Here are some of the books I've read lately. No, this isn't supposed to interest you -- it's more a reminder to myself, kind of useful when I get asked So, read any good books lately?
| October | Victor Hugo | Les Miserables (trans. Julie Rose) |
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| Julia Child, with Alex Prud'homme | My Life in France |
| July | Tyler Cowen | Create Your Own Economy |
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| June | Walter M. Miller, Jr. | A Canticle for Leibowitz |
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| April | F.A. Hayek | The Road to Serfdom |
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| March | Charles Seife | Zero:The Biography of a Dangerous Idea |
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| Alan Moore | Watchmen |
| January | Geoff Nicholson | The Lost Art of Walking |
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| November | Joseph Heller | Catch-22 |
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| Leif Enger | Peace Like a River |
| August | Michael Pollan | The Botany of Desire:A Plant's-Eye View of the World |
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| Nikos Kazantzakis | Zorba the Greek | |
| Dorothy L. Sayers | The Nine Tailors |
| July | Herman Melville | Moby-Dick |
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| Carol Tavris | The Mismeasure of Woman |
| April | Mary Doria Russell | Dreamers of the Day |
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| March | Connie Willis | The Winds of Marble Arch |
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| December | Khaled Hosseini | The Kite Runner |
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| H.L. Mencken | A Religious Orgy in Tennessee:A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial |
| November | Christopher Paolini | Eragon |
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| September | Elliot Aronson and Carol Tavris | Mistakes Were Made (but not by me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts |
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| Marina Lewycka | A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian |
| August | Connie Willis | To Say Nothing of the Dog |
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| Inside Job | ||
| Daniel Gilbert | Stumbling on Happiness | |
| Mary Doria Russell | A Thread of Grace | |
| Henry David Thoreau | Walden |
| July | Robin P. Williams | Sweet Swan of Avon:Did a Woman Write Shakespeare? |
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| Harriet Goldhor Lerner | The Dance of Intimacy |
| June | Antonio R. Damasio | Descartes' Error:Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain |
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| July | Eduardo Punset | The Happiness Trip:A Scientific Journey |
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| May | Jerome Groopman | How Doctors Think |
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| Atul Gawande | Better:A Surgeon's Notes on Performance | |
| Bill Bryson | The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid:A Memoir |
| March | Marc Romano | Crossworld: One Man's Journey into America's Crossword Obsession |
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| Neil Gaiman | Fragile Things |
| January | Tracy Kidder | Mountains Beyond Mountains |
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| December | T.E. Lawrence | Seven Pillars of Wisdom |
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| October | Joel Garreau | The Nine Nations of North America |
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| Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont | Fashionable Nonsense:Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science |
| September | David Marusek | Counting Heads |
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| August | Edward Tufte | Beautiful Evidence |
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| Jack Schaefer | Shane | |
| David Quammen | Monster of God:The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind | |
| Robert D. Kaplan | The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century |
| July | Robert Baer | See No Evil:The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism |
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| Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | The Remains of the Day |
| June | Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin | American Prometheus:The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer |
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| Daniel Handler | Adverbs | |
| Scott Adams | Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel | |
| Pete Earley and Gerald Shur | WITSEC:Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program | |
| Daniel Quinn | Ishmael |
| May | Geoff Dyer | Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It |
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| Ronald Wright | A Short History of Progress |
| April | J.W. Powell | The Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons |
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| February | Eric Jager | The Last Duel |
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| Bill Bryson | The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way |
| January | Richard A Ferri | All About Asset Allocation:The Easy Way to Get Started |
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| December | Robert M. Sapolsky | Monkeyluv and Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals |
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| November | Gregory Maguire | Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West |
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| October | Michael Shermer | The Science of Good and Evil |
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| Elizabeth Kostova | The Historian | |
| Neil Gaiman | Anansi Boys |
| September | David Ives | All in the Timing: Fourteen Plays |
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| David E. Bernstein | You Can't Say That!:The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws |
| August | Eric Idle | The Greedy Bastard Diary: A Comic Tour of America |
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| Mitch Albom | Tuesdays with Morrie | |
| Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner | Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything |
| May | Jared Diamond | Collapse:How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed |
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| April | Helen Fisher | Why We Love |
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| March | Victor Hugo | Les Misérables |
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| Malcolm Gladwell | Blink:The Power of Thinking Without Thinking | |
| Thomas Lewis and Fari Amini and Richard Lannon | A General Theory of Love |
| November | Emily Brontë | Wuthering Heights |
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| October | Margot Morrell and Stephanie Capparell | Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer |
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| Michael Shermer | Why People Believe Weird Things:Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of our Time |
| September | Dan Brown | Digital Fortress |
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| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | |
| Albert Camus | The Stranger (English translation by Matthew Ward) |
| August | Jasper Fforde | The Well of Lost Plots |
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| Something Rotten | ||
| Elmore Leonard | Tishomingo Blues | |
| J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix |
| July | Mary Roach | Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers |
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| Donald A. Norman | Emotional Design:Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things | |
| Jasper Fforde | Lost in a Good Book | |
| Steven Johnson | Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life |
| June | Dan Brown | The Da Vinci Code |
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| Daniel Mason | The Piano Tuner |
| May | David K. Shipler | The Working Poor: Invisible in America |
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| Gail Carson Levine | Ella Enchanted |
| April | Joanne Harris | Five Quarters of the Orange |
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| Barbara Ehrenreich | Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America |
| March | Gabriel García Márquez | Cien Años de Soledad |
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| Peter Mayle | French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew | |
| Henry Petroski | Small Things Considered:Why There Is No Perfect Design |
| January | Deborah Blum | Sex on the Brain:The Biological Differences Between Men and Women |
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| Mark Dunn | Ella Minnow Pea | |
| Gabriel García Márquez | Living to Tell the Tale | |
| Relato de un Náufrago | ||
| El Coronel No Tiene Quien le Escriba |
| December | Deborah Blum | Love at Goon Park:Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection |
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| November | Brian Herbert | Dreamer of Dune |
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| Philip Taubman | Secret Empire:Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage | |
| Yann Martel | Life of Pi |
| October | Neal Stephenson | Quicksilver |
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| September | Cornell Woolrich | I Married a Dead Man |
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| Christopher Moore | Fluke:Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings |
| August | David Quammen | The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder |
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| Augustus Gump | The Management Secrets of T. John Dick | |
| Dave Barry | Tricky Business | |
| Kevin Murphy | A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey | |
| Mark Haddon | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | |
| J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | |
| Susan Orlean | The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession | |
| James M. Cain | The Postman Always Rings Twice | |
| Horace McCoy | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | |
| Kenneth Fearing | The Big Clock | |
| William Lindsay Gresham | Nightmare Alley |
| July | Chuck Palahniuk | Choke |
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| Lullaby | ||
| Richard Preston | The Cobra Event | |
| Barbara Kingsolver | Prodigal Summer | |
| High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never | ||
| Mary Doria Russell | Children of God | |
| China Miéville | The Scar | |
| Bill Bryson | A Short History of Nearly Everything | |
| David Quammen | Wild Thoughts from Wild Places |
| June | Sy Liebergot | Apollo EECOM: Journey of a Lifetime |
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| Iain Banks | Dead Air | |
| Christopher Moore | Lamb:The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal |
| May | Oliver Sacks | The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: and Other Clinical Tales |
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| Alex Boese | The Museum of Hoaxes | |
| Richard wiseman | The Luck Factor | |
| Eric Schlosser | Reefer Madness:Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market |
| April | Theodore Sturgeon | Killdozer! |
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| March | William Sanders | The Wild Blue and the Gray |
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| Are We Having Fun Yet? | ||
| China Miéville | Perdido Street Station | |
| Lucius Shepard | Valentine | |
| Gene Wolfe | Strange Travelers | |
| Holly Black | Tithe | |
| Carl Hiaasen | Lucky You |
| February | Peter Godwin | Mukiwa:A White Boy in Africa |
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| Joanne Harris | Chocolat | |
| Karin Lowachee | Warchild | |
| V.S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee | Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind | |
| Ted Chiang | Stories of Your Life and Others | |
| Gerd Gigerenzer | Calculated Risks:How to Know When Numbers Deceive You |
| January | Dan Savage | Skipping Towards Gomorrah:The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America |
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| Mary Doria Russell | The Sparrow | |
| Carl Sagan | The Demon-Haunted World:Science as a Candle in the Dark | |
| Jeffery Deaver | The Coffin Dancer |
| December | Rene Foss | Around the World in a Bad Mood: Confessions of a Flight Attendant |
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| James Michener | Texas |
| November | José Saramago | Ensayo sobre la ceguera (Traducción de Basilio Losada) |
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| Paul McAuley | Whole Wide World | |
| Oliver Sacks | Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf | |
| Michael D. Coe | The Maya | |
| Ann Patchett | Bel Canto | |
| John Crowley | Little, Big |
| October | Olaf Stapledon | Star Maker |
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| Carl Hiaasen | Double Whammy | |
| Strip Tease | ||
| Neil Gaiman | Coraline | |
| Robert J. Sawyer | Calculating God | |
| Ludmil A. Chotkowski, M.D., FACP | Chiropractic: The Greatest Hoax of the Century? | |
| Joe Nickell | Real-Life X-Files: Investigating the Paranormal |
| September | V. S. Naipaul | A House for Mr. Biswas |
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| Carl Zimmer | Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures | |
| Carl Hiaasen | Stormy Weather |
| August | Michael Tolkin | Under Radar |
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| Jonathan Lethem | As She Climbed Across the Table | |
| Elmore Leonard | Out of Sight | |
| Fred Weitzel | Searching for Bobby Fischer | |
| J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone | |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | ||
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
| July | Hampton Sides, Editor | Why Moths Hate Thomas Edison: And Other Urgent Inquiries into the Odd Nature of Nature |
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| Atul Gawande | Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science | |
| Brian Greene | The Elegant Universe:Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory | |
| Christopher Moore | Coyote Blue | |
| Neil Gaiman | Neverwhere | |
| John Steinbeck | Cannery Row | |
| P.J. O'Rourke | Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut |
| June | Mike Royko | One More Time:The Best of Mike Royko |
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| Robert Ludlum | The Sigma Protocol | |
| Steve Maguire | Writing Solid Code | |
| Philip Appleman, Editor | Darwin: A Norton Critical Edition |
| May | Iain M. Banks | Look to Windward |
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| P. H. Cannon | Scream for Jeeves: A Parody | |
| Martin Gardner | Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Discourses on Reflexology, Numerology, Urine Therapy, and Other Dubious Subjects | |
| From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley Jr. | ||
| Kevin Brockmeier | Things That Fall From the Sky | |
| Malcolm Gladwell | The Tipping Point:How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference | |
| Connie Willis | Bellwether | |
| Impossible Things |
| April | Steve McConnell | Code Complete:A Practical Handbook of Software Construction |
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| Philip Plait | Bad Astronomy:Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax" | |
| Richard Matheson | Nightmare at 20,000 Feet | |
| Matt Young | No Sense of Obligation:Science and Religion in an Impersonal Universe | |
| Kenneth S. Deffeyes | Hubbert's Peak:The Impending World Oil Shortage | |
| Charlotte Brontë | Jane Eyre | |
| Jasper Fforde | The Eyre Affair | |
| Edward O. Wilson | The Future of Life | |
| Bjørn Lomborg | The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World | |
| Chris Fuhrman | The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys |
| March | Russ Parsons | How to Read a French Fry |
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| Richard Elliott Friedman | Who Wrote The Bible? | |
| Robert M. Sapolsky | A Primate's Memoir | |
| Bill Bryson | The Lost Continent | |
| Neal Stephenson | Zodiac | |
| James Salter | A Sport and a Pastime |
| January | Sharyn McCrumb | The Songcatcher |
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| John Grisham | Skipping Christmas | |
| Ernesto Ruiz Ortiz | Oh Blessed (Cartas en Jibaro English) | |
| Italo Calvino | If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (English translation by William Weaver) |
| December | Robert M. Sapolsky | Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers |
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| J.R.R. Tolkien | The Return of the King | |
| David Quammen, Editor | The Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2000 | |
| Tom and Ray Magliozzi | In Our Humble Opinion: Car Talk's Click and Clack Rant and Rave | |
| Nikolai Gogol | Dead Souls, volume I (English translation by Bernard Guilbert Guerney) |
| November | Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan | Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors |
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| Mario Puzo | The Godfather | |
| Dave Barry | Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway |
| October | José Saramago | Blindness (English translation by Giovanni Pontiero) |
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| Kendrick Frazier | People of Chaco: A Canyon and its Culture | |
| John Allen Paulos | Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and is Consequences | |
| J.R.R. Tolkien | The Two Towers | |
| P.J. O'Rourke | The CEO of the Sofa |
| September | Homer | The Odyssey (English translation by Robert Fagles) |
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| Robert M. Sapolsky | The Trouble with Testosterone | |
| Neil Gaiman | American Gods | |
| Theodore Sturgeon | Microcosmic God: Volume II: The Complete Stories | |
| Michael Shermer | The Borderlands of Science |
| August | Jared Diamond | The Third Chimpanzee |
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| Dean Koontz | From the Corner of His Eye | |
| Thomas Hardy | The Mayor of Casterbridge | |
| Greg Bear | Darwin's Radio | |
| J.R.R. Tolkien | The Fellowship of the Ring |
| July | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |
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| Carl Sagan | Cosmos | |
| Charles Darwin | The Origin of Species | |
| Connie Willis | Lincoln's Dreams | |
| Reg Morrison | The Spirit in the Gene | |
| Bruce Sterling | Distraction |
| June | Isabel Allende | Eva Luna |
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| Richard Dawkins | Climbing Mount Improbable | |
| J.R.R. Tolkien | The Hobbit | |
| Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | |
| Dan Simmons | Darwin's Blade | |
| Helen Fielding | Bridget Jones's Diary | |
| Chuck Palahniuk | Fight Club | |
| Dietrich Dörner | The Logic of Failure |
| May | Helen Fisher | Anatomy of Love |
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| John F. Ross | The Polar Bear Strategy: Reflections on RISK in Modern Life | |
| Frank J. Sulloway | Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives | |
| William S. Cleveland | The Elements of Graphing Data | |
| Connie Willis | Passage | |
| Chris Kraft | Flight: My Life in Mission Control | |
| Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger | Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 |
| April | Eric Schlosser | Fast Food Nation |
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| Orson Scott Card | Ender's Shadow | |
| Margaret Cheney | Tesla: Man Out Of Time | |
| Hernando de Soto | The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else |
| March | Jerry Oltion | Abandon in Place |
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| Nancy Baker | Kiss of the Vampire | |
| Patricia Anthony | Brother Termite | |
| Upton Sinclair | The Jungle |
| February | Iain M. Banks | Inversions |
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| Dava Sobel | Galileo's Daughter | |
| William Sanders | The Ballad of Billy Badass and the Rose of Turkestan | |
| Peter Høeg | Smilla's Sense of Snow |
| January | Jef Raskin | The Humane Interface |
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| December | Wendy Kaminer | Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials |
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| Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol | |
| John Lescroart | The Mercy Rule | |
| Catherine Salton | Raphael and the Noble Task | |
| Dashiell Hammett | The Maltese Falcon | |
| Bill Bryson | I'm a Stranger Here Myself |
| November | Kim Stanley Robinson | Red Mars |
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| Green Mars | ||
| Sharyn McCrumb | The PMS Outlaws |
| October | Deborah J. Bennett | Randomness |
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| Buzz Aldrin and John Barnes | The Return | |
| Greg Costikyan | First Contract |
| September | Stephen King | The Green Mile |
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| Connie Willis | Miracle, and other Christmas Stories | |
| Joseph Heller | Catch-22 | |
| Bill Bryson | In a Sunburned Country |
| August | Robert Crais | Demolition Angel |
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| Spider Robinson | Callahan's Key | |
| Martin Rees | Just Six Numbers |
| July | Robert Crais | Indigo Slam |
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| Bill Bryson | A Walk in the Woods |
| June | Ben Bova | Mars |
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| Joe Haldeman | Forever Free | |
| Steve McConnell | After The Gold Rush:Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering | |
| Robert Crais | Sunset Express |
| May | Robert Crais | The Monkey's Raincoat |
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| Stalking the Angel | ||
| Lullaby Town | ||
| Free Fall | ||
| L.A. Requiem | ||
| Bruce Sterling | Heavy Weather | |
| Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett | Good Omens | |
| William Dietrich | Ice Reich | |
| Terry Pratchett | Johnny Maxwell Trilogy | |
| Martin Gardner | Fads & Fallacies in the Name of Science | |
| John Grisham | The Brethren |
| April | Richard Dawkins | The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design |
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| March | David Weber | Ashes of Victory |
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| Orson Scott Card | Enchantment | |
| James Herriot | Every Living Thing |
| February | Joe Haldeman | The Forever War |
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| Forever Peace |
| January | Eric Garcia | Anonymous Rex |
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| November | Stephen Baxter | Moonseed |
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| October | Dave Barry | Big Trouble |
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| Nina Kiriki Hoffman | A Red Heart of Memories | |
| Colin Dexter | The Remorseful Day | |
| Iain Banks | Complicity |
| September | Robert N. Buck | Weather Flying |
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| James L. Gould and Carol Grant Gould | The Honey Bee | |
| E. G. Richards | Mapping Time: The Calendar and its History |
| August | Nevada Barr | Track of the Cat |
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| A Superior Death | ||
| Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | |
| Ray Bradbury | Dandelion Wine | |
| Milan Kundera | The Book of Laughter and Forgetting | |
| Joseph Kanon | Los Alamos |
| July | Jared Diamond | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies |
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| William C. Dement | The Promise of Sleep | |
| Jesse Ventura | I Ain't Got Time To Bleed:Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up | |
| Milan Kundera | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | |
| Scott Smith | A Simple Plan |
| June | James Herriot | All Things Bright and Beautiful |
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| May | Eugene Cernan and Don Davis | The Last Man on the Moon:Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space |
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| S. D. Howe | Honor Bound Honor Born | |
| Marcia Muller | A Wild and Lonely Place | |
| Neal Stephenson | Cryptonomicon | |
| James Randi | Flim-Flam | |
| An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural |
| April | Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike | The Practice of Programming |
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| Homer Hickam, Jr. | Rocket Boys(published as October Sky) | |
| Gabriel King | The Wild Road | |
| Patricia T. O'Conner | Woe is I:The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English | |
| F.E. Potts | F.E.Potts' Guide to Bush Flying | |
| Bonnie MacDougal | Angle of Impact | |
| George R. Stewart | Earth Abides |
| March | Harlan Ellison | Edgeworks 3:The Harlan Ellison Hornbook,Harlan Ellison's Movie |
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| Edgeworks 4:Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled,The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World | ||
| Kurt Vonnegut | Cat's Cradle | |
| Esther Friesner | Wishing Season | |
| Jean Shepherd | In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash |
| February | Carolyn Ives Gilman | Halfway Human |
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| Kyle Baker | You Are Here | |
| Jakob Nielsen | Usability Engineering | |
| Alan Cooper | About Face:The Essentials of User Interface Design | |
| Harlan Ellison | Edgeworks 1:Over the Edge,An Edge in my Voice | |
| Edgeworks 2:Spider Kiss,Stalking the Nightmare |
| January | Alec Guinness | My Name Escapes Me:The Diary of a Retiring Actor |
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| Dean Koontz | Fear Nothing | |
| Tom Clancy | Rainbow Six | |
| David Weber et al | Worlds of Honor |
| December | Michael Collins | Carrying the Fire |
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| Robin McKinley | Beauty | |
| Rose Daughter |
| November | Simon Combes | Great Cats:Stories and Art from a World Traveler |
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| Dave Barry | Dave Barry Turns 50 |
| October | Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men And A Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog!) |
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| September | David Weber | Echoes of Honor |
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| August | Andrew Chaikin | A Man on the Moon |
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| July | John Ross | Unintended Consequences |
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| Connie Willis | To Say Nothing of the Dog | |
| Michael Flynn | Firestar | |
| Rogue Star | ||
| Tony Kern | Redefining Airmanship |
| June | K.C. Cole | The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty |
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| Charles Pellegrino | Dust | |
| Jon Krakauer | Into the Wild | |
| Sue Grafton | N is for Noose |
| May | Connie Willis | Doomsday Book |
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| April | Kevin J. Anderson & Doug Beason | Ignition |
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| Harlan Ellison | The City on the Edge of Forever | |
| David Weber | In Enemy Hands | |
| Nina Kiriki Hoffman | The Silent Strength of Stones |
| March | Donald K. Slayton, with Michael Cassutt | Deke! |
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| Dava Sobel | Longitude |
| January | Tom Clancy | Executive Orders |
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| December | Alice Hoffman | Turtle Moon |
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| Sharyn McCrumb | Foggy Mountain Breakdown and other stories |
| November | Connie Willis and Cynthia Felice | Promised Land |
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| Nina Kiriki Hoffman | The Thread That Binds The Bones | |
| Annie Dillard | An American Childhood | |
| Allen Steele | The Tranquillity Alternative | |
| A King of Infinite Space | ||
| Orson Scott Card | Treasure Box | |
| Dave Barry | Dave Barry is from Mars and Venus | |
| Graham Lord | James Herriot: The Life of a Country Vet | |
| Elizabeth Marshall Thomas | The Tribe of Tiger | |
| M. Scott Peck | A Bed by the Window |
| October | David Weber | Honor Among Enemies |
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| Andrew Hoffman | Inventing Mark Twain | |
| Richard Marcinko | Designation Gold | |
| Charlton Ogburn | The Mysterious William Shakespeare |
| September | David Weber | On Basilisk Station |
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| The Honor of the Queen | ||
| The Short Victorious War | ||
| Field of Dishonor | ||
| Flag in Exile | ||
| Chuck Jones | Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist | |
| James Herriot | All Creatures Great and Small | |
| Mark Twain | Life on the Mississippi |
| August | Terry Pratchett | Interesting Times |
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| Robert Heinlein | Starship Troopers | |
| Alexander Jablokov | A Deeper Sea |
| July | P. G. Wodehouse | The Most of P. G. Wodehouse |
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| Minette Walters | Sculptress | |
| William Goldman | The Princess Bride | |
| Charles Henderson | Marine Sniper |
| June | Helen Fisher | The Sex Contract |
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| Chuck Jones | Chuck Reducks |
| May | Harold McGee | On Food and Cooking |
|---|---|---|
| The Curious Cook |
| April | Iain M. Banks | Consider Phlebas |
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| The Player of Games |
| March | David Nobbs | The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin |
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| February | Theodore Sturgeon | The Ultimate Egoist:Volume I:The Complete Stories |
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| January | Dick Francis | Proof |
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| Sue Grafton | "M" is for Malice | |
| Ngaio Marsh | Artists in Crime | |
| Bertha P. Dutton | American Indians of the Southwest | |
| Alexandre Dumas | La Dame aux Camellias |
| December | Sharyn McCrumb | The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter |
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| If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him... | ||
| MacPherson's Lament | ||
| The Rosewood Casket | ||
| Richard Marcinko and John Weisman | Green Team | |
| Task Force Blue | ||
| Sean Stewart | Passion Play | |
| Leonard B. Scott | The Iron Men | |
| Dick Francis | Flying Finish | |
| Caroline Stevermer | A College of Magics |
| November | Carol Shields | The Stone Diaries |
|---|---|---|
| Robin Baker | Sperm Wars: The Science of Sex |
| October | Joe Klein | Primary Colors |
|---|---|---|
| John Lescroart | A Certain Justice | |
| H. M. Wormington | Prehistoric Indians of the Southwest | |
| Ian Frazier | Coyote v. Acme | |
| Dave Barry | In Cyberspace | |
| Tom Weller | Science Made Stupid |
| September | Sharyn McCrumb | She Walks These Hills |
|---|---|---|
| Charles Perrow | Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies | |
| Henry S. F. Cooper | Thirteen: The Flight That Failed |
| August | Patricia Anthony | Cradle of Splendor |
|---|---|---|
| Marcel Pagnol | Jean de Florette & Manon of the Springs (English translation by W.E. van Heyningen) | |
| Kendrick Frazier | People of Chaco | |
| Jonathan Lethem | Gun, With Occasional Music | |
| Josephine Tey | Miss Pym Disposes | |
| Fernand Braudel | The Structures of Everyday Life, Volume 1:Capitalism & Commerce, 15th-18th century |
| July | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quijote de La Mancha |
|---|---|---|
| Sharyn McCrumb | Bimbos of the Death Sun | |
| Zombies of the Gene Pool | ||
| Kevin J. Anderson & Doug Beason | Ill Wind | |
| Virtual Destruction | ||
| R. L. Stine | Superstitious | |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | The Prince | |
| George Johnson | Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order | |
| Patricia Cornwell | Cause of Death |
| June | Jan Harold Brunvand | The Vanishing Hitchhiker |
|---|---|---|
| The Mexican Pet | ||
| Curses! Broiled Again! | ||
| The Baby Train | ||
| John Allen Paulos | A Mathematician Reads The Newspaper |
| May | Neal Stephenson | The Diamond Age |
|---|---|---|
| Iain Banks | The Wasp Factory | |
| Connie Willis | Futures Imperfect |
| April | Mike Resnick | Second Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Frank Conroy | Body & Soul |
| March | Karen Kijewski | Kat Walk |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Reed | Beyond the Veil of Stars | |
| Dan Simmons | Endymion | |
| Paul Preston | Franco | |
| Orson Scott Card | Earthborn |
| February | Stephen Hunter | Point of Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Sue Grafton | "J" is for Judgement | |
| "K" is for Killer | ||
| "L" is for Lawless | ||
| Colin Dexter | The Way Through The Woods | |
| The Riddle of the Third Mile | ||
| Orson Scott Card | The Ships of Earth | |
| Earthfall | ||
| Tom Clancy | Without Remorse | |
| Raymond Chandler | The Big Sleep | |
| Robert Parker | Perchance to Dream | |
| Richard Marcinko | Rogue Warrior | |
| Mike Resnick | A Miracle of Rare Design |
| January | Orson Scott Card | The Memory of Earth |
|---|---|---|
| The Call of Earth | ||
| Damon Knight | Why Do Birds | |
| Sue Grafton | "A" is for Alibi | |
| "B" is for Burglar | ||
| "C" is for Corpse | ||
| "D" is for Deadbeat | ||
| "E" is for Evidence | ||
| "F" is for Fugitive | ||
| "G" is for Gumshoe | ||
| "H" is for Homicide | ||
| "I" is for Innocent | ||
| Ian Fleming | Casino Royale | |
| Live and Let Die | ||
| Moonraker | ||
| Diamonds are Forever | ||
| From Russia, with Love | ||
| Doctor No | ||
| Goldfinger | ||
| Thunderball | ||
| On Her Majesty's Secret Service | ||
| You Only Live Twice | ||
| The Man with the Golden Gun |
| December | Edward T. Hall | An Anthropology of Everyday Life |
|---|---|---|
| James Herriot | All Things Bright and Beautiful | |
| All Things Wise and Wonderful | ||
| The Lord God Made Them All | ||
| Arthur Conan Doyle | The Complete Sherlock Holmes | |
| James Michener | Mexico | |
| John Barnes | Mother of Storms |
| November | Ayn Rand | Atlas Shrugged |
|---|---|---|
| Patricia Cornwell | On Potter's Field | |
| James Herriot | All Creatures Great and Small |
Last update: 27 October 2009