Books I've Read Recently

2007-2008

FairTax: The Truth ◉ Neal Boortz
Bonk ◉ Mary Roach
The Geography of Bliss ◉ Eric Weiner
The Age of American Unreason ◉ Susan Jacoby
Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair ◉ William Poundstone
City of Dreams: a Novel of Early Manhattan ◉ Beverly Swerling
Predictably Irratinoal ◉ Dan Ariely
The World Turned Upside Down ◉ Colin G Calloway
Straight Man ◉ Richard Russo
The Logic of Life ◉ Tim Harford
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept ◉ Paulo Coelho
Super Crunchers ◉ Ian Ayres
The Bookseller of Kabul ◉ Åsne Seierstad
The Bottom Billion ◉ Paul Collier
The Glass Castle ◉ Jeannette Walls
The Perfect Storm ◉ Sebastian Junger
Among the Thugs ◉ Bill Buford
Freedomnomics ◉ John R. Lott Jr
The Kite Runner ◉ Khaled Hosseini
The Places in Between ◉ Rory Stewart

2006-2007
War in Aquarius ◉ Dennis Kitchin
Ethan Frome ◉ Edith Wharton
The Wonderful Adventures of Paul Bunyan ◉ Louis Untermeyer
The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold ◉ Gretel Ehrlich
Krakatoa ◉ Simon Winchester
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies ◉ Bryan Douglas Caplanskip
More Sex is Safer Sex ◉ Steven E. Landsburg
1491 ◉ Charles C. Mann
Thunderstruck ◉ Erik Larson
Suite Française ◉ Irène Némirovsky
A Fine and Pleasant Misery ◉ Patrick F. McManus
Lake Wobegon Days ◉ Garrison Keillor
Night ◉ Elie Wiesel
Beloved ◉ Toni Morrison
Meterorology Today ◉ Ahrens
The Genius Factory ◉ David Plotz
Triangle: The Fire that Changed America ◉ Dave Von Drehle
Gilgamesh
Red China Blues ◉ Jan Wong
The Bean Trees ◉ Barbara Kingsolver
Letter to a Christian Nation ◉ Sam Harris
How Democratic Is the American Constitution ◉ Robert A. Dahl

2005-2006
Fahrenheit 451 ◉ Ray Bradbury
Assumptions and Faith ◉ Wayne Roberts
Stumbling on Happiness ◉ Daniel Gilbert
The World Is Flat ◉ Thomas L. Friedman
Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance ◉ Matthew Kneale
Tears of the Giraffe ◉ Alexander McCall Smith
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency ◉ Alexander McCall Smith
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian ◉ Marina Lewycka
Men & Cartoons ◉ Jonathan Lethem
In Our Hands ◉ Charles Murray
City of Fallen Angles ◉ John Berendt
Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris - The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution ◉ Richard Brookhiser
Guns, Germs, and Steel ◉ Jared Diamond
Teacher Man ◉ Frank McCourt
The Works: Anatomy of a City ◉ Kate Ascher
The Undercover Economist ◉ Tim Harford
Talk to the Hand ◉ Lynne Truss
War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War ◉ Fred Anderson
End of Faith ◉ Sam Harris
Jungle ◉ Yossi Ghinsberg
Blink ◉ Malcolm Gladwell
The Children's Blizzard ◉ David Laskin
Education Myths ◉ Jay P. Greene
The Motorcycle Diaries : Notes on a Latin American Journey ◉ Ernesto Che Guevera
Indecision : A Novel ◉ Benjamin Kunkel

2004-2005
Siddhartha ◉ Herman Hesse
TheWisdom of Crowds ◉ James Surowiecki
The Tipping Point ◉ Malcolm Gladwell
The Fairtax Book ◉ Neal Boortz & John Linder
Devil in the White City ◉ Erik Larson
Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation ◉ Peter L. Bernstein
1776 ◉ David McCullough
The Mystery of Economic Growth ◉ Elhanan Helpman
Doubt ◉ Jennifer Michael Hecht
Desire of the Everlasting Hills ◉ Thomas Cahill
Disgrace to the Profession ◉ Charles Newton and Gretchen Kauffman
Freakonomics ◉ Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Gifts of the Jews ◉ Thomas Cahill
Perfectly Legal ◉ David Cay Johnston
The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream ◉ Jeremy Rifkin
The Great Gatsby ◉ F. Scott Fitzgerald
United States of Europe ◉ T.R. Reid
Culture and Prosperity ◉ John Kay
What's the Matter with Kansas? ◉ Thomas Frank

2003-2004
Life of Pi ◉ Yann Martel
Those Dirty Rotten Taxes: The Tax Revolts That Built America ◉ Charles Adams
Why Lincoln Matters ◉ Mario Cuomo
How Soccer Explains the World ◉ Franklin Foer
All Quiet on the Western Front ◉ Erich Maria Remarque
A Scandalous History of the Roman Emperors ◉ Anthony Blond
High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis ◉ Mark Lynas
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation ◉ Lynne Truss
History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray American History ◉ Dana Lindaman and Kyle Ward
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin ◉ Gordon S. Wood
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim: Essays ◉ David Sedaris

2002-2003
The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values ◉ Nancy Folbre
How the Irish Saved Civilization ◉ Thomas Cahill
The Viking ◉ Alan Baker
The Da Vinci Code ◉ Dan Brown
The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century ◉ Paul Krugman
Understanding Physics, Volume I ◉ Isaac Asimov
Popular Music From Vittula ◉ Mikael Niemi
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter ◉ Thomas Cahill
Things Fall Apart ◉ Chinua Achebe
The Passions of Andrew Jackson ◉ Andrew Burstein
A Short History of Nearly Everything ◉ Bill Bryson
Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth ◉ Stephen F. Knott

2001-2002
Can Gun Control Work? ◉ James B. Jacobs
To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders ◉ Bernard Bailyn
Jefferson's Great Gamble: The Remarkable Story of Jefferson, Napoleon and the Men Behind the Louisiana Purchase ◉ Charles Cerami
Mismatch: The Growing Gulf Between Women and Men ◉ Andrew Hacker
Coal: A Human History ◉ Barbara Freese
Greenback: The Almighty Dollar and the Invention of America ◉ Jason Goodwin
City on Fire: The Forgotten Story of a Disaster That Destroyed a Town and the Landmark Legal Battle That Ensued ◉ Bill Minutaglio
Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York ◉ Richard M. Ketchum
Teamster Rebellion ◉ Farrell Dobbs
Miracle at Philadelphia ◉ Catherine Drinker Bowen
Italy: A Short History ◉ Harry Hearder and Jonathan Morris
Anthem ◉ Ayn Rand
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation ◉ Joseph J. Ellis
Power & Greed: A Short History of the World ◉ Philippe Gigantes
The Basque History of the World ◉ Mark Kurlansky
Cuba Diaries: An American Housewife in Havana ◉ Isadora Tattlin
The American Revolution: A History ◉ Gordon Wood
A People's History of the American Revolution ◉ Ray Raphael
Paris to the Moon ◉ Adam Gopnik
Three Strikes ◉ Zinn, Frank, Kelley
Choosing Civility ◉ P.M. Forni