I don’t think I’ve ever read as much as I have this past year, even when I was being bribed with stickers and personal pan pizza’s from Pizza Hut.
I didn’t have some New Year’s resolution last year to read more. The reason I read so much more this last year was thanks to an amazing iPhone App, Voice Dream. I highly recommend it to everyone. It will change the way you read listen to books.
Having read all of these books, I’m desperately seeking to add to my queue for 2014. If you have any recommendations please, please send them over!
Books from 2013 in no particular order:
Too Big To Know: David Weinberger
The Meme Machine: Susan Blackmore
The God Delusion: Richard Dawkins
Name of the Wind: Patrick Rothfuss
Wise Man’s Fear: Patrick Rothfuss
The Quantum Thief: Hannu Rajaniemi
Without Their Permission: Alexis Ohanian
Swimming in the Sea of the Talmud: Rabbi Michael Katz
People’s History of the United States: Howard Zinn
The Box: How the Shipping Container…: Marc Levinson
This is How you Lose Her: Junot Diaz
Chaos: Making a New Science: James Gleick
The Reason I Jump: Naoki Higashida
Seeing Like a State: James C Scott
Always Coming Home: Ursula LeGuin
Jewish Literacy: Joseph Telushkin
Complex Adaptive Systems: John H Miller
Brave New World: Aldous Huxley
Player of Games: Iain M. Banks
Consider Phlebas: Iain M. Banks
The Democracy Project: David Graeber
I am a Strange Loop: Douglas Hofstadter
Neptune’s Brood: Charles Stross
Imagined Communities: Benedict Anderson
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom: Cory Doctorow
Unbearable Lightness of Being: Milan Kundera
Who Owns the Future: Jaron Lanier
A Clash of Kings: George R. R. Martin
A Storm of Swords: George R. R. Martin
A Feast for Crows: George R. R. Martin
A Dance with Dragons: George R. R. Martin
Cryptonomicon: Neal Stephenson
Rapture of the Nerds: Cory Doctorow
Ready Player One: Ernest Cline
Origins of Political Order: Francis Fukuyama
Understanding Power: Noam Chomsky
Deepness in the Sky: Vernor Vinge
A Fire Upon the Deep: Vernor Vinge
Signal and the Noise: Nate Silver
Ender’s Game: Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead: Orson Scott Card
Migration Note (06/2024)I used Chat GPT to generate links for each of the books. I didn't specify where the links should go, nor have I clicked on each one to validate that they are correct.