Steve Reads

Science Fiction

• Atwood, Margaret. Handmaid's Tale, The.
• Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake.
• Blish, James. Case of Conscience, A (recommended by Cosma Shalizi as an alternative to Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow).
• Brunner, John. Stand on Zanzibar.
• Gibson, William. Neuromancer.
• Le Guin, Ursula. Birthday of the World, The, And Other Stories.
• Le Guin, Ursula. Dispossessed, The.
• Le Guin, Ursula. Four Ways To Forgiveness.
• Le Guin, Ursula. Left Hand of Darkness, The.
• Le Guin, Ursula. Three Hainish Novels.
• Le Guin, Ursula. Wind's Twelve Quarters, The.
• Lem, Stanislaw. A Perfect Vacuum.
• Lem, Stanislaw. Cyberiad, The.
• Lem, Stanislaw. Futurological Congress, The: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy.
• Lem, Stanislaw. His Master's Voice.
• Lem, Stanislaw. Imaginary Magnitude.
• Lem, Stanislaw. Peace on Earth.
• Lem, Stanislaw. Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences Of Ijon Tichy.
• Miéville, China. Iron Council.
• Miéville, China. Perdido Street Station.
• Stross, Charles. Atrocity Archives.
• Stross, Charles. Jennifer Morgue. (The word is that if I dislike Atrocity Archives, I will dislike this as well.)

Fiction

• Alighieri, Dante. Paradiso.
• Alighieri, Dante. Purgatorio.
• Armstrong, Kelley. Bitten (Women of the Otherworld, Book 1)
• Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice or Mansfield Park or somesuch, just because everyone tells me that she’s great (where “everyone” means “everyone who didn’t tell me that she’s incredibly boring”).
• Banks, Russell. Sweet Hereafter, The.
• Boccaccio, Giovanni. Decameron, The.
• Bronsky, Alina. The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine (via the Bookslut).
• Coetzee, J.M. Disgrace.
• Cole, Teju. Open City.
• Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes.
• Danielewski, Mark Z. House of Leaves (recommended by Chris Rugen)
• Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations.
• Dickens, Charles. Pickwick Papers, The.
• Dickens, Charles. Tale Of Two Cities, A.
• Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Notes from Underground.
• Druon, Maurice. Accursed Kings, The.
• Dubus III, Andre. House of Sand and Fog.
• Ellis, Bret Easton. Glamorama.
• Eugenides, Jeffrey. Virgin Suicides, The.
• French, Tana. In The Woods. (Recommended by Rebecca Kraut.)
• French, Tana. Likeness, The. (Recommended by Rebecca Kraut.)
• Gogol, Nikolai. Nose, The. (I lost my friend Britta’s copy just after the part where one of the characters finds a nose in his morning muffin. Sorry, Britta.).
• Gogol, Nikolai. Overcoat, The, etc. .
• Hasek, Jaroslav. The Good Soldier Schweik. Via The Bookslut, referencing this piece.
• Ishiguro, Kazuo. Pale View of Hills, A.
• James, Henry of some sort.
• Karinthy, Ferenc. Metropole (via The Bookslut).
• Kinsella, W.P. Shoeless Joe.
• Kosinski, Jerzy. The Painted Bird.
• Lewis, C.S. Great Divorce, The.
• Lewis, C.S. Out Of The Silent Planet.
• Lewis, C.S. Screwtape Letters, The.
• Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or The Whale. To reread. And for that matter, to re-buy: I used to own a great edition that I misplaced.
• Mitchell, David. Number9Dream.
• Murakami, Haruki. South of the Border, West of the Sun.
• Murakami, Haruki. Wild Sheep Chase, A.
• Murakami, Ryu. Almost Transparent Blue.
• Murakami, Ryu. Coin Locker Babies.
• Murakami, Ryu. In The Miso Soup.
• Murakami, Ryu. Piercing.
• Nabokov, Vladimir. Ada, or Ardor.
• Ondaatje, Michael. Anil's Ghost (recommended to me by J. Random T rider)
• Pushkin, Alexander. Eugene Onegin.
• Saramago, José. Blindness.
• Segal, Lore. Lucinella (recommended by Jessa Crispin)
• Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace.
• Twain, Mark. Basically all of it. I can’t even believe that I’ve basically read no Twain at all.
• Vergil, The Aeneid.
• Vidal, Gore. Creation (recommended by Cosma Shalizi).
• Vidal, Gore. Julian (recommended by Cosma Shalizi).
• Vidal, Gore. Lincoln: A Novel.
• Vidal, Gore. Myra Breckinridge/Myron.

Biography

• Adams, Henry. Education of Henry Adams, The.
• Atlas, James. Bellow: A Biography.
• Boyd, Brian. Vladimir Nabokov: The American years.
• Boyd, Brian. Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian years.
• Browne, Janet. Charles Darwin. Volume 1: Voyaging.
• Browne, Janet. Charles Darwin. Volume 2: The Power of Place.
• Buñuel, Luis. My Last Sigh.
• Chernow, Ron. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
• Ebert, Roger. Life Itself
• Ellman, Richard. James Joyce.
• Frank, Joseph. Dostoevsky (4 vols.)
• Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The.
• Mingus, Charles. Beneath The Underdog.
• Morris, Edmund. Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, The.
• Roberts, Siobhan. King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry.
• Solberg, Carl. Hubert Humphrey.

Creationism/Intelligent Design

• Eldredge, Niles. Triumph of Evolution and the Failure of Creationism, The.
• Pennock, Robert T. (ed.) Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics.
• Ruse, Michael. The Evolution-Creation Struggle.

Biology/Psychology

• Atkins, Peter. Creation, The.
• Ball, Philip. The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature.
• Blaffer Hrdy, Sarah. Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection.
• Blaffer Hrdy, Sarah. Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
• Braitenberg, Valentino. Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology.
• Burnett, D. Graham. Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature.
• Buss, Leo W. Evolution of Individuality.
• Caudill, Maureen and Butler, Charles. Naturally Intelligent Systems.
• Churchland, Patricia and Sejnowski, Terrence J. Computational Brain, The.
• Damasio, Antonio. Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain.
• Darwin, Charles. Descent of Man, The.
• Darwin, Charles. Voyage of the Beagle.
• Dawkins, Richard. The Extended Phenotype.
• Dawkins, Richard. Selfish Gene, The.
• Dobzhansky, Theodosius. Genetics and the Origin of Species.
• Dobzhansky, Theodosius. Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution.
• Ewald, Paul W. Evolution of Infectious Disease.
• Fisher, R.A. Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, The.
• Gillespie, John H. Population Genetics: A Concise Guide.
• Gould, Stephen Jay. Bully for Brontosaurus.
• Gould, Stephen Jay. Full House.
• Gould, Stephen Jay. Ontogeny and Phylogeny.
• Gould, Stephen Jay. The Panda's Thumb.
• Griffin, Donald R. Listening In The Dark; The Acoustic Orientation Of Bats And Men.
• Holland, John H. Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems.
• Jackendoff, Ray. Consciousness and the Computational Mind.
• Jackendoff, Ray. Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature.
• James, William. Principles of Psychology.
• Johnson-Laird, Philip N. The Computer and the Mind: An Introduction to Cognitive Science.
• Kimura, Motoo. Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution, The.
• Kitcher, Philip. Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature.
• Lewontin, Richard. Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change, The.
• Margulis, Lynn. Symbiosis in Cell Evolution.
• Maynard Smith, John. Evolution Now: A Century After Darwin.
• Maynard Smith, John. Evolution of Sex, The.
• Mayr, Ernst. Growth of Biological Thought.
• Mayr, Ernst. One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought.
• Mayr, Ernst. Populations, Species and Evolution.
• Mayr, Ernst. This Is Biology.
• Mayr, Ernst. What Evolution Is.
• McCulloch, Warren S. Embodiments of Mind.
• Miller, Kenneth R. Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution.
• Pollan, Michael. Botany of Desire, The.
• Ruse, Michael. Can a Darwinian Be a Christian?.
• Ruse, Michael. Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?.
• Sigmund, Karl. Games of Life: Explorations in Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour (to reread).
• Sperber, Dan, and Wilson, Deirdre. Relevance: Communication and Cognition.
• Watson, James D. Molecular Biology of the Gene.
• Wiener, Norbert. Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine.
• Williams, George. Adaptation and Natural Selection.
• Williams, George. Sex and Evolution.
• Williams, George C. Natural Selection: Domains, Levels, and Challenges.
• Wilson, Edward O. Sociobiology.
• Winfree, Arthur T. Geometry of Biological Time, The.

Physics/Math/Etc.

• Capasso, Vincenzo and Bakstein, David. Introduction to Continuous-Time Stochastic Processes, An.
• Cover, Thomas M. and Thomas, Joy A. Elements of Information Theory.
• Gershenfeld, Neil. Physics of Information Technology, The.
• Graham, Ronald L.; Knuth, Donald E.; Patashnik, Oren. Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science.
• Griffith, David. Introduction to Electrodynamics.
• Grimmett, Geoffrey R. and Stirzaker, David R. Probability and Random Processes.
• Hofbauer, Josef and Sigmund, Karl. Evolutionary Games and Population Dynamics.
• Kac, Mark. Statistical Independence in Probability, Analysis and Number Theory.
• Kallenberg, Olav. Foundations of Modern Probability.
• Kantz, Holger and Schreiber, Thomas. Nonlinear Time Series Analysis.
• Kolmogorov, Andrey Nikolaevich and Fomin, S.V. Introductory Real Analysis.
• Manzano, Mar‚àö‚â†a. Model Theory.
• Pollard, David et al.. User's Guide To Measure-Theoretic Probability.
• Shumway, Robert H. and Stoffer, David S. Time Series Analysis and Its Applications with R Examples, Second Edition.
• von Neumann, John; Burks, Arthur W. (ed.). Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata.
• Yeoman, Julia. Statistical Mechanics of Phase Transitions, The;

History of Science

• Ferris, Timothy. Coming of Age in the Milky Way.

Libraries

• Battles, Matthew. Library: An Unquiet History.
• Battles, Matthew. Widener: Biography of a Library.
• Shera, Jesse Hauk. Foundations of the Public Library: The Origins of the Public Library Movement in New England, 1629-1855.

Misc. science

• Hastie, Trevor; Tibshirani, Robert; Friedman, Jerome H. Elements of Statistical Learning.

Philosophy

• Arnhart, Larry. Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature.
• Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations.
• Austin, J.L. Sense and Sensibilia.
• Barnes, Jonathan. Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction.
• Barnes, Jonathan. Cambridge Companion to Aristotle, The.
• DeLanda, Manuel. New Philosophy of Society, A: Assemblage Theory And Social Complexity (recommended by Cosma as preface to War in the Age of Intelligent Machines)
• DeLanda, Manuel. War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (Cosma recommends New Philosophy of Society, A: Assemblage Theory And Social Complexity as preface)
• Dennett, Daniel. Brainchildren.
• Elster, Jon. Making Sense of Marx.
• Gellner, Ernest. Words and Things.
• Habermas, Jürgen. Postnational Constellation, The: Political Essays.
• Hacking, Ian. Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science.
• Harrington, James. Commonwealth of Oceana, The.
• Hintikka, Jaako. Principles of Mathematics Revisited, The.
• Hipolite, Jean. Genesis and Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.
• James, William. Varieties of Religious Experience, The.
• Kolakowski, Leszek. Main Currents of Marxism.
• Machiavelli, Niccolò. Art of War, The.
• MacIntyre, Alasdair. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory.
• Nussbaum, Martha C. Fragility of Goodness, The: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy.
• Pinkard, Terry. Hegel's Phenomenology: The Sociality Of Reason.
• Quine, W.v.O. Ontological Relativity and Other Essays.
• Walzer, Michael. Just and Unjust Wars.
• Walzer, Michael. Spheres of Justice.
• Waterlow, Sarah. Nature, Change, and Agency in Aristotle's Physics: A Philosophical Study.

Computers/electronics/programming/software engineering

• Aho, Alfred V.; Sethi, Ravi; and Ullman, Jeffrey D. Compilers.
• Buxton, Bill. Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design. (Recommended by Mike Jeffers.)
• Cederholm, Dan. Bulletproof Web Design.
• Cooper, Keith and Torczon, Linda. Engineering a Compiler.
• Dominus, Mark Jason. Higher-Order Perl.
• Gamma, Erich; Helm, Richard; Johnson, Ralph; Vlissides, John. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.
• Horowitz & Hill, Art Of Electronics, The.
• Hudak, Paul. Haskell School of Expression, The: Learning Functional Programming through Multimedia.
• Mitchell, Melanie. Introduction to Genetic Algorithms.
• Neumann, John von. Computer and the Brain, The.
• Randal, Allison; Sugalski, Dan; Tötsch, Leopold. Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials.
• Schmitt, Christopher. CSS Cookbook.
• Shea, Dave. Zen of CSS Design, The.
• Stroustrup, Bjarne. Design and Evolution of C++, The.

Law

• Balkin, Jack. Cultural Software.
• Boyle, James. Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information society.
• Dworkin, Ronald. Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom.
• Dworkin, Ronald. Taking Rights Seriously.
• Granfield, Robert. Making Elite Lawyers: Visions of Law at Harvard and Beyond.
• Posner, Richard. Cardozo: A Study in Reputation.
• Posner, Richard. Economic Analysis of Law, The.
• Solove, Daniel J. and Rotenberg, Marc. Information Privacy Law.
• Tribe, Lawrence. Abortion: A Clash of Absolutes.

Afghanistan

• Dupree, Louis. Afghanistan.
• Hafvenstein, Joel. Opium Season: a Year on the Afghan Frontier.

History of Ireland

• O’Brien, Conor Cruise. Parnell and his Party, 1880-1890 (out of print? Oxford Univ. Press., ISBN maybe 0198212372). Cited in A.N. Wilson’s The Victorians.

History of the Middle East

• Hodgson, Marshall G.S. Venture of Islam, The, Volume 1: The Classical Age of Islam.
• Hodgson, Marshall G.S. Venture of Islam, The, Volume 2: The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods.
• Hodgson, Marshall G.S. Venture of Islam, The, Volume 3: The Gunpowder Empires and Modern Times.
• Finkel, Caroline. Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire.
• Lynch, Marc. Voices of the New Arab Public: Iraq, al-Jazeera, and Middle East Politics Today
• Kennedy, Hugh N. Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates, The: The Islamic Near East from the 6th to the 11th Century.

Florentine History

• Brucker, Gene. Renaissance Florence.
• Garin, Eugenio. Italian Humanism: Philosophy and Civic Life in the Renaissance.
• Gilbert, Felix. Machiavelli and Gucciardini: Politics and History in Sixteenth-Century Florence.
• Holmes, George. Florentine Enlightenment, The.
• Machiavelli, Niccolò. Florentine Histories.
• Martines, Lauro. April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici.
• McCarthy, Mary. Stones of Florence, The.
• Najemy, John. History of Florence, A, 1200-1575.
• Weinstein, Donald. Savonarola and Florence: Prophecy and Patriotism in the Renaissance.

Western/European history

• Acton, Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg. Essays on Freedom and Power.
• Ariès, Philippe. Hour of Our Death, The.
• Ariès, Philippe. Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present (The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History).
• Ascham, Anthony. Of the confusions and revolutions of governments.
• Barzun, Jacques. From Dawn to Decadence.
• Brinton, Crane. English political thought in the nineteenth century.
• Bryson, Gladys. Man and Society: The Scottish Inquiry of the Eighteenth Century.
• Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France.
• Clark, Christopher. Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 (via Matt Yglesias)
• Cobbett, William. Parliamentary history of England, The, from the earliest period to the year 1803: From which last-mentioned epoch it is continued downwards in the work entitled Hansard's Parliamentary debates.
• DeLanda, Manuel. Thousand Years of Nonlinear History, A.
• Dickinson, H.T. Liberty and Property: Political Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
• Dickson, P.G.M. Financial Revolution in England, The: A Study In The Development Of Public Credit, 1688-1756.
• Goldsworthy, Adrian. Caesar: Life of a Colossus (recommended by James Grimmelmann).
• Hibbert, Christopher. House of Medici, The: Its Rise and Fall.
• Hobsbawm, Eric J.B. Age of Extremes: the Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991.
• Holt, Frank L. Thundering Zeus: The Making of Hellenistic Bactria.
• Hume, David. History of England.
• Kantorowicz, Ernst Hartwig. King Frederick II (via J. Random Blog Commenter).
• Kantorowicz, Ernst Hartwig. King's Two Bodies, The (via J. Random Blog Commenter).
• Kelly, George Armstrong. Idealism, Politics, And History: Sources of Hegelian Thought.
• Klein, Lawrence E. Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness.
• Kramnick, Isaac. Bolingbroke and His Circle: The Politics of Nostalgia in the Age of Walpole.
• Lefebvre, Georges. Coming of the French Revolution, The.
• Macmillan, Margaret. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World.
• Martines, Lauro. Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy.
• Najemy, John M. Italy in the Age of the Renaissance: 1300-1550.
• Paine, Thomas. Rights of Man, The.
• Plumb, J.H. Growth of Political Stability in England, The, 1675-1725.
• Rawson, Elizabeth. Spartan Tradition in European Thought, The.
• Skinner, Quentin. Foundations of Modern Political Thought, The.
• Skinner, Quentin. Liberty Before Liberalism.
• Swift, Jonathan. History of the Four Last Years of the Queen.
• Tritle, Lawrence. Greek World in the Fourth Century, The: From the Fall of the Athenian Empire to the Successors of Alexander.
• Underdown, David. Pride's Purge: Politics in the Puritan Revolution.
• Wilson, A.N. After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World (recommended by Dan Weinreb, upon my finishing The Victorians).
• Young, B.W. Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England: Theological Debate From Locke To Burke.

Economic history

• Robbins, Lionel. Theory of Economic Policy in English Classical Political Economy, The.
• Taylor, Arthur. Laissez-faire and State Intervention in Nineteenth-century Britain.

History, general/other

• Chang, Jung. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (recommended by Joe Scheier-Dolberg? Matt Flynn?).
• Cohn, Norman. The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages.
• Fisk, Robert. Great War for Civilization, The.
• Fisk, Robert. Pity The Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon.
• Gandhi, Mohandas K. Satyagraha in South Africa.
• Goldman, Emma. Living My Life.
• Johnson, Ian. Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China (via Joe Scheier-Dolberg? Matt Flynn?)
• Khan, Yasmin. Great Partition, The: The Making of India and Pakistan.
• Magnusson, Sigurur Gylfi. Wasteland with Words: A Social History of Iceland (via Planet Money).
• Malkin, Peter-Zvi. Eichmann In My Hands.
• Needham, Joseph. Science and Civilisation in China
• Needham, Joseph. Science and Civilisation in China.
• Nehru, Jawaharlal. Discovery of India, The.
• Ross, Charles. Wars of the Roses, The: A Concise History.
• Stille, Alexander. Future Of The Past, The.
• Tuchman, Barbara. Guns of August.
• Van de Mieroop, Marc. Ancient Mesopotamian City, The.

Russian history

• Carr, Edward Hallett. Bolshevik Revolution, The (3 vols.)
• Riasanovsky, Nicholas V. and Steinberg, Mark. History of Russia, A (combined volume).
• Stites, Richard. Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution (cited in Seeing Like A State).

American history

• Acheson, Dean. Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department.
• Adams, Henry. History of the United States of America During the Administrations of James Madison.
• Adams, Henry. History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson.
• Agee, James. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families.
• Alsop, Joseph. 168 Days.
• Anderson, Oscar E. Jr., Health of a Nation, The: Harvey W. Wiley and the Fight for Pure Food.
• Bailyn, Bernard (ed.). Debate on the Constitution, The: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification: Part One, September 1787-February 1788.
• Bailyn, Bernard (ed.). Debate on the Constitution, The: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification, Part Two: January to August 1788.
• Bancroft, Frederic. Calhoun and the South Carolina Nullification Movement.
• Beard, Charles A. Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of The United States, An.
• Bell, Daniel (ed.), New American Right, The.
• Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War In American Memory.
• Byrd, Robert C. Senate, The, 1789-1989: Addresses on the History of the U.S. Senate.
• Callow, Alexander B. Tweed Ring, The.
• Dauer, Manning Julian. Adams Federalists, The.
• Delbanco, Andrew. Death of Satan, The: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil.
• Donald, David Herbert. Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War.
• Donald, David Herbert. Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man.
• Donald, David Herbert. Lincoln's Herndon.
• Elkins, Stanley and McKitrick, Eric. The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800 (to reread).
• Elkin, Stephen L. Reconstructing the Commercial Republic: Constitutional Design after Madison.
• Ellis, Joseph. American Sphinx.
• English, T.J. Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish-American Gangster.
• Fitzgerald, Deborah. Yeoman No More: The Industrialization of Agriculture in America, 1920-1940.
• Halberstam, David. Best and the Brightest, The (to reread).
• Haynes, George H. Senate of the United States, The: Its History and Practice.
• Herndon, William Henry. Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life.
• Hersh, Seymour M. Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib.
• Hofstadter, Richard. American Political Tradition, The: And the Men Who Made it.
• Hofstadter, Richard. Idea of a Party System, The: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States, 1780-1840.
• Hofstadter, Richard. Paranoid Style in American Politics, The, and Other Essays.
• Honey, Michael. Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, King's Last Campaign.
• Hoogenboom, Ari. Outlawing the Spoils: A History of the Civil Service Reform Movement, 1865-1883.
• Johanssen, Robert W. Stephen A. Douglas.
• Kyvig, David E. Explicit and Authentic Acts: Amending the U.S. Constitution, 1776‚Äö√Ñ√¨1995.
• Lasch, Christopher. The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963: The Intellectual As a Social Type.
• Lemann, Nicholas. Promised Land, The: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America.
• Markoff, John. What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer.
• McLoughlin, W.G., Jr. Billy Sunday Was His Real Name.
• McWhorter, Diane. Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution.
• Middlekauff, Robert. Mathers, The: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals.
• Miller, William Lee. Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography. (Recommended by Hendrik Hertzberg.)
• Milton, George Fort. Eve of Conflict, The: Stephen A. Douglas and the Needless War.
• Nevins, Allan. Emergence of Lincoln, The.
• Nevins, Allan. Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage.
• Nevins, Allan. Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration.
• Nevins, Allan. Ordeal of the Union.
• Nichols, Roy F. Disruption of American Democracy, The.
• Nicolay, John G. and Hay, John. Abraham Lincoln: A History.
• Parrington, Vernon Louis. Main Currents in American Thought: The Beginnings of Critical Realism in America, 1860-1920.
• Parrington, Vernon Louis. Main Currents in American Thought: The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800.
• Parrington, Vernon Louis. Main Currents in American Thought: The Romantic Revolution in America, 1800-1860.
• Peterson, Merrill D. Great Triumvirate, The: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun.
• Riis, Jacob. How The Other Half Lives.
• Rutland, Robert Allen. Ordeal of the Constitution: The Antifederalists and the Ratification Struggle of 1787-1788.
• Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. Age of Jackson, The.
• Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. Age of Roosevelt, Volume II: Coming of the New Deal: 1933-1935.
• Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. Age of Roosevelt, Volume III: The Politics of Upheaval: 1935-1936.
• Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. Cycles of American History, The.
• Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. Thousand Days, The.
• Schrag, Zachary M. Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro.
• Smith, James Morton. Freedom's Fetters: The Alien and Sedition Laws and American Civil Liberties.
• Sperber, A.M. Murrow: His Life and Times.
• Story, Joseph. Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States; With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution.
• van Deusen, Glyndon G. Thurlow Weed: Wizard of the Lobby.
• van Deusen, Glyndon G. William Henry Seward.
• Van Doren, Carl. Benjamin Franklin (recommended in a terrific Jill Lepore piece about Franklin).
• van Riper, Paul P. History of the United States Civil Service.
• White Jr., Ronald C. Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural.
• White, Leonard D. Federalists, The.
• White, Leonard D. Jacksonians, The.
• White, Leonard D. Jeffersonians, The.
• White, Leonard D. Republican Era 1869-1901, The.
• Wills, Gary. Lincoln at Gettysburg.
• Woodward, Comer Vann. Origins of the New South, The.
• Woodward, Comer Vann. Strange Career of Jim Crow, The.
• Worster, Donald. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s.

Language

• Charniak, Eugene. Statistical Language Learning.
• Skinner, B.F. Verbal Behavior.

Economics and Finance

• Angell, Norman. Story of Money, The.
• Aoki, Masanao. Modeling Aggregate Behavior and Fluctuations in Economics: Stochastic Views of Interacting Agents (via Cosma Shalizi? At least indirectly?)
• Arrow, Kenneth. Limits of Organization, The.
• Banerjee, Abhijit and Duflo, Esther. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty. (via Matt Yglesias and David Leonhardt).
• Bhagwati, Jagdish. Protectionism.
• Bowles, Samuel; Durlauf, S.N.; Hoff, K. (eds.). Poverty Traps.
• Bowles, Samuel; Edwards, Richard; Roosevelt, Frank. Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change.
• Braudel, Fernand. Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800.
• Braybrooke, David and Lindblom, Charles E. Strategy of Decision, A: Policy Evaluation as a Social Process. (Recommended by Cosma Shalizi.)
• Burnham, James. Managerial Revolution, The: What Is Happening In The World.
• Chandler, Alfred D., Jr. Visible Hand, The: The Managerial Revolution in American Business.
• Dahl, Robert A. Preface to Economic Democracy.
• Davidson, Paul. Financial Markets, Money and the Real World.
• De Soto, Hernando. Mystery of Capital, The: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else.
• Debreu, Gerard. Theory of Value: An Axiomatic Analysis of Economic Equilibrium
• Dixit, Avinash K. Lawlessness and Economics: Alternative Modes of Governance.
• Dorman, Peter. Markets and Mortality: Economics, Dangerous Work, and the Value of Human Life.
• Drobny, Steven. The Invisible Hands: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Bubbles, Crashes, and Real Money (recommended by Daniel Davies)
• Easterly, William. White Man's Burden, The: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good.
• Elster, Jon. Ulysses Unbound: Studies in Rationality, Precommitment, and Constraints.
• Elster, Jon. Ulysses and the Sirens.
• Feenstra, Robert C. Advanced International Trade: Theory and Evidence (recommended by Dani Rodrik).
• Ferguson, Niall. Ascent of Money, The: A Financial History of the World (discovered here, via Jamie Forrest)
• Friedman, Milton and Schwartz, Anna Jacobson. Monetary History of the United States, A, 1867-1960.
• Galbraith, James K. Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis.
• Greif, Avner. Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade.
• Griffiths, Peter. Economist's Tale, The: A Consultant Encounters Hunger and the World Bank.
• Hill, Christopher. World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution.
• Houthakker, Hendrik S. and Williamson, Peter J. Economics of Financial Markets, The.
• Ilinski, Kirill, Physics of Finance: Gauge Modelling in Non-Equilibrium Pricing (via Cosma Shalizi)
• Irwin, Douglas A. Free Trade Under Fire (via “Deconstructing Free Trade”, in turn via Dani Rodrik).
• Keynes, John Maynard. Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren.
• Keynes, John Maynard. Essays in Persuasion (this Palgrave edition in particular).
• Keynes, John Maynard. How To Pay For The War.
• Keynes, John Maynard. Treatise on Money, A.
• Kindleberger, Charles P. World in Depression, The, 1929-1939.
• Lösch, August. Economics of Location, The: A Pioneer Book in the Relations between Economic Goods and Geography.
• Leamer, Edward E. Macroeconomic Patterns and Stories (via one episode of the EconTalk podcast, though I gather there’s another episode of the same podcast devoted entirely to the book)
• Manning, Alan. Monopsony in Motion: Imperfect Competition in Labor Markets.
• Nelson, Richard R. and Winter, Sidney G. Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change, An.
• Obstfeld, Maurice and Rogoff, Kenneth S. Foundations of International Macroeconomics (via Krugman’s blog, at least indirectly: he keeps talking about how “Obstfeld-Rogoff” is central to how economists think)
• Obstfeld, Maurice and Taylor, Alan M. Global Capital Markets: Integration, Crisis, and Growth (Japan-US Center UFJ Bank Monographs on International Financial Markets) (cited in A Farewell To Alms, I believe)
• Polanyi, Karl. Great Transformation, The.
• Roberts, Russell. Choice, The: A Fable of Free Trade and Protection (via “Deconstructing Free Trade”, in turn via Dani Rodrik)
• Sachs, Jeffrey D. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time.
• Sahlins, Marshall. Stone Age Economics.
• Saxenian, AnnaLee. Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128.
• Schelling, Thomas Crombie. Choice and Consequence.
• Schelling, Thomas Crombie. Strategy of Conflict, The.
• Schumpeter, Joseph Alois. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy.
• Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom.
• Shiryaev, A.N. Essentials of Stochastic Finance: Facts, Models, Theory (via Cosma Shalizi)
• Smith, Adam. Wealth of Nations, The.
• Sutton, John. Sunk Costs and Market Structure.
• Sutton, John. Technology and Market Structure.
• Ubel, Peter. Pricing Life: Why It's Time for Health Care Rationing.
• Williamson, Oliver E. Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications.

Religion

• Augustine of Hippo. Answer to the Pelagians.
• Augustine of Hippo. Confessions (translated by Henry Chadwick — I’ve read other translations, but somewhere I read that this one was special; possibly I read this in Peter Brown’s Augustine of Hippo?).
• Bainton, Roland H. Here I Stand: A Life Of Martin Luther.
• Bellarmine, Controversies.
• Brecht, Martin. Martin Luther: His Road to Reformation 1483-1521.
• Brecht, Martin. Martin Luther: Shaping and Defining the Reformation 1521-1532.
• Brecht, Martin. Martin Luther: The Preservation of the Church, 1532-1546.
• Chadwick, Henry. Augustine (Past Masters).
• Chapp, Rebecca. Praxis of Suffering, The: An Interpretation of Liberation and Political Theologies (cited in Paul Farmer’s Pathologies of Power).
• Claiborne, Shane. Irresistible Revolution, The: Living as an Ordinary Radical.
• Cohn, Norman. Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages.
• Dirks, Jerald F. Cross & the Crescent, The.
• Feiler, Bruce. Walking the Bible (recommended by Laura Boyden, probably)
• Gilson, Etienne. Christian Philosophy Of St Thomas Aquinas, The.
• Kreeft, Peter. Summa of the Summa, A.
• Machen, J. Gresham. Christianity and Liberalism.
• Nederman, Cary J. Worlds of Difference: European Discourses of Toleration, C. 1100-1550.
• Niebuhr, Reinhold. Does Civilization Need Religion? A Study in the Social Resources and Limitations of Religion in Modern Life.
• Popkin, Richard H. History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza, The (recommended by Cosma Shalizi)
• Tolstoy, Leo. Kingdom of God is Within You, The.
• Warfield, Benjamin B. Calvin and Augustine.
• Wilson, A.N. Jesus: A Life.
• Wilson, A.N. Paul: The Mind of the Apostle.
• Wolfson, Harry Austryn. Philosophy of Spinoza, The: Unfolding the Latent Process of His Reasoning (recommended by Cosma Shalizi)

Jung/Freud/etc

• Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and its Discontents.
• Noll, Richard. The Jung Cult: Origins of a Charismatic Movement.

Film

• Perez, Gilberto. Material Ghost, The: Films and Their Medium (recommended by Bijoyini Chatterjee, I believe).
• Welles, Orson; Bogdanovich, Peter; Rosenbaum, Jonathan. This Is Orson Welles.

Politics/Political Theory

• Ackerman, Bruce and Ayres, Ian. Voting With Dollars: A New Paradigm for Campaign Finance.
• Arendt, Hannah. On Revolution.
• Brinton, Crane. Anatomy of Revolution, The.
• Carter, Dan T. From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994.
• Fulbright, J. William. Arrogance of Power, The.
• Hacker, Jacob S. and Pierson, Paul. Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy.
• Haltom, William and McCann. Michael, Distorting the law: politics, media, and the litigation crisis.
• Heard, Alexander. Costs of Democracy, The.
• Hersh, Seymour M. Price of Power, The: Kissinger in the Nixon White House.
• Mayer, Jane and Abramson, Jill. Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas
• Meeropol, Michael. Surrender: How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan Revolution.
• Mooney, Chris. Republican War on Science, The.
• Namier, Sir Lewis. 1848: The Revolution of the Intellectuals.
• Perlstein, Rick. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus.
• Perlstein, Rick. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America.
• Phillips, Kevin P. Emerging Republican Majority, The.
• Raymond, Allen. How To Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative.
• Redman, Eric. Dance of Legislation.
• Ricks, Thomas E. Making The Corps.
• Scheuerman, William E. Carl Schmitt: The End Of Law. (Recommended by Sandy Levinson, by email. See also the book by Carl Schmitt.)
• Schmitt, Carl. Political Theology. (Schmitt generally recommended by Sandy Levinson; this book in particular recommended over email by Prof. Levinson.)
• Tsebelis, George. Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work (via Matt Yglesias).

Food

• Bittman, Mark. Cooking at Home with a Four Star Chef.
• Bittman, Mark. Fish: The Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking.
• Bittman, Mark. From Simple to Spectacular: How to Take One Basic Recipe to Four Levels of Sophistication.
• Bittman, Mark. How To Cook Everything.
• McGee, Harold. On Food and Cooking.
• Nestle, Marion. Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine.
• Steingarten, Jeffrey. Man Who Ate Everything, The.

Health care, health insurance, public health

• Blumenthal, David and Morone, James. Heart of Power, The: Health and Politics in the Oval Office.
• Duffy, John. Sanitarians, The: A History of American Public Health (recommended by Jason Smith)
• Falkson, Joseph L. HMOs and the Politics of Health System Reform.
• Hacker, Jacob S. Road To Nowhere, The (recommended by Ezra Klein).
• Johnson, Haynes. System, The: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point (recommended by Ezra Klein).
• Nyman, John. Theory of Demand for Health Insurance, The.
• Pauly, Mark V. Health Reform without Side Effects: Making Markets Work for Individual Health Insurance (recommended by Paul Kelleher)
• Porter, Dorothy. Health, Civilization and the State (recommended by Jason Smith)
• Skocpol, Theda. Boomerang: Health Care Reform and the Turn Against Government (recommended by Ezra Klein).
• Starr, Paul. Social Transformation of American Medicine, The: the Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry.

War

• Hammes, Thomas X. Sling and the Stone, The: On War in the 21st Century.

Bush administration

• Goldsmith, Jack L. Terror Presidency, The: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration.

Nationalism

• Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism.
• Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism (to reread).

Travel

• Fermor, Leigh. A Time of Gifts (described in the announcement of the author’s death)

Unfiled

• Abbey, Edward. Monkey Wrench Gang, The.
• Aldrich, Mark. Death Rode the Rails: American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1828-1965
• Alexander, Christopher. Pattern Language, A: Towns, Buildings, Construction.
• Angell, Norman. Great Illusion, The. (Via Matt Yglesias)
• Bearman, Peter. Doormen.
• Bourdain, Anthony. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.
• Bowit, John E. Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age
• Bullough, Oliver. Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus
• Cravens, Gwyneth. Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy.
• Crews, Frederick. Memory Wars.
• Crews, Frederick. Skeptical Engagements.
• Diderot, Denis. D'Alembert's Dream.
• Didion, Joan. Book of Common Prayer, A.
• Didion, Joan. Democracy.
• Didion, Joan. Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11.
• Didion, Joan. Miami.
• Didion, Joan. Play It As It Lays.
• Didion, Joan. Run River.
• Didion, Joan. Salvador.
• Didion, Joan. Where I Was From.
• Dyson, George. Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
• Earl, D.C. Moral and Political Tradition of Rome, The.
• Estabrook, Barry. Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit (via Terry Gross’s interview with the author)
• Farmer, Paul. Haiti After The Earthquake.
• Fatsis, Stefan. Word Freak.
• Ferguson, John. Religions of the Roman Empire, The.
• Fortescue, John. In Praise of the Laws of England.
• Fowler, Robert (ed.). Cambridge Companion to Homer, The.
• Frank, Jeffrey. Columnist, The.
• Fukuyama, Francis. End of History and the Last Man, The.
• Galloway, George B. Legislative Process in Congress, The.
• Gardner, Martin. Urantia: The Great Cult Mystery.
• Graebner, David. Debt: The First 5000 Years. (Recommended by Luke Smith. See also this amazing thing about the history of money)
• Gross, Paul R. and Levitt, Norman. Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and its Quarrels with Science.
• Hamilton, Richard F. Social Misconstruction of Reality, The: Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community.
• Harrington, Anne. Reenchanted Science.
• Hayward, Frank. Professionalism and Originality.
• Hessler, Peter. Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
• Hexter, J.H. Vision of Politics on the Eve of the Reformation, The: More, Machiavelli, and Seyssel.
• Johnson-Laird, Philip. How We Reason.
• Kohák, Erazim V. Embers and the Stars, The. (Recommended in The Age of Missing Information.)
• Lamont, William M. Godly Rule: Politics and Religion, 1603-1660.
• Landau, Susan. Surveillance or Security?: The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies (via Bruce Schneier).
• Lewis, Martin W. The Myth of Continents.
• Lord, Albert. Singer of Tales, The.
• Loury, Glenn C. Anatomy of Racial Inequality, The.
• Mackay, Charles. Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds.
• Madoff, Ray D. Immortality and the Law: The Rising Power of the American Dead (via this blog post, via my friend Annie)
• McKibben, Bill. Deep Economy: the Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.
• McKibben, Bill. End of Nature, The.
• McKibben, Bill. Hope, Human and Wild.
• McLuhan, Marshall. Mechanical Bride, The: Folklore of Industrial Man.
• Moller Okin, Susan. Justice, Gender, And The Family (via Matt Yglesias)
• Olson, Laura Katz. Politics of Medicaid, The.
• Pollan, Michael. Place Of My Own, A.
• Pollan, Michael. Second Nature.
• Poulson, Kevin. Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground (recommended on a recent Planet Money).
• Riddick, Floyd M. Senate Procedure.
• Sacks, Oliver. Migraine.
• Sadowski, Yahya. Myth of Global Chaos, The.
• Sennett, Richard. Uses of Disorder, The: Personal Identity and City Life (via an eviscerating book review by Evgeny Morozov)
• Simon, David and Burns, Edward. Corner, The: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (recommended by Patrick Fitzsimmons).
• Skocpol, Theda. Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in United States.
• Stearns, Jason. Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa (via Matt Yglesias).
• Tuveson, Ernest. Millennium and Utopia.
• Venkatesh, Sudhir. Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (via Chris Blattman).
• Walicki, Andrzej . Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom
• Weiss, Florence; Weiss, Sydney; and Craven, Thomas (eds.). Cartoon Cavalcade.
• Whitfield, J.H. Discourses on Machiavelli.
• Wilkinson, Richard G. Spirit Level, The: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger (via Krugman).
• Williams, George Huntston. Radical Reformation, The.
• Wilson, Woodrow. Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics.

Baseball

• Baseball Prospectus. Baseball Between The Numbers.
• Deford, Frank. Old Ball Game, The.
• Olney, Buster. Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty, The.

Literature

• Kenner, Hugh. Ulysses.

Memoir

• Alighieri, Dante. Vita Nuova, La.
• Burroughs, Augusten. Running with Scissors.

Urban planning, and cities generally

• Duany, Andres; Plater-Zyberk-Elizabeth; and Speck, Jeff. Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream.
• Flint, Anthony. This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America.
• Henderson, J. Vernon. Urban Development: Theory, Fact, and Illusion.
• Kunstler, James Howard. Geography of Nowhere, The: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape.
• Mumford, Lewis. City In History, The.
• Mumford, Lewis. Highway and the City, The.
• Rae, Douglas W. City: Urbanism and Its End (via Matt Yglesias).

Organizational design

• Axelrod, Robert and Cohen, Michael D. Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier.