Book Reading
2010
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande (finished 8/22/10) *****
The Spy by Clive Cussler (Nook) (finished 7/9/10) *****
The Magicians by Lev Grossman (finished 7/6/10) *****
The Wrecker by Clive Cussler (Nook) (finished 6/30/10) *****
The Chase by Clive Cussler (Audiobook) (finished 6/22/10) *****
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Steig Larsson (Nook) (finished 5/31/10) *****
The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan (Audiobook) (finished 5/22/10) *****
The Templars by Michael Haag
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization by Lars Brownworth (finished 5/15/10) *****
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (Audiobook & Nook) (finished 4/26/10) *****
Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston (finished 4/26/10) *****
The Noticer by Andy Andrews (finished 3/15/10) *****
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (Audiobook) (finished 3/6/10) *****
The Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis (read to pg. 80 and abandoned) *****
Percy Jackson & The Olympians by Rick Riordan (whole series) (finished 2/22/10) *****
The Audacity to Win by David Plouffe (finished 2/7/10) *****
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Complete Set, Volume 1) (Nook) (read first 300 pgs out of 800, 3/1/10) *****
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Steig Larsson (Nook) (finished 1/11/10) *****
What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell (Audiobook) (finished 2/17) *****
2009
The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons (Nook) (finished 1/5/10) *****
The Sign by Raymond Khoury (Audiobook) (finished 1/7/09) *****
Up in the Air by Walter Kirn (finished 12/6/09) *****
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson (Audiobook) (finished 11/15/09) *****
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (finished 11/8/09) *****
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (Audiobook) (finished 10/2/09) *****
The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald (finished 10/7/09) *****
Your Money & Your Brain by Jason Zweig (finished 10/14/09) *****
American Lion by Jon Meacham (Audiobook) (finished 9/14/09) *****
How the Mighty Fall by Jim Collins (Audiobook) (finished 8/14/09) *****
Americana by Hampton Sides (finished 12/31/09) *****
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded American is Tearing Us Apart by Bill Bishop (read 1/3 and abandoned) *****
Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America by Brian Francis Slattery (finished 7/20/09) *****
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson (finished 7/4/09) *****
Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr by Christopher Paoloini (finished 6/20/09) *****
The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon (finished 6/10/09) *****
The Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemingway (finished 6/5/09) *****
Emergency by Neil Strauss (finished 4/30/09) *****
Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut (finished 5/09) *****
On Writing Well by William K. Zinsser (abandoned, more useful as reference) *****
Churchill's Hour by Michael Dobbs (finished 4/23/09) *****
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (finished 3/6/09) *****
The Republic by Plato (Translated by Allan Bloom) (stars are inappropriate)
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (finished 2/14/09) *****
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (abandoned by page 180) *****
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (abandoned by page 213) *****
2008
World Without End by Ken Follett (finished 12/1/08) *****
The English Major by Jim Harrison (finished 11/23/08) *****
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder (finished 11/2/08) *****
The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom (read half and abandoned) *****
Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons (finished 10/15/08) *****
Hot, Flat, & Crowded by Thomas Friedman (abandoned early November) *****
Irrational Exuberance by Robert J. Shiller (read half and abandoned) *****
Shooter by Jack Coughlin (finished mid-September) *****
Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy (finished 8/18/08) *****
War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy (abandoned for now @ approx. pg. 200)
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (finished 8/10/08) *****
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (finished 7/24/08) *****
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (finished 7/15/08) *****