It’s that time of year again. My reading was down a little this year due to the fact that I was working full time and reading some longer books.
January
1.) Christ Empowered Living: Celebrating Your Significance in God – Selwyn Hughes
2.) Regeneration (Species Imperative #3) – Julie Czerneda
3.) Chaos: A Graphic Guide (Introducing Series) – Zaiuddin Sardar and Iwona Abrams
4.) Catching Fire (The Hunger Games#2) – Suzanne Collins
5.) Astrobiology: A Brief Introduction – Kevin W. Plaxco and Michael Gross
6.) Thinking in Systems: A Primer – Donella H. Meadows
7.) Mockingjay (The Hunger Games #3) – Suzanne Collins
8.) Life in Space: Astrobiology for Everyone – Lucas John Mix
9.) War – Sebastian Junger
February
10.) The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – C. S. Lewis
11.) The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy – Sasha Issenberg
12.) Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics – John Derbyshire
March
13.) Stuff: The Materials the World is Made Of – Ivan Amato
14.) Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design – Henry Petroski
15.) One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way – by Robert Maurer, Ph. D.
16.) Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration – Paul Gilster
17.) The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade – Pietra Rivoli
April
18.) Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking – Charles Siefe
19.) Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis – Lauren F. Winner
May
20.) The Silver Chair (Narnia) – C. S. Lewis
21) Caesar’s Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar’s Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome – Stephen Dando-Collins
22) Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think – Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler
23) The Detachment (A John Rain novel) – Barry Eisler
24) Fifty Shades of Grey – E. L. James
25) Fifty Shades Darker – E. L. James
26) Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next – Greg Lindsay and John D. Kasarda
June
27) Private Dancer – Stephen Leather
28) Fifty Shades Freed – E. L. James
29) Dubai Dreams: Inside the Kingdom of Bling – Raymond Barrett
30) A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy – Miyamoto Musashi
31) Dubai: Gilded Cage – Syed Ali
32) Amped – Daniel H. Wilson
July
33) China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing’s Expansion in Africa – Serge Michel, Michel Beuret, Paolo Woods
34) All Fall Down – Vern McGeorge
35) City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism – Jim Krane
36) Looking for trouble: Adventures in a Broken World – Ralph Peters
37) When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne 1405-33 – Louise Levathes
38) Ice: Stories of Survival from Polar Exploration – Clint Willis, ed.
39) Night Without End – Alistair Maclean
August
40) Untapped: The Scramble for Africa’s Oil – John Ghazvinian
41) Birds of Prey: The Battle Within – Gail Simone et al (Comic Book Graphic Novel)
42) Filters Against Folly: How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent – Garrett Hardin
43) The Twelfth Imam – Joel C. Rosenberg
44) Batman: Battle for the Cowl – Tony S. Daniel et al (Comic Book Graphic Novel)
45) Batman: The Resurrection of Ra’s al Ghul – Grant Morrison et al (Comic Book Graphic Novel)
46) Birds of Prey: Metropolis or Dust – Sean McKeever et al (Comic Book Graphic Novel)
47) Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil – Nicholas Shaxson
48) Implosion: Can America Recover From Its Economic & Spiritual Challenges in Time? – Joel C. Rosenberg
49) Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World – Lisa Randall
September
50) Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West – Tom Holland
51) The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love – Kristin Kimball
52) Grow the Good Life: Why a Vegetable Garden Will Make You Happy, Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise – Michele Owens
53) Inch and Miles: The Journey to Success – By John R. Wooden et al.
54) Epicenter: Why the Current Rumblings in the Middle East Will Change Your Life – Joel C. Rosenberg
55) Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food – by Barbara Kingsolver
October
56) Why the West Rules – For Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future – Ian Morris
57) Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus – Robert D. Kaplan
58) Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens – Nicholas Shaxson
59) Fractions and Decimals Made Easy (Making Math Easy) (with Jacob) – Rebecca Wingard-Nelson
60) Isaac Asimov’s Robot City: Prodigy (Robot City #4) – Arthur Byron Cover
61) Fraction Fun – (with Jacob) David A. Adler
62) The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization – Jonathan Lyons
63) Working With Fractions – (with Jacob) David A. Adler
64) Hopping On the Number Line (Little World Math Concepts) (with Jacob) – Nancy Allen
65) Estimation (A Young Math Book) (with Jacob) – Charles F. Linn
66) Learning to Eat Soup With a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam – John A. Nagl
67) What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East – Bernard Lewis
November
68) Pump Six and Other Stories – Paolo Bacigalupi
69) The Great Divorce – C.S. LewiS
70) Philosophical Tales: Being an Alternative History Revealing the Characters, the Plots, and the Hidden Scenes That Make Up the True Story of Philosophy – Martin Cohen
71) Contemporary Security Studies, 2nd Edition – Allan Collins, editor
72) What Do Muslims Believe: The Roots and Realities of Modern Islam – Ziauddin Sardar
73) Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church – James K. A. Smith
74) Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books – Azar Nafisi
75) Engineering Systems: Meeting Human Needs in a Complex Technological World – Olivier L. de Weck, Daniel Roos, and Christopher L. Magee
76) Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order – Steven Strogatz
77) Red Mars – Kim Stanley Robinson
78) Celtic Vision: Prayers, Blessings, Songs, and Invocations from the Gaelic Tradition – Esther de Waal (editor)
79) Five Golden Rules: Great Theories of 20th-Century Mathematics and Why They Matter – John L. Casti
December
80) Constantinople: The Forgotten Empire – Isaac Asimov
81) Female Soldiers in Sierra Leone: Sex, Security and Post-Conflict Development – Megan H. MacKenzie
82) Omnipotence and other Theological Mistakes – Charles Hartshorne
83) The Teeth of the Tiger – Tom Clancy
84) Exit Plan – Larry Bond
85) e: The Story of a Number – Eli Maor
86) Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic – Tom Holland
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