Read
March 2007
The Code Book (Christmas 2006)
The Art of Deception (Christmas 2006)
The Republican War on Science (Kepler's, 1/2006)
February 2007
The Greatest Story Ever Sold (Kepler's, 1/2007)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Coop)
The Design of Everyday Things (Coop Fall 2006)
The Brothers Bulger (Coop 1/2007)
Liar's Poker (Coop 1/2007)
A Long Way Down (Coop 2/2007)
The End of Oil (Kepler's, 1/2006)
January 2007
Secrets and Lies (XMas 2006)
Thinking Points (Kepler's 1/2007)
The Hardball Times Baseball Annual (ordered online, 12/06)
Palestine: Peace not Apartheid (Kepler's, 1/2007)
December 2006
The Juice (XMas 2006)
November 2006
Not Even Wrong (MIT Press)
Wish You Were Here (XMas 2005)
October 2006
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (Coop Fall 2006)
State of Denial: Bush at War Part III (Coop Fall 2006)
September 2006
The Long Tail (Borders Fall 2006)
Feeding the Monster (Borders Fall 2006)
August 2006
Who Controls the Internet? (Birthday 2006)
The Sun Also Rises (Birthday 2006)
July 2006
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Christmas 2005)
When Genius Failed (Dad Summer 2006)
The One Percent Doctrine (Coop Summer 2006)
Rob Neyer's Book of Big Baseball Blunders (Coop 6/2006)
June 2006
Crashing the Gate (Birthday 2005)
Everything Bad is Good for You (Birthday 2005)
The Truth About the Drug Companies (Christmas 2005)
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World (Grandpop 2005)
February - May 2006 are hiding out on a broken computer
January 2006
1776, by David McCullogh
Washington's General, by Terry Golway
The Red Pony, by John Steinbeck
December 2005
A Man Without a Country, by Kurt Vonnegut
Out of Gas
The Physics of Baseball
Holidays on Ice, by David Sedaris
The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category
November 2005
Active Liberty, by Stephen Breyer
October 2005
Mind Game, by Baseball Prospectus
August 2005
Free Culture, by Lawerence Lessig
A Brief History of Computing
July 2005
Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
Travels with Charley, by John Steinbeck
Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt
The Third Chimpanzee, by Jared Diamond
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Norm, by Richard Feynman
June 2005
Life, the Universe, and Everything, by Douglas Adams (reread)
Idiot, by Johnny Damon
Faithful, by Stephen King and Stewart O'Nan
Flatland, by Edwin Abbott
America's Best Sports Writing, 2004
How the Right Went Wrong, by Patrick Buchanan
Fever Pitch, by Nick Hornby
May 2005
The Salmon of Doubt, by Douglas Adams
Dune, by Frank Herbert (reread)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams (reread)
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, by Douglas Adams (reread)
April 2005
Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers
Why America's Top Pundits are Wrong, by Gusterson and Besteman
Visual Explanations, by Tufte
March 2005
The Teammates, by David Halberstam
Polysyllabic Spree, by Nick Hornby
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson
The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
The Great Unraveling, by Paul Krugman
February 2005
The Mythical Man Month, by Frederick Brooks
Big Russ and Me, by Tim Russert
January 2005
To Engineer is Human, by Henry Petroski
December 2004
The Future of Ideas, by Lawrence Lessig
October 1964, by David Halberstam
Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett
The Pearl, by John Steinbeck
November 2004
The Biotech Century, by Philip Rifkin (STS.011)
August 2004
High Fidelity, by Nick Hornsby
Moneyball, by Michael Lewis
July 2004
Mathematics: A Very Brief Introduction, by Timothy Gowers
The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers, by Ben H. Yandell
Unfinished Tales, by J.R.R. Tolkien (begun Dec. 2003)
A Confederacy of Dunces (re-read), by John Kennedy Toole
Othello, by William Shakespeare
June 2004
Big Fish, by Daniel Wallace
Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics, by John Derbyshire
Isaac Newton, by James Gleick
Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck
The Gospel According to the Simpsons, by
May 2004
Jailbird, by Kurt Vonnegut
The Meaning of It All, by Richard Feynman (re-read)
No Logo, by Naomi Klein
April 2004
Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between FBI and the Irish Mob by Dick Lehr, Gerard O'Neill
March 2004
Bagombo Snuff Box, by Kurt Vonnegut
Copenhagen, by Michael Frayne (STS.042)
A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer, by George Johnson
February 2004
Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist, by Russell McCormmach (STS.042)
Nightwork, by Institute Historian T. F. Peterson
January 2004
The Silmarillion, by J. R. R. Tolkien (re-read)
Galapagos, by Kurt Vonnegut
Boogers Are My Beat, by Dave Barry
December 2003
Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut (re-read)
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, by Kurt Vonnegut
The Two Towers, by J. R. R. Tolkien (re-read)
Return of the King, by J. R. R. Tolkien (re-read)
December 2002
Mother Night, by Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
Welcome to the Monkey House, by Kurt Vonnegut
November 2002
Slapstick, by Kurt Vonnegut (approx)
The Generals' War
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick
October 2002
Tuva or Bust, by Ralph Leighton (approx)
August-September 2002
Heavier than Heaven
Elvis Costello biography
Beck biography
Run Like an Antelope
Acquired
December 2005
(Kepler's) The Red Pony, by John Steinbeck
(Kepler's) Washington's General, by Terry Golway
(Kepler's) The Republican War on Science
(Kepler's) The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
(Kepler's) Men and Cartoons, by Jonathan Lethem
(Kepler's) The Wisdom of Crowds
(Christmas) Holidays on Ice, by David Sedaris
(Christmas) Collapse, by Jared Diamond
(Christmas) 1776
(Christmas) The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
November 2005
(Mitchell's) A Man Without a Country, by Kurt Vonnegut
October 2005
(Coop) Mind Game: How the Boston Red Sox got smart and won a World Series, by Baseball Prospectus
(Coop) Active Liberty, by Stephen Breyer
(Coop) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
August 2005
(MIT Press) The Physics of Baseball
July 2005
(Springfield Airport) My Life, Volume II, by Bill Clinton
(O'Hare) Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt
(Cambridge) Some History Book, MIT Press
(Mitchell's) Catch 22
(Mitchell's) Against All Enemies, by Richard Clark
(Mitchell's) Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
June 2005
(Kepler's) Flatland, by Edwin Abbott
(Kepler's) Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
(Kepler's) Travels with Charley, by John Steinbeck
(Kepler's) The Third Chimpanzee, by Jared Diamond
(Kepler's) American Prometheus, by Bird and Sherwin
(Kepler's) Fever Pitch, by Nick Hornby
(Kepler's) Math Book
(BtBR) America's Best Sports Writing, 2004
(BtBR) How the Right Went Wrong, by Patrick Buchanan
May 2005
(Birthday) Idiot, by Johnny Damon
(Birthday) Faithful, by Stephen King and Stewart O'Nan
(Birthday) The Salmon of Doubt, by Douglas Adams
(Birthday) Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Norm, the Letters of Richard Feynman
(Birthday) Wish You Were Here, by Nick Webb
(Grandpop) Seven Wonders of the Industrial World, by Deborah Cadbury
April 2005
March 2005
(Coop) The Teammates, by David Halberstam
(Coop) Polysyllabic Spree, by Nick Hornby
(Coop) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson
(Coop) The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
(Coop) Candide, by Voltaire
(Coop) The Unbearable Lightness of Being
(Nantucket) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers
February 2005
(Coop) Why America's Top Pundits are Wrong, by Gusterson and Besteman
(Coop) The Mythical Man Month, by Frederick Brooks
January 2005
December 2004
(Christmas) Digital Code of Life, by Glyn Moody
(Christmas) The Civilized Engineer, by Samuel Florman
(Christmas) Innovation and Its Discontents, by Jaffe and Lerner
(Christmas) Free Culture, by Lawerence Lessig
(Christmas) The Success of Open Source
(Christmas) The Genome War, by James Shreeve
(Christmas) The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law
(Christmas) Open Source Licensing
(Christmas) Owning the Genome
(Christmas) To Engineer is Human, by Henry Petroski
(Christmas) The Civilized Engineer
November 2004
(Logan) The Great Unraveling, by Paul Krugman
October 2004
September 2004
August 2004
July 2004
(Grandpop) Master and Commander
(Coop) Mathematics: A Very Brief Introduction, by Timothy Gowers
June 2004
(Coop)Big Fish, by Daniel Wallace
May 2004
(Birthday) Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics, by John Derbyshire
(Birthday) Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck
April 2004
(Coop) Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between FBI and the Irish Mob by Dick Lehr, Gerard O'Neill
March 2004
February 2004
January 2004
December 2003
(Christmas) Boogers are my Beat
(Christmas) Jailbird
May 2003
(Borders) Tom Stoppard Plays
(Birthday) Fierce Pajamas
December 2002
(Christmas) Cat's Cradle
(Christmas) Mother Night
September 2002
(Coop) Paperboy, by Henry Petroski
August 2002
July 2002
(Harvard COOP) The Future of Ideas, by Lawerence Lessig
June 2002
May 2002
(Graduation) Impro, by Keith Johnstone
(Graduation) Impro Storytellers, by Keith Johnstone
(Graduation) Improvisation for the Theater, by Spolin
(English Award) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
(Science Award) A New Kind of Science, by Stephen Wolfram
April 2002
(Berkeley) The Wasteland, by T.S. Eliot
(Berkeley) The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx
Unknown
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
(Birthday) Godel, Escher, Bach, by Douglas R. Hofstadter
(Mom) The Problem of Sleep, by William C. Dement
Galapagos, by Kurt Vonnegut
Italics means it's in progress!
Q: Are you just listing these books to cover for the fact that you still listen to Sesame Street Fever?
A: Shut up.