The books I read in 2011

Just a quick list of the books I managed to plow through in 2011. 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.

★★★★★

• Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud by Peter Watson

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• Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade
• The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies–How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths by Michael Shermer
• Why We Believe in God(s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith by J. Anderson Thomson
• Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
• The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes
• The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans
• In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
• The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
• Forged: Writing in the Name of God–Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are by Bart D. Erhman
• LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination by Phillip F. Nelson
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

★★★☆☆

• The Logic of Chance: The Nature and Origin of Biological Evolution by Eugene V. Koonin
• The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
• A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz
• The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures by Nicholas Wade
• The Invention of God: The Natural Origins of Mythology and Religion by Bill Lauritzen
• Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines by Richard A. Muller
• The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
• Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life: A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity are Revolutionizing our View of Human Nature by Douglas T. Kenrick
• God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales by Penn Jillette
• The Measure of Madness: Inside the Disturbed and Disturbing Criminal Mind by Cheryl Paradis
• How to Count (Programming for Mere Mortals) by Steven Frank

Currently, I’m reading the following books:

• Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong by Wendell Wallach
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
• Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne
• The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA by Antonio J. Mendez

If you made it this far you might as well have a look at my reading list for 2010.