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Ten Best Books I Read This Year

December is the month in which popular journals publish their “Ten Best Books of 2009”, as the New York Times did last week. I too use December to consolidate my reading for the year (which is usually between seventy to eighty books, some that are new and some that I am re-reading), collect my notes, and update my bibliographic and research software (I use Citation – but there are several good programs available). Never wanting to be upstaged by the New York Times , here is my list of the “Ten Best Books I Read This Year”. Appleman, Roy E. East of Chosin: Entrapment and Breakout in Korea, 1950. (College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press), 1987. Baggini, Julian. What’s It All About?: Philosophy & The Meaning of Life. (New York: Oxford University Press), 2004. Bak, Per. How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality. (New York: Oxford University Press), 1997. Coyne, Jerry A. Why Evolution is True. (New York: Viking), 2009. Faust, Drew Gilpin. This Re