2016 Book List
Here is the list of books I’ve read during the year 2016.
- The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant
- Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible by Jerry A. Coyne
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
- Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian by Bernard Lewis
- Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris
- Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman by Michael Dobbs
- Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil by Paul Bloom
- A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich
- On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Laws of Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Atkins
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
- Economics by Unknown
- The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
- The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe by Steven Novella
- The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World’s Greatest Philosophers by Will Durant
- Hitler by Unknown
- The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll
- God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist by Victor J. Stenger
- Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
- Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes by Svante Pääbo
- Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World by Tim Whitmarsh
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Leonardo’s Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
- The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane
- Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction by Colin Ward
- Inequality by Unknown
- Emotion: A Very Short Introduction by Dylan Evans
- The Art Of War by Sun Tzu
- The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
- The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides by Aeschylus
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
- Egyptian Book of the Dead by Unknown
- Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction by Steven Grosby
- The Earth: A Very Short Introduction by Martin Redfern
- Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction by James Fulcher
- Communism: A Very Short Introduction by Leslie Holmes
- Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World by David Silverman
- Modern China: A Very Short Introduction by Rana Mitter
- How to Speak How to Listen by Mortimer J. Adler
- Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
- Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
- Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language by Steven Pinker
- The Information by James Gleick
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes