June 7, 2007

Summer Reading

My personal “collection development policy” involves picking up books that interest me as I come across them and adding them to a To Read shelf so that no matter what mood I’m in, I should have something there that strikes my fancy. Unfortunately I haven’t been doing much reading lately, so the stack has gotten out of control.

Here are the vaguely recent additions that I’m considering my “summer reading list.” (As though I could manage to get through all of them before Labor Day.) From the left:

• Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky
• The Road – Cormac McCarthy
• The User is Always Right: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web – Steve Mulder & Ziv Yaar
• Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning – Dan Brown
• Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing – Adam Greenfield
• Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things – Don Norman
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq – Rory Stewart
• Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor – Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
• Everything Bad is Good for You – Stephen Johnson
• Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder – David Weinberger
• Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide – Henry Jenkins

I think the ratio of titles with colon and subtitle to titles without may be a tad high. Any thoughts on where I should start?? (Items not on the list are also acceptable suggestions.)