Year in Books -- 2018

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* Age of Louis XIV, Durant
Deathless, Cat Valente
The Will to Battle, Ada Palmer
Pen, Ink, Evidence, Joe Nickell
Odyssey, Emily Watson
Mathematical Mechanic, Mark Levi
* The Age of Voltaire, Durant
* Under the Sugar Sky, McGuire
* Rousseau and Revolution, Durant
Sprawl Repair Manual, Galina Tachieva
Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories in Extreme Futures
Leviathan and the Air Pump, Shapin and Schaffer
Starlings, Jo Walton
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, Russell
Much Ado About Nothing: Theories of Space and Vacuum from the Middle Ages to the Scientific Revolution Theories of Space and Vacuum from the Middle Ages to the Scientific Revolution, Grant
* Micromegas, Voltaire
* Zadig, Voltaire
* Philosophical Dictionary, Voltaire
* Age of Faith, Durant
Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics, Franklin
Camus' essays
Pascal's Pensees
Antigone, jean Anouilh
Posterior Analytics, Aristotle
* A Wrinkle in Time
The Nothing That Is, Kaplan
Liber Abaci, Fibonacci
* Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen
The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Karl Popper
* Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
* Collected Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges
* Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker
Tricks for Free, McGuire
Physics, Aristotle
* History of Western Philosophy, Russell
Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World, Amir Alexander
The Indispensability of Mathematics, Colyvan
History of Analytical Geometry, Carl Benjamin Boyer
Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky
* The Enneads, Plotinus
Existential Sunday, Benjamin Fondane
* Caesar's Commentaries
Oliver Twist
* Consolations of Philosophy, Boethius
The World, Descartes
* On the Ends of Good and Evil, Cicero
The Accidental War, Walter Jon Williams
Wizard Abroad, Diane Duane
Arithmetica, Diophantus
* Ivanhoe
Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, Polya
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
* Robinson Crusoe
* Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Open Society and Its Enemies, Karl Popper
* Far From the Madding Crowd
* Vanity Fair
* Pilgrim's Progress
The Freeze-Frame Revolution, Peter Watts
Realism in Mathematics, Penelope Maddy
Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber
* The Jungle
Flattening the Earth, Snyder
In Dubious Battle, Steinbeck
What is Mathematical Logic? Crossley et al.
The History of Calculus and its Conceptual Development, Carl Benjamin Boyer
* Les Miserables
Principia Mathematica, Russell (very, very unfinished)
Commercial and Political Atlas and Statistical Breviary, Playfair
Ptolemy's Geography
Certaine Errors in Navigation, Edward Wright
O Pioneers!, Willa Cather
The Works of Archimedes
Conics Books I-IV, Apollonius
The Analyst: or, a Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician, George Berkeley
The Mathematical Experience, Davis and Hersh
Science and Hypothesis, Poincare
* Tale of Two Cities
Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
* One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
The Copernican Revolution, Thomas Kuhn
Three Dialogues, George Berkeley
* Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
Bolyai's Non-Euclidean Geometry
The Fifth Season, Jemisin
From One to Zero, Georges Ifrah
* Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Understanding, George Berkeley
Paradox Bound, Peter Clines
* Kim, Rudyard Kipling
The Search for Mathematical Roots, I. Grattan-Guinness
* Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
* Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling
* The Man Who Would be King, Rudyard Kipling
* Thee Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
The Obelisk Gate, Jemisin
* The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
* The Man in the Iron Mask, Alexandre Dumas
The Difference Engine, Gibson and Sterling
Philosophy of Arithmetic, Husserl
An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, Boole
From Frege to Godel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, Jean van Heijenoort
The Stone Sky, Jemisin
History of the Strength of Materials, Stephen Timoshenko
* Waverly
* The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World, Simon Winchester
Existentialism and the Modern Predicament, Fritz Heinemann
So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
* To Kill a Mockingbird
* The Scarlet Pimpernel
King Rat, China Miéville
Another Country, Baldwin
* Brideshead Revisited
The Rhetoric of Economics, Deirdre McCloskey
* The Big Sleep
* The Maltese Falcon
* A Christmas Carol
* The Meaning of Everything, Simon Winchester
* The Refrigerator Monologues, Cat Valente
A Structural Account of Mathematics, Chihara
* George Bernard Shaw plays
* Theory of Moral Sentiment, Adam Smith
* The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois
* Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

* == audiobook
Bold == would enthusiastically recommend
Italic == reread

I'm up to 2x playback speed for almost everything audio. 2.25x if it's particularly slow-but-easy. Frankly, it's a bit hard to find enough material. I'm getting kind of thoughtless about following the established canon. That worries me some.

Comments

[maribou]

It pleases me so much that you also love the Ada Palmer books (I've probably remarked on that before)*. Have you had a chance to attend any spoilerific-for-the-already-published-books-and-thus-only-if-you're-caught-up sekrit readings? I did this October and I'm slavering for the last book....


*also the Jemisins but at this point I'm always surprised if someone *doesn't* enthusiastically recommend the Jemisins....