Beautiful Evidence

Edward Tufte

★★★★☆

A Turn in the South

V. S. Naipaul

★★★☆☆

Inventing American History

William Hogeland

★★★☆☆

11/22/63

Stephen King

★★★★★

Carl Sandburg

Harry Golden

★★★☆☆

Designing For Emotion

Aarron Walter

★★★★☆

Mobile First

Luke Wroblewski

★★★☆☆

The Prisoner of Zenda

Anthony Hope

★★★☆☆

The Design of Everyday Things

Donald Norman

★★★★★

Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps

Josh Clark

★★★★☆

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Raymond Carver

★★★★☆

Responsive Web Design

Ethan Marcotte

★★★★☆

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

★★★★☆

Reamde

Neal Stephenson

★★★★☆

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

William B. Irvine

★★★★☆

Time’s Arrow

Martin Amis

★★★☆☆

The Crossing

Cormac McCarthy

★★★★★

All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy

★★★★★

The Republic

Plato

★★☆☆☆

What The Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

John Markoff

★★★★☆

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Stephen King

★★★★★

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

G. K. Chesterton

★★★☆☆

Zeitoun

Dave Eggers

★★★★★

Seize The Day

Saul Bellow

★★★☆☆

Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion

★★★☆☆

Don’t Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems

David Rakoff

★★☆☆☆

Fury

Salman Rushdie

★★★☆☆

The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within

Edward Tufte

★★★★☆

American Studies

Louis Menand

★★★☆☆

Claudius the God and his Wife, Messalina

Robert Graves

★★★☆☆

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

Louis Menand

★★★★☆

Bossypants

Tina Fey

★★★☆☆

Colonel Roosevelt

Edmund Morris

★★★★★

The Elements of Content Strategy

Erin Kissane

★★☆☆☆

Where I Was From

Joan Didion

★★★★★

Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition

James T. Kloppenberg

★★★★★

The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution

Alfred F. Young

★★★★☆

The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit

John Rollin Ridge

★★☆☆☆

Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution

Benjamin Carp

★★★★☆

Hamlet’s Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age

William Powers

★★★☆☆

Together Forever: An Invitation to Physical Immortality

Charles Paul Brown, BernaDeane, and James Russell Strole

☆☆☆☆☆

The Social Life of Information

Paul Duguid and John Seely Brown

★★★★☆

Life of P. T. Barnum, Written by Himself, Including his Golden Rules for Money-Making, Brought Up to 1888.

P. T. Barnum

★★★☆☆

Reluctant Revolutionaries: New York City and the Road to Independence, 1763–1776

Joseph S. Tiedemann

★★★☆☆

As If an Enemy’s Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution

Richard Archer

★★★★☆

Memoirs of Samuel Smith, a Soldier of the Revolution, 1776–1786

Samuel Smith

★☆☆☆☆

City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York

David M. Henkin

★★★★☆

Howl and Other Poems

Allen Ginsberg

★★★☆☆

Children of Dune

Frank Herbert

★★★☆☆

The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763–1834

Paul Gilje

★★★☆☆

American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People

T. H. Breen

★★★☆☆

Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

Harriet Wilson

★★☆☆☆

Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written by Himself

Henry Bibb

★★☆☆☆

The Adventures of Ebenezer Fox, in the Revolutionary War

Ebenezer Fox

★★★☆☆

Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership

Lewis Hyde

★★★★★

After Dark

Haruki Murakami

★★★☆☆

Dylan Redeemed: From Highway 61 to Saved

Stephen Webb

★★☆☆☆

The Trial of the British Soldiers, of the 29th Regiment of Foot, for the Murder of Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, and Patrick Carr, on Monday Evening, March 5, 1770…

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★★☆☆☆

Dune Messiah

Frank Herbert

★★★★☆

Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

Clay Shirky

★★★★☆

Dune

Frank Herbert

★★★★☆

A Simple Twist of Fate: Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood on the Tracks

Andy Gill and Kevin Odegard

★★☆☆☆

Chicago Poems

Carl Sandburg

★★★★★

Boston under Military Rule, 1768–1769, as Revealed in a Journal of the Times

Oliver Morton Dickerson, ed.

★★★★☆

Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age

Douglas Rushkoff

★★★★☆

History of My Own Times, Or, The Life and Adventures of William Otter, Sr., Comprising a Series of Events, and Musical Incidents Altogether Original

William Otter

★★☆☆☆

The March

E. L. Doctorow

★★★★☆

Positively Main Street: An Unorthodox View of Bob Dylan

Toby Thompson

★★★☆☆

A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee

Davy Crockett

★★★☆☆

Talks To Teachers On Psychology; and to Students on Some of Life’s Ideals

William James

★★★★★

Chronicles, Vol. 1

Bob Dylan

★★★★★

Now Wait For Last Year

Philip K. Dick

★★★☆☆

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

Steven Johnson

★★★★☆

CSS3 for Web Designers

Dan Cederholm

★★★☆☆

HTML5 for Web Designers

Jeremy Keith

★★★★☆

John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life

Paul Nagel

★★★★☆

Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968–2010

Greil Marcus

★★★★☆

Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell

★★★★★