Some books I have read, and some I want to read

What I'm reading now:

The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb

On pause:

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Designing Groupwork by Elizabeth Cohen

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Some of the books I've read lately:

(This is pretty complete lately, but has gaping holes further back. And of course, I've omitted some of the pulp that I am too embarrassed to admit I read.)

  • The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (19 March 2008)
  • The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart (9 March 2008)
  • Inside Job by Connie Willis (20 February 2008)
  • A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby Payne (January 2008)
  • The Hamster Revolution: How to Manage Your Email Before It Manages You by Mike Song (January 2008)
  • Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan (January 2008)


    2007

  • Ishmael by Daniel Quinn (30 December 2007)
  • Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (28 December 2007)
  • The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki (25 December 2007)
  • The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford (19 December 2007)
  • Mosque bye David Macaulay (December 2007)
  • Tricked! by Alex Robinson (1 December 2007)
  • Good to Great by Jim Collins (23 November 2007)
  • Buddha, Volume 2: The Four Encounters by Osamu Tezuka (22 November 2007)
  • The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind (12 November 2007)
  • The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (30 October 2007)
  • Good Benito by Alan Lightman (28 October 2007)
  • Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande (17 October 2007)
  • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck (14 October 2007)
  • Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai (8 October 2007)
  • BOP! (More Box Office Poison) by Alex Robinson (7 October 2007)
  • Deep Economy by Bill McKibben (23 September 2007)
  • To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (14 September 2007)
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (8 September 2007)
  • The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons (24 August 2007)
  • Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (12 August 2007)
  • The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America by Jonathan Kozol (12 August 2007)
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling (2 August 2007)
  • Fortune's Formula by William Poundstone (1 August 2007)
  • Buddha, Volume 1: Kapilavastu by Osamu Tezuka (30 July 2007)
  • Owly, Volume 1: The Way Home & The Bittersweet Summer by Andy Runton (23 July 2007)
  • Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (13 July 2007)
  • Trail Fever by Michael Lewis (7 July 2007)
  • Berlin, Volume 1: City of Stones by Jason Lutes (30 June 2007)
  • The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster (22 June 2007)
  • Shadowland by Kim Deitch (21 June 2007)
  • V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd (20 June 2007)
  • The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume 1 by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill (16 June 2007)
  • Global Frequency: Planet Ablaze written by Warren Ellis (14 June 2007)
  • Blankets by Craig Thompson (9 June 2007)
  • The Two Percent Solution by Matthew Miller (8 June 2007)
  • Maximum City by Suketu Mehta (14 May 2007)
  • The Art of Problem Solving Introduction to Counting and Probability by David Patrick (13 May 2007)
  • Moneyball by Michael Lewis (7 April 2007)
  • The Learning Gap by Harold Stevenson and James Stigler (25 February 2007)
  • Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder (18 February 2007)
  • The Blind Side by Michael Lewis (21 January 2007)


    2006

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (date unknown, late 2005 or early 2006)
  • Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder (28 December 2006)
  • Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics by Liping Ma (25 December 2006)
  • Bloomberg by Bloomberg (November 2006)
  • The Teaching Gap by James W. Stigler and James Hiebert (July 2006)
  • Holes by Louis Sachar (Newbery Medal 1999) (12 March 2006)
  • The Math Instinct by Keith Devlin (11 March 2006)
  • Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen (22 February 2006)
  • Wicked by Gregory Maguire (19 February 2006)
  • Taking Action with Teacher Research edited by Meyers & Rust (14 February 2006)


    2005

  • Cliffs Quick Review: Linear Algebra by Steven A. Leduc (29 December 2005)
  • Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid (28 December 2005)
  • The Man Who Owned New York by John Jay Osborn, Jr. (27 December 2005)
  • The Truth About Testing by W. James Popham (24 December 2005)
  • Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom (December 2005)
  • The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (6 December 2005)
  • SeinLanguage by Jerry Seinfeld (24 November 2005)
  • The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (5 November 2005)
  • The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman (26 October 2005)
  • The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (22 October 2005)
  • Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner (4 September 2005)
  • 'Tis by Frank McCourt (2 September 2005)
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling (18 August 2005)
  • Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (12 August 2005)
  • In the Pond by Ha Jin (6 August 2005)
  • Terminal Man by Michael Crichton (5 August 2005)
  • A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul (5 August 2005)
  • How To Be Good by Nick Hornby (2 August 2005)
  • A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (31 July 2005)
  • Strata by Terry Pratchett (12 July 2005)
  • Snapshots from Hell by Peter Robinson (11 July 2005)
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami (11 July 2005)
  • Our America by LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman with David Isay (24 June 2005)
  • How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez (23 June 2005)
  • Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis
  • The Soft Room by Karen Heuler
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Steven Chbosky
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Difference by Randy Cohen (6 February 2005)
  • Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (30 January 2005)
  • Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
  • Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
  • Horace's Compromise by Theodore Sizer
  • Ella Minnow Pea


    2004

  • The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  • The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
  • There Are No Shortcuts by Rafe Esquith (29 August 2004)
  • Between Planets by Robert Heinlein (18 August 2004)
  • City of Djinns by William Dalrymple (15 August 2004)
  • Necromancer by Gordon R. Dickson (10 August 2004)
  • White Teeth by Zadie Smith (9 August 2004)
  • Tactics of Mistake by Gordon R. Dickson (6 August 2004)
  • The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin (1 August 2004)
  • Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (31 July 2004)
  • Fooled By Randomness by Nassim Taleb (9 May 2004)
  • The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (1 May 2004) SABC
  • The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster (April 2004)
  • Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss (April 2004)
  • The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger (20 March 2004)
  • Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (20 March 2004)
  • A Sense of Where You Are by John McPhee (20 February 2004)
  • Luxury Fever by Robert H. Frank (18 February 2004)
  • A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (February 2004)
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (4 January 2004)


    2003

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (31 December 2003)
  • Suburban Sahibs by S. Mitra Kalita (30 December 2003)
  • The Brethren by John Grisham (20 December 2003)
  • Nothing's Impossible by Lorraine Monroe (29 November 2003)
  • The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy by Nicholas Lemann (16 November 2003)
  • The Life of Pi by Yann Martel (29 October 2003)
  • Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
  • Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
  • Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students and Their High School by Samuel G. Freedman (20 September 2003)
  • Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry (20 September 2003)
  • Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (13 September 2003)
  • Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin (17 August 2003)
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (15 August 2003)
  • The First Year of Teaching: Real World Stories from America's Teachers edited by Pearl Rock Kane (14 August 2003)
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (4 August 2003)
  • Bringing Down The House by Ben Mezrich (12 June 2003)
  • An American Voter by Joan Sullivan (8 June 2003)
  • Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie (18 May 2003)
  • The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (10 May 2003)
  • Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (5 May 2003)
  • Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (30 April 2003)
  • Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol (24 April 2003)
  • Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card (20 April 2003)
  • Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card (16 April 2003)
  • Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card (13 April 2003)
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry (February 2003)
  • Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra (February 2003)
  • An Autobiography, or the Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas K. Gandhi (January 2003)


    2002

  • Dune by Frank Herbert (28 December 2002, Rayachoty)
  • The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy (Vientiane)
  • Axiomatic by Greg Egan (Luang Phabang)
  • Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham (9 December 2002, Luang Phabang?)
  • The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham (Chiang Mai)
  • House by Tracy Kidder (Chiang Mai)
  • Startide Rising by David Brin (29 November 2002, Siem Reap)
  • Ringworld by Larry Niven (Phuket)
  • Shame by Salman Rushdie
  • The first six volumes of A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (9-16 September 2002)
  • Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (15 September 2002)
  • Waiting by Ha Jin (7 September 2002)
  • Good Benito by Alan Lightman (28 August 2002)
  • From Paris To The Moon by Adam Gopnik (26 August 2002)
  • Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
  • Shopgirl by Steve Martin
  • Enigma by Thomas Harris
  • The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie (8/02)
  • The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (7/02)
  • Trading With The Enemy (7/02)
  • The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie (5/02)
  • A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (3/02)
  • What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin (2/02)


    2001

  • The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh (September 2001) SABC
  • Freedom Song by Amit Chaudhuri (August 2001) SABC
  • A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (April 2001) SABC
  • The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri (17 March 2001) SABC
  • The Virtue of Prosperity by Dinesh D'Souza (25 February 2001)
  • The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (February 2001) SABC
  • The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (January 2001) SABC
  • What Would Machiavelli Do? by "Stanley Bing"
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond


    2000

  • The Girls' Guide To Hunting & Fishing by Melissa Bank (27 December 2000)
  • Memories of Rain by Sunetra Gupta SABC (November 2000)
  • Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (24 September 2000)
  • The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (20 September 2000)
  • Just here trying to save a few lives by Pamela Grim (17 September 2000)


    Some of the books I hope to read soon:

    Fiction

  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  • Blindness by Jose Saramago
  • Emma by Jane Austen
  • The Iliad of Homer
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  • Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Enemies, A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
  • Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
  • Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  • The Hours by Michael Cunningham
  • Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
  • Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
  • The House of Blue Mangoes by David Davidar
  • The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams
  • The Remarkable Life of William Beebe, Explorer and Naturalist by Carol Grant Gould


    Non-Fiction

  • Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz
  • The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
  • Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol
  • Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
  • What Should I Do with My Life? by Po Bronson
  • Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam
  • Fair Game? by Rebecca Zwick
  • How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
  • Teacher in America by Jacques Barzu
  • In Defense of Globalization by Jagdish Bhagwati
  • My Life as a Quant by Emanuel Derman
  • Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig
  • Toward the Livable City edited by Emilie Buchwald
  • Food Politics by Marion Nestle
  • Code of the Street by Elijah Anderson
  • Trust by Francis Fukuyama
  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
  • The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler
  • Salt: A world history by Mark Kurlansky
  • Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists by Raghu Rajan
  • The Discovery of India by Jawarharlal Nehru
  • Karma Cola by Gita Mehta