Better off read than dead

Hello everyone—I hope the new year finds all of my friends well and ready to make this year the most extraordinary ever.

Despite the arbitrary nature of where we decide to mark a date on a calendar and call it the start of the new year, I do tend to take the opportunity to make certain promises to myself. You might call them resolutions, but my resolve can be a little bit more ephemeral than that. Last year I decided that I should read more. Now by no means have I earned the modifier “prolific” in my reading, but last year I did read significantly more than usual. Follow me on Good Reads to keep up with me this year where I will be trying to read even more! As an interesting aside, about three quarters of the books on my reading list were read on a Kindle. I guess that means it works.

My 2010 Reading List

New books

Anthem

Ayn Rand

1984

George Orwell

The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future

Mark Bauerlein

Surface Detail

Iain M. Banks

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Sharia Law

Nonie Darwish

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Christopher Hitchens

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Steven D. Levitt

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson

The Girl With Who Played With Fire

Stieg Larsson

One Very Big Picture

Sydney Hickman

A User’s Guide to the Universe: Surviving the Perils of Black Holes, Time Paradoxes, and Quantum Uncertainty

Dave Goldberg

Coders At Work

Peter Seibel

Being Geek

Michael Lopp

Value-able

Roger Montgomery

Audio books

Ender’s Game

Orson Scott Card

For Whom The Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

1776

David McCullough

Re-read

Hyperion

Dan Simmons

The Fall of Hyperion

Dan Simmons

Abandoned

The City & the City (50%)

China Miéville