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I love reading. These are books I have read or listened to as far
back as I can remember. I have included ratings for each book from
1 to 10 (10 being the best). I keep this list as a reminder of what
I found interesting over the years. Plus, by monitoring my progress
with a list, I am motivated to read more each year. I absolutely love
to read and learn new and exciting things. My personal challenge is
to read 250 books before I reach age 40 (2014). This list was started
on January 3, 2005.
2010
(4)
Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Martin Dugard
[8]
The Reasonable Art of Flyfishing by Terry Mort
[10]
Shadows of the Neanderthal: Illuminating the Beliefs that Limit Our Organizations by David Hutchens
[7]
Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results by Stephen C. Lundin
[5]
2009
(2)
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler
[8]
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
[10]
2008
(3)
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
[10]
The
Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
[4]
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
[10]
2007
(7)
Next by Micheal Crichton
[5]
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles
C. Mann [6]
Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1) by Christopher Paolini
[5]
The Rise of Theoodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
[8]
Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
by Mike Mullane [10]
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
[7]
Into
the Wild by Jon Krakauer
[10]
2006
(12)
The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz
[9]
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
[8]
Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
[9]
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
[10]
The Jesus Papers: Exposing the Greatest Cover-Up in History by
Michael Baigent [4]
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
[8]
Jpod: A Novel by Douglas Coupland
[7]
Stumbling Upon Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
[8]
The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200
a Barrel by Stephen Leeb and Glen Strathy
[9]
Dave Barry Does Japan by Dave Barry
[7]
Hey Nostradamus!: A Novel by Douglas Coupland
[8]
Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles
by Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey
[9]
2005
(20)
State of Fear by Michael Crichton
[7]
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
[6]
Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile
[10]
The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity by Lee Strobel
[8]
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
[3]
Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, The Stock Market, and Just About Everything Else by Amir Aczel
[6]
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
[7]
Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude by Robert Baer
[6]
Entanglement by Amir Aczel
[5]
Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
[8]
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
[10]
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
[2]
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Audiobook): A Citizens Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart
[4]
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman
[7]
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
[8]
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman
[7]
On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
[5]
Socrates in 90 Minutes by Paul Strathern
[6]
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
[8]
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
[9]
2004
(9)
The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates
Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God
by Lee Strobel
[10]
The
Case for Christ: A Journalist’s Personal Investigation of the Evidence
for Jesus by Lee Strobel
[7]
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
[9]
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
[6]
Mind Wide Open by Steven Johnson
[8]
My Life by Bill Clinton
[8]
The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
[8]
Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom by William
Glasser [8]
Death in the Long Grass by Peter H. Capstick
[7]
2003
(8)
“Surely Your Joking, Mr. Feynman!”, Adventures of
a Curious Character by Richard Feynman
[10]
Six Easy Pieces, Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant
Teacher by Richard Feynman
[8]
What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a
Curious Character by Richard Feynman
[8]
Feynman’s Rainbow, A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life
by Leonard Mlodinow [8]
The
9 Steps to Financial Freedom by Suze Orman
[6]
DNA: The Secret of Life by James Watson and Andrew Berry
[7]
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
[8]
Bleachers by John Grisham
[6]
2002
(6)
Getting
Things Done:The Art of Stress Free Productivity
by David Allen
[4]
Inside
the CIA by Ronald Kessler
[7]
Underboss:
Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia by Peter Maas
[5]
Working
with Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
[7]
Prey
by Michael Crichton [5]
A
Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate
John Nash by Sylvia Nasar
[10]
2001
(2)
Harry
Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3)
by J.K. Rowling
[8]
Wall
Street Money Machine by Wade B. Cook [7]
2000
(6)
Harry
Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Book 1)
by J.K. Rowling
[10]
Harry
Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) by J.K. Rowling
[10]
Apollyon:
The Destroyer is Unleashed by Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
[4]
News
from Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor
[10]
Little
Green Men: A Novel by Christopher Buckley
[3]
Men
are from Mars, Women are from Venus by John Gray
[6]
1999
(7)
Slow
Waltz in Cedar Bend by Robert James Waller
[5]
Left
Behind: A Novel of the Earth’s Last Days by Tim Lahaye and Jerry
B. Jenkins [10]
Tribulation
Force: The Continuing Drama of Those Left Behind by Tim Lahaye
and Jerry B. Jenkins [6]
Nicolae:
The Rise of Antichrist by Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
[4]
Soul
Harvest: The World Takes Sides by Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
[4]
Without
Remorse by Tom Clancy
[4]
A
Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson [8]
1998
(5)
A
Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
by Stephen Hawking
[9]
The
Runaway Jury by John Grisham
[5]
Dirty
Jokes and Beer by Drew Carey
[3]
Les
Miserables by Victor Hugo
[6]
Petroleum
Refining for the Non-technical Person by William L. Leffler
[5]
1993-1997
(The College Years)
(23)
Jurassic
Park by Michael Crichton
[10]
The
Lost World by Michael Crichton
[7]
Rising
Sun by Michael Crichton
[6]
Disclosure
by Michael Crichton [5]
Sphere
by Michael Crichton [8]
Congo
by Michael Crichton [8]
The
Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
[7]
A
Case of Need by Michael Crichton
[4]
Airframe
by Michael Crichton [5]
Primary
Colors by Anonymous [5]
The
Client by John Grisham
[5]
The
Chamber by John Grisham
[5]
The
Rainmaker by John Grisham
[6]
Einstein’s
Dreams by Alan Lightman
[10]
The
7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
[10]
We
by Yevgeny Zamyatin [1]
Microserfs
by Douglas Coupland [10]
Red
Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
[10]
Shock
Wave by Clive Cussler
[6]
The
Road Ahead by Bill Gates
[7]
Life
101 by Peter McWilliams
[5]
The
Hot Zone by Richard Preston
[2]
Fire
in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer by Paul Freiberger
and Michael Swaine
[10]
1988-1992
(The High School Years)
(23)
The
Bridges of Madison County by Robert James
Waller
[7]
The
Firm by John Grisham [10]
The
Pelican Brief by John Grisham
[7]
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare [4]
Heart
of Darkness by Joseph Conrad [5]
The
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
[3]
Of
Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
[3]
Ethan
Frome by Edith Wharton
[1]
Wuthering
Heights by Emily Bronte
[6]
The
Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
[6]
Fahrenheit
451 by Ray Bradbury [7]
The
Crucible by Arthur Miller
[4]
Lord
of the Flies by William Gerald Golding
[8]
David
Copperfield by Charles Dickens
[3]
A
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
[6]
All
I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
[10]
Beowulf
by Unknown [5]
King
Lear by William Shakespeare
[4]
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare [5]
Romeo
and Juliet by William Shakespeare
[5]
Canterbury
Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
[7]
Murder
in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot [5]
Gorillas
in the Mist by Dian Fossey [8]
Before
1988
(9)
The Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald
[10]
More Adventures of The Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald
[8]
Me and My Little Brain by John D. Fitzgerald
[8]
Great Brain at the Academy by John D. Fitzgerald
[8]
Great Brain Reforms by John D. Fitzgerald
[8]
Great Brain is Back by John D. Fitzgerald
[8]
Great Brain Does It Again by John D. Fitzgerald
[8]
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
[5]
Flight of the Intruder by Stephen Coonts
[9]
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= total number of books read during year
[#] = rating
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