Partial 2013 Reading List

Currently in the middle of:

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky

My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar







2013 non-fiction hopefuls:

- Mass Media and American Politics by Doris A. Graber
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
- The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno De Mesquita & Alastair Smith
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
- Identities and Inequalities: Exploring the Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, & Sexuality by David M. Newman
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
- Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey D. Sachs
- Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo
- Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior by Geoffrey Miller
- All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals by David Scheffer
- A History of Warfare by John Keegan
- Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America by Ted Steinberg
- Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War by William Saletan
- Making an Exit: From the Magnificent to the Macabre - How We Dignify the Dead by Sarah Murray
- The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
- Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris
- Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
- The Pessimist's Guide to History: An Irresistible Compendium of Catastrophes, Barbarities, Massacres, and Mayhem—from 14 Billion Years Ago to 2007 by Doris Flexner & Stuart Flexner
- To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild
- Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 by Madeleine Albright
- The Middle East and Islamic World Reader by Marvin E. Gettleman
- The Road to Fatima Gate: The Beirut Spring, the Rise of Hezbollah, and the Iranian War Against Israel by Michael J. Totten
- King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
- Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein

2013 Goal: 52 | Completed: 4