Steve Reads

Just because I find myself occasionally consulting lists of which books I read when, I include below the books I’ve read in the past few years. I’ve kept detailed records since 2004; before that, I’ve had to reconstruct records from emails sent and blog posts written.

2012

Lamott, Anne

Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (finished 26 February)

McPhee, John

The Headmaster: Frank L. Boyden, of Deerfield (finished 25 February)

McPhee, John

Crofter and the Laird, The (finished 23 February)

Gawande, Atul

Checklist Manifesto, The: How To Get Things Right (finished 20 February)

Le Guin, Ursula K.

Left Hand of Darkness, The (finished 19 February)

Roth, Philip

Prague Orgy, The (finished 10 February)

Roth, Philip

Professor of Desire, The (finished 9 February)

Roth, Philip

Everyman (finished 4 February)

Rushdie, Salman

Haroun and the Sea of Stories (finished 4 February)

Roth, Philip

Ghost Writer, The (finished 29 January)

Levinson, Marc

Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America, The (finished 16 January)

Achatz, Grant and Kokonas, Nick

Life, on the Line: A Chef’s Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat (finished 12 January)

Mumford, Lewis

City In History, The (finished 1 January)

2011

Graeber, David

Debt: The First 5,000 Years (finished 21 December)

Murakami, Haruki

1Q84 (finished 12 November)

Warren, Elizabeth and Tyagi, Amelia Warren

Two Income Trap, The: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke (finished 23 October)

Conrad, Joseph

Secret Agent, The (finished 2 October)

Fukuyama, Francis

Origins of Political Order, The: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (finished 6 September)

Brands, H.W.

Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (finished 24 August)

Coyle, Diane

The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy As If The Future Matters (finished 8 August)

Lewis, Martin W. and Wigen, Kären E.

Myth of Continents, The: A Critique of Metageography (finished 25 July)

McCormick, John

Understanding the European Union: A Concise Introduction (finished 11 July)

Chandler, Alfred

Visible Hand, The: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (finished 27 June)

Steinberg, Jonathan

Bismarck: A Life (finished 30 May)

Banerjee, Abhijit V. and Duflo, Esther

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (finished 20 May)

Easterly, William

Elusive Quest for Growth, The: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (finished 13 May)

Clark, Gregory

Farewell to Alms, A: A Brief Economic History of the World (finished 6 May)

Rodrik, Dani

Globalization Paradox, The: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy (finished 25 April)

Riasanovsky, Nicholas V.

History of Russia, A (7th ed.) (finished 17 April)

Standage, Tom

Victorian Internet, The: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-line Pioneers (finished 27 March)

Cronon, William

Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (finished 25 March)

Levinson, Marc

Box, The: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (finished 12 March)

McLean, Bethany and Nocera, Joe

All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis (finished 8 March)

Glaeser, Edward

Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier (finished 26 February)

2010

Venkatesh, Sudhir

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (finished 24 October)

Hammett, Dashiell

Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest (finished 12 October)

Hamilton-Paterson, James

Cooking with Fernet Branca (finished 7 October)

Lepore, Jill

The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History (finished 4 October)

Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager with n+1

Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager (finished 2 October)

Das, Satyajit

Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives (finished 1 October)

Geoghegan, Thomas

Were You Born On The Wrong Continent?: How the European Model Can Help You Get A Life (finished 24 September)

Baldwin, Rosecrans

You Lost Me There (finished 22 September)

Foster Wallace, David

“Consider the Lobster” and other Essays (finished 20 September)

Polanyi, Karl

Great Transformation, The (finished 18 September)

Dennett, Daniel C.

Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds (finished 12 September)

Ferris, Joshua

Unnamed, The (finished 4 September)

Pynchon, Thomas

Inherent Vice (finished 4 September)

Armstrong, Karen

Case for God, The (finished 28 August)

Hirschman, Albert

Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States (finished 22 August)

Reinhart, Carmen M. and Rogoff, Kenneth S.

This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (finished 19 August)

Graham, Loren and Kantor, Jean-Michel

Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity (finished 12 August)

Reid, Constance

Neyman: From Life (finished 8 August)

Lipsky, David

Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace

Lethem, Jonathan

Motherless Brooklyn (finished 19 July)

Mitchell, David

Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The (finished 16 July)

Wodehouse, P.G.

Best of Wodehouse, The (finished 10 July)

Greenman, Ben

What He’s Poised To Do: Stories (finished 9 July)

Frazier, Ian

Lamentations of the Father (finished 27 June)

Koch, Peter-Paul

ppk on Javascript (finished 27 June)

Skloot, Rebecca

Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The (finished 1 May)

Lukas, J. Anthony

Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (finished 2 April)

Ahamed, Liaquat

Lords of Finance: the Bankers Who Broke the World (finished 29 March)

Carroll, Lewis

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: And What Alice Found There (finished 25 March)

Kernighan, Brian W. and Pike, Rob

Practice of Programming, The (finished 19 March)

Hofstadter, Douglas

I Am A Strange Loop (finished 15 March)

Murakami, Haruki

Dance Dance Dance (finished 6 March)

Murakami, Haruki

Norwegian Wood (finished 27 February)

Banville, John

Sea, The (finished 20 February)

Beck, Kent

Test-Driven Development: By Example (finished 10 February)

Greene, Graham

End of the Affair, The (finished 26 January)

Henwood, Doug

After the New Economy (finished 13 January)

2009

Auletta, Ken

Googled: The End of the World As We Know It (finished 19 December)

Doctorow, E.L.

Ragtime (finished 14 December)

DeMarco, Tom and Lister, Timothy

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (finished 11 December)

Angwin, Julia

Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America (finished 22 November)

White, Joseph and Wildavsky, Aaron B.

Deficit and the Public Interest, The: The Search for Responsible Budgeting in the 1980s (finished 8 November)

Date, C.J.

Database in Depth: Relational Theory for Practitioners (finished 27 October)

Brooks, Frederick P., Jr.

Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering (finished 10 October)

Hustvedt, Siri

What I Loved (finished 8 October)

Gambetta, Diego

Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate (finished 9 September)

White, Joseph

Competing Solutions: American Health Care Proposals and International Experience (finished 6 September)

Murakami, Haruki

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (finished 1 September)

Murakami, Haruki

After the Quake (finished 29 August)

Murakami, Haruki

Kafka on the Shore (finished 25 August)

McPhee, John

Uncommon Carriers (finished 22 August)

McPhee, John

Sense of Where You Are, A: Bill Bradley at Princeton (finished 20 August)

Royte, Elizabeth

Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It (finished 2 August)

Oberlander, Jonathan

Political Life of Medicare, The (finished 28 July)

Everett, Percival and Kincaid, James

A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid (A Novel) (finished 23 July)

Everett, Percival

I Am Not Sidney Poitier (finished 21 July)

Starr, Paul

Logic of Health Care Reform, The: Why and How the President’s Plan Will Work (finished 19 July)

Sutton, John

Sunk Costs and Market Structure (finished 14 July)

Fox, Justin

Myth of the Rational Market, The (finished 12 July)

Posner, Richard

Public Intellectuals: A Study Of Decline (finished 27 June)

Whitehead, Colson

Sag Harbor (finished 15 June)

Patchett, Ann

Run (finished 12 June)

Montfort, Nick and Bogost, Ian

Racing the Beam: the Atari Video Computer System (finished 10 June)

Dyer, Geoff

Jeff In Venice, Death In Varanasi (finished 5 June)

Levy, Steven

Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything (finished 25 May)

Ondaatje, Michael

English Patient, The (finished 15 May)

Baron, Hans

Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance (finished 6 May)

Baker, Dean

Plunder and Blunder (finished 28 April)

Hume, David

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (finished 28 April)

Brandeis, Louis D.

Other People’s Money, and How the Bankers Use It (finished 27 April)

Murakami, Haruki

After Dark (finished 26 April)

Machiavelli, Niccolò

Discourses on Livy (finished 26 April)

Machiavelli, Niccolò

Prince, The (finished 12 April)

Shiller, Robert J.

New Financial Order, The: Risk in the 21st Century (finished 27 March)

Smith, Ali

Accidental, The (finished 20 March)

Stiglitz, Joseph E.

Whither Socialism? (finished 18 March)

Coe, Jonathan

House of Sleep, The (finished 7 March)

McCarthy, Cormac

Road, The (finished 5 March)

Power, Samantha

“A Problem From Hell”: America And The Age Of Genocide (finished 4 March)

Arendt, Hannah

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report On The Banality Of Evil (finished 9 February)

Daschle, Tom, with Greenberger, Scott S. and Lambrew, Jeanne M.

Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis (finished 4 February)

Emanuel, Ezekiel

Healthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America (finished 1 February)

Mayer, Jane

Dark Side, The: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals (finished 27 January)

MacKenzie, Donald

Engine, Not A Camera, An: How Financial Models Shape Markets (finished 22 January)

Gellman, Barton

Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency (finished 15 January)

Wilson, A.N.

Victorians, The (finished 4 January)

2008

Ubel, Peter A.

Free-Market Madness: Why Human Nature Is At Odds With Economics — And Why It Matters (finished 13 December)

Fisman, Raymond and Miguel, Edward

Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations (finished 13 December)

Lowenstein, Roger

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (finished 12 December)

Kindleberger, Charles P. and Aliber, Robert

Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (finished 9 December)

Skowronek, Stephen

Politics Presidents Make, The: Leadership from John Adams to George Bush (finished 30 November)

Keynes, John Maynard

General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, The (finished 18 November)

Orwell, George; Packer, George (ed.)

Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays (finished 31 October)

Fujita, Masahisa; Krugman, Paul; and Venables, Anthony J.

Spatial Economy, The: Cities, Regions, and International Trade (finished 28 October)

Heller, Michael

Gridlock Economy, The: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives (finished 18 October)

Orsenna, Érik

Portrait of the Gulf Stream: In Praise of Currents (finished 12 October)

Trilling, Lionel

Liberal Imagination, The (finished 8 October)

Gelman, Andrew

Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State (finished 28 September)

Kahneman, Daniel and Tversky, Amos

Choices, Values, and Frames (finished 26 September)

McGiffert, Arthur Cushman

Protestant Thought Before Kant (finished 6 September)

Perrin, Dennis

Savage Mules: The Democrats and Endless War (finished 20 August)

Conrad, Jessamyn

What You Should Know About Politics…But Don’t: A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues (finished 19 August)

Gellner, Ernest

Nations and Nationalism (finished 12 August)

Dando-Collins, Stephen

Tycoon’s War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America’s Most Famous Military Adventurer (finished 9 August)

MacCulloch, Diarmaid

Reformation, The (finished 1 August)

Pausch, Randy with Zaslow, Jeffrey

Last Lecture, The (finished 7 July)

Eichengreen, Barry

Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System (finished 6 July)

Sutton, John

Marshall’s Tendencies: What Can Economists Know? (finished 28 June)

Geoghegan, Thomas

Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It’s Flat on Its Back (finished 28 June)

Pisani, Elizabeth

Wisdom of Whores, The: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS (finished 23 June)

Roth, Philip

Indignation (finished 18 June

Rushdie, Salman

Enchantress of Florence, The (finished 15 June)

Posner, Richard A.

How Judges Think (finished 11 June)

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (finished 3 June)

Krugman, Paul

Return of Depression Economics, The (finished 25 May

Roth, Philip

Dying Animal, The (finished 24 May

Michaels, David

Doubt is Their Product: How Industry’s Assault on Science Threatens Your Health (finished 23 May)

Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr.

Crisis of the Old Order, The: 1919-1933, The Age of Roosevelt, Volume I (finished 12 May)

Pamuk, Orhan

Istanbul: Memories and the City (finished 6 May)

Shirky, Clay

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (finished 29 April)

Bartels, Larry M.

Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (finished 26 April)

Thaler, Richard H. and Sunstein, Cass R.

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (finished 21 April)

Armendáriz, Beatriz and Morduch, Jonathan

Economics of Microfinance, The (finished 18 April)

Medawar, Peter

Pluto’s Republic: Incorporating The Art of the Soluble and Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought (finished 14 April)

Bellow, Saul

Ravelstein (finished 4 April)

Bessen, James and Meurer, Michael J.

Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk (finished 30 March)

Farmer, Paul

Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (finished 22 March)

Bellow, Saul

Henderson the Rain King (finished 16 March)

Shapiro, Carl and Varian, Hal R.

Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy (finished 5 March)

Mantegna, Rosario N. and Stanley, H. Eugene

Introduction to Econophysics, An (finished 2 March

Miller, Gary J.

Managerial Dilemmas: The Political Economy of Hierarchy (finished 29 February)

García Márquez, Gabriel

One Hundred Years of Solitude (translated by Gregory Rabassa) (finished 20 February)

Bowles, Samuel and Gintis, Herbert

Recasting Egalitarianism: New Rules For Markets, States And Communities (finished 15 February)

Mankell, Henning

Sidetracked (finished 30 January)

Dosal, Paul Jaime

Doing Business with the Dictators: A Political History of United Fruit in Guatemala, 1899-1944 (finished 27 January)

Krugman, Paul

Conscience of a Liberal, The (finished 25 January)

McKibben, Bill

Age of Missing Information, The (finished 16 January)

Nestle, Marion

What To Eat (finished 13 January)

Nestle, Marion

Food Politics: How The Food Industry Influences Nutrition And Health (finished 9 January)

2007

Hacker, Jacob

The great risk shift: the assault on American jobs, families, health care, and retirement and how you can fight back. (finished 27 December)

Wolff, Robert Paul

In Defense of Anarchism (only 80-some pages, so it counts as 1/4 of a book; finished 23 December)

Scott, James C.

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (finished 22 December)

Heilbroner, Robert

Worldly Philosophers, The (finished 16 December)

Russell, Bertrand

Proposed Roads To Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism (finished 9 December)

Keynes, John Maynard

Economic Consequences of the Peace, The (finished 7 December)

McDonough, William and Braungart, Michael

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking The Way We Make Things (finished 3 December)

Skidelsky, Robert

John Maynard Keynes Volume 2: The Economist As Saviour 1920-1937 (finished 2 December)

Schelling, Thomas C.

Micromotives and Macrobehavior (finished 17 November)

Eggertsson, Thráinn

Economic Behavior and Institutions (finished 8 November)

Marsh, Charles

Wayward Christian Soldiers: Freeing the Gospel from Political Captivity (finished 30 October)

Krugman, Paul

Development, Geography, and Economic Theory (finished 26 October)

Krugman, Paul

Self-Organizing Economy, The (finished 24 October)

Skidelsky, Robert

John Maynard Keynes: A Biography. Hopes Betrayed, 1883-1920 (finished 20 October)

Pollan, Michael

Omnivore’s Dilemma, The (finished 5 October)

Slee, Tom

No One Makes You Shop At Wal-Mart: The Surprising Deceptions of Individual Choice (finished 29 September)

Roth, Philip

Exit Ghost (finished 22 September)

Ishiguro, Kazuo

Remains of the Day, The (finished 20 September)

Gellner, Ernest

Legitimation of Belief (finished 15 September)

Homer

Odyssey, The (tr. Robert Fagles) (finished 7 September)

Niffenegger, Audrey

Time Traveler’s Wife, The (finished 29 August)

Maynard Smith, John and Szathmáry, Eörs

Origins of Life, The: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language (finished 26 August)

Toulmin, Stephen Edelston

Human Understanding: The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts (finished 23 August)

Fromkin, David

Peace To End All Peace, A: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (finished 9 August)

Caro, Robert A.

Power Broker, The: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (finished 2 August)

Packer, George

Central Square (finished 19 July)

Packer, George

The Assassins’ Gate: America In Iraq (finished 15 July)

Barber, Paul

Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality (finished 7 July)

Jacobs, Jane

Cities and the Wealth of Nations (finished 2 July)

Cohn, Jonathan

Sick: The Untold Story of Amerca’s Health Care Crisis — and the People Who Pay the Price (finished 1 July)

Forrest, Barbara and Gross, Paul R.

Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design (finished 28 June)

Powers, Bob

Happy Cruelty Day!: Daily Celebrations of Quiet Desperation (finished 23 June)

Nabokov, Vladimir

Invitation to a Beheading (finished 20 June)

Weschler, Lawrence

Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology (finished 15 June)

Roth, Henry

Call It Sleep (finished 13 June)

Egan, Greg

Permutation City (finished 3 June)

Maynard Smith, John

Evolution and the Theory of Games (finished 2 June)

Niebuhr, H. Richard

Social Sources of Denominationalism, The (finished 26 May)

Bowles, Samuel

Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution (finished 22 May)

Weiner, Jonathan

Beak of the Finch, The: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (finished 15 May)

Brooks, Max

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (finished 5 May)

Frank, Robert H.

Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions (finished 2 May)

Roemer, John

Future for Socialism, A (finished 14 Apr)

Gawande, Atul

Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science (finished 8 Apr)

Lindblom, Charles E.

The Market System: What It Is, How It Works, and What To Make of It (finished 8 Apr)

Gawande, Atul

Better: A Surgeon’s Notes On Performance (finished 7 Apr)

Kleiman, Mark A.R.

Against Excess: Drug Policy For Results (finished 6 Apr)

Thaler, Richard H.

The Winner’s Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life (finished 18 March)

Petzinger, Thomas Jr.

Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos (finished 11 March)

Krugman, Paul

Pop Internationalism (finished 3 March)

Hobsbawm, Eric

Age of Capital, The, 1848-1875 (finished 17 February)

Hobsbawm, Eric

Age of Revolution, The, 1789-1848 (finished 4 February)

Iraq Study Group

The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward — a New Approach (finished 10 January)

Greene, Graham

Our Man In Havana (finished 5 January)

Davies, Brian

The Thought of Thomas Aquinas (finished 3 January)

2006

Ruskin, John

Unto This Last And Other Writings (finished 22 December)

Brown, Peter.

Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (finished 7 December)

Chesterton, G.K.

“Saint Thomas Aquinas:The Dumb Ox (finished 22 November)

Augustine of Hippo

Confessions (finished 19 November)

Frend, W.H.C.

Rise of Christianity, The (finished 7 November)

Jacobs, Jane

Death and Life of Great American Cities, The (finished 18 October)

Shakespeare, William

Coriolanus (finished 9 October)

Shakespeare, William

Julius Caesar (finished 8 October)

Kissinger, Henry Alfred

World Restored, A: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace, 1812-22 (finished 8 October)

Kaufmann, Walter Arnold

From Shakespeare to Existentialism (finished 5 October)

Eisenstein, Elizabeth L.

Printing Press as an Agent of Change, The (finished 25 September)

Jefferson, Thomas

Notes on the State of Virginia (finished 9 September)

Burckhardt, Jacob

Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, The (finished 4 September)

Pocock, John Greville Agard

Machiavellian Moment, The: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition (finished 26 August)

Wood, Gordon S.

Creation of the American Republic, The: 1776-1787 (finished 3 August)

Hofstadter, Richard

Age of Reform, The (finished 24 July)

Peterson, Merrill D.

Jefferson Image in the American Mind, The (finished 18 July)

Kingsolver, Barbara

Poisonwood Bible, The (finished 9 July)

Boyle, T. Coraghessan

World's End (finished 29 June)

Foner, Eric

Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (finished 25 June)

Roth, Philip

Plot Against America, The (finished 13 June)

Potter, David M.

Impending Crisis, The: 1848-1861 (finished 3 June)

Hofstadter, Richard

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (finished 24 May)

Calvin, William H. and Ojemann, George A.

Conversations with Neil's Brain: The Neural Nature of Thought and Language (finished 14 May)

Donald, David Herbert (ed.)

Why The North Won The Civil War (finished 13 May)

Haddawy, Husain (Translator); Mahdi, Muhsin (Editor)

Arabian Nights, The (finished 8 May)

Benkler, Yochai

Wealth of Networks, The: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (finished 1 May)

Carter, Dan T.

Politics of Rage, The: George Wallace, The Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics (finished 19 Apr)

James, William

Will To Believe, The; Human Immortality; and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (finished 5 Apr)

Dennett, Daniel C.

Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting (finished 9 Mar)

Mazower, Mark

Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century (finished 20 Feb)

Rushdie, Salman

Shalimar the Clown (finished 13 Feb)

Caro, Robert

Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 3 (finished 5 Feb)

Caro, Robert

Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 2 (finished 22 Jan)

Caro, Robert

Path To Power, The: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1 (finished 16 Jan)

2005

Didion, Joan

Year of Magical Thinking, The (finished 28 Dec)

Packer, George

Blood of the Liberals (finished 26 Dec)

Didion, Joan

Political Fictions (finished 4 Dec)

Didion, Joan

After Henry (finished 3 Dec)

Didion, Joan

White Album, The (finished 27 Nov)

Didion, Joan

Slouching Towards Bethlehem (finished 24 Nov)

Woodward, Bob and Bernstein, Carl

Final Days, The (finished 20 Nov)

Joyce, James

Ulysses (finished 13 Nov)

Frey, James

Million Little Pieces, A (finished 7 Nov)

Shakespeare, William

Macbeth (finished 5 Nov)

Bellow, Saul

More Die Of Heartbreak (finished 5 Nov)

Auster, Paul

Book of Illusions, The (finished 3 Oct)

Auster, Paul

Oracle Night (finished 2 Oct)

Nabokov, Vladimir

Pnin (finished 23 Sept)

Nabokov, Vladimir

Defense, The (finished 20 Sept)

Vowell, Sarah

Asssassination Vacation (finished 2 Sept)

Ridley, Matt

Red Queen, The: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (finished 1 Sept)

Nabokov, Vladimir

Pale Fire (finished 28 August)

Dennett, Daniel C.

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (finished 25 August)

Barzun, Jacques

Science: The Glorious Entertainment (finished 17 Aug)

Pullman, Philip

Amber Spyglass, The (finished 7 Aug)

Pullman, Philip

Subtle Knife, The (finished 2 Aug)

Dawkins, Richard

Blind Watchmaker, The: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (finished 31 July)

Deffeyes, Kenneth S.

Beyond Oil: The View From Hubbert's Peak (finished 29 July)

Gandhi, Mohandas K.

An Autobiography: The Story Of My Experiments With Truth (finished 24 July)

Mitchell, David

Cloud Atlas (finished 17 July)

Potter, Stephen

Complete Upmanship, The; Including Gamesmanship, Lifemanship, One-Upmanship, and Supermanship (finished 8 July)

Laudan, Larry

Beyond Positivism and Relativism: Theory, Method, and Evidence (finished 6 July)

Kitcher, Philip

Advancement of Science, The: Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions (finished 25 June)

Butterfield, Herbert

Origins of Modern Science, The (finished 26 May)

Haldane, J.B.S.

On Being The Right Size and other Essays (finished 17 May)

Haldane, J.B.S.

Causes of Evolution, The (finished 12 May)

Poincaré, Henri

Science and Hypothesis (finished 10 May)

Kuhn, Thomas S.

Copernican Revolution, The: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought (finished 6 May)

McLean, Bethany and Elkind, Peter

Smartest Guys In The Room, The: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron (finished 6 Apr)

Hafner, Katie and Lyon, Matthew

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet (finished 31 Mar)

Kidder, Tracy

Soul of a New Machine, The (finished 26 Mar)

Lessig, Lawrence

Free Culture (finished 20 Mar)

Tanenbaum, Andrew

Computer Networks (finished 15 Mar)

Pullman, Philip

Golden Compass, The (finished 4 Mar)

Clarke, Susanna

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (finished 15 Jan)

2004

Lewis, Anthony

Gideon's Trumpet (finished 29 Dec)

Krugman, Paul

Great Unraveling, The: Losing Our Way In The New Century (finished 26 Dec)

Nafisi, Azar

Reading Lolita in Tehran (finished 22 Dec)

Hollinghurst, Alan

The Line Of Beauty (finished 11 Dec)

Wilczek, Frank and Devine, Betsy

Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics (finished 8 Dec)

von Hayek, Friedrich August

Road to Serfdom, The (finished 30 Nov)

Weinberg, Steven

First Three Minutes, The: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe (finished 13 Nov)

Nove, Alec

Economics of Feasible Socialism Revisited, The (finished 12 Nov)

Sigmund, Karl

Games of Life: Explorations in Ecology, Evolution, and Behaviour (finished 29 Oct)

Eggers, Dave

You Shall Know Our Velocity! (finished 13 Oct)

Kidder, Tracy

Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer (finished 8 Oct)

Huxley, Aldous

Brave New World (finished 21 Sep)

Murdoch, Iris

Severed Head, A (finished 19 Sep)

Remy, Jerry

Watching Baseball (finished 17 Sep)

Becker, Jasper

Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine (finished 11 Sep)

Kidd, Chip

Cheese Monkeys, The: A Novel In Two Semesters (finished 6 Sep)

Saari, Donald G.

Chaotic Elections! A Mathematician Looks At Voting (finished 4 Sep)

Chernow, Ron

Alexander Hamilton (finished 31 Aug)

Ghosh, Amitav

Glass Palace, The (finished 5 Aug)

Landes, William M. and Posner, Richard A.

Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law, The (finished 28 July)

Woodward, Bob and Armstrong, Scott

Brethren, The: Inside the Supreme Court (finished 10 July)

Allende, Isabel

House of the Spirits, The (finished 2 July)

Patchett, Ann

Bel Canto (finished 20 June)

Pinker, Steven

How The Mind Works (finished 16 June)

Gigerenzer, Gerd; Todd, Peter M.; and the ABC Research Group

Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart (finished 8 June)

Simon, Herbert A.

Administrative Behavior (finished 26 May)

Rhodes, Richard

Making Of The Atomic Bomb, The (finished 19 May)

Dyer, Geoff

But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz (finished 8 May)

von Baeyer, Hans Christian

Maxwell's Demon: Why Warmth Disperses and Time Passes (finished 7 May)

Coase, Ronald H.

The Firm, the Market, and the Law (finished 4 May)

Lewis, Michael

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (finished 1 May)

Adair, Robert K.

The Physics of Baseball (finished 30 Apr)

Thorn, John and Palmer, Pete

The Hidden Game Of Baseball (finished 28 Apr)

Bakalar, Nick

Baseball Fan's Companion, The (finished 21 Apr)

Shakespeare, William

Othello (finished 5 Apr)

Wilson, Edmund

To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History (finished 3 Apr)

Rushdie, Salman

Satanic Verses, The (finished 25 Mar)

Shakespeare, William

Hamlet (finished 19 Mar)

Lahiri, Jhumpa

The Namesake (finished 17 Mar)

Applbaum, Arthur

Ethics for Adversaries: the Morality of Roles in Public and Professional Life (finished 14 Mar)

Bellow, Saul

Mr. Sammler's Planet (finished 7 Mar)

Martel, Yann

Life of Pi (finished 4 Mar)

Roth, Philip

The Human Stain (finished 28 Feb)

Achebe, Chinua

Things Fall Apart (finished 23 Feb)

Gourevitch, Philip

We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda (finished 19 Feb)

Philip Roth

I Married A Communist (finished 8 Feb)

Jonathan Franzen

How To Be Alone: Essays (finished 4 Feb)

Herbert Simon

The Sciences of the Artificial (finished 1 Feb)

Salman Rushdie

The Moor's Last Sigh (finished 30 Jan)

Erich Maria Remarque

All Quiet On The Western Front (finished 19 Jan)

Homer

Iliad (finished 17 Jan)

Cory Doctorow

Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom (finished c. 11 Jan)

2003 (very incomplete records)

Steingarten, Jeffrey.

It Must've Been Something I Ate (finished 29 Dec)

Ellickson, Robert C.

Order Without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes (finished 25 Dec)

Posner, Richard.

Frontiers of Legal Theory (finished 15 Dec)

Posner, Richard.

Economics of Justice, The (finished 24 Nov)

Bellow, Saul.

Adventures of Augie March, The (finished c. 10 Nov)

Sacks, Oliver.

Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, The (finished c. 13 May)

de Botton, Alain.

On Love (finished c. 3 May)

Murakami, Haruki.

Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, The (finished c. 11 March)

Bailyn, Bernard.

Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, The (finished c. 1 March)

Sinclair, Upton.

Jungle, The (finished c. 11 Feb)

Amis, Martin.

Information, The (finished c. 31 Jan)

Perelman, S.

J. Most of the Most of S.J. Perelman (finished c. 15 Jan)

Tolstoy, Leo.

Anna Karenina (finished c. 9 Jan)

2002 (even less complete)

Morrow, James

Towing Jehovah (finished 5 Dec)

Russell, Mary Doria

Sparrow, The (finished 1 Dec)

Alighieri, Dante

“Inferno” (translated by Robert Pinsky) (finished 11 Nov)

Plato

Republic, The (finished 10 Oct)

Bloom, Allan

Closing of the American Mind, The (finished 10 Sept)

Monaco, James

How To Read A Film (finished 3 Sept)

Frank, Thomas

Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler (finished 16 July)

Atwan, Robert and Oates, Joyce Carol (eds.)

Best American Essays of the Century, The (finished 4 June)

García Márquez, Gabriel

Love in the Time of Cholera (finished 23 May)

Foster Wallace, David

Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, A (finished 23 May)

Golden, Arthur

Memoirs of a Geisha (finished 10 May)

Simon, James F.

What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States (finished 8 April)

Zinn, Howard

People's History of the United States (finished 31 March)

Roy, Arundhati

God of Small Things, The (finished 22 March)

McCullough, David

Truman (finished 13 March)

Morris, Edmund

Theodore Rex (finished 7 Feb)

Roth, Philip

American Pastoral (finished 29 Jan)

Lessig, Lawrence

Future of Ideas, The: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World (finished 23 Jan)

DeLillo, Don

White Noise (finished 23 Jan)

Donald, David Herbert

Lincoln (finished 23 Jan)

McCullough, David

John Adams (finished 13 Jan)

2001 (still less complete)

Wallace, David Foster

Infinite Jest (finished 12 Dec)

Rushdie, Salman

Midnight's Children (finished 10 Sept)

Farrell, John Aloysius

Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century (finished 21 Aug)

Sunstein, Cass

Republic.com (finished 15 July)