I've missed the What are you reading? diaries. This summer, my wife got me a Sony eReader, which I absolutely love. Not only is it far easier to read on the elliptical machine at the gym than a regular book, but I've read more books than normal this year. Probably partly because of the whole unemployment thing...
Which brings me to the questions:
What are you reading now?
And what have you read this year? Recommendations for holidays/2011?
Right now, I'm reading The Empathic Civilization by Jeremy Rifkin. Absolutely incredible book and I highly recommend it. Rifkin talks about how empathy has been critical to human development and how our idea of self and community has changed over history and will change and the importance of empathy to our success as a species.
The rest of this year, I've read:
The Match King by Frank Portnoy
Hardcore History by Scott Williams (Sue me, I'm a wrestling fan.)
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku
Controversy Creates Cash by Eric Bischoff (again, wrestling fan)
King Lear
A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud by Peter Watson
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter by Steven Prothero.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Time Machine by HG Wells
Justice: What's the right thing to do? by Michael Sandel.
The Gunslinger by Steven King
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
Tinkers by Paul Harding
American Gods by Neal Gaiman
The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
American Pastoral by Phillip Roth
What is the What? by Dave Eggers
The Invisible Man by HG Wells
The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
Satan's Circus by Mike Dash
Countdown to Lockdown by Mick Foley
The Science of Fear by Dan Gardner
I like to have a variety in my reading. What about you?