Post-IB Reads

Books completed after November 20, 2008.

1. Super Crunchers by Ayres
2. Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner
3. Blink by Gladwell
4. The Undercover Economist by Harford
5. Batman Forever (don’t ask)
6. The Inimitable Jeeves by Wodehouse
7. 50 mathematical ideas you really need to know (as good as the other two books in the series I’ve read)
8. 50 Things You Aren’t Supposed To Know (Boo.)
9. Dead Heat by Joel C. Rosenberg
10. Struck by Lightning: the Curious World of Probabilities by Jeffrey Rosenthal
11. The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life by I. B. Cohen
12. Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge by Averbakh (I only wonder why I never read this before.)
13. Poincaré’s Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math’s Greatest Puzzles by George Szpiro
14. Masterclass: Lessons from the Bridge Table by Fred Gitelman
15. Common Sense in Chess by Lasker
16. What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable edited by John Brockman
17. Improve Your Chess in 7 Days by Lane
18. Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience, & What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley
19. Logical Chess: Move by Move by Chernev
20. Arcade Mania! The Turbo-Charged World of Japan’s Game Centers by Brian Ashcraft
21. The Language Instinct by Pinker
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22. The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
23. Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Cathcart and Klein
24. Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions by Zachary Shore
25. The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived by Karlan, Lazar, and Salter
26. The Undercover Philosopher by Michael Philips
27. The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, or How 32 Carved Pieces on a Board Illuminated Our Understanding of War, Art, Science, and the Human Brain by David Shenk
28. The Dark Knight by Dennis O’Neil
29. 101 Chess Opening Traps by Steve Giddins
30. The Accidental Theorist (And Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science) by Paul Krugman
31. Around the World in 80 Days by Verne
32. The Pirate’s Dilemma: How Youth Culture is Reinventing Capitalism by Matt Mason
33. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Stevenson
34. 100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know by John D. Barrow
35. What Don’t You Know? by Michael LaBossiere
36. Can a Robot be Human? by Peter Cave
37. The Tipping Point by Gladwell
38. Simple Chess by Stean
39. Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You by Sam Gosling
40. The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
41. Batman and Philosophy: The Dark Knight of the Soul edited by Mark D. White and Robert Arp
42. Time Out Of Joint by Philip K. Dick
43. The Dawkins Delusion by McGrath
44. The Dip by Seth Godin
45. What We Believe But Cannot Prove edited by Ian McEwan
46. The Book of Thunks by Ian Gilbert
47. This is not a book by Michael Picard
48. On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not by Robert A. Burton
49. Against Happiness by Eric G. Wilson
50. Chance by Amir D. Aczel
51. Busting Vega$ by Ben Mezrich
52. Chess (April 2009) vol 74 no.1
53. Buzan’s Book of Mental World Records by Buzan and Keene
54. Dr. Riemann’s Zeros by Karl Sabbagh
55. How Many Socks Make A Pair? by Rob Eastaway
56. How Long is a Piece of String? by Rob Eastaway and Jeremy Wyndham
57. The Book of Samson by David Maine
58. Learn from Bobby Fischer’s Greatest Games by Schiller
59. Chess: The Art of Logical Thinking by McDonald
60. Game Boys by Michael Kane
61. The Blank Slate by Pinker
62. The Tiger that Isn’t by Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot
63. Breaking Through by Susan Polgar
64. How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
65. Six Thinking Hats by de Bono
66. The Artist and the Mathematician by Aczel
67. One to Nine by Andrew Hodges
68. The Drunkard’s Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
69. Apocalypse Dawn by Mel Odom
70. Bozo Sapiens by Michael and Ellen Kaplan
71. Apocalypse Crucible by Mel Odom
72. Mathematical Mysteries by Calvin C. Clawson
73. Apocalypse Burning by Mel Odom
74. Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction by Timothy Gowers
75. Chess Secrets: The Giants of Strategy by Neil McDonald
76. Catch-22 by Heller
77. The Secret Life of Numbers by Szpiro
78. In Search of Time by Dan Falk
79. Why We Make Mistakes by Joseph T. Hallinan
80. Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
81. Great Mythconceptions by Kruszenicki
82. A Beautiful Math by Tom Siegfried
83. Fermat’s Last Theorem by Aczel
84. Rock, Paper, Scissors by Len Fisher
85. Jailbird by Vonnegut
86. The Greatest by Jim Denison
87. Cheating by Mia Consalvo
88. The Pig that Wants to be Eaten by Julian Baggini
89. Impeachable Offense by Neesa Hart
90. Necessary Evils by Neesa Hart
91. The Facebook Book by Atwan, Lushing, and Andrews
92. Don’t Get Fooled Again by Richard Wilson
93. Predictably Irrational by Ariely
94. The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
95. Outliers by Gladwell
96. The Accidental Billionaires by Mezrich
97. Twelfth Night by Shakespeare
98. Teach Yourself Bridge by Bird
99. It’s Your Lead by Senior
100. Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro
101. How Life Imitates Chess by Kasparov (again)
102. Genius Instruction Manual by the people of mental_floss
103. What Would Socrates Say? by Alexander George
104. Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction by Greer
105. Do You Think What You Think You Think? by Baggini and Stangroom
106. Everything is Miscellaneous by Weinberger
107. The Impulse Factor by Tasler
108. The Unthinkable by Ripley
109. Thank You For Arguing by Heinrichs
110. Tactics by de Bono
111. The Millenium Problems by Devlin
112. The Cube by Slocum et al
113. Phantoms of the Card Table by Britland and Gazzo
114. Bridge Hands to make you laugh…and cry by Bird and Sarantakos
115. The Art of Planning in Chess by McDonald (again)
116. Uranium by Zoellner
117. The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder by Bugliosi
118. Prime Obsession by Derbyshire
119. The Dumbest Generation by Bauerlein
120. First Principles of Card Play by Marston (again)
121. The Triumph of the Airheads by Gare
122. egonomics by Marcum and Smith