by Since Jack Vinson published the list of the books he read in 2009, I thought I would too. Although, I left off the dozens (hundreds?) of books I read to my kids during 2009.
Here they are, mostly in chronological order:
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The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The title of the book comes from the observations of Europeans that all swans are white. Much to their surprise, they came to Australia and found their first black swan. My review: Book Review: The Black Swan |
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Gods Behaving Badly: A Novel by Marie Phillips |
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This book managed to squash any latent desire I had to take up high altitude mountaineering. High Crimes by Michael Kodas My Review: Book Review – High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed |
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Joker One is the story of a Marine platoon commander and his platoon’s deployment in Ramadi in 2004. My Review: Joker One Book Review |
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Jennifer Woodlief tells the story of the 1982 avalanche at the Lake Tahoe ski resort of Alpine Meadows. My review: A Wall of White – My Book Review |
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The autobiography of Lynne Cox – Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer. She is a remarkable athlete with an incredible ability to swim long distances and withstand hours in freezing water. My review: Swimming to Antarctica |
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In How Shall I Tell the Dog?: And Other Final Musings, the late Miles Kington offers his observations about his diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. My review: How Shall I Tell The Dog? |
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The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court was written by Jeffrey Tobin, a staff writer for The New Yorker and a senior legal analyst at CNN. Toobin guides us through the last twenty years of court history by focusing on individual justices and their roles in some of the most controversial cases. |
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In Beyond the Horizon: The First Human-Powered Expedition to Circle the Globe, Colin Angus details his attempt to circumnavigate the globe. My review: Beyond the Horizon: The First Human-Powered Expedition to Circle the Globe |
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Beyond Road’s End: Living Free in Alaska |
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Cake decorating, humor and a blog sound like an odd combination. Jen Yates of Cake Wrecks manages to mix them all together with hilarious results when professional cakes go hilariously wrong. Now Jen has compiled some of her best cakes and a whole lot of new content into a new book: Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong . |
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Andrew McAfee’s Enterprise 2.0 pulls together all of the bits and pieces that he has said about Enterprise 2.0. Because even if you are familiar with McAfee and Enterprise 2.0, you have not had it all put together nicely in one place. My review: Enterprise 2.0 – The Book |
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For a gripping father-son story, try The Road My Review: Book Review: The Road by Cormac McCarthy |
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Chris Anderson’s new book: Free: The Future of a Radical Price. Given that I am a lawyer, I kept thinking about how his concepts apply to law firms. My review: Free and Law Firms |
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Social Networking for the Legal Profession by Penny Edwards and Lee Bryant. My review: Social Networking for the Legal Profession |
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I am a little late to the game when it comes to reading some of Malcolm Gladwell’s books, including Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking My review: Blink and Compliance |
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Leonard Mlodinow’s The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives. |
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Watching Giants: The Secret Lives of Whales by Elin Kelsey. |
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My review: Mission Flats – A Great Crime Novel for Your Bookshelf |
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Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo My review: The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo – A Swedish Crime Novel |
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Cory Doctorow tells the story in the near future of a two hardware hackers who fall in with microfinancing venture capitalists and invent the “New Work” economy, and then find themselves swimming with corporate sharks, fighting with each other, and leading a band of global techno-revolutionaries. |
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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance |
by Cormac McCarthy.
is a tale of a complicated international financial fraud and the buried evil past of a wealthy Swedish industrial family.That’s twenty-two for the year.
Here are the books I am currently reading.
And the books I have lined up to read.
I neglected to leave off the kids’ books too. There are lots of good ones out there, including some of the longer-form ones that G_ is starting to enjoy.
The Son is starting to enjoy chapter books, so I think some of the “kids” books may start finding their way onto next year’s list.
Right now, we are reading The Lightning Thief. He really likes it and I enjoy it too!