Now that school is over I have time to catch up on my Summer reading list. I am fortunate my school’s library has a very nice selection of books and if I can’t get it there, the Kindle and iBooks stores will.

I seriously doubt I’ll finish even half this list between now and the beginning of the Fall semester, but I wanted to share this with my few blog readers, i.e. friends I tricked into reading my blog.

Thank you to Aaron R, Daniel D, Dan S, Matt K, Rose L, and David F. for their book suggestions.

I will provide links to the rest of the books tomorrow. It’s late and I need sleep

History

• The Gun by CJ Chivers
• IBM and the Holocaust : the strategic alliance between Nazi Germany and America’s most powerful corporation by Edwin Black
• Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943 by Antony Beevor
• The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 Beevor
• The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600 by Halil Inalcik
• War: Ends and Means, 2nd Edition by Angelo Codevilla

Education

• Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric by Ward Farnsworth
• Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History by William Safire
• How to use your mind: a psychology of study… by Harry Kitson (free from gutenberg.org I highly recommend this book for any learner)
• The Anatomy of Criticism by Northrup Frye
• Your Memory: How it Works by Kenneth Higbee
• Speed Reading for Professionalsby Wechsler and Bell
• Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English by Eric Partridge

Writing

• Usage & Abuse: A Guide to Good English by Janet Whitcut
• You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies by Eric Partridge

Fiction

• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Sewer, Gas, & Electric by Matt Ruff
• The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu by Maurice Joly
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
• Snow Crash by Stephenson

Poetry

• The Madman by Khalil Gibran

Computer Science

• The New Turing Omnibus by A. K. Dewdney
• Object Oriented Software Construction by Bertrand Meyer

Math

• Concrete Mathematics Graham, Knuth, and Patashnik
• Princeton Companion to Mathematics by

Design & Usability

• The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman

Philosophy

• Philosophy and the Young Child by Gareth Matthews

Bicycles

• Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance by Lennard Zinn