2010 Book List
Here is the list of books I’ve read during the year 2010, starting August 8th.
- The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion by Robert Spencer
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
- The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time by Douglas Adams
- The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence M. Krauss
- Almost Everyone’s Guide to Science: The Universe, Life and Everything (Yale Nota Bene) by Dr. John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin
- The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
- Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan
- The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Edward Craig
- The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- Dialogs Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume
- Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From The Beaten Track: The Letters Of Richard P. Feynman by Richard Phillips Feynman, Michelle Feynman
- The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense by Michael Shermer
- God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question–Why We Suffer by Bart D. Ehrman
- A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong
- Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
- The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
- How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
- Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem by Simon Singh
- Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade
- The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
- History: A Very Short Introduction by John H. Arnold
- Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Telepor by Michio Kaku
- The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain
- Last Words: A Memoir by George Carlin
- How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
- Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) French language edition (French Edition) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Flynn
- How to Argue by Gerry Spence
- River Out Of Eden: A Darwinian View Of Life (Science Masters Series) by Richard Dawkins
- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman (Helix Books) by Richard P. Feynman
- The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
- Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist’s Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature by Steven Weinberg
- Kinds Of Minds: Toward An Understanding Of Consciousness (Science Masters Series) by Daniel C. Dennett
- Richard Feynman: A Life in Science by John R. Gribbin, Mary Gribbin
- T.rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez
- The Red Limit: The Search for the Edge of the Universe by Timothy Ferris
- The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins
- The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
- Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne
- Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (P.S.) by Robert M. Pirsig
- The Assault on Reason by Al Gore