Book List

What I've been reading, since about 2008.  Undoubtedly a partial list, since I forget to update, and then add several books at a time to the list.  I may try to fill in some of the gaps.

Andreas Kieling, Ein deutscher Wandersommer: 1400 Kilometer durch unsere wilde Heimat

Walter Lewin, For the Love of Physics

Henry Roth, A Star Shines over Mt. Morris Park

Michael Common and Sigrid Stagl, Ecological Economics

Amitav Ghosh, River of Smoke

Deborah Rumsey, Statistics for Dummies

David Kessler, The End of Overeating

Matthew Crawford, Shop Class as Soul Craft

Laurie R. King, Garment of Shadows

Frank McCourt, Teacher Man

Laurie R. King, The Pirate King

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo*

Amitav Ghosh, The Calcutta Chromosome

Deborah Luepnitz, Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas

Donna Leon, The Girl of His Dreams

Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary

Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

William Styron, Darkness Visible

Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies

Ben Macintyre, Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

Allen Carlson, Nature and Landscape: An Introduction to Environmental Aesthetics
Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, Apartment Therapy's Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces
Stephen Harris and Brion Grigsby, ed. Misconceptions About the Middle Ages
Jedediah Berry, The Manual of Detection

Laurie R. King, God of the Hive

Rick Steves, Travel as a Political Act

Mary Swan and Elaine M. Treharne, ed., Rewriting Old English in the Twelfth Century

Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Robbin Crabtree, et al., Feminist Pedagogy: Looking Back to Move Forward

Nikolas Coupland, Style: Language Variation and Identity

Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, Kindheit in Ostpreußen

Dorothy Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh, A Presumption of Death

Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace

Best American Essays 2009

Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road

Elizabeth Peters, The Laughter of Dead Kings

Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies

Laurie R. King, The Language of Bees
Mark Harris, Grave Matters : A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial
Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World

Eric W. Sanderson, Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City

Annie Leibovitz, At Work

Gail Sheehy, The Silent Passage: Menopause

Jasper Rees, A Devil to Play: One Man's Year-Long Quest to Master the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument

Margaret Atwood, Payback: The Shadow Side of Wealth

Laurie R. King, Touchstone

Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive The Way We Do (And What It Says About Us)

Best American Essays 2008

Elizabeth Royte, Bottlemania

Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Michael Chabon, The Final Solution: A Story of Detection

Heather Armstrong, Things I've Learned About My Dad (In Therapy)

Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

David Albahari, Götz und Meyer

Jacquelin Cangro, ed. The Subway Chronicles

Selma Fraiberg, The Magic Years

*Read as ebook.