Freakanomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

I finished this book feeling like I was either too smart or too dumb to have read it. The authors acknowledge that the book is a collection of not-very-related topics. The central theme is the use of statistics in media, although I think the book is really about teaching skepticism. Unfortunately for the authors, my skepticism is sky-high to begin with, so the alternate ways in which statistics were interpreted in the book were nothing that I could not have dreamt up myself. (Thanks, Dad.)