A list of the books I have started, finished, purchased, devoured and dog-eared.
2011
Are We Still Rolling?: Studios, Drugs, and Rock ‘N’ Roll by Phill Brown
Tearing Down The Wall of Sound:The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector by Mick Brown
The Believing Brain by Michael Shermer
Life by Keith Richards
The High Window by Raymond Chandler (re-read)
Lady In The Lake by Raymond Chandler (re-read)
The War For Late Night by Bill Carter
How To Wreck A Nice Beach by Dave Thompkins
Recording The Beatles by Kevin Ryan and Brian Kehew
2010
Robert Altman by Mitchell Zuckoff
Here, There, and Everywhere by Geoff Emerick
2009
The Long Embrace by Judith Freeman
The Power of Less by Leo Babauta
A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink
2008
The Genius Factory by David Plotz
Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Heavier Than Heaven by Charles R. Cross
Room Full of Mirrors by Charles R. Cross
This Is Your Brain On Music by Daniel J. Levitin
Mark Twain by Geoffrey C. Ward, Dayton Duncan, and Ken Burns
The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
Steely Dan by Brian Sweet
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
2007
What I Believe by Bertrand Russell
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
Clapton by Eric Clapton
The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs
On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
Adam, Eve and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity by Elaine Pagels
The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss by Claire Nouvian
The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgeman
God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy
What To Eat by Marion Nestle
Who Wrote The New Testament? by Burton L. Mack
Talk To Her by Kristine McKenna
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis S. Collins
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson
The Devil’s Advocates: Greatest Closing Arguments in Criminal Law by Michael S. Lief and H. Mitchell Caldwell
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
2006
iWoz by Steve Wozniak and Gina Smith
Zodiac by Robert Graysmith
The Big Bam by Leigh Montville
The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker
The Book of Guys by Garrison Keillor
New Rules by Bill Maher
Game of Shadows by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
The Millionaire Mind by Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D. and William D. Danko, Ph.D.
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Search by John Battelle