The 2017 Book List
- The Speech by Bernie Sanders
- Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal
- Over Your Dead Body by Dan Wells
- The Dictator's Handbook by Alastair Smith & Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
- Witch: A Tale of Terror by Charles McKay (read by Sam Harris)
- Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
- The Daily Show: An Oral History (the Audiobook) by Chris Smith
- On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
- Hamilton: The Revolution by Jeremy McCarter
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
- Pathfinder Tales: Gears of Faith by Gabrielle Harbowy
- Convictions: How I Learned What Mattered Most by Marcus Borg
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
- Keynes/Hayek by Nicholas Wapshott
- Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua Greene
- The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance by Ben Sas
- Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D&D by David Kushner and Koren Shadmi (graphic novel)
- Nothing Left to Lose by Dan Wells
- Writing the Other: A Practical Approach by Nisi Shawl & Cynthia Ward
- Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders by Denise A. Spellberg
- The Atheist Muslim by Ali A. Rizvi
- The Social Conquest of Earth by E.O. Wilson
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek by Manu Saadia
- Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
- Verbal Judo, Updated Edition by Pam Thompson
- Bluescreen by Dan Wells
- This Fight is Our Fight by Elizabeth Warren
- Extreme Makeover: Apocalypse Edition by Dan Wells
- Speak Easy by Catherynne M. Valente
Format:
- Audiobooks: 14
- Audio courses:
- Kindle: 8
- Dead tree books: 9
Subjects:
- Total Fiction: 8
- Classics: 1
- Science Fiction: 2
- Young Adult: 1
- Fantasy: 5
- Non-Fiction: 20
- Science: 3
- Physics:
- Psychology: 3
- Biology: 1
- Technology:
- Math/Statistics:
- Religion: 7
- History: 12
- Politics: 9
- Education: 3
- Business/Economics: 7
- Philosophy: 5
- Humor: 2
- Writing/Creativity: 3
These numbers don't quite match up, because some books cover multiple areas, and so I've included them in all relevant categories. So, for example, a book on free will would fall in both Psychology and Philosophy (and possibly even Religion) categories.
Similarly, some books I read using Whispersynch-for-Voice to jump between the Amazon Kindle and Audible audiobook versions of the books, so they got double-counted in the format section if I read them in both formats. I've also included The Great Courses audios that I listen to through Audible.com. Though not actually books, I figure that a 10+ hour course on a subject contains about the same informational content, if not presented structurally in quite the same way as it would take in a written book.
Similarly, some books I read using Whispersynch-for-Voice to jump between the Amazon Kindle and Audible audiobook versions of the books, so they got double-counted in the format section if I read them in both formats. I've also included The Great Courses audios that I listen to through Audible.com. Though not actually books, I figure that a 10+ hour course on a subject contains about the same informational content, if not presented structurally in quite the same way as it would take in a written book.
The History
And for anyone who is interested in looking into the past to see some of my previous book lists...
Prior to 2008, I didn't keep a precise running record of the books that I read.
