Since 2006 I have kept track of every book I've read (this only counts books I've completely read, so many technology and reference books do not make the cut). My
list from 2007 is here and I've just posted
my list for 2006. As before, the fact that I read the book does not constitute endorsement of it.
In 2008, I read 41 books.
Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up, John Allen Paulos
30 Days of Night, Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith
Post Office, Charles Bukowski
The Gods Themselves, Issac Asimov
Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko
Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race, Richard Rhodes
The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (and Their Employees), Patrick Lencioni
Babel-17, Samuel R. Delany
Founders at Work, Jessica Livingston
Lucky or Smart? Secrets to an Entrepreneurial Life, Bo Peabody
Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
Silas Marner, George Eliot
Day Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko
The First Salute, Barbara Tuchman
Women, Charles Bukowski
O Pioneers!, Willa Cather
Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Chosen, Chaim Potok
The World Without Us, Alan Weisman
The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies, 1760-1785, Don Cook
Twilight Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko
Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? (And Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries), Jared Bernstein
Brain Rules, John J. Medina
Second Contact, Mike Resnick
The Geography of Bliss, Eric Weiner
Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, Robert L. Glass
Beggars in Spain, Nancy Kress
Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert
Magical Thinking, Augusten Burroughs
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Charles C. Mann
Behold the Man, Michael Moorcock
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion Year History of the Human Body, Neil Shubin
The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way, Bill Bryson
Choosing the Right Pond: Human Behavior and the Quest for Status, Robert H. Frank
Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper, Diablo Cody
Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball
Revelation Space, Alastair Reynolds
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" Adventures of a Curious Character, Richard P. Feynman
Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture, Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter
Descartes' Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human, Paul Bloom
Inspired by Kevin Drum, in 2006 I began recording all the books that I read that year. However, I did not post my list from 2006. Here it is! In 2006, I read 54 books -- more than one a week!
For those interested in my taste in books, you may want to check out my Good Reads profile.
Camp Concentation, Thomas Disch
Profiles of Courage, John F. Kennedy
Ice Station Zebra, Alistair MacLean
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
A Military History of Sovereign Hawai'i, Neil Bernard Dukas
The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker, Jr. and the Reign of American Taste Elin McCoy
Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy, Lindsay Moran
Moneyball, Michael Lewis
Spin, Robert Charles Wilson
V for Vendetta, Alan Moore and David Lloyd
Tortilla Curtain, T.C. Boyle
Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Aproach to Web Usability (1st edition), Steve Krug
Pandora's Star, Peter F. Hamilton
Shadow Cities, Robert Neuwirth
Real World Web Services, Will Iverson
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
The White Mountains, John Christopher
The City of Gold and Lead, John Christopher
The Pool of Fire, John Christopher
Suburban Nation, Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck
Superman: Red Son, Mark Miller
Misquoting Jesus, Bart D. Ehrman
Learning the World, Ken MacLeod
Stiff, Mary Roach
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford
The Ghost Brigades, John Scalzi
Judas Unchained, Peter F. Hamilton
Fallen Dragon, Peter F. Hamilton
Salt: A World History, Mark Kurlansky
Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
The Truth About Dogs, Sephen Budiansky
Information Dashboard Design, Stephen Few
Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
The Know-It-All, A.J. Jacobs
Lost Christianities, Bart D. Ehrman
Bicycle Magazine's Bicycle commuting Made Easy
Confessions of a Tax Collector, Richard Yancy
Forty Signs of Rain, Kim Stanley Robinson
Fifty Degrees Below, Kim Stanley Robinson
Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon
The Prestige, Christopher Priest
Wind, Sand and Stars, Antoine De Saint Exupery
The Inverted World, Christopher Priest
Bios, Robert Charles Wilson
The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan
A Good Hard Kick in the Ass: Basic Training for Entrepreneurs, Rob Adams
City of Truth, James Morrow
Blind Lake, Robert Charles Wilson
Polaris, Jack McDevitt
End of an Era, Robert J. Sawyer
Perdido Street Sation, China Mieville
Newton's Wake, Ken MacLeod
Tortilla Flat, John Steinbeck
A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick