I read (and completed) the following books in 2005. I’ve reviewed most of them at Amazon.com (where the links point):
- Richard Abanes, One Nation Under Gods: A History of the Mormon Church
- Pascal Boyer, Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
- Rachel DeWoskin, Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China
- Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe
- Mark Haddon, the curious incident of the dog in the night-time
- Michael A. Hiltzik, Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
- Peter W. Huber and Mark P. Mills, The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy
- Penn Jillette, Sock
- David Cay Johnston, Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich–and Cheat Everybody Else
- Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
- Joel Levy, The Scam Handbook: The Secrets of the Con Artist
- Richard Marcus, American Roulette: How I Turned the Odds Upside-Down–My Wild Twenty-Five-Year Ride Ripping Off the World’s Casinos
- John Markoff, What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
- Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
- Ben Mezrich, Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions
- Kevin D. Mitnick and William L. Simon, The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders & Deceivers
- Matthew Modine, Full Metal Jacket Diary
- John Allen Paulos, A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market
- V.S. Ramachandran, A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness
- Jon Ronson, The Men Who Stare At Goats
- Paul Scharbach and John H. Akers, Phoenix: Then and Now
- Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko, The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy
- Jim Steinmeyer, Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
- Anthony Storr, Feet of Clay: Saints, Sinners, and Madmen: A Study of Gurus
- Teller, “When I’m Dead, All This Will Be Yours!”–Joe Teller, a portrait by his kid, Teller
- Vicki Lewis Thompson, Nerd Gone Wild
- Ira Winkler, Spies Among Us: How to Stop the Spies, Terrorists, Hackers, and Criminals You Don’t Even Know You Encounter Every Day
- Richard Yancey, Confessions of a Tax Collector: One Man’s Tour of Duty Inside the IRS
- James Bovard, The Bush Betrayal
- Antonio Damasio, Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain
- Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection
- Jennifer Michael Hecht, Doubt: A History
- Olivia Judson, Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation
- V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee, Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
- Spammer-X, Inside the Spam Cartel: Trade Secrets from the Dark Side
- Thomas J. Stanley, The Millionaire Mind
- Robert H. Tillman and Michael L. Indergaard, Pump & Dump: The Rancid Rules of the New Economy
- John Viega and Gary McGraw, Building Secure Software: How to Avoid Security Problems the Right Way
- Andrew Vladimirov, Konstantin V. Gavrilenko, Andrei A. Mikhailovsky, WI-FOO: The Secrets of Wireless Hacking
If you make a list, let us know, I'd like to see it.
Hey! What about Diego Gambetta?
If I could remember what I read in 2005, I will. :p In the meantime, you can browse through my current book list. BTW, I'm reading your book reviews @ Amazon, I'm checking out if there's any book you might've loved that I could get as well. I'll probably try getting "Wittgenstein's Poker" since I saw it in the local bookshop. Cheers! :D
I think I forgot to list quite a few books that I have started but not completed--including Diego Gambetta's book, which I'll add to the list.
I assembled my list by using http://www.discord.org/~lippard/reading.html as a starting point (the back-end database has the date of review associated with each book, so I could pull out all the 2005s).
Wow, I should've made a checklist for books I've read per year, so I can make a list too. I can't very well do that now, it's all a blur. BTW, I've only read one of those books, Pascal Boyer's Religion Explained.