Books I want to read

Submitted by bmasom on Mon, 03/19/2007 - 12:14
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  • Knowledge and Decisions - Thomas Sowell
  • Marxism: Philosophy and Economics - Thomas Sowell
  • Conquests and cultures : An International History - Thomas Sowell (325.32/SOW)
  • The Quest for Cosmic Justice - Thomas Sowell (303.372/SOW)
  • The Vision of the Anointed : Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy - Thomas Sowell (305.5209/SOW)
  • Reflections on a Disruptive Decade - Eugene Davidson
  • A Poverty of Reason - Wilfred Beckerman
  • Uncle Sam's Plantation - Star Parker
  • The Promise - Hal Bynam
  • In the Beginning: Foundations of Creation Theology - Herman Bavinick
  • A Matter of Days - Hugh Ross
  • The Genisis Question, 2nd Edition - Hugh Ross
  • Beyond the Cosmos, 2nd Edition - Hugh Ross
  • Creator and the Cosmos, 3rd Expanded Edition - Hugh Ross
  • The Finger Print of God - Hugh Ross
  • Lights in the Sky and Little Green Men - Hugh Ross, Kenneth Samples, Mark Clark
  • Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise - David Feldman (031.02/FEL)
  • God Went to Beauty School - Cynthia Rylant
  • Meltdown - Patrick J. Michaels
  • The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith (330.153/SMI)
  • Taking Heat: The President, The Press, And My Years in the White House - Ari Fleischer
  • The Dark Valley: A panorama of the 1930's - Piers Brendon (940.52/BRE)
  • Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and their Journey - Isabel Fonseca (909.0491/FON)
  • Devil in the White City - Erik Larson (364.15/LAR)
  • Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
  • Blind Your Ponies - Stanley Gordon West
  • Tree Girl - Ben Mikaelsen (YA/MIK)
  • Fleshmarket - Nicola Morgan
  • A Girl Named Zippy: growing up small in Morland, Indiana - Haven Kimmel (92/KIMMEL)
  • The Solace of Leaving Early - Haven Kimmel
  • The Giver - Lois Lowry (J/F/LOW) read first
  • Gathering Blue - Lois Lowry (YA/LOW) read second
  • Messanger - Lois Lowry (J/F/LOW) read third
  • Whale Rider - Whit Tame Ihimeara (J/F/IHI)
  • The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (F/WHA)
  • Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey (92/ABBEY)
  • Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams
  • Plague Dogs - Richard Adams
  • Traveler: a novel - Richard Adams (F ADAMS)
  • The Endurance: Shakelton's legendary Antartic expidition - Caroline Alexander (919.8904/ALE)
  • George Washington: Spymaster - Thomas Allen
  • Knee Deep in Paradise - Brett Butler
  • House of Spirits - Isabel Allende (F/ALL)(917.804/AMB)
  • Alias Grace - Margaret Eleanor Atwood (F/ATW)
  • The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Eleanor Atwood
  • The End of the Beginning - Avi (J/F/AVI)
  • Chasing Vermeer - Blue Balliett (J/F/BAL)
  • The Birth of Pleasure - Carol Gilligan (152.41 GILLIGAN) (I.L.L. Only)
  • On Liberty - John Stuart Mill (323.44/MIL)
  • The Critic of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant (121/KAN)
  • A War Like No Other : How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War - Victor Davis Hanson (938.05/HAN)
  • Trafalgar: the Nelson touch - David Armine Howarth (940.27/HOW)
  • Albion's Seed: four British folkways in America - David Hackett Fischer (973/FIS)
  • Born Fighting: how the Scots-Irish shaped America - James H. Webb (973.0491/WEB)
  • Jesus in Bejing; How Christianity is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power - David Aikman
  • How We Know What Isn't So: the fallibility of human reason in everyday life - Thomas Gilovich (153.43/GIL) (I.L.L. Only)
  • Introduction to Logic - Irving M. Copi (160/COP)
  • The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life - Jean-Francois Revel and Mattieu Ricard
  • Why Should Anyone Believe Anything at All? - James W. Sire
  • Founding Brothers: the revolutionary generation - Joseph J. Ellis (920/ELL)
  • The Millionaire Next Door: the surprising secrets of America's wealthy - Thomas J. Stanley (330.16/STA)
  • The Millionaire Mind - Thomas J. Stanley (305.523/STA)
  • Guerrilla Marketing: secrets for making big profits from your small business - Jay Conrad Levinson (658.8/LEV)
  • American Traveler: The Life and Adventures of John Ledyard, the Man who Dreamed of Walking the World - James Zug
  • Think: a compelling introduction to philosophy - Simon Blackburn (101/BLA)
  • Methods of Logic - W. V. Quine
  • Guides to Straight Thinking, with 13 Comman Fallicies - Stuart Chase (160/CHA)
  • Looking At Philosophy: The Unbearable Heaviness of Philosophy Made Lighter - Donald Palmer
  • Does the Center Hold?: An Introduction to Western Philosophy - Donald Palmer
  • Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy - Jostein Gaarder (F/GAA)
  • The Agony of an American Wilderness - Sam MacDonald
  • Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America - Allen C. Guelzo (973.714/GUE)
  • 1759: The Year Britian Became Master of the World - Frank McLynn
  • The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality - B. Greene (523.1/GRE)
  • The Elegant Universe: Superstring, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory - B. Green (539.725/GRE)
  • God's Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong, and the Left Doesn't Get it - Jim Wallis (261.7097/WAL)
  • Empires of the Word : A Language History of the World - Nicholas Ostler (409/OST)
  • Ben, in the World - Doris Lessing
  • The Unknown Battle of Midway: The Destruction of the American Torpedo Squadrans - Alvin Kernan
  • Gilead - Marilynne Robinson (F/ROB)
  • Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil - Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D. and Craig R. Smith
  • Equality, the Third World and Economic Delusion - Peter T Bauer
  • Crime Human Nature : The Definitive Study of the Causes of Crime - Richard J. Herrnstein and James Q. Wilson
  • Iron Tears : America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire: 1775-1783 - Stanley Weintraub
  • To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History - Edmund Wilson
  • Europe: A History - Norman Davies (940/DAV)
  • Mao: The Untold Story - Jung Chan (92/MAO)
  • Carnage and Culture : Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power - Victor Davis Hanson (904.7/HAN)
  • Ripples of battle : how wars of the past still determine how we fight, how we live, and how we think - Victor Davis Hanson
  • (355.02/HAN)
  • What Would the Founders Do?: Our Questions, Their Answers - Richard Brookhiser
  • Gus Grissom: The Lost Astronaut - Ray E. Boomhower
  • Capitalism and the Historians - edited by F. A. Hayek
  • Freedom and Domination: A Historical Critique of Civilization - Alexander Rustow
  • Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government - Robert Higgs
  • 1975 Heritage of Britain: Great Moments in the Story of an Island Race - Reader Digest Association
  • The Intelligent Universe - Fred Hoyle (575/HOY)
  • The Face of Battle - John Keegan
  • Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity and Other Fables of Evolution - David Stove
  • Manhunt: The Twelve Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer - James L. Swanson (364.1524/SWA)
  • Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth - Andrew Smith (629.45/SMI)
  • The Cosmological Anthropic Principle - John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler
  • The Origin of the Universe - John D. Barrow (523.1/BAR)
  • Honor: A History - James Bowmen
  • O Pioneers - Willa Cather (F/CAT)
  • A History of the English Language - Albert C. Baugh
  • Once an Eagle - Anton Myrer
  • Hell In a Very Small Place - Bernard Fall
  • The Forgotten Soldier - Guy Sajer
  • The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
  • The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom - Slavomir Rawicz
  • Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism - Joshua Muravchik
  • The Red Hot Typewriter : The Life and Times of John D. MacDonald - Hugh Merrill (92/MacDonald)
  • Washington's God - Michael & Jana Novak
  • A History of Philosophy - Fredrick Copleston, S.J.
  • Last in Their Class: Custer, Pickett, and the Goats of West Point - James S. Robbins
  • Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism - Joshua Muravchik
  • Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left, and the Leftover Left - Ronald Radosh
  • One cosmos Under God: The Unification of Matter, Mind, Life, and Spirit - Robert W. Godwin
  • Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years - Rowman and Littlefield
  • Income and Wealth - Alan Reynolds
  • Coming Out of the Ice - Victor Herman
  • Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea - Barbara Demick
  • The Conquering Family (1949) - Thomas B. Costain
  • The Magnificent Century (1951)- Thomas B. Costain
  • The Last Plantagenets (1962)- Thomas B. Costain
  • In the Footsteps of Scott - Roger Mear and Robert Swan
  • Decision Points - George W. Bush
  • Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing
  • Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written - Lennard Bickel and Sir Edmund Hillary
  • American Individualism - Herbert Hoover
  • The Challenge to Liberty - Herbert Hoover
  • Henry Clay - Robert V. Remini (1991)
  • Defender of the Faith (William Jennings Bryan) - Lawrence W. Levine (1965)
  • Thomas E. Dewey and His Times - Richard Norton Smith (1982)
  • Barry Goldwater - Robert Alan Goldberg (1995)
  • The Liberals' Moment (Barry Goldwater) - Bruce Miroff (2007)
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This is a list of books I want to read. This list is in no particular order.