Recent Reading

August 2010

Journey into Islam by Akbar Ahmed

The Global Achievement Gap by Tony Wagner

Cartographies of Time by Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton

The Millionaire in the Mirror by Gene Bedell

Why Architecture Matters by Paul Goldberger

Journey into America by Akbar Ahmed

The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen

The Utility of Force by Rupert Smith

The Dead Beat by Marilyn Johnson

July 2010

The Little Book of Main Street Money by Jonathan Clements

Super Structures by Mark Denny

The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto by Bernard DeVoto

Don't Sleep, There are Snakes by Daniel L. Everett

Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski

The Public Burning by Robert Coover

June 2010

A Political Fable by Robert Coover

May 2010

The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons

War & Peace & War by Peter Turchin

Searching for Whitopia by Rich Benjamin

Naked Airport by Alastair Gordon

Physics for Future Presidents by Richard A. Muller

Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton

Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy by William Oddie

April 2010

Historical Sketch of the Library Association of Portland, 1864-1964 by Katherine E. Anderson

After the Reich by Giles Macdonogh

March 2010

Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky

Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace

The Creation and Destruction of Value by Harold James

Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham

Renewing Professional Librarianship by Bill Crowley

The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon

February 2010

The Sion Revelation by Lynn Pickett and Clive Prince

Target: America by James P. Duffy

The Dip by Seth Godin

The Marketplace of Ideas by Louis Menand

Ants at Work by Deborah Gordon

Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson

January 2010

India after Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha

The Original Curse by Sean Deveney

The Vikings by Robert Ferguson

1688: The First Modern Revolution by Steve Pincus

December 2009

Approaching Eye Level by Vivian Gornick

Serendipities by Umberto Eco

Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947 by D. M. Giangreco

The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA by Thomas Powers

The Red Flag by David Priestland

Everything is Under Control by Robert Anton Wilson

November 2009

What Are Intellectuals Good For? by George Scialabba

Eagles and Empire by David A. Clary

The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914 by Philipp Blom

The Evasion-English Dictionary by Maggie Balistreri

The Redneck Way of Knowledge by Blanche McCrary Boyd

October 2009

How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton

Dark Continent by Mark Mazower

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

The Hardball Handbook by Chris Matthews

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

Looking at Philosophy (2nd edition) by Donald Palmer

Don't Make Me Think! (2nd edition) by Steve Krug

The Inheritance of Rome by Chris Wickham

August 2009

False Economy by Alan Beattie

For the Love of Vinyl by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell

How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein

July 2009

Is There Life After High School? by Ralph Keyes

June 2009

The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton

Aging Well by George E. Vaillant

May 2009

Europe Between the Oceans, 9000 BC - AD 1000 by Barry Cunliffe

The Great Influenza by John M. Barry

The Next 100 Years by George Friedman

A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine

April 2009

Flu by Gina Kolata

Every Book Its Reader by Nicholas A. Basbanes

ESPN25 by Charles Hirshberg

Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi

RFID by Steven Shepard

Information: The New Language of Science by Hans Christian von Baeyer

The Popes of Avignon by Edwin Mullins

7 Deadly Scenarios by Andrew F. Krepinevich

Postwar by Tony Judt

March 2009

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol

[Led Zeppelin IV] by Erik Davis

Spacecraft 2000 to 2100 AD by Stewart Cowley

A World of Letters by Nicholas A. Basbanes

The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso

February 2009

Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander

Hitman by David Foster

NHL: The Official Illustrated History by Arthur Pincus

A Privileged Life by Susanna Salk

A Great Idea at the Time by Alex Beam

POPism by Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett

Andy Warhol by Isabel Kuhn

A Gentle Madness by Nicholas A. Basbanes

I Hate New Music by Dave Thompson

"I Gave Them a Sword" by David Frost

January 2009

When the New Deal Was Young and Gay by Charles Hurd

The Final Solution by Michael Chabon

Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong by Pierre Bayard

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

The Conviction of Richard Nixon by James Reston, Jr.

The Ayatollah Begs to Differ by Hooman Majd

 

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