• August 2016 readings
Past:
2014 (latest first)
Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America, by Bob Herbert
The Convert's Song: A Novel, by Sebastian Rotella
Victus (Spanish Edition), by Albert Sánchez Piñol
The Glass Cage: Automation and Us, by Nicholas Carr
Design and Truth, by Robert Grudin
Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age, by Cory Doctorow
The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art, by Anjan Chatterjee
The Science of Interstellar, by Kip Thorne
Happiness by Design: Change What You Do, Not How You Think, by Paul Dolan
The Walking Dead, volumes 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
The Sociology of News, by Michael Schudson
Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News, by Jeff Jarvis
Data Fluency: Empowering Your Organization with Effective Data Communication, by Juice Analytics
Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War, by James Risen
Planet Hulk and World War Hulk
The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World, by Matthew Stewart
The Enemy (Jack Reacher), by Lee Child
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, by Steven Pinker
The Meaning of Human Existence, by Edward O. Wilson
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time, by Jonathan Weiner
Zero Volume 1: An Emergency TP (Zero 1), by Ales Kot
Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things, by David Rose
Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It, by Ian Leslie
Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking), by Christian Rudder
Persuader (Jack Reacher series), by Lee Child
The Watchman's Rattle: A Radical New Theory of Collapse, by Rebecca Costa
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion, by Sam Harris
Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty, by Vikram Chandra
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald
The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy, by Seth Mnookin
Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America, by John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
33: Understanding Change & the Change in Understanding, by Richard Saul Wurman
Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse And The Making Of A Modern American Witch Hunt, by Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedeker
All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World, by Seth Godin
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts, by Carol Tavris
My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel, by Ari Shavit
Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean, by Les Standiford
The Troop, by Nick Cutter
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration, by Ed Catmull
Saga, volumes 1, 2, 3
Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic, by Matthew Stewart
Y: The Last Man (complete series): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Can Journalism Survive? An Inside Look at American Newsrooms, by David M. Ryfe
Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers, by Charles Seife
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator, by Ryan Holiday
Making News at The New York Times, by Nikki Usher
Mortal Fear, by Greg Iles
Statistics Unplugged, by Sally Caldwell
Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Redefining Contemporary Art, by Arthur I. Miller
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, by Jordan Ellenberg
The Narrows, by Michael Connelly
I Am Pilgrim, by Terry Hayes
Amazonia, by James Rollins
The Poet, by Michael Connelly
The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning, by Marcelo Gleiser
Miracleman Book 1: A Dream of Flying, by Alan Moore
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language, by John H. McWhorter
Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts, by Stanislas Dehaene
Beyond News: The Future of Journalism, by Mitchell Stephens
Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions, by Gerd Gigerenzer
Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, by John Keegan
Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work, by Melissa Gira Grant
The Leading Indicators: A Short History of the Numbers That Rule Our World, by Zachary Karabell
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State, by Glenn Greenwald
Ethics, Technology, and Engineering: An Introduction, by Ibo van de Poel and Lambèr Royakkers
Invasive Species, by Joseph Wallace
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap, by Matt Taibbi
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, by Alice Goffman
The Evolution of American Investigative Journalism, by James L. Aucoin
Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design, by Chipp Kidd
Snowpiercer part 1 and part 2.
Who Rules in Science: An Opinionated Guide to the Wars, by James Robert Brown
The Tyranny of Numbers: Why Counting Can't Make Us Happy, by David Boyle
Don't Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style, by Randy Olson
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us, and Them, by Joshua Greene (review)
The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science, by Will Storr
Information Generation: How Data Rules Our World, by David J. Hand
Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away, by Rebecca Goldstein
Las bombas del 11-M, relato de los hechos en primera persona, by Juan Jesús Sánchez Manzano
Matadlos, by Fernando Reinares
Todo lo que era sólido, by Antonio Muñoz Molina
A History of the World in 12 Maps, by Jerry Brotton
Statistics, a Very Short Introduction, by David J. Hand
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day, by David J. Hand
Ancestor, by Scott Sigler
Mindless: Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans, by Simon Head
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change, by Victor Papanek
Age of Bronze, Vol. 1: A Thousand Ships, by Eric Shanower
How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times, by Roy Peter Clark
Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation, by Tyler Cowen
Designing & Conducting Ethnographic Research (1), by Margaret D. LeCompte and Jean J. Schensul
Alien: Out of the Shadows, by Tim Lebbon
Digital_Humanities, by Anne Burdick et. al.
Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload, by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel
The Watchdog That Didn't Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism, by Dean Starkman
The New Ethics of Journalism: Principles for the 21st Century by Kelly McBide, Tom Rosenstiel, et. al.
Out of Print: Newspapers, Journalism and the Business of News in the Digital Age by George Brock
The Wired City: Reimagining Journalism and Civic Life in the Post-newspaper Age by Dan Kennedy
2013 (latest first)
The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again by Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols
Top Brain, Bottom Brain: Surprising Insights into How You Think, by Stephen Kosslyn and G. Wayne Miller
Presenting Data Effectively: Communicating Your Findings for Maximum Impact, by Stephanie Evergreen
Practical Ethics, by Peter Singer
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, by Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw
Tripwire, by Lee Child
The Great Derangement, by Matt Taibbi
Die Trying, by Lee Child
Killing Floor, by Lee Child
Worth Dying For, by Lee Child
61 Hours, by Lee Child
Informing the News: The Need for Knowledge-Based Journalism, by Thomas E. Patterson.
Design for Information, by Isabel Meirelles. Read review.
A Wanted Man, by Lee Child
Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, by Diane Ravitch
Gone Tomorrow, by Lee Child
An Appetite for Wonder: the Making of a Scientist, by Richard Dawkins
Fragment, by Warren Fahy
Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century, by Christian Caryl
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty, by Nina Munk
Touching a Nerve: The Self as Brain, by Patricia Churchland
Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future, by Donald R. Prothero
The Imperative of Responsibility, by Hans Jonas
The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery, by George Johnson
Why Teach? In Defense of Real Education, by Mark Edmundson
Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, by Reza Aslan
The Ethical Project, by Philip Kitcher
Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes -- the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists, by Napoleon Chagnon
In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire, by Tom Holland
Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal, by Heather E. Douglas
Chaos: Making a New Science, by James Gleick
The Ethics of the Story: Using Narrative Techniques Responsibly in Journalism, by David Craig
Software Takes Command, by Lev Manovich
The Enlightenment And Why It Still Matters, by Anthony Pagden
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath.
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, by George Packer.
Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine, Paul A. Offit
Visualizing Data Patterns with Micromaps, by Daniel B. Carr and Linda Williams Pickle. Read review.
After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead, by Alan S. Blinder
World War Z, by Max Brooks
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.
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
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
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
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
Cell, by Stephen King
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
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)
