31 December 2011

2011 Books I Read

My 2011 reading list in reverse order...
A couple of these were not completely finished, either because the point was overdrawn (1434) or the writing just short of terrible (Templar, a vacation book, and O, a gimmick).

  • My Favorite: Born to Run
  • Unexpectedly Good: Freakonomic series
  • Unexpectedly Bad: 1434, a follow up to 1421, was a 200 page book, stretched to 350, full of salesmanship of his theory of Admiral He's sole-source cause of the European Renaissance. 
  1. Wanderings - Chaim Potak
  2. Liar's Poker - Michael Lewis
  3. 1434 - Gavin Menzies
  4. The Big Short - Michael Lewis
  5. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
  6. Ordeal of Innocence - Agatha Christie
  7. War - Sebastian Junger
  8. The Burden of Southern History - C. Vann Woodward
  9. The Legacy of Atlanta - Webb Garrison
  10. When Character was King - Peggy Noonan
  11. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  12. Fair Tax: The Truth - Neal Boortz
  13. The Fair Tax Book - Neal Boortz
  14. Thunderball - Ian Fleming
  15. A Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie
  16. Whose Body - Dorothy Sayers
  17. Our Kind of Traitor - John LeCarre
  18. The Templar Legacy - Steve Berry
  19. O: A Presidential Novel - anonymous (didn't finish)
  20. When Helping Hurts - Brian Fikkert
  21. Leading on Empty - Wayne Cordiero
  22. Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior - Ori Brafman
  23. The Secret Pilgrim - John LeCarre
  24. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John LeCarre
  25. True Grit - Charles Portis
  26. Strengthfinder 2.0 - Tom Rath
  27. Good to Great - Jim Collins
  28. SuperFreakonomics - Levitt/Dubner
  29. Freakonomics - Levitt/Dubner
  30. The Complete Tales of Sherlock Holmes, vol. 1 - Conan Doyle
  31. Born to Run - Chris McDougall