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 really enjoyed it. I don't finish most books, but here I'm only including those I did. It's in reverse chronological order, and mostly covers books read since mid-2011.

Dec 2011 update: I'm going to start listing some papers and articles that I end up reading here too.

Feb 2012 update: From now on, I'm going to list books I finish at least 50% of. (Also, I seem to have stopped listing papers. Jury's out on whether or not doing so is a good idea.)

• 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

• 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.