Read, or in the process... 2012

  • The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck (poetry)
  • Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? By Mindy Kaling 3/12
  • The Hunger Games 3/12
  • Fear of Flying by Erica Jong 6/12
  • The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean 8/12
  • The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard 9/12
  • Silent Spring by Rachel Carson 10/12
  • Noble House by James Clavell 11/12-12/12
  • 1491 by Charles Mann 11/12
  • Persuasion by Jane Austen 12/12
  • The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides 12/12
  • The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling 12/12

2013

  • Middlemarch by George Eliot
  • On Liberty and Other Writings by J.S. Mill (parts)
  • Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

In the future...

  • Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert 12/12 (poetry)
  • Miracle Cures: Saints, Pilgrimage, and the Healing Powers of Belief by Robert A. Scott
  • Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
  • This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World by Ernst Mayr
  • The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
  • Through the Labyrinth: The Truth About How Women Become Leaders (Center for Public Leadership)by Alice Eagly and Linda Carli
  • Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street by Karen Ho
  • The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt 10/12
  • The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined by Salman Khan
  • Hemingway's Cats by Carlene Brennen
  • Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act by Joe Roman
  • Collected Poems by Jack Gilbert
  • Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
  • The Joy of x by Steven Strogatz
  • The Calculus of Friendship by Steven Strogatz
  • The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
  • Great House by Nicole Krauss
  • something by Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey
  • anything by Umberto Eco
  • Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes by Charles Seife
  • Meta Math!: The Quest for Omega by Gregory Chaitin
  • Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell
  • Rise of the Meritocracy
  • Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin 10/12
  • Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
  • Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII by Chester Nez
  • 1493 by Charles Mann
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  • anything by Philip Roth
  • something by Han Suyin (why would someone applaud communism is beyond me... but, for historical reasons)
  • Middlemarch by George Eliot
  • We3 by Morrison
  • Flush by Virginia Woolf
  • Goat by Albee
  • Island of Dr Moreau by Wells
  • Social Conquest of Earth by E. O. Wilson
  • Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea by Callum Roberts
  • Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • In The Plex by Stephen Levy
nov 2 2012 ∞
mar 24 2013 +