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Books I've Read

+ = highly recommended
= do not read

2010 - 3 books
   The Great Starvation Experiment - Todd Tucker
   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon (audiobook)
   In the Beginning was the Worm - Andrew Brown

2009 - 3 books
   In Search of Memory - Eric Kandel
   13 things that don't make sense - Michael Brooks
   Life Itself - Robert Rosen

2008 - 3 books
   The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell - Aldous Huxley - My Notes
   The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size - Tor Norretranders
   The Elementary Particles (fiction) - Michel Houellebecq

2007 - 19 books
   Brain Child - George Turner
   The Plague - Albert Camus
   Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Jared Diamond
   A Practical Handbook for the Actor - Melissa Bruder
+ Where the Wasteland Ends - Theodore Roszak - My Notes
   Children of God - Maria Doria Russell
   Shadows of the Mind - Roger Penrose
   Glenngary Glen Ross - David Mamet
   Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
   Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else - Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
   The Organization Man - William Whyte
   The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby
   Coordination Without Hierarchy: Informal Structures in Multiorganizational Systems - Donald Chisholm
   Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution - Michael Behe
   Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain - Antonio Damasio
   Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel
+ Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - My Notes
   The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs - My Notes
   Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge - Gerald Edelman

2006 - 22 books
   The Success of Open Source - Steven Weber
   Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887 - Edward Bellamy
+ Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins
+ The Greening of America - Charles A. Reich - My Notes
   Kinds of Minds - Daniel Dennett
   How the Mind Works - Steven Pinker
   Disobedience and Democracy - Howard Zinn
+ The Instinct to Heal - David Servan-Schreiber
   Fury - Salman Rushdie
+ The Skeptical Environmentalist - Bjorn Lomborg
+ Awake at Work - Michael Carroll - My Notes
+ Interaction of Color - Josef Albers
   Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
   Before You Say "I Quit!" - Diane Holloway and Nancy Bishop
   The Emperor's New Mind - Roger Penrose
   The Mind and the Brain - Jeffrey Schwartz and Sharon Begley
   A Brief History of the Mind - William Calvin
+ My Inventions (free online) - Nikola Tesla - My Notes
   The People as Enemy: The Leaders' Hidden Agenda in World War II - John Spritzler
   Rebuilt - Michael Chorost
+ Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo
   The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene

2005 - 18 books
   Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K. Dick
   Sam Walton: Made in America - Sam Walton with John Huey
   The Quest for Consciousness - Christof Koch
   The Hydrogen Economy - Jeremy Rifkin
+ The Power of Persuasion - Robert Levine - My Notes
+ On Intelligence - Jeff Hawkins - My Notes
   Globalization and its Discontents - Joseph Stiglitz
+ The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
   Butterfly Economics - Paul Ormerod
+ Smart Mobs - Howard Rheingold
   Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams - Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister
   The Progress Paradox - Gregg Easterbrook
+ The Corporation - Joel Bakan
+ The Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki
+ Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
   How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - Dale Carnegie
+ Don't Think of an Elephant - George Lakoff - My Notes
   Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

2004 - 19 books
   The Economics of Innocent Fraud - John Kenneth Galbraith
+ Banker for the Poor - Muhammad Yunus - My Notes
+ How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie - My Notes
   Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
+ Bowling Alone - Robert Putnam
   Ghandi's Way - Mark Juergensmeyer - My Notes
   How to get control of your time and your life - Alan Lakein
   The Jungle - Upton Sinclair - My Notes
   Parecon - Michael Albert - My Letter to Albert
   The Best Democracy Money can Buy - Greg Palast
+ Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
   Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
+ A Problem from Hell - Samantha Power
   The Alchemist - Paul Coelho
+ The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham - My Notes
   Essential Writings - Ralph Waldo Emerson
   In an Uncertain World - Robert Rubin
   Bubble of American Supremacy - George Soros - My notes
   Only the Paranoid Survive - Andy Grove - My Notes

2003 - 19 books
+ Naked economics - Charles Wheelan - My Notes
+ What should I do with my life? - Po Bronson - My Notes
   Fatal Harvest - Andrew Kimbrell
   Savage Nation - Michael Savage - My Notes
   Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
   The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
   Liar's Poker - Michael Lewis
+ Understanding Power - Noam Chomsky
   Envisioning Information - Edward Tufte
   Culture of Fear - Barry Glassner - My Notes
   9-11 - Noam Chomsky
   Why We Buy - Paco Underhill
   The Lexus and the Olive Tree - Thomas Friedman
+ Guns, Germs, & Steel - Jacob Diamond
   Credit Card Nation - Robert Manning
+ Physics of Consciousness - Evan Harris Walker
   Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why - Rex Hudson
   Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
   The Starship and the Canoe - Kenneth Brower

2002 - 5 books
   On the Road - Jack Kerouac
+ Into the Wild - John Krakauer
+ A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
   What Color is Your Parachute? - Richard Nelson Bolles
+ Your Money or Your Life - Joe Dominguez & Vicki Robin


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