These are notes that I write while or shortly after I read some interesting book.

Sunny Auyang’s How is Quantum Field Theory Possible?
William Bernstein’s A Splendid Exchange
Susan Blackmore’s The Meme Machine
Caplan’s Profession
Paul Collier’s The Bottom Billion
Tyler Cowen’s Create Your Own Economy
Diane Coyle’s The Soulful Science
Gary Cziko’s Without Miracles
Richard Dawkins’ The Ancestor’s Tale
Terrence Deacon’s The Symbolic Species
Daniel Dennett’s Freedom Evolves
John Derbyshire’s Prime Obsession
Kieth Devlin's The Math Gene
Richard Feynman’s QED
Stanley Fish’s essay French Theory in America
John Steele Gordon’s The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street
Sam Harris’ The End of Faith
Jeff Hawkins’ On Intelligence
Christian Huitema’s Routing in the Internet
Nicholas Humphrey’s Seeing Red
Jane Jacob’s Systems of Survival: read Glendon’s review
Jaffe & Lerner’s Innovation and its Discontents
Kauffman’s Investigations
Christine Kenneally’s The First Word
Kennefick’s Traveling at the Speed of Thought
Paul Krugman’s The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
Robert Laughlin’s A Different Universe
Mark Edward Lewis’ The Early Chinese Empires
Michael Lewis’ The Big Short
Mandelbrot’s The (mis)Behavior of Markets
Lynn Margulis & Dorion Sagan’s Microcosmos
Menezes et al Handbook of Applied Cryptography
Geoffrey Miller’s The Mating Mind
Steven Mithen’s The Prehistory of the Mind
Mancur Olsen’s The Logic of Collective Action
Benjamin Pierce’s Types and Programming Languages
Judea Pearl’s Causality
Roger Penrose’s The Road to Reality
Pinker’s The Blank Slate (The Modern Denial of Human Nature)
Ramachandran’s A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh’s Kanzi
Alwyn Scott’s Stairway to the Mind
Lee Smolin’s The Trouble with Physics
de Soto’s The Mystery of Capital
Keith Stanovich’s The Robot’s Rebellion
Keith Stanovich’s What Intelligence Tests Miss
James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds
Leonard Susskind’s The Cosmic Landscape
Entrepreneurial Economics edited by Tabarrok
Jill Bolte Taylor’s Stroke of Insight
Temin & Galambos’ The Fall of the Bell System
Peter Woit’s Not Even Wrong
Stephan Ziliak’s The Cult of Statistical Significance