2011 Reading List
My 50 book challenge goal is actually set at 65 this year, one more than last year.
1.Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception - Charles Seife
2.The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't--and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger - Dan Gardner
3 Stupid American History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions - Leland Gregory
4. Left Neglected - Lisa Genova
5. My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman - Lisa Scottoline
6. The Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe - John D. Barrow
7. Indulgence In Death - J.D. Robb
8. Hancock Park - Katherine V. Forrest
9. Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos - Michio Kaku
10. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Steig Larsson
11. The Wombat Strategy - Claire McNab
12. The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions - Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis
13. The Girl Who Played With Fire - Steig Larsson
14. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Steig Larson
15. The Sleeping Doll - Jeffery Deaver
16. Pale Demon - Kim Harrison
17. God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer - Bart D. Ehrman
18. Devil's Food Cake Murder - JoAnne Fluke
19. Treachery in Death JD Robb
20. Dumbing Us Down - John Gatto
21. UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record - Leslie Kean
22. Port Mortuary - Patricia Cornwell
23. The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe - Steven Weinberg
24. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth - Jeff Kinney
25. The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow
26. The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time - In Two Lines or Less - John Shanahan
27. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory - Brian Greene
28. Roadside Crosses - Jeffery Deaver
29. A History of π - Petr Beckmann
30. Oxymoronica: paradoxical wit and wisdom from history's greatest wordsmiths - Dr. Mardy Grothe
31. Death In Winter - Michael Jan Friedman
32. Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years - Philip Jenkins
33. Star Trek: Titan - Taking Wing - Michael A Martin
34. The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics - Clifford A. Pickover
35. Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne
36. The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos - Brian Greene
37. Star Trek: Titan - The Red King - Andy Mangels, and Michael A. Martin
38. I'm Over All That...and other Confession - Shirley MacLaine
39. Physics of the Future: How Science Will Change Daily Life by 2100 - Michio Kaku
40. Star Trek:Titan - Orion's Hounds - Christopher L. Bennett
41. Star Trek: TNG - Resistance - J.M. Dillard
42. The X-Rated Bible: An Irreverent Survey of Sex in the Scriptures - Ben Edward Akerley - My Review
43. Q&A - Keith R.A. DeCandido
44. Is it Just Me? Or is it nuts out there? - Whoopi Goldberg
45. My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir - Shirley MacLaine
46. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain - David Eagleman
47. Before Dishonor - Peter David
48. Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
49. Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident - Eoin Colfer
50. Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code - Eoin Colfer
51. Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception - Eoin Colfer
52. Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony - Eoin Colfer
53. Warped Passages - Lisa Randall
54. Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox - Eoin Colfer
55. Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex - Eoin Colfer
56. How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming - Mike Brown
57. The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good - David J. Linden
58. The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse - Jennifer Ouellette
59. God and Sex: What the Bible Really Says - Michael Coogan
60. E=mc²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation - David Bodanis
61. Ghost Story - Jim Butcher
62. One Hundred Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: Math Explains Your World - John D. Barrow
63. Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion - Janet Reitman
64. Zero - The Biography of a Dangerous Idea - Charles Seife
65. A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
66. The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God - David J. Linden
67. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art of Science of Remembering Everything - Joshua Foer
68. A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin
69. The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths - Michael Shermer
70. A Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin
71. Different Learners - Jane M. Healy, Ph.D.
72. Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought - Pascal Boyer
73. Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences - Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D.
74. New York to Dallas - J.D. Robb
75. A Feast For Crows - George R.R. Martin
76. Manufacturing Hysteria: A History of Scapegoating, Surveillance, and Secrecy in Modern America - Jay Feldman
77. Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School - John Medina
78. Coyote Moon - John Vornholt
79. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry - Jon Ronson
80. A Dance With Dragons - George R.R. Martin
81. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character - Richard P. Feynman
82. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
83. Skipping Christmas - John Grisham
84. Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering - Meredith Baxter
85. A Passion for Mathematics: Numbers, Puzzles, Madness, Religion, and the Quest for Reality - Clifford A. Pickover
86. Eragon - Christopher Paolini
87. Then Again - Diane Keaton
88. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever - Jeff Kinney
89. Best Friends, Occasional Enemies: The Lighter Side of Life As a Mother and Daughter - Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella
90. Learn Me Good - John Pearson
91. Learn Me Gooder - John Pearson
Short Stories
1. Possession In Death - Out of this World - J.D. Robb
2. Chaos in Death - The Unquiet - J.D. Robb
1.Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception - Charles Seife
2.The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't--and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger - Dan Gardner
3 Stupid American History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions - Leland Gregory
4. Left Neglected - Lisa Genova
5. My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman - Lisa Scottoline
6. The Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe - John D. Barrow
7. Indulgence In Death - J.D. Robb
8. Hancock Park - Katherine V. Forrest
9. Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos - Michio Kaku
10. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Steig Larsson
11. The Wombat Strategy - Claire McNab
12. The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions - Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis
13. The Girl Who Played With Fire - Steig Larsson
14. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Steig Larson
15. The Sleeping Doll - Jeffery Deaver
16. Pale Demon - Kim Harrison
17. God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer - Bart D. Ehrman
18. Devil's Food Cake Murder - JoAnne Fluke
19. Treachery in Death JD Robb
20. Dumbing Us Down - John Gatto
21. UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record - Leslie Kean
22. Port Mortuary - Patricia Cornwell
23. The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe - Steven Weinberg
24. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth - Jeff Kinney
25. The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow
26. The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time - In Two Lines or Less - John Shanahan
27. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory - Brian Greene
28. Roadside Crosses - Jeffery Deaver
29. A History of π - Petr Beckmann
30. Oxymoronica: paradoxical wit and wisdom from history's greatest wordsmiths - Dr. Mardy Grothe
31. Death In Winter - Michael Jan Friedman
32. Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years - Philip Jenkins
33. Star Trek: Titan - Taking Wing - Michael A Martin
34. The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics - Clifford A. Pickover
35. Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne
36. The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos - Brian Greene
37. Star Trek: Titan - The Red King - Andy Mangels, and Michael A. Martin
38. I'm Over All That...and other Confession - Shirley MacLaine
39. Physics of the Future: How Science Will Change Daily Life by 2100 - Michio Kaku
40. Star Trek:Titan - Orion's Hounds - Christopher L. Bennett
41. Star Trek: TNG - Resistance - J.M. Dillard
42. The X-Rated Bible: An Irreverent Survey of Sex in the Scriptures - Ben Edward Akerley - My Review
43. Q&A - Keith R.A. DeCandido
44. Is it Just Me? Or is it nuts out there? - Whoopi Goldberg
45. My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir - Shirley MacLaine
46. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain - David Eagleman
47. Before Dishonor - Peter David
48. Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
49. Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident - Eoin Colfer
50. Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code - Eoin Colfer
51. Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception - Eoin Colfer
52. Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony - Eoin Colfer
53. Warped Passages - Lisa Randall
54. Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox - Eoin Colfer
55. Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex - Eoin Colfer
56. How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming - Mike Brown
57. The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good - David J. Linden
58. The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse - Jennifer Ouellette
59. God and Sex: What the Bible Really Says - Michael Coogan
60. E=mc²: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation - David Bodanis
61. Ghost Story - Jim Butcher
62. One Hundred Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: Math Explains Your World - John D. Barrow
63. Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion - Janet Reitman
64. Zero - The Biography of a Dangerous Idea - Charles Seife
65. A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
66. The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God - David J. Linden
67. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art of Science of Remembering Everything - Joshua Foer
68. A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin
69. The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies - How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths - Michael Shermer
70. A Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin
71. Different Learners - Jane M. Healy, Ph.D.
72. Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought - Pascal Boyer
73. Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences - Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D.
74. New York to Dallas - J.D. Robb
75. A Feast For Crows - George R.R. Martin
76. Manufacturing Hysteria: A History of Scapegoating, Surveillance, and Secrecy in Modern America - Jay Feldman
77. Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School - John Medina
78. Coyote Moon - John Vornholt
79. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry - Jon Ronson
80. A Dance With Dragons - George R.R. Martin
81. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character - Richard P. Feynman
82. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
83. Skipping Christmas - John Grisham
84. Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame, and Floundering - Meredith Baxter
85. A Passion for Mathematics: Numbers, Puzzles, Madness, Religion, and the Quest for Reality - Clifford A. Pickover
86. Eragon - Christopher Paolini
87. Then Again - Diane Keaton
88. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever - Jeff Kinney
89. Best Friends, Occasional Enemies: The Lighter Side of Life As a Mother and Daughter - Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella
90. Learn Me Good - John Pearson
91. Learn Me Gooder - John Pearson
Short Stories
1. Possession In Death - Out of this World - J.D. Robb
2. Chaos in Death - The Unquiet - J.D. Robb