Books I Read in 2012

Chronologically, first to last:

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Moo by Jane Smiley
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Animal Spirits by George Akerlof & Robert Shiller
Red Star over China by Edgar Snow
Dubliners by James Joyce
The Hit Charade by Tyler Gray
Poor Economics by Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo
Rationality in Economics by Vernon Smith
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
The Double Helix by James D. Watson
Nudge by Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein
Take Me With You by Brad Newsham
The Invention of the Restaurant by Rebecca L. Spang
Slapped by the Invisible Hand by Gary Gorton
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Measure of Reality by Alfred Crosby
Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich
Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Best of Simple by Langston Hughes
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Profit of Education by Richard Startz
Economic Fables by Ariel Rubinstein
The New Industrial State by JK Galbraith
Health Care Reform & American Politics by Lawrence R. Jacobs & Theda Skocpol
Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models by Andrew Gelman
Jeeves in the Offing by PG Wodehouse
Stone Age Economics by Marshall David Sahlins
Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
The Race Between Education and Technology by Claudia Goldin & Lawrence Katz
A Question of Balance by William Nordhaus
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
In the Heart of the Country by J.M. Coetzee
The Myth of Ownership by Liam Murphy & Thomas Nagel
Glory by Vladimir Nabokov
Evolution of the Social Contract by Brian Skyrms
Signals by Brian Skyrms
The Art of Strategy by Avinash Dixit & Barry Nalebuff
Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam
The Price of Inequality by Joseph Stiglitz
Guignol's Band by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Voodoo Histories by David Aaronovitch
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Pleasure Wars by Peter Gay