Reading List
Reading List
Here is a list of books that I have read, enjoyed, re-read, and re-enjoyed!
Fall 2011
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Bad Ideas? - Robert Winston
This Time is Different - Reinhart and Roghoff
Pythagoras - Kitty Ferguson
A Natural History of Seeing: The Art and Science of Vision - Simon Ings
Summer 2011
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Modern C++ Design - Andrei Alexandrescu (CS)
Spring 2011
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Exceptional C++ Style - Herb Sutter (CS)
The Reformation - William Durant (History)
The Cyberiad - Stanislaw Lem (SF)
The Ends of the Earth - Robert D. Kaplan (Journalism)
The Gulag Archipelago - Alexander Solzhinitsyn (History)
Fall 2010
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The Real War 1914-18 - Captain B.H.Liddell Hart (History)
Jhereg - Steven Brust (Fantasy)
Hardness of Flint - Thomas Harlan (SF)
The Sleepwalkers - Arthur Koestler (History of Science)
Astronomer's Universe - Herbert Friedman (Pop. Sci.)
A treasury of great mysteries - Howard Haycraft and John Beecroft (Mystery)
Pattern Theory - David Mumford and Agnes Desolneux (Machine Learning)
Summer 2010
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Tales of Philosophy (R) (Philosophy)
Spring 2010
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Cloudspotter's Guide - Gavin Pretor-Pinney (Pop. Sci.)
The Great Terror - Robert Conquest (R) (History)
The Book Nobody Read - Owen Gingerich (History of Science)
Gut Feelings - Gerd Gigerenzer (Pop. Sci.)
The Watchers out of time - H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth (Horror)
Punic Wars - Nigel Bagnall (History)
King of Infinite Space - Siobhan Roberts (Math)
Fall 2009
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Traders, Guns, and Money - Satyajit Das (Finance)
Arctic Dreams - Barry Lopez (Travel)
The Symmetries of Things - Conway, Burgiel, Goodman-Strauss (Math)
The Age of Wonder - Richard Holmes (History)
The Road to Berlin - John Erickson (R) (History)
Summer 2009
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A Farewell to arms - Gregory Clark (Economics)
A History of Economics before Adam Smith - Murray Rothbard (Economics)
Michalangelo and the Pope's ceiling - Ross King (History)
Across Realtime - Vernor Vinge (SF)
Axiomatic - Greg Egan (SF)
Ice, Mud and Blood - Chris Turney (SF)
What the nose knows - Avery Gilbert (Pop. Sci.)
Spring 2009
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Fooled by Randomness - Nicholas Nassim Taleb (Finance)
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland (History)
The Misbehavior of Markets - Benoit Mandelbrot (Finance)
Watchmen - (SF)
Philosophy of Visistadvaita - Srinivasa Chary (Philosophy)
Counting Sheep -
Number words and Number symbols - Karl Menninger (History? of numbers)
Fall 2008
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An Instance of the Fingerpost - Ian Pears (Mystery)
The Secret of Scent - Luca Turin (Pop. Sci.)
Tales of Vikramaditya - Anon (Mythology)
Rites of Peace - Adam Zamoyski (History)
Summer 2008
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Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and Mind - Arthur Zajonc (Pop. Sci.)
Devil take the hindmost: A history of financial speculation - Edward Chancellor (History)
A History of histories - John Burrow (History)
Pursuit of Glory - Tim Blanning (History)
Behold the Man - Michael Moorcock (SF)
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon (History)
(stretching into fall)
Spring 2008
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The Death of Achilles - Boris Akunin (Mystery)
Cultural Amnesia - Clive James (Literature)
The Great Terror - Robert Conquest (History)
Mao: A Life - Philip Short (History)
Michelangelo and the Reinvention of the Human Body - James Hall (History)
The Theory of Almost Everything - Robert Oerter (R) (Pop. Sci.)
Special Assignments - Boris Akunin (Mystery)
Ivan the Terrible - Robert Payne & Nikita Romanoff (History)
Tintin & the Blue Lotus - Herge
Fall 2007
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Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
Necromancer - Gordon R. Dickson (SF)
The Civil War, An Illustrated History - Ward, Burns & Burns (History)
Coming into Country - John McPhee
A Brief History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson (Pop. Sci.)
City - Clifford D. Simak (SF)
Connections - James Burke (Pop. Sci./History)
Turkish Gambit - Boris Akunin (Mystery)
Road to Berlin - John Erickson (History)
The Rest is Noise - Alex Ross (Music)
The Winter Queen - Boris Akunin (Mystery)
The Cold Equations - Tom Godwin (SF)
The Unicorn Variations - Roger Zelazny (SF)
His name is Legend - Roger Zelazny (SF)
Calvin and Hobbes (Collected) Vol 1 - Bill Watterson
Summer 2007
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Tales of Philosophy - Felix Marti-Ibanez (Philosophy)
Cities in Flight - James Blish (SF)
Rocannon's World - Ursula K. Le Guin (SF)
This Immortal - Roger Zelazny (SF)
The Theory of Almost Everything - Robert Oerter (Pop. Sci.)
A Heinlein Trio - Robert Heinlein (SF)
The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse - Hermann Hesse (Fiction)
Spring 2007
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The Wonder that was India - A.L.Basham (History)
The ABC Mysteries - Agatha Christie (Mystery)
Curtains - Agatha Christie (Mystery)
Mystery at Styles - Agatha Christie (Mystery)
Barabbas - Par Lagerkvist (Fiction)
The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester (SF)
Murder in Mesopotamia - Agatha Christie (Mystery)
Symmetry and the Monster: The Story of One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics - Mark Ronan (Math)
The Pea and the Sun: A Mathematical Paradox - Leonard Wapner (Math)
Fall 2006
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The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse (R) (Fiction)
The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940 - William Shirer (History)
War: The lethal custom - Gwynne Dyer
Envisioning information - Edward R. Tufts
The Self-made tapestry: Pattern formation in nature - Philip Ball (Pop. Sci.)
Vishnu Purana (Vol 1) - H.H.Wilson (Mythology)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie (Mystery)
Three Dimensional Geometry and Topology (Vol 1) - William Thurston (Math)
Age of revolution, 1789-1848 - E.J. Hobsbawm (History)
Lincoln - Gore Vidal (Historical Fiction)
Image of the city - Kevin Lynch (CS)
The art of always being right - Arthur Schopenhauer
Emphyrio - Jack Vance (SF)
Vishnu Purana (Vol 2) - H.H.Wilson (Mythology)
Kaninun siruttambu - Radha Muralidhar (Philosophy)
The Future of Money by Bernard Lietaer (Economics)
The Lives of the Dravida Saints - Alkondavilli Govindacharya (Mythology)
Pride of India - Samskrita Bharati
Summer 2006
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The Doors of his Face, The Lamps of his Mouth - Roger Zelazny (SF)
The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula K. Le Guin (SF)
Earth is Room Enough - Isaac Asimov (SF)
Dragons of Winter Night - Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (Fantasy)
Strange Defeat - Marc Bloch (History)
Dragons of Spring Dawning - Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (Fantasy)
The Franco-Prussian War - Geoffrey Wawro (R) (History)
The Fifth Head of Cerberus - Gene Wolfe (SF)
Warped Passages - Lisa Randall (Pop. Sci.)
Annals of the Former World - John McPhee (Geology)
Uncommon Carriers - John McPhee
The Dreams of Reason - Heinz Pagels (Pop. Sci.)
Fearless Symmetry - Avner Ash, Robert Gross (Math)
The Pleasures of Counting - T.W.Korner (Math)
Spring 2006
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The Worldly Philosophers - Robert Heilbroner (Economics)
Indian Philosophy (Vol 1) - S. Radhakrishnan (Philosophy)
Islam: A short history - Karen Armstrong (Philosophy)
I, Claudius - Robert Graves (Historical Fiction)
Private Lives of Garden Birds - Calvin Simonds (Pop. Sci.)
City of Illusions - Ursula K. Le Guin (SF)
Dragons of Autumn Twilight - Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (Fantasy)
Finite Markov Chains and Algorithmic Applications - Olle Haggstrom (Math)
Berlin Diary - William Shirer (History)
Heart of Darkness and other tales - Joseph Conrad (Fiction)
The Forgotten Soldier - Guy Sajer (History/Biography)
Mind of God - Paul Davies (Pop. Sci.)
A Voyage to Arcturus - David Lindsay (SF)
Battle Cry of Freedom - James MacPherson (History)
Moscow 1812, Napoleon's Fatal March - Adam Zamoyski (History)
Fall 2005
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Changing Planes - Ursula K. Le Guin (Fiction)
Blood Child and other stories - Octavia Butler (SF)
The Winter War - Eloise Engle, Lauri Paananen (History)
The Story of Philosophy - Will Durant (Philosophy)
How the Universe Got Its Spots - Janna Levin (Pop. Sci.)
Probabilistic Robotics - Thrun, Burgard, Fox (Science)
The Moons of Jupiter - Kristin Leutwyler (Science)
Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges (Fiction)
Earth: Portrait of a Planet - Stephen Marshak (Geology)
An Imaginary Tale - Paul Nahin (Pop. Math.)
Creation - Gore Vidal (Historical Fiction)
Ka - Roberto Calasso (Fiction)
Narcissus and Goldmund - Herman Hesse (Fiction)
Life of Cesare Borgia - Rafael Sabatini (History)
Julian - Gore Vidal (Historical Fiction)
Summer 2005
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Transformation - Carol Berg (SF)
Revelation - Carol Berg (SF)
Restoration - Carol Berg (SF)
The Compass Rose - Ursula Le Guin (Fantasy)
Tales from Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin (Fantasy)
A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin (Fantasy)
The Farthest Shore - Ursula Le Guin (Fantasy)
The Wind's Twelve Quarters - Ursula Le Guin (Fantasy/Fiction)
The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury (SF)
Hyperspace - Michio Kaku (Pop. Sci.)
A Canticle for Liebowitz - Walter M. Miller (SF)
The Nine Billion Names of God - Arthur C. Clarke (SF)
The Wind from the Sun - Arthur C. Clarke (SF)
Hyperion - Dan Simmons (SF)
Nine Tomorrows - Isaac Asimov (SF)
The Siege of Krishnapur - J.G.Farrell (Fiction)
Earthlight - Arthur C. Clarke (SF)
Supermen - Isaac Asimov (Ed.) (SF)
Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince - J.K.Rowling (Fantasy)
Tales of the Dying Earth - Jack Vance (SF)
Jack of Shadows - Roger Zelazny (SF)
Short stories - Fritz Leiber (SF)