Books

Mostly because I really enjoy these lists when others put them together, I recently started to keep a public list of books I've read. An asterisk indicates that I liked it a lot. I don't finish most books, but on this list I'm only including those I did actually see through to the end. It's in reverse chronological order, and mostly covers books read since mid-2011.

Radio Congo (Ben Rawlence).
The Winged Gospel (Joseph Corn).
With The Old Breed (E.B. Sledge).
Pyongyang (Guy Delisle).
The Ocean of Life (Callum Roberts).
Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China (Guy Delisle).
A Mathematician's Apology (G.H. Hardy).
The Rise of Universities (Charles Homer Haskins).
A Hole in the World (Richard Rhodes).
China Airborne (James Fallows).
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway).
Dancing In The Glory Of Monsters (Jason Stearns).
The Paris Review Interviews, II (Paris Review).
Open City (Teju Cole).
The Story of M-PESA (Tonny Omwansa and Nicholas Sullivan).
* The Idea Factory (Jon Gertner).
Inside Apple (Adam Lashinsky).
Tender Is The Night (F Scott Fitzgerald).
* The Paris Review Interviews, I (Paris Review).
It's Our Turn To Eat (Michela Wrong).
Super Sad True Love Story (Gary Shteyngart).
The Old Way (Elizabeth Marshall Thomas).
I Didn't Do It For You (Michela Wrong).
Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture (Ulrich Conrads).
Murder Trials (Cicero).
A Piece of the Action (Joseph Nocera).
The Computer And The Brain (John Von Neumann).
- Stealth of Nations (Robert Neuwirth).
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman).
* In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz (Michela Wrong).
On the Shortness of Life (Seneca).
The New Typography (Jan Tschichold).
Making Things Happen (Scott Berkun).
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie).
China In Ten Words (Yu Hua).
North Star Over My Shoulder (Bob Buck).
Letters to a Young Contrarian (Christopher Hitchens).
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas (Seymour Papert).
Ghosts by Daylight: Love, War, and Redemption (Janine di Giovanni).
The Great Stagnation (Tyler Cowen).
* Civilisation: A Personal View (Kenneth Clark).
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China (Ezra Vogel).
Masters of Doom (David Kushner).
The City & The City (China Mieville).
Consider The Lobster (David Foster Wallace).
* Mining Massive Datasets (Anand Rajaraman and Jeff Ullman).
The Elements of Typographic Style (Robert Bringhurst).
Connections (James Burke).
Weather Flying (Robert Buck).
* West With The Night (Beryl Markham).
Red Plenty (F Spufford).
Statistics As Principled Argument (Robert Abelson).
The Box (Marc Levinson).
* The Emperor of All Maladies (Siddhartha Mukherjee).
WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy (David Leigh).
In The Plex (Steven Levy).
Guns, Sails, and Empires (Caro Cipolla).
Plagues and Peoples (William McNeill).
Instrument Flying (Richard Taylor).
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas Kuhn).
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas).
Hitch-22 (Christopher Hitchens).
Flaubert's Parrot (Julian Barnes).
The Little Kingdom (Michael Moritz).
Aloft (William Langewiesche).
Matterhorn (Karl Marlantes).
Skunk Works (Ben Rich).
Cultural Amnesia (Clive James).
The Art of War in the Middle Age (Charles William Chadwick Oman).
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan (James Morier).
An Autobiography (Anthony Trollope).
* Out Of Mao's Shadow (Philip Pan).
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Russell and Norvig).

Papers

(This was an experiment in December '11. I haven't kept it up-to-date.)

Cues of being watched enhance cooperation in a real-world setting (Bateson, Nettle, Roberts).
Cache Missing For Fun And Profit (Percival).
The Role of Occam's Razor in Knowledge Discovery (Domingos).
Can Big Push Interventions Take Small-scale Farmers out of Poverty? (Wanjalaa and Muradianb).
Interacting With Sexist Men Triggers Social Identity Threat Among Female Engineers (Logel et al).
The Structure of "Unstructured" Decision Processes (Mintzberg, Raisinghani, Theoret).
Jeff Bezos's annual letters to shareholders.