Books Read 2011
I started this year with the good intention of writing a paragraph or three for each book I read. A short review so to speak. I managed for about 15 books up to April. It’s too much work to write about what I just read. Easier to read something new. So here’s my reading list for this year (managed to read a lot of technical shit):
[*] greatly enjoyed
[x] deeply annoying in some way
1. Stendhal, The Red and the Black
2. Steig Larson, The Girl who kicked the Hornet’s Nest
3.* Neil Howe and William Strauss, The Fourth Turning
5.* Edith Wharton, “Age of Innocence”.
6.* Gary Taubes, “Why we get Fat”
7. Nathan Haren & Mike Cliffe Jones, “Beyond Blogging”
8. Jules Verne, “Voyage au Centre du Monde”
9.* Rino Breerbaart, “Song Logic”
11. Mario Vargas Llosa, “Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter”
12. Henry James, “Portrait of a Lady”
13.x “Persian Fire”, Tim Holland
14. “La Chartreuse de Parme”, Stendhal
15. Clay Shirky, “Cognitive Surplus”
16.* Collette, “Cheri”
17.x Tea Obreht, “The Tiger’s Wife”
18.* Simon Schama, “The Power of Art”
19.* Aristotle, “Poetics”
20.* Simon Schama, “Rembrandt’s Eyes”
21. David Foster Wallace, “Consider the Lobster”
22. Micheal Lewis, “The Big Short“
23. Edward L. Glaeser, “Triumph of the City”
24.x E.L. Doctorow, “Ragtime”
25.* Barry Strauss, “The Trojan War”
26.* Patrick White, “Tree of Man”
27. William Bengston, “The Energy Cure”
28.* John Man, “Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World”
29. Vanessa Veselka, “Zazen”
30.* Alex Ross, “Listen to This”
31.* Andrei Alexandrescu, “The D Programming Language”
32. Hugh Mckay, “What Makes Us Tick”
33. Clifford Pickover, “Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science”
34. G.R.R. Martin, “The Game of Thrones”
35. Barry Strauss, “The Battle at Salamis”
36.* Alberto Miguel, “A History of Reading”
37.* David Sloan Wilson “Darwin’s Cathedral”
38. Colin Wright,“Networking Awesomely”
39.* Joey Comeau, “The Girl who couldn’t Come”
40.* Tina Fey, “Bossypants”
41. John Kenneth Galbraith, “The Great Crash 1929”
42.x Fiona McGregor, “Indelible Ink”
43. Ethan Marcotte, “Responsive Web Design”
44. Richard Ellis, “Aquagenesis”
45. William Calvin, “A Brief History of the Mind”
46.* Miles Franklin, “My Brilliant Career”
52. Michael Lewis, “Boomerang”
53. Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen, “Great by Choice”
54.* Karen Armstrong, “The Great Transformation”
55. Marshall Rosenberg, “Non-Violent Communication”
56.* Norman Wade. “The Faith Instinct”
57.* Charles Pinter, “The Theory of Abstract Algebra”
58.* Piela, “Ideas in Quantum Chemistry”
59. Keith McFarland, “The Breakthrough Company”
60. Mark Sisson, “The Primal Blueprint”
61.* Lisa See, “Shanghai Girls”
62.* M. G. Bulmer, “Principles of Statistics”
