Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephan Dubner

Wow. This was such a fascinating book that I had to read it at all free moments of camp, and then finish it last night. Levitt is a economist who investigates a series of topics from real estate agents, the KKK, drug dealers, criminals, and the effects of names of children. He has plenty of data to back him up, making the book read more like an interesting case study on each of the topics, and it is not only easy to read, but grabs right out at you. It has very little to say about economics in the more traditional sense, as Levitt himself is a nonconformist one might say... Just fantastic, and I wholly recommend it to anyone. Really really.