Books Read in 2014

52 titles

The Manual, Vol. 1
The Manual
★★★☆☆
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (The Heirloom Collection)
Arthur Conan Doyle
★★★★★
The Inspection House: An Impertinent Field Guide to Modern Surveillance
Tim Maly & Emily Horne
★★★★☆
Cover
Peter Mendelsund
★★★★☆
Golden Retrievers For Dummies
Nona Kilgore Bauer
★★★☆☆
Men Explain Things to Me
Rebecca Solnit
★★★☆☆
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Peter Matthiessen
★★☆☆☆
The Peripheral
William Gibson
★★★★★
Six Days of the Condor
James Grady
★☆☆☆☆
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino
★★☆☆☆
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
John Vaillant
★★★★☆
The Last Interview and Other Conversations
David Foster Wallace
★★☆☆☆
Dad is Fat
Jim Gaffigan
★★★☆☆
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
William Styron
★★★★★
The Real World of Technology
Ursula Franklin
★★★☆☆
The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell
★★★★☆
Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City
Russell Shorto
★★★★☆
Assassination Vacation
Sarah Vowell
★★★★☆
Evil by Design: Interaction Design to Lead Us into Temptation
Chris Nodder
★★★☆☆
Five Hundred Years of Book Design
Alan Bartram
★★★★☆
When I Was a Child I Read Books
Marilynne Robinson
★★☆☆☆
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis
★★★★☆
Electric Aphorisms
John Roderick
★★★☆☆
Lunch Poems
Frank O'Hara
★★★☆☆
On Web Typography
Jason Santa Maria
★★★☆☆
Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
Biz Stone
★★★☆☆
A Dance with Dragons
George R. R. Martin
★★★★☆
A Feast for Crows
George R. R. Martin
★★★☆☆
Designing Together: The collaboration and conflict management handbook for creative professionals
Dan Brown
★★★☆☆
A Clash of Kings
George R. R. Martin
★★★★☆
Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews
Jonathan Cott
★★★★☆
Angelmaker
Nick Harkaway
★★★★★
Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Salman Rushdie
★★★☆☆
Library: An Unquiet History
Matthew Battles
★★☆☆☆
Outside Looking In: Adventures of an Observer
Garry Wills
★★★☆☆
Pnin
Vladimir Nabokov
★★★☆☆
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
★★★★★
The Last Days of Socrates
Plato
★★☆☆☆
Prejudices: First Series
H. L. Mencken
★★☆☆☆
Berkeley: A City in History
Charles Wollenberg
★★★★☆
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Jonathan Crary
★★★☆☆
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
★★★☆☆
In Praise of Shadows
Junichiro Tanizaki
★★★☆☆
Blue Nights
Joan Didion
★★★★☆
Distrust That Particular Flavor
William Gibson
★★★☆☆
It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
danah boyd
★★★☆☆
Levels of Life
Julian Barnes
★★★★★
The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 4: The Passage of Power
Robert Caro
★★★★★
Truth Like the Sun
Jim Lynch
★★★☆☆
Pulphead: Essays
John Jeremiah Sullivan
★★★★☆
The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 3: Master of the Senate
Robert Caro
★★★★★
Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
D.T. Max
★★★☆☆