I think you mentioned that.
And as my brother said about the Cartoon History of the Universe series… “I can’t wait to see how it ends.”
Re: Three out of five!
I would prefer not to see that paticular series end.
OOOoohh! “Curious Incident” is really excellent. After reading that, if you like it, you eventually need to read The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon. 🙂
I’m about 3/4 through “Curious Incident” and enjoying it very much, so I will add The Speed of Dark to the ole’ Amazon Wishlist…
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