Books

Here's a list of some of the titles of books (or pamphlets) I've probably read:

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Autobiography by John Stuart Mill
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Euthyphro by Plato (I'm not sure whose translation I read.)
The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Podkayne of Mars by Robert Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Ape and the Essence by Aldous Huxley
Gladiator-at-Law
This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
Earth Abides
Honeymoon in Hell by Frederic Brown
The Murderers by Frederic Brown
What Mad Universe by Frederic Brown
Nightmares and Geezenstacks by Frederic Brown
Fail Safe
On the Beach
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Rama II by Arthur C. Clarke
Rama Revealed by Arthur C. Clarke
Garden of Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
2001 by Arthur C. Clarke
2010 by Arthur C. Clarke
2061 by Arthur C. Clarke
3001 by Arthur C. Clarke
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Earthlight by Arthur C. Clarke
The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke
The Trigger by Arthur C. Clarke
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Kaleidoscope by Ray Bradbury
Do Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?
Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Socialism: From Utopia to Science by Frederick Engels
Philosophy: Who Needs It by Ayn Rand
Environmentalism: The Anti-Industrial Revolution by Ayn Rand
The Playboy Interview with Philosopher Ayn Rand
Health Care is Not a Right by Leonard Peikoff
Man's Rights and The Nature of Government by Ayn Rand
Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russel
More Than A Carpenter
Writing Efficient Programs (QA76.6 B455 1982)
Contact by Carl Sagan
BFG by Roald Dahl
Animal Farm by George Orwell
1984 by George Orwell
Letters from the underworld. The gentle maiden. The landlady. by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881 (PG3326 .L4 1971)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, published in 1813, read in 2001.
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters by J.D. Salinger (PS3537 A426 R3 1963)
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (PS3535 A547 A94 1957), finished May 10, 2001
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (PS3537 T3234 G8 1947), May 15, 2001
A Treatise of Human Nature: (Volumes II and III) by David Hume (B 1485 1898), May 17, 2001
The Old Regime and the French Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville, May 27, 2001
Walden by Henry David Thoreau, June 9, 2001
Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson, June 9, 2001
Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov
The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison (JK154 F3h 1941), June 30, 2001
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas K. Gandhi (DS481 G3 A3 1993), June 30, 2001
Language, Truth, and Logic by Alfred Ayer (B53 Ay 24L), July 1, 2001
Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (BD21 R911po), July 8, 2001
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (PQ2637 A82 N313 1969), July 20, 2001
Germinal by Emile Zola (PQ2504 A39 1969), July 24, 2001
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, August 5, 2001
The Origin of Species, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin, August 10, 2001
Utilitarianism, On Liberty, and Representative Government by John Stuart Mill (B1602 A5 1951), August 16, 2001
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman, August 18, 2001
A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke, August 23, 2001
First Love by Ivan Turgenev
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato (translated by G. M. A. Grube), September 3, 2001
Count Zero by William Gibson, September 8, 2001
The Sense of Wonder by Rachel Carson, September 8, 2001
Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham, (from a collection of Bentham's papers in HV6025 B4445i)
The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche (B3313 Z7 E8 1918), September 22, 2001
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (60-5148), September 30, 2001
Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography by Karl Popper (B1649 P64 A38 1992), November 8, 2001
The Ultimate Resource 2 by Julian Simon (HB871 S573 1996), November 19, 2001
So Human an Animal by René Dubos, November 20, 2001
Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick (BJ1008 S5 1981), November 21, 2001
The Autobiography of Malcom X, written with the assistance of Alex Haley, December 6, 2001
Myths and Facts 1980: A Concise Record of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, edited by Alan M. Tigay, December 6, 2001
Literary Machines 90.1 by Theodor Holm Nelson (Z 52.4 N45x 1990), December 8, 2001
The Age of Protest, edited by Walt Anderson, December 10, 2001
Bentham and the Ethics of Today by David Baumgardt (BJ604 B327b), December 17, 2001
Ten Great Economists: From Marx to Keynes by Joseph Schumpeter (HB 85 Sch 86t), December 18, 2001
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (PN 471 W883r), December 20, 2001
The Computer and the Brain by John von Neumann (QA76 V896c), December 25, 2001
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (E499 D747 m), December 27, 2001
The Science of the Artificial by Herbert Simon (Q175 S564 1996), December 28, 2001
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer (HV4708 S56), December 28, 2001
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (HQ1420 F912f), January 2, 2002
ACM Turing Award Lectures: The First Twenty Years (QA76.24 A33 1987), January 3, 2002
Ex-prodigy by Norbert Wiener (QA29 W636e), January 4, 2002
Experiments in Plant Hybridization by Gregor Mendel (QH423 M522v3E 1965), January 4, 2002
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes, January 5, 2002
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, January 6, 2002
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Alice Raphael, January 7, 2002
What is life? by Erwin Schödinger (QH331 Sch76w), January 9, 2002
Higher Superstition by Paul Gross and Normal Levitt (Q175.5 G757 1994), January 12, 2002
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, January 16, 2002
Natural Selection, Economics and Probability by Arnold Faden, January 19, 2002
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth by James Lovelock (QH313 L68 1995), January 20, 2002
The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler (BQ7935 B774 A78 1998), January 21, 2002
Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women by Christina Hoff Sommers (HQ1154 S613 1994), January 29, 2002
Freedom in Exile by the Dalai Lama (BQ7935 B777 A3 1990), February 2, 2002
A mathematician's apology by G. H. Hardy, with a foreward by C. P. Snow (QA7 H3 1967), February 9, 2002
Pacifism and the just war by Jenny Teichman (BT736.4 T45 1986), February 10, 2002
Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng (DS778.7 C445 1986), February 11, 2002
Autobiography by Thomas Jefferson (E332.9 A8 1959), March 18, 2002
Peopleware by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister (HD31 D42185 1987), March 21, 2002
Symbiosis in Cell Evolution by Lynn Margulis (QH366.2 M36), March 23, 2002
Just and Unjust Wars by Michael Walzer (U21.2 W345), March 25, 2002
A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf by John Muir (QH31 M9 A354 1981), March 26, 2002
The High Cost of Farm Welfare by Clifton B. Luttrell (HD1761 L87 1989), March 26, 2002
Hoodwinking the Nation by Julian Simon (GE40 S55 1999), March 28, 2002
What is the Name of This Book? by Raymond Smullyan (GV1493 S63), March 28, 2002
The Awakening by Kate Chopin (PS1294 C63 A9 1964), April 13, 2002
Introduction to Logic by Alfred Tarski (QA9 T17eE3)
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek (HD82 H325r 1969), April 27, 2002
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman (HB501 F914c), May 14, 2002
Readings on the social animal edited by Elliot Aronson (HM251 A789 1999), May 15, 2002
Bringing Down the Great Wall by Fang Lizhi (DS779.26 F3459 1991), May 16, 2002
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick (PS3554 I3 T46 1991), May 21, 2002
The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society by Dinesh D'Souza (E185.615 D75 1995), May 23, 2002
Life So Far by Betty Friedan (HQ1413 F75 A3 2000), May 23, 2002
The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin (QA76.9 H85 R37 2000), May 25, 2002
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins, May 27, 2002
False Dawn by John Gray (HB501 G63x 1998), May 30, 2002
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, June 2, 2002
The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom (E169.1 B653 1987), June 17, 2002
Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms by Diane Ravitch (LA216 R28 2000), June 17, 2002
An Introduction to Mathematics by Alfred North Whitehead (QA7 W587i2 1958), June 20, 2002
The Republic by Plato, translated by Allan Bloom (JC71 P69rb 1968), July 2, 2002
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell, July 4, 2002
Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian, translated by Mabel Lee (PL2869 O128 L5613 2000), July 6, 2002
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, July 6, 2002
Together: A New Photographic Approach to Marital Fulfillment by Danielle, photographs by Stuart, July 7, 2002
The Wooing of the Earth by Rene Dubos (QH75 D8), July 8, 2002
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (PZ7 Sw55g), July 15, 2002
Buddha by Karen Armstrong (BQ882 A76 2001), July 22, 2002
The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson (QH313 W55 1992), August 8, 2002
Science and the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead, August 9, 2002
War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy, September 5, 2002
Logic Machines and Diagrams by Martin Gardner (BC138 G175L), October 26, 2002
Choice and Chance: An Introduction to Inductive Logic by Brian Skyrms (BC91 Sk96c), November 10, 2002
Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales, a review by Edgar Allan Poe, November 22, 2002
1985 by Gyorgy Dalos (PH3213 D256 A61713 1983), November 23, 2002
In praise of epistemic irresponsibility by Mike Bishop, November 28, 2002
Intimacy by Jean-Paul Sartre, November 29, 2002
The Challege of Pain by Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall (QP 451.4 M44 1988), November 30, 2002
Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgment by Richard Nisbett and Lee Ross (BF311 N57), December 25, 2002
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, December 26, 2002
Refactoring: Imrpoving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler (QA76.76 R42 F69 1999), December 27, 2002
Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You by Gerd Gigerenzer (QA273.15 G54 2002), December 29, 2002
Clinical versus statistical prediction by Paul Meehl (RC467 M47), January 1, 2003
Fact, Fiction, and Forecast by Nelson Goodman (BC91 G66 1973), January 3, 2003
Studies in Subjective Probability edited by Henry Kyburg, Jr., and Howard Smokler (BC141 K981s), January 5, 2003
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold, January 5, 2003
Walking with the Wind by John Lewis, January 8, 2003
Watch Me Fly: What I Learned on the Way to Becoming the Woman I Was Meant to Be by Myrlie Evers-Williams, with Melinda Blau, January 11, 2003
Celia, a slave: a true story by Melton A. McLaurin, January 13, 2003
Reasons & Persons by Derek Parfit (BJ1012 P39 1987), January 18, 2003
Barbara Jordan: American Hero by Mary Beth Rogers, January 18, 2003
The Long Shadow of Little Rock by Daisy Bates, January 29, 2003
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, February 10, 2003
Up from slavery by Booker T. Washington, February 25, 2003
Living Buddha, living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh (BR128 B8 N43 1995), February 26, 2003
What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula (BQ4132 R3313 1974), March 10, 2003
Can Ethics Provide Answers? by James Rachels (BJ1012 R289 1997), March 17, 2003
Motze, the neglected rival of Confucius by Mei Yipao (B128 M8 M4 1973), March 17, 2003
On Chuang Tzu by Hyun Hochsmann (BL1900 C576 H63x 2001), March 21, 2003
Beyond good and evil by Friedrich Nietzsche (B3313 J43 E5 1949), March 23, 2003
On Confucius by Ni Peimin (B128 C8 N5x 2002), March 23, 2003
Spider Eaters by Yang Rae (DS778.7 Y42 1997), April 6, 2003
Applied Ethics edited by Peter Singer (BJ1025 A66 1986), April 19, 2003
A Short History of Chinese Philosophy by Fung Yulan (B126 F42 1966), May 6, 2003
Wild Swans by Chang Jung (DS774 C3718 1991), May 11, 2003
The way of water and sprouts of virtue by Sarah Allan (B126 A45 1997), May 13, 2003
The Analects of Confucius translated by Arthur Waley (PL2478 L8x), May 15, 2003
Philosophy and Computer Science by Timothy R. Colburn (QA76.167 C65 2000), May 18, 2003
Mo Tzu: Basic Writings translated by Burton Watson (B128 M6 W3), May 18, 2003
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, May 27, 2003
Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegas (QA76.76 O63 H57145 2002), May 27, 2003
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, translated by Joachim Neugroschel (PT2617 E85 S513 1999b), May, 28, 2003
The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant, July 8, 2003
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by Bernard Williams (BJ1012 W52 1985b), August 18, 2003
Speech and Language-based Interaction with Computers by John A. Waterworth and Mike Talbot (QA76.9 I58 S665 1987), August 18, 2003
Learning Perl by Randal L. Schwartz and Tom Christiansen (QA76.73 P22 S37 1997), August 19, 2003
The Design and Evolution of C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup (QA76.73 C153 S79 1994), August 24, 2003
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling, August 26, 2003
The Elements of Moral Philosophy by James Rachels (BJ1012 R29 1986), October 17, 2003
Object-oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach by Brad Cox (QA76.9 S88 C69 1986), October 18, 2003
Science and Moral Priority: Merging Mind, Brain, and Human Values by Roger Sperry (QP360 S63 1983), October 22, 2003
Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism by James Rachels (B818 R32 1990), October 30, 2003
Cambrian Intelligence by Rodney Brooks (TJ211 B695 1999), November 14, 2003
Understanding Consciousness by Max Velmans (B105 C477 V45x 2000), December 2, 2003
The Integrated Mind by Michael S. Gazzaniga and Joseph E. LeDoux (QP398 G39), December 4, 2003
Goedel's Proof by Ernest Nagel and James Newman (QA9.65 N34 2001), December 13, 2003
Kant's Moral Philosophy by H.B. Acton (B2799 E8 A28), December 13, 2003
Wine of the Dreamers by John D. MacDonald (PS3563 A28 W56x 1979), December 20, 2003
Normative Ethics by Shelly Kagan, December 21, 2003
Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson, December 23, 2003
5000 B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies by Raymond Smullyan (B68 S65 1983), December 30, 2003
The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing by Martin Davis (QA76.17 D38 2000), January 1, 2004
What is mathematics, really? by Reuben Hersh (QA8.4 H47 1997), February 8, 2004
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbot, March 14, 2004
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change by Kent Beck (QA76.76 D47 B434 2000), March 16, 2004
The UNIX Programming Environment by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike (QA76.6 K495 1984), May 15, 2004
Programming PHP by Rasmus Lerdof and Kevin Tatroe (QA76.73 P224 L47x 2002), May 25, 2004
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass (PT2613 R338 B5513 1993), May 28, 2004
Effective Java: Programming Language Guide by Joshua Bloch, May 29, 2004
Plays: 1 by Dario Fo (PQ4866 O2 A6 1997b), May 30, 2004
The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, June 15, 2004
Effective STL by Scott Meyers (QA76.73 C153 M49 2001), June 16, 2004
How to Write Fast by David Fryxell, June 22, 2004
Efficient C++: Performance Programming Techniques by Dov Bulka and David Mayhew (QA76.73 C153 B85 2000), June 26, 2004
Utopia by Thomas More, July 5, 2004
Programming C# by Jesse Liberty (QA76.73 C154 L53 2002), July 8, 2004
Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher (QA76.25 M35 2002), July 11, 2004
The ABC of Relativity by Bertrand Russell, August 1, 2004
How Would You Move Mount Fuji? by William Poundstone (HF5549.5 I6 P68 2003), August 14, 2004
Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton and Rose Friedman (HB501 .F72), August 17, 2004
The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference by Nicolai M. Josuttis (QA76.73 C153 J69 1999), August 19, 2004
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, August 24, 2004
"fuck, YES!" August 29, 2004
Rhyme's Reason: A Guide To English Verse by John Hollander (PE1505 H6), September 11, 2004
Everyday Irrationality: How Pseudo-Scientists, Lunatics, and the Rest of Us Systematically Fail to Think Rationally by Robyn M. Dawes (BF442 D39 2001)
Don Quixote: Part I by Miguel de Cervantes, November 22, 2004
The Giver by Lois Lowry (PZ7 L9555g), January 4, 2005
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (PS3572 O5 C3x 1963), January 6, 2005
The Fall by Albert Camus (PQ2605 A3734 C513 1957), January 7, 2005
A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar, March 5, 2005
Statistics and Truth by C. Radhakrishna Rao (QA276 R362 1989), May 3, 2005
Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment by Michael Bishop and J. D. Trout (BF441 B616 2005), May 9, 2005
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (PZ8 D664ap), May 18, 2005
The Tao Is Silent by Raymond Smullyan, May 29, 2005
The Great Disruption by Francis Fukuyama (HM851 F85 1999), June 4, 2005
The Cartoon Guide to Statistics by Larry Gonick and Woollcott Smith (QA276.12 G67 1993), June 27, 2005
Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor by Isaac Asimov (PN6151 A8), July 5, 2005
The Practice of Programming by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike (QA76.6 K48 1999), July 18, 2005
Exceptional C++ by Herb Sutter (QA76.73 C153 S88 2000), July 31, 2005
The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (PZ8 C738), July 31, 2005
The elements of graphing data by William S. Cleveland (QA90 .C54 1994), August 5, 2005
Friction and wear of materials by Ernest Rabinowicz (TJ1075 R11df), August 30, 2005
Programming Pearls by John Bentley (QA76.6 B453 1986), October 1, 2005
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Stephen Levy (QA76.6 L469 2001), October 13, 2005
Writing Efficient Programs by Jon Louis Bentley (QA76.6 B455 1982), October 16, 2005
Efficient C++: Performance Programming Techniques by Dov Bulka and David Mayhew (QA76.73 C153 B85 2000), October 30, 2005
Planning of Experiments by David Roxbee Cox (QA286 C839p), October 31, 2005
Graphical Methods for Data Analysis by John M. Chambers, William S. Cleveland, Beat Kleiner, and Paul A. Tukey (QA276.3 G73 1983), October 31, 2005
The Crucible by Arthur Miller (PS3525 I5156 C7), November 7, 2005
More Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley (QA76.6 B452 1988), November 20, 2005
How to Lie with Statistics by Darrel Huff (QA286 H872h), November 22, 2005
Applying statistics in the courtroom: a new approach for attorneys and expert witnesses by Phillip I. Good (KF8968.75 G66 2001), November 26, 2005
Holidays on ice by David Sedaris, November 27, 2005
The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (PS3511 I9 G7 1996), December 20, 2005
Being good: an introduction to ethics by Simon Blackburn (BJ1012 B53x 2001), December 22, 2005
Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures by Howard Rainer (QA276.3 W29 2005), February 4, 2006
Naive Set Theory by Paul Halmos (QA248 H162), February 6, 2006
Think: A compelling introduction to philosophy by Simon Blackburn (BD11 B53x 1999), May 5, 2006
Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince by J.K. Rowling, June 30, 2006
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick, July 3, 2006
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain, August 12, 2006
All the trouble in the world by P.J. O'Rourke (PN6162 O73 1994), August 15, 2006
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt, January 28, 2007
The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain, April 3, 2007
Schlachthof 5 oder der Kinderkreuzzug by Kurt Vonnegut, July 9, 2007
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (PS3570 O54 C66 1980), August 29, 2007
We the living by Ayn Rand, December 6, 2007
Just for fun by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond (QA76.2 T67 T67 2001), March 12, 2008