What I read: 2008
What do you care what I read in 2008? Nothing, of course, but I do. As I get older (I was 20 in 1983 when I started keeping track of the books I read) I find myself more and more in the position of looking at a stack of books on my shelves by, say, Cornell Woolrich and they all have the word "Black" in the title. I know I've read a couple but I can't remember which ones. Fortunately, I've been maintaining a little list in a little brown book since April 1983 of all the books I've read (or at least attempted). By putting this list here it will be searchable. I may ultimately put at least some of it in something like LibraryThing, but for now I'll be putting it here. The advantage is that the blog is quick and dirty, without a lot of effort per entry. The books are in the order I read them.
- Ambient Findability by Peter Morville
- Year's Best Fantasy 6 edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
- Slide by Ken Bruen & Jason Starr
- Farthing by Jo Walton
- The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 edited by Richard Preston & Tim Folger (Series Editor)
- The Keeper by Sarah Langan
- A Century of Noir edited by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins
- Einstein: A Life by Walter Isaacson
- Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks And The Masters Of Noir by Geoffrey O'Brien
- Supercrunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart by Ian Ayres
- Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
- 40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, Oxycontin, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania by Matthew Chapman
- Year's Best SF 11 edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
- Infected by Scott Sigler
- Pyramids by Terry Pratchett
- Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky
- Free as in Speech and Beer: Open Source, Peer-to-Peer and the Economics of the Online Revolution by Darren Wershler-Henry
- The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr
- The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
- Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover
- Complications: A Surgeon's Note on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
- Best New Horror 17 edited by Stephen Jones
- Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet by Daniel J. Solove
- The Best of Technology Writing 2007 by Steven Levy
- The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
- Wrinkles in Time: Witness to the Birth of the Universe by George Smoot and Keay Davidson
- The End of the Beginning by Harry Turtledove
- Clapton: The Autobiography by Eric Clapton
- The Ruins by Scott Smith
- Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
- Comrades of War by Sven Hassel
- Solomon's Vineyard by
- Pursuit of Genius: Flexner, Einstein, and the Early Faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study by Steve Batterson
- Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them by Clifford Pickover
- Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design by Michael Shermer
- Triptych by Karen Slaughter
- Dark Crusade by Karl Edward Wagner
- Little Girl Lost by Richard Aleas
- The Wraparound Universe by Jean-Pierre Luminet
- Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0 by Sarah Lacy
- Bad Moon Rising by Jonathan Maberry
- The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier
- The Best American Science Writing 2008 edited by Sylvia Nasar & Jesse Cohen (series editor)
- Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford
- The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008 edited by Jerome Groopman and Tim Folger (series editor)
- The Quantum Ten: A Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition, and Science by Sheilla Jones
- The Dime Detectives: a Comprehensive History of the Detective Fiction Pulps by Ron Goulart
- Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
- Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future by Cory Doctorow
- God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
- Mafiaboy: How I Cracked the Internet and Why It's Still Broken by Michael Calce and Craig Silverman
I should mention that there are a significant number of books I've read that aren't on the list. I'm not recording the books I read for the Sunburst Awards as I don't think the list of books actually submitted for consideration are made public anywhere.
One book that I did read that's not on the list is The Open Laboratory: The Best Science Writing on Blogs 2007, edited by Reed Cartwright and Bora Zivkovic. Since I was on the advance screening panel of judges for the book, I did read all the posts that are reprinted in it during the judging period at the end of 2007; I also ordered and received the book in 2008. But I never actually cracked the cover and re-read all the posts during 2008. I did re-read a few, but not all.
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