Books that I have enjoyed
[Books in blue
designate my favorite of the year]
Books 2008
Ozu's Anti-Cinema.
Yoshida Kiju, Translated by Daisuke Miyao and Kyoko Hirano,
Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2003.
Tokyo.
Takashi Homma, Aperture Foundation, 2008.
Atmospheric
Disturbances: A Novel. Rivka Galchen; Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 2008.
New England White.
Stephen L. Carter, Knopf, 2007.
Physical Chemistry
from Ostwald to Pauling: The Making of a Science in America.
John. W. Servos, Princeton University Press, 1990.
James Van Allen.
Abigail Foerstner, University of Iowa Press, 2007.
Measuring the
World: A Novel. Daniel Kehlmann, Translated by Carol Brown
Janeway, Vintage, 2007.
Von Braun: Dreamer
of Space, Engineer of War. Michael J. Neufeld, Alfred A.
Knoph, 2007.
Fifty Houses.
Sandy Sorlien, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Books 2007
When Computers Were
Human. David Alan Grier, Princeton University Press, 2005.
Paris Changing:
Revisiting Eugène Atget's Paris. Christopher Rauschenberg,
Princeton Architectural Press, 2007.
Richter's Scale:
Measure of an Earthquake · Measure of a Man. Susan
Elizabeth Hough, Princeton University Press, 2007.
Bento Box in the
Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America.
Linda Furiya, Seal Press, 2006.
Faust in
Copenhagen. Gino Segrè
, Viking, 2007.
Gaudi: A Biography.
Gijs Van Hensbergen, Harper Perennial, 2003.
Oppenheimer: The
Tragic Intellect. Charles Thorpe, University of Chicago
Press, 2006.
Kurosawa: Film
Studies and Japanese Cinema. Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Duke
University Press, 2000.
Books 2006
American
Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Knopf, 2005.
Prep.
Curtis Sittenfeld, Random House, 2005.
Drawing Theories
Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics.
David Kaiser, University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Books 2005
Mind over Magma:
The Story of Igneous Petrology. Davis A. Young, Princeton
University Press, 2003
Incompleteness: The
Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel. Rebecca Goldstein, W.W.
Norton, 2005.
Lost in
Translation. Sofia Coppola, Lost in Translation, Inc.,
September 2, 2002.
Books 2004
City Walks: Paris,
50 Adventures on Foot. Christina Henry de Tessan, Chronicle
Books, 2004.
Thinking About
Science: Max Delbruck and the Origins of Molecular Biology.
Ernst Peter Fischer and Carol Lipson, W.W. Norton, 1988.
Rule of Four.
Ian Caldwell and Dustin Tomason, Dial Press, 2004.
Neighborhood
Tokyo. Theodore C. Bestor, Stanford University Press, 1989.
Books 2003
City Life in Japan:
A Study of a Tokyo Ward. Ronald Dore, University of California
Press, 1958.
The Da Vinci Code.
Dan Brown, Doubleday, 2003.
Gold Bug Variations.
Richard
Powers, William Morrow, 1991.
Chasing Cezanne. Peter Mayle, Vintage Books,
1998.
Books 2002
The
Inner Harmony of the Japanese House. Atsushi Ueda, Kodansha
International, 1998.
American Fuji.
Sara Backer, Putnam, 2002.
The Life of a Virus
: Tobacco Mosaic Virus As an Experimental Model, 1930-1965.
Angela N. H. Creager, University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Meselson, Stahl, and the Replication of DNA: A
History of 'The Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology'. Frederic
Lawrence Holmes, Yale University Press, 2001.
Up in the Air.
Walter Kirn, Doubleday, 2001
Uncle
Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood.
Oliver W. Sacks, Knopf, 2001.
Books 2001
Paris to the Moon. Adam Gopnik, Random House, 2000.
Henry Norris Russell. David Devorkin, Princeton University
Press, 2000.
The Lecturer's Tale.
James Hynes, Picador USA, 2001.
Climbing the
Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger. K.A.
Milton and Jagdish Mehra, Oxford University Press, 2000.
Ahead of the Curve:
David Baltimore's Life in Science. Shane Crotty, University of
California Press, 2001.
Books 2000
Le
Marriage. Diane Johnson, E.P. Dutton, 2000.
Health and Happiness.
Diane Johnson,
Penguin, 1998.
The Accidental
Asian : Notes of a Native Speaker. Eric Liu, Vintage,
1999.
Quantum Generations :
A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century.
Helge Kragh, Princeton
University Press, 1999.
Walker Evans.
James R. Mellow, Basic Books, 1999.
Blue Angel.
Francine Prose, HarperCollins, 2000.
Books 99
Larry's Party. Carol Shields, Penguin USA, 1998.
Walther Nernst and the Transition to Modern Physical
Science. Diana Kormos Barkan, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry:
Dynamics of Matter and Dynamics of Disciplines, 1800-1850. Mary
Jo Nye, University of California Press, 1993.
Harry Potter and
the Sorcerer's Stone. J. K. Rowling, Scholastic Press, 1998.
Harry Potter and
the Chamber of Secrets.
J. K. Rowling, Scholastic Press, 1999.
Harry Potter and
the Prisoner of Azkaban.
J. K. Rowling, Scholastic Press, 1999.
Books 98
Kinetic Theory in the Earth
Sciences. Antonio C.
Lasaga, Princeton University Press, 1998.
Publish and Perish: Three Tales
of Tenure and Terror. James Hynes, Picador USA, 1997.
A
Beautiful Mind : A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Sylvia Nasar, Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Straight Man. Richard Russo, Random House, 1997.
Calculating the Weather :
Meteorology in the 20th Century.
Frederik Nebeker,
Academic Press, 1995.
Pierre-Simon Laplace: A
Life in Exact Science. Charles Coulston Gillespie,
Princeton University Press, 1997.
Guided Tours of Hell : Novellas.
Francine Prose, Henry Holt
& Co., 1997
Books 97
Van der Waals and Molecular Science. A. Y. Kipnis,
B. E. Yavelov and J. S. Rowlinson. Oxford University Press, 1996.
The Handmaid of
Desire.
John L'Heureux. Soho
Press, 1996.
Chemistry of the Environment. Thomas Spiro and
William Stigliani. Prentis Hall, 1996.
Turn Left at Orion. Guy Consolmango and Dan Davis.
Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Paradise News. David Lodge. Penguin Books, 1991.
Central Park. Bruce Davidson. Aperture, 1995.
Chandra: A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar. K. C.
Wali. University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Books 96 (and before)
Allelopathy: Organisms, Processes,
and Applications. Inderjit, Dakshini, and Einhellig (eds).
American Chemical Society, 1995.
An Artist of the Floating World.
Kazuo Ishiguro. Vintage Books, 1989.
Environmental Soil Chemistry.
Murray McBride. Oxford University Press, 1994.
Late Innings : A Baseball
Companion. Roger Angell. Simon and Schuster, 1982.
Like a one-eyed cat : Photographs
by Lee Friedlander, 1956-1987. Lee Friedlander. H. N. Abrams,
1989.
Night Thoughts of a Classical
Physicist. Russell McCormmach. Harvard University Press, 1982.
Ozu. Donald Richie. University
of California Press, 1974.
Small world : An academic romance.
David Lodge. Macmillan, 1985.
Statistical
physics and the atomic theory of matter : From Boyle and Newton to
Landau and Onsager. Stephen Brush. Princeton University Press,
1983.
The social transformation of
American medicine. Paul Starr. Basic Books, 1982.
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