{"id":5144,"date":"2010-12-28T18:45:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T22:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=5144"},"modified":"2011-12-31T09:52:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T14:52:23","slug":"2010-resolution-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2010\/12\/28\/2010-resolution-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 Resolution Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently completed my first resolution for the year 2009: Read 12,000 pages.<\/a> pp<\/p>\n

Check the\u00c2\u00a0Reading<\/a> page for the master list.<\/p>\n

Titles in bold are the ones I recommend. (They also are probably the ones I quote the most.)<\/p>\n

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  1. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space<\/a><\/em> – Carl Sagan<\/a> – 368 pp (368 total)<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Deal with Your Debt: The Right Way to Manage Your Bills and Pay Off What You Owe<\/a> <\/em>–Liz Pulliam Weston<\/a> – 210 est pp (57324+8 total)<\/li>\n
  3. Some Answered Questions<\/a> -\u00c2\u00a0Abdu’l-Bah\u00c3\u00a1<\/a> – 314 pp (892 total)<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Promised Day is Come<\/a> -\u00c2\u00a0Shogh\u00c3\u00ad Effend\u00c3\u00ad Rabb\u00c3\u00a1n\u00c3\u00ad<\/a> – 208 pp (1,100 total)<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. The Last Days of Socrates<\/a> <\/em>-\u00c2\u00a0Plato<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0Hugh Tredennick<\/a> (Translator),\u00c2\u00a0Harold Tarrant<\/a> (Contributor)\u00c2\u00a0– 289 pp (1,389 total)<\/li>\n
  6. The Trial of Socrates<\/a> <\/em>-\u00c2\u00a0Isidor F. Stone<\/a> – 273 pp (1,662 total)<\/li>\n
  7. The Histories<\/a><\/em> – Herodotus<\/a> – 720 pp (2,382\u00c2\u00a0total)<\/li>\n
  8. Libraries in the Ancient World<\/a> <\/em>-\u00c2\u00a0Lionel Casson<\/a> – 173 pp (2,555\u00c2\u00a0total)<\/li>\n
  9. Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins<\/a> – Steve Olson<\/a> – 278 pp (2,833\u00c2\u00a0total)<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
  10. Why Smart People Do Dumb Things<\/a> <\/em>-\u00c2\u00a0Mortimer Feinberg<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0John Tarrant<\/a> – 265 pp (3,098\u00c2\u00a0total)<\/li>\n
  11. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood<\/a> <\/em>– Howard Pyle<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0Scott McKowen<\/a> (Illustrator)\u00c2\u00a0– 328 pp (3,426\u00c2\u00a0total)<\/li>\n
  12. The Seven Mysteries of Life<\/a> <\/em>– Guy Murchie<\/a> – est 661 pp (4,087\u00c2\u00a0total)<\/li>\n
  13. Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average<\/a><\/em> – Joseph Hallinan<\/a> – 304 pp (4,391 total)<\/li>\n
  14. Next<\/a><\/em> – Crichton, Michael<\/a> – 431 pp (4,822 total)<\/li>\n
  15. The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer<\/a><\/em> – Goldblatt, David<\/a> – 992 pp (5,814 total)<\/li>\n
  16. A Wrinkle in Time (Time Series, #1)<\/a><\/em> – L’Engle, Madeleine<\/a> – 224 pp (6,038 total) — for\u00c2\u00a0Not Your Oprah’s Book Club<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  17. Ender’s Game<\/a><\/em> – Card, Orson Scott<\/a> – 324 pp (6,362 total) — for\u00c2\u00a0Not Your Oprah’s Book Club<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  18. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World<\/a><\/em> – Ahamed, Liaquat<\/a> – 576 pp (est 6,938 total)<\/li>\n
  19. Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives<\/a><\/em> – Specter, Michael<\/a> – 304\u00c2\u00a0pp (est 7,242 total)<\/li>\n
  20. Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us<\/a><\/em> – Godin, Seth<\/a> – 160 pp (est 7,402 total)<\/li>\n
  21. Foundation (Foundation, #1)<\/a><\/em> – Asimov, Isaac<\/a> – 256\u00c2\u00a0pp (est 7,658\u00c2\u00a0total)<\/li>\n
  22. First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently<\/a><\/em> – Buckingham, Marcus<\/a> – 255 pp (est 7,913\u00c2\u00a0total)<\/li>\n
  23. Snow Crash<\/a> – Stephenson, Neal<\/a> – 470 pp (est 8,383\u00c2\u00a0total)<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
  24. Ender’s Shadow\u00c2\u00a0(Shadow Series, #1)<\/a><\/em> – Card, Orson Scott<\/a> – 469 pp (est 8,852\u00c2\u00a0total)<\/li>\n
  25. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains<\/a> – Carr, Nicholas G.<\/a> – 256 pp (9,108\u00c2\u00a0total)<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n
  26. The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation<\/a><\/em> – Westen, Drew<\/a> – 384 pp (9,492\u00c2\u00a0total)<\/li>\n
  27. Happiness: Lessons from a New Science<\/a><\/em> – Layard, Richard<\/a> – 320 pp (9,812 total)<\/li>\n
  28. Speaker for the Dead\u00c2\u00a0(Ender’s Saga, #2)<\/a><\/em> – Card, Orson Scott<\/a> – 382 pp (10,194\u00c2\u00a0total)<\/li>\n
  29. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories<\/a><\/em> – Stevenson, Robert Louis<\/a> – 304 pp (10,498\u00c2\u00a0total)<\/strong> — for\u00c2\u00a0Not Your Oprah’s Book Club<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  30. Hyperion\u00c2\u00a0(Hyperion, #1)<\/a><\/em> – Simmons, Dan<\/a> – 482\u00c2\u00a0pp (10,980 0total)<\/li>\n
  31. Parallel Play: Growing Up with Undiagnosed Asperger’s<\/a><\/em> – Page, Tim<\/a> – 208\u00c2\u00a0pp (11,188\u00c2\u00a0total)<\/li>\n
  32. Xenocide\u00c2\u00a0(Ender’s Saga, #3)<\/a><\/em> – Card, Orson Scott<\/a> – 520 read of 592 pp (11,780\u00c2\u00a0total)<\/li>\n
  33. Something Borrowed<\/a><\/em> – Emily Giffin<\/a> – 322 pp (12,102\u00c2\u00a0total) — for\u00c2\u00a0Not Your Oprah’s Book Club<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  34. Treasure Island<\/a><\/em> – Stevenson, Robert Louis<\/a> – 352 pp (12,454\u00c2\u00a0total)<\/li>\n
  35. The Sunday Philosophy Club (Sunday Philosophy Club, #1)<\/em><\/a> – Alexander McCall Smith<\/a> – 250 pp (12,704\u00c2\u00a0total) — for\u00c2\u00a0Not Your Oprah’s Book Club<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
  36. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values<\/em><\/a> -\u00c2\u00a0Pirsig, Robert M.<\/a> – 560 pp (est 13,264\u00c2\u00a0total)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I recently completed my first resolution for the year 2009: Read 12,000 pages. pp Check the\u00c2\u00a0Reading page for the master list. Titles in bold are the ones I recommend. (They also are probably the ones I quote the most.) Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space – Carl Sagan – 368 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[256,986],"tags":[1286,418,1653,1285,287,179,1768,466,888,1803],"class_list":["post-5144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-novels-writing","category-43things-personal","tag-book-club","tag-brain","tag-card-orson-scott","tag-enders-game","tag-goodreads","tag-reading","tag-reading-list","tag-resolution","tag-soccer","tag-zen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-1kY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}