Reading in 2010

I had a fairly satisfactory year in terms of my reading list last year, especially when compared to the year before that. Here's a roundup:
First up are the books that I strongly recommend - books that I probably will re-read at some point.

• Sceptical Essays - Bertrand Russell
• Listening to Grasshoppers: Fieldnotes on Democracy - Arundhati Roy
• Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
• The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
• The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory - Jorge Luis Borges

Here's the  second tier of recommendations

• Lessons in Journalism - T.J.S. George
• Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft - Stephen King
• Superfreakonomics - Dubner & Levitt
• Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
• The Future of Life - Edward O. Wilson    
• Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
• The True Believer - Eric Hoffer
• The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
• Shah of Shahs - Ryszard_Kapuściński

This year I made a concerted effort to improve my knowledge of economics, which I may add, is still close to zilch. Here are the books I read in that endeavour.

• The Economic Consequences of the Peace - John Maynard Keynes (Didn't complete)
• How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy - Raghuram G. Rajan
• The Cartoon Introduction to Economics - Yoram Bauman & Grady Klein

I was made to read a couple of books as part of a course in office

• The Long Tail - Chris Anderson
• Happiness at Work - Srikumar Rao

Some books hardly left an impression

• Private Lives of Trees - Alejandro Zambra
• The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemmingway
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson

And finally, I just didn't manage to finish these books, for various reasons.

• The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The arrogant tone of the author was irritating)
• Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace (I was proceeding too slow) 
• Ishmael - Daniel Quinn (Lost my book!)