2014 Book List
Here is the list of books I’ve read during the year 2014.
- The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
- And Man Created God: A History of the World at the Time of Jesus by Selina O’Grady
- No Gods, No Guilt by Dr. Stephen Frederick Uhl
- A History of the Middle Ages by Crane Brinton, John Christopher, Robert Wolff
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible by Robert J. Hutchinson
- A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
- Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Mode by Lisa Randall
- How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil
- Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch
- The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup by Noam Wasserman
- The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond
- Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word by Toni Morrison
- The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning by Daniel Bor
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas by Robin Harvie, Stephanie Meyers
- The World Trade Organization: A Very Short Introduction by Amrita Narlikar
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
- A God Who Hates: The Courageous Woman Who Inflamed the Muslim World Speaks Out Against the Evils of by Wafa Sultan
- Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith by Richard Carrier
- A History of Rome by Cyril Edward Robinson
- Sexuality: A Very Short Introduction by Veronique Mottier
- What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
- Lucky Man: A Memoir by Michael J. Fox
- Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction by A. C. Grayling
- The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
- Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved by Frans de Waal
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
- The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life by A. C. Grayling
- The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone–Especially Ourselves by Dan Ariely
- The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead by David Shields
- The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli
- Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
- Fables of the Ancients?: Folklore in the Qur’an by Alan Dundes
- The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed by Bart D. Ehrman
- Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C. Dennett
- On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell
- The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind’s Greatest Invention by Guy Deutscher
- The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp Through Civilization’s Best Bits by Erik Sass, Steve Wiegand, Editors of Mental Floss
- Getting Even by Woody Allen
- Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Inwood
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought by Pascal Boyer
- The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 (Themes in Islamic History) by Jonathan P. Berkey
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays by Marilynne Robinson
- How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough
- The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki
- Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel
- Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson
- Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis
- I Don’t Believe in Atheists by Chris Hedges
- Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles by Ruchir Sharma
- A Manual for Creating Atheists by Peter Boghossian
- Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt
- Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception by Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, Susan Carnicero, Don Tennant
- Justinian’s Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire by William Rosen
- The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success by Kevin Dutton
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science- and Reality by Chris Mooney
- SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life In by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Everything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us by Duncan J. Watts
- God Bless America: Strange and Unusual Religious Beliefs and Practices in the United States by Karen Stollznow
- Proving History: Bayes’s Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus by Richard Carrier
- Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
- The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
- An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel by Milan Kundera