06/19/2010

Recent Reading List


This is a list of books that I've recently read (most recent first):

Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policeman's Union
Tom Clancy - The Teeth of the Tiger
Stephen Hunter - Night of Thunder
Vince Flynn - Extreme Measures
Ian Ayres - Super Crunchers
A.B. Yehoshua - Friendly Fire
Stephen Hunter - The 47th Samurai
P.D. James - The Private Patient
Eric Van Lustbader - First Daughter Joseph O'Neill - Netherland
Eric Van Lustbader - The Bourne Betrayal Alan Furst - The Polish Officer
Daniel Suarez - Daemon Lawren Farber - Portage
Vince Flynn - Protect and Defend Vernor Vnge - A Deepness in the Sky
Vince Flynn - Memorial Day Vince Flynn - Consent to Kill
Vince Flynn - Separation of Power Vince Flynn - Executive Power
Vince Flynn - Term Limits Vince Flynn - Transfer of Power
Lee Child - Nothing To Lose J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Jim Butcher - Storm Front (Book One of the Dresden Files) Tami Hoag - Prior Bad Acts
John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of  Dunces Vince Flynn - The Third Option
Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist Lee Child - Bad Luck and Trouble
James Hilton - Lost Horizon Barry Eisler - Requiem for an Assassin
Barry Eisler - The Last Assassin Cormac McCarthy - The Road
Pete Hamill - Forever Richard Sacks - Electrons Falling
Lee Child - The Hard Way Tami Hoag - Prior Bad Acts
John Le Carré - The Mission Song Robert Buderi & Gregory T. Huang - GuanXi
Eric Van Lustbader - The Testament John Markoff - What Tthe Doormouse Said
Jonathan Kellerman - Rage Ken Follett - Whiteout
Barry Eisler - Killing Rain Richard K. Morgan - Altered Carbon
Barry Eisler - Hard Rain Barry Eisler - Rain Storm
Dean Koontz - Mr. Murder Barry Eisler - Rain Fall
Lee Child - Tripwire Palle Yourgrau - A World Without Time, The Forgotten Legacy of Gödel and Einstein
Lee Child - One Shot Lee Child - Echo Burning
Lee Child - Running Blind Thomas Levenson - Einstein in Berlin
Lee Child - The Enemy Lee Child - Die Trying
Lee Child - Killing Floor Lee Child - Persuader
Nick Hornby - How to be Good Lee Child - Without Fail

John LeCarré - Call for the Dead

P.D. James - The Lighthouse
Malcolm Gladwell - The Tipping Point J. Troy Seate - Chosen
Martin Helprin - The Pacific and Other Stories J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Thomas L. Friedman - The World Is Flat Piergiorgio Odifreddi - The Mathematical Century
Martin Cruz Smith - Wolves Eat Dogs Bob Dylan - Chronicles Volume 1
Malcolm Gladwell - Blink Joel T. Rosenthal - From the Ground Up: A History of the State University of New York at Stony Brook
Dave Brueck and Stephen Tanner - Python 2.1 Bible Stephen Baxter- Manifold: Time
Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason - The Rule of Four John Sandford - Mind Prey
Frederick Forsyth - Avenger Robert Persig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Mainenance - An Inquiry into Values
George Johnson - A Shortcut Through Time John Derbyshire- Prime Obsession
Stephen Hunter - Havana Greg Bear - Darwin's Children
Laura Joh Rowland - The Dragon King's Palace Brad Meltzer - The Zero Game
P.D.James - Shroud for a Nightingale P.D. James - The Black Tower
Dan Brown - Deception Point P.J. Tracy - Monkeewrench
P.D. James - The Murder Room James Patterson - 1st To Die
John Le Carré - Absolute Friends Dan Brown - Angels & Demons
Richard North Patterson - No Safe Place P.D. James - Original Sin
Mitch Albom - The Five People You Meet in Heaven Christopher Buckley - Thank You For Smoking
Jack McDevitt - Chindi Andrew Hodges - Alan Turing: The Enigma
Scott Turow - Reversible Errors Jonathan Kellerman - Dr. Death
A.E. Van Vogt - Slan John Grisham - King of Torts
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Shadow M.Mitch Waldrop - The Dream Machine- JCR Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix John McPhee - The Founding Fish
Dan Brown - The DaVinci Code Dan Brown - Digital Fortress
Stephen Hunter - Pale Horse Coming Stephen King - From A Buick 8
Ben Mezrich - Bringing Down The House Nancy Kress - Probability Moon
Matthew Reilly - Ice Station Neil Gaiman - American Gods
Michael Crichton - Prey Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere
Robert von Goeben - The VC Stephen L. Carter - The Emporer of Ocean Park
Patricia Cornwell - Cause of Death G. Farmelo - It Must be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science
Victor O'Reilly - Rules Of The Hunt Orson Scott Card - Children of the Mind
Orson Scott Card - Xenocide O'Hara and Petrick - IEEE 802.11 Handbook
J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J.K.Rowling - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Stephen King - Dreamcatcher

J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

John Grisham – The Summons

Arthur C. Clark - 3001

Steve Lohr – GoTo : The story of the programmers who created the software revolution.

Arthur C. Clark – 2061:odyssey three

Doron Swade – The Difference Engine Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer

Sylvia Nasar – A Beautiful Mind

Arthur C. Clarke - 2010

P.D. James – Death In Holy Orders

J.K. Rowling  – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Amir D. Aczel – The Mystery of the Aleph – Mathematics, the Kabbalah, the Search for Infinity

Arthur C. Clarke - 2001

Microsoft – Visual Basic 6.0 Programmer’s Guide

Spencer Johnson, M.D. – Who Moved My Cheese?

Davidson (with Steinbreder) – Hockey for Dummies

Steven Levy - Crypto

Dava Sobel - Longitude

John Le Carré– The Constant Gardener

Hafner and Markoff - Cyberbunks

Mario Puzo - Omerta

Stephenson - Cryptonomicon

David Brin - Foundation's Triumph

O'Reilly - Games of the Hangman

James Thayer - Five Past Midnight

Kernighhan & Ritchie - The C Programming Language (2nd edition)

Tom Clancy - The Bear and the Dragon

Greg Bear - Darwin's Radio

John Le Carré

  • Tinker, Tailor Soldier Spy
  • The Honourable Schoolboy
  • Smiley's People

Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson - Dune: House of Atreides

Michael Crighton - Timeline

Albert Einstein - RELATIVITY  The Special and General Theory

Stephen Hunter - Hot Springs

Orson Scott Card - Speaker for the Dead

David Bunnell - Making the Cisco Connection

Gregory Benford - Foundations's Fear

Eckstein, Collier-Brown, Kelly - Using Samba

Greg Bear - Foundation and Chaos

John Grisham - The Testament

William C. Dement - The Promise of Sleep

P.D. James - A Certain Justice

Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game

Stephen King - The Green Mile

Scott Turow - Personal Injuries

Len Deighton - Faith

Paul Hoffman - The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

John Le Carré - Single & Single

Bruce Schechter - My Brain Is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos

Thomas Harris-Red Dragon

Thomas Cahill - The Gifts of the Jews

Thomas Harris-Silence of the Lambs

Mitch Albom - Tuesdays with Morrie:  An Old Man, a Young Man and the Last Great Lesson

Thomas Harris-Hannibal

Stephen Hunter - A Time to Hunt

Hank Halio - Ladino Reveries

Stephen King - Hearts in Atlantis

Stephen King - Bag of Bones

Simon Singh: Fermat's Last Theorem

John Steinbeck - Travels with Charley

Simon Singh: The Code Book

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