* books I got to kick off 2011 *

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse In The Age of Show Business
Gandh Autobiography: My Experiments With Truth
The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle In The Dark
Man’s Search for Meaning
Ishmael: An Adventure Of The Mind & Spirit
Letters to a Young Poet
Etre the Cow
Dune
The Memory of Running
Nomad: A Personal Journey Through The Clash of Civilizations
Guns, Germs and Steel
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More Than IQ
Mucusless Diet Healing System
Survival in the 21st Century: Planetary Healers Manual
Freedom from the Known
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Prophet
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Way Out : Dis-ease Deception and the Truth About Health
The 4-Hour Body
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

NOTE:
I don’t collect books. Usually when I am done with them, I either give them away individually to special people or sell them to used book stores. I like supporting reading, knowledge and books in general so this is a good way to inject  my values into the world around me.
Nevertheless, I gotta start using the library more to save money or get a Kindle. The problem is that some of the more controversial books I read are not available through those means.
This reading thing can be an expensive hobby… although it’s one of the best investments we can make to wake up from the media/culture induced comas bestowed upon us.