Last Updated: December 2016
2012
1. Richard Dawkins – The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
2. Lawrence Lessig – Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
3. Thorstein Veblen – The Theory of the Leisure Class
5. Henry Hazlitt – Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
7. Henry Hazlitt – The Failure of the New Economics
8. Michael Lewis – Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
10. Ron Paul – Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom
11. Sam Harris – The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
12. Hermin Melville – Moby Dick
13. Lawrence Lessig – Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress – and a Plan to Stop It
14. Stephen Covey – The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
16. Edmund Morris – The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
17. Carl Sagan – The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
19. John Green – Looking for Alaska
20. Jon Krakauer – Into the Wild
2013
1. Bill O’Reilly – Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
2. Walter Isaacson – Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
4. Jules Verne – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
5. David McCollough – John Adams
6. Ronald Reagan – The Reagan Diaries
7. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
8. Robert F. Kennedy – To Seek a Newer World
9. Bill O’Reilly – Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
10. Christopher Hitchens – Mortality
11. George Bush – Decision Points
12. Joshua Foer – Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
13. Justin Halpern – Sh*t My Dad Says
14. Richard Dawkins – The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True
15. Walter Isaacson – Einstein: His Life and Universe
16. Ron Chernow – Washington: A Life
17. Robert Caro – The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV
18. William L. Shirer – The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
21. Dani Kollin and Eytan Kollin – The Unincorporated Man
22. Alan Lightman – Einstein’s Dreams
23. Marcus Aurelius – Meditations
24. Al Gore – The Assault on Reason
2014 through mid-2016
I stopped recording what I read for a while.
2016
1. Evan Thomas – Robert Kennedy: His Life
2. John Markoff – Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots
3. Neil Gaiman – American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Novel
4. Michael Lewis – Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
5. Ashlee Vance – Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
6. Bill O’Reilly – Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault that Changed a Presidency
7. Bill O’Reilly – Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II’s Most Audacious General
10. Ken Perenyi – Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger