Amusing/Interesting books that I've read in the past few years

• America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction


• Assassination Vacation


• The Best American Travel Writing 2004


• Blowing my Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy


• The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus


• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World


• Charles Kuralt's America


• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed


• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man


• Crampton Hodnet


• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time


• Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure


• The Dogs of Babel


• Don't Get Too Comfortable : The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems


• Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life


• The Experts' Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do


• Florence of Arabia


• Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China


• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything


• The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank


• House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time


• Hungry Planet


• The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance


• Julie and Julia : 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen


• Lance Armstrong's War : One Man's Battle Against Fate, Fame, Love, Death, Scandal, and a Few Other Rivals on the Road to the Tour de France


• The Little Women


• Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army


• Map of Love


• Maisie Dobbs series


• Memoirs of a Geisha


• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America


• The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series


• One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer


• Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year


• Plainsong


• Prep


• The Soup Peddler's Slow & Difficult Soups: Recipes And Reveries


• The Time Traveler's Wife


• A Very Long Engagement


• What the Dog Did: Tales from a Formerly Reluctant Dog Owner


• Word Freak: Heartbreak Triumph Genius Obsession World Competitive Scrabble Players


• Writing About Your Life: A Journey into the Past


• Yarn Harlot : The Secret Life of a Knitter