2012 Reading List
My reading goal is set at 92 books, one more than last year.
1. Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World - Lisa Randall
2. Eldest - Christopher Paolini
3. The Artemis Fowl Files - Eoin Colfer
4. number: the language of science - Tobias Dantzig
5. Star Trek: Titan - Sword of Damocles - Geoffrey Thorne
6. Star Trek: The Next Generation - Greater than the Sum - Christopher L. Bennett
7. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography - Simon Singh
8. Star Trek: Destiny - Gods of Night (Book 1) - David Mack
9. Star Trek: Destiny - Mere Mortals (Book 2) - David Mack
10. Star Trek: Destiny - Lost Souls (Book 3) - David Mack
11. The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS: Solving Crime with Mathematics - Keith J. Devlin
12. Celebrity in Death - J.D. Robb
13. A Perfect Blood - Kim Harrison
14. Cinnamon Roll Murder - JoAnne Fluke
15. The Quantum Universe - Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
16. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
17. In Search of the Multiverse - John Gribbin
18. When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome - Richard E. Rubenstein
19. Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth - Bart D. Ehrman
20. Brisingr - Christopher Paolini
21. The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
22. Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas - Elaine Pagels
23. The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
24. Forged: Writing in the Name of God - Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are - Bart D. Ehrman
25. The Titan's Curse - Rick Riordan
26. The Gnostic Gospels - Eliane Pagels
27. The Battle of the Labyrinth - Rick Riordan
28. Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) - Jenny Lawson
29. The Demigod Files - Rick Riordan
30. The Last Olympian - Rick Riordan
31. F in Exams: The Funnies Test Paper Blunders - Richard Benson
32. Star Trek: The Next Generation - Losing the Peace - William Leisner
33. The Secret Legacy Of Jesus: The Judaic Teachings That Passed From James The Just To The Founding Fathers - Jeffrey Butz
34. A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form - Paul Lockhart
35. The Brother of Jesus and the Lost Teachings of Christianity - Jeffrey Butz
36. Star Trek: Titan - Over a Torrent Sea - Christopher L. Bennett
37. The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia--and How It Died - Philip Jenkins
38. Artemis Fowl - Last Guardian - Eoin Colfer
39. Star Trek: Titan - Synthesis - James Swallow
40. The Trouble With Physics - The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of Science, and What Comes Next - Lee Smolin
41. Ignorance: How It Drives Science - Stuart Firestein
42. The Universe in a Single Atom - Dalai Lama XIV
43. Star Trek: Titan - Seize the Fire - Michael A Martin
44. Delusion in Death - J.D. Robb
45. Quirk: Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality - Hannah Holmes
46. Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain - Sharon Begley
47. The Brain That Changes Itself - Norman Doidge
48. I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High - Tony Danza
49. The Broker - John Grisham
50. The Brain and Emotional Intelligence, New Insights - Daniel Goleman
51. Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else - Chrystia Freeland
52. Into the Woods: Tales from the Hollows and Beyond - Kim Harrison
53. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
54. Meet Me at Emotional Baggage Claim - Lisa Scottoline
55. Inheritance - Christopher Paolini
Kindle Singles
a. "Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space" - Lisa Randall
1. Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World - Lisa Randall
2. Eldest - Christopher Paolini
3. The Artemis Fowl Files - Eoin Colfer
4. number: the language of science - Tobias Dantzig
5. Star Trek: Titan - Sword of Damocles - Geoffrey Thorne
6. Star Trek: The Next Generation - Greater than the Sum - Christopher L. Bennett
7. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography - Simon Singh
8. Star Trek: Destiny - Gods of Night (Book 1) - David Mack
9. Star Trek: Destiny - Mere Mortals (Book 2) - David Mack
10. Star Trek: Destiny - Lost Souls (Book 3) - David Mack
11. The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS: Solving Crime with Mathematics - Keith J. Devlin
12. Celebrity in Death - J.D. Robb
13. A Perfect Blood - Kim Harrison
14. Cinnamon Roll Murder - JoAnne Fluke
15. The Quantum Universe - Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
16. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
17. In Search of the Multiverse - John Gribbin
18. When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome - Richard E. Rubenstein
19. Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth - Bart D. Ehrman
20. Brisingr - Christopher Paolini
21. The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
22. Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas - Elaine Pagels
23. The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
24. Forged: Writing in the Name of God - Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are - Bart D. Ehrman
25. The Titan's Curse - Rick Riordan
26. The Gnostic Gospels - Eliane Pagels
27. The Battle of the Labyrinth - Rick Riordan
28. Let's Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) - Jenny Lawson
29. The Demigod Files - Rick Riordan
30. The Last Olympian - Rick Riordan
31. F in Exams: The Funnies Test Paper Blunders - Richard Benson
32. Star Trek: The Next Generation - Losing the Peace - William Leisner
33. The Secret Legacy Of Jesus: The Judaic Teachings That Passed From James The Just To The Founding Fathers - Jeffrey Butz
34. A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form - Paul Lockhart
35. The Brother of Jesus and the Lost Teachings of Christianity - Jeffrey Butz
36. Star Trek: Titan - Over a Torrent Sea - Christopher L. Bennett
37. The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia--and How It Died - Philip Jenkins
38. Artemis Fowl - Last Guardian - Eoin Colfer
39. Star Trek: Titan - Synthesis - James Swallow
40. The Trouble With Physics - The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of Science, and What Comes Next - Lee Smolin
41. Ignorance: How It Drives Science - Stuart Firestein
42. The Universe in a Single Atom - Dalai Lama XIV
43. Star Trek: Titan - Seize the Fire - Michael A Martin
44. Delusion in Death - J.D. Robb
45. Quirk: Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality - Hannah Holmes
46. Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain - Sharon Begley
47. The Brain That Changes Itself - Norman Doidge
48. I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High - Tony Danza
49. The Broker - John Grisham
50. The Brain and Emotional Intelligence, New Insights - Daniel Goleman
51. Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else - Chrystia Freeland
52. Into the Woods: Tales from the Hollows and Beyond - Kim Harrison
53. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
54. Meet Me at Emotional Baggage Claim - Lisa Scottoline
55. Inheritance - Christopher Paolini
Kindle Singles
a. "Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space" - Lisa Randall