2012 Book List
Here is the list of books I’ve read during the year 2012.
- The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report by Timothy Ferris
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- The Black Death: A Personal History (Abridged) by John Hatcher
- The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran by Robert Spencer
- The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass by Bill Maher
- The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World by Jacques Cousteau, Susan Schiefelbein
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
- Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall (War Memoirs Vol. 1) by Spike Milligan
- Superconductivity: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen J. Blundell
- Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life by Michael Moore
- The Reagan Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by Gil Troy
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Character of Physical Law (Messenger Lectures, 1964) by Richard Feynman
- Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson
- Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life by Daniel C. Dennett
- A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
- An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming by Al Gore
- Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victor by Ben Macintyre
- The Quest of the Historical Jesus by Albert Schweitzer
- One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science by George Gamow
- Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo by Sean B. Carroll
- The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography by Stephen Fry
- The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson
- Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing by Philip C. Plait
- D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
- Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
- The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition by Richard Dawkins
- The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry
- Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben
- Druids: A Very Short Introduction by Barry Cunliffe
- Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters by Dick Winters, Cole C. Kingseed
- E=mc2: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis
- The Voyage of the Beagle: Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countrie by Charles Darwin
- The Book of Mormon: A Very Short Introduction by Terryl L. Givens
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Not the Impossible Faith by Richard Carrier
- Conservatives Without Conscience by John W. Dean
- My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
- The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
- Terrorism: A Very Short Introduction by Charles Townshend
- Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?: And Other Reflections on Being Human by Jesse Bering
- Socrates : A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Taylor
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli
- Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions about the World’s Fastest-Growing Faith by Robert Spencer