My Reading List

Free time is a rare and valuable commodity for graduate students. When the opportunity presents itself, however, I try to put it to good use. Here's a quick rundown on some of the books I've been reading in my spare time:

Current Reading

• Brown, John Seely, and Duguid, Paul. The Social Life of Information.
• Cahill, Thomas. The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels.
• Kagan, Donald. The Peloponnesian War.
• Stout, Rex. A Right To Die.
• Zull, James E. The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching the Practice of Teaching By Exploring the Biology of Learning.

Temporarily Shelved

• Claverie, Jean-Michel, and Notredame, Cedric. Bioinformatics for Dummies.
• Petzold, Charles. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software.
• Raymond, Eric S. The Cathedral & The Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary.
• Roman, Steven. Introduction to Coding and Information Theory.

On-Deck/Coming Soon

• Brooks, Frederick P. The Mythical Man-Month (20th Anniversary Edition).
• Cordingly, David. Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates.
• Davis, Erik. Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, + Mysticism in the Age of Information.
• Haufler, Hervie. Codebreakers' Victory: How the Allied Cryptographers Won World War II.
• Herbert, Frank. Dune Messiah.
• Saylor, Steven. Last Seen In Massilia.
• Saylor, Steven. A Twist at the End.
• Sobel, Dava. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time.
• Stephenson, Neal. Cryptonomicon.

Waiting for Paperback

Nothing at present.

Recent Reading

• Cæsar, Julius. de Bello Gallico (The Gallic War) (Loeb Classical Library edition).
• Gaiman, Neil. American Gods.
• Halperin, James. The First Immortal.
• Saylor, Steven. A Mist of Prophecies.
• Saylor, Steven. Rubicon.

Last updated: June 6, 2004.