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  I began this project in early 2006 after having made a New Year's resolution to do more recreational reading. My thought at the time was that tracking my progress would help me remain motivated to continue reading. To date, I have found this supposition to be reasonably well supported. =)

Since I began tracking my progress, I have read 349 books totaling 130,915 pages (≈ 32,728,750 words).

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Currently reading:
  • "Revolution 2.0" by Wael Ghonim
Recently read (2012):
  • "The Microsoft Edge" by Julie Bick
  • "The 10 Commandments of Money" by Liz Weston
  • "I.O.U." by John Lanchester
  • "The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit" by Charles Dickens
  • "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum
  • "Rocks of Ages" by Stephen Jay Gould
  • "Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science" by Lawrence M. Krauss
  • "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design" by Jonathan Wells
  • "23 Minutes In Hell" by Bill Wiese
  • "How to Listen to and Understand Great Music" by Robert Greenberg
  • "90 Minutes in Heaven" by Don Piper
  • "Understanding the Fundamentals of Music" by Robert Greenberg
  • "Isaac Newton's New Physics" by Gordon Brittan
  • "The Theory Of Everything" by Stephen Hawking
  • "The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain" by Charles Dickens
  • "The Battle of Life" by Charles Dickens
Read (2011):
  • "The Cricket on the Hearth" by Charles Dickens
  • "The Land of Painted Caves" by Jean M. Auel
  • "The Shelters of Stone" by Jean M. Auel
  • "The Plains of Passage" by Jean M. Auel
  • "The Mammoth Hunters" by Jean M. Auel
  • "The Valley of Horses" by Jean M. Auel
  • "The Clan of the Cave Bear" by Jean M. Auel
  • "The Chimes" by Charles Dickens
  • "The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory" by George Musser
  • "Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty" by Charles Dickens
  • "How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival" by David Kaiser
  • "The Old Curiosity Shop" by Charles Dickens
  • "Outrageous Fortunes: The Twelve Surprising Trends That Will Reshape the Global Economy" by Daniel Altman
  • "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" by Charles Dickens
  • "The Housing Boom and Bust" by Thomas Sowell
  • "The Future of Life" by Edward O. Wilson
  • "The Design Revolution" by William A. Dembski
  • "Our Inner Ape" by Frans De Waal
  • "The Adventures of Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens
  • "The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality" by Richard Panek
  • "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" by Thomas Penson de Quincey
  • "The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science" by Richard Holmes
  • "Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space" by Isaac Asimov
  • "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club" by Charles Dickens
  • "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert
  • "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • "Negotiation Genius" by Deepak Malhotra and Max Bazerman
  • "Secrets of Power Negotiation" by Roger Dawson
  • "Beyond Goals" by Roger Dawson
  • "Secrets of Power Persuasion" by Roger Dawson
  • "The French Lieutenant's Woman" by John Fowles
  • "The Truth About Negotiations" by Leigh L. Thompson
  • "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
  • "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
  • "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck
  • "The Last Battle" by C.S. Lewis
  • "The Silver Chair" by C.S. Lewis
  • "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" by C.S. Lewis
  • "Prince Caspian" by C.S. Lewis
  • "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
  • "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis
  • "The Magician's Nephew" by C.S. Lewis
  • "Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain" by David Eagleman
  • "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
  • "Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Short Story Collection" by Edgar Allan Poe
  • "The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe" by Edgar Allan Poe
  • "D-Day: The Battle for Normandy" by Antony Beevor
  • "Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School" by Philip Delves Broughton
  • "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell
  • "The Social Animal" by David Brooks
  • "A Feast for Crows" by George R. R. Martin
  • "A Storm of Swords" by George R. R. Martin
  • "A Clash of Kings" by George R. R. Martin
  • "A Game of Thrones" by George R. R. Martin
  • "Sworn Sword" by George R. R. Martin
  • "The Hedge Knight" by George R. R. Martin
  • "Calvin for Armchair Theologians" by Christopher Elwood
  • "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • "Dead Reckoning" by Charlaine Harris
  • "Dead in the Family" by Charlaine Harris
  • "Colonel Sun" by Kingsley Amis
  • "Octopussy and The Living Daylights" by Ian Fleming
  • "The Man With The Golden Gun" by Ian Fleming
  • "You Only Live Twice" by Ian Fleming
  • "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" by Ian Fleming
  • "The Spy Who Loved Me" by Ian Fleming
  • "Thunderball" by Ian Fleming
  • "For Your Eyes Only" by Ian Fleming
  • "Goldfinger" by Ian Fleming
  • "Dr. No" by Ian Fleming
  • "From Russia with Love" by Ian Fleming
  • "Diamonds Are Forever" by Ian Fleming
  • "Moonraker" by Ian Fleming
  • "Live and Let Die" by Ian Fleming
  • "Casino Royale" by Ian Fleming
  • "The Abolition of Man" by C.S. Lewis
  • "The Great Divorce" by C.S. Lewis
  • "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • "The Baker Street Letters" by Michael Robertson
  • "The Confessions" by Saint Augustine of Hippo
  • "Napoleon Bonaparte: England's Prisoner" by Frank Giles
  • "How Did You Get This Number?" by Sloane Crosley
  • "Economic Facts and Fallacies" by Thomas Sowell
  • "1968: The Year That Rocked the World" by Mark Kurlansky
  • "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency" by Barton Gellman
  • "Succeed" by Heidi Grant Halvorson
  • "I Was Told There'd Be Cake" by Sloane Crosley
  • "The Man in the Iron Mask" by Alexandre Dumas
  • "Louise de la Vallière" by Alexandre Dumas
Read (2010):
  • "Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll
  • "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
  • "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch
  • "Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation" by Steven Johnson
  • "Half Empty" by David Rakoff
  • "Decision Points" by George W. Bush
  • "Can't Remember What I Forgot: The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research" by Sue Halpern
  • "Present at the Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider" by Amir D. Aczel
  • "The World Without Us" by Alan Weisman
  • "Life Beyond Earth" by Timothy Ferris
  • "Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science" by Richard Preston
  • "The Head Trip: Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness" by Jeff Warren
  • "Earth (The Book)" by Jon Stewart et al.
  • "The Black Hole War" by Leonard Susskind
  • "Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters" by Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa
  • "Sense And Sensibility" by Jane Austen
  • "Tom Sawyer, Detective" by Mark Twain
  • "Tom Sawyer Abroad" by Mark Twain
  • "Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians" by Mark Twain and Lee Nelson
  • "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain
  • "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain
  • "Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy" by Robert M. Hazen and James Trefil
  • "Negotiation Boot Camp" by Ed Brodow
  • "The Swiss Family Robinson" by Johann D. Wyss
  • "3D Negotiation" by David A. Lax and James K. Sebenius
  • "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville
  • "Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do" by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
  • "Experiments in Ethics" by Kwame Anthony Appiah
  • "Fool" by Christopher Moore
  • "Debt of Bones" by Terry Goodkind
  • "Confessor" by Terry Goodkind
  • "Phantom" by Terry Goodkind
  • "Chainfire" by Terry Goodkind
  • "Naked Empire" by Terry Goodkind
  • "The Pillars of Creation" by Terry Goodkind
  • "Faith of the Fallen" by Terry Goodkind
  • "Soul of the Fire" by Terry Goodkind
  • "Temple of the Winds" by Terry Goodkind
  • "Blood of the Fold" by Terry Goodkind
  • "Stone of Tears" by Terry Goodkind
  • "James Madison: the Founding Father" by Robert Rutland
  • "And Another Thing..." by Eoin Colfer
  • "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds" by Charles MacKay
  • "Wizard's First Rule" by Terry Goodkind
  • "Thomas Jefferson and His Time, Volume 6: The Sage of Monticello" by Dumas Malone
  • "Thomas Jefferson and His Time, Volume 5: The President: Second Term, 1805-1809" by Dumas Malone
  • "Thomas Jefferson and His Time, Volume 4: The President: First Term, 1801-1805" by Dumas Malone
  • "Thomas Jefferson and His Time, Volume 3: Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty" by Dumas Malone
  • "Thomas Jefferson and His Time, Volume 2: Jefferson and the Rights of Man" by Dumas Malone
  • "Thomas Jefferson and His Time, Volume 1: The Virginian" by Dumas Malone
  • "Bird by Bird" by Anne Lamott
  • "The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
  • "The Wisdom of Crowds" by James Surowiecki
  • "Word by Word" by Anne Lamott
  • "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac
  • "The Assault on Reason" by Albert Gore
  • "Toxic Truth: A Scientist, a Doctor, and the Battle Over Lead" by Lydia Denwoth
  • "Life on a Little Known Planet" by Howard Evans
  • "The Essential Engineer" by Henry Petroski
  • "You Are Not a Gadget" by Jaron Lanier
  • "Natural Science and the Planet Earth" by Jack Sommer
  • "Coal: A Human History" by Barbara Freese
  • "The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine" by Francis S. Collins
  • "The Medusa and the Snail" by Lewis Thomas
  • "Exploring and Mapmaking" by Ian Jackson
  • "The Seashell on the Mountaintop" by Alan Cutler
  • "Red Moon Rising" by Matthew Brzezinski
  • "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach
  • "Immortality" by Ben Bova
  • "Proust Was a Neuroscientist" by Jonah Lehrer
  • "Longitude" by Dava Sobel
  • "Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded" by Simon Winchester
  • "The Planets" by Dava Sobel
  • "The Stuff of Thought" by Steven Pinker
  • "Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things" by Laurence Gonzales
  • "The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist" by Richard Feynman
  • "Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex" by Mary Roach
  • "Complexity and Chaos" by Roger White
  • "Your Inner Fish" by Neil Shubin
  • "Isaac Newton" by James Gleick
  • "Electric Universe: The Shocking True Story of Electricity" by David Bodanis
  • "The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science" by Natalie Angier
  • "The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World" by Michael Pollan
  • "The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality" by Brian Greene
  • "The Universe in a Nutshell" by Stephen Hawking
  • "Physics of the Impossible" by Michio Kaku
  • "Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact" by John Cornwell
  • "The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality" by Dalai Lama
  • "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared Diamond
  • "Dark Matter: The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton" by Philip Kerr
Read (2009):
  • "Hard Call: The Art of Great Decisions" by John McCain
  • "Generation Blend: Managing Across the Technology Age Gap" by Rob Salkowitz
  • "The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes" by Mark Skousen
  • "Creating a World Without Poverty" by Muhammad Yunus
  • "Free to Choose" by Milton Friedman
  • "Freedomnomics" by John R. Lott Jr.
  • "Buyology" by Martin Lindstrom
  • "Integrity" by Henry Cloud
  • "Super Crunchers" by Ian Ayres
  • "The Making of Modern Economics" by Mark Skousen
  • "Made to Stick" by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
  • "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely
  • "The eBay Phenomenon" by David Bunnell
  • "The Alchemy of Finance" by George Soros
  • "Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One" by Thomas Sowell
  • "The Now Habit" by Neil Fiore
  • "The Art of Innovation" by Tom Kelley
  • "Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy" by Thomas Sowell
  • "The Google Story" by David A. Vise
  • "The Warren Buffett Way" by Robert G. Hagstrom
  • "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Robert T. Kiyosaki
  • "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
  • "100 Great Businesses and the Minds Behind Them" by Emily Ross
  • "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
  • "John Lennon: The Life" by Philip Norman
  • "Dune" by Frank Herbert
  • "The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey" by Patrick O'Brian
  • "Blue at the Mizzen" by Patrick O'Brian
  • "The Hundred Days" by Patrick O'Brian
  • "Dead and Gone" by Charlaine Harris
  • "From Dead to Worse" by Charlaine Harris
  • "All Together Dead" by Charlaine Harris
  • "The Yellow Admiral" by Patrick O'Brian
  • "The Commodore" by Patrick O'Brian
  • "The Wine-Dark Sea" by Patrick O'Brian
  • "Definitely Dead" by Charlaine Harris
  • "Dead as a Doornail" by Charlaine Harris
  • "Dead to the World" by Charlaine Harris
  • "Clarissa Oakes" by Patrick O'Brian
  • "The Nutmeg of Consolation" by Patrick O'Brian
  • "The Thirteen Gun Salute" by Patrick O'Brian
  • "Mostly Harmless" by Douglas Adams
  • "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" by Douglas Adams
  • "Club Dead" by Charlaine Harris
  • "The Letter of Marque" by Patrick O'Brian
  • "The Reverse of the Medal" by Patrick O'Brian
  • "The Far Side of the World" by Patrick O'Brian
  • "Living Dead In Dallas" by Charlaine Harris
  • "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • "Treason's Harbour" by Patrick O'Brian
  • "The Ionian Mission" by Patrick O'Brian
  • "The Surgeon's Mate" by Patrick O'Brian
  • "Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris
  • "The Two Towers" by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • "The Fortune of War" by Patrick O'Brian
  • "Desolation Island" by Patrick O'Brian
  • "The Mauritius Command" by Patrick O'Brian
  • "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • "Le Vicomte de Bragelonne" by Alexandre Dumas
  • "HMS Surprise" by Patrick O'Brian
  • "Post Captain" by Patrick O'Brian
  • "Master and Commander" by Patrick O'Brian
  • "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas
  • "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas
  • "Captains Courageous" by Rudyard Kipling
  • "Beloved" by Toni Morrison
  • "Lives of the Twelve Caesars" by Suetonius
  • "Caesar's Legion" by Stephen Dando-Collins
  • "The Origin Of Species" by Charles Darwin
  • "Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor" by Kathryn Lasky
  • "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
  • "This Sceptred Isle: Empire, Volume 1" by Christopher Lee
  • "Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens" by Jane Dunn
  • "The American Revolution" by George H. Smith
  • "John Adams" by David McCullough
  • "1776" by David McCullough
  • "The Purpose Driven Life" by Rick Warren
  • "George Washington: First in War, First in Peace" by James A. Crutchfield
  • "The Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty" by William Bligh
  • "The Iliad" by Homer
  • "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave" by Frederick Douglass
  • "Martin Luther, the Lion-hearted Reformer" by J.A. Morrison
  • "Leonardo Da Vinci" by Sherwin B. Nuland
  • "The Life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" by Perry Keenlyside
  • "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsig
  • "That's Not in My American History Book" by Thomas Ayres
  • "Oedipus the King" by Sophocles
  • "Lyra's Oxford" by Philip Pullman
  • "The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin" by Gordon Wood
Read (2008):
  • "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
  • "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
  • "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
  • "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" by Benjamin Franklin
  • "Northern Lights" by Philip Pullman
  • "Freakonomics" by Steven D. Levitt
  • "The Art of War" by Sun-Tzu
  • "They Saw it Happen: Eyewitness Accounts from Ancient Greece to Hiroshima" by Matthew Lewin
  • "Alexander the Great and His Time" by Agnes Savill
  • "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
  • "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne
  • "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
  • "Anthem" by Ayn Rand
  • "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" by J.K. Rowling
  • "Utopia" by Sir Thomas More
  • "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" by J.K. Rowling
  • "The Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole
  • "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
  • "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
  • "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" by J.K. Rowling
  • "Aesop's Fables" by Aesop
  • "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
  • "Beau Geste" by Percival Wren
  • "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells
  • "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe
  • "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood" by Howard Pyle
  • "The House of the Seven Gables" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • "America: The Book" by Jon Stewart et al.
  • "Paradise Lost" by John Milton
  • "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane
  • "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelly
  • "Candide" by Voltaire
  • "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas
  • "Kidnapped" by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving
  • "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad
  • "Beowulf" by Anonymous
  • "Around the World in Eighty Days" by Jules Verne
  • "Billy Budd" by Herman Melville
Read (2007):
  • "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens
  • "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" by Thornton Wilder
  • "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte
  • "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James
  • "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce
  • "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • "1984" by George Orwell
  • "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • "Running With Scissors" by Augusten Burroughs
  • "Animal Farm" by George Orwell
  • "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
  • "Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature" by Keith Thomson
  • "The Constitution of Society" by Anthony Giddens
  • "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • "The Case for Democracy" by Natan Sharansky
Read (2006):
  • "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • "The World is Flat" by Thomas Friedman
  • "Life, the Universe, and Everything" by Douglas Adams
  • "Democracy Matters" by Cornel West
  • "A Briefer History of Time" by Stephen Hawking
  • "No God But God" by Reza Aslan
  • "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" by Douglas Adams
  • "La Vita Nuova" by Dante Alighieri
  • "Misquoting Jesus" by Bart Ehrman
  • "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams
 
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