John’s Recently Reading List
- “Deep Survival” Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why -Laurence Gonzales
- “Why People Believe Weird Things” Michael Shermer
- “A Short History of Nearly Everything” -Bill Bryson
- “The Carbon Age” How Life Core Element Has Become Civilizations Greatest Threat -Eric Roston
- “Religious Literacy” What Every American Needs to Know and Doesn’t -Stephen Prothero
- “The Thirteen American Values” -Howard Fineman
- “The Nine” Inside the Secret world of the Supreme Court -Jeffery Toobin
- “A Choose Faith” An Introduction To Unitarian Universalism -John Buerhrens and Forest Church
- “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid” -Jimmy Carter
- “Our Endangered Values” America’s Moral Crisis -Jimmy Carter
- “The Audacity of Hope” -Barack Obama
- “Dreams of My Father” -Barack Obama
- “Childhood’s End” -Arthur C. Clark
- “Roadside Geology of Massachusetts” -James Skehan
- “1491” New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus -Charles C. Mann
- “The World is Flat” A brief History of the Twenty-First Century -Thomas L. Friedman
- “Small Wonder” -Barbara Kingsolver
- “Night” -Elie Wiesel“Why We Do it” — Rethinking Sex The Selfish Gene -Niles Eldredge
- “Darwin’s Dangerous Idea” -Daniel Dennett
- “Fiasco —The American Military Adventure in Iraq” -Thomas Ricks
- “Touching the Void” Joe Simpson
- “Ledyard: In Search of the First American Explorer”, -Bill Gifford
- “The Mighty and the Almighty” -Madeleine Albright- Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs-
- “Enrique’s Journey” -Sonja Nazario
- “Discarded Science” -John Grant
- “Confessions of and Economic Hit Man” -John Perkins
- “Sea of Glory” Nathaniel Philbrick
- “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” -Barbara Kingsolver
- “Mayflower” -Nathaniel Philbrick
- “The New American Story” -Bill Bradley
- “Deception Point” -Dan Brown
- “The God Delusion” -Richard Dawkins
- “Science and Religion” –Are They Compatible? Edited By Paul Kurtz
- “Beginning Ubuntu Linux” From Novice to Professional –Thomas Keir
- “What We believe But Cannot Prove” -John Brockman
- “The DaVinci Code” -Dan Brown
- “Alexander Hamilton” -Ron Chernow
- “The Elegant Universe” Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory -Brian Greene
- “Freakonomics” A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything -Steven D Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- “ Pilgrimage” One Women’s Return to a Changing India -Pramil Jayapal
- “Longitude” The True Storey of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time -Dava Sobel
- “Collapse” How Societies Choose to Succeed or Fail -Jared Diamond
- “The Story of Rats” Their Impact on Us, and Our Impact on Them -S. Anthony Barnett
- “Unsafe At Any Speed” The Designed in Dangers of the American Automobile - Ralph Nader
- “A History of God” The 4000 Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam –Karen Armstrong
- “Undaunted Courage” Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of West –Stephen E. Ambrose
- “Down the Great Unkown” John Wesley Powell’s 1869 Journey Through the Grand Canyon –Edward Dolnick
- “The Red Tent” -Anita Diamant
- “Black Elk Speaks” -John G. Neihardt
- “Genome” The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters –Matt Ridley
- “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” An Inquiry Into Values –Robert Pirsig
- “Lila” An Inquiry Into Morals, -Robert Pirsig
- “Bean Trees” -Barbara Kingsolver
- “Animal Dreams” -Barbara Kingsolver
- “Pigs in Heaven” -Barbara Kingsolver
- “Prodigal Summer” -Barbara Kingsolver
- “Guns, Germs, and Steel” -Jared Diamond
- “Why Sex is Fun” The Evolution of Human Sexuality -Jared Diamond
- “Ishmael” An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit -Daniel Quinn
- “Into the Heart of the Sea” The Tragedy of the Whaling Ship Essex -Nathaniel Philbrick
- Harry Potter and . . . All of them –J.K.Rowling
- “Blink” The Power of Thinking Without Thinking –Malcolm Gladwell
- “The Tipping Point” How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Malcolm Gladwell
Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans . . .
