All my books since 2005
Non-Fiction Fiction
Best books in bold
Read in '09
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America --Rick Perlstein
The Food of a Younger Land --Mark Kurlansky
Eating Animals --Jonathan Safran Foer
The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential --Leo Babuta
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America --Douglas Brinkley
The Monster of Florence --Douglas Preston with Mario Spizi
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon --David Grann
Sum: Forty Tales of the Afterlife --David Eagleman
East of Eden --John Steinbeck
Woods Burner --John Pipkin
In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed --Carl Honoré Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free --Charles P. Pierce Thomas Jefferson: Author of America --Christopher Hitchens A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir --Donald Worster The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao --Junot Diaz A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World --Tony Horwitz Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think --Brian Wansink Crazy '08 --Cait Murphy The Forever War --Dexter Filkins The Last Temptation of Christ --Nikos Kazantzakis Travels With Charley --John Steinbeck American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House --Jon Meacham
Read in '08
Siddhartha --Herman Hesse
1491:New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus --Charles C. Mann
News of a Kidnapping --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
40 Days and 40 Nights --Matthew Chapman
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life --Steve Martin
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Assassination Vacation --Sarah Vowell
Dreams From My Father --Barack Obama
Heart of Darkness --Joseph Conrad
The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America --Thurston Clarke
Mao: The Untold Story --Jung Chang & Jon Halliday
A Confederacy of Dunces --John Kennedy Toole
A Death in Venice --Thomas Mann
Heyday --Kurt Anderson
Blood Meridian --Cormac McCarthy
Then We Came to the End --Joshua Ferris
The Reluctant Fundamentalist --Mohsin Hamid
Moby Dick --Herman Melville
The God Delusion --Richard Dawkins
The Iowa Baseball Confederacy --W.P. Kinsella
In Defense of Food --Michael Pollan
Out Stealing Horses --Per Petterson
All the King's Men --Robert Penn Warren
Blood and Thunder --Hampton Sides
Read in '07
Shakespeare: The World as Stage --Bill Bryson
A Crack at the Edge of the World --Simon Winchester
Quarantine --Jim Crace
Founding Myths --Ray Raphael
One Hundred Years of Solitude --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Everyman --Philip Roth
The World Without Us --Alan Weisman
The Omnivore's Dilemma --Michael Pollan
The End of Faith --Sam Harris
The Yiddish Policemens' Union --Michael Chabon
Letter to a Christian Nation --Sam Harris
On Chesil Beach --Ian McEwan
How To Be Free --Tom Hodgkinson
God is Not Great --Christopher Hitchens
The Grapes of Wrath --John Steinbeck
Slaughterhouse-Five --Kurt Vonnegut
Absurdistan --Gary Shteyngart
The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth --Thomas Jefferson
The Wild Trees --Richard Preston
What is the What --Dave Eggers
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop --Lewis Buzbee
Cloud Atlas --David Mitchell
The Metamorphosis --Franz Kafka
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid --Bill Bryson
Love in the Time of Cholera --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Worst Hard Time --Timothy Egan
The Old Man and the Sea --Ernest Hemingway
Jesus Land --Julia Scheeres
All the Pretty Horses --Cormac McCarthy
Read in '06
Istanbul --Orhan Pamuk
Memories of My Melancholy Whores --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Innocent Man --John Grisham
The Road --Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men --Cormac McCarthy
The Bookseller of Kabul --Asne Seierstad
City of My Dreams --Pers Anders Fogelstorm
Mayflower --Nathaniel Philbrick
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex --Nathaniel Philbrick
American Theocracy --Kevin Phillips
Reading Lolita in Teheran --Azar Nafisi
State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration --James Risen
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln --Doris Kearns Goodwin
In Harm's Way --Doug Stanton
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey --Candice Millard
Read in '05
Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis --Jimmy Carter
The Sea --John Banville
A Man Without a Country --Kurt Vonnegut
City of Falling Angels --John Berendt
Mark Twain, A Life --Ron Powers
How To Be Idle --Tom Hodgkinson
What's the Matter with Kansas --Thomas Frank
How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization --Franklin Foer
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking --Malcolm Gladwell
Skinny Dip --Carl Hiaasen
The Devil's Teeth --Susan Casey
1776 --David McCullough
The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream --H.W. Brands
Faithful: Two Die-Hard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season --Stephen King & Stewart O'Nan
The Plot Against America --Philip Roth
The Historian --Elizabeth Kostova
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation --Lynne Truss
Wait 'Til Next Year --Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Kite Runner --Khaled Hosseini