Ex libris, et cetera

From the nightstand and beyond.

It’s true: I like to read. Though I might not be the speediest of readers and many things on the reading list would certainly not qualify as “high-brow,” I’ve always got a book and several other things I’m working my way through. If you’re a reader too, here are just a few recent reads that you might enjoy:

Books

All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr, fiction

Nexus and Crux, Ramez Naam, fiction

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler, fiction

Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter, fiction

The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt, fiction

How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer, Sarah Bakewell, non-fiction

The Essays of Montaigne, Michel de Montaigne, non-fiction

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, Randall Munroe, non-fiction

Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data, Charles Wheelan, non-fiction

The Alchemy of Air, Steven Johnson, non-fiction

Turing’s Cathedral, George Dyson, non-fiction

Web

The Moz Top 10 newsletter, SEO tips and more

Stack Overflow, geek source

Schneier on Security, it’s a dangerous (digital) world

And it’s not reading material really, but I’ve got to include Pinterest

Periodicals (online and not)

Harper’s

Fast Company

The University of California at Berkeley Wellness Letter

New York Times

Wall Street Journal

I’ve got more if you’re interested. And, if there’s anything you’ve read recently you’d recommend, I’d certainly love to hear about them.