Kiran's Reading List
Notable reading of late: fiction, nonfiction, whatever---but no math books.
(Collective sigh of relief.) Feel free to chat with me about any of these.
I don't actually find I have much time free for reading (except all that
time on airplanes);
for a much more extensive reading list, I recommend
Jordan
Ellenberg's home page (link updated from Princeton to Wisconsin).
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (December 2007)
- We, Yevgeny Zamyatin (November 2006)
- House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of
American Power, James Carroll (September 2006)
- Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
(July 2006)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,
Mark Haddon (June 2006)
- Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist
Perspective, Mark Epstein (May 2006)
- The Book of Imaginary Beings, Jorge Luis Borges
(January 2006)
- Under Western Eyes, Joseph Conrad (September 2005)
- Daughter of the Queen of Sheba, Jacki Lyden (August 2005)
- La Peste, Albert Camus (August 2005)
- The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker (August 2005)
- Prometheus Unbound, Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 2005)
- Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus (translated by Philip
Vellacott) (July 2005)
- The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy (July 2005)
- In a Free State, V.S. Naipaul (?? 2004-2005)
- The 9/11 Commission Report (July 2004)
- Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (June 2004)
- Count Down: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World's Toughest
Math Competition, Steve Olson (April 2004)
- The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall
Smith (February 2004)
- Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston,
Nancy S. Seasholes (yes, her real name) (January 2004)
- The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri (January 2004)
- Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free
Software, Sam Williams (January 2004)
- An Obedient Father, Akhil Sharma (January 2004)
- Youth, J.M. Coetzee (December 2003)
- Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton (December 2003)
- Unmasking Deep Throat, John Dean (September 2003)
- The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick (July 2003)
- Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela (July 2003)
- The Grasshopper King, Jordan Ellenberg (July 2003)
- L'Étranger, Albert Camus (June 2003)
- Mapping Human History, Steve Olson (January 2003)
- Word Freak, Stefan Fatsis (November 2002)
- Between Silk and Cyanide, Leo Marks (July 2002)
- Einstein's Daughter, Michele Zackheim (March 2002)
- Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers, J.K. Rowling (translated by Jean-François Ménard) (February 2002)
- Copenhagen, Michael Frayn (November 2001)
- Words and Rules, Steven Pinker (May 2001)
- The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester (March 2001)
- Time's Arrow, Martin Amis (September 2000)
- Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel (September 2000)
- Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, Kenzaburo Oe (September 2000)
- Ten Days That Shook the World, John Reed (June 2000)
- An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith (June 2000)
- Listening to Prozac, Peter Kramer (June 2000)
- All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren (May 2000)
- Buddhism: The Light of Asia, Kenneth K.S. Ch'en (April 2000)
- Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis (April 2000)
- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky (March 2000)
- The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway (March 2000)
- Corporate Predators, Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
(January 2000)
- Brave New World
and Brave New World Revisited,
Aldous Huxley (January 2000)
- Practical C++ Programming, Steve Oualline (January 2000)
- The Crucible, Arthur Miller (December 1999)
- A Passage to India, E.M. Forster (November 1999)
- Lake Wobegon Days, Garrison Keillor (October 1999)
- Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh (October 1999)
- The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy (September 1999)
- The Red and the Black, Stendahl (August 1999)
- The Razor's Edge, Somerset Maugham (May 1999)
- The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov (May 1999)
- When Corporations Rule the World
and The Post-Corporate World, David Korten (April 1999)
Kiran S. Kedlaya