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This is a mostly-complete list of books I have read in the last 17+ years. Starred items are strongly recommended.

2024 Nov 2024 Gooley, The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs Caron, Thank Heaven for Little Girls Wilkinson, American Spy Oct 2024 Zauner, Crying in H Mart Sep 2024 Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store DeLoach, Reef Fish Behavior: Florida, Caribbean, Bahamas Aug 2024 Sinclair, How to Say Babylon * Karr Roberts, Wild and Distant Seas Corneiro, The Danish West Indies in Black and White Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles Jul 2024 Shipstead, Great Circle * Kessler, Tales of an Ikut Swami Foster, Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World Jun 2024 Everett, Erasure Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life Batuman, The Idiot Hannah, The Women Richardson: Island Journeys: The Impact of the Island Way of Life at Home and Abroad May 2024 Peters, The Berry Pickers Card, These Ghosts Are Family * Everett, James * Apr 2024 Gooley, How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea * Mar 2024 Lewis-Brown (ed), The Caribbean Writer, 2022 Swisher, Burn Booki: A Tech Love Story Samuel, Don't Ask the Blind Guy for Directions Kuang, Yellowface * Verghese, The Covenant of Water Petry, The Street Wang, Joan Is Okay Ezratty, 500 Years in the Jewish Caribbean Feb 2024 Okrent, The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America Jan 2024 Brown, Decolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son Buolamwini, Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines * Li, The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI Obama, The Light We Carry Elliott, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City 2023 Dec 2023 Turnbull, We Are the Crisis Marne, Sunken Treachery Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black Cullen, The Woman with the Cure Gareth, Under Pressure: Diving Deeper with Human Factors * Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler * Nov 2023 Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others Andrews, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Okparanta, Harry Sylvester Bird * Pinker, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters Turnbull, No Gods, No Monsters Oct 2023 Groff, ed. The Best Short Stories 2023: The O. Henry Prize Winners Suleyman, The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma * Sep 2023 Hopkins, Crank Peterson, From Surreal Numbers to Magic Circles Westlake, Under an English Sun Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures * Yuki, Math Girls 2: Fermat's Last Theorem * Denton-Hurst, Homebodies Aug 2023 Henry, How to Find Love in a Bookshop Yuki, Math Girls * Jul 2023 Pinker, Enlightenment Now Arthurs, How to Love a Jamaican Jun 2023 Yuki, Math Girls 6: The Poincaré Conjecture * Higgins, Nets, Puzzles, and Postmen: An Exploration of Mathematical Connections Obuobi, On Rotation May 2023 Schiller, The Unlikely Spy Apr 2023 Novic, True Biz Wilkerson, Black Cake * Szpiro, Kepler's Conjecture Mar 2023 Stewart, Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians Derbyshire, Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra * Schiller, The Lost Diary of Alexander Hamilton Feb 2023 O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction * Hoffman, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth Schechter, My Brain Is Open * Jan 2023 Dunham, Journey through Genius * 2022 Dec 2022 Alexander, The New Jim Crow * Jones, Nobody Is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States Nov 2022 Zobot, American Street Luiselli (ed), The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners Oct 2022 Straub, This Time Tomorrow Barrett, Natural History Sep 2022 Suzuki, Terminal Boredom Aug 2022 Zevin, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow * Kwok, Girl in Translation Jul 2022 Kessler, Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family Henry, Dark Paradise Jun 2022 Alvarez, Afterlife Stewart, Flatterland * May 2022 White, The President's Daughter Martin, California Diaries Sherr, Swim: Why We Love the Water Yuki, Math Girls 5: Galois Theory * Apr 2022 Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea & Anne of the Island Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness Kafer, Feminist, Queer, Crip Mar 2022 Martin, The Baby-Sitters Club Otsuka, The Swimmers * Feb 2022 Ho, Fiona and Jane Martin, The Baby-Sitters Club Jan 2022 Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America 2021 Dec 2021 Buckell, It's All Just a Draft Yuki, Math Girls 4: Randomized Algorithms * Nov 2021 Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Furman (ed), O. Henry Prize Stories 2018 Leveson, Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety Oct 2021 Furman (ed), O. Henry Prize Stories 2021 * Brown-Comment, A Dawn of Promise Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea Callendar, This is Kind of an Epic Love Story Grande, A Dream Called Home: A Memoir Sánchez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Yanique, Monster in the Middle * Sep 2021 Lewis et.al., March Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People Vargas Llosa, The Way to Paradise Aug 2021 Green, The Fault in Our Stars Baker, Back, Belly, and Side: True Lies and False Tales Sanchez, Rainbow Boys Jul 2021 Swift, Gulliver's Travels Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism Jun 2021 Kendall, Hood Feminism Cervini, The Deviant's War * May 2021 Ng, Little Fires Everywhere * Martin & Telgemeier, Il Club delle Baby-Sitter: Dawn e i Terribili Tre Apr 2021 Gaiman, Anansi Boys Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law * Mar 2021 White, Meet Meh undah Deh Bongolo & Tark Like We No: A Case for Virgin Islands Creole Den An' Now Heyward, Star Spangled Virgin Feb 2021 Martin & Telgemeier, Il Club delle Baby-Sitter: Un'estate movimentata per Claudia Jan 2021 Evans, Broad Band Daniels, Coming to America 2020 Dec 2020 Callender, Hurricane Child Sims, Vintage St. John Martin & Telgemeier, Il Club delle Baby-Sitter: Mary Anne e le Liti del Club Nov 2020 Martin & Telgemeier, Il Club delle Baby-Sitter: Il Segreto di Stacey Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy Kernighan & Ritchie, The C Programming Language Taussig, Sitting Pretty * Oct 2020 Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other * Callender, Felix Ever After Sep 2020 Whedon, et.al., Firefly comics Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century * Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World Aug 2020 Lowry, The Giver Quartet * Martin & Telgemeier, Il Club delle Baby-Sitter: Kristy Lancia Un'Idea * Jul 2020 Taylor, Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Jun 2020 Atwood, The Testaments May 2020 Heumann, Being Heumann * Barrett, The Regimental History Goodlander, St. John People: Stories about St. John residents by St. John Apr 2020 Griffin, Black Like Me Charlton, Nothing About Us Without Us Mar 2020 Charters (ed), The Story and Its Writer Stevenson, Treasure Island Kamali, The Stationery Shop Strout, Olive, Again Feb 2020 Malandra, Teach Yourself: 50 Ways to Improve Your Italian Orange, There, There * Jan 2020 Brune & Wilson (ed), Disability and Passing: Blurring the Lines of Identity Wilson, Glassbottom Days * 2019 Dec 2019 Neilsen, A Disability History of the United States Linton, My Body Politic * Nov 2019 Furman (ed), O. Henry Prize Stories 2019 * Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale * Oct 2019 Pariser, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You Eubanks, Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor Capó Crucet, My Time among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto Sep 2019 Wolitzer, The Position Ferrera, ed. American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures Danticat, Everything Inside Okparanta, Under the Udala Tree Noah, Born a Crime Aug 2019 Shapiro, No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement McCulloch, Because Internet boyd, It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens Jul 2019 Criado-Perez, Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men * Manne, Down Girl Turnbull, The Lesson * Jun 2019 Charters (ed), The Story and Its Writer Black, IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation * May 2019 Solomon, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity Hoffman, The Rules of Magic * Burton, Before Our Time: An Oral History of St John Apr 2019 Soni & Goodman, A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age Gidley, Transfer Catlin, Better Allies Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats Mar 2019 Condé, Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood Chang, Brotopia Sloan, Sourdough Feb 2019 Unferth, Wait Till You See Me Dance Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories * Lewis-Brown (ed), The Caribbean Writer, 2018 Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name * Jan 2019 Davis, Back to the Ship Okparanta, Happiness, Like Water * Obama, Becoming * Moore & Levitan, For Hearing People Only Vargas, Dear America, Notes of an Undocumented Citizen 2018 Dec 2018 Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns Safier (ed), Impact: Fifty Short Short Stories Fishman, Paradise Kamau, Flickering Shadows Loewer (ed), 30-Second Philosophies * Nov 2018 Santlofer (ed), It Occurs to Me That I Am America Zumas, Red Clocks Page, The Lido * Mundy, Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II * Oct 2018 Gidley, Fireburn Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History * Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 Somer, Fishbowl Mahon, The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell McBride, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother Sep 2018 Alvarez, Before We Were Free Davis, Women, Race, & Class DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism Green, Looking for Alaska Berg, The Story of Arthur Truluv Goldstein, Janesville: An American Story Aug 2018 Omotoso, The Woman Next Door Umrigar, The Secrets Between Us Gaiman, American Gods Adams, The Memoirs of Alton Augustus Adams, Sr.: First Black Bandmaster of the United States Navy Jul 2018 Shamsie, Home Fire Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Tannen, You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation Krigger, Race Relations in the US Virgin Islands: St. Thomas - A Centennial Retrospective Mirza, A Place for Us * Lurie, Foreign Affairs Rothstein, The Color of Law * Jun 2018 Godrey-Smith, Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness King, Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America * Frankel, This Is How It Always Is Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes within Us and a Grander View of Life * Greer, Less May 2018 Chambers, Miss Black America Davis, The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea Carrillo, Loosing My Espanish Peterson, The Art of Language Invention Apr 2018 Howland, My Mother Grows Wallflowers Yalom, The Spinoza Problem Mar 2018 Browdy (ed), Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean * Smith, Swing Time Wulf, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World Miodownik, Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World Feb 2018 Parascandola (ed), "Look for Me All Around You": Anglophone Caribbean Immigrants in the Harlem Renaissance Walters, Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess Gill, Buddhoe * Jan 2018 Schiller, Transfer Day * Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House Harrison, The Negro and the Nation Ackerman, The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story 2017 Dec 2017 Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds Ball, Mingo's Cave Nov 2017 Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here Grove, High Output Performance Management Russell, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy Lahiri, In altre parole/In Other Words Mufwene, Language Evolution Smullyan, The Gödelian Puzzle Book: Puzzles, Paradoxes & Proofs Oct 2017 Clinton, What Happened deJongh Woods, The 3 Quarters of the Town of Charlotte Amalie Gjessing & MacLean, Historic Buildings of St. Thomas and St. John Golden, Buffy the Vampire Slayer 20 Years of Slaying: The Watcher's Guide Brettell, Pissarro's People Sep 2017 Wiliams, White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America Furman (ed), O. Henry Prize Stories 2017 Pao, Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change * Aug 2017 Ferrante, Neopolitan Novels 1-4 Sotomayor, My Beloved World * Ginsburg, My Own Words Hitchings, The Language Wars Clemmons, What We Lose Jul 2017 MacLeod, Island: The Complete Stories Goodman, The Chalk Artist Woodson, Another Brooklyn Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Mbue, Behold the Dreamers Wharton, The House of Mirth Jun 2017 Roth, American Pastoral McWhorter, Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables May 2017 Morales & Morales, Getting Home Alive Sobel, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars Anderson, Speak Condé, I, Tituba Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower Dybek, The Coast of Chicago: Stories Apr 2017 Gaiman, Norse Mythology * Barrett, Secret Harmonies Walcott, Omeros Holt, Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars Bellos, The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life Paul & Moss, We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program * Mar 2017 Edgell, Beka Lamb Robinson, Housekeeping Sealasi, Ghana Must Go O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction Feb 2017 Obama, Dreams of My Father Obama, The Audacity of Hope Rowling, Harry Potter 5-7 Jan 2017 hooks, Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism * Stevenson, Just Mercy * Backman, A Man Called Ove Verble, Maud's Line Patchett, Commonwealth Barrett, The Middle Kingdom 2016 Dec 2016 Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America Barrett, The Forms of Water Danticat (ed), The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States Nov 2016 Ortiz, Spencer, & Viramontes (ed), All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color Adagha & Brazier (ed), One World Two: A Second Global Anthology of Short Stories Oct 2016 Furman (ed), O. Henry Prize Stories 2016 Strout, Olive Kitteridge Sep 2016 West, The Living Is Easy Coates, Between the World and Me Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Aug 2016 Marshall, Reena and other Stories * Brooks, Maud Martha Choi, Hardly War Williams & Dempsey, What Works for Women at Work * Jul 2016 Huchu, The Hairdresser of Harare Kincaid, See Now Then Yuki, Math Girls 3: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems * Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Meriwether, Daddy Was a Number Runner Fauset, Plum Bun Jun 2016 Cisnero, Carmelo Thurman, The Blacker the Berry Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao May 2016 Cisneros, A House of My Own: Stories from My life Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun * Conway (ed), In Her Own Words: Women's Memoirs from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States Apr 2016 Atwood, Stone Mattress Sanger, The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger Quiñonez, Bodega Dreams Mar 2016 Marshall, Brown Girl, Brownstones * Levy, Small Island Muñoz, The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue * Feb 2016 Morrison, God Help the Child Barrett, Lucid Stars * Atta, A Bit of Difference Hadley, The Past Adichie, Purple Hibiscus Conway (ed), Written by Herself, Volume I * Jan 2016 Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites * Alexie, Blasphemy Odell, Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League Gaiman, The Sandman: Overture * Tartt, The Goldfinch: A Novel Atwood, The Edible Woman 2015 Dec 2015 Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck Yanique, Wife Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See * Austen, Emma Nov 2015 Adichie and Lahiri (ed), One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass Jonnes, Eiffel's Tower Orwell, 1984 Oct 2015 Fortey, Earth Furman (ed), O. Henry Prize Stories 2015 Gaiman, Adventures in the Dream Trade Walrond, Tropic Death Carr, Book of Small Fine, Delusions of Gender * Sep 2015 Conway (ed), Written by Herself, Volume II * Blume, In the Unlikely Event Gaiman, A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff Gaiman, Angels and Visitations Aug 2015 Adichie, Americanah * Atwood, Moral Disorder Joyce, Dubliners Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic * Bechdel, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama Jul 2015 Doumeng, Teaching Students They Have a Language and It Is Not Broken Bulawayo, We Need New Names * DeMarco & Lister, Peopleware * Lee, Go Set a Watchman Jun 2015 Ahonen, Kuulostaa hyvältä Steinbeck, Cannery Row Alexander, The New Jim Crow * Kerouac, On the Road Osayande, Misogyny and the Emcee: Sex, Race and Hip Hop May 2015 Patterson et al, Crucial Conversations * Chamoiseau, Creole Folktales Furman (ed), O. Henry Prize Stories 2005 Hadley, Clever Girl Apr 2015 Gaiman, Trigger Warning * Marciano, The Other Language Stories Alvarez, Something to Declare Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde Mar 2015 Faulkner, As I Lay Dying Wharton, The Reckoning and Other Stories Plath, The Bell Jar Feb 2015 Cather, My Ántonia Welty, The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories Jan 2015 Vanderhoof, Spice Necklace Wilson, Up Mountain One Time Yanique, How to Escape from a Leper Colony * Mordecai & Wilson (ed), Her True-True Name 2014 Dec 2014 Barrett, The Voyage of the Narwhal * Ripley, The Smartest Kids in the World Rojstaczer, The Mathematician's Shiva * Brown & Wickham (ed), The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories Nov 2014 Frenkel, Love and Math Kincaid, A Small Place * Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea Fitzpatrick & Collins-Sussman, Team Geek Peekash Press (ed), Pepperpot * Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory * Oct 2014 Furman (ed), O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 Danticat, Krik? Krak! * Yanique, Land of Love and Drowning * Sep 2014 Munroe, What If? * Lahiri, The Lowland * Danticat, Claire of the Sea Light * Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me Barrett, The Air We Breathe * Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers Aug 2014 Barrett, Archangel * Foy-Fisher, As de Old People Would Say Freely, Before Galileo Fisher, Getting to Yes Jul 2014 Dirksen, Design for How People Learn Whedon & Jeanty, Serenity: Leaves on the Wind Kiernan, The Girls of Atomic City MacCormick, Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future * Lakatos, Proofs and Refutations * Alexie, Ten Little Indians * Jun 2014 Lakoff, The Language War * Richeson, Euler's Gem Doxsey, An Introduction to Programming in Go Eire, Learning to Die in Miami * Cohen, Science and the Founding Fathers May 2014 Furman (ed), The Pen / O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 Sutton, The No Asshole Rule * Lippi-Green, English with an Accent Crystal, Spell It Out Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion Barrett, Servants of the Map * Apr 2014 Furman (ed), The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007 Furman (ed), The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 McWhorter, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue Mar 2014 Lakoff, Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things Hofstadter, Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking * Feb 2014 Pycior et al (ed), Creative Couples in the Sciences Diamond, The World Until Yesterday Szpiro, Kepler's Conjecture McGrayne, The Theory That Would Not Die Jan 2014 Gaarder, Sophie's World Pinker, Words and Rules Furman (ed), The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013 2013 Dec 2013 Richman, The Mask Carver's Son Yuki, Math Girls 2: Fermat's Last Theorem * Munro, Dear Life Nov 2013 Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees Lakoff, Language and Woman's Place * Budd, The Voluntourist Stewart, In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World Oct 2013 Yuki, Math Girls * Lemmon, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana Eire, Waiting for Snow in Havana * Weiner, The Geography of Bliss Sep 2013 Carr, Continuums * Pitici (ed), The Best Writing on Mathematics 2012 Aug 2013 Dennett, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking * Kahakauwila, This Is Paradise * Dawson, Down Street, Saint Thomas and Beyond Highfield, Sea Grapes and Kennips Proulx, Accordion Crimes Jul 2013 Crystal, The Fight for English Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane O'Dell, My Name Is Not Angelica Thalheimer, What You Don't Get Russell, A Renegade History of the United States Grossman, The Magician King Jun 2013 Bone, Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms Mann, 1493 * Gaiman & Russell, Coraline May 2013 Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic Suri & Bal, A Certain Ambiguity * Martínez, Science Secrets Apr 2013 Sandberg, Lean In Kamkwamba & Mealer, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Cherny & Werse, wired_women: Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace Wilson, The Butterfly Mosque Mar 2013 Menéndez, In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird * Umrigar, The Space Between Us Bueno, Lauren Ipsum * Kubica, Computational Fairy Tales * Feb 2013 Felleisen & Friedman, The Little MLer Felleisen & Friedman, The Little Schemer Jan 2013 Guterson, The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind Devlin, The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution Snyder, The Philosophical Breakfast Club * 2012 Dec 2012 Hemon (ed), Best European Fiction 2013 Mashaw & MacClintock, Seasoned by Salt Bulter, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain * Oct 2012 Oswalt et al, Serenity: Better Days and Other Stories Thompson, Delirium's Party: A Little Endless Storybook Gaiman, The Graveyard Book Sep 2012 Hayes, Introductory Phonology Van Valin, Exploring the Syntax-Semantics Interface Saeed, Semantics Roth, The Human Stain * Aug 2012 Crane, Educated to Emigrate: The Social Organization of Saba Crane (ed), Saba Silhouettes: Life Stories from a Caribbean Island Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined Bechdel, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama Jul 2012 Jun 2012 Okrent, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition * Hutton, Programming in Haskell May 2012 O'Neill, Rape of the American Virgins Aho & Ullman, Foundations of Computer Science Petroski, To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Apr 2012 Dawkins & McKean, The Magic of Reality * Verghese, Cutting for Stone Mar 2012 Nunberg, Going Nucular Polya, How To Solve It * Jurafsky & Martin, Speech and Language Processing Bird, Klein, & Loper, Natural Language Processing with Python Révész, Introduction to Formal Languages Lewis & Papadimitriou, Elements of the Theory of Computation Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II * Feb 2012 Margolis & Fisher, Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing * Roberts, West Indians and Their Language Campbell, Historical Linguistics: An Introduction Greenberg, Free at Last: The Sudbury Valley School Akpan, Say You're One of Them Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers Hudson, Sociolinguistics Malek (ed), Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice Jan 2012 Rickford & Rickford, Spoken Soul Ridley, The Rational Optimist 2011 Dec 2011 Barrett, Ship Fever * Jacoby, The Age of American Unreason de Swart, Introduction to Natural Language Semantics Nov 2011 McWhorter, Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of a "Pure" Standard English Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky Furman (ed), The Pen / O. Henry Prize Stories 2011 Grossman, The Magicians Oct 2011 Tucker, Linear Algebra Van Valin, Jr., An Introduction to Syntax Diamond & Robinson (ed), Natural Experiments of History Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Sep 2011 Ladefoged, A Course in Phonetics Payne, Exploring Language Structure Yanoshak, Educating Outside the Lines Aug 2011 Pariser, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You Lutz & Ascher, Learning Python Jul 2011 McWhorter, Defining Creole Kouwenberg & Singler (ed), The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies Jun 2011 O'Grady et al, Contemporary Linguistics Fromkin et al, An Introduction to Language Grenoble & Whaley, Saving Languages King et al, Sustaining Linguistic Diversity: Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties Carr, Phonology Spencer, Phonology Bailey et al, African-American English: Structure, History, and Use Katamba, Morphology Devonish, Language and Liberation Chambers & Trudgill, Dialectology May 2011 Graves, The Present State of the Dutch Creole of the Virgin Islands Emanuel, Surviving Africanisms in Virgin Islands English Usage Highfield, The French Dialect of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands Schrader, Kallaloo: A Collection of Crucian Stories Dillard, Black English Bickerton, Roots of Language Apr 2011 Sebba, Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles * Oldendorp (trans Highfield & Barac), A Caribbean Mission Valls, What a Pistarkle! Seaman, Virgin Islands Dictionary Mar 2011 Farrow, Lang, & Frank, Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Feb 2011 Chambers, Having It All? Garton, Robertson, White, & White, Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem between the Wars Ford, The Hotel Between Bitter and Sweet Hofstadter, Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language * Jan 2011 Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog Boyer, America's Virgin Islands: A History of Human Rights and Wrongs * Pitti, The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans 2010 Dec 2010 Bickerton, Adam's Tongue Díaz, Drown Nov 2010 Lang, A First Course in Calculus Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons Wolf, Proust and the Squid Oct 2010 Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Holmes, The Age of Wonder Sep 2010 Maguire, Wicked Waldstreicher, Slavery's Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification Wise, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son Aug 2010 Arana, American Chica Drake (ed), Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo Gordimer, Jump: And Other Stories Jul 2010 Newitz & Anders (ed), She's Such a Geek Frayn, Copenhagen * Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society Theroux, The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific Zittrain, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop it * Furman (ed), The Pen / O. Henry Prize Stories 2010 * Chabon, A Model World and Other Stories Bickerton, Bastard Tongues * Jun 2010 Todd, Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis * Elliott, The Little Prisoner Gaiman, Odd and the Frost Giants Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Wizner, Spanking Shakespeare Sewell, I'd Rather Eat Chocolate Fisichella, Seven-Tenths: Love, Piracy, and Science at Sea * Singer (ed), Tales of St. John and the Caribbean Beals, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High * Lennertz (ed), Pacific Northwest Reader Auburn, Proof * May 2010 Darwin, On the Origin of Species Barry, I'll Mature When I'm Dead Apr 2010 Cliff, No Telephone to Heaven Gould, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle * Mar 2010 Chapman, 40 Days and 40 Nights Michaels, Fugitive Pieces Dookhan, A History of the Virgin Islands of the United States Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies * Ali, I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced Feb 2010 Jacoby, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism * Gaiman, The Graveyard Book (video tour readings) Jan 2010 Pollan, The Botany of Desire Alvarez, ¡Yo! * 2009 Dec 2009 McCourt, Teacher Man Rezende & Walbom, St. Croix: Historic Photos McNeely, Reinventing Knowledge Nov 2009 Eaves, Bare: The Naked Truth About Stripping Doxiadis & Papadimitriou, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth Oct 2009 Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth * Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth Sep 2009 Bodanis, Passionate Minds * Gore, Garrote Belle de Jour, Secret Diary of a Call Girl Herschel, A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy Aug 2009 Bohjalian, Trans-Sister Radio Ojito, Finding Mañana * Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg * Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Alvarez, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents * Angelou, Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas Lahiri, The Namesake * Jul 2009 Bennett, Dennett, Hacker, and Searle, Neuroscience and Philosophy Kittle, The Kindness of Strangers Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think? Oates, Black Girl/White Girl Conway, True North * Dumas, Funny in Farsi Baingana, Tropical Fish * Kinzer, Overthrow * Jun 2009 Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited and Other Stories Furman (ed), The Pen / O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor May 2009 Twain, Who Is Mark Twain? Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies * Merla (ed), Boys Like Us Venkatesh, Gang Leader for a Day Gladwell, Blink Sagan & Hofstadter, That Mad Ache / Translator, Trader * Apr 2009 Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Switzer (ed), This and That: The Lost Stories of Emily Carr * Mar 2009 Bell, Lavoisier in the Year One Leicester, The Historical Background of Chemistry Feb 2009 Edmonds & Eidinow, Wittgenstein's Poker * Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road Leavitt, The Indian Clerk * Woodward, Making Things Happen: A Theory of Causal Explanation Jan 2009 Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night Fermi, Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi Russell, Marriage and Morals * Sterns, Say It in Crucian! 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