Books Read in 2013

67 titles

Average is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
Tyler Cowen
★★★★☆
Border Songs
Jim Lynch
★★★☆☆
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
Daniel Dennett
★★★☆☆
The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 2: Means of Ascent
Robert Caro
★★★★☆
Remote: Office Not Required
Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
★★★★☆
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things that Happened
Allie Brosh
★★★★☆
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs
★★★★★
The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 1: The Path to Power
Robert Caro
★★★★★
A Perfect Spy
John Le Carré
★★★★★
The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
★★★☆☆
The Ballad of Bob Dylan: A Portrait
Daniel Mark Epstein
★★★★☆
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Brad Stone
★★★★☆
Letters
Kurt Vonnegut
★★★☆☆
College Unbound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students
Jeffrey Selingo
★★★☆☆
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
William Cronon
★★★☆☆
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan
★★★★☆
Templar
Jordan Mechner
★★★★☆
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Rebecca Solnit
★★★★☆
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Jon Ronson
★★★☆☆
Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction
Nathan Shedroff and Christopher Noessel
★★★☆☆
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
★★★★★
The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
Sven Birkerts
★★★☆☆
Solomon’s Thieves
Jordan Mechner
★★★★☆
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
★★★★☆
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Mason Currey
★★☆☆☆
The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993
Jordan Mechner
★★★☆☆
Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past
Sam Wineburg
★★★☆☆
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir
Haruki Murakami
★★☆☆☆
The New York Trilogy
Paul Auster
★★★★☆
The Faraway Nearby
Rebecca Solnit
★★★★☆
Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner
★★★★☆
Stoner
John Williams
★★☆☆☆
Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience
Jeff Gothelf with Josh Seiden
★★★★☆
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Natalie Goldberg
★★★☆☆
West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems
Mary Oliver
★★★★☆
Memories and Studies
William James
★★★☆☆
Tenth of December: Stories
George Saunders
★★★★☆
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
★★★★★
These Days
Jack Cheng
★★☆☆☆
Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story
Greg Smith
★★★☆☆
Redshirts
John Scalzi
★★★☆☆
Microinteractions: Designing with Details
Dan Saffer
★★★☆☆
Diamonds Are Forever
Ian Fleming
★★☆☆☆
Field Guide
Robert Hass
★★★☆☆
The Elements of Typographic Style
Robert Bringhurst
★★★★☆
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
★★★★☆
A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway
★★★★★
Feynman
Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick
★★★★★
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
Jonathan Franzen
★★★☆☆
Burning the Page
Jason Merkoski
★★★☆☆
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
Vladimir Nabokov
★★★★★
Democracy
Joan Didion
★★★★☆
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Joshua Foer
★★★★★
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
★★★★☆
Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare
Bertrand Russell
★★★★☆
Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)
Chade-Meng Tan
★★★☆☆
Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age
Steven Johnson
★★★☆☆
Under The Dome
Stephen King
★★★☆☆
The Duel
Anton Chekhov
★★☆☆☆
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
Jorge Luis Borges
★★★★☆
The Library at Night
Alberto Manguel
★★★☆☆
79 Short Essays on Design
Michael Bierut
★★★☆☆
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
Matthew Crawford
★★★☆☆
Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
Christopher Hayes
★★★☆☆
City of Thieves
David Benioff
★★★★★
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
James Gleick
★★★★★
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Anne Lamott
★★★★★