Monday, April 14, 2014

My Reading List for 2014

I am back with a new project. I am going to read 50 books this year and I will write reviews for all of them. Below you will find a list for 46 books. Please provide me with any suggestions for the remaining four books. I am doing this because I feel I need a real project. The first few books (1-6) in bold have already have been finished.  I am in the process of reading books 7-9.

1.     The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days …– Jonathan Alter
2.     Double Down: Game Change  - Mark Halperin  & John Heilemann 
3.      Something More Than Night – Ian Trigillis
4.     Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie … Cryptids – Daniel Loxton
5.     The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkein
6.     Joyland - Stephen King

7.     Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business – Danny Meyer
8.     The Shining – Stephen King
9.     Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity by Elaine Pagels

  1. God A Biography – Jack Miles
  2. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead - Sheryl Sandberg
  3. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
  4. Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington … Education of a President – Ron Suskind
  5. The Dinosaur Heresies – Robert Bakker
  6. Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
  7. American Gods – Neil Gaiman
  8. Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman 
  9. The Greatest Trade Ever – Gregory Zuckerman
  10. The Informant - Kurt Eichenwald
  11. American Original: The Life and Constitution of SCJ Antonin Scalia - Joan Biskupic
  12. Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir – J. Stevens
  13. Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
  14. A Feast for Crows – George R.R. Martin
  15. One Summer: America, 1927 - Bill Bryson
  16. The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
  17. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
  18. Anthem – Ayn Rand
  19. Keynes – Peter Clark
  20. The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, - Robert Caro
  21. All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan – Elizabeth Warren
  22. In the Garden of Beasts – Erik Larson
  23. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt – Doris Kearns Goodwin
  24. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth - Reza Aslan
  25. The Iliad - Homer  (Translated by Robert Fagles)
  26. The Odyssey - Homer  (Translated by Robert Fagles)
  27. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft… – Doris Kearns Goodwin
  28. The Signature of All Things: A Novel – Elizabeth Gilbert
  29. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
  30. Religion Without God – Ronald Dworkin
  31. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
  32. The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence - Duff McDonald 
  33. Underworld - Don DeLilo
  34. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
  35. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation – Seamus Heaney
  36. Gilgamesh: A New English Version -  Stephen Mitchell
  37. The Birth of Satan: Tracing the Devil's Biblical Roots - T. J. Wray

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