Thursday, May 05, 2011

Books read since September

Non-Fiction:
  • The Man Who Lied to His Laptop by Clifford Nass
  • The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
  • With the Old Breed by E. B. Sledge
  • What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
  • Half Empty by David Rakoff
  • Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
  • Expert Political Judgement: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? by Philip E. Tetlock
  • Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
  • Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz
  • Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks by Ben Goldacre
  • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
  • Laws of Fear: Beyond The Precautionary Principle by Cass Sunstein
Fiction:
  • Kinki Lullaby by Isaac Adamson
  • Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey
  • Kraken: An Anatomy by China Mieville
  • Year's Best SF 15
  • The Fuller Memorandum by Charles Stross
  • The New Space Opera
  • Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Kraken was the best fiction. Being Wrong is the best book I've read in ages; not only is it beautifully, quotably written, but once the phenomenon is pointed out, I started seeing it everywhere.