BooksReadIn2011
DateFinished Author(s) Title
1/27/2011 LeGault, Michael R. Think! Why crucial decisions can't be made in the blink of an eye
1/31/2011 Van Dine, S.S. The Benson Murder Case
2/15/2011 Wodehouse, P.G. Right Ho, Jeeves
2/22/2011 Breyer, Stephen Making our democracy work: A Judge's view
2/25/2011 Seife, Charles Proofiness: The dark arts of mathematical deception
2/27/2011 Wodehouse, P.G. Ring for Jeeves
3/1/2011 Specter, Michael Denialism: How irrational thinking hinders scientific progress, harms the planet, and threatens our lives
3/6/2011 Heath, Chip and Heath, Dan Made to Stick: Why some ideas survive and others die
3/12/2011 Fung, Kaiser Numbers rule your world: The hidden influence of probability and statistics on everything you do
3/15/2011 Fforde, Jasper Thursday Next: First among sequels
3/31/2011 Fforde, Jasper The well of lost plots
4/8/2011 Seife, Charles Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes
4/30/2011 Fforde, Jasper The Eyre affair
5/15/2011 Fforde, Jasper Something Rotten
5/31/2011 Fforde, Jasper One of our Thursdays is missing
6/10/2011 Gleick, James The Information: A history, a theory, a flood
6/15/2011 Hamilton, Gabrielle Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
6/15/2011 Verne, Jules Journey to the center of the earth
6/19/2011 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The adventures of Sherlock Holmes
8/7/2011 McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch The theory that would not die: How Bayes' rule cracked the enigma code, hunted down Russian submarines & emerged triumphant from two centuries of controversy
8/21/2011 Mukherjee, Siddhartha The emperor of all maladies
8/30/2011 Kaplan, Michael and Kaplan, Ellen Bozo Sapiens: Why to err is human
9/2/2011 Kean, Sam The Disappearing spoon and other true tails of madness, love, and the history of the world from the periodic table of the elements
9/3/2011 Gladwell, Malcolm What the dog saw and other adventures
9/10/2011 Pigliuci, Massimo Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
9/25/2011 Pierce, Charles P. Idiot America: How stupidity became a virtue in the land of the free
10/7/2011 Hartford, Tim Adapt: Why success always starts with failure
10/15/2011 Hunt, Andrew and Thomas, David The Pragmatic Programmer: From journeyman to master
10/19/2011 Miller, Peter The Smart Swarm: How understanding flocks, schools, and colonies can make us better at communicating, decision making, and getting things done
10/24/2011 Schulz, Kathryn Being Wrong: Adventures in the margin of error
10/31/2011 Norman, Donald A. Living with complexity
11/30/2011 Linden, David J The compass of pleasure: How our brains make fatty foods, ,orgasm, exercise, marijuana, generosity, vodka, learning, and gambling feel so good
12/20/2011 Linden, David J. The accidental mind: How brain evolution has given us love, memory, dreams, and god