pith.org → books are fun

12/18/2011 - This page has existed in one form or another for over a decade, and over that time I'm sure that I've read more than what's currently listed here. That said, every once in a while I find the urge to dump some new titles onto this page, for some reason, and with it, some additional insights into what my life is looking like in any particular year.

books i should read

• The Design of Everyday Things (Donald A. Norman) - recommended by stacie
• The Disappearance of Childhood (Neil Postman) - recommended by bryanboyer
• the lexus and the olive tree (thomas l. friedman)
• another flavor of the bible

books you should buy for me

• here's a link to my amazon wishlist

things i've read (recently)

• the undergound ralroad (colson whitehead) 12/26/2016
• venture labor (gina neff) 05/04/2016
• crisis point: why we must - and how we can - overcome our broken politics in washington and across america (trent lott, tom daschle, jon sternfeld) 02/17/2016
• the diamond age (neal stephenson) 02/01/2016
• user story mapping: discover the whole story, build the right product (jeff patton) 09/14/2015
• blockchain: blueprint for a new economy (melanie swan) 08/23/2015
• the life-changing magic of tidying up: the japanese art of decluttering and organizing (marie kondo) 05/26/2015
• 10% happier: how i tamed the voice in my head, reduced stress without losing my edge, and found self-help that actually works -- a true story (dan harris) 05/20/2015
• the curious incident of the dog in the night-time (mark haddon) 03/15/2015
• the devil in the white city: murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed america (erik larson) 01/04/2015
• the martian (andy weir) 01/2015
• your face in mine (jess row) 10/2014
• flings (justin taylor) 10/2014
• gods without men (hari hunzru) 04/2014
• the orphan master's son (adam johnson)
• lean in: women, work, and the will to lead (sheryl sandberg) 05/30/2013
• the middlesteins (jami attenberg) 04/28/2013
• how to live safely in a science fictional universe (charles yu) 04/21/2013
• the power of habit: why we do what we do in life and business (charles duhigg) 04/01/2013
• wonder (rj palacio) 03/21/2013
• pulphead (john jeremiah sullivan) 03/05/2013
• mockingjay (suzanne collins) 02/10/2013
• catching fire (suzanne collins) 02/02/2013
• redshirts (john scalzi) 01/26/2013
• the hunger games (suzanne collins) 01/19/2013
• bibliodeath: my archives (with life in footnotes) (andrei codrescu) 01/2013
• the autobiography of benjamin franklin (benjamin franklin) 05/2012
• 1984 (george orwell) 05/2012
• the theory that would not die (sharon bertsch mcgrayne) 12/2011
• wunderkind (nikolai grozni) 9/2011
• the tell-tale brain (vs ramachandran) 8/2011
• the next 100 years (george friedman) 6/2011
• true north (bill george) 5/2011
[...]
• the new york regional mormon singles halloween dance (elna baker) 12/2009
• stories and prose poems (alexander solzhenitsyn, translated by michael glenny)
• the omnivore's dilemma (michael pollan) 2009
[...]
• my tiny life (julian dibbell) 06/2007
• writing down the bones (natalie goldberg)
• generation me (jean m. twenge, ph.d.)
• to engineer is human (henry petroski)
• whatever (michel houellebecq)
• blink (malcolm gladwell) 05/2006
• the paradox of choice (barry schwartz) 04/21/2006
• freakonomics (steven d. levitt, stephen j. dubner) 2006
• the world is flat (thomas friedman) 02/2006
...
• invisible cities (italo calvino) 07/24/2002
• mcsweeney's issue #6
• mr landen has no brain (stephen walker) 06/2002
• les enfants terribles (jean cocteau / trans. rosamond lehmann) 05/2002
...
• generation x (douglas coupland) 12/08/2001
• white teeth (zadie smith) 11/16/2001
• phone calls from the dead (wendy brenner) 11/2001
• Burn Collector collection (al burian) 08/2001
• we ain't got no car #6 (jack saturn) 07/31/2001
• the pharmacists's mate (amy fusselman) 07/26/2001
• franny and zooey (j. d. salinger) 07/2001
• visible amazement (gale zoe garnett) 04/24/2001
• anthropology (dan rhodes) 04/22/2001
• pure (rebecca ray) 04/2001
• cometbus #47 (aaron cometbus) 03/2001
• brief interviews with hideous men (david foster wallace) 03/2001
• cryptonomicon (neal stephenson) 12/28/2000
• the diagnosis (alan lightman) 12/05/2000
• the neal pollack anthology of american literature (neal pollack) 10/10/2000
• mcsweeney's issue #5
• american skin (don de grazia) 08/2000
• syrup (maxx barry) 08/20/2000
• welcome to my planet: where english is sometimes spoken (shannon olson) 06/00
• a heartbreaking work of staggering genius (dave eggers) 05/29/00
• neuromancer (william gibson) - 05/00
• novel with cocaine (m. ageyev) - 04/08/00
• the crucible (arthur miller) - 03/00
• the great gatsby (f scott fitzgerald) - 02/00
• the girls' guide to hunting and fishing (melissa bank) - 01/06/00
• this side of paradise (f scott fitzgerald) - 12/31/99
• the rest of the tales of the city books (armistead maupin) - 08/28/99
• survival of the prettiest (nancy etcoff) - 08/03/99
• einstein's dreams (alan lightman) - 08/01/99
• et tu, babe (mark leyner)
• bridget jones' diary (helen fielding)
• wired women (lynn cherny and elizabeth reba weise, eds)

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