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Books I am Reading
| Title and Author | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial Society and its Future by Theodore Kaczynski (1995) |
6/28/2025 | |
| The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From
Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace by Michael Scott-Baumann (2023) |
5/4/2025 | finished 5/19/2025 |
| The Symposium by Plato |
4/24/2025 | finished 5/1/2025 |
| Build the Life You Want: The
Art and Science of Getting Happier by Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey © 2023 |
3/30/2025 | finished 4/27/2025 |
| The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell © 1949 |
3/18/2025 | |
| The Consolation of Philosophy by Biethius. Translated by Richard Green (2002) |
3/1/2025 | finished 3/23/2025 |
| Phaedrus: The Madness of Eros, and Ideal of Love by Plato (Grapevine edition) |
1/16/2025 | finished 2/20/2025 |
| When Christ Comes: The Beginning of the Very Best by Max Lucado (1999) |
1/5/2025 | finished 3/18/2025 |
| Propaganda by Edward L. Bernays (1928) |
12/15/2024 | finished 1/3/2025 |
| Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, ~1940 |
12/11/2024 | finished 12/14/2024 |
| How to Think About the Economy: A Primer by Per L. Bylund (2022) |
10/22/2024 | finished 10/26/2024 |
| Answer to Job by C.G. Jung (1958) |
10/21/2024 | finished 1/14/2025 |
| Free Private Cities: Making governments compete for you by Titus Gebel © 2023 |
9/7/2024 | finished 9/21/2024 |
| Shop Class as Soulcraft: An inquiry into the value of work by Matthew B. Crawford © 2009 |
8/17/2024 | finished 9/6/2024 |
| How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks © 2023 |
8/12/2024 | finished 8/17/2024 |
| A History of Ancient Israel and Judah by J. Maxwell Miller and John H. Hayes © 1986 |
7/25/2024 | |
| Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari (2015) |
6/20/2024 | finished 8/26/2024 |
| Time Will Run Back by Henry Hazlitt ©1951 |
6/5/2024 | finished 7/21/2024 |
| Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugene Herrigel ©1953 |
5/16/2024 | finished 5/25/2024 |
| The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien © 1955 |
5/10/2024 | finished 5/23/2024 |
| The Production of Security by Gustave de Molinari (1849), translated by J. Huston McCulloch |
4/18/2024 | finished 4/18/2024 |
| The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien © 1954 |
4/6/2024 | finished 5/10/2024 |
| Flourishing and Happiness in a Free Society:
Toward a Synthesis of Aristotelianism, Austrian Economics,
and Ayn Rand's Objectivism by Edward W. Younkins (2011) |
4/6/2024 | |
| Investigations Into the Method of the Social
Sciences with Special Reference to Economics by Carl Menger (1883) translated by Francis J. Nock |
3/27/2024 | finished 4/23/2024 |
| The Religion of the Apostles: Orthodox
Christianity in the First Century by Stephen De Young (2021) |
3/15/2024 | finished 12/28/2024 |
| Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1878) |
3/7/2024 | finished 4/6/2024 |
| The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis © 1944 |
1/24/2024 | finished 2/6/2024 |
| The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkein © 1954 |
1/17/2024 | finished 3/31/2024 |
| Vedanta in Light of Christian Wisdom by Wolfgang Smith © 2022 |
12/8/2023 | finished 12/27/2023 |
| Always with Honor: The Memoirs of General Wrangel by Pyotr Wrangel (1928, 2020) |
9/30/2023 | finished 1/14/2024 |
| The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert A Heinlein © 1966 |
9/2/2023 | finished 9/18/2023 |
| Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung (1963) |
8/24/2023 | finished 11/30/2023 |
| Stealing Your Vote: The inside story of
the 2020 election and what it means for 2024 by Christina Bobb © 2023 |
7/24/2023 | finished 8/26/2023 |
| Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life by Jane Jacobs (1984) |
7/3/2023 | finished 8/14/2023 |
| The Cancel Culture Curse by Evan Nierman and Mark Sachs (2023) |
6/26/2023 | 7/2/2023 |
| A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (2016) |
6/15/2023 | finished 6/21/2023 |
| O'Hara's Choice by Leon Uris (2003) |
5/25/2023 | finished 6/10/2023 |
| A Little Manual for Knowing by Ester Lightcap Meek (2014) |
5/25/2023 | finished 5/25/2023 |
| Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann (1922, ebook 2020) |
5/22/2023 | finished 1/5/2024 |
| The Year of Grace of the Lord: A Scriptural &
Liturgical Commentary on the Calendar of the
Orthodox Church by ' Monk of the Eastern Church (2001) |
5/7/2023 | finished 5/16/2024 |
| We Must Be Brave by Frances Liardet (2019) |
4/6/2023 | finished 4/30/2023 |
| The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (2012) |
3/22/2023 | finished 6/1/2023 |
| Let No One Fear Death: Orthodox Christian leaders respond to the COVID-19 challenge Alexander Webster and Peter Heers, editors (2022) |
3/15/2023 | finished 4/16/2023 |
| The Age of Wood by Roland Ennos (2020) |
2/19/2023 | finished 3/14/2023 |
| Saint Nektarios: The Saint of our Century by Sotos Chondropoulos (1997) |
1/14/2023 | finished 2/18/2023 |
| 1984 by George Orwell (1949) | 12/22/2022 | finished 12/28/2022 |
| Marie Antoinette: The Portrait
of an Average Woman by Stefan Zweig (1932) |
12/21/2022 | finished 5/22/2023 |
| The Way of a Pilgrim by an Anonymous Pilgrim; translation from Russian by R.M. French. ©1993 Hope Publishing House |
11/4/2022 | finished 12/12/2022 |
| The Psychology of Totalitarianism by Mattias Desmet (2022) |
10/23/2022 | finished 12/27/2022 |
| The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis by Matthieu Pageau (2018) |
10/22/2022 | finished 2/2/2023 |
| Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932) |
10/19/2022 | finished 10/21/2022 |
| Ask for the Ancient Paths: Discovering
What Church Is Meant to Be by James Guirguis (2013) |
10/4/2022 | finished 10/18/2022 |
| The Great Reset and the War for the World by Alex Jones (2022) |
10/3/2022 | finished 1/7/2023 |
| On Quality: An Inquiry into Excellence by Robert M. Pirsig, edited by Wendy K. Pirsig (2022) |
9/23/2022 | finished 9/30/2022 |
| Estate Planning Basics by Jeffrey G. Marsocci (2020) |
8/26/2022 | finished 9/23/2022 |
| The Courage to Face COVID-19: Preventing Hospitalization and Death While Battling the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex by John Leake and Peter A. McCullough (2022) |
8/17/2022 | finished 10/3/2022 |
| The Untethered Soul: The journey beyond yourself by Michael A. Singer |
7/21/2022 | finished 10/22/2022 |
| Teachings on Love by Thich Nhat Hanh (2007) |
7/2/2022 | finished 10/3/2022 |
| The Animate and the Inanimate by W.J. Sidis (1925) |
5/30/2022 | finished 7/15/2022 |
| Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter (1980) |
5/16/2022 | 7/31/2023 |
| Six-Minute X-Ray: Rapid Behavior Profiling by Chase Hughes (2020) |
5/10/2022 | finished 8/17/2022 |
| The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim Defede (2002) |
4/19/2022 | 5/7/2022 |
| Born on 9/11, a graphic novel by Andy Steel (2021) |
4/15/2021 | finished 5/12/2022 |
| The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel (2020) |
3/21/2022 | finished 4/5/2022 |
| Thinking Orthodox: Understanding and Acquiring the Orthodox Christian Mind by Eugenia Constantinou (2020) |
1/30/2020 | finished 5/11/2022 |
| How Do You Know? A Dialogue by Gordon Barnes (2021) |
1/5/2022 | finished 1/23/2022 |
| The Award by Danielle Steel (2016) | 12/16/2021 | finished 1/8/2022 |
| The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale (1952, 2019) |
12/8/2021 | finished 2/6/2022 |
| COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We Are the Prey by Peter Breggin, Ginger Breggin, (2021) |
12/8/2021 | finished 10/16/2022 |
| World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks (2006) |
12/2/2021 | 12/9/2021 |
| Win Bigly: Persuasion in a world where facts don't matter by Scott Adams (2017) |
10/28/2021 | finished 12/7/2021 |
| The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (1937) |
10/23/2021 | finished 12/1/2021 |
| Ending Plague: A Scholar's Obligation in an Age of Corruption by Francis Ruscetti, Judy Mikovits, and Kent Heckenlively (2021) |
10/10/2021 | finished 10/30/2021 |
|
An Introduction to Robert Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality by Anthony McWatt (2005) |
9/24/2021 | finished 10/21/2021 |
| Take Me to Your Government by Count Nef (James L. Payne, 2013) |
9/14/2021 | finished 10/10/2021 |
| The Penguin Lessons: What I learned from a remarkable bird by Tom Mitchell (2015) |
8/28/2021 | finished 8/31/2021 |
| Lila: An Inquiry into Morals by Robert M. Pirsig (1991) |
8/1/2021 | finished 5/27/2022 |
| The Mind-Body Problem: A Novel by Rebecca Goldstein (1983) |
7/18/2021 | finished 8/16/2021 |
| Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical by Timothy Keller (2016) |
6/29/2021 | 8/13/2021 |
| Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel by Rebecca Goldstein (2005) |
6/29/2021 | finished 8/4/2021 |
| The Ultimate Truth About Love & Happiness: A Handbook to Life by Lester Levenson (2003) |
6/20/2021 | finished 10/27/2021 |
| Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky (2017) |
4/28/2021 | 6/24/2021 |
| The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch (1970) | 4/26/2021 | 6/19/2021 |
| Under the Net by Iris Murdoch (1954) | 3/28/2021 | finished 4/25/2021 |
| Alone With Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism by Stephen Batchelor (1983) |
3/18/2021 | 5/3/2021 |
| Foundations of Empirical Political Analysis by James L. Payne (1984) |
3/18/2021 | finished 4/3/2021 |
| The Big Government We Love to Hate: Exploring the
Roots of Political Malaise by James L. Payne (2021) |
2/17/2021 | finished 3/4/2021 |
| Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a philosophy of the future by Friedrich Nietzsche (1966) |
2/13/2021 | finished 7/28/2022 |
| American Kingpin: The epic hunt for the criminal mastermind behind the silk road by Nick Bilton (2017) |
1/6/2021 | finished 1/17/2021 |
| Shoulder Pain? The Solution & Prevention by John M. Kirsch (2019) |
12/31/2020 | 1/11/2021 |
| The Snowden Files: The inside story of the world's most wanted man by Luke Harding (2014) |
12/29/2020 | finished 1/9/2021 |
| Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction by Samir Okasha (2002) |
12/20/2020 | finished 2/13/2021 |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, for the third time, by Robert M. Pirsig (1974) | 12/3/2020 | finished 6/25/2021 |
| The Townsman by John Sedges (1945) | 11/23/2020 | finished 12/27/2020 |
| Talking to Strangers: What we should know about the people we don't know by Malcolm Gladwell (2019) |
11/3/2020 | finished 11/16/2020 |
| The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett (1933) | 10/11/2020 | finished 10/17/2020 |
| Journey: A map of archetypes to find lost purpose
in a sea of meaninglessness by Beth Martens (2020) |
9/13/2020 | finished 11/9/2020 |
| The Information by James Gleick (2011) | 8/18/2020 | finished 11/26/2020 |
| Voltaire by John Gray (1999) | 7/31/2020 | finished 8/14/2020 |
| Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity by Brian Hare and Vanessa Woodsw (2020) |
7/29/2020 | finished 8/11/2020 |
| Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission by Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton (2006) |
7/23/2020 | 8/18/2020 |
| Understanding 12-Lead EKGs: A Practical Approach by Brenda M. Beasley and Michael C. West (2001) |
7/19/2020 again after three years | 7/1/2021 |
| A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859) | 7/3/2020 | finished 7/21/2020 |
| Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson (2015) |
6/30/2020 | finished 7/2/2020 |
| Ancestral Dietary Strategy to Prevent and Treat Macular Degeneration by Chris A. Knobbe (2016) |
6/21/2020 | 8/1/2021 |
| David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1850) | 5/15/2020 | finished 6/30/2020 |
| Candide by Voltaire (1759, 1993) translated by Shane Weller |
4/25/2020 | finished 5/22/2020 |
| Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand: A Novel of Adam and Eve by Gioconda Belli (2009) |
4/12/2020 | finished 4/18/2020 |
| On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle by Hampton Sides (2018) |
3/29/2020 | finished 4/3/2020 |
| On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems (1962) by Kurt Gödel |
3/8/2020 | |
| Dimensions of Empathic Therapy, (2002) edited by Peter Breggin, Ginger Breggin, and Fred Bemark |
2/29/2020 | 4/14/2020 |
| There is No Good Card for This: What to say
and do when life is scary, awful, and unfair to people you love by Kelsey Crowe and Emily McDowell (2017) |
2/29/2020 | 3/3/2020 |
| Short Stories by Jesus: the enigmatic parables of a controversial rabbi by Amy-Jill Levine (2014) |
2/22/2020 | 4/1/2020 |
| Wow, I'm an American! How to Live Like Our Nation's Heroic Founders by Peter R. Breggin (2009) |
2/12/2020 | finished 2/24/2020 |
| The Call of the Wild, by Jack London (1903) | 2/9/2020 | finished 2/10/2020 |
| The Heart of Being Helpful: Empathy and the Creation of a Healing Presence by Peter R. Breggin (1997) |
1/17/2020 | finished 2/7/2020 |
| No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin |
1/16/2020 | finished 1/30/2020 |
| Sawmilling with Paw, by Jack E. Norwood (2010) | 12/28/2019 | finished 1/12/2020 |
| Guilt, Shame, and Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming Negative Emotions by Peter R. Breggin (2014) |
12/26/2019 | finished 1/17/2020 |
| The Last Honest Woman by Nora Roberts (2006) |
12/22/2019 | finished 12/27/2019 |
| Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover (2018) | 12/6/2019 | finished 12/23/2019 |
| Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, 2nd edition by Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto (2018) |
11/24/2019 | 12/25/2019 |
| Permanent Record by Edward Snowden (2019) |
10/31/2019 | finished 12/8/2019 |
| Varina, a novel by Charles Frasier (2018) | 10/13/2017 | finished 10/29/2019 |
| A Woman Is No Man, a novel by Etaf Rum (2019) | 10/12/2019 | finished 10/23/2019 |
| Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt by Arthur Brooks (2019) | 10/1/2019 | finished 10/16/2019 |
| From Bacteria to Bach and Back by Daniel Dennett (2017) |
9/15/2019 | finished 10/12/2019 |
| His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis (2004) |
9/6/2019 | finished 9/15/2019 |
| Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell by Dennis Bray (2009) |
9/5/2019 | finished 10/10/2019 |
| Manache Shlok: Verses to the Mind by Samarth Ramdas, compiled by Grace Meadow (2019) |
8/24/2019 | finished 10/23/2019 |
| Introducing the Old Testament by Clyde T. Francisco (1950) |
8/16/2019 | finished 11/16/2019 |
| Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments by Martin Cohen (2005) |
7/26/2019 | finished 9/6/2019 |
| Virtual Worlds as Philosophical Tools: How to Philosophize with a Digital Hammer by Stefano Gualeni |
7/21/2019 | 7/24/2019 |
| Origin, by Dan Brown (2017) | 7/17/2019 | finished 7/23/2019 |
| Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin (2008) |
7/12/2019 | finished 7/19/2019 |
| You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned:
John Wooden's Teaching Principles and Practices by Swen Nater and Ronald Gallimore (2006) |
7/11/2019 | finished 9/3/2019 |
| The Charlemagne Pursuit, by Steve Berry (2008) | 6/14/2019 | finished 7/3/2019 |
| Maps of Meaning: the Architecture of Belief by Jordan B. Peterson (1999) |
6/12/2019 | 10/30/2021 |
| Why We Run: A Natural History by Bernd Heinrich (2001) |
6/11/2019 | finished 7/11/2019 |
| The Tiber and the Potomac: Rome, America, and Empires of Trust,
(audio book by The Modern Scholar) by Thomas F. Madden (2008) |
5/31/2019 | finished 6/13/2019 |
| Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony, by Lewis Thomas (1980) | 5/23/2019 | 6/7/2019 |
| How to become a rainmaker: The rules for getting and keeping customers and clients by Jeffrey J. Fox (2000) |
5/24/2019 | finished 5/27/2019 |
| Holman QuickSource Guide: Atlas of Bible Lands, Introduction and Text by Paul H. Wright (2002) |
5/5/2019 | 5/22/2019 |
| Enlightenment Now, by Steven Pinker (2018) | 4/28/2019 | 5/9/2019 |
| Descartes: Discourse on Method and the Meditations translated by F.E. Sutcliffe (1968) |
4/22/2019 | finished 7/19/2019 |
| The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak (2005) | 4/19/2019 | finished 5/7/2019 |
| Mind of the Raven, by Bernd Heinrich (2016) | 4/5/2019 | finished 4/27/2019 |
| The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What you See, What You Think,
and How You Vote by Sharyl Attkisson (2017) |
3/19/2019 | finished 4/5/2019 |
| The Robe, by Lloyd C. Douglas (1942) | 3/17/2019 | finished 4/15/2019 |
| Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended Upon It by Christopher Voss (2016) |
3/8/2019 | finished 3/18/2019 |
| Out of the Fog: A Story of the Sea by C.K. Ober (1911) |
3/4/2019 | finished 3/11/2019 |
| The Last Week: The Day-by-Day Account of Jesus's Final Week in Jerusalem by Marcus Borg and J.D. Crossan (2006) |
3/3/2019 | finished 5/2/2019 |
| Characterizing Jesus: A Rhetorical Analysis on the Fourth Gospel’s Use of Scripture in its Presentation of Jesus by Alicia D. Myers (2012) |
2/15/2019 | 4/17/2019 |
| The Pigeon Needs a Bath!, by Mo Willems (2014) | 2/13/2019 | 2/13/2019 |
| Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse Engineer the Mind by Matthew Hurley, D. Dennett, and R. Adams (2011) |
2/11/2019 | finished 3/4/2019 |
| Green Eggs amd Ham, by Dr. Seuss (1960) | 1/18/2019 | 1/18/2019 |
| The History and Achievements of the Islamic Golden Age (a Great Courses audio book) by Eamonn Gearon |
1/13/2019 | finished 1/27/2019 |
| Beat Your A-Fib: The Essential Guide to Finding Your Cure by Steve S. Ryan |
1/12/2019 | 1/25/2019 |
| Driving Like Crazy by P.J. O'Rourke (2009) | 12/28/2018 | finished 1/11/2019 |
| Style: Toward Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams (1995) |
12/25/2018 | 5/29/2019 |
| Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity by Stephen Toulmin (1990) |
12/13/2018 | finished 2/28/2019 |
| The Existentialist Posture: A Christian look at its meaning, impact, values, dangers by Roger L. Shinn (1959) |
12/2/2018 | finished 12/13/2018 |
| Coolidge, by Amity Shlaes (2012) | 11/25/2018 | finished 12/28/2018 |
| The Ninth Hour, by Alice McDermott (2017) | 11/16/2018 | finished 11/25/2018 |
| The First Christmas:
What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Birth by Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan (2009) |
11/15/2018 | finished 2/2/2019 |
| Eats, Shoots & Leaves:
The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss (2003) |
11/12/2018 | 11/27/2018 |
| The Cast by Danielle Steel (2018) | 11/6/2018 | finished 11/16/2018 |
| Clear and Simple as the Truth:
Writing Classic Prose by Francis-Noël Thomas & Mark Turner (1994) |
10/28/2018 | 11/27/2018 |
| A Different Sun: A Novel of Africa by Elaine Neil Orr (2013) |
10/26/2018 | finished 12/25/2018 |
| The Black and White of Racism:
A commentary from a different perspective about Race Relations,
and reason for concern by Waylon Allen (2017) |
10/22/2018 | finished 10/28/2018 |
| The Collapse of Materialism:
Visions of Science, Dreams of God by Philip Comella (2014) |
10/21/2018 | finished Parts 1&2 11/16/2018 |
| A Faith Journey:
No Boundaries, No Conclusions by Robert L. Maddox (2018) |
10/7/2018 | finished 11/8/2018 |