A list of books recently-read that I have discussed here.
For many years, Phoebe-Lou Adams wrote wonderful short reviews for The Atlantic. The short reviews were part of the month and part of the landscape; only when they were gone did I think about them. Short notes are tricky, but they make a nice sort of postmodern commonplace book, and way to share impressions and small joys.
This page is also an experiment in Information Architecture with Tinderbox. Tinderbox lets me gather and maintain this list automatically, so it's easy to build and easier to keep current.
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1776
1864: Lincoln At The Gates Of History
1912
21 Dog Years
99 Ways To Tell A Story
A Bintel Brief
A Book of One's Own: people and their diaries
A Caress of Twilight
A Clash of Kings
A Cook's Tour
A Dark Matter
The Game of Thrones
A Hymn Before Battle
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
A Killing Smile
A New Way To Cook
A Place Of My Own
Designing With Data
A Prayer for Gershon Levin
A Presumption of Death
A Small Death in Lisbon
A Soul In A Bottle
A Test Of Wills
A Visit From The Goon Squad
1599
About Three Bricks Shy Of A Load
Abraham's Promise
Abroad
Accelerando
After Theory
Afterglow
Against The Age
Agent Of Change
All She Was Worth
Almost French
Alongside
Altered Carbon
American Bloomsbury
American Gods
American Studies
Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation
Among Others
Amsterdam
Army At Dawn
An Education
Ancient Puebloan Southwest
Angelica
Les Halles Cookbook
Antwerp
Anya’s Ghost
Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day
As Always, Julia
Atonement
Austenland
Away
Babylon By Bus
Back Story
Bad Business
Bambi vs. Godzilla
Bangkok 8
Basin and Range
Beat To Quarters
Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells
Beyond Bullet Points
Big Babies
Big Girl Small
Bit Literacy
Blackout
Blame
Bloody Jack
Blue at the Mizzen
Boneshaker
Book Business: Publishing Past and Future
Book by Book
Bound To Please
Boys and Girls Like You And Me
Brazilian Adventure
Bridge: 25 Ways to Compete In The Bidding
Buddha's Money
Busman’s Honeymoon
By Hook or by Crook
By Order Of The President
By The Light of the Study Lamp
Caesar's Legacy
Call for the Dead
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Chaco Canyon: a center and its world
Chairs
Changing Places
Chasing Shakespeares
Chocolate and Zucchini
City of the Soul: A Walk In Rome
Classics for Pleasure
Cold Hunter's Moon
Conflict of Honors
Consider Phlebas
Conspirata
Contested Will
Count Zero
Counterattack
Culinary Artistry
Cyril Connolly
Damon Runyon
Dark Age Ahead
Dark Continent
Dauntless
Deal Breaker
Death Assemblage
Death by Hollywood
Death and Taxes
Design for Community
Desolation Island
Dining Out
Dr. No
Doctor Thorne
Don't Make Me Think
Double Homicide
Dr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel: A Biography
Drawing from Life
Dreadnought
Dreaming In Code
Echo Bay
Effective STL
Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life
Emanuel Goldberg and his Knowledge Machine
Emerson: The Mind on Fire
Emma
Emma Brown
Empire Falls
Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe
Eric Sink of the Business of Software
Everyone in Silico
Everything Is Miscellaneous
Evolution Man
Experience Design
Faithful
Far Side of the World
Farthing
Fatherland
Feeding The Eye
Fever Season
Fiasco
Fingersmith
First Nights: Five Musical Premieres
Flash to the Core
Flashman
Following Hadrian
Folly
Four Freedoms
Freakonomics
French Lessons
Fresh Styles for Web Designers: Eye Candy from Underground
Friday
Friday Night Lights
Garden State
Gaudy Night
Gaudy Night
Geektastic
Germania
Get Shorty
Getrude Bell
Getting Things Done
Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
Good Omens
Graphs Maps Trees
Greenmantle
Greenmantle
Guards! Guards!
Gust Front
HMS Surprise
Ha'penny
Half A Crown
Half Magic
Half Moon Street
Halting State
Hand Over Fist
Hanna's Daughters
Hard Rain
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Hav
Havana Twist
Headwind
Heat
Him Her Him Again The End of Him
His Illegal Self
Guadalcanal
History of the Musical
Home Town
Honey from a Weed
House of Sand and Fog
Housekeeping vs. The Dirt
How Rome Fell
How To Breathe Underwater
How To Live on 24 Hours a Day
How To Taste
Howards End
Humana Festival 2000
Hundred Dollar Baby
Ilium
Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Imperium
Implementation Patterns
In A Sunburned Country
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
In Praise of Shadows
In Suspect Terrain
In The Bleak Midwinter
In The Kitchen
In The Presence of Mine Enemies
Innocence
Introduction to Declarer's Play
Intuition
Intuition
Iron Sunrise
J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
Jack Maggs
Jafsie and John Henry: Essays
Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democraxy
Javascript: The Good Parts
Jellymongers
John Adams
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Joseph Banks: A Life
Julie & Julia: my year of cooking dangerously
Juliet, Naked
Just One Look
Justice Hall
Kiln People
Kydd
Land of Echoes
Land Of Marvels
Lessons Learned in Software Testing
Letter of Marque
Letters from the Editor: The New Yorker's Harold Ross
Letters to a Young Actor
Letters to a Young Artist
Leviathan
Libraries in the Ancient World
Little Brother
Locked Rooms
London Walks
Londongrad
Lonely Planet: Unpacked Again
Loot
Lost Worlds
Lost In A Good Book
Love Invents Us
Lyra's Oxford
MTIV
Magic for Beginners
Make-Believe Town
Making Comics
Making Movies
Man of Two Tribes
Maps of the Imagination: The Writers As Cartographer
March
Marianne in Chains
Marketing That Matters
Mary Ann In Autumn
Masquerade
Master and Commander
Master of the Senate
Mauve
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Medici Money
Medium Raw
Michael Tolliver Lives
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
Middlesex
Mind Game
Minion
Modern C++ Design
Moneyball
Moonshine
C++ Gems
Mornings In Florence
Mort
Mr. Pip
Murder Must Advertise
Murder in the Sentier
My Life In France
My Old Man
My Sister’s Keeper
Mystic River
Nelson
Never Let Me Go
Night Soldiers
Night of the Living Trekkies
No Vivaldi in the Garage
Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures
Robert Frost
North of Boston
Notes Found in a Bottle
Notes From A Small Island
Nothing To Fear
O Chip e o Caleidoscópio
O Jerusalem
OK: the story of Oklahoma!
Old Man's War
Old School
On Beauty
On Chesil Beach
On Conan Doyle
On Directing Film
On Food and Cooking
On Histories and Stories
Ostia: Aspects of Roman City Life
Our Kind of Traitor
Pal Joey
Paladin of Souls
Paradise Lost
Paris 1906
Pattern Recognition
Paul Revere’s Ride
Pendulum
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
Planning Extreme Programming
Plenitude
Pompeii
Posession
Possession
Possiplex
Practical Prototype and script.aculo.us
Prairie Gothic
Prep
Pride and Prejudice
Prince of the Marshes
Prints and Printmaking
Programming Ruby
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Radio: An Illustrated Guide
Rashomon Gate
Ratio: the simple codes behind the craft of everyday cooking
Reading the Vampire Slayer
Ready for Anything
Red Thunder
Refactoring To Patterns
Resistance
Retreat, Hell!
Retreat Hell
Revenge
Road Dogs
Roman Ostia
Rome: a living portrait of an ancient city
Roughing It
Royal Flash
Rules for Revolutionaries
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
Saturn’s Children
Seduced by Moonlight
Set This House On Fire
Shakespeare Wrote for Money
Sharp Teeth
Sharpe's Triumph
Ship Breaker
Shiver
Shopgirl
Shopping for Buddhas
Shrink Rap
Simon's Family
Simple: Web Sites
Sin in the Second City
Singularity Sky
Sister Carrie
Skeleton Man
Sketchbooking
Skipping Christmas
Slam
Small World
Smile When You’re Lying
So Many Books: reading and publishing in an age of abundance
Song for Eloise
Soulless
Southwesterly Wind
Special Ops
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Specimen Days
Spook Country
Stable Strategies
State of Denial
Stepping Out
Stet: An Editor's Life
Straight Up or On The Rocks
Strange Victory
Strategy and Compromise
Sunday Suppers at Lucques
Sunshine
Swimming in the Volcano
Team Of Rivals
Test-Driven Development
Testimony
The Accidental
The Age of Reform: 1815-1870
The Amber Spyglass
The Amber Spyglass
The Amber Spyglass
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
The Apprentice: My Life In The Kitchen
The Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
The Areas of My Expertise
The Art Of Detection
The Art of Miyazaki's Spirited Away
The Art of Simple Food
The Assassination of Julius Caesar
The Assassins’ Gate
The Atrocity Archives
The Balkans
The Bear Went Over The Mountain
The Beginners
The Berlin Stories
The Big Gamble
The Black Dogs
The Book of Jewish Food
The Boston Marriage
The Boy's Crusade
The Bride's Kimono
The Bug
C++ STL
Cabala
The Captains
The Case For Books
The Chaco Meridian
The City & The City
The Clan Corporate
The Club Dumas
The Cold Dish
The Commodore
The Company of Strangers
The Complete Essays of Mark Twain
The Complete New Yorker
The Continental Op
The Cookbook Collector
The Crofter and the Laird
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night
The Curse Of Chalion
Da Vinci Code
The Dante Club
Day of Battle
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Devil In The White City
The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan
Diary of a Teenage Girl
The Dream of Scipio
The Duel
The Education of Henry Adams
The Elements Of Cooking
The Elements of User Experience
The Emerging Democratic Majority
The Fall Of Rome
The Fall of the Roman Empire
The Family Trade
The Far Side of the World
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
Franklin
The Fixer
The Forum of Trajan in Rome
The Game
The Gastronomical Me
The Ghost
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest
The Girl Who Played With Fire
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Goal
The God of the Hive
The Golden Compass
The Golden Compass
The Golden Ocean
The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
The Great Gatsby
The Great Movies
Great Movies II
The Heidi Chronicles
The Hemingway Hoax
The Hidden Family
The Historian
The Hundred Days
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
The Invisible Circus
The Jane Austen Book Club
The Jennifer Morgue
The Jewish King Lear
The Kappa Child
The King David Report
The Knight
The Language Of Bees
The Last Child
The Last Ringbearer
The Last Supper
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh
The Liar
The Light Ages
The Little Black Book of Stories
The Little Friend
The Little Stranger
The Lodger Shakespeare
The Lord of the Rings
The Lost Painting
The Lovely Bones
The Magic Lantern
The Magicians
Making of a Chef
Making of a Chef
The Man In The High Castle
The Map That Changed The World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
The Marketplace of Ideas
The Med
The Metaphysical Club
The Moon's Shadow
The Mount
The Mouse Driver Chronicles
The Murder Book
Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
The Night Watch
The Nine Tailors
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
The Ode Less Travelled
The Old Neighborhood
The Old Neighborhood
The Ornament of the World
The Other 19th Century
The Other Side of Dark
Ottoman Empire
Oxford Classical Dictionary (3rd)
The Peabody Sisters
The Perfectionist
The Pirate King
The Player Of Games
The Polysyllabic Spree
The Quantum Thief
The Quarry
The Rabbi's Cat
The Reach of a Chef: Beyond The Kitchen
The Redbreast
The Remains of the Day
The Reverse of the Medal
River of Doubt
The Romans: From Village To Empire
Ruby in the Smoke
Samurai's Daughter
The Second Tree from the Corner
The Sense of an Ending
The Seven Stairs
The Shapeshifter
The Shining
Siege of the Arts
The Sinister Pig
Soul of a Chef
Space Opera Renaissance
The Spanish Prisoner and The Winslow Boy
The Startup Garden
The Stranger’s Child
The Subtle Knife
The Subtle Knife
The Tenth Muse
The Texas-Israeli War: 1999
The Thai Amulet
The Thin Man
The Third Man
Thirteen Gun Salute
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
The Truelove
The Undressed Art
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
The Vor Game
The Wailing Wind
The War Room
The Weblog Handbook
The Whig Interpretation of History
The Whisper of Leaves
The Wicked Son
The Wiki Way
The Wild Party
The Windup Girl
The Wine-Dark Sea
The World At Night
The World Brain
The Yellow Admiral
Then We Came To The End
Theodore Rex
Thirty-Three Teeth
This Earth of Mankind
Those Who Hunt The Night
Thread of the Spider
Three Stations
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Tishomingo Blues
To Serve Them All My Days
Tooth and Claw
Trilobite!
True Grit
Singapore Ghost Stories 8
True and False
Turning The Tables
Two Women
Under Fire
Under Fire
Under the Color of Law
Utopian Entrepreneur
Vienna Blood
Vile Bodies
Vodka
Wake Up, Sir!
War for the Oaks
Watch Your Mouth
Watching Baseball Smarter
We've Got Blog
Welcome To Bordertown
What Good Are The Arts?
What Happened to Art Criticism?
What The Dickens
Which Side Are You On
Whose Body?
Why I won't Be Going To Lunch Anymore
Why the Allies Won
Wicked
Widow's Walk
WikiPatterns
Wolf Hall
Wonderful Town
Working Effectively With Legacy Code
Year's Best SF 10
Yiddish
Zoo City
iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual