Reading Currently reading The Box by Marc Levinson Finished reading Biology for AP® Courses by Julianne Zedalis 1787: The Lost Chapters of Australia's Beginnings by Nick Brodie The Second World War: A Complete History by Martin Gilbert Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown Bird by Bird: some instructions on writing and life by Anne Lamott Israel: A History by Martin Gilbert Girt (The Unauthorised History of Australia #1) by David Hunt Waking Up: Searching for Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris The Shortest History of Europe by John Hirst The First World War: A Complete History by Martin Gilbert Van Diemen’s Land by James Boyce The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right by Atul Gawande The Templars: The Rise and Fall of God's Holy Warriors by Dan Jones 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works - A True Story by Dan Harris Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick 1835: The Founding of Melbourne & the Conquest of Australia by James Boyce Life Driven Purpose: How an Atheist Finds Meaning by Dan Barker Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle by Thea Cooper Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England by Dan Jones The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder The Vikings by Frank R. Donovan 1984 by George Orwell Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game by Andrew Hodges The Martian: Stranded on Mars, one astronaut fights to survive by Andy Weir A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee Rome by Robert Hughes The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet by Andrew Blum Remote: Office Not Required by David Heinemeier Hansson Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Mammoth Books presents Wang's Carpets by Greg Egan How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning and Languages Live or Die by David Crystal Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery by Dean Ornish A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages...Especially English by Anthony Burgess Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady by Mark Jackson The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding by Robert Hughes Spell It Out: The singular story of English spelling by David Crystal The Story of English in 100 Words by David Crystal Pro Puppet (Expert's Voice in Open Source) by James Turnbull The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco AD 381: Heretics, Pagans and the Dawn of the Monotheistic State by Charles Freeman The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle over America's Drinking Water by Elizabeth Royte The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left by David Crystal The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks Awakenings by Oliver Sacks The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker Guitar: An American Life by Tim Brookes Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Todd Gilbert The Design Of Future Things by Donald A. Norman On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Always Unreliable: Unreliable Memoirs Books 1 - 3 by Clive James Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker I Think You’ll Find It’s a Bit More Complicated Than That by Ben Goldacre Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction by Johann Hari The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio by William J. Bernstein The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) by Frank McCourt Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin D. Mitnick The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Second edition - With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility") by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Unnatural Acts: Critical Thinking, Skepticism, and Science Exposed! by Robert Todd Carroll Wordwatching: Field Notes of an Amateur Philologist by Julian Burnside