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