2011 Book List
Here is the list of books I’ve read during the year 2011.
- Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
- Age Of Reason by Thomas Paine
- Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
- The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
- Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
- Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are by Frans De Waal
- Evolution by Stephen Jay Gould
- Islam: A Very Short Introduction by Malise Ruthven
- Natural Selections: Selfish Altruists, Honest Liars, and Other Realities of Evolution by David P. Barash
- Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction by Mark Maslin
- The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Leonard Susskind
- African History: A Very Short Introduction by John Parker, Richard Rathbone
- I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley
- Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All by David Fitzgerald
- God According to God: A Scientist Discovers We’ve Been Wrong About God All Along by Gerald Schroeder
- The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
- The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi: The Ten Greatest Math Puzzles of All Time by Marcel Danesi
- The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction by Robert J. McMahon
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear by Frank I. Luntz
- Moses and Monotheism by Sigmund Freud
- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
- What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper?: 200 Curious Questions and Intriguing Answers by Andrew Thompson
- Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk by Massimo Pigliucci
- Freud: A Very Short Introduction by Anthony Storr
- Biblical Nonsense: A Review of the Bible for Doubting Christians by Jason Long
- The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica
- The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule by Michael Shermer
- Candide by Voltaire
- Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
- When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? by George Carlin
- Sikhism: A Very Short Introduction by Eleanor Nesbitt
- Hinduism : A Very Short Introduction by Kim Knott
- The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens
- The Apocryphal Gospels: A Very Short Introduction by Paul Foster
- The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Very Short Introduction by Timothy Lim
- Kepler’s Conjecture: How Some of the Greatest Minds in History Helped Solve One of the Oldest Math by George G. Szpiro
- Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
- Dialogues about God (New Dialogues in Philosophy) by Charles Taliaferro
- Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Nomad: From Islam to America by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
- Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape The Universe by Martin Rees
- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Superstition of Divorce by G. K. Chesterton
- The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True by Richard Dawkins
- Forged: Writing in the Name of God — Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are by Bart D. Ehrman
- Memory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan K. Foster
- Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
- Forensic Science: A Very Short Introduction by Jim Fraser
- Forensic Psychology: A Very Short Introduction by David Canter
- The History of Life: A Very Short Introduction by Michael J. Benton
- The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction by Leofranc Holford-Strevens
- Myth: A Very Short Introduction by Robert A. Segal
- The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
- Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
- Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction by Ian Shaw
- Why I Am Not a Muslim by Ibn Warraq
- Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction by Harry Sidebottom