Reading

This set of pages is a (sparsely) annotated bibliography of books I have read since September 2004. This list is mostly here for my own use and but visitors may be want to get an indirect indication of my interests through what I am reading.

Books read in 2010

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by F. C. Ware Finished Mar.03/10 Recommended by Russ M.

The Terror by Dan Simmons Finished Feb.07/10

Visual Explanations by Edward R. Tufte Finished Jan.24/10

The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck Finished Jan.21/10

The (mis)Behavior of Markets by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson Finished Jan.19/10

Shooting an Elephant and other essays by George Orwell Finished Jan.10/10

Books read in 2009

Life of Pi by Yann Martel Finished Oct.26/09

Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski Finished Sep.22/09

The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway Finished Sep.13/09

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Finished Sep.03/09

Eight Stories by Dylan Thomas Finished Aug.28/09

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli Finished Aug.17/09

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Finished Aug.04/09

The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy Finished Jul.31/09

Ignore Everybody by Hugh MacLeod Finished Jul.29/09

Sketching User Experiences by Bill Buxton Finished Jul.22/09 Recommended by Patrick B.

The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin Finished May.03/09

Post Office by Charles Bokowski Finished Apr.20/09

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo Finished Apr.10/09 Recommended by Trevor L.

The Art of War by Sun Tzu Finished Mar.18/09

The Road by Cormac McCarthy Finished Mar.15/09

John Barleycorn by Jack London Finished Mar.12/09

This is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J. Levitin Finished Mar.01/09 Gift from Ron A.

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell Finished Feb.27/09

About Behaviorism by B.F. Skinner Finished Feb.05/09

Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky Finished Feb.01/09

Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell Finished Jan.21/09

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Books read in 2008

Being Human by Richard Harper, Tom Rodden, Yvonne Rogers and Abigail Sellen Finished Dec.31/08

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood Finished Dec.09/08

Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac Finished Dec.01/08

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Finished Nov.23/08 Recommended by Alana W.

Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens Finished Nov.19/08

The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared Diamond Finished Nov.01/08

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell Finished Oct.17/08

Once There Was a War by John Steinbeck Finished Aug.14/08

The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst Finished Jul.29/08

Son of the Revolution by Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro Finished Jul.24/08 Recommended by Jon C. One of the most important books I have ever read.

Investment Biker by Jim Rogers Finished Jul.14/08

Beautiful Evidence by Edward Tufte Finished Jul.07/08

Lanzarote by Michel Houellebecq Finished May.29/08 A seedling of a story that barely stands of its own. Thankfully it was expanded and morphed into The Possibility of an Island.

The Subterraneans and Pic by Jack Kerouac Finished May.10/08

Great Short Works of Jack London by Jack London Finished Apr.24/08 Contained two short novels, The Call of the Wild and White Fang and a series of short stories.

Jupiter's Travels by Ted Simon Finished Apr.21/08 Read while on vacation in Italy.

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Finished Mar.04/08 I somehow made it through life so far without reading this wonderful book. I am very glad I finally did. Recommended by Trevor L.

Blow the House Down by Robert Baer Finished Feb.17/08

What Do You Care What Other People Think? by Richard Feynman Finished Feb.01/08

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte Finished Jan.27/08 Recommended by Pourang I.

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Finished Jan.26/08

The Writer's Book of Hope by Ralph Keyes Finished Jan.09/08

Life: The Movie by Neal Gabler Finished Jan.03/08 Recommended by Trevor L.

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