This is a collection of the short essays that have appeared over the years in the Freakonomics blog. If you, like me, eventually got too behind on the blog to keep reading, it's a great way to get over your guilt. The essays are short enough that they make for great commuting or standing in line reading.

Unfortunately, the essays aren't necessarily the best (in my opinion), and they're organized by topic. That may seem like a good thing, but it isn't. It leads to reading three or four essays in a row about poker. Then you read 10 or so essays about cheating. I wish it had been arranged chronologically - part of the fun of the blog is not knowing what will come up next. Here, almost every topic got old before they were done with it.