Hello everyone—I hope the new year finds all of my friends well and ready to make this year the most extraordinary ever.
Despite the arbitrary nature of where we decide to mark a date on a calendar and call it the start of the new year, I do tend to take the opportunity to make certain promises to myself. You might call them resolutions, but my resolve can be a little bit more ephemeral than that. Last year I decided that I should read more. Now by no means have I earned the modifier “prolific” in my reading, but last year I did read significantly more than usual. Follow me on Good Reads to keep up with me this year where I will be trying to read even more! As an interesting aside, about three quarters of the books on my reading list were read on a Kindle. I guess that means it works.
My 2010 Reading List
New books
- Anthem
- Ayn Rand
- 1984
- George Orwell
- The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future
- Mark Bauerlein
- Surface Detail
- Iain M. Banks
- Snow Crash
- Neal Stephenson
- Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Sharia Law
- Nonie Darwish
- God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
- Christopher Hitchens
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
- Steven D. Levitt
- The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
- Stieg Larsson
- The Girl With Who Played With Fire
- Stieg Larsson
- One Very Big Picture
- Sydney Hickman
- A User’s Guide to the Universe: Surviving the Perils of Black Holes, Time Paradoxes, and Quantum Uncertainty
- Dave Goldberg
- Coders At Work
- Peter Seibel
- Being Geek
- Michael Lopp
- Value-able
- Roger Montgomery
Audio books
- Ender’s Game
- Orson Scott Card
- For Whom The Bell Tolls
- Ernest Hemingway
- 1776
- David McCullough
Re-read
- Hyperion
- Dan Simmons
- The Fall of Hyperion
- Dan Simmons
Abandoned
- The City & the City (50%)
- China Miéville
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