Here is list of books I read (or listened to on Audible.Com) during 2014:
- “Daybreak Handbook,”prose/poems by Jerry Dennis
- “Great Masters: Beethonven – His Life and Music,” a Great Courses lecture by Robert Greenberg
- “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” by Michelle Alexander
- “Peter and the Starcatchers,” by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
- “1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus,” by Charles Mann
- “Ragtime,” by E. L. Doctorow
- “The Death of Ivan Ilyich,” by Leo Tolstoy
- “The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea,” by Sebastian Junger
- “Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English,” by John McWhorter
- “The Double Helix,” by James D. Watson
- “Detroit: An American Autopsy,” by Charlie LeDuff
- “Breakfast at Tiffanys,” by Truman Capote
- “44 Scotland Street,” by Alexander McCall Smith
- “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “Stuart Little,” by E.B. White
- “A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams,” by Michael Pollan
- “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,” by Jamie Ford
- “Brown Dog: Novellas,” by Jim Harrison
- “Liberty,” by Garrison Keillor
- “Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality,” by Theodore Olson and David Boies
- “Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us),” by Tom Vanderbilt
- “Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High,” by by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler
- “The Humorous Short Stories of Mark Twain,” by Mark Twain
- “MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors,” by Richard Hooker
- “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game,” by Michael Lewis
- “The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insantiy, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary,” by Simon Winchester
- “The Trolley Problem, or Would You Throw the Fat Man off the Bridge,” by Thomas Cathcart
- “To Kill a Mockingbird,” by Harper Lee
- “The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching,” by Thich Nhat Hanh
- “The Johnstown Flood,” by David McCollough
- “1066: The Year that Changed Everything,” (a Great Courses lecture) by Jennifer Paxton
- “Decisive,” by Dan and Chip Heath
- “The Things They Carried,” by Tim O’Brien
- “Still Foolin’ ‘Em,” by Billy Crystal
- “The Clockwork Universe,” by Edward Dolnick
- “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,” by Julia Alvarez
- “Whistling Vivaldi,” by Claude Steele
- “Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America,” by Tanner Colby
- “This History of Ancient Rome,” (A Great Courses lecture) by Garrett Fagan
- “The Year of Magical Thinking,” by Joan Didion
- “Branch Rickey,” by Jimmy Breslin
- “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime,” by Mark Haddon
- “The Righteous Mind,” by Jonathan Haidt
- “The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared,” by Jonas Jonasson
- “Skepticism 101: How to Think Like a Scientist,” (a Great Courses Lecture) by Michael Schermer
- “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” by Oliver Sacks
- “A Farewell to Arms,” by Ernest Hemingway
- “How Children Succeed: Grit Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character,” by Paul Tough (in progress)
- “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything,” by Joshua Foer
- “David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants,” by Malcolm Gladwell
- “Our Black Year: One Family’s Quest to Buy Black in America’s Racially Divided Economy,” by Maggie Anderson
- “A History of England from the Tudors to the Stuarts,” (a Great Courses lecture series) by Professor Robert Bucholz
- “The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream,” by Thomas Dyja
- “Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America,” by Paul Tough
- “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater,” by Kurt Vonnegut