Reading List
All of the books I’ve read, dating back to 1999:
- Korean Dynasty: Hyundai and Chung Ju-yung by Donald Kirk
- Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
- The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History by Don Oberdorfer
- A History of Knowledge: The Pivotal Events, People, and Achievements of World History by Charles Van Doren
- Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War 2 by Yuki Tanaka
- Economic Literacy: What Everyone Needs to Know about Money and Markets by Jacob De Rooy
- HTML for the World Wibe Web by Elizabeth Castro
- NTC’s Dictionary of Literary Terms
- The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War 2 by Iris Chang
- Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military by Robert B. Edgerton
- The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
- Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy by James B. Fallows
- Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity by Francis Fukuyama
- The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
- Unit 731 Testimony: Japan’s Wartime Human Experimentation Program by Hal Gold
- Buddhism by Clive Erricker
- The Rise of Christianity: How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries by Rodney Stark
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
- The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order by Francis Fukuyama
- Corporate Predators: The Hunt for Mega-Profits and The Attack on Democracy by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
- Reason, Tolerance, and Christianity: The Ingersoll Debates by Robert G. Ingersoll
- The Trouble with Dilbert: How Corporate Culture Gets the Last Laugh by Norman Solomon
- Korea: Division, Reunification, and U.S. Foreign Policy by Martin Hart-Landsberg
- The End of North Korea by Nicholas Eberstadt
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Caro’s Fundamental Secrets of Winning Poker by Mike Caro
- A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn
- Down and Dirty: The Plot to Steal the Presidency by Jake Tapper
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- New Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought by Todd G. Buchholz
- Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
- Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology by Howard Zinn
- Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
- The Lurking Fear and Other Stories: Bone-chilling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft
- Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
- Edit Yourself: A Manual for Everyone who Works with Words by Bruce Ross-Larson
- The Men in the Jungle by Norman Spinrad
- Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress, Edited by Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington
- Top Heavy: The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America and What Can be Done About It by Edward N. Wolff
- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken
- The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Truth About Corporate Cons, Globalization, and High-Finance Fraudsters by Greg Palast
- The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Kang Chol-hwan
- Big Lies: The Right-wing Propaganda Machine and How it Distorts the Truth by Joe Conason
- It’s Still the Economy, Stupid: George W. Bush, the GOP’s CEO by Paul Begala
- Korea Unmasked by Rhie Won-bok
- Frontier Justice: Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Bushwhacking of America by Scott Ritter
- What Liberal Media?: The Truth about Bias and the News by Eric Alterman
- The Lies of George W. Bush by David Corn
- Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election by Jeffrey Toobin
- Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
- Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920’s by Frederick Lewis Allen
- The Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- What’s the Matter with Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank
- G-8 and his Battle Aces #14: The Mad Dog Squadron by Robert J. Hogan
- Separated at Birth: How North Korea Became the Evil Twin by Gordon Cucullu
- The Best of Weird Tales: 1923 by Marvin Kaye and John Gregory Betancourt (Editors)
- A Teacher’s Grammar: The Central Problems of English by R.A. Close
- Great Weird Tales: 14 Stories by Lovecraft, Blackwood, Machen and Others by S.T. Joshi (Editor)
- Sold to the Highest Bidder: The Presidency from Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush by Daniel M. Friedenberg
- Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language by Steven Pinker
- The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler
- Words Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends by David Wilton
- Sleeping Dogs Don’t Lay: Practical Advice for the Grammatically Challenged by Richard Lederer and Richard Dowis
- Painfully Shy: How to Overcome Social Anxiety and Reclaim Your Life by Barbara and Gregory Markaway
- What in the Word?: Wordplay, Word Lore, and Answer to Your Peskiest Questions about Language by Charles Harrington Elster
- After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order by Emmanuel Todd
- America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy by Francis Fukuyama
- The Word Detective by Evan Morris
- Beginning Syntax by Linda Thomas
- The English Verb: An Exploration of Structure and Meaning by Michael Lewis
- Hell in a Handbasket: Dispcatches from the Country formerly known as America by Tom Tomorrow
- English Grammar and Syntax: Grammatical Functions and Syntactic Values by T. Avants and A. Benahnia
- Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose by Constance Hale
- A Practical Handbook of Language Teaching by David Cross
- What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
- Korea: A Walk through the Land of Miracles by Simon Winchester
- Communicative Ideas: An Approach with Classroom Activities by David Norman
- English Syntax: From Word to Discourse by Lynn M. Berk
- The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
- Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer’s Guide to Getting it Right by Bill Bryson
- The Ins and Outs of Prepositions by Jean Yates
- The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
- The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and their Meanings by Jan Harold Brunvand
- Language Myths by Laurie Bower and Peter Trudgill (Editors)
- Common Errors in English Usage by Paul Brians
- The Pessimist’s Guide to History: An Irresistable Compendium of Catastrophes, Barbarities, Massacres, and Mayhem from the Big Bang to the New Millenium by Stuart Flexner and Doris Flexner
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Story of English by Robert McCrum, Robert MacNeil, and William Cran
- The Damage Done: Twelve Years of hell in a Bangkok Prison by Warren Fellows
- Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism by Michelle Goldberg
- The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works–And How It’s Transforming the American Economy by Charles Fishman
- The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
- How Would a Patriot Act: Defending American Values from a President Run Amok by Glenn Greenwald
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
- Word Play: What Happens when People Talk by Peter Farb
- Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled over for Bush by Eric Boehlert
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume
- The Fantasy Roleplaying Gamer’s Bible by by Sean Patrick Fannon
- How to Steal an Election: The Inside Story of how George Bush’s Brother and Fox Network Miscalled the 2000 Election and Changed the Course of History by David W. Moore
- Watch My Back by Geoff Thompson
- Talking Right: How Conservatives turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show by Geoffrey Nunberg
- Why the Christian Right is Wrong: A Minster’s Manifesto for Taking Back Your Faith, Your Flag, Your Future by Robin Meyers
- Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
- Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War by Michael Isikoff and David Corn
- Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
- Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich
- American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America by Chris Hedges
- The Bully at Work: What You Can Do to Stop the Hurt and Reclaim your Dignity by Gary and Ruth Namie
- Cobra II
- G-8 and His Battle Aces #15: The Blizzard Staffel by Robert Hogan
- Living with a Learning Disability by Barbara Cordoni
- American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush by Kevin Phillips
- Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy-Rollers and the Neo-Cons Hijacked the GOP by Victor Gold
- Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy by Bruce Bartlett
- The Thrill Book: September 1st, 1919 by Various Writers
- Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions by James Randi
- Forgotten English: A Merry Guide to Antiquated Words, Packed with History, Fun Facts, Literary Excerpts, and Charming Drawings by Jeffrey Kacirk
- The PTSD Workbook: Simple, Effective Techniques for Overcoming Traumatic Stress Symptoms by Mary Beth Williams and Soili Poijula
- Bloom and Grow with your Learning Disability by Dina Taylor West
- The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
- Encyclopedia of Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand
- Horrors Beyond: Tales of Terrifying Realities by William Jones (Editor)
- Dare to Forgive by Edward Hallowell
- Busting Vegas: The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees by Ben Mezrich
- Take the Bully by the Horns: Stop Unethical, Uncooperative, or Unpleasant People from Running and Ruining Your Life by Sam Horn
- The Morningstar Strain: Plague of the Dead by Z.A. Recht
- Where to Draw the Line: How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day by Anne Katherine
- The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
- Trader Horn: A Young Man’s Astounding Adventures in 19th Century Equatorial Africa by Alfred Aloysius Horn
- The Man Who Folded Himself
- The Confidence Plan: How to Build a Stronger You by Tim Ursiny
- Bush League Diplomacy: How the Neoconservatives Are Putting the World at Risk by Craig R. Eisendrath and Melvin A. Goodman
- Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
- The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies by Bryan Caplan
- The Rivers Ran East by Leonard Clark
- God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
- A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency by Glenn Greenwald
- Cell by Stephen King
- Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths go to Work by Paul Babiak and Robert D. Hare
- The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation by Drew Westen
- Caro’s Book of Poker Tells by Mike Caro
- Winning 7-Card Stud: Transforming Home Game Chumps into Casino Killers by Ashley Adams
- Community College Student Affairs: What Really Matters by Steven Helfgot and Marguerite Culp (Editors)
- 7-Card Stud: How to Win at Medium and Lower Limits by Roy West
- Serving the Millennial Generation by Michael D. Coomes and Robert DeBard (Editors)
- Who are we?: The Challenges to America’s National Identity by Samuel Huntington
- A Student Affairs Guide to the ADA & Disability Issues by Dan Ryan and Maureen McCarthy (Editors)
- Speak no Evil: The Triumph of Hate Speech Regulation by Jon B. Gould
- Hate Speech on Campus: Cases, Case Studies, and Commentary by MIlton Heumann and Thomas W. Church (Editors)
- Succeeding in College with Asperger’s Syndrome: A Student’s Guide by John Harpur, Maria Lawlor, and Michael Fitzgerald
- Theory R Management: How to Utilize Value of the Person, Leadership Principles of Love, Dignity, and Respect by Wayne Alderson and Nancy Alderson McDonnell
- Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership by Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal
- How to Rig an Elections: Confessions of a Republican Operative by Allen Raymond
- The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft
- The Disciples of Cthulhu: A Classic Collection of Cthulhu Mythos Stories by Edward P. BErglund (Editor)
- Conspiracy Encyclopedia: The Encyclopedia of Conspiracy Theories by Thom Burnett
- Asperger’s Syndrome: A Guide for Parents and Professionals by Tony Attwood
- Job One: Experiences of New Professionals in Student Affairs by Peter Magolda and Jill Ellen Carnaghi (editors)
- Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships: Decoding Social Mysteries Through the Unique Perspectives of Autism by Temple Grandin and Sean Barron.
- Robin’s Laws of Good Gamemastering by Robin D. Laws
- The Leadership Challenge by James Kouzes and Barry Posner
- G-8 and His Battle Aces: Claws of the SKy Monster by Robert J. Hogan
- More Hold ‘em Excellence: A Winner for Life by Lou Krieger
- Quick and Easy Texas Hold ‘em: LEarn to Play Poker’s Most Popular Game by Neil D. Myers
- 52 Tips for Texas Hold ‘em Poker by Barry Shulman
- We Are Not Alone: The Continuing Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Walter Sullivan
- Getting to Yes
- The Theory of Poker: A Professional Poker Player Teaches you hot to Think like One by David Sklansky