A running list of the books I’ve purchased to keep my reading up throughout the year.  Here we go:

2011

• Born to Run
• Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
• American Property: A History of How, Why, and What We Own

2010

• The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
• Crime and Punishment – Fedor Dostevsky
• Pudd’nhead Wilson – Mark Twain
• Death in the Afternoon – Ernest Hemingway
• Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself – Lipsky
• The Bed of Procustes – Nassim Taleb
• Confessions of a Philosopher – Magee
• Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
• Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town – Nick Reding
• Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture – Ellen Ruppel Shell
• Soccernomics – Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski
• The Paranoid Style in American Politics – Richard Hofstadter
• Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes – Daniel L. Everett
• Nothing to Be Frightened Of – Julian Barnes
• A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson
• Using Drupal – Lots of people…
• Shop as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work – Matthew B. Crawford
• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
• Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
• Step Across This Line – Salman Rushdie
• War – Sebastian Junger
• Rework – Jason Fried  and David Heinemeir Hansson

2009

• How We Decide – Jonah Lehrer
• Five Days in London 1940 – John Lukacs
• Fish - Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen
• Living Biblically – AJ Jacobs
• The BLDGBLOG Book – Geoff Manaugh
• The Meaning of Hitler – Sebastian Haffner
• The Forever War – Dexter Filkins *Best book I read during 2009, easily
• Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness – Richard Thaler
• Tribes - Seth Godin
• The Nine: Inside the Supreme Court – Jeffrey Toobin
• I Am a Strange Loop – Douglas Hofstadter
• The American Future – Simon Schama
• Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
• Ignore Everyone – Hugh MacLeod
• This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, About Living a Compassionate Life David Foster Wallace
• The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work – Alain de Botton
• The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight Over Presidential Power – Jonathan Mahler
• Becoming Justice Blackmun – Linda Greenhouse
• The Management Myth – Matthew Stewart