One of the first things I did when I started the blog last year was to write reviews of the books I read. Since I had a 45 minute train ride each way to and from work, I cranked through a lot of books, and when I tried to write reviews to keep up with all of them, I realized I liked reading better than writing. So I stopped writing reviews and kept reading tons.

Now, I have a driving commute and my reading has ground to a halt. I’ve also started writing much more in general, so I thought I’d pick up my old book reviewing pen and take another crack at it. One twist: this time, I’ll use a classic Threadless/Tim Ferriss technique: demand measurement. Rather than me choosing which reviews will be most valuable, I’ll let you, yes you, my dozens of readers, decide which of all the books I’ve read you’d like to hear my take on. And if I don’t hear from anyone, I’ll just write other stuff!

(Funny story that got me thinking about book reviews again: when I was looking at the Search Engine terms that led people to my blog, I noticed several searches for book reviews. Not bad considering I’ve only written four. I also saw “pictures of a head in a vise” and wondered what my blog had to do with that. Well, I have a category “Pictures”, my blog title is “What’s in Peter’s Head”, and I wrote a review of a book by David Vise. Organic search results at their finest!)

Here are the books I’ve already reviewed:

The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor–and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car! by Tim Harford (review)
The Google Story by David Vise (review)
Mathematics and Humor: A Study of the Logic of Humor by John Allen Paulos (review)
The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken (review)

And here is a list of books I’ve read in the last couple years but haven’t reviewed (don’t worry, I’m not as anal as this looks. I have a wish-list on Amazon where I keep track of books as I finish reading them. A little text-munging got me this list), alphabetical by author’s first name, then title. Please leave a comment to cast your vote.

A Class Apart: Prodigies, Pressure, and Passion Inside One of America’s Best High Schools by Alec Klein
A Death in Vienna by Daniel Silva
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: Including a Life-Cycle Guide to Personal Investing by Burton G. Malkiel
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing, Ninth Edition by Burton G. Malkiel
ANSI Common LISP by Paul Graham
Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter’s by R. A. Scotti
Beautiful Evidence by Edward R. Tufte
Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional (Rails) by Christian Hellsten
Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine by J. Storrs Hall
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus
Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
Bringing Down the House : The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich
Can I Keep My Jersey?: 11 Teams, 5 Countries, and 4 Years in My Life as a Basketball Vagabond by Paul Shirley
Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels by Jill Jonnes
Contact by Carl Sagan
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough
Creating the Not So Big House: Insights and Ideas for the New American Home by Sarah Susanka
Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte
Flight Capital: The Alarming Exodus of America’s Best and Brightest by David Heenan
Forever Open, Clear, and Free: The Struggle for Chicago’s Lakefront by Lois Wille
Free Prize Inside: The Next Big Marketing Idea by Seth Godin
Genius Denied: How to Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds by Jan Davidson
Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Book 1) by J. K. Rowling
Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life by David D. Friedman
High Season: How One French Riviera Town Has Seduced Travelers for Two Thousand Years by Robert Kanigel
Home by Design: Transforming Your House Into Home by Sarah Susanka
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences (Vintage) by John Allen Paulos
Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity by Joel Spolsky
John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing (History of Computing) by William Aspray
Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe by William Rosen
Meta Math!: The Quest for Omega by Gregory Chaitin
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken
Negotiating Your Salary: How to Make $1000 a Minute, Revised by Jack Chapman
Not So Big Solutions for Your Home (Susanka) by Sarah Susanka
On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
Permission Marketing : Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers by Seth Godin
Prince of Fire by Daniel Silva
Rich Dad’s Rich Kid, Smart Kid: Giving Your Children a Financial Headstart by Robert T. Kiyosaki
Satan, Cantor and Infinity and Other Mind-boggling Puzzles by Raymond M. Smullyan
Sixty Million Frenchmen Cant Be Wrong by Jean-Benoit Nadeau
Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel by Austin Grossman
Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators by Riccardo Orizio
Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss
The Art of UNIX Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) by Eric S. Raymond
The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky by Joel Spolsky
The Big Red Fez: How To Make Any Web Site Better by Seth Godin
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Bootstrapper’s Bible: How to Start and Build a Business With a Great Idea and (Almost) No Money by Seth Godin
The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric S. Raymond
The Children Of Men by P.D. James
The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual by Christopher Locke
The Confessor by Daniel Silva
The Consumer’s Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists by Michael Brower
The English Assassin by Daniel Silva
The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent by Richard Florida
The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World’s Most Astonishing Number by Mario Livio
The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials) by Clayton M. Christensen
The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth by Clayton M. Christensen
The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries) by David Leavitt
The Messenger by Daniel Silva
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) by Frederick P. Brooks
The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live by Sarah Susanka
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt
The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life by Richard Florida
The Secret Servant (Gabriel Allon) by Daniel Silva
The Violin Maker: Finding a Centuries-Old Tradition in a Brooklyn Workshop by John Marchese
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition by Edward R. Tufte
Turing (A Novel about Computation) by Christos H. Papadimitriou
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward R. Tufte

Thanks and I hope some of these titles sound interesting!