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Here are the books I Read in 2009:
1. Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
2. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott under the pseudonym "a square".
3. The Infancy Gospel of Thomas
4. The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
5. Lectures of RG Ingersoll by Robert Green Ingersoll
6. The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce (a re-read)
7. When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome by Richard E. Rubenstein
8. Goethe's Faust (Part I) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (tr . by Bayard Taylor)
9. UR by Stephen King
10. The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity by Thomas Sheehan
11. The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman
12. The Babysitter's Code by Laura Lippman
13. Casino Royal by Ian Fleming
14. The Cat-Nappers (A Jeeves and Bertie story) by P.G. Wodehouse
15. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
16. Sam Harris and The End of Reason: A Muslim's Critical Response by Bill Whitehouse (a rebuttal to Harris's The End of Faith)
17. For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming (A collection of short stories that includes Quantum of Solace)
18. In Search of Time: The Science of a Curious Dimension by Dan Falk
19. Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time by Marcus Borg
20. Mental Floss: Genius Instruction Manual by the Editors of Mental Floss
21. Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich
22. Right Ho, Jeeves (A Jeeves and Bertie story) by P.G. Wodehouse
23. The Tempest by William Shakespeare
24. Yeah, I Said It by Wanda Sykes (a P-Town native!)
25. Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku
26. The Bible: A Biography by Karen Armstrong
27. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith. The original by Jane Austin (sans Zombies) is better.
28. Harvard Classics, Vol. 1 (The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The Journal of John Woolman, Some Fruits of Solitude by William Penn)
29. Make 'Em Laugh by Michael Kantor and Laurence Maslon (A companion to the six-part PBS series outlining the history of American comedy in the Twentieth Century)
30. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
31. A Horror Anthology Vol. I by Various Authors
32. Formatting Comics for the Kindle by Manuel Burgos
33. When You Lie About Your Age The Terrorists Win by Carol Leifer
34. Rogerisms: The Cowboy Philosopher on the Peace Conference by Will Rogers
35. Harvard Classics, Vol. 2 (Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius)
36. Blink The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
37. How to Fail in Literature by Andrew Lang
38. My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands by Chelsea Handler
39. Eve's Diary by Mark Twain
40. Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain
41. A Humorous History of England by Charles Harrison
42. Jokes For All Occasions by Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers [Anonymous]
43. Grimm Tales Made Gay by Guy Wetmore Carryl
44. Topper by Thorne Smith
45. Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be by Anonymous
46. Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories by M.R. James
47. His Robot Girlfriend by Wesley Allison
48. Bomba the Jungle Boy and the Lost Explorers by Roy Rockwood
49. Continuous Vaudeville by Will M. Cressy
50. The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet
51. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
52. The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
53. The IndieAuthor's Guide: A Comprehensive Reference to Self-Publishing by April L. Hamilton
54. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
55. Me of Little Faith by Lewis Black
56. A Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W. Hawking (1988). An audiobook re-read.
57. Meeting of Minds: First Series by Steve Allen
58. A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (2005). The classic updated and simplified. A re-read.
59. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
60. Howard Dean’s Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform by Howard Dean
61. I Am the New Black by Tracy Morgan with Antony Bozza
62. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain
63. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
64. Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (And Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
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