Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Books I Read in 2011

Chronologically, first to last:

Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee
The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Oblivion: Stories by David Foster Wallace
Quasi-Rational Economics by Richard Thaler
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman
Shoplifting from American Apparel by Tao Lin
The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language by Bill Bryson
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Black Noise by Tricia Rose
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
Investing in Kids by Timothy J. Bartik
Border Songs by Jim Lynch
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
Great Jones Street by Don Delillo
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
The Age of the Economist by Daniel Fusfeld
The Pirate's Dilemma by Matt Mason
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
1001 Facts that Will Scare the Shit Out of You by Cary McNeal
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Why Choose This Book by Read Montague
That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx
Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell
Candide, Zadig, and Selected Stories by Voltaire
Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain by Paul Glimcher
The Puzzle of Modern Economics by Roger Backhouse
The Natural History of the Rich by Richard COnniff
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
England's Dreaming by Jon Savage
Mostly Harmless Econometrics by Joshua Angrist and Jorn-Steffen Pischke
A Not-So-Dismal Science by Mancur Olsen
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Foraging Theory by David Stephens and John Krebs
You Better Work! by Kai Fikentscher
Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit by Frank Knight
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
The Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen
Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior by Bruce Winterhalder and Eric Smith
Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Greed by Elfriede Jelinek
The Price is Wrong by Sarah Maxwell
College Choices ed. Caroline Hoxby
The Winner's Curse by Richard THaler
Qualitative Research by Sharan B. Merriam
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
The Canon by Natalie Angier
From the Diary of a Snail by Gunter Grass
Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain ed. Paul Glimcher
Mathematical Circus by Martin Gardner
Identity Economics by George Akerlof & Rachel Kranton
The Fall by Albert Camus
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
Economics and the Public Purpose by James Galbraith
Foundations of Neuroeconomic Analysis by Paul Glimcher
L'Aventure Ambigue by Cheikh Hamidou Kane
Six Unsolved Ciphers by Richard Belfield
Methods Matter by Richard Murnane and Tyler Willett
A Short History of Financial Euphoria by James Galbraith
Retail Anarchy by Sam Pocker
Blunder by Zachary Shore
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell