Direct Continuation of: What is Peter Reading?

Since July 1, 2011, I’ve been cataloging and rating all the books I have read. Now that this list is getting a bit long, I’d like to embark on a slightly more ambitious project — not only rating them, but also reviewing them, and writing summaries of the books I like (or linking to other summaries/reviews).

Last updated: 30 March 2013

Sense and Goodness Without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism by Richard Carrier: [10/10] See the CommonSenseAtheism summary.

Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics by Gary L. Drescher: [8/10] See the incomplete CommonSenseAtheism summary. My summary forthcoming, eventually.

The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty by Peter Singer: [10/10] See my Why Don’t People Help Others More?, my The Failures of Foreign Aid (And Some Potential Fixes), and Jason Zarri’s complete summary.

Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive by Bruce Schneier: [9/10] See How To Build a Community.

The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest by Yochai Benkler: [10/10] See “How To Build a Community”.

How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas by David Bornstein: [5/10] See “The Challenges of Good People”.

SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner: [6/10] Partial summary forthcoming, eventually.

Deep Ancestry: Inside The Genographic Project by Spencer Wells: [4/10] No summary.

The Ideal of a Rational Morality: Philosophical Compositions by Marcus G. Singer: [6/10] No summary.

The End of Christianity edited by John W. Loftus: [8/10] Partial summary forthcoming, eventually.

How Are We to Live? by Peter Singer: [10/10] Summary forthcoming, eventually.

Writings on an Ethical Life by Peter Singer: [9/10] Summary forthcoming, eventually.

The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule by Michael Shermer: [3/10] No summary.

Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel: [8/10] Summary forthcoming, eventually.

Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship is Poisoning the U.S. House of Representatives by Juliet Eilperin: [4/10] No summary.

The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand: [2/10] Partial summary forthcoming, eventually.

Arguing about Gods by Graham Oppy: [6/10] See “TheraminTrees’s Atheism”.

Dependent Rational Animals: Why Human Beings Need the Virtues by Alasdair MacIntyre: [5/10] No summary.

On What Matters by Derek Parfit: [6/10] Summary forthcoming, eventually.

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Richard Howard: [5/10] No summary.

Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong by J.L. Mackie: [7/10] No summary.

The Upper House: A Journey behind the Closed Doors of the U.S. Senate by Terence Samuel: [2/10] No summary.

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins: [6/10] Partial summary forthcoming, eventually.

The Non-Existence of God by Nicholas Everitt: [8/10] See “TheraminTrees’s Atheism”.

Virtue Ethics by Richard Taylor: [3/10] No summary.

The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress by Peter Singer: [9/10] Summary forthcoming, eventually.

Moral Skepticisms by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong: [7/10] No summary.

Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment by Martin E. P. Seligman: [9/10] Summary forthcoming, eventually.

Understanding Modern Money: The Key to Full Employment and Price Stability by L. Randall Wray: [7/10] See “Employer of Last Resort: Economics Research”.

Morality and Self-Interest by Paul Bloomfield: [7/10] No summary.

Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World by Bill Clinton: [4/10] No summary.

The Future of Atheism: Alister McGrath and Daniel Dennett in Dialogue edited by Robert B. Stewart: [6/10] No summary.

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill: [6/10] No summary.

The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War by Nicholas Thompson: [6/10] No summary.

Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military Interventions by Elizabeth N. Saunders: [7/10] Summary forthcoming, eventually.

Motivating the Middle: Fighting Apathy in College Student Organizations by T.J. Sullivan: [5/10] Summary forthcoming, eventually.

The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture by Darrel W. Ray: [3/10] No summary.

The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less by Barry Schwartz: [10/10] Summary forthcoming, eventually.

America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11 by Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier: [5/10] No summary.

Explaining the Iraq War: Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence by Frank P. Harvey: [7/10] No summary.

The Obamians: The Struggle Inside the White House to Redefine American Power by James Mann: [5/10] No summary.

Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv: [4/10] No summary.

The City and the Coming Climate: Climate Change in the Places We Live by Brian Stone Jr.: [6/10] No summary.

Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life by Kari Marie Norgaard: [8/10] Summary forthcoming, eventually.

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss: [5/10] No summary.

The Student’s Guide to Successful Project Teams by William A Kahn [9/10] Summary forthcoming, eventually.

Moral Realism: A Defence by Russ Shafer-Landau [7/10] Summary forthcoming, eventually.