Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages
by Alex Wright

You Are Not So Smart
by David McRaney
-see here

Sure, I had issues with this book. Studies have shown, "science tells us," that kind of thing. OK...? So slow down, check your work, make sure you're not fooling yourself. And don't trust everything you read...says the popular science book. Be careful out there, everyone. I guess this was a more accessible Thinking Fast and Slow. 

Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
- There seem to be several other books on similar topics, but is the first book I have read about biases and heuristics, so a lot of this was new to me. I really enjoyed reading it despite all the potentially boring discussion of studies and story problems. This seems like the book to read.

I've often thought that I'd love to write/read a "how to" book that talked about basic decision making and thinking, and the stuff in this book would be valuable for a book like that -- the easy errors to avoid, etc. I'm predicting that a lot of this book will stick with me for a long time, like the thing about how predictions are almost always wrong.

Incomplete list of things to remember: don't jump to conclusions from small sample sizes, don't jump to conclusions period, regression to the mean, What You See Is All There Is (WYSIATI), halo effect, priming, question substitution, repetition=familiarity=positive feelings, System 2 is lazy, experiencing self vs. remembering self, experts in low-validity environments are worse than random chance, Wall Street is bullshit, get the outside view, formulas and checklists beat intuitions...

The World Without Us
by Alan Weisman

A Short History of Progress
by Ronald Wright

Society and Knowledge
by Gordon Childe
(skimmed some sections)

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
by Thomas E. Ricks

Slouching Toward Bethlehem
by Joan Didion

selections from
A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vols. 1-3
by Egon Friedell

The Control of Nature
by John McPhee

Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
by Nicholson Baker