2012 Reading

December 2012

How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer by Debbie Millman

A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton

Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope

Linchpin by Seth Godin

The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver

November 2012

American Nations by Colin Woodard

The Control of Nature by John McPhee

October 2012

The Beatles Graphic by Hervé Bourhis

Thinking in Time by Richard E. Neustadt and Ernest R. May

Safekeeping by Abigail Thomas

The Truth About Style by Stacy London

September 2012

Maphead by Ken Jennings

Scorecasting by Tobias J. Moskowitz and L. Jon Wertheim

August 2012

A History of Northwest Portland from the River to the Hills by Jane Comerford

The Little Big Things by Tom Peters

Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky

Unprecedented Power by Steven Fenberg

A Levant Journal by George Seferis

Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier

The Information by James Gleick

July 2012

America the Philosophical by Carlin Romano

Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku

1939: The Lost World of the Fair by David Gelernter

The Last Days of the Renaissance & the March to Modernity by Theodore K. Rabb

June 2012

Why the West Rules–For Now by Ian Morris

Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Volume 1 (unabridged) by James Boswell

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel

May 2012

Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes

Extra Innings by Baseball Prospectus

April 2012

Succeeding When You're Supposed to Fail by Rom Brafman

The Professional by Subroto Bagchi

Watergate: A Novel by Thomas Mallon

Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader by Bradley K. Martin

March 2012

Just My Type by Simon Garfield

Too Big to Know by David Weinberger

Age of Fracture by Daniel T. Rodgers

The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters by John Gross

Brave Dragons by Jim Yardley

February 2012

The Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson

Microcosms by Claudio Magris

Are We Still Rolling? by Phill Brown

Bob Gill, so far. by Bob Gill

Through the Language Glass by Guy Deutscher

January 2012

The Wealth of Knowledge by Thomas A. Stewart

Barbara Kruger by Alexander Alberro, etc.

The Upside of Down by Thomas Homer-Dixon

Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky