Books Read Since June

Fiction:
Transition by Iain Banks
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Freedom(tm): A Novel by Daniel Suarez
The Trade Of Queens by Charles Stross
Chronic City: A Novel by Jonathan Lethem

Non-fiction:
The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
A Paradise Built In Hell: The Extraordinary Communites That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand
Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki by David Chadwick
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

Best fiction was Transition and, mmmm, maybe Chronic City. Best non-fiction was Whole Earth Discipline, but all of them are worth reading.

Music Bought in Last Four Months

"Venus on Earth" by Dengue Fever
"Ultimate RUN/DMC" by RUN/DMC
"Aswad" by squaremeter
"Collide" by Beats Antique
"Treats" by Sleigh Bells
"Into the Trees" by Zoë Keating
"How To Destroy Angels" (EP) by How To Destroy Angels

I also bought year of Pandora One, which is exposing me to a lot of other music to buy (e.g., Beats Antique). Here's my Pandora profile.

Books Read since March

Another list-of-media-that-I've-consumed-in-time-period-X post.

Fiction:
Year's Best SF 14 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Seppuku by Peter Watts
Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Sea-Wolf by Jack London
Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy
The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull
The God Engines by John Scalzi
Reheated Cabbage: Tales of Chemical Degeneration by Irvine Welsh

Non-fiction
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou
Greetings from Afghanistan, Send More Ammo: Dispatches from Taliban Country by Benjamin Tupper
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Superfreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Sane Asylum by Charles Hampden-Turner
Music: I-LXXIV by August Kleinzahler

Best fiction was The Windup Girl and Blood's a Rover, and Year's Best SF 14 was a surprisingly good short story collection. Best non-fiction was Columbine and Sane Asylum (a mid-1970's examination of the Delancey Street Foundation), and despite what is said about writing about music, Music: I-LXXIV was really good.

Books I've read in 2010 (So Far)

From the library:

• John Adams by David McCullough
• Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit by Eric Haney
• The City: A Global History by Joel Kotkin
• Don't Hassel the Hoff by David Hasselhoff (a gag gift from my brother)
• Mariposa by Greg Bear
• Metatropolis edited by John Scalzi
• The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
• The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception by H. Keith Melton and Robert Wallace

And I've also been reading books on my Nexus One with the Aldiko reader:

• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• Makers by Cory Doctorow
• Starfish by Peter Watts
• Maelstrom by Peter Watts

For fiction, the Peter Watts books are great. John Adams and Age of Wonder are the standout non-fiction.