Another year, another book list. I read less book this year than last, but over two thousand more pages! Here’s the list:
January
1.) Jesus Through Middle-Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels – Kenneth E. Bailey
2.) Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
3.) Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy – Colin S. Gray
4.) Debt: The First 5000 Years – Peter Graeber
5.) Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat – Hans Christian von Baeyer
6.) What’s Your Angle, Pythagoras? A Math Adventure – Julie Ellis
7.) Clausewitz’s On War: A Biography – Hew Strachan
8.) Tanks in the Cities: Breaking the Mold – Kendall D. Gott
February
9.) The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World – David Berlinski
10.) The New Science of Strong Materials: or Why You Don’t Fall Through the Floor – J. E. Gordon
11.) Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy – Daniel Altman
11.) Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy – Daniel Altman
12.) Nature’s Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos – Peter M. Hoffmann
March
13.) Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality – Eliezer Yudkowsky
14.) The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters – Rose George
15.) A Magic Broken – Vox Day (Novella)
16.) What Language Is (And What It Isn’t and What It Could Be) – John McWhorter
17.) Shadow of the Hegemon (Ender Wiggin Saga) – Orson Scott Card
18.) Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology – Rosemary Radford Ruether
19.) Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale – Ian Morgan Cron
20.) Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, & Politics in the Book of Revelation – Elaine Pagels
21.) The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas that Make Computers Work – W. Daniel Hillis
April
22.) The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses – C. S. Lewis
23.) Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English – John McWhorter
24.) The Last Stand of Fox Company – Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
25.) The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate – Robert D. Kaplan
26.) The Faith and the Power: The Inspiring Story of the First Christians and How They Survived the Madness of Rome – James D. Snyder
27.) Liberation Theologies: The Global Pursuit of Justice – Alfred T. Hennelly, S.J.
28.) Human Security in a Borderless World – Derek S. Reveron and Kathleen A. Mahoney-Norris
29.) Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos – M. Mitchell Waldrop
30.) The Lessons of St. Francis: How to Bring Simplicity and Spirituality into Your Daily Life – John Michael Talbot
31.) The Mathematics of Life – Ian Stewart
May
32.) The Artist and the Mathematician: The story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician who never existed – Amir D. Aczel
33.) Blue Remembered Earth (Poseidon’s Children #1) – Alastair Reynolds
34.) The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes’ Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines & Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy – Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
35.) Beyond Geometry: A New Mathematics of Space and Form – John Tabak
36.) The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood – James Gleick
37.) Da Vinci’s Ghost: Genius, Obession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image – Toby Lester
38.) The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, The Making of a Navy SEAL – Eric Greitens
39.) Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives – Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler
40.) Worm: The First Digital World War – Mark Bowden
June
41.) African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design – Ron Eglash
42.) Schaum’s Easy Outlines Differential Equations – Richard Bronson
43.) Understanding Global Conflict and Cooperation: An Introduction to Theory and History (8th Edn) – Joseph S. Nye, jr and David A. Welch
44.) Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
45.) Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War – Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss
46.) How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth – Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart
47.) It’s a Long Road to a Tomato: Tales of an Organic Farmer Who Quit the Big City Life for the (Not So) Simple Life) – Keith Stewart
July
48.) Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World – Christopher Steiner
49.) The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? – Jared Diamond
50.) Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence – Joseph J. Ellis
51.) Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty – Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
52.) Elements of Biblical Exegesis: A Basic Guide for Students and Ministers (Revised and Expanded Edition) – Michael J. Gorman
53.) What the Numbers Say: A Field Guide to Mastering Our Numerical World – Derrick Niederman and David Boyum
August
54.) Beginning Programming – Adrian and Kathie Kingsley-Hughes
55.) Sure Fire (Rich & Jade #1) – Jack Higgins with Justin Richards
56.) Just My Type: A Book About Fonts – Simon Garfield
57.) HTML: Your visual Blueprint(tm) for designing Web pages with HTML, CSS, and XHTML – Paul Whitehead, James H. Russell
58.) The Visual Display of Quantitative Information – Edward R. Tufte
59.) Wrong Turn: America’s Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency – Col. Gian Gentile
60.) Head First HTML and CSS – Elisabeth Robson and Eric Freeman
61.) Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation – Parker J. Palmer
62.) The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right – Atul Gawande
September
63.) Star Wars: Scoundrels – Timothy Zahn
64.) Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation – Michael Pollan
65.) The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity – Steven Strogatz
66.) Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think – Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier
October
67.) The Tao of Programming – Geoffrey James
November
68.) The Myriad: Tour of the Merrimack #1 – R. M. Meluch
69.) Caliphate – Tom Kratman
70.) Kris Longknife: Mutineer (Kris Longknife #1) – Mike Shepherd
71.) Shadow Puppets (Ender’s Shadow series) – Orson Scott Card
72.) Starting Out With Visual Basic 2012 – Tony Gaddis and Kip Irvine
December
73.) Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live & Die for Bigger Things – Ken Wytsma with D. R. Jacobsen
74.) The City: A Global History – Joel Kotkin
75.) Starting Out with Java: From Control Structures through Data Structures – Tony Gaddis and Godfrey Muganda
76.) The Hunted: Tom Clancy’s Endwar #2 – David Michaels
77.) The Humanity of God – Karl Barth
78.) Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla – David Kilcullen
79.) Theology: A Very Short Introduction – David F. Ford
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