What I'm reading

This is a little experiment that I begun in January 1st, 2013. In this page I will post links to the books I have read or that I'm reading at the moment. I have also included what I call "guilty pleasures" (GP): Comic books, science fiction, and military historical fiction.

Reading right now

After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead, by Alan S. Blinder

World War Z, by Max Brooks (GP, rereading)

Facts are Sacred, by Simon Rogers (review)

Denial: Self-Deception, False Beliefs, and the Origins of the Human Mind, by Ajit Varki and Danny Brower.


Read since Jan. 1st, 2013 (latest first)

An Atheist in the FOXhole: A Liberal's Eight-Year Odyssey Inside the Heart of the Right-Wing Media, by Joe Muto.

The End of Big: How Internet Makes David the New Goliath, by Nicco Mele

A Feast for Crows and A Dance With Dragons, by George R.R. Martin (GP, rereading)

As Above, So Below, the Unauthorized Biography of Yngwie, by Anders Tengner (GP)

Who Owns the Future, by Jaron Lanier

Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking, by Daniel Dennett

The Rebel: An Essay of Man in Revolt, by Albert Camus

The Human Face of Big Data, by Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt

A Storm of Swords, by George R.R. Martin (GP, rereading)

Data Points: Visualization that Means Something, by Nathan Yau. Read review.

Arguably: Essays, by Christopher Hitchens

Wave, by Sonali Deraniyagala

Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think, by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier

The Price of Inequality, by Joseph E. Stiglitz

Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now, by Douglas Roushkoff

Letters to a Young Scientist, by Edward O. Wilson

The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism, by A.C. Grayling

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, by Robert M. Pirsig

Alexander: God of War, by Christian Cameron (GP)

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism, by Evgeny Morozov

Useful Fictions: Evolution, Anxiety, and the Origins of Literature, by Michael Austin

The Story of Wamba's: Julian of Toledo's Historia Wambae Regis, by Joaquín Martínez (GP)

Cell, by Stephen King (GP)

El último que apague la luz: Sobre la extinción del periodismo, by Lluís Bassets

Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters, by Donald R. Prothero

It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism, by Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein.

The Crimean War: A History, by Orlando Figes

The Sketchnoting Handbook, by Mike Rohde. Read review

Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry, by Helaine Olen

Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking, by Susan Cain

Newsgames: Journalism at Play, by Ian Bogost, Simon Ferrari, Bobby Schweizer. Read review

Discovering Statistics Using R, by Andy Field, Jeremy Miles, Zoë Field

How to Create a Mind, by Ray Kurzweil

The Ravenous Brain, by Daniel Bor

On Intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins

Event, by David L. Golemon (GP)

Data Visualization: A Successful Design Process, by Andy Kirk. Read review

Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground, by Tom Koch

The Physics of Wall Street, by James Owen Weatherall

Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, by Maria Konnikova

Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data, by Charles J Wheelan

The Walking Dead (entire series) (GP)