2014 Books Read Challenge!

My 2014 Goal is to Complete 52 books by December 31, 2014.  I’ll keep this page updated as to what I’m reading and what I’ve finished, as well as a few in the queue!

Updated: July 2014

Reading:

• Better Angels of our Nature – Stephen Pinker
• The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I – Barbara Tuchman
• The Complete Sherlock Holmes – Volumes I and II – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Unbroken: A WWII story of survival, resilience and redemption – Laura Hillenbrand

Finished

1. Leonardo: The Artist and the Man– Serge Bramly
2. Giovanni’s Room (Vintage International) – James Baldwin
3. A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing – Lawrence Krauss
4. Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality– Patricia Churchland
5. Mirroring People: The Science of Empathy and How We Connect with Others – Marco Iacoboni
6. An Enguiry concerning Human Understanding – David Hume
7. The Fall – Albert Camus
8. Why I’m not a Christian – Bertrand Russell
9. Hegel’s Philosophy of the Mind – Friedrich Hegel
10. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark – Carl Sagan
11. The Black Book – Orhan Pamuk
12. The Castle – Kafka
13. The Rape Of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II – Isis Chang
14. The Narrative of John Smith – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
15. 2001 A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
16. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
17. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

In the Queue!

• The Theoretical Minimum – Leonard Susskind
• Unlikely Spy – Daniel Silva
• Galapagos – Kurt Vonnegut Jr