Best Books I read from 2008 Through 2009
I read 83 books from 2008 through 2009.
The following is a list of the best of those books.
They are books that influenced how I see the world, and many are the books I most refer back to in conversations with others.
For some of these books, I now realize that I have matured or otherwise moved to a place in conflict with the propositions put forth in the book. However, even these books undoubtedly shaped my thinking in certain, durable ways. And they certainly inspired me, through the sheer intellectual enjoyment of reading them at the time, to read voraciously in a never-ending search for further epiphanies.
Beyond Chutzpah, by Finkelstein, Norman G.
America's War on Sex, by Klein, Marty
Green Metropolis, by Owen, David
The Israel Lobby & US Foreign Policy, by Mearsheimer, J & Walt, S
In Defense of Food, by Pollan, Michael
The Kite Runner, by Hosseini, Khaled
Running on Empty, by Peterson, Peter
Trick or Treatment, by Singh, S. & Edzard Ernst
Nudge, by Thaler, Richard & Sunstein, Cass
Predictably Irrational, by Ariely, Dan
Outliers, by Gladwell, Malcolm
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do, by Vanderbilt, Tom
Fighting Traffic, by Norton, Peter
Reinventing Collapse, by Orlov, Dmitry
Community and the Politics of Place, by Kemmis, Daniel
Legacy of Ashes, by Weiner, Tim
The Option of Urbanism, by Leinberger, Christopher
Big Box Swindle, by Mitchell, Stacy
In Harm's Way, by Stanton, Doug
Nemesis, by Johnson, Chalmers
The Coming Economic Collapse, by Leeb, Stephen
Don't Believe Everything You Think, by Kida, Thomas
Infidel, by Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
Breakthrough, by Nordhaus, Ted & Michael Shellenberger               ________________________________________________________