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My Annual Booklists
Since 1994 I have tracked the books I read. Any book can qualify, long or short, fiction or non-fiction, technical or fun, as long as I read it completely.
2007 Booklist
- Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
Rebecca Goldstein - State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III
Bob Woodward - From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
E. J. Konigsburg - The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency,
America’s Most Secret Intelligence Organization
James Bamford - All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten:
Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things
Robert Fulghum - Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk
Maureen Dowd - Salt – The Fifth Element: The Story of a Basic American Industry
Garnett Laidlaw Eskew - Atom: Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos
Isaac Asimov - Watch Collecting
Kenneth Ullyett - Noodling for Flatheads: Moonshine, Monster Catfish and other Southern Comforts
Burkhard Bilger - A Parchment of Leaves
Silas House - Death in the Andes
Mario Vargas Llosa - Of Time and Space and Other Things
Isaac Asimov - History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides - The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins - Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar:
Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein - Smart Chip from St. Petersburg and other tales of a bygone chess era
Genna Sosonko - Manassas to Appomattox: The Civil War Memoirs of Pvt. Edgar Warfield, 17th Virginia Infantry
Edgar Warfield - The Geographer’s Library
Jon Fasman - A History of Pi
Petr Beckmann - The Peninsula Campaign of 1862: Yorktown to the Seven Days
William J. Miller, ed. - A Mathematician’s Apology
(re-read from 2003)
G. H. Hardy