Books Read in 2006

I read the following books in 2006. These are the ones I've finished--looks like I didn't do nearly as well as last year. The links are to Amazon.com, where I've reviewed most of these.

• James Bovard, The Bush Betrayal
• Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness
• John Grogan, Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
• Jim Harper, Identity Crisis: How Identification is Overused and Misunderstood
• John Hodgman, The Areas of My Expertise
• Jennifer Michael Hecht, Doubt: A History
• Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down
• Paul Krassner, One Hand Jerking: Reports from an investigative satirist
• Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
• Cesar Millan with Melissa Jo Peltier, Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding & Correcting Common Dog Problems
• John Allen Paulos, A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
• John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
• Gerald Posner, Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11
• V.S. Ramachandran, M.D., Ph.D., and Sandra Blakeslee, Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
• Mary Roach, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
• Rudy Rucker, Saucer Wisdom
• Thomas J. Stanley, The Millionaire Mind
• Neil Strauss, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
• Martha Stout, Ph.D., The Sociopath Next Door
• Nick Webb, Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams

And these are the ones I haven't finished yet--some (Amar, Numbers, Zimmer) I just started, others have been hanging around for a while and I should probably give up on (some of these were started but uncompleted this time last year). The Girard and Lambot book is a beautiful, interesting, and quite expensive book that can be read one short biography at a time.

• Akhil Reed Amar, America's Constitution: A Biography
• Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection
• Greg Girard and Ian Lambot, City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City
• Antonio Damasio, Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain
• Olivia Judson, Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
• Ronald Numbers, The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design
• Kevin Mandia, Chris Prosise, and Matt Pepe, Incident Response and Computer Forensics, Second Edition
• Kevin Phillips, American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush
• Carl Shapiro and Hal R. Varian, Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy
• Spammer-X, Inside the Spam Cartel: Trade Secrets from the Dark Side
• 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
• Vernor Vinge, The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge
• Andrew Vladimirov, Konstantin V. Gavrilenko, Andrei A. Mikhailovsky, WI-FOO: The Secrets of Wireless Hacking
• Carl Zimmer, Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea

(Previously: 2005.)