Current Reading Queue
April 16th, 2009
This time two years ago, most of them would have been computing books; now, they’re a minority. Still looking for a readable, grounded, fast-paced guide to instructional design…
- The Siege of Vienna
- My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture
- Cowboy Angels
- A Splendid Exchange
- With Speed and Violence
- The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies
- Spies Among Us
- Thinking for a Living
- Singularity’s Ring
- Out From Boneville
- Anathem
- Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air
- Beautiful Security
- Software Visualization
- Experiments with People: Revelations from Social Psychology
- Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
I would like to suggest putting The Shadow of the Wind by Carlso Ruiz Zafon at the head of this queue. Definitely the best book I’ve read this year.
Have you tried out http://readernaut.com/ yet? It’s a site for keeping track of what you’re reading / what you’ve read / notes you’ve made / your reviews / what your friends are reading (e.g. http://readernaut.com/nathan/ ) – it looks like it might be right up your street.