List of summer reading:
- I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter — 363 pages
- Fiasco by Thomas Ricks — 439 pages
- God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens — 283 pages
- Invasion of the Party Snatchers by Victor Gold — 235 pages
- Settling Accounts: Drive to the East by Harry Turtledove — 594 pages
- Settling Accounts: The Grapple by Harry Turtledove — 616 pages
- Happier by Tal Ben-Shahar — 176 pages
- A Collection of Essays by George Orwell — 316 pages (unfinished — approximately read 100 pages)
- Downsizing Democracy by Matthew Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg — 244 pages (unfinished — read 128 pages)
Total pages read (approximate): 2934.