The books I read in 2014

Below is a list of the books I managed to power through in 2014, and below that is a list of the books I’m currently reading.

★★★★★

• The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for my father…and finding the Zodiac Killer by Gary Stewart
• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow

★★★★☆

• The Magician and the Cardsharp: The Search for America’s Greatest Sleight-of-Hand Artist by Karl Johnson
• How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
• Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
• The Psychopath Whisperer: The Science of Those Without Conscience by Kent Kiehl
• Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
• The Phantom of Fifth Avenue: The Mysterious Life and Scandalous Death of Heiress Huguette Clark by Meryl Gordon
• Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States by Bill Bryson
• Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson
• Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes by Noah Dietrich
• Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
• Next to Hughes: Behind the Power and Tragic Downfall of Howard Hughes by His Closest Advisor by Robert Maheu
• The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell by Mark Kurlansky
• Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters by Peter Vronsky

★★★☆☆

• Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade by Walter Kirn
• The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World’s Most Terrifying Murderers by Harold Schechter
• Columbus: the Accidental Hero by Kevin Jackson

Currently, I’m reading the following books:

• Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
• Alan Turing: Unlocking the Enigma by David Boyle
• The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-line Pioneers by Tom Standage
• On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt by Richard Carrier
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
• Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation by Bill Nye
• In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy by Eugene Thacker
• It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens by Danah Boyd
• Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything by Steven Levy
• J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets by Curt Gentry
• Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better by Clive Thompson