The Library

Current reading:

• Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathon Swift

Reading cue for soon, I hope:

• The Great Debate, by Yuval Levin
• The Man Who Changed China, by Robert Lawrence Kuhn
• We Were Not the Savages, by David N. Paul

Books I recently read and recommend:

• A Hidden wholeness, by Parker J. Palmer
• Live long, die short, by Roger Landry
• Aimless Love – New and Selected Poems, by Billy Collins
• You can’t keep a good woman down, by Alice Walker
• Quiet, by Susan Cain
• How the Scots Invented the Modern world, by Arthur Herman
• Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabelle Wilkerson
• The Parties and the People, by Mickey Edwards
• Ties that Bind, by Dave Isay
• An Epidemic of Absence, by Moises Valasquez-Manoff
• Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power, by Zbigniew Brzezinski
• China’s Megatrends, by John Nesbitt
• Why the West Rules – for Now: The Patterns of History, by Ian Morris
• The Spirit Level, by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
• The Tyranny of Dead Ideas, by Matt Miller
• Dare to be 100, by (centenarian) Walter M. Bortz, MD
• The Center Cannot Hold, by Elyn R. Saks

Other books I’ve liked:

• Abuse of Casuistry, by Albert R. Jonsen and Stephen Toulmin
• The Placebo Response, by Howard Brody, MD, PhD
• The Good Book, by Peter J. Gomes
• The End of Faith, by Sam Harris
• A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest Gaines
• As Sick as it Gets, by Randolph Mueller, MD
• Just Health Care, by Norman Daniels
• On The Take, by Jerome Kasserier, MD
• No Ordinary Time, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Undaunted Courage, by Stephen E. Ambrose
• An Irish Country Doctor, by Patrick Taylor
• Here Comes Trouble, by Michael Moore
• A Renegade History of the US, by Thaddeus Russell

Books on the shelf staring at me:

• A History of God, by Karen Armstrong
• The Lifeboat is Full, by Alfred A. Hasler