Good stuff I've been reading offline lately

These are books I've read within the past few years that I consider remarkable in one way or another. They have given me new ideas and genuinely fresh insights, changed the way I view the world, or left lasting impressions on me.

The links below take you to descriptions of each book at Amazon.com. If you happen to actually buy a book while you're there, I'll earn a miniscule commission - perhaps enough to order out a pizza once a year.

Fiction

• The Bone People, by Keri Hulme
• The Crossing, by Cormac McCarthy
• The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
• The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss
• One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
• Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
• The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger

Nonfiction

• The Age of Missing Information, by Bill McKibben
• The Ape That Spoke, by John McCrone
• The Art of Human-Computer Interfaces, edited by Brenda Laurel
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond
• The Design of Everyday Things, by Donald A. Norman
• Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman
• Everyday Sacred, by Sue Bender
• Freedom in Exile: the Autobiography of the Dalai Lama
• Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond
• Home - A Short History of an Idea, by Witold Rybczynski
• The Language Instinct, by Steven Pinker
• Money and the Meaning of Life, by Jacob Needleman
• The Moral Animal, by Robert Wright
• Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, by Robert Wright
• The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
• Out of Control, by Kevin Kelly
• Secrets of the Temple, by William Greider
• The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, by William Irwin Thompson
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• The Virtual Community, by Howard Rheingold   (full text online)
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward R. Tufte

You can also see what my book club has been reading.