The Book List

I decided to start a list of the books I read. This is not a lifetime list – only a list of those I have read since I decided to keep the list. It’s more to help jog my memory, but if you find anything useful here, more power to you. Books without a date were read before I thought to add the date – like anyone cares.

Click on a book title to read my brief notes on the book.


The 5,000 Year Leap – by W. Cleon Skousen (Finished 4/14/10)
The Age of American Unreason – by Susan Jacoby (Finished 5/9/10)
Alton Brown’s Gear for Your Kitchen – by Alton Brown
American Gods – by Neil Gaiman (Finished 8/6/10)
The Art of Aging – by Sherwin B. Nuland (Finished 5/3/08)
At First Sight – by Nicholas Sparks (Finished 1/2/08)
Atlas Shrugged – by Ayn Rand (Finished 9/12/09)
The Blue Flower – by Henry van Dyke (Finished 4/18/10)
The Bradbury Chronicles – by Sam Weller (Finished 7/20/10)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s: A Short Novel and Three Stories – by Truman Capote (Finished 8/19/10)
Complete Guide to Quilting – Better Homes and Gardens (Finished 5/7/08)
The Complete Guide to Sharpening – by Leonard Lee (Finished 8/26/10)
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote – by Truman Capote (Finished 2/19/08)
The Devil in the White City – by Erik Larson
The Dogs of Bedlam Farm – by Jon Katz (Finished 4/13/08)
Dreams From My Father – by Barack Obama
The Fabric of America: How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and Forged Our National Heritage – by Andro Linklater (Finished 6/15/10)
The Facts of Life: and Other Dirty Jokes – by Willie Nelson
Freethinkers : A History of American Secularism – by Susan Jacoby (Finished 12/7/08)
The God Delusion – by Richard Dawkins (Finished 9/12/08)
Going Rogue: An American Life – by Sarah Palin (Finished 12/7/09)
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution – by Richard Dawkins (Finished 2/3/10)
Iron John – A Book About Men – by Robert Bly
Little Pink House – by Jeff Benedict (Finished 7/30/10)
Notes From a Small Island – by Bill Bryson
On the Road – by Jack Kerouac (Finished 4/26/10)
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft – by Stephen King (Finished 7/9/10)
Outliers – by Malcolm Gladwell (Finished 2/6/09)
The Poisonwood Bible – by Barbara Kingsolver (Finished 7/17/10)
Refuse To Choose – by Barbara Sher
Replay – by Ken Grimwood (Finished 6/10/08)
A Salty Piece of Land – by Jimmy Buffett (Finished 6/6/08)
The Sinister Pig – by Tony Hillerman (Finished 3/22/08)
Skeleton Man – by Tony Hillerman (Finished 5/24/08)
Stumbling on Happiness – by Daniel Gilbert (Finished 7/14/08)
The Tao of Poo – by Benjamin Hoff
The Tao of Willie – by Willie Nelson
Tao Te Ching – by Lao Tzu (translated by Sam Hamill)
Taoism (Religions of the World) – by Hsiao-Lan Hu, William Cullu Allen
A Thousand Country Roads: An Epilogue to the Bridges of Madison County – by Robert James Waller (Finished 5/2/08)
An Unquiet Mind – by Kay Redfield Jamison (Finished 11/21/09)
The Varieties of Scientific Experience – by Carl Sagan, edited by Ann Druyan (Finished 1/16/08)
Why People Believe Weird Things – by Michael Shermer (Finished 9/1/08)
Winesburg, Ohio – by Sherwood Andersen (Finished 7/24/10)
The World of Jeeves – by P.G. Wodehouse (Finished 8/7/09)
Zeus: A Journey Through Greece in the Footsteps of a God – by Tom Stone (Finished 3/21/09)