Recent Reading

May 2013

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie

April 2013

The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

March 2013

Architecture in the 20th Century by Peter Gössel and Gabriele Leuthäuser

Data, A Love Story by Amy Webb

Perfecting Sound Forever by Greg Milner

February 2013

Dharma Punx by Noah Levine

Energy for Future Presidents by Richard A. Muller

January 2013

Both Flesh or Not by David Foster Wallace

December 2012

How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer by Debbie Millman

A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton

Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope

Linchpin by Seth Godin

The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver

November 2012

American Nations by Colin Woodard

The Control of Nature by John McPhee

October 2012

The Beatles Graphic by Hervé Bourhis

Thinking in Time by Richard E. Neustadt and Ernest R. May

Safekeeping by Abigail Thomas

The Truth About Style by Stacy London

September 2012

Maphead by Ken Jennings

Scorecasting by Tobias J. Moskowitz and L. Jon Wertheim

August 2012

A History of Northwest Portland from the River to the Hills by Jane Comerford

The Little Big Things by Tom Peters

Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky

Unprecedented Power by Steven Fenberg

A Levant Journal by George Seferis

Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier

The Information by James Gleick

July 2012

America the Philosophical by Carlin Romano

Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku

1939: The Lost World of the Fair by David Gelernter

The Last Days of the Renaissance & the March to Modernity by Theodore K. Rabb

June 2012

Why the West Rules–For Now by Ian Morris

Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1 (unabridged) by James Boswell

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel

May 2012

Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes

Extra Innings by Baseball Prospectus

April 2012

Succeeding When You're Supposed to Fail by Rom Brafman

The Professional by Subroto Bagchi

Watergate: A Novel by Thomas Mallon

Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader by Bradley K. Martin

March 2012

Just My Type by Simon Garfield

Too Big to Know by David Weinberger

Age of Fracture by Daniel T. Rodgers

The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters by John Gross

Brave Dragons by Jim Yardley

February 2012

The Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson

Microcosms by Claudio Magris

Are We Still Rolling? by Phill Brown

Bob Gill, so far. by Bob Gill

Through the Language Glass by Guy Deutscher

January 2012

The Wealth of Knowledge by Thomas A. Stewart

Barbara Kruger by Alexander Alberro, etc.

The Upside of Down by Thomas Homer-Dixon

Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky

December 2011

Fixing the Game by Roger L. Martin

The War for Korea, 1950-1951 by Allan R. Millett

This is Uncool by Garry Mulholland

A Murder of Quality by John Le Carré

November 2011

Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership by Joseph Jaworski

Five Moral Pieces by Umberto Eco

Greenback Planet by H. W. Brands

The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

Improve Your Project Management by Phil Baguley

Material Change by Eve Blossom

October 2011

God and Gold by Walter Russell Mead

On the Edge of the New Century by Eric Hobsbawm

Dead Funny by Rudolph Herzog

Breaking the Fear Barrier by Tom Rieger

Collected Poems by George Seferis

Record Collecting for Girls by Courtney E. Smith

The Conscience of the Eye by Richard Sennett

What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith

September 2011

The History of Mathematics: Numbers by John Tabak

The Gutenberg Elegies by Sven Birkerts

Retromania by Simon Reynolds

Aerotropolis by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay

August 2011

Too Much to Know by Ann M. Blair

СССР: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed by Frédéric Chaubin

The Myth of the Electronic Library by William F. Birdsall

Future Science edited by Max Brockman

The Untied States of America by Juan Enriquez

Good Strategy / Bad Strategy by Richard P. Rumelt

Off the Books by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

Annals of the Former World by John McPhee

July 2011

Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand

Hearts of the City by Herbert Muschamp

Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky

Danube by Claudio Magris

June 2011

Among the Thugs by Bill Buford

The Numerati by Stephen Baker

The MLS Project by Boyd Keith Swigger

The Unaffordable Nation by Jeffrey D. Jones

May 2011

Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne

The Long Tail by Chris Anderson

I Am the Market by Luca Rastello

The Next Decade by George Friedman

The Stillborn God by Mark Lilla

Owning It All by William Kittredge

In Defense of History by Richard J. Evans

April 2011

Liebling at The New Yorker edited by James Barbour and Fred Warner

From Bible Belt to Sun Belt by Darren Dochuk

March 2011

Amexica: War Along the Borderline by Ed Vulliamy

The Culture Code by Clotaire Rapaille

Street Player by Danny Seraphine

The Portland Edge edited by Connie P. Ozawa

Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama

Facts Are Subversive by Timothy Garton Ash

Earth (The Book) by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

February 2011

The Flâneur by Edmund White

Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite by Paul Arden

France/Norway by John Maxtone-Graham

The Wicked Wine of Democracy by Joseph S. Miller

The Meadowlands by Robert Sullivan

The Endless City edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic

January 2011

Googled by Ken Auletta

Newsonomics by Ken Doctor

Poison Penmanship by Jessica Mitford

Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950 by Robert M. Fogelson

When the Luck of the Irish Ran Out by David J. Lynch

The Imperial Cruise by James Bradley

The First Moderns by William R. Everdell

Power and Plenty by Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O'Rourke

Yakuza by David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro

 

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