Reading
I very much enjoy reading. The following is a select listing of books I have read over recent years, which I enjoyed and recommend--most recent first. I often add books to my reading list by getting suggestions from others in answer to the question "What book has most influenced your thinking?"
- Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
- China Study, by T. Colin Campbell
- Shalimmar the Clown, by Salman Rushdie
- De Vinci Code, by Dan Brown
- John Updike Collection, by John Updike
- Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, by Robert Sapolsky
- One Planet, One People: Beyond 'Us vs. Them', by Carl Coon
- Poirot Investigates, by Agatha Christie
- Series of Unfortunate Events Series, by Lemony Snicket
- Mobkey Love, by Robert Sapolsky
- Guns, Germs and Steel, by Jared Diamond
- Collapse, by Jared Diamond
- Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
- Fury, by Salman Rushdie
- Black Boy, by Richard Wright
- The Art of War, by Sun Tzu
- Working Knowledge, by Thomas Davenport & Laurence Prusak
- Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James Loewen
- Charlotte Sometimes, by Penelope Farmer
- The Philosophy of Humanism, by Corliss Lamont
- Blinded by Might, by Ed Dobson & Cal Thomas
- Timequake, by Kurt Vonnegut
- Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
- Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
- Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Introduction to Buddhism, by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
- Start Where You Are, by Pema Chodron
- The Joy of Living and Dying in Peace, by The Dalai Lama
- The Way to Freedom, by The Dalai Lama
- Democracy in America, by Alexis De Toqueville
- The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig
- The Origins of Virtue, by Matt Ridley
- Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoi
- Bhagavad Gita, translated by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- Awakening The Mind, Lightening The Heart, by The Dalai Lama
- The Beauty Myth, by Naomi Wolf
- The Story of Experiments with Truth, by Mohandas Gandhi
- Black Power, by Stokely Charmichael & Charles Hamilton
- War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoi
- Amazing Grace, by Johnathan Kozol
- Native Son, by Richard Wright
- Backlash, by Susan Faludi
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