Books

Oh, the reading that I've done. Books that I highly recommend are marked with a *.

Books I Read in 2008

May
* Water for Elephants (Gruen)
* Ten Discoveries that Rewrote History (Hunt)

April
Kitchen Literacy (Vileisis)
The Discovery of France (Robb)
* The Book of Vice (Sagal)
* The Art of Cycling (Hurst)
* This Common Secret (Wicklund)

March
Out Stealing Horses (Petterson)
* In Defense of Food (Pollan)
Skinny Bitch (Barnouin and Freedman)
Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future (Carson and Vaitheeswaran)
* The Geography of Bliss (Weiner)

February
* The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Hamid)
* The Logic of Life (Harford)
Down the Nile (Mahoney)
* The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Selznik)
* Discover Your Inner Economist (Cowen)
* Gang Leader for a Day (Venkatesh)

January
Redemption (Winograd)
* The Abstinence Teacher (Perrotta)
* The Unheard (Swiller)
* Bridge of Sighs (Russo)

Books I Read in 2007

December
* Tree of Smoke (Johnson)
* Dogs I Have Met (Foster)
* Dogs: A Natural History (Page)
* The Year of Living Biblically (Jacobs)
* The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (Mengestu)

November
God Is Not Great (Hitchens)
* Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters (Miller and Kanazawa)
* Shadow of the Silk Road (Thubron)
* Mistakes Were Made (Tavris and Aronsen)
* Sin in the Second City (Abbo)

October
* Deep Economy (McKibben)
* Oil on the Brain (Margonelli)
* The Center Cannot Hold (Saks)
* Super Crunchers (Ayres)

September
* Blue Blood (Conlon)
* How to Live a Low-carbon Life (Goodall)
* A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hosseini)
* Plenty (Smith and MacKinnon)

August
* A Long Way Gone (Beah)
Twinkie, Deconstructed (Ettlinger)
* What to Eat (Nestle)
* The World Without Us (Weisman)

July
* Blessed Unrest (Hawken)
* The Yiddish Policemen's Union
* Effective Cycling (Forrester)
* Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Kingsolver)
On Chesil Beach (McEwan)
The Black Swan (Taleb)

June
Mindset (Dweck)
The Last Forest (London and Kelly)
The Plain Janes (Castellucci and Rugg)
Snow (Pamuk)

May
Paper or Plastic (Imhoff)
* How to Live Well Without Owning a Car (Balish)
* Mendel's Daughter (Lemelman)
* Divorce Your Car (Alvord)
* More Sex is Safer Sex (Landsburg)
The Upside of Down (Homer-Dixon)
The Loved Dog (Geller)

April
Religious Literacy (Prothero)
* The Book Thief (Zusak)
* Garbage Land (Royte)
Impulse (Hopkins)
Why Does My Dog Do That? (Coren)

March
* The God Delusion (Dawkins)
* Carnet de Voyage (Thompson)
* Letter to a Christian Nation (Harris)
* There Is No Me Without You (Greene)
On Talking Terms with Dogs: Calming Signals
* A Three Dog Life (Thomas)

February
Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog (Florey)
Planet of Slums (Davis)
* The Birthday Party (Alpert)
* Goodbye Chunky Rice (Thompson)
Authentic Happiness (Seligman)

January
* The Prince of the Marshes (Stewart)
* The Geography of Thought (Nisbett)
* The Thin Place (Davis)
* Pyongyang (Delisle)
* The Mystery Guest (Bouillier)
* For the Love of a Dog (McConnell)

Books I Read in 2006

December
* The Echo Maker (Powers)
* The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation (Jacobson and Colon)
Heat (Buford)
Katz on Dogs (Katz)
* Off the Books (Venkatesh)
* Mindless Eating (Wansink)

November
Better Off (Brende)
* The Emperor's Children (Messud)
* Ghost Map (Johnson)
* American Born Chinese
* Oracle Bones (Hessler)
* The Discomfort Zone (Franzen)

October
* Before the Dawn (Wade)
* Pleasurable Kingdom (Balcombe)
* The Naked Brain (Restak)
* Banker to the Poor (Yunus)

September
* House Thinking (Gallagher)
* The Omnivore's Dilemma (Pollan)
* King Dork (Portman)
* The Man Who Talks to Dogs (Roth)
* The Female Brain (Brizendine)

August
Red Sky at Morning (Speth)
Cesar's Way (Millan)
Adventure Capitalist (Rogers)
* Revolutionary Characters (Woods)
* Econospinning (Epstein)

July
The Winds of Change (Linden)
The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton (Hughes)
* The Long Tail (Anderson)
* Three Cups of Tea (Mortenson and Relin)

June
Until I Find You (Irving)
* Bowling Alone (Putnam)
* Stumbling on Happiness (Gilbert)
* Enrique's Journey (Nazario)
* Another Day in the Frontal Lobe (Firlik)
* Field Notes from a Catastrophe (Kolbert)

May
* Happiness (Layard)
* The Shangri-La Diet (Roberts)
* Manhunt (Swanson)
* Not Buying It (Levine)

April
* No Two Alike (Harris)
* Generation Debt (Kamenetz)
* Gone Tomorrow (Rogers)
* Apartment Therapy (Gillingham-Ryan)
* The Dogs Who Found Me (Foster)

March
* Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Perkins)
* The Undercover Economist (Harford)
* Early Bird (Rothman)
The Long Emergency (Kunstler)
* On Bullshit (Frankfurt)
* The Three Pound Enigma (Moffett)

February
* Swallowing Clouds (Zee)
* Saturday (McEwan)
River of Doubt (Millard)
* The End of Poverty (Sachs)
Battle for the Soul of Capitalism (Bogle)

January
* Reefer Madness (Schlosser)
* Becoming Justice Blackmun (Greenhouse)
* Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracty and Its Consequences (Paulos)
* The Armchair Economist (Landsburg)
* In Defense of Globalization (Bhagwati)

Books I Read in 2005

December
Warped Passages (Randall)
Indecision (Kunkel)
* The City of Falling Angels (Berendt)
* A History of the World in Six Glasses (Standage)
* Epileptic (David B.)

November
* On Beauty (Smith)
Active Liberty (Breyer)
* Lolita (Nabokov)
The Germ Freak's Guide to Outwitting Cold and Flu (Janse)
* Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Roach)
The End of Reason (Harris)

October
* The Blank Slate (Pinker)
Losing Moses on the Freeway (Hedges)
* Bait and Switch (Ehrenreich)
Fallen (Maine)
* The Secret Life of Germs (Tierno)

September
1776 (McCullough)
You: The Owner's Manual (Roizen and Oz)
* What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (Gee)
Javascript: The Definitive Guide (Flanagan)
An Invisible Sign of My Own (Bender)

August
* Naked Economics (Wheelan)
* Marriage, a History (Coontz)
* Don't Make Me Think (Krug)
* A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bryson)

July
* The Wisdom of Crowds (Surowiecki)
* A Long Way Down (Hornby)
* The World is Flat (Friedman)
Sham (Salerno)
* The History of Love (Krauss)

June
All in my Head (Kamen)
* Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro)
* Freakonomics (Levitt)
The Wonder Spot (Bank)
* Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Foer)

May
* The Bookseller of Kabul (Seierstad)
Case Histories (Atkinson)
* Everything is Illuminated (Foer)
* A Hundred and One Days (Seierstad)
* Everything Bad is Good for You (Johnson)

April
Gilead (Robinson)
* On Intelligence (Hawkins)
* The Kite Runner (Hosseini)
* Blink (Gladwell)
This is Not Civilization (Rosenberg)
An Alchemy of Mind (Ackerman)

March
The Line of Beauty (Hollinghurst)
* Collapse (Diamond)
Thumbsucker (Kirn)
Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie (Goldsmith)

February
* A User's Guide to the Brain (Ratey)
* The Working Poor: Invisible in America (Shipler)
* A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness (Ramachandran)
How Dogs Think (Coren)

January
* Phantoms in the Brain (Ramachandran & Blakeslee)
* The News from Paraguay (Tuck)
* Our Kind (Walbert)
* Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories (Silber)

Books I Read in 2004

December
* The God File (Hollon)
* The Fixer (Sacco)
Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (Crossan)
* Mind Hacks (Stafford & Webb)
Vernon God Little (Pierre)

November
* Reading Lolita in Tehran (Nafisi)
* Persepolis (Satrapi)
* Persepolis II (Satrapi)
* Blankets (Thompson)
* Designing with Web Standards (Zeldman)
* Red China Blues (Wong)
* War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (Hedges)

October
* Three Junes (Glass)
* Web Standards Solutions (Cederholm)
* Alexander Hamilton (Chernow)
* Home Grown Democrat (Keilor)

September
The Russian Debutante's Handbook
The Birth of Venus (Dunante)

August
* The Lucky Ones

July
* Nickel and Dimed

June
* Little Children (Perrotta)
* Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
* Devil in the White City

May
* The Fortress of Solitude

April
* Middlesex (Eugenides)

March
Burr (Vidal)

February
* The Great Fire (Hazzard)
* Mind Wide Open (Johnson)

January
Pompeii (Harris)

Books I Read in 2003

December
* Cold Mountain (Frazier)

November
* The Known World (Jones)
Mirror, Mirror

October
An American Family (Galluci)
* Triangle (Von Drehle)

September
* Jarhead
The Story of Lucy Gault (Trevor)

August
* What Should I Do with My Life? (Bronson)
Dress Codes (Howey)

July
* The Autograph Man (Smith)
* The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

June
* The Lovely Bones

May
The Life of Pi (Martel)

April
Transister Radio
* All Over Creation (Ozeki)

March
* White Teeth (Smith)

February
The Nanny Diaries

January
* Peace Like a River

Books I Read in 2002

December
* Made in America (Bryson)

November
Standing in the Rainbow (Flagg)

October
* The Corrections (Franzen)

August
* Prague (Phillips)

July
* Empire Falls (Russo)
* Safe Area: Gorazde (Sacco)

June
A Shooting Star (Stegner)

February
* The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Chabon)

January
* The Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)

Books I Read in 2001

December
A Wrinkle in Time (L'Engle)

November
* Desires and Devices (Tone)

October
* Dawn to Decadence (Barun)

September
* 1876 (Vidal)

August
* Cavedweller (Allison)
Keys to the City (Kostman)
Eva Luna (Allende)

July
Cheng and Eng (Strauss)
The Digital Classroom (Gordon)
* How to be Good (Hornby)
The Magician's Nephew (Lewis)
* My Year of Meats (Ozeki)

June
* The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway)

April
* Big Rock Candy Mountain (Stegner)

March
Beyond Obedience
Through a Glass Darkly (Gaardner)

January
* Angle of Repose (Stegner)

Books I Read in 2000

December
Bridget Jones' Diary

November
* How to Speak Dog (Coren)
* The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing

October
Stargirl (Spinelli)
* The Truth about Dogs

September
* Geek Love (Dunn)
* The Blind Assassin (Atwood)

August
Diamond Age (Stephenson)

July
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
* About a Boy (Hornby)

June
Angela's Ashes (McCourt)

May
Harry Potter and the Sorerer's Stone
* The Infinite Plan (Allende)

April
Web Pages That Suck (Flanders)
Elements of Web Design
Secrets of Successful Web Sites
Designing Web Usability (Nielson)
The Volcano Lover (Sontag)
Henry and June (Nin)

March
* Shrub (Ivins)
* Woman: An Intimate Biography (Angier)
* The Beach
Memoirs of a Geisha

February
Adcult USA (Twitchell)
PR! The Social History of Spin
On Television
Mediamaking

January
* 1984 (Orwell)
Breaking the News (Fallows)
* Propaganda (Ellul)
* All's Fair (Matalin and Carvel)

Books I Read in 1999

December
Couples (Updike)

November
* Schoolgirls (Orenstein)
* The Nurture Assumption (Harris)
Love and Survival (Harris)

October
* Operating Instructions (Lamott)
Little Altars Everywhere (Wells)
* Receptors
* The Secret of Life (Suzuki)

September
* Seeing Voices (Sachs)

August
* Becoming a Person (Rogers)

July
Welcome to the World, Baby Girl (Flagg)
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (Freud)

June
* A Brave New World

May
* Life in a Medieval City (Gies)

April
Thinking Class (Kadi)

March
* Solitaire Mystery (Gaardner)

February
The Stone of Laughter (Barakat)
Popular Education in El Salvador (Hammond)
Mapping the Terrain (Lacy)

January
We're All Leaders
* Into Thin Air (Krakauer)
Fighting to Learn (Hammond)
When Corporations Rule the World (Korten)

Books I Read in 1998

December
* Cat's Eye (Atwood)
* Bean Trees (Kingsolver)
Unthinking Eurocentrism

November
* Declarations of Independence (Zinn)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Robbins)
Gender and the Israeli Palestinian Conflict (Sharoni)

October
* A Different Mirror (Takaki)
Marx's Concept of Man (Fromm)
* Slaughterhouse 5 (Vonegut)

September
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
* Farewell to Arms (Hemingway)
The Color Purple (Walker)

August
* Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury)
* A Moveable Feast (Hemingway)
* Girlfriend in a Coma (Copland)

July
On the Road (Kerouac)
Pope Joan (Cross)
Bless Me, Ultima
* The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood)
Things Fall Apart (Achebe)
* Walden Two (Skinner)

June
* The House of Spirits (Allende)
The Good Earth (Buck)
The Bluest Eye (Morrison)

May
There Eyes Were Watching God

April
* Alll the Little Live Things (Stegner)
* Siddartha (Hesse)

March
Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller)

February
* Tao Te Ching
The Analects of Confucius

January
The Prophet (Gibhran)
Bound Feet and West Dress

Books I Read in 1997

December
Mankiller (Mankiller)
* Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Pirsig)

November
Twenty Years at Hull House (Adams)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Franklin)

September
Land of the Burnt Thigh (Kohl)
* Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Douglass)

August
* The Rapture of Canaan (Reynolds)
* Into the Wild (Krakauer)

July
* Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Berendt)
Going Down (Belle)
The First Man (Camus)

June
* Possession (Byatt)

May
Invisible Man (Ellison)
Ceremony (Silko)