Books

This is a list of everything I have read recently, excepting computer books, short articles, comics, and smut. Starred items are strongly recommended. See also goodreads.com.

• Jul 2008
  • Beale, I Am Not Esther
  • Stein, How the States Got Their Shapes
  • de Waal, The Forgotten Ape
  • Porizkova, A Model Summer
  • Wallner, April in Paris
  • Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
  • Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello
  • Bageant, Deer Hunting with Jesus
  • Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
  • Dangor, Bitter Fruit
  • Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee
• Jun 2008
  • DeMarco & Lister, Peopleware
  • Brod, Tycho Brahe's Path to God
  • Pinker, The Language Instinct*
  • Bender and de Gramont (ed), choice
• May 2008
  • Hofstadter, Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies
  • Baker and Elliston (ed), Philosophy and Sex
  • Stewart, Why Beauty Is Truth: The History of Symmetry*
• Apr 2008
  • Williams, From Columbus to Castro*
  • Lavender, Obedience
  • Bellow, Collected Stories
• Mar 2008
  • Boghossian, Fear of Knowlege
  • Ettlinger, Twinkie, Deconstructed
  • Barnes, Orbital Resonance
  • Jackson, The New Encyclopedia of American Animals
• Feb 2008
  • Hall, Slave Society in the Danish West Indians
  • Cleary, Ramona's World
  • Pretor-Pinney, The Cloudspotter's Guide
  • Ragan (ed), Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters
  • Hathout, Crimes and Mathdemeanors*
  • Guedj, The Parrot's Theorem*
  • Kasman, Reality Conditions: Short Mathematical Fiction*
  • Hawking, A Brief History of Time
• Jan 2008
  • Searle, MiND *
  • Moore, Fluke
  • Wilson (ed), The Indigenous People of the Caribbean
  • Laplace, A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities *
  • Las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
  • Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor
  • Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's
  • Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek
• Dec 2007
  • Searle, Freedom & Neurobiology
  • Rowling, Harry Potter y la camera secreta
  • Crane (ed), 50 Great Short Stories
  • Levin, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines *
• Nov 2007
  • Rogozinski, A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present *
  • Ridley, The Red Queen *
  • Kurklansky, A Continent of Islands *
• Oct 2007
  • Derbyshire, Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra *
  • Thorne, Gender Play
  • Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
  • Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
• Sep 2007
  • MacKenzie & Curran, A History of Russia, The Soviet Union, and Beyond
  • Bardi, The Calculus Wars *
  • McKellar, Math Doesn't Suck
  • Gaiman, Stardust *
• Aug 2007
  • Rowling, Harry Potter 1-5
  • Le Guin, The Earthsea Trilogy 1-3
• Jul 2007
  • Wilson, Four Colors Suffice
  • Diamond, Collapse *
  • Taleb, The Black Swan
  • Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  • Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• Jun 2007
  • Ridley, The Agile Gene *
  • Schnee (ed), Words without Borders
  • Delbourgo, A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America
• May 2007
  • Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization
  • Gunst, Born Fi' Dead
• Apr 2007
  • Fagan, The Little Ice Age
  • Ouellette, The Physics of the Buffyverse
  • Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop *
• Mar 2007
  • Irons, A People's History of the Supreme Court
  • Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
• Feb 2007
  • Kehlmann, Measuring the World
  • Martínez, Negative Math *
• Jan 2007
  • Dennett, Sweet Dreams
  • Mann, 1491 *
  • Roberts, King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter
• Dec 2006
  • Mahfouz, Voices from the Other World
  • Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Atwood, Surfacing
  • Kawabata, Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
  • Wilson, The Future of Life
• Nov 2006
  • Dawkins, The God Delusion
  • Gaiman, Fragile Things *
  • Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors *
• Oct 2006
  • Livio, The Golden Ratio
  • Baggini, The Pig That Wants to be Eaten *
  • Gaiman, Coraline
  • Caudron, Who Are You People?
• Sep 2006
  • Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel *
  • Cuomo, Ancient Mathematics
  • Card, Shadow of the Giant
• Aug 2006
  • Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale *
  • Hutchinson, In Search of Nella Larsen
  • Dennett, Breaking the Spell *
  • Cohen, The Triumph of Numbers *
• Jul 2006
  • Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
  • Eco, Name of the Rose
  • Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
  • Olson, Count Down
  • Greenblatt, Will in the World
• Jun 2006
  • Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow *
  • Dawkins, A Devil's Chaplain
  • Gould, Dinosaur in a Haystack
• May 2006
• Apr 2006
  • Goldsmith, Obsessive Genius
  • Hansen, From These Shores
  • Guirty, Harlem's Danish-American West Indies
  • Westergaard, Danish West Indies Under Company Rule
  • Watson, The Double Helix
• Mar 2006
  • Atalay, Math and the Mona Lisa
  • Ferguson, Tycho and Kepler *
  • Goldstein, Incompleteness
  • Gingerich, The Book Nobody Read *
  • Sobel, Galileo's Daughter
  • Doxiadis, Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture