Books

I’m an avid reader, and sometime back in 2008, I decided to start keeping track of the books I had read.

Currently Reading

• On Being Certain, Robert Burton
• The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir

2013

• Catch-22, Joseph Heller (May 2013)
• Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable, Brian Clegg (March 2013)
• The Lucifer Effect, Philip Zimbardo (February 2013)

2012

• Practical Ethics, Peter Singer (December 2012)
• Snoop, Sam Gosling (October 2012)
• War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells (September 2012)
• FAQs about the Use of Animals in Science, Ray Greek & Niall Shanks (September 2012)
• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (August 2012)
• The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood (August 2012)
• Connected, Nicholas Christakis & James Fowler (July 2012)
• The Compleat Academic, John Darley, Mark Zanna, & Henry Roediger III (May 2012)
• The Happiness Hypothesis, Jonathan Haidt (April 2012)
• Talking to the Enemy, Scott Atran (March 2012)
• The Wealthy Barber Returns, David Chilton (February 2012)
• Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn (January 2012)

2011

• The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment, A.J. Jacobs (December 2011)
• Influence: Science and Practice, Robert Cialdini (December 2011)
• The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan (October 2011)
• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan (September 2011)
• The Unlikely Disciple, Kevin Roose (September 2011)
• The Postmodern Condition, Jean-François Lyotard (August 2011)
• God, Freedom, and Evil, Alvin Plantinga (July 2011)
• Earth (The Book): A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race, Jon Stewart et al. (July 2011)
• The Castle, Franz Kafka (July 2011)
• Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (May 2011)
• The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James (March 2011)
• The Trial, Franz Kafka (March 2011)
• Your Brain Is (Almost) Perfect, Read Montague (January 2011)
• Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes (January 2011)

2010

• The Brain and the Meaning of Life, Paul Thagard (November 2010)
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks (October 2010)
• The Non-existence of God, Nicholas Everitt (October 2010)
• Flat Earth, Christine Garwood (September 2010)
• 1984, George Orwell (August 2010)
• When Prophecy Fails, Leon Festinger (August 2010)
• The Pirate’s Dilemma, Matt Mason (July 2010)
• The Spiritual Brain, Mario Beauregard & Denyse O’Leary (July 2010)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond (July 2010)
• 50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God, Guy Harrison (June 2010)
• Consumed, Benjamin Barber (May 2010)
• The Aeneid, Virgil (April 2010)
• Knowledge and the Sacred, Seyyed Hossein Nasr (March 2010)
• A History of God, Karen Armstrong (February 2010)
• Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre (February 2010)
• The Outsider, Albert Camus (January 2010)
• The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus (January 2010)
• The Odyssey, Homer (January 2010)
• Fear and Trembling, Søren Kierkegaard (January 2010)

2009

• Why Evolution Is True, Jerry Coyne (November 2009)
• The Future of an Illusion, Sigmund Freud (November 2009)
• The World Without Us, Alan Weisman (November 2009)
• The Iliad, Homer (October 2009)
• Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein (September 2009)
• Don Juan, Lord Byron (September 2009)
• Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (August 2009)
• Lord of the Flies, William Golding (August 2009)
• An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, David Hume (July 2009)
• Amazing Grace, Jonathan Kozol (July 2009)
• The Age of Reason, Thomas Paine (July 2009)
• Religion Explained, Pascal Boyer (July 2009)
• Phaedo, Plato (June 2009)
• Crito, Plato (June 2009)
• The Portal, Timothy White (June 2009)
• The Critique of Practical Reason, Immanuel Kant (May 2009)
• Ion, Plato (May 2009)
• Dead Man Walking, Helen Prejean (May 2009)
• Meno, Plato (May 2009)
• Symposium (The Banquet), Plato (May 2009)
• Apology (The Defense of Socrates), Plato (May 2009)
• Night, Elie Wiesel (May 2009)
• A Friendly Letter to Skeptics and Atheists, David Myers (March 2009)
• The Office and Philosophy, J. Jeremy Wisnewski (March 2009)
• Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka (March 2009)
• Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell (February 2009)
• Basic Christianity, John Stott (February 2009)
• The Undercover Economist, Tim Harford (February 2009)
• Games People Play, Eric Berne (January 2009)
• The Faith, Charles Colson (January 2009)
• The Case for Christ, Lee Strobel (January 2009)
• So You Don’t Want to Go to Church Anymore, Wayne Jacobsen & Dave Coleman (January 2009)

2008

• It’s Not My Fault, Henry Cloud & John Townsend (December 2008)
• Why I Became an Atheist, John Loftus (December 2008)
• Losing Faith in Faith, Dan Barker (November 2008)
• The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb (November 2008)
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (October 2008)
• The Meaning of Jesus, Marcus Borg & N.T. Wright (October 2008)
• The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs (September 2008)
• Lost Christianities, Bart Ehrman (September 2008)
• Misquoting Jesus, Bart Ehrman (August 2008)
• Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris (August 2008)
• Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis (August 2008)
• Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaarder (August 2008)
• The Know-It-All, A.J. Jacobs (July 2008)
• The Anti-Christ, Friedrich Nietzsche (July 2008)
• The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins (June 2008)
• The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (June 2008)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (June 2008)
• The Case for the Real Jesus, Lee Strobel (May 2008)
• The Republic, Plato (March 2008)
• Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert (February 2008)
• Blink, Malcolm Gladwell (January 2008)

2007

• The Head Trip, Jeff Warren (January 2007)
• The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (January 2007)