Collected Works: Book Reviews

A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammad Hanif

Science fiction
Grimspace by Ann Aguirre
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
Company by Max Barry
The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Year's Best Science Fiction 27th Annual Collection ed. by Gardner Dozois
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
1632 by Eric Flint
The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway by Cory Doctorow
The Last Theorem by Fred Pohl and Arthur C. Clarke
Ringworld by Larry Niven
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Snuff by Terry Pratchett
Jingo by Terry Pratchett
Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Children of God by Mary Doria Russell
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Rolling Thunder by John Varley

Mystery and thriller novels

61 Hours by Lee Child
Demolition Angel by Robert Crais
Voodoo River by Robert Crais
The First Rule by Robert Crais
Worth Dying For by Lee Child
Bones of Betrayal by Jefferson Bass
A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George
Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
Star Island by Carl Hiassen
A Whisper to the living by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Murder on the Transsiberian Express by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Riding the Rap by Elmore Leonard
A Plague of Secrets by John Lescroat
Treasure Hunt by John Lescroat
Fletch's Moxie by Greg McDonald
The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville
The Professional by Robert Parker
Shanghai Moon by SJ Rozan
The Marching Season by Daniel Silva

Science and social science

Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery and the Genius of the Royal Society ed. by Bill Bryson
Finding our Tongues: Mothers, Infants and the Origin of Language by Dean Falk
The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
Foundations of Language by Ray Jackendorff
Bozo Sapiens: Why to Err is Human by Michael and Ellen Kaplan
This is your Brain on Music by Brian Levitin
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
The mind's eye by Oliver Sacks
Varieties of Scientific Experience by Carl Sagan

Math
Statistics as Principled Argument by Robert Abelson
Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits and other Mathematical Amusements by Keith Ball
The Mathematical Experience by Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh
Group Theory in the Bedroom by Brian Hayes
Hidden Harmonies: The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem by Robert and Ellen Kaplan
A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart

Taking Sudoku Seriously: The Math behind the World's most Popular Puzzle by Jason Rosenhouse and Laura Taalman

Biography
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
Feynman's Rainbow by Leonard Mlodinow
The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin by Joyce Chaplin

History

Absolute Monarchs: A history of the papacy by John Julius Norwich

Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices

Humor
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Food
Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain
Eat my Globe by Simon Majumdar
The Year of Eating Dangerously by Tom Bowles
Eat my Globe by Simon Majumdar
Recipe for America: Why our Food System is Broken and what we can do about it by Jill Richardson