2010 Resolution Reading List

I recently completed my first resolution for the year 2009: Read 12,000 pages. pp

Check the Reading page for the master list.

Titles in bold are the ones I recommend. (They also are probably the ones I quote the most.)

1. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space – Carl Sagan – 368 pp (368 total)
2. Deal with Your Debt: The Right Way to Manage Your Bills and Pay Off What You Owe –Liz Pulliam Weston – 210 est pp (57324+8 total)
3. Some Answered Questions - Abdu’l-Bahá – 314 pp (892 total)
4. Promised Day is Come - Shoghí Effendí Rabbání – 208 pp (1,100 total)
5. The Last Days of Socrates - Plato, Hugh Tredennick (Translator), Harold Tarrant (Contributor) – 289 pp (1,389 total)
6. The Trial of Socrates - Isidor F. Stone – 273 pp (1,662 total)
7. The Histories – Herodotus – 720 pp (2,382 total)
8. Libraries in the Ancient World - Lionel Casson – 173 pp (2,555 total)
9. Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins – Steve Olson – 278 pp (2,833 total)
10. Why Smart People Do Dumb Things - Mortimer Feinberg, John Tarrant – 265 pp (3,098 total)
11. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – Howard Pyle, Scott McKowen (Illustrator) – 328 pp (3,426 total)
12. The Seven Mysteries of Life – Guy Murchie – est 661 pp (4,087 total)
13. Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average – Joseph Hallinan – 304 pp (4,391 total)
14. Next – Crichton, Michael – 431 pp (4,822 total)
15. The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer – Goldblatt, David – 992 pp (5,814 total)
16. A Wrinkle in Time (Time Series, #1) – L’Engle, Madeleine – 224 pp (6,038 total) — for Not Your Oprah’s Book Club
17. Ender’s Game – Card, Orson Scott – 324 pp (6,362 total) — for Not Your Oprah’s Book Club
18. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World – Ahamed, Liaquat – 576 pp (est 6,938 total)
19. Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives – Specter, Michael – 304 pp (est 7,242 total)
20. Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us – Godin, Seth – 160 pp (est 7,402 total)
21. Foundation (Foundation, #1) – Asimov, Isaac – 256 pp (est 7,658 total)
22. First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently – Buckingham, Marcus – 255 pp (est 7,913 total)
23. Snow Crash – Stephenson, Neal – 470 pp (est 8,383 total)
24. Ender’s Shadow (Shadow Series, #1) – Card, Orson Scott – 469 pp (est 8,852 total)
25. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains – Carr, Nicholas G. – 256 pp (9,108 total)
26. The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation – Westen, Drew – 384 pp (9,492 total)
27. Happiness: Lessons from a New Science – Layard, Richard – 320 pp (9,812 total)
28. Speaker for the Dead (Ender’s Saga, #2) – Card, Orson Scott – 382 pp (10,194 total)
29. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories – Stevenson, Robert Louis – 304 pp (10,498 total) — for Not Your Oprah’s Book Club
30. Hyperion (Hyperion, #1) – Simmons, Dan – 482 pp (10,980 0total)
31. Parallel Play: Growing Up with Undiagnosed Asperger’s – Page, Tim – 208 pp (11,188 total)
32. Xenocide (Ender’s Saga, #3) – Card, Orson Scott – 520 read of 592 pp (11,780 total)
33. Something Borrowed – Emily Giffin – 322 pp (12,102 total) — for Not Your Oprah’s Book Club
34. Treasure Island – Stevenson, Robert Louis – 352 pp (12,454 total)
35. The Sunday Philosophy Club (Sunday Philosophy Club, #1) – Alexander McCall Smith – 250 pp (12,704 total) — for Not Your Oprah’s Book Club
36. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values - Pirsig, Robert M. – 560 pp (est 13,264 total)