Reading list update 1

After reading/skimming through 140 pages of Investing for Dummies, I dropped it. I dunno… maybe some people (the “dummies”) could get something out of that book, but I guess maybe I have learned something during my college education.

Anyway, in the past couple months since my last post on the subject, I’ve gotten through about 5.7 of the books on my list:

• The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas)
• Investing for Dummies (Tyson)
• Twilight (Stephanie Meyer)
• New Moon (Stephanie Meyer)
• Eclipse (Stephanie Meyer)
• Breaking Dawn (Stephanie Meyer)*
• The Road to Serfdom (Hayek)*

* I’m about halfway through and expect to finish these in the next couple weeks.

Here’s the updated list. I’ve rearranged some of the order, and added a couple. Again, feel free to suggest other books for me in the comments.

• Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell)
• Oil! (Upton Sinclair)
• The Myth of the Rational Voter (Bryan Caplan)
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (1)(J. K. Rowling)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2)(J. K. Rowling)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (3)(J. K. Rowling)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (4)(J. K. Rowling)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (5)(J. K. Rowling)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (6)(J. K. Rowling)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (7)(J. K. Rowling)
• Dracula (Bram Stoker)
• The Case Against the Fed (Rothbard)
• Human Action (Ludwig von Mises)
• Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (Ayn Rand)
• Loopholes of the Rich (Diane Kennedy)
• Real Estate Investing for Dummies (Tyson and Griswold)
• Options Made Easy (Guy Cohen)
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
• Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
• A Foreign Policy of Freedom (Ron Paul)
• The American Presidency (compilation encyclopedia-like book Shilo gave me)
• Reaganism and the Death of Representative Democracy (Williams)
• People’s History of the United States (Howard Zinn)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond)
• Saying Yes (Jacob Sullum)
• What to Eat (Marion Nestle)
• Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
• I Am Legend (Richard Matheson)
• The Hobbit (1)(J. R. R. Tolkien)
• The Fellowship of the Ring (2)(J. R. R. Tolkien)
• The Two Towers (3)(J. R. R. Tolkien)
• The Return of the King (4)(J. R. R. Tolkien)
• The Lucifer Effect (Philip Zimbardo)
• Last Child in the Woods (Richard Louv)
• Havana Nocturne (T. J. English)
• The Demolished Man (Alfred Bester)