The following is a list of all the books I read in 2008. They are listed chronologically by completion. I’m collecting better data for 2009, but for now I only have the titles and authors.

• Decoding the Universe, Charles Seife
• Postsingular, Rudy Rucker
• I’m Just Here for the Food, Alton Brown
• Blankets, Craig Thompson
• The Constant Gardener, John le Carre
• A Cook’s Tour, Anthony Bourdain
• The Practice of Programming, Brain Kernighan and Rob Pike
• Glut, Alex Wright
• Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge
• Deep Economy, Bill McKibben
• Mistress of the Art of Death, Ariana Franklin
• Mind Wide Open, Steven Johnson
• Oath of Fealty, Larry Niven and Jack Pournelle
• Farewell my Subaru, Doug Fine
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
• Suburban Nation, Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck
• Consider Phlebas, Iain M. Banks
• The Architecture of Happiness, Alan de Botton
• Confessions of an Economic Hitman, John Perkins
• Player of Games, Iain M. Banks
• The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
• Black Hole, Charles Burns
• Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology, Patrick Kelly and John Kessel, eds.
• Collected Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges
• Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
• The Most Beautiful House in the World, Witold Rybczynski
• Saturn’s Children, Charles Stross
• WorldChanging: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century, Alex Steffen ed.
• A Place of My Own, Michael Pollan
• The Poisonwod Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
• The Edifice Complex, Deyan Sudjic
• Use of Weapons, Iain M. Banks
• Anathem, Neal Stephenson
• The Option of Urbanism, Christopher Leinberger
• The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri, David Bajo
• The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross
• The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie
• Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Live of a Critic in Discuise, Ruth Reichl
• The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought the Down, Colin Woodard