Books I’ve read since 2003

Here’s what I’ve read since 2003. Most recent first.
An asterisk means I was blown away.

2013

• The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother (by James McBride)
• Rapture Practice (by Aaron Hartzler)
• * Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting (by Robert McKee)
• Steve Jobs: Genius by Design: Campfire Biography-Heroes Line (Campfire Graphic Novels)
• ** The Power of Vulnerability – audiobook (by Brene Brown)
• The Alchemist CD – audiobook (by Paulo Coelho)
• * Do the Work – audiobook (by Steven Pressfield)
• Autobiography of a Yogi (Reprint of the Philosophical library 1946 First Edition) (by Paramahansa Yogananda)
• Don’t Bite the Hook: Finding Freedom from Anger, Resentment, and Other Destructive Emotions – audiobook (by Pema Chödrön)
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death (by Jean-Dominique Bauby)
• * Timequake (by Kurt Vonnegut)
• God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (by Kurt Vonnegut)
• The Merchant of Venice (Folger Shakespeare Library) (by William Shakespeare)
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (by Tom Stoppard)
• * Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays) (by Arthur Miller)
• Double Indemnity (by James M. Cain)
• Anthem (by Ayn Rand)

2012

• B (by Sarah Kay)
• Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, Book 3) (by Jim Butcher)
• Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files (by Jim Butcher)
• Storm Front (Dresden Files) (by Jim Butcher)
• * Fahrenheit 451: A Novel (by Ray Bradbury)
• What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World (by Taylor Mali)
• The Adderall Diaries (by Stephen Elliott)
• All the Pretty Horses (by Cormac McCarthy)
• * The Little Prince (by Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
• * The On-Purpose Person (by Kevin W. McCarthy)
• Angels and Demons (by Dan Brown)
• The DaVinci Code (by Dan Brown)

2011

• * The War of Art (by Steven Pressfield)
• The Snowman (Jo Nesbø and Don Bartlett)
• * The Power of Now (by Eckhart Tolle)
• * The Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership (by Steven B. Sample)
• * Logicomix (by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou)
• * Hyperion (by Dan Simmons)
• Having Everything Right (by Kim Stafford)
• Going After Cacciato (by Tim O’Brien)
• Long Way Gone (by Ishmael Beah)
• The Hot Zone (by Richard Preston)
• Alive (by Piers Paul Read)

2010

• Into the Wild (by Jon Krakauer)
• Go Ask Alice (by Anonymous)
• * The Great Divorce (by C. S. Lewis)
• * The Screwtape Letters (by C. S. Lewis)
• * Breaking the Rules (by Kurt Wright)
• * This is Water (by David Foster Wallace)
• Trout Fishing in America (by Richard Brautigan)
• The Rape of Nanking (by Iris Chang)
• The Miracle Worker: A Play (by William Gibson)
• The Great Gatsby (by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

2009

• * The Enlightened Mind (by Stephen Mitchell)
• * The Enlightened Heart (by Stephen Mitchell)
• The Ten Principle Upanishads (by Shree Purohit Swami, W.B. Yeats)
• * The Art of Dramatic Writing (by Egri Lajos)
• The Crying of Lot 49 (by Thomas Pynchon)
• * Outliers (by Malcolm Gladwell)
• The Doors of Perception (by Aldus Huxley)

2008

• * The Perennial Philosophy (by Aldus Huxley)
• * The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
• The Way of the Bow (by Paulo Coelho)
• The Mastery of Love (by Don Miguel Ruiz)
• * The Four Agreements (by Don Miguel Ruiz)
• Rage (by Stephen King as Richard Bachman)
• * Macbeth (by William Shakespeare)
• * Siddartha (by Hermann Hesse)

2007

• Freakonomics (by Steven Levitt)
• Slaughterhouse Five (by Kurt Vonnegut)
• * Cat’s Cradle (by Kurt Vonnegut)
• * In the Lake of the Woods (by Tim O’Brien)
• War Trash (by Ha Jin)

2006

• Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates (by Tom Robbins)
• * Skinny Legs and All (by Tom Robbins)
• Discipline Without Stress, Punishments, or Rewards (by Dr. Marvin Marshall)
• * Hamlet (by William Shakespeare)
• A Prayer for Owen Meany (by John Irving)
• The Chosen (by Chiam Potok)
• The Laramie Project (by Moises Kauffman & Tectonic Theater Project)
• Oleanna (by David Mamet)
• 1001 Movies: You Must See Before You Die (by Steven Jay Schneider)
• Cure for the Common Life (by Max Lucado)

2005

• ‘Tis (by Frank McCourt)
• * Angela’s Ashes (by Frank McCourt)
• * All Over But the Shoutin’ (by Rick Bragg)
• The Freedom Writer’s Diary (by Erin Gruwell)
• There are No Shortcuts (by Raf Esquith)
• * The Sparrow (by Mary Doria Russell)
• * Fermet’s Enigma (by Simon Singh)
• The Odyssey (by Homer)

2004

• * Ender’s Game (by Orson Scott Card)
• Lord of the Flies (by William Golding)
• * 1984 (by George Orwell)
• Understanding Comics (by Scott McCloud)
• Setting Up Your Shots (by Jeremy Vineyard, Jose Cruz)
• The Greatest Salesman in the World (by Og Mandino)
• Romeo and Juliet (by William Shakespeare)
• Digital Moviemaking: All the Skills, Techniques and Moxie You’ll Need to Turn Your Passion Into a Career (The Filmmaker’s Guide to the 21st Century) (by Scott Billups)

2003

• The Circuit (by Francisco Jiménez)
• * A Tribe Apart (by Patricia Hersch)
• * Atlas Shrugged (by Ayn Rand)

Earlier

• Architecture: A Visual History (by James Neal)
• Not So Big House (Susanka) (by Sarah Susanka)
• Norm Abram’s New House (by Norm Abram)
• The Photography Book (Editors of Phaidon Press)
• The House Book (Editors of Phaidon Press)
• Rising Sun (by Michael Crichton)
• Congo (by Michael Crichton)
• Sphere (by Michael Crichton)
• The Client  (by John Grisham)
• The Pelican Brief  (by John Grisham)
• A Time to Kill  (by John Grisham)
• The Firm (by John Grisham)
• The Big Sleep (by Raymond Chandler)
• The Long Goodbye (by Raymond Chandler)
• The Scottish Chiefs (by Jane Porter)