Shaping the City: Studies in History, Theory and Urban Design by Edward Robbins ?
Science and Religion, edited by Paul Kurtz
Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850 by Elizabeth Blackmar (rec from Di Yin)
Postmodern Pooh by Frederick Crews
We Might As Well Win by Johan Bruyneel
Kepler's Conjecture: How Some of the Greatest Minds in History Helped Solve One of the Oldest Math Problems in the World by George Szpiro (and no other books)
House Thinking: A Room-by-Room Look at How We Live by Winifred Gallagher ?
Great Books by David Denby ?
The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man by David Maurer (due to this On The Media report) ?
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh ?
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages by Ammon Shea ?
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs
Do You Speak American (DVD: 3 hours)
The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants by Jane Smith ?
Animal Investigators: How the World's First Wildlife Forensics Lab Is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species by Laurel Neme
Old Masters, New World: America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures by Cynthia Saltzman
Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist by Thomas Levenson (heard on science friday)?
Smile When You're Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer by Chuck Thompson ?
Don't Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style by Randy Olson
Museum Legs: Fatigue and Hope in the Face of Art by Amy Whitaker ?
King Hui: The Man Who Owned All the Opium in Hong Kong by Jonathan Chamberlain ?
Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates by Adrian Johns (heard on BBC Thinking Allowed) ?
Love, Mom: Poignant, Goofy, Brilliant Messages from Home by Doree Shafrir and Jessica Grose
Getting Things Done by David Allen
Work & Life
Downshifting: How to Work Less and Enjoy Life More by John Drake
Overworked American by Juliet Schor
Work to Live: The Guide to Getting a Life by Joe Robinson
Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam
Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America by Tom Lutz
How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto by Tom Hodgkinson
A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright (chapter on Easter Island; rec. by Edison) ?
Working At Play: A History of Vacations in the United States by Cindy Aron ?
Happier: Can You Learn to be Happy? by Tal Ben-Shahar ?
Economics
The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives by Michael Heller ?
The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan
SuperFreakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner ?
Armchair Economist by Steven Landsburg ?
Hidden Order by David Friedman ?
The Economic Naturalist by Robert Frank (? partially because heard much of the book discussed on Forum) (read through chapter two)
Medicine
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance and The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande (and no other books)
Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine by Jerome Groopman (and no other books)
Law
The Party of the First Part by Adam Freedman
Law in America: A Short History by Lawrence Friedman
The Transformation of American Law by Morton Horwitz ?
Writing
On Writing Well by William Zinsser (read through chapter 14 (bits & pieces))
When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse by Ben Yagoda
Word Court: Wherein Verbal Virtue Is Rewarded, Crimes Against the Language Are Punished, and Poetic Justice Is Done by Barbara Wallraff and Francine Prose ?
Um. . .: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean by Michael Erard ?
The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English by Henry Hitchings
Food
(many of these authors have other books too)
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee
The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite by David Kessler
Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods by Sandor Katz (semi-cookbook)
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food or A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines or maybe No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach or ... by Anthony Bourdain
Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip--Confessions of a Cynical Waiter by Steve Dublanica
My Life in France by Julia Child
The Tummy Trilogy by Calvin Trillin
The Making of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman
Spice: The History of a Temptation by Jack Turner
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food by Jennifer Lee
An Embarrassment of Mangoes by Ann Vanderhoof
The Perfectionist: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine by Rudolph Chelminski
Toast by Nigel Slater
The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten
Consuming Passions: A Food-Obsessed Life by Michael Lee West
Blue Trout and Black Truffles: The Peregrinations of an Epicure by Joseph Wechsberg
Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop (also wrote well-regarded cookbooks)
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
Food in Chinese Culture: Antropological and Historical Perspectives edited by K. C. Chang
Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think by Brian Wansink ?
The United States of Arugula by David Kamp ?
The Apprentice: My Life In The Kitchen by Jacques Pepin ?
Julie and Julia by Julie Powell ?
Life Is Meals by James Salter ?
The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel by John Lanchester ?
What's Your Food Sign? by Alan Hirsch ?
Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan ?
Real Food: What to Eat and Why by Nina Planck ?
The World in My Kitchen: The Adventures of a (Mostly) French Woman in New York by Colette Rossant ?
Two for the Road: Our Love Affair with American Food by Jane Stern and Michael Stern ?
Hotel Bemelmans by Ludwig Bemelmans ?
The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine by Steve Rinella ??
Diggin' In and Piggin' Out: The Truth About Food and Men by Roger Welsch ?
Food: The History of Taste by Paul Freedman (parts of) ?
Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes ?
Flash in the Pan: Life and Death of an American Restaurant by David Blum ?
Finance & Markets & Management
Winning by Jack Welch
The Wisdom of Crowds
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management by Pfeffer and Sutton
The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need by Andrew Tobias
Consider Your Options
The Four Pillars of Investing
The Strategy & Tactics of Pricing
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham ?
More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional
Places by Michael Mauboussin ?
Fashion
Dressing the Man: Mastering the Art of Permanent Fashion by Alan Flusser (?, because nearly all about formalwear)
The Indispensable Guide to Classic Men's Clothing by Josh Karlen (?, because nearly all about formalwear)
Stendhal: The Red and the Black (partially done, on
book two, chapter four, The Hotel de la Mole, about 2/3rds the way through
the chapter) (book
salon)
more plays by Moliere: The School for Wives Criticized, The Impromptu at Versailles, The Misanthrope, The Clever Women, The Imaginary Invalid (in addition to Tartuffe)
read (or see performed) Richard III, King Lear, and maybe Othello by Shakespeare
more Borges (Artifices (partially read), preferrably, or The Aleph, both in Collected Fictions)
stories by Chekhov (esp. translations by Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear)
other stories besides The Marquise of O and Michael Kohlhass by Heinrich von Kleist
Memorandum (an essay) by E. B. White (don't know what book it is published in)
Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (such as Hound of the Baskervilles)
maybe Eat the Rich or maybe Give War a Chance or All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty (in addition to Parliament of Whores) by P. J. O'Rourke
Before the Mortgage: Real Stories of Brazen Loves, Broken Leases, and the Perplexing Pursuit of Adulthood by Christina Amini and Rachel Hutton (Editors)