2009 Reading...

Often, I'm queried about what I've read or am reading. Then I get asked for
a list. Here's an incomplete list.

RELIGION/PHILOSOPHY

- Wake Up by Jack Kerouac
- The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture by Darrel Ray
- Answers from the Heart by Thich Nhat Hanh
- Ethics for the New Millennium by Dalai Lama
- The Diamond That Cuts Through Illusion by Thich Nhat Hanh
- The Dhammapada (The Buddha's Path of Truth) by The Buddha
- Desiderata by Max Ehrmann
- Open Heart, Clear Mind by Thubten Chodron
- Nagarjuna's Seventy Stanzas by David Ross Komito
- Zen Flesh Zen Bones by Paul Reps/Nyogen Senzaki
- I Am That : Talks with Nisargadatta Maharaj by Maurice Frydman
- What makes you not a buddhist by Jamyang Khyentse
- Graceful Exits : How great beings die by Sushila Blackman
- Commit to Sit by Joan Duncan Oliver
- Buddha by Deepak Chopra
- The Dhammapada by Eknath Easwaran
- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
- Sand and Foam by Kahlil Gibran

NATURE/NATURAL WORLD/SCIENCE

- The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
- Quantum Field Theory Demystified by David McMahon
- Polar Obsession by Paul Nicklen
- K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain by David Roberts, Ed Viestur
- No Shortcuts to the Top by David Roberts, Ed Viesturs
- Tuna: A Love Story by Richard Ellis
- On Thin Ice by Richard Ellis
- String Theory Demystified by David McMahon
- Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know by Alexandra Horowitz
- Isaac Newton by James Gleick
- The Quantum and the Lotus by Trinh Xuan Thuan
- Shark Life: True Stories About Sharks & the Sea by Peter Benchley
- The Einstein Theory of Relativity by H.A. Lorentz, Albert Einstein
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

MOTOR RACING

- Race Car Vehicle Dynamics by William F. Milliken
- Race Car Aerodynamics: Designing for Speed by Joseph Katz
- What if I had never tried it : Autobiography by Valentino Rossi
- Go Like Hell : Ford, Ferrari, and their battle for speed & glory at LeMans by A.J Baime
- Technique of Motor Racing by Piero Taruffi
- Drive to Win: The Essential Guide to Race Driving by Carroll Smith
- The Racing Driver by Denis Jenkinson
- The Racing & High-Performance Tire by Paul Haney
- Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
- Speed Secrets (1-6) by Ross Bentley


FINANCE & ECONOMICS

- Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas
- The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman
- The Greatest Trade Ever by Gregory Zuckerman
- Blood on the Street by Charles Gasparino
- Frequently Asked Questions in Quantitative Finance by Paul Wilmott
- Against the Gods, Peter Bernstein
- The Sellout by Charles Gasparino
- Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
- SuperFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
- The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
- The Panic of 1907 by Robert F. Bruner, Sean D. Carr
- THE GREAT UNRAVELING by Paul Krugman
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

SOCIOLOGY

- Disturbing the Peace, Vaclav Havel
- Encyclopedia of Pasta by Oretta Zanini De Vita, Maureen Fant
- Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America by Chris Hedges
- The Image : A Guide to pseudo-events in America by Daniel Boorstin
- Empire of Illusion : The end of literacy and the triumph of spectacle by Chris Hodges
- Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free by Charles Pierce
- American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America by Chris Hedge
- What Every Person Should Know About War by Chris Hedges
- The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel Boorstin
- Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

MISC

- Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose by Constance Hale
- Hot Shoe Diaries : Big Light from Small Flashes by Joe McNally
- Metamorphosis and The Trial by Franz Kafka
- The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- The God of Small Things: A Novel by Arundhati Roy
- The Bedside Baccalaureate by David Rubel
- Essential PG Wodehouse Collection, PG Wodehouse
- Complete works of William Shakespeare
- The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
- The Devil's Dictionary by AMBROSE BIERCE