Books I Have Read while Living in NYC

 

 

Count

Title

Author

Part

1

Isle of Woman

Anthony, Piers

All

2

Pride and Prejudice

Austen, Jane

All

3

Martian Chronicles

Bradbury, Ray

All

4

Walk in the Woods

Bryson, Bill

All

5

Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye

Byatt, A.S.

All

6

Power and Terror

Chomsky, Noam

All

7

Alchemist

Coelho, Paulo

All

8

Timeline

Crichton, Michael

All

9

How Proust Can Save Your life

De Botton, Alain

All

10

Third Chimpanzee

Diamond, Jared

All

11

Gambler

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

All

12

April Morning

Fast, Howard

All

13

Citizen Tom Paine

Fast, Howard

All

14

Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

All

15

October Sky

Hickam, Homer

All

16

Seabiscuit

Hillenbrand, Laura

All

17

Medusa Frequency

Hoban, Russell

All

18

Introducing Jung

Hyde / McGuinness

All

19

Peer Gynt

Ibsen, Henrik

All

20

WOT#1: Eye of the World

Jordan, Robert

All

21

WOT#2: Great Hunt

Jordan, Robert

All

22

WOT#3: Dragon Reborn

Jordan, Robert

All

23

Answer to Job

Jung, Carl Gustav

All

24

Confessions of a Street Addict

Kramer, James J.

All

25

Unbearable Lightness of Being

Kundera, Milos

All

26

Prince

Machiavelli, Nicolo

All

27

Cry for Myth

May, Rollo

All

28

Fires of Spring

Michener, James A.

All

29

Jung for Beginners

Platania, Jon

All

30

Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos

Poundstone, William

All

31

Beyond Civilization

Quinn, Daniel

All

32

Providence

Quinn, Daniel

All

33

Harry Potter I

Rowling, J. K.

All

34

Ender’s Game

Scott Card, Orson

All

35

Speaker for the Dead

Scott Card, Orson

All

36

Henry V

Shakespeare, William

All

37

Galileo’s Daughter

Sobel, Dava

All

38

LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring

Tolkien, J. R. R.

All

39

Zen in the Markets

Toppel, Edward A.

All

40

Shibumi

Trevanian

All

41

Sky is Not the Limit

Tyson, Neil DeGrasse

All

42

Puer Aeternus

Von Franz, Marie-Louise

All

43

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Feynman, Richard

All?

44

A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market

Paulos, John Allen

Half

45

Genome

Ridley, Matt

Half

46

Transformation of the God-Image

Edinger, Edward

I/P

47

A Primer of Jungian Psychology

Hall & Nordby

I/P

48

Man and His Symbols

Jung, C. G., ed.

I/P

49

Undaunted Courage

Ambrose, Stephen

Most

50

Guns Germs & Steel

Diamond, Jared

Most

51

American Sphinx

Ellis, Joseph J.

Most

52

Dreamquest

Kelsey, Morton

Most

53

Stories from American History

Lamb, Brian, ed

Most

54

Dinosaurs in the Attic

Preston, Douglas J.

Most

55

Non Zero

Wright, Robin

Most

56

Age of Spiritual Machines

Kurzweil, Ray

Some

 

No doubt others that I don’t find lying around or re-shelved

 

 

 

 

Life in NOLA & ABQ & WashDC

Feb 2004 thru June 2006 & June 2006 thru June 2009 & July 2009 thru now

 

Count Start End Title Author Type Part
      "in 1914, the biggest stranglehold was OK, with ...", p.23      
             
389 03/20 03/21 A Short History of Progress (lib) Wright, Ronald   All/
388 03/16 04/02 Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier (lib) Tyson, Neil de Grasse astronomy All/261
387 03/06 03/19 The Price of Civilization (lib) Sachs, Jeffrey economics All/
386 02/27 03/05 Corporations Are Not People (pur) Clements, Jeffrey   All/
385 02/23 2/29 Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right (lib) Frank, Thomas history, American All/187
387 01/04   The New Deal: A Modern History (lib) Hiltzik, Michael A. history, American 100/497
384 12/29   The Plundered Planet (lib)   economics, ecology 138/243
383 12/29 02/15 Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices (lib) Feldman, Noah history, American All/433
382 12/29 01/31 American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865 - 1900 (lib) Brands, H. W. history, American All/556
381 12/21   False Economy (lib) Beattie, Alan economics 90/301
380 12/21 12/23 You Deserve Nothing (lib) Maksik, Alexander fiction All/320
379 12/05 12/10 Boomerang (lib) Lewis, Michael economics All/213
378 11/28 12/13 Griftopia (lib) Taibbi, Matt politics All/252
377 11/28 12/09 Steve Jobs (lib) Isaacson, Walter biography All/571
376 10/25 11/07 Confidence Men (lib) Suskind, Ron current affairs All/485
375 10/25 10/29 Conscience of a Conservative (lib) Goldwater, Barry politics 85/123
374 10/11 10/11 How to Cure a Fanatic (lib) Oz, Amos essays All/95
373 09/23 11/21 What Americans Really Want ... Really (lib) Luntz, Frank political language All/290
372 09/23 10/10 Constitution Cafe: Jefferson's Brew for a True Revolution (lib) Phillips, Christopher history, American All/321
371 09/23 09/28 Here Comes Trouble (lib) Moore, Michael biography All/427
370 09/14 10/27 Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear (lib) Luntz, Frank political language All/305
369 09/06 11/23 The Integral Vision (lib) Wilber, Ken philosophy All/230
368 09/06 09/22 That Used to be Us (lib) Friedman, Thomas L & M Mandelbaum current affairs All/356
367 08/24 09/04 Genghis Khan & The Making of the Modern World (lib) Weatherford, Jack history All/270
366 08/16   Mornings on Horseback (lib) McCullough, David biography 100/370
365 08/04 08/08 The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (lib) McCullough, David history All/460
364 07/05   The Spirit Level (lib)     98/
363 06/09 06/14 Common Nonsense:Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance (lib) Zaitchik, Alexander politics All/273
362 06/03   The Idea of America (lib) ch 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,10,C (lib) Wood, Gordon S. American History 240/336
361 05/13 05/19 The Great American Stickup (lib) Scheer, Robert economics All/249
360 05/09 06/ Common Sense Economics: What everyone should know about wealth and prosperity (lib) Gwartney, Stroup, Lee, Ferrarini economics All/143
359 05/04 05/05 The Burial at Thebes (lib) Heaney, Seamus drama All/
358 04/25 05/26 The Myth of the Rational Market : a history of risk, reward, and delusion on Wall Street(lib) Fox, Justin economics All/321
357 04/22 05/02 The Speech (pur) Sanders, Bernie politics All/255
356 03/30 04/28 The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (lib) Palast, Greg politics All/200
355 03/30 04/17 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism (lib) Chang, economics All/304
354 03/17 03/24 Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (lib) Sandel, Michael J moral philosophy All/269
353 02/28 03/05 The War That Killed Achilles (lib) (p.239) Alexander, Caroline literary criticism All/228
352 02/23 03/13 The Science of Liberty : Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature (lib) Ferris, Timothy science, history All/293
351 02/19 02/24 The Death of Conservatism (lib) Tanenhaus, Sam politics All/120
350 02/19 02/20 This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women (lib) Allison, Jay & Dan Gediman, eds essays All/275
349 01/19   The Triumph of Politics (lib) Stockman, David economics 66/411
348 01/14 02/09 Comeback America (lib) Walker, David M economics All/212
347 01/14 01/31 What Would Jefferson Do? (lib) Hartmann, Thom politics All/275
346 01/10   The Grand Design (lib) Hawking, Stephen science 98/188
345 01/10   Decision Points (lib) Bush, George W memoirs 52/xxx
344 12/08   Courage and Consequences (lib) Rove, Karl autobiography 38/xxx
343   01/14 David Copperfield (iTouch) Dickens, Charles fiction All/850
342 12/08   Last child in the woods: saving our children from nature-deficit disorder (lib) Louv, Richard 155 50?/323
341 12/08 12/16 American Heroes (lib) Morgan, Edmund S American History All/258
340 12/08 12/11 Idiot America (lib) Pierce, Charles P sociology All/293
339 12/01 01/04 Rebooting the American Dream (lib) Hartmann, Thom politics All/203
338 12/01 01/02 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (lib) Heinlein, Robert A science fiction All/382
337 12/01 12/18 Secretariat (lib) Nack, William horse racing All/455
336 12/01 12/04 Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the TeaBagging of America (lib) Milbank, Dana politics All/272
335 10/28 11/01 Aftershock (lib) Reich, Robert economics All/174
334 10/18 11/13 Moral Landscape (lib) Harris, Sam evolution, ethics All/194
333 10/08 10/27 Screwed (lib) Hartmann, Thom politics All/248
332 09/29 10/05 Neuromancer (lib) Gibson, William science fiction All/278
331 09/24 09/28 The Ape House (lib) Gruen, Sara fiction All/306
330 09/16 12/07 The Greatest Show on Earth (lib) Dawkins, Richard biology, evolution All/437
329 09/03 09/08 Liar's Poker (lib) Lewis, Michael finance All/249
328 08/13 08/22 Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization (lib) Wells, Spencer ecology All/220
327 07/29 08/10 Darkness at Noon (lib) Koestler, Arthur fiction All/216
326 07/23 09/16 The Long Emergency (lib) Kunstler,James Howard apocalyptic All/307
325 07/20 08/03 Hitch 22: A Memoir (lib) Hitchens, Christopher biography All/422
324 07/08 07/20 Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto (lib) Levin, Mark R politics All/205
323 06/16   "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us" (lib) Nader, Ralph fiction 123/733
322 06/02   The Promise (lib) Alter, Jonathan current history 86/440
321 06/02 06/16 The Vanishing Face of Gaia (lib) Lovelock, James ecology All/258
319 05/24 06/30 Rules for Radicals (lib) Alinsky, Saul politics All/196
320 05/24 05/27 The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (lib) Lewis, Michael finance All/196
318 05/14 06/22 The End of Nature (lib) McKibben, Bill ecology All/185
317 05/14 05/21 Down and Out in Paris and London (lib) Orwell, George memoir All/213
316 05/01   Anthill (lib) Wilson, E.O. fiction 130/378
315 04/28 05/01 The Value of Nothing (lib) Patel, Raj economics All/219
314 04/24 05/30 The Thirteen American Arguments (lib) Fineman, Howard history All/250
313 04/24 05/08 eaarth (lib) McKibben, Bill ecology All/212
312 04/09   The Evolution of God (lib) Wright, Robert religion 45/541
311     The Count of Monte Cristo (iTouch) Dumas, Alexander fiction All/1344
310 04/09 04/13 The Undercover Economist (lib) Harford, Tim   All/252
309 04/07 04/08 Logicomix (lib) Doxiadēs, Apostolos K.   All/344
308 03/15   The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (lib) Chabon, Michael fiction 62/659
307 03/02 04/ Freefall (lib) Stiglitz, Joseph   All/361
306 02/20   36 Arguments for the Existence of God (lib) Goldstein, Rebecca Newberger fiction All/402
305 02/13 02/15 The Prophet's Way: Touching the Power of Life (pur) Hartmann, Thom   All/333
304 01/25   The Brenner Assignment     48/249
303 01/06   The Great Turning Korten, David   98/359
302 01/06   Meltdown (see p125 & p126, note for issues)(p25, 2nd para, loss of savings) (lib) Woods, Thomas E economics All/162
301 01/06 01/12 46 Pages: Thomas Paine, Common Sense, and the Turning Point to Independence (lib) Liell, Scott American History All/145
300 12/21   Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (lib) Levitt, Steven D & Stephen J Dubner economics All/256
299 12/16 12/20 What the Dog Saw (and Other Adventures) (lib) Gladwell, Malcolm essays All/410
298 11/28 02/07 I Am America (And So Can You!) (lib) Colbert, Stephen humor All/229
297 11/28   Going Rogue: an American Life Palin, Sarah autobiography 114/413
296 11/19 12/08 True Compass (lib) Kennedy, Edward M. biography, Am History All/511
295 11/19 11/22 Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis (only the photos and captions) Gore, Al ecology, earth science xxx/404
294 11/12 11/20 To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders(lib) Bailyn, Bernard American History All/149
293 10/28   The Greatest Show on Earth Dawkins, Richard evolution 60/437
292 10/24 10/29 Alex & Me (lib) Pepperberg, Irene M fiction All/226
291 10/24 10/26 The Lost Symbol (lib) Brown, Dan fiction All/509
290 10/13 11/22 Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America Waldman, Steven American History, Religion All/264
289 10/08 10/16 Dinner at Mr. Jefferson's: three men, five great wines, the evening that changed America Cerami, Charles A. American History All/255
288 10/06 11/09 Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (lib) Vidal, Gore American History All/189
287 09/22 09/26 Glenn Beck's Common Sense (lib) Beck, Glenn political All/167
286 09/21 10/28 Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations (lib) Nelson, Craig biography, politics All/339
285 09/1x 10/08 The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule (lib) Frank, Thomas political All/353
284 09/12 9/13 Supreme Courtship (lib) Buckley, Christopher fiction All/285
      The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It How To Get It Back Sullivan, Andrew politics 34/280
  08/06   Intelligent Thought: Science vs. the Intelligent Design Movement Brockman, John ed. science 106/256
  08/24 09/04 Sky of Stone Hickham, Homer memoir 136/571
  08/18 09/04 Light Harrison, M John fiction 37/309
  08/10 09/04

Why Him?  Why Her? (lib)

M Directors choose F Negotiators, M Explorers choose F Explorers

Fisher, Helen pop psychology 52/241
283 08/15 08/16 Me of Little Faith (lib) Black, Lewis humor All/237
282 08/14 08/23 Threshold Hartmann, Thom   All/262
281 08/10 08/14 Crazy for God (lib) Schaeffer, Frank memoir All/408
280 07/31 08/01 The Kingsnake in the Sun De Herrera, John fiction All/207
279 07/03 07/19 Lies Across America (pur) Loewen, James American History All/436
278 06/13 07/29 The American Future, A History (lib, 2x) Schama, Simon history All/373
277 05/27 06/05 The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 (lib) Krugman, Paul economics All/191
276 05/18   Descartes' Bones (lib) Shorto, Russell history 124/253
275 05/16 06/24 The Enchantress of Florence (lib) Rushdie, Salman fiction All/349
274     Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (pur) Loewen, James American History All/
273 05/02 05/10 Outliers: The Story of Success (lib) Gladwell, Malcolm   All/299
272 04/18 04/21 Angels and Demons (lib) Brown, Dan fiction All/572
271 04/17 04/17 Doubt: A Parable (lib) Shanley, John Patrick drama All/58
270 04/14 05/07 How We Decide (lib) Lehrer, Jonah psychology All/265
269 04/14 05/02 The Conscience of a Liberal (lib) Krugman, Paul politics All/274
268 03/24 04/01 The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (lib) Darwin, Charles biography All/243
267 03/04   Dreams from My Father (lib) Obama, Barack biography 64/457
266 03/04 03/05 The Reader (lib) Schlink, Bernhard fiction All/218
265 02/26 03/03 The Watchmen (lib) Moore, Alan&D Gibbins graphic novel All/416
264 02/13 02/15 The Philosopher's Apprentice (lib) Morrow, James fiction All/411
263 02/09 03/11 Unequal Protection: Rise of Corporate Dominance & Theft of Human Rights (lib) Hartmann, Thom politics All/316
262 01/28   How to Read Literature Like a Professor (lib) Foster, Thomas C   152/296
261 01/28 01/30 The Darwin Awards, Next Evolution: Chlorinating the Gene Pool (lib) Northcutt, Wendy humor All/277
260 01/24 02/23 1776 (lib) McCullough, David American history All/297
259 01/24 01/27 We the People: A Call to Take Back America (lib) Hartmann, Thomas politics All/200
258 01/22 01/23 Dewey: The Small-Town Cat Who Touched the World (lib) Myron, Vicki hmmm All/277
257 12/29 01/27 The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight (lib) Hartmann, Thomas current affairs All/370
256 12/23 12/25 Cracking the Code (lib) Hartmann, Thomas current affairs / politics All/216
255 12/22 02/03 The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (lib) Toobin, Jeffrey   All/432
254 12/04 01/12 Hot, Flat, and Crowded (lib) Friedman, Thomas L current affairs, ecology All/421
253 12/04 12/06 Duluth (lib) Vidal, Gore fiction All/214
252 11/25 12/22 Journals: 1952 - 2000 (lib) Schlesinger, Arthur M Jr memoirs All/858
251 11/25 11/26 The Last Lecture (lib) Pausch, Randy memoir All/206
250 11/19 11/21 Outsider in the House (pur) Sanders, Bernie political All/244
249 10/18 10/22 Just How Stupid Are We?: Facing the Truth about the American Voter Shenkman, Rick   All/196
248 10/17 11/24 The Monkey Wrench Gang (lib) Abbey, Edward fiction All/421
247 10/01   Forty Signs of Rain Robinson, Kim Stanley science-fiction 96/358
246 10/01 11/03 American Gods (lib) Gaiman, Neil fiction All/465
245 10/01 10/14 Stardust (lib) Gaiman, Neil fiction, fable All/238
244 09/23 10/31 Heroic Conservatism Gerson, Michael J   214/292
243 09/23 09/29 Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality (lib) Murray, Charles Education All/200
242 09/13 09/25 The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (lib) Gladwell, Malcolm Social Sciences All/294
241 09/08   Atlas Shrugged Rand, Ayn fiction 306/1168
240 09/08 09/09 Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking (lib) Gladwell, Malcolm Psychology All/265
239 08/09   God Is a Verb: Kabbalah and the practice of mystical Judaism Cooper, David A comp religion, Judaism 120/323
238 08/06 08/13 The Hammer of God (lib) Clarke, Arthur C science-fiction All/226
237 08/06 08/08 Rendezvous with Rama (lib) Clarke, Arthur C science-fiction All/274
236 07/29 08/04 Prelude to Foundation (lib) Asimov, Isaac science-fiction All/403
235 07/05 07/16 Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul (lib) Miller, Kenneth R Life Sciences All/235
234 06/27 07/12 The Revolution: A Manifesto (lib) Paul, Ron Political Science All/173
233 06/12   Limits to Growth : the 30-year update Meadows, Donella et al Economics, Ecology 106/293
232 06/12 06/17 Picture This (lib) Heller, Joseph fiction All/341
231 05/29   Ada Nabokov, Vladimir fiction 42/589
230 05/29 05/29 Belief or nonbelief? : a confrontation (lib) Eco, Umberto & Cardinal Martini   All/
229 05/24 09/21 Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (lib) Reich, Robert Political Science All/251
228 05/24 09/05 Earth in the Balance (lib) Gore, Al Ecology All/373
227 05/20 06/17 Trickster Makes This World (lib) Hyde, Lewis   All/388
226 05/20 05/23 Maps and Legends (lib) Chabon, Michael Literature & rhetoric All/222
225 05/12 08/04 Justinian's Flea Rosen, William   240/325
224 05/12 05/12 The Purpose of the Past Wood, Gordon S history 55/308
223 04/18   Cosmos Sagan, Carl 520, Astronomy  
222 04/18 04/24 Truth and Consequences : Special Comments on the Bush Administration's War on American Values Olbermann, Keith 973, NAmerican history All/172
221 04/18 04/20 A People's History of American Empire Zinn, Howard & Mike Konopacki & Paul Buhle 741, history graphical All/264
220 04/14   Tom Paine : A Political Life Keane, John biography  
219 04/14   Freethinkers : A History of American Secularism Jacoby, Susan 211, Theory of Religion 65/370
218 04/05   The Adams-Jefferson Letters : the complete correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams ed. Cappon, Lester J 973, NAmerican history  
217 04/05 04/21 American creation : triumphs and tragedies at the founding of the republic Ellis, Joseph J. 973, NAmerican history All/270
216 04/05 04/10 The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Sagan, Carl 001, Generalities All/437
215 03/12   An incomplete education Jones, Judy & W Wilson   122/662
214 03/12 05/01 Thomas Paine and the Promise of America Kaye, Harvey J. 320, Political Science All/262
213 03/12 03/16 Fight Club Palahniuk, Chuck fiction All/208
212 03/01 07/10 James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights Labunski, Richard 342, Law 69/321
211 03/01 03/13 Where Does the Money Go?: guided tour to the federal budget crisis Bittle, Scott & Jean Johnson 336, Economics All/
210 02/21 02/29 Monkey Girl : Evolution, Education, Religion and the Battle for America's Soul Humes, Edward 211, Theory of Religion All/366
209 02/21 02/23 40 Days and 40 Nights : Darwin, intelligent design, God, Oxycontin, Chapman, Matthew 345, Law, Dover ID trial All/272
208 02/09 03/02 Not in Our Classrooms - re-read from p.52 Scott, Eugenie 231, Christianity All/152
207 01/25 02/18 The Man in the Iron Mask Dumas, Alexandre fiction All/470
206 01/19   The Shock Doctrine : the Rise of Disaster Capitalism Klein, Naomi 330, Economics 58/466
205 01/07 02/02 The French Lieutenant's Woman Fowles, John fiction All/350
204 01/07 01/23 The Amber Spyglass Pullman, Philip fantasy, fiction All/465
203 01/07 01/08 Mantissa Fowles, John fiction All/196
202 12/15   The Portable Atheist Hitchens, Christopher 211, Theory of Religion ?/480
201 12/11 01/0? American Gospel: God, Founding Fathers, & Making of Nation (lib) Meacham, Jon 322, Political Science All/290
200 12/11 01/05 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (lib) Taleb, Nassim Nich. 121, Causation 68/329
199 12/11 12/20 Martin Dressler (lib) Millhauser, Steven fiction All/293
198 12/11 12/14 The Subtle Knife: Part Two of His Dark Materials (lib) Pullman, Philip fantasy, fiction All/326
197 12/3 12/11 Boom! Voices of the Sixties (lib) Brokaw, Tom 973, history NAmerica All/615
196 12/1 12/2 Finding Jefferson (gift) Dershowitz, Alan ???, essay, political All/233
195 11/20 11/21 The Gospel According to the Son (lib) Mailer, Norman fiction All/242
194 11/16   Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think (lib) Hauser, Marc 591, Animals 34/257
193 11/16 11/29 The Golden Compass: Part One of His Dark Materials (lib) Pullman, Philip fantasy, fiction All/399
192 10/26 10/28 The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot (lib) Wolf, Naomi politics All/192

191

10/13

10/17

Thomas Paine's Rights of Man : a biography (lib)

Hitchens, Christopher

history, biography

All/142

190

10/8

11/14

Dead Certain : the presidency of George W. Bush (lib)

Draper, Robert

history

All/444

189

10/1

10/7

Epicenter: Why Current Rumblings M E Will Change Yr Future (lib)

Rosenberg, Joel C.

religion, fiction

212/312

188

9/24

10/12

Haroun and the Sea of Stories (lib)

Rushdie, Salman

fiction, fable

All/211

187

9/12

9/27

American fascists : the Christian Right and the war on America (lib)

Hedges, Chris

religion, politics

All/207

186

9/12

10/12

The Canon : a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science (lib)

Angier, Natalie

science

50/264

185

9/12

9/13

Plato & a Platypus Walk into a Bar ... (lib)

Cathcart, Thomas & Daniel Klein

philosophy, humor

All/200

184

9/6

9/7

God is my Broker (lib)

Buckley, Christopher & John Tierney

satire, self-help

All/197

183

8/25

9/7

Three Men in a Boat (pur)

Jerome, Jerome K

fiction, humor

All/150

182

8/18

9/12

A Shadow in Summer (lib)

Abraham, Daniel

fiction, fantasy

30/331

181

8/11

 

Good Omens (lib)

Pratchett, Terry & Neil Gaiman

fiction

86/384

180

8/11

9/12

Blessed Unrest (lib)

Hawkens, Paul

environmentalism

??/319

179

7/24

8/19

Religious Literacy (lib)

Prothero, Stephen

religion

All/279

178

7/20

9/26

The Toilers of the Sea (lib)

Hugo, Victor

fiction

18/430

177

7/16

7/27

God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (lib)

Hitchens,Christopher

religion

All/286

176

7/14

9/26

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (lib)

Dennett, Daniel

religion

88/412

175

6/18

7/16

The Assault on Reason (lib)

Gore, Al

politics

All/276

174

6/11

8/05

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (lib)

Kundera, Milan

fiction

All/236

173

6/11

6/18

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (lib)

Kundera, Milan

fiction

All/314

172

05/25

05/28

Opening day : the story of Jackie Robinson's first season (lib)

Eig, Jonathan

sports

All/281

171

05/19

06/11

Nana (lib)

Zola, Emile

fiction

All/470

170

05/19

05/22

Still Life with Woodpecker (lib)

Robbins, Tom

fiction

58/277

169

05/15

05/22

The Language of God (lib)

Collins, Francis

science, religion

All/275

168

05/14

05/25

Thérèse Raquin (lib)

Zola, Emile

fiction

All/256

167

05/05

 

The Castle In the Forest (lib)

Mailer, Norman

fiction

96/467

166

04/25

 

Man O'War (lib)

Ours, Dorothy

sports, horses

50/325

165

04/16

05/16

Mere Christianity (lib)

Lewis, C.S.

religion

All/227

164

03/27

 

Think and Grow Rich (lib)

Hill, Napoleon

 

145/381

163

03/21

 

The Sixth Extinction (lib)

Leakey, Richard

 

???/254

162

03/11

03/23

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (pur)

Hugo, Victor

fiction, history, French

All/509

161

03/10

04/15

What a Party!: My Life Among Democrats (lib)

McAuliffe, Terry

 

All/388

160

03/10

03/28

The Supreme Court: the Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America (lib)

Rosen, Jeffrey

 

All/261

159

03/02

 

The Jews in America: the Roots, History, and Destiny of American Jews (lib)

Dimont, Max I.

history, Judaism

72/262

158

03/03

 

Human Accomplishment (pur)

Murray, Charles

 

104/624

157

03/02

03/08

The Merchant of Venice (lib)

Shakespare, William

drama

All/94

156

02/21

 

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (pur)

Diamond, Jared

 

110/525

155

02/13

02/15

Great Justices of the Supreme Court (lib)

Aaseng, Nathan

history, American

All/153

154

01/27

02/04

The God Delusion (pur) - ***

Dawkins, Richard

religion, science

All/406

153

01/20

02/14

Boomeritis (lib) - *

Wilber, Ken

fiction

All/456

152

01/20

02/19

The Secret (lib)

Byrne, Rhonda

New Age advice

132/198

151

01/20

01/21

V for Vendetta (lib)

Moore, Alan & David Lloyd

graphic novel

All/286

150

01/13

01/15

Busting Loose from the Money Game (lib)

Scheinfeld, Robert

New Age advice

All/225

149

12/27

01/01

Flashman at the Charge (lib)

Fraser, G M

fiction

92/288

148

12/22

12/28

A Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife (lib)

Quinn, Daniel & Tom Whalen

fiction

All/136

147

12/14

 

The New Life (lib)

Pamuk, Orhan

fiction

128/296

146

11/28

12/03

The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation (lib)

Jacobson, Sid & E Colon

 

All/131

145

10/30

 

Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician (lib)

Everitt, Anthony

history, ancient

36/325

144

11/10

11/25

Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story..Scientific Betting System.. (lib)

Poundstone, Wm

trading/gambling/math

All/329

143

10/30

01/11

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (lib) - **

Isaacson, Walter

history, biography

All/511

142

10/20

12/10

Why We Do It: Rethinking Sex and the Selfish Gene (lib)

Eldredge, Niles

psychology, evolution

All/258

141

10/16

 

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (lib)

Brands, H. W.

history, biography

28/716

140

10/17

10/20

Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (lib)

Chomsky, Noam

 

28/266

139

10/05

10/28

The "God" Part of the Brain (lib)

Alper, Matthew

religion, evolution

All/175

138

10/05

10/07

Imperial Ambitions (lib)

Chomsky, Noam

political science

All/201

137

10/05

10/30

From Beirut to Jerusalem (lib)

Friedman, Thomas

history, MidEast current

87/530

136

10/05

10/05

A Contract with God (lib) - *

Eisner, Will

fiction, graphic novel

All/188

135

10/03

10/29

The Question of God: C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God (lib)

Nicholi, Armand Jr.

theory of religion

80/244

134

10/03

10/08

Don't Think of an Elephant (lib)

Lakoff, George

political science

All/124

133

9/25

12/26

A History of the End of the World (bor)

Kirsch, Jonathan

Bible

92/321

132

9/25

10/21

The Creation (lib)

Wilson, Edward O

economics (sic)

All/168

131

9/24

9/25

Letter to a Christian Nation (bor)

Harris, Sam

religion

All/92

130

9/20

10/10

Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome (Cicero) (gift) - *

Harris, Robert

fiction, historic Rome

All/305

129

9/1

9/28

The Revenge of Gaia (lib) - *

Lovelock, James

earth science

All/165

128

8/7

 

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (pur)

Clarke, Susanna

fiction

354/1000

127

8/13

8/16

An Inconvenient Truth (lib) - *

Gore, Al

earth science

All/323

126

7/18

8/8

The Ages of GAIA (lib)

Lovelock, James

earth science

74/237

125

7/18

8/20

Misquoting Jesus (lib)

Erdman, Bart

religion, Christianity

All/227

124

7/20

7/25

Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (lib) - *

Thompson, Hunter S.

political/political, memoir

All/508

123

6/24

7/17

Ideas That Changed the World (lib)

Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe

history

115/391

122

5/30

6/12

The Conscience of a Liberal (lib)

Wellstone, Paul

political, biography

All/216

121

5/17

7/???

A Little History of the World (lib) - *

Gombrich, E. H.

history

All/284

120

5/17

6/6

What We Believe But Cannot Prove (lib)

ed. Brockman, John

essays, science

All/252

119

5/17

5/27

Freakonomics - **

Levitt, Steven & Stephen Dubner

economics

All/232

118

5/15

5/25

The Jesus Papers: Exposing the Greatest Cover-Up in History - *

Baigent, Michael

religious historical speculation

All/286

117

4/27

5/27

Personal Mythology: The Psychology of Your Evolving Self

Feinstein, David & Stanley Krippner

psychology, myth

32/247

116

4/2

4/10

Truth and Fiction in The DaVinci Code (lib)

Ehrman, Bart D

religion,Christianity

All/197

115

3/27

 

Dianetics (pur, $.25)

Hubbard, L. Ron

?

42/614

114

3/25

4/22

1776 (lib)

McCullough, David

history, American

159/294

113

3/4

3/25

The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi (lib)

Wilson, William S

biography

84/287

112

2/23

3/8

The Count of Monte Cristo (e-book!) this is the 1st book I have ever read entirely from my pda (90%) and my PC (10%) (the 2 unabridged editions that my local library owns are 1276 & 1365 pages; the 1344 comes from the first time I dumped the e-text into MS Word in its default page and font settings) (there is a video production that is 8 hours long) - *****

Dumas, Alexandre pere

fiction, Fr q-histor

All/1344

111

2/1

2/26

The World Is Flat (lib)

Friedman,Thomas L

socio-economics

All/473

110

2/12

2/16

Other Voices, Other Rooms (lib)

Capote, Truman

fiction, memoir

36/231

109

2/1

2/10

Scandalmonger (lib)

Safire, William

fiction, Am history

97/488

108

1/29

1/29

The Case for a Creator (lib)

Smolen, Lee

religion

50/340

107

1/17

1/22

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (lib) - *

Harris, Sam

religion

All/291

106

1/6/
20006

1/9

The Truth (with jokes) (lib)

Franken, Al

humor, political

All/336

105

12/28

1/2

When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops (lib)

Carlin, George

humor

All/295

104

12/19

 

Intelligence In Nature: An Inquiry Into Knowledge (lib)

Narby, Jeremy

anthropology

40/243

103

12/15

12/26

Oryx and Crake (lib)

Atwood,Margaret

fiction, futuristic

All/376

102

12/15

12/25

The Planets (lib)

Sobel, Dava

science?

150+/254

101

12/8

 

A Wizard of Earthsea (lib)

LeGuin, Ursula K

science fiction

/198

100

12/8

1/28

Whose Bible Is It? (lib)

Pelikan, Jaroslav

religion, bible

All/274

99

12/8

12/19

Zorro (lib)

Allende, Isabel

fiction

All/390

98

12/6

1/26

Kepler's Witch (lib) - *

Connor, James A

science, biography

All/364

97

12/6

12/27

A Song for Lya (lib)

Martin, George R

science fiction

141/208

96

12/6

 

Origins (lib)

Tyson, Neil deG

science, cosmology

/321

95

11/27

11/27

The FairTax Book (lib)

Boortz, Neil

politics, taxation

All/200

94

11/16

11/17

Ishmael (lib) - ***

Quinn, Daniel

fiction, GAIAn

All/262

 

 

 

These books are my current commitment.  The Durant is a BIG read, the Dawkins is a TOUGH topic for me (embarrassingly ignorant of high-school biology).  Three others (bread, health and poker) are references and they have their own tempo.  SO, I will not be reading a large number of new books anytime soon.  {Hah hah, see below)

 

 

 

93

10/8

10/10

Gilgamesh (lib)

Mitchell, Stephen (trans.)

poem, epic

All/292

92

10/5

10/7

Questioning the Millennium (lib)

Gould, Stephen Jay

essays, numbers

All/179

91

10/5

 

Will They Ever Trust Us Again? (lib)

Moore, Michael

politics, Iraq war

40/218

90

9/15

9/19

Heroes of History (lib) - *

Durant, Will

history

All/329

89

 

 

Our Oriental Heritage (pur)

Durant, Will

history, early

444/938

88

7/30

7/31

State of Fear (lib)

Crichton, Michael

fiction, eco-terrorism

All/603

87

 

 

Moral Politics (lib)

Lakoff, George

politics, psychology

 

86

6/16

6/17

The Trojan Women (lib)

Euripides

classic drama

All/33

85

6/5

 

The Cartoon Guide to Physics (lib)

Gonick, L & Art Huffman

physics, humor

24/207

84

6/5

 

The Cartoon History of the Universe III (lib) - *

Gonick, Larry

humor, world history

All/303

83

5/27

6/17

You: The Owner's Manual (lib --> pur) (see below)

Roizen, Michael F & Mehmet Oz

health

110/400

82

5/27

 

Caro's Book of Poker Tells (pur)

Caro, Mike

poker

84/309

81

5/27

 

The Theory of Poker (pur)

Sklansky, David

poker

All/292

80

5/27

 

The Psychology of Poker (pur)

Schoonmaker, Alan M

poker

/315

79

5/

 

The Tao of Poker (pur)

Phillips, Larry W

poker

/240

78

5/27

5/27

The Snow Queen (lib)

Andersen, Hans Christian

fairy tale

All/96

77

5/18

5/22

The Holy (lib)

Quinn, Daniel

fiction, animism

All/412

76

5/5

5/10

Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People (pur)

Preston, A S & G Dinkin

memoir, gambling

All/270

75

5/3

 

Time: A Traveler's Guide (lib)

Pickover, Clifford A

 

0/280

74

5/3

6/17

The Stars of Heaven (lib)

Pickover, Clifford A

astronomy

50/225

73

5/2

5/15

The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time (lib)

Durant, Will

essays, history

All/118

72

5/2

5/11

The Lessons of History (lib)

Durant, Will

essays, history

All/102

71

4/27

5/2

The Cartoon History of the Universe II,Vols. 8 - 13 (lib)

Gonick, Larry

humor, world history

All/305

71

5/2

5/3

I, Robot (lib)

Asimov, Isaac

science fiction

All/274

70

4/20

6/7

The Human Story (lib)

Davis, James C

history

All/440

69

4/20

5/10

Holy Blood, Holy Grail (lib) - *

Baigent, M & R Leigh

religious historical speculation

All/475

68

4/17

4/24

The Three Musketeers (lib) - ****

Dumas, Alexandre pere

fiction, French historical

All/724

67

4/13

 

God's Politics (lib)

Wallis, Jim

politics, religion

44/374

66

4/08

4/27

Inept:Impaired:Overwhelmed (lib)

Lepp, Bil

fiction, humor

All/163

65

4/08

4/17

Foucault's Pendulum (pur) - *

Eco, Umberto

fiction

All/641

64

4/06

4/10

The Cartoon History of the Universe, Vols. 1 - 7 (lib)

Gonick, Larry

humor, world history

All/360

63

3/23

4/10

Wise Men and Their Tales (lib)

Wiesel, Elie

essays, religious

200/336

62

3/23

3/24

Odysseus: A Life (lib)

Beye, Charles Rowan

fiction, classical

All/192

61

 

2/28

Humankind (lib)

Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe

historical essay

All/180

60

 

 

The Origin of Satan (lib)

Pagels, Elaine

historical, religious

40/184

59

 

 

Bushworld (lib)

Dowd, Maureen

humor, political satire

263/523

58

2/4

2/10

Doonesbury's Greatest Hits: A Mid-70's Revue (lib)

Trudeau, G B

humor, political satire

All/220

57

2/1

2/14

A Devil's Chaplain (lib)

Dawkins, Richard

biology, Evolutionary, essays

All/248

56

2/1

2/7

Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected (lib)

Boorstin, Daniel J

historical, essays

All/199

55

1/??

1/31

Antiquity: ..Birth of Sumer..to..Fall of Rome.. (own)

Cantor, Norman F

history, classical

All/232

54

1/11/
2005

1/16

Inside the Animal Mind (lib)

Page, George

science, ethology(animal behavior)

All/264

53

12/26

1/2

Hidalgo and Other Stories (lib)

Hopkins, Frank

fiction (old West), memoir

All/212

52

12/12

 

Wealth and Democracy (lib)

Phillips, Kevin

Amer history, economico-political

 

51

12/18

12/23

Darwin Awards II (lib)

Northcutt, Wendy

humor, satire

All/221

50

12/20

12/21

Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons (lib)

Watterson, Bill

humor, comics

All/128

49

12/3

12/4

Homegrown Democrat (lib)

Keillor, Garrison

memoir-essay, political

All/238

48

11/27

11/30

The Calvin & Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book (lib)

Watterson, Bill

humor, comics

All/128

47

11/27

11/30

Yeager (lib)

Yeager, Chuck & Janos, Leo

Biography, American, mid-20C, airflight

All/331

46

11/12

02/04

The Well-Educated Mind (lib)

Bauer, Susan Wise

 

sc220/404

45

11/12

02/04

The Closing of the Western Mind (lib)

Freeman, Charles

History, Christianity & science

215/340

44

11/10

11/10

Bridge for Dummies (lib)

Kantar, Eddie

Games, Bridge

1,8,9

43

11/10

11/10

25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know (lib)

Seagram & Smith

Games, Bridge

1,2,3

42

10/19

10/22

The Digital Fortress (lib)

Brown, Dan

Fiction, Cryptography

All/372

41

10/15

10/19

Walter Benjamin and the Dairy Queen (lib)

McMurtry, Larry

Memoir, Social Comment

All/204

40

10/4

10/9

Off Camera (lib)

Koppel, Ted

Memoir, Modern History

All/320

39

9/27

 

Inner Work (own)

Johnson, Robert A

Psychology, InDepth

 

38

9/30

 

Quicksilver (lib)

Stephenson, Neal

Fiction,

152/916

37

9/8

9/25

Seabiscuit (lib) (again) - **

Hillenbrand, Laura

History & Sports, America 1930's

All/483

36

 

9/20

WOT#4: The Shadow Rising (own) - ***

Jordan, Robert

Fiction, Fantasy

All/980

35 9/5 9/7 Fanatics & Fools: Game Plan for Winning Back America (lib) Huffington, Arianna Political Essays All/366
34 8/27 9/5 A Confederacy of Dunces (lib) Toole, John Kennedy fiction, farce All/462
33 8/11 8/29 A Short History of Nearly Everything (lib) Bryson, Bill science, history All/478
32 7/8 7/28 The World of King Arthur (lib) Snyder, Christopher Mythology, History lot/177
31 7/8 7/28 King Arthur (lib) Goodrich, Norma Lorre Mythology, History lot/365
30 7/8 7/10 Tales of King Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory, abridged (lib) Senior, Michael Mythology, Literature All/347
29 6/?/4

8/20/5

From Dawn to Decadence (lib à pur) - *** Barzun, Jacques History, Modern, Cultural All/802
28 6/23 6/25 The Man Who Wrestled with God (lib) Sanford, John A Mythology, Psychology All
27 6/23 6/23 The Man Who Lost His Shadow (lib) Sanford, John A Fiction, Psychology All
26 6/18 6/22 We (pur) Johnson, Robert A Mythology, Psychology All
25 6/18 6/18 She (pur) Johnson, Robert A Mythology, Psychology All
24 6/17 6/17 He (lib à pur) Johnson, Robert A Mythology, Psychology All
23     The Red Queen (lib) Ridley, Matt Evolutionary Biology Half
22     Journey from the Dawn: Life with the World’s First Family (lib) Johanson, Donald Anthropology All
21     The Second American Revolution & Other Essays (lib) Vidal, Gore Political, Essays Most
20     Darwin Awards (lib) Northcutt, Wendy Humor, Stupids All
19     Bush At War (lib) Woodward, Bob Political, Modern History All
18     Dreaming War (lib) Vidal, Gore Political, Essays All
17     Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace (lib) Vidal, Gore Political, Essays All
16     A Natural History of Love (own) Ackerman, Diane Love, Essays All
15     Downsize This! (lib) Moore, Michael Political, Humor All
14 5/19 5/22 Left Behind (lib) - * LaHaye & Jenkins Fiction, Christian All
13     A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market (own) Paulos, John Allen Trading All
12     The Seekers (own) - *** Boorstin, Daniel J. History All
11 4/26   The Siege of Troy (Iliad) (pur) - * Tobin, Greg / Homer Epic All
10     The Erotic Silence of the American Wife (bor) Heyn, Dalma Sociology, Genders All
9     Delta of Venus (own) Nin, Anais Fiction, Erotica All
8     Illuminati Trilogy (lib) Shea & Wilson Fiction, History Half
7     Schrodinger’s Cat (lib) Wilson, Robert Anton Fiction, SciFi Half
6     Darwinia (lib) Wilson, Robert Fiction, EcoFi All
5     The DaVinci Code (lib) - ** Brown, Dan Fiction, Church History All
4 3/17   Angels and Demons (pur) - ** Brown, Dan Fiction, Church History All
3   4/02 Life of Pi (lib) - ** Martel, Yann Fiction, Parable All
2     Clan of the Cave Bears (lib) Auel, Jean Fiction, Anthropological All
1 2/04 2/04 Inherit The Wind (lib) - * Lawrence & Lee Drama, Historical All

 

 

Count

Start

End

Title

Author

Type

Part

1

2/04

2/04

Inherit The Wind (lib) - *

Lawrence & Lee

Drama, Historical

All

2

 

 

Clan of the Cave Bears (lib)

Auel, Jean

Fiction, Anthropological

All

3

 

4/02

Life of Pi (lib) - **

Martel, Yann

Fiction, Parable

All

4

3/17

 

Angels and Demons (pur) - **

Brown, Dan

Fiction, Church History

All

5

 

 

The DaVinci Code (lib) - **

Brown, Dan

Fiction, Church History

All

6

 

 

Darwinia (lib)

Wilson, Robert

Fiction, EcoFi

All

7

 

 

Schrodinger’s Cat (lib)

Wilson, Robert Anton

Fiction, SciFi

Half

8

 

 

Illuminati Trilogy (lib)

Shea & Wilson

Fiction, History

Half

9

 

 

Delta of Venus (own)

Nin, Anais

Fiction, Erotica

All

10

 

 

The Erotic Silence of the American Wife (bor)

Heyn, Dalma

Sociology, Genders

All

11

4/26

 

The Siege of Troy (Iliad) (pur) - *

Tobin, Greg / Homer

Epic

All

12

 

 

The Seekers (own) - ***

Boorstin, Daniel J.

History

All

13

 

 

A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market (own)

Paulos, John Allen

Trading

All

14

5/19

5/22

Left Behind (lib) - *

LaHaye & Jenkins

Fiction, Christian

All

15

 

 

Downsize This! (lib)

Moore, Michael

Political, Humor

All

16

 

 

A Natural History of Love (own)

Ackerman, Diane

Love, Essays

All

17

 

 

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace (lib)

Vidal, Gore

Political, Essays

All

18

 

 

Dreaming War (lib)

Vidal, Gore

Political, Essays

All

19

 

 

Bush At War (lib)

Woodward, Bob

Political, Modern History

All

20

 

 

Darwin Awards (lib)

Northcutt, Wendy

Humor, Stupids

All

21

 

 

The Second American Revolution & Other Essays (lib)

Vidal, Gore

Political, Essays

Most

22

 

 

Journey from the Dawn: Life with the World’s First Family (lib)

Johanson, Donald

Anthropology

All

23

 

 

The Red Queen (lib)

Ridley, Matt

Evolutionary Biology

Half

24

6/17

6/17

He (lib à pur)

Johnson, Robert A

Mythology, Psychology

All

25

6/18

6/18

She (pur)

Johnson, Robert A

Mythology, Psychology

All

26

6/18

6/22

We (pur)

Johnson, Robert A

Mythology, Psychology

All

27

6/23

6/23

The Man Who Lost His Shadow (lib)

Sanford, John A

Fiction, Psychology

All

28

6/23

6/25

The Man Who Wrestled with God (lib)

Sanford, John A

Mythology, Psychology

All

29

6/?/4

8/20/5

From Dawn to Decadence (lib à pur) - ***

Barzun, Jacques

History, Modern, Cultural

All/802

30

7/8

7/10

Tales of King Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory, abridged (lib)

Senior, Michael

Mythology, Literature

All/347

31

7/8

7/28

King Arthur (lib)

Goodrich, Norma Lorre

Mythology, History

lot/365

32

7/8

7/28

The World of King Arthur (lib)

Snyder, Christopher

Mythology, History

lot/177

33

8/11

8/29

A Short History of Nearly Everything (lib)

Bryson, Bill

science, history

All/478

34

8/27

9/5

A Confederacy of Dunces (lib)

Toole, John Kennedy

fiction, farce

All/462

35

9/5

9/7

Fanatics & Fools: Game Plan for Winning Back America (lib)

Huffington, Arianna

Political Essays

All/366

36   9/20 WOT#4: The Shadow Rising (own) - *** Jordan, Robert Fiction, Fantasy All/980
37 9/8 9/25 Seabiscuit (lib) (again) - ** Hillenbrand, Laura History & Sports, America 1930's All/483
38 9/30   Quicksilver (lib) Stephenson, Neal Fiction, 152/916
39 9/27   Inner Work (own) Johnson, Robert A Psychology, InDepth  
40 10/4 10/9 Off Camera (lib) Koppel, Ted Memoir, Modern History All/320
41 10/15 10/19 Walter Benjamin and the Dairy Queen (lib) McMurtry, Larry Memoir, Social Comment All/204
42 10/19 10/22 The Digital Fortress (lib) Brown, Dan Fiction, Cryptography All/372
43 11/10 11/10 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know (lib) Seagram & Smith Games, Bridge 1,2,3
44 11/10 11/10 Bridge for Dummies (lib) Kantar, Eddie Games, Bridge 1,8,9
45 11/12 02/04 The Closing of the Western Mind (lib) Freeman, Charles History, Christianity & science 215/340
46 11/12 02/04 The Well-Educated Mind (lib) Bauer, Susan Wise   sc220/404
47 11/27 11/30 Yeager (lib) Yeager, Chuck & Janos, Leo Biography, American, mid-20C, airflight All/331
48 11/27 11/30 The Calvin & Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book (lib) Watterson, Bill humor, comics All/128
49 12/3 12/4 Homegrown Democrat (lib) Keillor, Garrison memoir-essay, political All/238
50 12/20 12/21 Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons (lib) Watterson, Bill humor, comics All/128
51 12/18 12/23 Darwin Awards II (lib) Northcutt, Wendy humor, satire All/221
52 12/12   Wealth and Democracy (lib) Phillips, Kevin Amer history, economico-political  
53 12/26 1/2 Hidalgo and Other Stories (lib) Hopkins, Frank fiction (old West), memoir All/212
54 1/11/
2005
1/16 Inside the Animal Mind (lib) Page, George science, ethology(animal behavior) All/264
55 1/?? 1/31 Antiquity: ..Birth of Sumer..to..Fall of Rome.. (own) Cantor, Norman F history, classical All/232
56 2/1 2/7 Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected (lib) Boorstin, Daniel J historical, essays All/199
57 2/1 2/14 A Devil's Chaplain (lib) Dawkins, Richard biology, Evolutionary, essays All/248
58 2/4 2/10 Doonesbury's Greatest Hits: A Mid-70's Revue (lib) Trudeau, G B humor, political satire All/220
59     Bushworld (lib) Dowd, Maureen humor, political satire 263/523
60     The Origin of Satan (lib) Pagels, Elaine historical, religious 40/184
61   2/28 Humankind (lib) Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe historical essay All/180
62 3/23 3/24 Odysseus: A Life (lib) Beye, Charles Rowan fiction, classical All/192
63 3/23 4/10 Wise Men and Their Tales (lib) Wiesel, Elie essays, religious 200/336
64 4/06 4/10 The Cartoon History of the Universe, Vols. 1 - 7 (lib) Gonick, Larry humor, world history All/360
65 4/08 4/17 Foucault's Pendulum (pur) - * Eco, Umberto fiction All/641
66 4/08 4/27 Inept:Impaired:Overwhelmed (lib) Lepp, Bil fiction, humor All/163
67 4/13   God's Politics (lib) Wallis, Jim politics, religion 44/374
68 4/17 4/24 The Three Musketeers (lib) - **** Dumas, Alexandre pere fiction, French historical All/724
69 4/20 5/10 Holy Blood, Holy Grail (lib) - * Baigent, M & R Leigh religious historical speculation All/475
70 4/20 6/7 The Human Story (lib) Davis, James C history All/440
71 4/27 5/2 The Cartoon History of the Universe II,Vols. 8 - 13 (lib) Gonick, Larry humor, world history All/305
71 5/2 5/3 I, Robot (lib) Asimov, Isaac science fiction All/274
72 5/2 5/11 The Lessons of History (lib) Durant, Will essays, history All/102
73 5/2 5/15 The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time (lib) Durant, Will essays, history All/118
74 5/3 6/17 The Stars of Heaven (lib) Pickover, Clifford A astronomy 50/225
75 5/3   Time: A Traveler's Guide (lib) Pickover, Clifford A   0/280
76 5/5 5/10 Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People (pur) Preston, A S & G Dinkin memoir, gambling All/270
77 5/18 5/22 The Holy (lib) Quinn, Daniel fiction, animism All/412
78 5/27 5/27 The Snow Queen (lib) Andersen, Hans Christian fairy tale All/96
79 5/   The Tao of Poker (pur) Phillips, Larry W poker /240
80 5/27   The Psychology of Poker (pur) Schoonmaker, Alan M poker /315
81 5/27   The Theory of Poker (pur) Sklansky, David poker All/292
82 5/27   Caro's Book of Poker Tells (pur) Caro, Mike poker 84/309
83 5/27 6/17 You: The Owner's Manual (lib --> pur) (see below) Roizen, Michael F & Mehmet Oz health 110/400
84 6/5   The Cartoon History of the Universe III (lib) - * Gonick, Larry humor, world history All/303
85 6/5   The Cartoon Guide to Physics (lib) Gonick, L & Art Huffman physics, humor 24/207
86 6/16 6/17 The Trojan Women (lib) Euripides classic drama All/33
87     Moral Politics (lib) Lakoff, George politics, psychology  
88 7/30 7/31 State of Fear (lib) Crichton, Michael fiction, eco-terrorism All/603
89     Our Oriental Heritage (pur) Durant, Will history, early 444/938
90 9/15 9/19 Heroes of History (lib) - * Durant, Will history All/329
91 10/5   Will They Ever Trust Us Again? (lib) Moore, Michael politics, Iraq war 40/218
92 10/5 10/7 Questioning the Millennium (lib) Gould, Stephen Jay essays, numbers All/179
93 10/8 10/10 Gilgamesh (lib) Mitchell, Stephen (trans.) poem, epic All/292
     

These books are my current commitment.  The Durant is a BIG read, the Dawkins is a TOUGH topic for me (embarrassingly ignorant of high-school biology).  Three others (bread, health and poker) are references and they have their own tempo.  SO, I will not be reading a large number of new books anytime soon.  {Hah hah, see below)

     
94 11/16 11/17 Ishmael (lib) - *** Quinn, Daniel fiction, GAIAn All/262
95 11/27 11/27 The FairTax Book (lib) Boortz, Neil politics, taxation All/200
96 12/6   Origins (lib) Tyson, Neil deG science, cosmology /321
97 12/6 12/27 A Song for Lya (lib) Martin, George R science fiction 141/208
98 12/6 1/26 Kepler's Witch (lib) - * Connor, James A science, biography All/364
99 12/8 12/19 Zorro (lib) Allende, Isabel fiction All/390
100 12/8 1/28 Whose Bible Is It? (lib) Pelikan, Jaroslav religion, bible All/274
101 12/8   A Wizard of Earthsea (lib) LeGuin, Ursula K science fiction /198
102 12/15 12/25 The Planets (lib) Sobel, Dava science? 150+/254
103 12/15 12/26 Oryx and Crake (lib) Atwood,Margaret fiction, futuristic All/376
104 12/19   Intelligence In Nature: An Inquiry Into Knowledge (lib) Narby, Jeremy anthropology 40/243
105 12/28 1/2 When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops (lib) Carlin, George humor All/295
106 1/6/
20006
1/9 The Truth (with jokes) (lib) Franken, Al humor, political All/336
107 1/17 1/22 The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (lib) - * Harris, Sam religion All/291
108 1/29 1/29 The Case for a Creator (lib) Smolen, Lee religion 50/340
109 2/1 2/10 Scandalmonger (lib) Safire, William fiction, Am history 97/488
110 2/12 2/16 Other Voices, Other Rooms (lib) Capote, Truman fiction, memoir 36/231
111 2/1 2/26 The World Is Flat (lib) Friedman,Thomas L socio-economics All/473
112 2/23 3/8 The Count of Monte Cristo (e-book!) this is the 1st book I have ever read entirely from my pda (90%) and my PC (10%) (the 2 unabridged editions that my local library owns are 1276 & 1365 pages; the 1344 comes from the first time I dumped the e-text into MS Word in its default page and font settings) (there is a video production that is 8 hours long) - ***** Dumas, Alexandre pere fiction, Fr q-histor All/1344
113 3/4 3/25 The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi (lib) Wilson, William S biography 84/287
114 3/25 4/22 1776 (lib) McCullough, David history, American 159/294
115 3/27   Dianetics (pur, $.25) Hubbard, L. Ron ? 42/614
116 4/2 4/10 Truth and Fiction in The DaVinci Code (lib) Ehrman, Bart D religion,Christianity All/197
117 4/27 5/27 Personal Mythology: The Psychology of Your Evolving Self Feinstein, David & Stanley Krippner psychology, myth 32/247
118 5/15 5/25 The Jesus Papers: Exposing the Greatest Cover-Up in History - * Baigent, Michael religious historical speculation All/286
119 5/17 5/27 Freakonomics - ** Levitt, Steven & Stephen Dubner economics All/232
120 5/17 6/6 What We Believe But Cannot Prove (lib) ed. Brockman, John essays, science All/252
121 5/17 7/??? A Little History of the World (lib) - * Gombrich, E. H. history All/284
122 5/30 6/12 The Conscience of a Liberal (lib) Wellstone, Paul political, biography All/216
123 6/24 7/17 Ideas That Changed the World (lib) Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe history 115/391
124 7/20 7/25 Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (lib) - * Thompson, Hunter S. political/political, memoir All/508
125 7/18 8/20 Misquoting Jesus (lib) Erdman, Bart religion, Christianity All/227
126 7/18 8/8 The Ages of GAIA (lib) Lovelock, James earth science 74/237
127 8/13 8/16 An Inconvenient Truth (lib) - * Gore, Al earth science All/323
128 8/7   Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (pur) Clarke, Susanna fiction 354/1000
129 9/1 9/28 The Revenge of Gaia (lib) - * Lovelock, James earth science All/165
130 9/20 10/10 Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome (Cicero) (gift) - * Harris, Robert fiction, historic Rome All/305
131 9/24 9/25 Letter to a Christian Nation (bor) Harris, Sam religion All/92
132 9/25 10/21 The Creation (lib) Wilson, Edward O 333 All/168
133 9/25 12/26 A History of the End of the World (bor) Kirsch, Jonathan religion, history 228 92/321
134 10/03 10/08 Don't Think of an Elephant (lib) Lakoff, George Politics 320 All/124
135 10/03 10/29 The Question of God: C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God (lib) Nicholi, Armand Jr. Religion 212 80/244
136 10/05 10/05 A Contract with God (lib) - * Eisner, Will fiction, graphic novel All/188
137 10/05 10/30 From Beirut to Jerusalem (lib) Friedman, Thomas history, MidEast current 87/530
138 10/05 10/07 Imperial Ambitions (lib) Chomsky, Noam political science All/201
139 10/05 10/28 The "God" Part of the Brain (lib) Alper, Matthew religion, evolution All/175
140 10/17 10/20 Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (lib) Chomsky, Noam   28/266
141 10/16   The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (lib) Brands, H. W. history, biography 28/716
142 10/20 12/10 Why We Do It: Rethinking Sex and the Selfish Gene (lib) Eldredge, Niles psychology, evolution All/258
143 10/30 01/11 Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (lib) - ** Isaacson, Walter history, biography All/511
144 11/10 11/25 Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story..Scientific Betting System.. (lib) Poundstone, Wm trading/gambling/math All/329
145 10/30   Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician (lib) Everitt, Anthony history, ancient 36/325
146 11/28 12/03 The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation (lib) Jacobson, Sid & E Colon   All/131
147 12/14   The New Life (lib) Pamuk, Orhan fiction 128/296
148 12/22 12/28 A Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife (lib) Quinn, Daniel & Tom Whalen fiction All/136
149 12/27 01/01 Flashman at the Charge (lib) Fraser, G M fiction 92/288
150 01/13 01/15 Busting Loose from the Money Game (lib) Scheinfeld, Robert New Age advice All/225
151 01/20 01/21 V for Vendetta (lib) Moore, Alan & David Lloyd graphic novel All/286
152 01/20 02/19 The Secret (lib) Byrne, Rhonda New Age advice 132/198
153 01/20 02/14 Boomeritis (lib) - * Wilber, Ken fiction All/456
154 01/27 02/04 The God Delusion (pur) - *** Dawkins, Richard religion, science All/406
155 02/13 02/15 Great Justices of the Supreme Court (lib) Aaseng, Nathan history, American All/153
156 02/21   Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (pur) Diamond, Jared   110/525
157 03/02 03/08 The Merchant of Venice (lib) Shakespare, William drama All/94
158 03/03   Human Accomplishment (pur) Murray, Charles   104/624
159 03/02   The Jews in America: the Roots, History, and Destiny of American Jews (lib) Dimont, Max I. history, Judaism 72/262
160 03/10 03/28 The Supreme Court: the Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America (lib) Rosen, Jeffrey   All/261
161 03/10 04/15 What a Party!: My Life Among Democrats (lib) McAuliffe, Terry   All/388
162 03/11 03/23 The Hunchback of Notre Dame (pur) Hugo, Victor fiction, history, French All/509
163 03/21   The Sixth Extinction (lib) Leakey, Richard   ???/254
164 03/27   Think and Grow Rich (lib) Hill, Napoleon   145/381
165 04/16 05/16 Mere Christianity (lib) Lewis, C.S. religion All/227
166 04/25   Man O'War (lib) Ours, Dorothy sports, horses 50/325
167 05/05 The Castle In the Forest (lib) Mailer, Norman fiction 96/467
168 05/14 05/25 Thérèse Raquin (lib) Zola, Emile fiction All/256
169 05/15 05/22 The Language of God (lib) Collins, Francis science, religion All/275
170 05/19 05/22 Still Life with Woodpecker (lib) Robbins, Tom fiction 58/277
171 05/19 06/11 Nana (lib) Zola, Emile fiction All/470
172 05/25 05/28 Opening day : the story of Jackie Robinson's first season (lib) Eig, Jonathan sports All/281
173 6/11 6/18 The Unbearable Lightness of Being (lib) Kundera, Milan fiction All/314
174 6/11 8/05 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (lib) Kundera, Milan fiction All/236
175 6/18 7/16 The Assault on Reason (lib) Gore, Al politics All/276
176 7/14   Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (lib) Dennett, Daniel religion /412
177 7/16 7/27 God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (lib) Hitchens,Christopher religion All/286
178 7/20   The Toilers of the Sea (lib) Hugo, Victor fiction  
179     Religious Literacy (lib) Prothero, Stephen religion  
180 8/11   Blessed Unrest Hawkens, Paul environmentalism /305
181 8/11   Good Omens Pratchett, Terry & Neil Gaiman fiction /384
             

 

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