By Dom Nozzi
I have always been an obsessive list-maker, as most of my friends have been amused to learn. I make lists of nearly everything.
One of the lists I started making about 30 years ago, that I have since updated and maintained each year, is a list of books I’ve read. By doing so, I know such things as the book title of each book I’ve read, the book author, what month and year I read the book, and the overall number of books I own and have read over the years.
My book list informs me that I have reached a book-reading milestone this year. As of the end of 2010, I have read over 1,000 books in my life.
Here is the list of the 65 books I read in 2010. Note that a single asterisk indicates that I found the book to be excellent. One that I highly recommend. Two asterisks indicate that the book was one of the best, most important books I have ever read. Don’t miss it!
Bacevich, A (2010). Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War*
Chomsky, Noam (2010). Hopes and Prospects *
Epstein, Greg (2005). Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe
Fenton, Tom (2009). Junk News: The Failure of the Media in the 21st Century
Flynn, Tom (1993). The Trouble With Christmas *
Goleman, Daniel (2009). Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything
Lutz, Catherine & Anne (2010). Carjacked: The Culture of the Auto & It’s Effects on Our Lives
Park, Robert (2000). Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
Rogers, Heather (2010). Green Gone Wrong: Can Capitalism Save the Planet?
Wills, Garry (2010). Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State *
Wise, Jeff (2009). Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger
Chomsky, Noam (2007). Interventions
Johnson, Steven (2010). Where Good Ideas Come From *
Lih, Andrew (2009). The Wikipedia Revolution
Onfray, Michel (2005). Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism and Islam
Schiff, Peter (2009). Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit from the Economic Collapse
Stilgoe, John R. (2007). Train Time: Railroads and the Imminent Reshaping of the American Landscape
Sullivan, James (2010). Seven Dirty Words: Life & Crimes of George Carlin
Taber, Robert (2002). War of the Flea: Guerilla Warfare *
Agin, Dan (2006). Junk Science: How Politicians, Corporations and Other Hucksters Betray Us
Ellsberg, D (2002). Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam & the Pentagon 
Papers **
McCommons, James (2009). Waiting on a Train : The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service
Prochnik, George (2010) In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise
Carlin, George (2009). Last Words
Fox, S, Armentano, P, Tvert, M. (2009). Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? *
Roselle, Mike (2009). Tree Spiker: From Earth First! To Lowbagging. My Struggles with Environmental Radicalism
Berkun, Scott (2010). Confessions of a Public Speaker
Carr, Nicholas (2010). The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains *
Elder, Robert K.(2010). Last Words of the Executed
Gray, James (2001). Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It *
Robbins, John (2010). The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less
Wurman, Richard Saul (1989). Information Anxiety: What to Do When Information Doesn’t Tell You What You Need to Know
Frazier, Kendrick (ed) (2009). Science Under Siege: Defending Science, Exposing Pseudoscience
Kirkpatrick, David (2010). The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World
Lovenheim, Peter (2010). In the Neighborhood: Searching for Community One Sleepover at a Time
Viega, John (2009). The Myths of Security: What the Computer Security Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know
Hewitt, Ben (2009). The Town that Food Saved: One Town Sows Seeds of Change
Levitt, Steven D. & Stephen Dubner (2009). Super Freakeonomics
Lewis, Michael (2010). The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Parker-Pope, Tara (2010). For Better: The Science of a Good Marriage
Pollan, Michael (2009). Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual *
Pollan, Michael (2001). The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Eye View of the World
Slone, Daniel & Doris Goldstein (2008). A Legal Guide to Urban and Sustainable Development
Duany, Andres, Jeff Speck, Mike Lydon (2010). The Smart Growth Manual
Handler, Chelsea (2005). My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
Krier, Leon (2009). The Architecture of Community
Lomborg, Bjorn (2007). Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming *
Millais, Malcolm (2009). Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture
Semes, Steven (2009). The Future of the Past: A Conservation Ethic for Architecture, Urbanism and Historic Preservation
Brockman, John (2007). What Is Your Dangerous Idea: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable
Ehrenreich, Barbara (2009). Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Gladwell, Malcolm (2005). Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Lehrer, Johah (2009). How We Decide
Anonymous (2004). Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror
Bishop, Bill (2008). The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
Stenger, Victor (2007). God: The Failed Hypothesis *
Venturi, Robert (1972). Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
Zinn, Howard (2003). A People’s History of the United States *
Brand, Stewart (2009). Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto *
Byrne, David (2009). Bicycle Diaries
Freeman, John (2009). The Tyranny of Email: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your In Box
Rubin, Jeff (2009). Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil & the End of Globalization *
Sniegnoski, Stephen (2008). The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative 
Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel **
Sperling, Daniel & Deborah Gordon (2009). Two Billion Cars: Driving Towards Sustainability
Winik, Jay (2001). April 1865: The Month that Saved America
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