2013 Book List
Here is the list of books I’ve read during the year 2013.
- Your Inner Fish: The Amazing Discovery of Our 375-Million-Year-Old Ancestor by Neil Shubin
- The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don’t by Nate Silver
- Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man: A Biography by Christopher Hitchens
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
- A History of Greece by Cyril Edward Robinson
- Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution by Nick Lane
- Long Walk to Freedom: With Connections by Nelson Mandela
- Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction by Malcolm Gaskill
- The New Testament as Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Kyle Keefer
- The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
- I, Partridge: We Need to Talk about Alan by Steve Coogan
- The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
- Natural Experiments of History by Jared Diamond and J. A. Robinson
- The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction by Jerry Brotton
- The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition by Charles Darwin
- North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction by Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green
- The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
- The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen
- 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True by Guy P. Harrison
- Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude by Robert Baer
- Every Day is an Atheist Holiday!: More Magical Tales from the Author of God, No! by Penn Jillette
- A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response by Peter Balakian
- Attack of the Theocrats! How the Religious Right Harms Us All—and What We Can Do About It by Sean Faircloth
- Leadership: A Very Short Introduction by Keith Grint
- Autism: A Very Short Introduction by Uta Frith
- Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens by Christopher Hitchens
- The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture by Darrel Ray
- Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett
- How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too) by David Goldman
- The Language God Talks: On Science and Religion by Herman Wouk
- The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing by David Morley
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
- Atheism: A Very Short Introduction by Julian Baggini
- Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
- Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
- A Man by Oriana fallaci
- Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
- The Trouble with Islam: A Wake-up Call for Honesty and Change by Irshad Manji
- After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam by Lesley Hazleton
- The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human by V. S. Ramachandran
- True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society by Farhad Manjoo
- The Republic by Plato
- The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction by Terry Eagleton
- The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution by Sean B. Carroll
- Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson
- Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction by David DeGrazia
- Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction by J. Allan Hobson
- The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil
- The Mind of the Market: How Biology and Psychology Shape Our Economic Lives by Michael Shermer
- Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness by A. C. Grayling
- Darwin’s Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution by Rebecca Stott
- The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future by Mark Bauerlein
- Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
- Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche’s Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony by Ben Macintyre
- Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic lllusion of an Islamic State by Tarek Fatah
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Egyptian Myth: A Very Short Introduction by Geraldine Pinch