All Books

A list of recently finished books with a link to a relevant blog post, if available.

2009

Harry Frankfurt: On Truth (11/09)

Joel Greenblatt: The Little Book that Beats the Market (10/09)

Sarah Flannery with Dr. David Flannery: In Code (10/09)

Harry Frankfurt: On Bullshit (09/09)

Michael Pollan: In Defense of Food (07/09)

Kurt Vonnegut: Timequake (06/09)

Robin Wilson: Lewis Carroll in Numberland (05/09)

Kurt Vonnegut: Cat’s Cradle (04/09)

Shunryu Suzuki: Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind (03/09)

Robert Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ( 01/09 )

2008

Richard Adams: Watership Down ( 07/08 )

Clare Walker Leslie & Charles Roth: Keeping a Nature Journal ( 07/08 )

Lee M. Silver: Challenging Nature ( 05/08 )

Albert Camus: The Fall ( 03/08 )

Andre Comte-Sponville: The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality ( 03/08 )

Lao Tzu/Ursula K. Le Guin: Tao Te Ching ( 03/08 )

Philip Pullman: The Subtle Knife ( 02/08 )

Philip Pullman: The Golden Compass OR Northern Lights ( 01/08 )

Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis ( 01/08 )

2007

Sam Keen: Sightings (12/07)

Jack Kerouac: On the Road (11/07)

R. Goscinny and A. Uderzo: Asterix and the Class Act (09/07)

Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking (08/07)

J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (08/07)

Rabindranath Tagore: The Home and the World (Ghare-Baire) (07/07)

Alexander McCall Smith: The Right Attitude to Rain (06/07)

J. M. Coetzee: Disgrace (06/07)

J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (05/07)

Anthony Trollope: The Warden (05/07)

Larry Gonick & Woollcott Smith: The Cartoon Guide to Statistics (04/07)

Larry Gonick & Mark Wheelis: The Cartoon Guide to Genetics (04/07)

Sam Harris: Letter to a Christian Nation (04/07)

Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion (03/07)

Wallace Stegner: Remembering Laughter (02/07)

Ursula K. Le Guin: Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea (02/07)

Stephen Meyer: The End of the Wild (01/07)

Gabriel García Márquez: Chronicle of a Death Foretold (01/07)

Simon Barnes: How to be a (Bad) Birdwatcher (01/07)

2006

G. H. Hardy: A Mathematician’s Apology (11/06)

J. M. Coetzee: Foe (11/06)

Gabriel García Márquez: Memories of My Melancholy Whores (10/06)

Margaret Craven, Walk Gently This Good Earth (10/06)

Joseph Conrad: The Heart of Darkness (09/06)

J.M. Coetzee: The Lives of Animals (09/06)

Gabriel García Márquez: Love in the time of Cholera (08/06)

Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude (07/06)

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Farthest Shore (06/06)

John Steinbeck: The Pearl (05/06)

Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird (05/06)

Alexander McCall Smith: The Sunday Philosophy Club (04/06)

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Tombs of Atuan (03/06)

Ursula K. Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea (03/06)

John Steinbeck: The Winter of Our Discontent (03/06)

Menno Schilthuizen: Frogs, Flies and Dandelions (02/06)

Lynne Truss: Eats, Shoots and Leaves (02/06)

Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose (01/06)