The books I read in 2010

Everyone knows I’m a Kindle nut, and in the last year I’ve read quite a few books on the device(s). If you follow me on Twitter, then you’ve already seen me link to most of these as I’ve long been in the habit of tweeting links to books as I finish them.

After browsing this list, if there’s a book you think would interest me, please let me know, or just gift it to me. 😉 (Relatedly, you also may want to have a look at my book wish list.)

★★★★★

• Sex, Time, and Power: How Women’s Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution by Leonard Shalin
• The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins

★★★★☆

• The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic–and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
• The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris
• A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance–Portrait of an Age by William Manchester
• Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin
• A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn
• Society without God by Phil Zuckerman
• Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain
• John Adams by David McCullough
• Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and Why We Don’t Know About Them) by Bart D. Ehrman
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

★★★☆☆

• Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years by Russ Baker
• Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson
• The Measure of Madness: Inside the Disturbed and Disturbing Criminal Mind by Katherine Ramslund
• The Dawn of Human Culture by Richard G. Klein
• Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham
• Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
• The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
• Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson
• The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
• The Devil in the White City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
• Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
• At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
• 1776 by David McCullough
• A Short History of Progress by Robert Wright
• The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria

★★☆☆☆

• Occult America: White House Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons, and the Secret Mystic History of Our Nation by Mitch Horowitz

Currently, I’m reading the following books:

• The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000 by Chris Wickham
• Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, From Fire to Freud by Peter Watson
• The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
• A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz
• LBJ: The Mastermind of JFK’s Assassination by Phillip F. Nelson
• The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard Evans
• The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor–and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car! by Tim Harford
• The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko