2013 Reading Review
In 2013, I completed 99 books, novels, and short-story collections. They were a mix of fiction and non-fiction; some for Reason work, some for NYU, some for pleasure. These are listed in order that I completed them, and include physical books, audible, and kindle. Same vague five star rating as previous end-of-year book lists:
1. The Moral Animal (Robert Wright)****
2. How an Economy Grows (Peter Schiff)**
3. The Story of Philosophy (Will Durant)***
4. Better Angles of Our Nature (Steven Pinker)*****
5. Frank Knight and the Chicago School (Arthur Diamond)*****
6. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)****
7. The Signal and the Noise (Nate Silver)***
8. Aquamarine (Alice Hoffman)***
9. The Drunkards Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Jordan Eli)***
10. Human Capitalism (Brink Lindsey)*****
11. Endgame (John Mauldin)**
12. Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)****
13. The Manipulation of Choice (Mark D. White)****
14. Letters to a Young Contrarian (Christopher Hitchens)****
15. The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa)**
16. For Rounnea (Sigrid Nunez)***
17. Tenth of December (George Saunders)****
18. Create Your Own Economy (Tyler Cowen)****
19. Orlando (Virginia Woolf)***
20. Keynes-Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics (Nicholas Wapshott)***
21. In the Freud Archives (Janet Malcolm)****
22. On Intelligence (Jeff Hawkins)**
23. It's Even Worse than You Think (Norman Ornstein & Thomas Mann)*
24. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Nassim Taleb)****
25. The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins)**
26. If this Be a Man (Primo Levi)***
27. The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't--and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger (Daniel Gardner)***
28. Atonement (Ian McEwan)***
29. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and 9/11 (Lawrence Wright)****
30. Assassination Vacation (Sarah Vowell)****
31. The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)****
32. How to Read Wittgenstein (Ray Monk)****
33. The Great Deformation (David Stockman)****
34. After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street-and Washington (Nicole Gelinas)**
35. World War Z (Max Brooks)*****
36. Coolidge (Amity Shlaes)****
37. Early Austrian Economists (Louis Rukeyser)***
38. Tortilla Flat (John Steinbeck)**
39. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Liaquat Ahamed)**
40. This is How You Lose Her (Junot Diaz)***
41. Freedom (Jonathan Franzen)****
42. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Jack Kerouac & William S. Burroughs)***
43. The Forgotten God (Francis Chan)*
44. Guns of August (Barbara W. Tuchman)***
45. The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes (Mark Skousen)***
46. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Jared M. Diamond)**
47. Social Conquest of the Earth (Edward O. Wilson)***
48. Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire (Noam Chomsky)*
49. This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral—Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!—in America's Gilded Capital (Mark Leibovich)**
50. Letter's to a Young Poet (R.M. Rilke)****
51. Drunk Tank Pink (Adam Alter)**
52. Struggle Over the Keynesian Heritage (Paul Davidson)**
53. Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too (James Galbraith)*
54. The Painted Bird (Jerzy Kosinski)**
55. Monetarism and Supply Side Economics (Arlo Klamer)**
56. Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History (Thomas Barfield)****
57. The Bell Curve (Richard J. Hernstein & Charles Murray)*****
58. The Great American Novel (Philip Roth)*****
59. A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)**
60. Dracula (Bram Stoker)**
61. Myth of the Rational Voter (Bryan Caplan)***
62. Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)***
63. Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)**
64. The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel of North Korea (Adam Johnson)****
65. The People of Forever Are Not Afraid (Shani Boianjiu)****
66. The Invisible Hook (Peter Leeson)***
67. Alfred Marshall & Neoclassicsm: Economics Becomes a Science (Robert Hebert)***
68. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Steven Pinker)**
69. Theodore and Woodrow (Andrew Napolitano)**
70. Love Your God With All Your Mind (J.P. Moreland)*
71. Rise of the Warrior Cop (Radley Balko)****
72. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (David Foster Wallace)****
73. The Circle (Dave Eggers)****
74. The Rhetoric of Economics (Deidre McCloskey)*****
75. Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield (Jeremy Scahill)****
76. Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)**
77. On the Wealth of Nations (P.J O’Rourke)*
78. Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation (Tyler Cowen)***
79. The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)**
80. Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Daniel Dennett)***
81. Simply Jesus (N.T. Wright)*****
82. Dying Inside (Robert Silverberg)***
83. The Great Divorce (C.S. Lewis)*****
84. On the Road (Jack Kerouac)***
85. Is There an Economic Consensus? (Samuel Brittan)**
86. Consider Phlebas (Ian M. Banks)****
87. The Three Languages of Politics (Arnold Kling)****
88. Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate (Robert D. Kaplan)****
89. Animals Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (George A. Akerlof & Robert J. Shiller)**
90. Sweet Tooth (Ian McEwan)****
91. Where Good Ideas Come From (Paul Johnson)***
92. The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression (Angus Burgin)***
93. Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Daniel Dennett)***
94. I Am Spock (Leonard Nimoy)***
95. Detroit: An American Autopsy (Charlie LeDuff)****
96. Descartes: A Very Short Introduction (Tom Sorrell)***
97. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary (David Sedaris)****
98. Economical Writing (Deirdre McCloskey)**
99. Under Western Eyes (Joseph Conrad)*
