What I Read in 2010

At last we come to 2010, the last year I never kept a list for.   At 184 items, it's my second-highest year. This was the year historical fiction really arrived, driven by Bernard Cornwell and C.S. Forester. but with a little help from Alison Weir.   The largest change, however,  is the massive spike in Star Trek reading as I decided to catch up on the new Treklit.   History finally overtook science,  pursuing its destiny as queen of the shelves..

Biography

• Storm of Steel, Ernst Junger
• I Am Spock, Leonard Nimoy
• Yours, Isaac Asimov; Isaac Asimov
• American Infidel, Orvin Larson
• Joan of Arc: The Legend and the Reality, Frances Gies
• Nehru: The Invention of India,  Shashi Tharoor
• The Life of Elizabeth I, Alison Weird
• The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower, C. Northcote Parkinson
• Frank: The Voice, James Kaplan

Classics and  Literature

• The Bhagavad Gita, trans/interpreted Stephen Mitchell
• The Iron Heel, Jack London
• A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
• The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written, Martin Seymour-Smith
• The Roman Way, Edith Hamliton
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain

Fantasy, Horror,  and Speculative

• Hitler's War,   Harry Turtledove
• The Magicians, Lev Grossman
• The Man with the Iron Heart, Harry Turtledove
• The End of the Beginning, Harry Turtledove
• West and East,  Harry Turtledove
• Christine,  Stephen King
• The Good Guy, Dean Koontz
• HP and the Chamber of Secrets Audiobook
• HP and The Prisoner of Azkaban, audiobok

General Fiction

• The Best American Short Stories (2008)
• Murder at the ABA, Isaac Asimov
• The Last Juror, John Grisham
• Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography, Lemony Snicket

History

The Gangs of New York, Herbert Ashbury Lost Discoveries, Dick Teresi 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus, Charles C. Mann North Korea: Another Country, Bruce Cumings Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell Africa: A Biography of the Continent, John Reader Memories of Old Cahaba, Anne Gayle The Other Side of Selma, Dickie WIlliams The World Through Maps, John Short Chainbreaker's War, ed. Jeanne Winston Adler Citizens, Simon Schama La Belle France, Alistair Horne Heroes of History, Will Durant Don't Know Much About Geography, Ken Davs Working IX to V, Vickie Leon The Birth of the United States, Isaac Asimov Disease Fighters Since 1950,  Ray Spangenburg The Spanish-American War, Albert Marrin Our Oriental Heritage, Will Durant The Life of Greece, Will Durant Caesar and Christ, Will Durant The Imperial Cruise, James Bradley America's Hidden History, Kenneth Davis What Went Wrong?, Bernard Lewis The Mother Tongue, BIll Bryson Britain: At the Edge of the World?, Simon Schama Mapping Human History, Steve Olson The Earth Shall Weep, James Wilson Coal: A Human History, Barbara Freese

Historical Fiction

• The Lady Elizabeth, Alison Weir
• Captain Horatio Hornblower,  C.S. Forester
• Young Hornblower, C.S. Forester
• Commodore Hornblower, C.S. Forester
• Lord Hornblower, C.S. Forester
• Hornblower and the Hotspur, C.S. Forester
• Hornblower and the Crisis, CS Forester
• Captive Queen, Alison Weir
• Give Me Back my Legions, Harry Turtledove
• Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies, C.S. Forester
• Sharpe's Eagle, Bernard Cornwell
• Empire, Steven Saylor
• Innocent Traitor, Alison Weir
• True Grit, Charles Portis
• Heretic, Bernard Cornwell
• The Last Kingdom, Bernard Cornwell
• The Pale Horseman, Bernard Cornwell
• Lords of the North, Bernard Cornwell
• Sword Song, Bernard Cornwell

Humor Asimov Laughs Again, Isaac Asimov Lamb, Christopher Moore A Dirty Job, Christopher Moore Potatoes are Cheaper, Max Shulman Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, Max Shulman Barefoot Boy with Cheek, Max Shulman I Was a Teenage Dwarf,  Max Shulman The Stupidest Angel, Christopher Moore Law and Disorder Under and Alone, William McQueen Casino,  Nicholas Pileggi Mysteries and Thrillers

• The Mao Case,  Qiu Xiaolong
• The King of  Torts, John Grisham
• The Devil's Punchbowl, Greg Iles
• A Whiff of Death, Isaac Asimov
• The Confession, John Grisham
• The Chamber, John Grisham
• Conspirata, Robert Harris
• The Brethren, John Grisham
• The Summons, John Grisham

Plays, Poetry, and Language

• Sand and Foam, Khalil Gibran
• The Infernova, S.A. Alenthony
• Stories Behind Words, Peter Limburg

Politics and Civic Interest

• Red Emma Speaks, Alix Kate Shulman
• A Power Goverments Cannot Suppress,  Howard Zinn
• The Geography of Nowhere, Jim Kunstler
• The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell
• Weapons of Satire, Mark Twain

Religion and Philosophy

• Letters from a Stoic, Seneca
• A Guide to the Good Life,  William Irvine
• The Emperor's Handbook, David and Scot Hicks
• Dinner with a Perfect Stranger, David Gregory
• The Year of Living Biblically, AJ Jacobs
• The Ethics of Star Trek, Judith Barad, Ed Robertson
• Letter from the Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr
• Strength to Love, Martin Luther King Jr
• Plato's Podcasts, Mark Vernon
• Reading Judas, Elaine Pagels and Karen King
• The Art of Happiness ns a Troubled World,  TenzinGyatso 
• The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science and Nature

• The Tyrannosaurus Prescription, Isaac Asimov
• It's Raining Frogs and Fishes!, Jerry Dennis
• The Private Life of Plants, David Attenborough
• The Trials of Life, David Attenborough
• The Life of Birds, David Attenborough
• Dinosaur Laves, Jack Horner
• The Roving Mind, Isaac Asimov
• Stiff, Mary Roach
• African Exodus, Christopher Stringer and Robin McKie
• Spook, Mary Roach
• Packing for Mars, Mary Roach
• Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life, Winifred Gallaghter
• The Naked Lady Who Stood On Her Head, Oliver Sachs
• The Grand Design, Stephen Hawking
• The Mind's Eye, Oliver Sachs

Science Fiction

• Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne
• Contact, Carl Sagan
• Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton
• The Complete Robot, Isaac Asimov
• The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton
• The Lost World, Michael Crichton
• Timeline, Michael Crichton
• The War of the Worlds, HG Wells
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne

Society and Culture

• American Nerd, Ben Nugent

Star Trek and Star Wars

• The Lives of Dax, various
• Millennium Falcon, James Luceno
• Tatooine Ghost, Troy Denning
• Hard Contact, Karen Traviss
• Revenge of the Sith, Matt Stover
• The Reunion, MIchael Jan Friedman
• Death in Winter, Michael Jan Friedman
• Tales of the Dominion War, various authors
• Quotable Star Trek, ed. Jill Sherwin
• Greater than the Sum, Christopher Bennett
• Stargazer: Three, Michael Jan Friedman
• STDS9: Betrayal, Lois Tilton
• Dynasty of Evil, Drew Karpyshyn
• The Buried Age, Christopher Bennett
• A Time to be Born, John Vornholt
• Provenance of Shadows, David R. George
• Gods of Night, David Mack
• Mere Mortals, David Mack 
• Lost Souls, David Mack
• Full Circle, Kirsten Beyer
• Unworthy, Kirsten Beyer
• Distant Shores, various
• Worlds of DS9 Vol I, various
• The Good that Men Do, Martin and Mangels
• STDS9: Fallen Heroes, Dafydd ab Hugh
• Warpath, David Mack
• A Singular Destiny, Keith RA Decandido
• Taking Wing, Martin and Mangels
• Orion's Hounds, Christopher L Bennett
• Zero Sum Game, David Mack
• Kobayashi Maru, Martin and Mangels
• The Kobayashi Maru, Julia Ecklar
• Losing the Peace, William Leisner
• Beneath the Raptor's Wings, Martin and Mangels
• Seize the Fire, Michael Martin

Travel and Adventure Into the Wild, John Krakauer The Motorcycle Diaries, Ernesto Guevara A Walk Across America, Peter Jeknins Travels with Charley,  John Steinbeck Walking towards Walden, John Hanson Mitchell Stephen Fry in America, Stephen Fry A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson

What I Read in 2009

Continuing in my attempts to make 2007 - 2010 legible in terms of the books I read, below is everything from 2009.  At 218 books, it stands as my biggest year on record, and the closest I've come to rivaling it was in 2010 and 2016, when I managed 184 and 181 books respectively.  The big trend this year was an intense interest in religion and philosophy, which counted for nearly three times as much as its competitors, history and science. Speaking of which, they were still tied, each with 22 books.

Biography

• Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, Nancy Sinatra
• Out of my Life and Thought, Albert Schweitzer
• Buddha, Karen Armstrong
• Boss of Bosses, Joseph F. O'Brien and Andris Kurins
• Jesus, Marcus Borg
• Robert Ingersoll, David Anderson
• Cicero, Anthony Everitt
• With the Old Breed, Gene Sledge
• Black Edelweiss, Johann Voss
• China Marine, Gene Sledge

Business and Economics

• Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner

Classics and Literary

• The Book that Changed my Life, Roxanne Cody and Joy Johannsen
• Familiar Poems, Annotated, Isaac Asimov
• The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
• In the Beginning, Isaac Asimov
• The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain

Fantasy, Horror, and Speculative

• The Sea of Monsters, Rick Riordan
• In the Presence of Mine Enemies, Harry Turtledove
• The Titan's Curse, Rick Riordan
• Demon in my View, Amelia Atwater-rhodes
• Colonization: Aftershocks, Harry Turtledove
• The Battle of the Labyrinth, Rick Riordan
• Homeward Bound, Harry Turtledove
• Shattered Mirror, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
• The DaVince Code, Dan Brown
• Magic, Isaac Asimov
• The Last Olympian, Rick Riordan

General Fiction

• Only Begotten Daughter, James Morrow
• Gump and Co, Winston Groom
• Jesus, Deepok Chopra
• Bagombo Snuff Box, Kurt Vonnegut
• The Gospel According to the Son, Norman Mailer
• The Bad Beginning, Lemony Snicket
• The Reptile Room, Lemony Snicket
• The Wide Window, Lemony Snicket
• Jennifer Government, Max Barry
• The Miserable Mill, Lemony Snicket
• The Austere Academy, Lemony Snicket
• The Ersatz Elevator, Lemony Snicket
• Company, Max Barry
• The Vile Village, Lemony Snicket
• The Hostile Hospital, Lemony Snicket
• Syrup, Max Barry
• The Carnivorous Carnival, Lemony Snicket
• The Slippery Slope , Lemony Snicket
• The Grim Grotto, Lemony Snicket
• The Penultimate Peril, Lemony Snicket
• The End, Lemony Snicket
• Kokoro, Natsume Soseki
• Marx in Soho, Howard Zinn
• Skipping Christmas, John Grisham
• Ford County: Stories, John Grisham

Historical Fiction

• Imperium, Robert Harris
• Pompeii, Robert Harris
• Enigma, Robert Harris
• Archangel, Robert Harris
• Roman Blood, Steven Saylor
• Arms of Nemesis, Steven Saylor
• The House of the Vestals, Steven Saylor
• The Venus Throw, Steven Saylor
• Catalina's Riddle, Steven Saylor
• Roma, Steven Saylor
• A Murder on the Appian Way, Steven Saylor
• Last Seen in Masslia, Steven Saylor
• A Mist of Prophecies, Steven Saylor
• A Gladiator Dies Only Once, Steven Saylor
• Caesar's Judgment, Steven Saylor
• No Less than Victory, Jeff Shaara
• The Triumph of Caesar, Steven Saylor

History

• Mysteries of the Middle Ages, Thomas Cahill
• How the Irish Saved Civilization, Thomas Cahill
• Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Thomas Cahill
• The Gifts of the Jews, Thomas Cahill
• Desire of the Everlasting Hills,  Thomas Cahill
• The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell
• Then Discoveries that Rewrote History, Patrick Hunt
• Rubicon, Tom Holland
• The Sons of Caesar. Philip Matyszak
• The Great Warming, Brian Fagan
• Persian Fire, Tom Holland
• Kingdoms of Gold, Kingdoms of Jade, Brian Fagan
• The Moscow Option, David Downing
• A People's History of American Empire, Howard Zinn
• A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn
• The Great Journey, Brian Fagan
• The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman
• Islam:A Short History, Karen Armstrong
• Medical Firsts, Robert Adler
• A People's History of the American Revolution, Ray Ralphael
• A History of the Arab Peoples,  Albert Hourani
• The Japanese Experience, W.G. Beasley
• Constantinople: The Forgotten Empire, Isaaac Asimov
• An Honorable German, Charles McCain

Humor

• Waiter Rant, "The Waiter"
• Barrel Fever, David Sedaris
• Darwin Awards III, ed. Wendy Norcutt
• Saints Behaving Badly, Thomas Craughwell

Mysteries and Thrillers

• The Ghost, Robert Harris
• The Associate, John Grisham
• The Return of the Black Widowers, Isaac Asimov
• The Quiet Game, Greg Iles
• Third Degree, Greg Iles
• Turning Angel, Greg Iles
• Sleep No More, Greg Iles
• Ricochet, Sandra Brown
• Casebook of the Black Widowers, Isaac Asimov

Politics and Civic Interest

• Securing Democracy: Why We Have an Electoral College, Gary Gregg II
• The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
• Are We Rome?, Cullen Murphy
• The Zinn Reader, Howard Zinn

Religion and Philosophy

• Stoic Warriors, Nancy Sherman
• The Book of Ecclesiastes, Tremper Longman III
• A World Waiting to be Born, M. Scott Peck
• Mythology, Edith Hamilton
• What the Buddha Taught, Walpola Rahula
• Ten Things Your Minister Wants to Tell You, Oliver Thomas
• The Roman Mind, Edith Hamilton
• The Compleat Gentleman, Brad Miner
• The Art of Happiness,  Tenzin Gyatso
• I to Myself, Henry David Thoreau
• An Open Heart, Tenjin Gyatso
• Here if You Need Me, Kate Braestrup
• Mere Christianity, CS Lewis
• Ethics for a New Millennium, Tenzin Gyatso
• Transforming the Mind, Tenzin Gyatso
• The Words of Martin Luther King Jr, Coretta Scott King
• The Universe in a Single Atom, Tenzin Gyatso
• The Guiding Light of Lao Tzu, Wayne Dyer
• Abounding Grace, M. Scott Peck
• Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life, Wayne Dyer
• Wicca for Beginners, Thea Sabin
• Here I Stand, John Shelby Spong
• Wisdom of the Ages, Wayne Dyer
• The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell
• Selected Essays, Michel de Montaigne
• The Great Transofrmation,  Karen Armstrong
• The Road Less Traveled,  M. Scott Peck
• The Faith Club, Ranya Indliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner
• God's Problem, Bart Ehrman
• The Third Jesus, Deepak Chopra
• Further Along the Road Less Travelled, M. Scott Peck
• Blue like Jazz, Donald Miller
• Socrates Cafe, Christopher Phillips
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
• You Don't Have to Be Wrong for Me to be Right, Brad Hirschfield
• The Art of Travel, Alain de Botton
• Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar, Thomas Cathcart
• The Great Divorce, CS Lewis
• Drawing Down the Moon, Margaret Adler
• Finding Your Religion. Scotty McKlennan
• Reclaiming Virtue, Ray Bradshaw
• Walden, Henry David Thoreau
• Aristotle’s Children, Richard Rubenstein
• The Essential Koran, ed. Thomas Cleary
• Who Needs God?, Harold Kushner
• Alternative American Religions, Stephen Stein
• Becoming the Answer to our Prayers, Shane Claiborne
• A History of God, Karen Armstrong
• Taming the Mind, Thubten Chondron
• The Philosophy of Humanism, Corliss Lamont
• The Wisdom of Harry Potter, Edmund Kern
• Our Chosen Faith, Forrester Church
• I Sold my Soul on eBay, Hemant Mehta
• The Consolations of Philsoophy, Alain de Botton
• Love and Death, Forrester Church
• Humanist Anthology, Margaret Knight
• The Spiritual Teachings of Marcus Aurelius, Mark Forstater
• For Everything a Season, Philip Gully
• The Best of Robert Ingersoll, Robert Greely
• Living Buddha, Living Christ, Thich Nhat Hanh
• When Religion Becomes Evil, Charles Kimball

Science

• Sway, Ori and Rom Brafman
• The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, Peter Quamen
• Evolution for Everyone, David Sloan Wilson
• The Sun Shines Bright, Isaac Asimov
• The Naked Sun, Isaac Asimov
• Real Life X-Files,  Joe Nickell
• Frontiers II, Isaac Asimov
• Through a Window, Jane Goodall
• Our Inner Ape, Frans de Waal
• A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
• Asimov on Astronomy, Isaac Asimov
• Black Holes and Baby Universes,  Stephen Hawking
• Why Evolution is True, Jerry Coyne
• Anthropology for Dummies, Cameron Smith and Evan Davies
• Dolphins, Jacques Yves-Cousteau
• The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan
• Death by Black Hole, Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Flim Flam!, James Randi
• Beautiful Minds, Maddalena Bearzi, Craig B. Stanford
• The Cosmic Connection, Carl Sagan
• The Greatest Show on Earth, Richard Dawkins

Science Fiction

• The Robots of Dawn, Isaac Asimov
• The Time Machine, HG Wells
• Gold, Isaac Asimov
• Brave New World, Aldhous Huxley
• Pebble in the Sky, Isaac Asimov
• Asimov: The Complete Stories, Volume I, Isaac Asimov
• In the Footprints of God, Greg Iles

Society and Culture

• Deer Hunting with Jesus, Joe Bageant
• Gang Leader for a Day, Sudhir Venkatesh
• American Mania, Peter Whtbrow
• The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby
• To Have or to Be?, Erich Fromm
• In Praise of Slowness, Carl Honore
• Fates Worse than Death, Kurt Vonnegut
• Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor,  Sudhir Venkatesh

Star Trek and Star Wars 

• Darth Bane: Rule of Two,  Drew Karpshyn
• Yoda: Dark Rendezvous, Sean Stewart
• Jedi Trial, Daniel Sherman and Dan Cragg
• Shatterpoint, Matt Stover
• Heir to the Empire, Timothy Zahn
• Star Trek: Spartacus, T. L. Mancour
• Sarek, AC Crispin
• Star Wars: the Force Unleashed, Sean Williams
• Dark Force Rising, Timothy Zahn
• The Last Command, Timothy Zahn

Technology and Society

• Amusing Ourselves to Death,  Neil Postman

Travel and Adventure 

• Lost on Planet China, J. Maarten Troost

What I Read in 2008

As mentioned a few days ago,  I'm presently creating lists of books read for the first four years of this blog, from the days before I'd adopted that useful practice. I've discovered in the process that many titles trigger flashes of memory -- like sitting in the laundry room of my school on a wintry day, reading The Confessions of Max Tivioli, eating beef stroganoff, and waiting on my clothes to dry.  It's very curious, the things brains choose to retain..    2008 was the year that history began to assert its right to the throne, through surprisingly it and science were still evenly matched. It was also the year that I really got into Isaac Asimov: the "science fiction" category was 100% Asimov.

Biography

• Naturalist,E. O. Wilson
•  Personal Memoirs, US Grant
• It’s Been a Good Life, Isaac Asimov
• Carl Sagan: A Life, Keay Davidson
• The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin’, Bill Zehme
• Sinatra: the Artist and the Man, John Lahr
•  I, Asimov, Isaac Asimov

Classics and Literary

•  The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Harry Potter Universe, Tere Stouffer
•  Asimov’s Guide to Shakespeare,Isaac Asimov
•  Books that Changed the World, Robert B. Downs
• A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
• Asimov's Guide to the Bible Volume I, Isaac Asimov
• Great Books, David Denby

Fantasy, Horror, and Speculative

•  How Few Remain, Harry Turtledove
• The Great War: American Front,Harry Turtledove
• The Great War: Walk in Hell, Harry Turtledove
• The Great War: Breakthrough,Harry Turtledove
• Blood and Iron, Harry Turtledove
• The Center Cannot Hold, Harry Turtledove
• The Victorious Opposition, Harry Turtledove
•  Return Engagement, Harry Turtledove
•  Drive to the East, Harry Turtledove
•  The Grapple, Harry Turtledove
•  In at the Death, Harry Turtledove
•  Fatherland, Robert Harris
• The Two Georges, Harry Turtledove and Richard Dreyfuss
•  Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
• Firestarter, Stephen King
• In the Balance, Harry Turtledove
• Upsetting the Balance, Harry Turtledove
• Striking the Balance, Harry Turtledove
•  Colonization: Second Contact, Harry Turtledove
• Colonization: Down to Earth, Harry Turtledove
•  The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordian

General Fiction

• The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Andrew Sean Greer
• Playing for Pizza, John Grisham
• Jailbird, Kurt Vonnegut
•  World Made by Hand, James Kunstler

Historical Fiction

•  Garden of Beasts, Jeffery Deaver
• The Steel Wave, Jeff Shaara
•  Blood of Flowers, Anita Amirrezvani
• The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

History

• Greece and Rome: Builders of Our World, Paul MacKendrick
• France 1814-1919: The Rise of a Liberal-Democratic Society, John B. Wolf
•  Sinister Touches: The Secret War Against Hitler, Robert Goldston
• The History of the S.S, G.S. Grabel
• Washington's Secret War, Thomas Fleming
• The Trial of Madame Caillaux,Edward Berenson
•  Thomas Jefferson: Author of America,Christopher Hitchens
•  1776, David McCullough
• The Making of the Middle Ages, R.W. Southern
• Only Yesterday, Frederick Lewis Allen
• Since Yesterday, Frederick Lewis Allen
•  No Ordinary Time, Doris Kearns Goodwin
•  Surviving Auschwitz, Primo Levi
•  The Story of the Titanic, As Told By Its Passengers
•  The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Roy Porter
• Life in a Medieval Castle, Frances and Joseph Gies
• Communism, Richard Pipes
• Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages, Frances and Joseph Gies
•  Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel, Frances and Joseph Gies
•  Life in a Medieval Village, Frances and Joseph Gies
•   Women in the Middle Ages, Frances and Joseph Gies
•  The Knight in History, Frances Gies
• Collapse, Jared Diamond
•  The Echo of Greece, Edith Hamilton

Humor

•  The Jerk with the Cell Phone, Barbara Pachter and Susan Magee
• Isaac Asimov’s Treasury of Humor by Isaac Asimov
•  Me of Little Faith, Lewis Black
•  When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
•  Holidays on Ice, David Sedaris
•  Wampeters, Foma, and Granfallons, Kurt Vonnegut

Mysteries and Thrillers

•  The Appeal, John Grisham
•  More Tales of the Black Widowers, Isaac Asimov
• Tales of the Black Widowers, Isaac Asimov
• Murder in the Lincoln Bedroom, Elliot Roosevelt
• The Undertaker's Window,Philip Margolin
•  Asimov’s Mysteries, Isaac Asimov
• Banquets of the Black Widowers, Isaac Asimov
• Puzzles of the Black Widowers, Isaac Asimov

Politics and Civic Interest

• Why Lincoln Matters, Mario Cuomo 
•  Palestine: Peace not Apartheid,Jimmy Carter
• The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx
•  Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
•  Hard Call, John McCain
• Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations, Al Franken

Religion and Philosophy

• God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens
• For the Love of Life, Erich Fromm
• Writings on an Ethical Life, Peter Singer
• The Art of Living, Epictetus -- trans. Sharon Leben
• Armageddon in Retrospect, Kurt Vonnegut
•  This I Believe, Jay Allison and Dan Gediman
• This I Believe II  Jay Allison and Dan Gediman
• The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz

Science

• Science Firsts,Robert Adler
•  Darwin's Ghost,Steve Jones
• The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
• The History of Science from the Ancient Greeks to the Scientific Revolution, Ray Spangenburg and Diane Moser
• Charles Darwin: the Naturalist Who Started a Scientific Revolution, Cyril Aydon
• The History of Science in the 18th Century, Ray Spangenburg and  Diane Moser
• The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
• The History of Science in the 19th Century, Ray Spangenburg and Diane Moser
• The Blank Slate, Stephen Pinker
• The History of Science from 1895 to 1945, Ray Spangenburg and Diane Moser
• Darwin, his Daughter, and Human Evolution, Randal Keynes
• The History of Science from 1945 to the 1990s,Ray Spangenburg and Diane Moser
• The Neanderthal Enigma, James Shreeve
• The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking
• Primates of the World, Rod and Ken Preston-Mafham
•  The Rise of Reason, Ray Spangenburg and Diane Kit Moser
• The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene
•  The Age of Synthesis, Ray Spangenburg and Diane Kit Moser
• The Ascent of Science, Brian L. Silver
•  Parasite Rex, Carl Zimmer
•  Buy Jupiter and Other Stories, Isaac Asimov
• Great Feuds in Science, Hal Hellman
• Almost Everyone's Guide to Science, Joshua Gribbin
•  Why People Believe Weird Things, Michael Shermer
•  Modern Science, Ray Spangenburg and Diane Kit Moser
• Science Frontiers, Ray Spangenburg and Diane Kit Moser
•  Where Do We Go From Here?, ed. Isaac Asimov
•  The Pinball Effect, James Burke

Science Fiction

• The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories, Isaac Asimov
• Nine Tales from Tomorrow, Isaac Asimov
•  Foundation, Isaac Asimov
•  I, Robot; Isaac Asimov
•  Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov
• Foundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov
• Foundation’s Edge, Isaac Asimov
• Foundation and Earth, Isaac Asimov
• Prelude to Foundation, Isaac Asimov
•  Forward the Foundation, Isaac Asimov
• Nightfall, Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverburg
•  Nemesis, Isaac Asimov
•  Robot Dreams, Isaac Asimov
•  The Winds of Change and Other Stories, Isaac Asimov
•  The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov

Society and Culture

•  Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century, Neil Postman
• Rules of Civility, George Washington
• A Life of Her Own, Emilie Carles

Star Trek and Star Wars 

• Star Trek Academy: Collision Course,William Shatner
• ST DS9: Trial by Error, Mark Garland
• Death Star, Michael Reaves and Steve Perry
• Darth Bane: Path of Destruction, Drew Karpyshyn

Technology and Society

•  Technopoly: the Surrender of Culture to Technology, Neil Postman

What I Read in 2007

Although these days I'm a fairly organized reader, with a Excel spreadsheet and everything,  when I first started yakking about books in 2007, I didn't even list them. I just posted rambling towers of paragraphs on MySpace.  I've been wanting to have a better reference for what I read in the early years, and since it's a quiet, rainy day, good for parsing paragraphs of superfluous commentary into  legible data...why not?

I should note that not everything I read in 2007 was on this list, because I didn't start tracking my reading until late May, and from August onwards I was largely tied up with life and work at my new university.  Nothing for most of December '07 or January '08 was reported!   This was also a unique moment in my life, as the year before I'd summarily rejected everything in my past and was actively trying to develop my own, independent view of the world.  I've been building on that foundation ever since.   Note that science, not history,  is king of nonfiction!   That will change, however:  as I was finishing a degree in history, with a European emphasis,  I read a lot of German, English, and French history later in the year, and would open 2008 with the same.

May 21st, 2007 -  December 12th, 2007

1. The Rapture, Jerry B Jenkins and Timothy LaHaye
2. Kingdom Come, Jerry B Jenkins and Timothy LaHaye
3. The Know-it-All, A.J. Jacobs
4. The Everything Classical Mythology Book, Lesley Bolton
5. The Osterman Weekend, Robert Ludlum
6. Allegiance, Timothy Zahn
7. Universe on a T-Shirt, Dan Falk
8. An Intimate History of Humanity, Theodore Zeldin
9. Before the Dawn, Nicholas Wade
10. Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief,  Lewis Wolpert
11. Phantoms in the Brain,  V.S. Ramachandran
12. The Whale: Mighty Monarch of the Sea, Jacques-Yves Cousteau
13. Extraterrestrial Civilizations, Isaac Asimov
14. Hitler's Shadow War, Donald McCale
15. Clan of the Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
16. The Valley of Horses, Jean M Auel
17. The Tribe of Tiger, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
18. Dolphin Days, Kenneth Norris
19. Nightfall and Other Stories, Isaac Asimov
20. The Plains of Passage, Jean M Auel
21. The Stand, Setphen King
22. The Associate, Philip Margolin
23. The Mammoth Hunters, Jean M Auel 
24. Theories for Everything;  John Langone, Bruze Stutz, and Andrea Gianopoulos
25. The Middle Ages, Dorothy Mills
26. The German Empire, Michael Stuermer
27. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Al Franken
28. A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut
29. Rickles' Book, Don Rickles
30. Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter
31. Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, J.K. Rowling
32. The Complete Idiot's Guides to Turtles and Tortoises, Liz Palika
33. The Rising Tide, Jeff Shaara
34. Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
35. Storms from the Sun, Michael Carlowicz and Ramon Lopez
36. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, JK Rowling
37. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, JK Rowling
38. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire JK Rowling
39. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, JK Rowling
40. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, JK Rowling
41. Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows, JK Rowling
42. Shelters of Stone, Jean M Auel
43. Pale Blue Dot, Carl Sagan
44. River Out of Eden, Richard Dawkins
45. Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s, FL Allen
46. Infidel, Ayaan Hiris Ali
47. Broca's Brain, Carl Sagan
48. The Assault on Reason, Al Gore
49. The End of Faith, Sam Harris
50. The Darwin Awards, ed. Wendy Nortcutt
51. Great Tales from English History 2, Robert Lacey
52. Mephisto, Klauss Mann
53. Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany, Marion kaplan
54. The Hundred Years War, Desmond Sewawrd
55. Great Tales from English History, Robert Lacey
56. I Am America (And So Can You), Stephen Colbert
57. The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, James S Corum
58. The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe, David Irving
59. German into Nazis, Peter Fritzsche
60. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
61. Montgomery: Biography of a City, Wayne Greenshaw

2016 Cumulative Reading List

...whew.

-- January --
1. How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had it Coming, Mike Brown (Science)
2. Stagecoach:  Wells-Fargo and the American West,  Phillip Fradkin (History)
3. Picking Up:  On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City, Robin Nagle
4. Defeating Sin: Overcoming Our Passions, Fr. David Huneycutt
5. Destiny, Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes, Tamim Ansary
6. Dictator, Robert Harris (Historical Fiction)
7. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World, Bruce Schneier (Technology and Society)
8. Facing East: A Pilgrim's Journey into the Mysteries of Orthodoxy, Frederica Mathews-Green (Religion)
9. Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence, Richard Wrangham and Dale Peterson
10. Future Crimes:  Everything is Connected, Everyone is Vulnerable, and What We Can Do About It, Marc Goodman
11. Warriors of the Storm, Bernard Cornwell (Historical Fiction)
12. Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism, Bill Kauffman (Politics)
13. Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cab Driver, Graham Hodges (History)

- February --
14. Swiped! How to Protect Yourself in a World Full of Scammers, Phishers, and Identity Thieves, Adam Levin (Technology and Society)
15. Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State, Ralph Nader (Politics)
16. The War of the Three Gods: Romans, Persians, and the Rise of Islam,  Peter Crawford (History)
17. Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, Matt Ridley (Science)
18. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke (Science Fiction)
19. Lost to the West: the Forgotten Byzantine Empire that Rescued Western Civilization, Lars Brownworth (History)
20. A  Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age, David Hefland (Science/Skepticism)
21. An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies, Tyler Cowen (Food)
22. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert Heinlein (Science Fiction)
23. The Lives of a Cell, Lewis Thomas (Science)
24. Unnatural Selection:  How We are Changing Life Gene by Gene, Emily Monosson (Science)
25. The Social Conquest of Earth, Edward O. Wilson (Science)
26. Equal to the Sun, Anita Amirrezvani (Historical Fiction)

-- March --
27. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
28. Fin Gall: A Novel of Viking-Age Ireland, James Nelson (Historical Fiction)
29. The Wisdom of the Myths: How Greek Mythology can Change Your Life, Luc Ferry (Philosophy)
30. All Other Nights, Dara Horn (Historical Fiction)
31. Dixie's Forgotten People: The South's Poor Whites, Wayne Flynt (History)
32. Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan ('retold' by James Thomas)
33. The Scotch-Irish: A Social History, James Leyburn (History)
34. Armed and Dangerous, William Queen and Douglas Century (Police)
35. The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connnelly (Legal Thriller)
36. The News: A User's Manual, Alain de Botton
37. The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien (Fantasy/ English Lit)
38. The Road to Little Dribbling, Bill Bryson (Travel)
39. The First Congress,  Fergus Bordewich (History)
40. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh (English Literature)

-- April --
41. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens (English Literature)
42. Lord of the Flies, William Golding (English Literature)
43. Frodo's Journey, Joseph Pearce (English Literature / Religion)
44. The Invisible Man, H.G.Wells (Science Fiction)
45. My Man Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse (Humor)
46. Bilbo's Journey, Joseph Pearce (English Literature)
47. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (English Literature)
48. The English Resistance: Underground War Against the Normans, Peter Rex (History)
49. When the Eagle Hunts, Simon Scarrow (Historical Fiction)
50. Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian (Historical Fiction)
51. The Promise, Chaim Potok (Fiction)
52. Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie (Mystery)
53. Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas (Memoir)
54. Waterloo, Bernard Cornwell (History)
55. The Quest for Shakespeare, Joseph Pearce (Biography)
56. Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi (Literature/Memoir)
57. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
58. In the Days of the Comet, H.G. Wells (Tedious Fiction)
59. The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin (Science/Memoir)
60. Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR, Neil Thompson
61. ST: The Patrian Transgression, Simon Hawke

-- May --
62. After the Prophet: the Epic Shia-Sunni Split, Lesley Hazleton
63. Aces over Ypres, John Stack (Historical Fiction)
64. Diving Companions: Sea Lion, Elephant Seal,  Walrus, Jacques-Yves Cousteau
65. Sphere, Michael Crichton (Science Fiction)
66. Rome Sweet Home,  Scott and Kimberly Hahn
67. Iran and the United States: An Insider's View, Seyed Hossein Mousavian (History/Geopolitics)
68. On the Grid: A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems That Make Our World Work, Scott Huler
69. Off the Grid: Inside the Movement for More Space, Less Government, and True Independence in Modern America, Nick Rosen
70. The Planets, Dava Sobel (Scienceish)
71. In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire, Robert Hoyland (History)
72. 8.4, Peter Hernon (Science Fiction)
73. The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern Iran, Homa Katouzian (History)
74. All the Shah's Men,  Stephen Kinzer (History/Geopolitics)
75. The Grid, Phillip  Kerr (Science Fiction)
76. Memorial Day, Vince Flynn (Rambo Fiction)

-- June --
77. Liberty, Defined, Ron Paul (Politics)
78. Trojan Horse, Mark Russinovich (Cyberthriller)
79. Earthquakes in Human History, Jelle de Boer,  Donald Sanders (Science/History)
80. Big Box Swindle, Stacy Mitchell (Politics)
81. Saving Congress from Itself, James Buckley (Politics)
82. Volcanoes in Human History, Jelle de Boer, Donald Sanders (Science/History)
83. Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security, Richard Clarke (Politics)
84. When Asia Was the World, Stewart  Gordon (History)
85. The Orthodox Church, Kallistos (Timothy) Ware  (Religion)
86. Sons of Anarchy: Bratva, Christopher Golden
87. Green, Blue, and Grey: The Irish in the American Civil War, Cal McCarthy
88. Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff, Matt Kibbe (Politics)
89. The Great Taos Bank Robbery, Tony Hillerman
90. ST DS9: Wrath of the Prophets; Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman, and Robert Greenberger
91. Freedom and Virtue: the Conservative-Libertarian Debate, ed. George Carey (Political Philosophy)
92. The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Origin of Right and Left, Edmund Burke (Political Philosophy)
93. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America, Juan Gonzalez (History)
93. Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather (Historical Fiction)
94. White Fang, Jack London (Adventure Fiction)
95. O Pioneers!, Willa Cather (Historical Fiction)

-- July --
96. The Monkey Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey (Fiction)
97. Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States, Felipe Fernández-Armesto (History)
98. The Obstacle is the Way, Ryan Holiday (Self-Help)
99. Enterprise: the First Adventure, Vonda McIntyre (Star Trek)
100. Literary Converts, Joseph Pearce (Literature)
101. The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Carne (Historical Fiction)
102. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Phillip K. Dick (Science Fiction)
103. Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World, Richard Francis (Science)
104. 10% Human, Alanna Collen
105. Requiem, Michael Jan Friedman and Kevin Ayan (Star Trek)
106. Go Directly to Jail, ed. Gene Healy
107. Inferno, Dante; trans. Anthony Esolen
108. Crescent and Star: Turkey between Two Worlds, Stephen Kinzer
109. A Country Called Amreeka: U.S. History Retold through Arab-American Lives,  Alia Malek
110. The Journey Home, Edward Abbey (Essays)
111. Fire on the Mountain, Edward Abbey (Fiction)
112. The Ugly Little Boy, Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg (Science Fiction)
113. The Spanish Frontier in North America, David J. Weber (History)


--August --
114. Glass Houses: Privacy, Secrecy, and Cyber Insecurity in a Transparent World, Joel Brenner
115. ST DS9: Devil in the Sky, Greg Cox and John Gergory Betancourt
116. The Director, David Ignatius. (Cyberslumberer)
117. Airframe, Michael Crichton (Thriller)
118. Rising Sun, Michael Crichton (Thriller)
119. Playing to the Edge, Michael Hayden (Politics/Memoir)
120. small is still beautiful, Joseph Pearce
121. The Ordinary Spaceman, Clayton C. Anderson (Astronaut Memoir)
122. Send More Idiots, Tony Perez-Giese
123. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, Anthony Beevor (History)
124. Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51, Phil Patton
125. The Thin Man, Dashiel Hammett
126. Miracle at Midway; Gordon W. Prange, Donald M. Goldstein,  and Katherine V. Dillon
127. The Pawnbroker, Aimée Thurlo and David Thurlo (Thriller)
128. The Porch and the Cross, Kevin Vost
129. The Cargo Ship Diaries, Niall Doherty
130. The Arabs in History, Bernard Lewis (History)
131. Las Alamos, Joseph Kanon (Thriller)
132. Wheat Belly, Ken Davis (Health/Nutrition)
133. Real Dissent, Tom Woods (Politics)
134. When Tigers Fight: The Story of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945; Dick Wilson (History)

-- September --
135. Rescue Warriors: The US Coast Guard, America's Forgotten Heroes, David Helvarg
136. Murder at Fenway Park, Troy Soos (Mystery)
137. How the Scots Invented the Modern World, Arthur Herman (History)
138. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-Earth, Brad Birzer
139. Musonius Rufus on How to Live, adapted Ben White. (Philosophy)
140. ST: The Better Man, Howard Weinstein
141. ST: War Drums,  John Vornholt
142. Bloodletter, K.W. Jeter
143. America First! Its History, Culture, and Politics, Bill Kauffman
144. Turbulent Skies: The History of Commercial Aviation, T.H. Heppenhimer
145. Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance
146. Deke! Manned Spaceflight from Mercury to the Shuttle, Deke Slayton and Michael Cassutt
147. The Pride and the Fall: Iran, 1974-1949, Anthony Parsons
148. Azazel, Isaac Asimov
149. Night of the Living Trekkies, Kevin David Anderson and Sam Stall

-- October --
150. Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis
151. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorn, John Tiffany
152. Timeless Mexico, Hudson Strode
153. World War Z, Max Brooks
154. Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: Sword of Summer, Rick Riordan
155. West of the Revolution, Claudio Saunt
156. The Brave Cowboy, Edward Abbey
157. Jasmine and Stars: Reading More than Lolita in Tehran, Fatemeh Keshavrarz
158. The Greeks, H.D.F. Kitto
159. Dubh-Linn, James Nelson

-- November --
160. Heretics and Heroes, Thomas Cahill
161. Hidden Order, Brad Thor
162. Divided Highways: Building the Interstates, Transforming American Life, Tom Lewis
163. Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class, Bill Malone
164. The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure, Henry Petroski
165. When It was Worth Playing for: My Experiences Writing about the TV Show Survivor, Mario Lanza
166.  Bye Bye Miss American Empire, Bill Kauffman (Politics)
167.  Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age, from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane, S. Frederick Starr (History)
168. The Motel in America; Jefferson S. Rogers, John A Jakle, and Keith A. Sculle
169. Civilian Warriors: The Inside Story of Blackwater, Erik Prince
170. The Works: the Anatomy of a City, Kate Ascher
171. Columbine, Dave Cullen
172. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,  Yuval Noah Harari
173. Conclave, Robert Harris

-- December --
174. The Flame Bearer, Bernard Cornwell
175. Danger Heavy Goods, Robert Hutchinson
176. The Epic of Gilgamesh, trans. Danny Jackson
177. The Aeneid for Boys and Girls, A.J. Church
178. You Have the Right to Remain Innocent, James Duane
179. Inside the Kingdom, Robert Lacey
180. Glimpses of World History, Jawaharlal Nehru
181. The Chinese in America,  Iris Chang