Reading List

I like to read a lot, mostly books with a sociological theme and with particular emphasis on politics, history, psychology and technology. Following is a list of books I've read recently:

2010

The Idea of Justice

Amartya Sen

Gray's Anatomy

John Gray

Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Mary Roach

Nonsense

Robert Gula

I Am A Strange Loop

Douglas Hofstadter

Last Chance To See

Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better

Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
The Spirit Level

Longitude

Dava Sobel
Longitude

Me Talk Pretty One Day

David Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty One Day

Ransom

David Malouf
Ransom

The Statute of Liberty

Geoffrey Robertson
The Statute of Liberty

The Men Who Killed QANTAS

Matthew Benns
The Men Who Killed QANTAS

2009

IQ: How Psychology Hijacked Intelligence

Stephen Murdoch
IQ - How Psychology Hijacked Intelligence

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Hannah Arendt
Eichmann in Jerusalem

Gödel Escher Bach

Douglas Hofstadter
Gödel Escher Bach

Unseen Academicals

Terry Pratchett
Unseen Academicals

A Nest of Occasionals

Tony Martin
A Nest of Occasionals

The Worldly Philosophers

Robert Heilbroner
The Worldly Philosophers

Naked

David Sedaris
Naked

A Certain Grandeur

Graham Freudenberg
A Certain Grandeur

Blooming English

Kate Burridge
Blooming English

The Great Wall: China Against the World, 1000BC2000AD

Julia Lovell
The Great Wall

Colonial Ambition

Peter Cochrane
Colonial Ambition

The Audacity of Hope

Barack Obama
The Audacity of Hope

My Israel Question

Antony Loewenstein
My Israel Question

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

David Sedaris
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Free Culture

Lawrence Lessig
Free Culture

Nation

Terry Pratchett
Nation

The Blogging Revolution

Antony Loewenstein
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2008

The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Jonathan Haidt
The Happiness Hypothesis

Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth

Steve Pavlina
Personal Development for Smart People

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion

Predictably Irrational: The hidden forces that shape our decisions

Dan Ariely
Predictably Irrational

The Economic Naturalist: Why Economics Explains Almost Everything

Robert H. Frank
The Economic Naturalist

Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide

Charles Wyke-Smith
Stylin' with CSS

ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income

Darren Rowse & Chris Garrett
ProBlogger

Animal Farm

George Orwell
Animal Farm

The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture

John Battelle
The Search

The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family

Dan Savage
The Commitment

Ronan the Barbarian

James Bibby
Ronan the Barbarian

Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror

Richard A. Clarke
Against All Enemies

The Appeal

John Grisham
The Appeal