Retrospective 2006 reading list

The following list of books read during the course of last year gives a pretty reasonable idea of where my interests are lying these days. Highlights included the surprisingly entertaining and fascinating story detailing the origins of Greenpeace, and yet another classic Philip K. Dick novel.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave

First Casualty, The

Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World

The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies

The End of Oil

Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Green or Gone

Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating

How to Talk to Anyone

Silent Spring

Ubik

The Man in the High Castle

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature

From Naked Ape to Superspecies

Well & Good: How We Feel & Why It Matters

David Suzuki: The Autobiography