My 2011 Reading List

Fiction
The Delta Star by Joseph Wambaugh.
Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey.
Storm Front by Jim Butcher.
City of Bones by Michael Connelly.
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher.
The Wire in the Blood by Val McDermid.
The Torment of Others by Val McDermid.
Steampunk Prime edited by Mike Ashley.
My Work is Not Yet Done by Thomas Ligotti.
Among the Missing by Dan Chaon.
True Evil by Greg Isles.
Burden Kansas by Alan Ryker.
The Bellhound: Four Tales of Modern Magic by Camille LaGuire.
Podkayne of Mars by Robert Heinlein.
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman.
Under the Dome by Stephen King.
Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2011
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay.
Hazard by Gardiner Harris.
Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2011.
Strange Men in Pinstripe Suits by Cate Gardner.
Dexter by Design by Jeff Lindsay.
Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay.
Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay.
Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2011.
Questioner's Shadow by Mark Fassett.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson.
"The Colorado Kid" by Stephen King.
About a Boy by Nick Hornby.
Pushing Up Daisies by Rosemary Harris.
The Man Who Did Too Much by Camille LaGuire.
Asimov's Science Fiction, December 2011.
 
RPG/Wargaming
Warmachine Prime Mark II.
Gurps Fourth Edition Horror by Kenneth Hite.
 
Non-Fiction
The Handmade Marketplace: How to Sell Your Crafts Locally, Globally, and On-Line by Kari Chapin.
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow. (read 2X)
Cautionary Tales by Stephen Tobolowsky.
The Middle-Class Millionaire by Russ Alan Prince and Lews Schiff.
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Pike and Shot Tactics 1590-1660 by Keith Roberts.
The British Army 1660-1704 by John Tincey, illustrated by Gerry Embleton.
British Redcoat 1740-93 by Stuart Reid, illustrated by Richard Hook.
Do the Work by Steven Pressfield.
The Forts of Colonial North America: British, Dutch & Swedish by Rene Chartrand.
The New Yorker (Kindle edition) 16 May 2011
The (Mis)behavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward by Benoit B. Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson.
The Post-American World Release 2.0 by Fareed Zakaria.
Spend 'Til the End by by Laurence Kotlikoff and Scott Burns.
Playing to Win: Becoming the Champion by David Sirlin.
In Cheap We Trust by Lauren Weber.
Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit by Lendol Calder.
The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp.
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis.
The Education of Millionaires: It's Not What You Think and It's Not Too Late by Michael Ellsberg.
50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School: Real World Antidotes to Feel-Good Education by Charles J. Sykes.
Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World by Tyler Cowen.
The Flinch by Julien Smith.
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
 
Biography
Max Brand, Western Giant: The Life and Times of Frederick Schiller Faust by William F. Nolan.
Afterthoughts by Lawrence Block.
 
I bolded my favorites.
 
I struck books that really irritated me or made me wish I hadn't wasted my time. I still counted them, of course.
 
Only 60 this year. I blame sampling on my Kindle. I read quite a few samples for books that I ulimately did not read.
 
-David
 
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