Reading List

READ The Daily Stoic: 366 meditations on wisdom, perseverance, and the art of living   stoicism philosophy selfhelp

CLOSED: 2025-03-18

Author: Ryan Holiday
Added: 2025-04-06
ISBN: 9780735211735
Rating: ★★★

A bit of a mixed bag. Parts of it are inspiring and other parts of it are less convincing. The author complains that Stoics are often accused of suppressing their emotions and then goes on to say that if something bad happens to us, and rightfully makes us upset, it's really our fault for not having the correct "reactions".

Take it all with a grain of salt.

READ Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)   fantasy greekmyth ya

CLOSED: 2025-05-25 21:27

Author: Rick Riordan
Added: 2025-05-22
ISBN: 9780141321264
Rating: ★★★

READ Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)   fantasy greekmyth ya

Author: Rick Riordan
Added: 2025-03-18
ISBN: 9780120000319
Rating: ★★★

READ The Neverending Story   fantasy ya translation

CLOSED: 2025-03-06

Author: Michael Ende, Ralph Manheim
Added: 2015-07-24
ISBN: 9780525457589
Rating: ★★★

READ Redshirts   scifi

CLOSED: 2025-01-28

Author: John Scalzi
Added: 2015-07-31
ISBN: 9780765316998
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD The Challenges of a Secular Quebec: Bill 21 in Perspective   politics quebec

Author: Lucia Ferretti, Francois Rocher
Added: 2025-01-21
ISBN: 9780774868426

TOREAD The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language   linguistics

Author: Steven Pinker
Added: 2025-01-12
ISBN: 9780060958336

TOREAD The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)   scifi

Author: James S.A. Corey
Added: 2025-01-03
ISBN: 9780316525572

TOREAD Taste: My Life Through Food   food cooking

Author: Stanley Tucci
Added: 2025-01-01
ISBN: 9781982168018

READ The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)   fantasy greekmyth ya

Author: Rick Riordan
Added: 2024-10-10
ISBN: 9780786838653
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD The Other Bennet Sister   romance

Author: Janice Hadlow
Added: 2024-10-09
ISBN: 9781250129413

READ Dragons of Spring Dawning (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #3)   fantasy

CLOSED: 2024-09-23

Author: Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
Added: 2024-08-06
ISBN: 9780786930708
Rating: ★★★

READ Around the World in Eighty Days   adventure classic

Author: Jules Verne, Brian W. Aldiss, Michael Glencross
Added: 2016-06-09
ISBN: 9780140449068
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD The Call of Cthulhu   horror classic

Author: H.P. Lovecraft
Added: 2014-09-12
ISBN: 9788562022753

TOREAD How Long 'til Black Future Month?   scifi anthology

Author: N.K. Jemisin
Added: 2024-08-06
ISBN: 9780316491341

TOREAD The Histories   history classic rome

Author: Tacitus, Kenneth Wellesley
Added: 2016-03-08
ISBN: 9780140441505

TOREAD Piranesi   fantasy

Author: Susanna Clarke
Added: 2024-06-13
ISBN: 9781635575637

READ Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)   fantasy

CLOSED: 2024-06-02

Author: James S.A. Corey
Added: 2024-03-16
ISBN: 9780356510392
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD Erasure   fiction

Author: Percival Everett
Added: 2024-05-20
ISBN: 9780786888153

TOREAD The Science Fiction Century, Volume 1   scifi anthology

Author: David G. Hartwell
Added: 2024-04-23
ISBN: 9780312864842

TOREAD Dark Matter   scifi

Author: Blake Crouch
Added: 2024-04-22
ISBN: 9781101904220

TOREAD Project Hail Mary   scifi

Author: Andy Weir
Added: 2024-04-22
ISBN: 9780593135204

READ Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)   scifi

CLOSED: 2024-02-24

Author: James S.A. Corey
Added: 2019-09-01
ISBN: 9780316332873
Rating: ★★★★

READ Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)   scifi

CLOSED: 2024-01-03

Author: James S.A. Corey
Added: 2019-09-01
ISBN: 9780316332828
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)   scifi

Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Added: 2023-12-21
ISBN: 9781447273288

TOREAD La Morte D'Arthure (Volume 1); The History of King Arthur and of the Knights of the Round Table   fantasy arthur

Author: Thomas Malory
Added: 2023-12-06
ISBN: 9781150265969

TOREAD The Bell Jar   classic fiction

Author: Sylvia Plath
Added: 2023-12-01
ISBN: 9780571268863

TOREAD Backup & Recovery   tech

Author: W. Curtis Preston
Added: 2023-11-26
ISBN: 9780596102463

TOREAD Writing Efficient Programs (Prentice-Hall Software Series)   tech software

Author: Jon L. Bentley
Added: 2023-11-26
ISBN: 9780139702518

TOREAD Ideological Perspectives on Canada   politics canada

Author: M Patricia Marchak
Added: 2023-11-26
ISBN: 9780773590915

TOREAD Down and Out in Paris and London   classic memoir

Author: George Orwell
Added: 2023-10-26
ISBN: 9780156262248

TOREAD The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity   history

Author: David Graeber, David Wengrow
Added: 2023-10-15
ISBN: 9780374157357

TOREAD Code That Fits in Your Head : Heuristics for Software Engineering (Robert C. Martin Series)   tech software

Author: Mark Seemann
Added: 2023-10-15
ISBN: 9780137464401

TOREAD Why Nations Go to War   politics

Author: John George Stoessinger
Added: 2023-10-08
ISBN: 9780495097075

TOREAD Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again   selfhelp productivity

Author: Johann Hari
Added: 2023-10-01
ISBN: 9780593138519

READ My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1)   classic humorous

CLOSED: 2023-08-19

Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Added: 2014-07-05
ISBN: 9781585678754
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD Do You Remember Being Born?   scifi

Author: Sean Michaels
Added: 2023-09-16
ISBN: 9781039006768

TOREAD Letters from a Stoic   stoicism philosophy

Author: Seneca
Added: 2023-09-15
ISBN: 9780140442106

TOREAD Discourses and Selected Writings   stoicism philosophy

Author: Epictetus, Robert Dobbin
Added: 2023-09-15
ISBN: 9780140449464

TOREAD Saga, Volume 8   scifi comic

Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Added: 2020-01-05
ISBN: 9781534303492

READ The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)   fantasy religion ya

CLOSED: 2023-03-15

Author: Philip Pullman
Added: 2022-12-08
ISBN: 9780440238157
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World   selfhelp

Author: David Epstein
Added: 2022-11-17
ISBN: 9780735214484

TOREAD M Is for Magic   fantasy

Author: Neil Gaiman, Teddy Kristiansen
Added: 2022-11-04
ISBN: 9780061186424

READ Wendy, Darling (Wendy, Darling, #1)   fantasy retelling

CLOSED: 2022-11-04

Author: A.C. Wise
Added: 2022-10-26
ISBN: 9781789096811
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14)   fantasy

Author: Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson
Added: 2022-09-23
ISBN: 9780765325952

TOREAD Made for Love   scifi

Author: Alissa Nutting
Added: 2022-08-13
ISBN: 9780062280558

READ Northanger Abbey   romance classic

CLOSED: 2018-06-27

Author: Jane Austen, Alfred Mac Adam
Added: 2015-01-21
ISBN: 9781593082642
Rating: ★★★

Things I find odd about Northanger Abbey:

  • She's only 17?
  • They only knew each three months?
  • Her parents just met the guy that day and they're okay with all this?

Things I find odd about Jane Austen's books in general:

  • Why do the married couples refer to each other as Mr and Mrs? Especially the ones with children. I mean, you guys are banging, right? I feel like you should be on a first name basis.

TOREAD The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media   tech history

Author: Kevin Driscoll
Added: 2022-06-14
ISBN: 9780300248142

READ Dragons of Winter Night (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #2)   fantasy

CLOSED: 2022-06-09

Author: Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
Added: 2022-06-09
ISBN: 9780786954384
Rating: ★★

READ Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic   history rome

CLOSED: 2022-02-17

Author: Tom Holland
Added: 2021-10-19
ISBN: 9781400078974
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD The Once and Future King   fantasy arthur

Author: T.H. White
Added: 2022-02-09
ISBN: 9780441627400

TOREAD The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)   fantasy ya

Author: Megan Whalen Turner
Added: 2021-12-24
ISBN: 9780060824976

READ Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, #4)   fantasy

CLOSED: 2021-10-14

Author: Stephen        King
Added: 2021-07-30
ISBN: 9780613090995
Rating: ★★

READ Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)   scifi

CLOSED: 2021-07-29

Author: James S.A. Corey
Added: 2019-09-01
ISBN: 9780356504261
Rating: ★★★★

READ Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)   scifi

CLOSED: 2021-06-27

Author: Iain M. Banks
Added: 2014-06-18
ISBN: 9781857231380
Rating: ★★

TOREAD The Poetic Edda. Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes   classic norsemyth

Author: Jackson Crawford
Added: 2019-06-02
ISBN: 9781624663567

TOREAD The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma   selfhelp

Author: Bessel van der Kolk
Added: 2020-12-14
ISBN: 9780670785933

TOREAD At the Mountains of Madness   horror classic

Author: H.P. Lovecraft, China Miéville
Added: 2020-09-12
ISBN: 9780812974416

TOREAD White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism   society

Author: Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson, Manon Smits, Rob Kuitenbrouwer, Amy Landon
Added: 2020-06-19
ISBN: 9780807071168

READ Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)   scifi cyberpunk ya

CLOSED: 2020-02-17

Author: Cory Doctorow
Added: 2020-02-02
ISBN: 9780765319852
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD The Origin of Empire: Rome from the Republic to Hadrian (264 BC - AD 138) (The Profile History of the Ancient World Series)   history rome

Author: David Stone Potter
Added: 2020-02-02
ISBN: 9781847654434

READ The Complete Persepolis   comic memoir

CLOSED: 2020-02-02

Author: Marjane Satrapi
Added: 2016-03-17
ISBN: 9780375714832
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD Circe   fantasy greekmyth

Author: Madeline Miller
Added: 2020-01-21
ISBN: 9780316556347

READ Ringworld (Ringworld, #1)   fantasy

CLOSED: 2020-01-18

Author: Larry Niven
Added: 2014-06-23
ISBN: 9780345247957
Rating: ★★

TOREAD Saga, Volume 7   scifi comic

Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Added: 2020-01-05
ISBN: 9781534300606

TOREAD Saga, Volume 6   scifi comic

Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Added: 2020-01-05
ISBN: 9781632157119

TOREAD Saga, Volume 5   scifi comic

Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Added: 2020-01-05
ISBN: 9781632154385

READ Saga, Volume 4   scifi comic

CLOSED: 2020-03-10

Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Added: 2020-01-05
ISBN: 9781632150776
Rating: ★★★★

READ Saga, Volume 3   scifi comic

CLOSED: 2020-03-07

Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Added: 2020-01-05
ISBN: 9781607069317
Rating: ★★★

READ Saga, Volume 2   scifi comic

CLOSED: 2020-01-20

Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Added: 2020-01-05
ISBN: 9781607066927
Rating: ★★★★

READ Saga, Volume 1   scifi comic

CLOSED: 2020-01-19

Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Added: 2020-01-05
ISBN: 9781607066019

TOREAD Chosen   comic religion

Author: Mark Millar, Peter Gross, Jeanne McGee, Cory Petit, Simon Pegg, Richard Hendrick, John Hanson
Added: 2020-01-05
ISBN: 9781593072131

READ Nick Cave: Mercy on Me   comic memoir

CLOSED: 2019-12-17

Author: Reinhard Kleist
Added: 2019-12-11
ISBN: 9781910593363
Rating: ★★★★

READ How Did it Really Happen?   nonfiction

CLOSED: 2019-12-05

Author: Reader's Digest Association
Added: 2019-05-24
ISBN: 9780762102778
Rating: ★

READ Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)   scifi

CLOSED: 2019-11-16

Author: James S.A. Corey
Added: 2019-09-01
ISBN: 9780316217590
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany   history ww2

Author: William L. Shirer, Ron Rosenbaum
Added: 2012-10-15
ISBN: 9781451651683

READ The Selfish Gene   science evolution

Author: Richard Dawkins
Added: 2012-10-14
ISBN: 9780199291151
Rating: ★★★

READ Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)   scifi

CLOSED: 2019-09-19

Author: James S.A. Corey
Added: 2019-09-01
ISBN: 9781841499901
Rating: ★★★

READ 2010: Odyssey Two (Space Odyssey, #2)   scifi

CLOSED: 2019-07-24

Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Added: 2019-07-02
ISBN: 9780345303066
Rating: ★★

I was teetering between two and three stars but settled on two. The plot, such as it was, lacked focus. The dialogue was awful. The ending was kinda cool and redeemed the book somewhat, but not enough. Maybe two and a half stars? Not three though.

READ Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine (Danny Dunn, #3)   ya

Author: Jay Williams, Raymond Abrashkin
Added: 2019-07-02
ISBN: 9780070705203
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD Children of the New World   scifi anthology

Author: Alexander Weinstein
Added: 2019-06-30
ISBN: 9781250099006

READ The Age of Spiritual Machines   tech philosophy

CLOSED: 2019-06-16

Author: Ray Kurzweil
Added: 2014-07-05
ISBN: 9780140282023
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD The Nibelungenlied   classic poetry german

Author: Unknown, Margaret Armour, A.T. Hatto
Added: 2019-06-02
ISBN: 9780140441376

TOREAD The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Penguin Classics)   norsemyth

Author: Snorri Sturluson, Jesse L. Byock
Added: 2019-06-02
ISBN: 9780140447552

READ Wayne of Gotham   superhero

CLOSED: 2019-05-28

Author: Tracy Hickman
Added: 2019-03-16
ISBN: 9780062074201
Rating: ★★★

READ Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)   scifi

CLOSED: 2019-05-19

Author: James S.A. Corey
Added: 2016-04-03
ISBN: 9781841499888
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way   linguistics

Author: Bill Bryson
Added: 2019-04-30
ISBN: 9780380715435

READ Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition   scifi anthology

CLOSED: 2019-04-24

Author: Rich Horton
Added: 2019-03-16
ISBN: 9780809556496
Rating: ★★

TOREAD The Master and Margarita   classic fantasy

Author: Mikhail Bulgakov, Diana Lewis Burgin, Katherine Tiernan O'Connor, Ellendea Proffer, Hans Fronius, Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
Added: 2019-04-09
ISBN: 9780679760801

READ Eternals   comic superhero

CLOSED: 2019-03-19

Author: Neil Gaiman, John Romita, Jr., Jack Kirby
Added: 2019-03-01
ISBN: 9780785125419
Rating: ★★★

READ The Next 20 Years of Your Life: A Personal Guide into the Year 2017   nonfiction

CLOSED: 2019-03-13

Author: Richard Worzel
Added: 2019-02-27
ISBN: 9780773730137
Rating: ★★

READ How to Be a Villain: Evil Laughs, Secret Lairs, Master Plans, and More!!!   humorous

CLOSED: 2019-03-01

Author: Neil Zawacki, James Dignan
Added: 2019-01-29
ISBN: 9780811846660
Rating: ★★★

READ Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived   humorous nonfiction

CLOSED: 2019-02-27

Author: Daniel H. Wilson, Richard Horne
Added: 2019-01-29
ISBN: 9781596911369
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD Microworlds: Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy   anthology

Author: Stanisław Lem
Added: 2019-02-22
ISBN: 9780156594431

READ Microserfs   tech fiction

CLOSED: 2019-01-29

Author: Douglas Coupland
Added: 2016-04-11
ISBN: 9780060987046
Rating: ★★★★

The technology is quaintly dated and if that was all the book was about this would be a problem.

But the book is much less about the tech, and much more about the characters relationship to it. And that's a story that never gets old. It's as current as ever.

This book has a lot of heart. It was lovely.

READ Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure   humorous romance

CLOSED: 2019-01-12

Author: Ryan North
Added: 2017-12-30
ISBN: 9781101983300
Rating: ★★★

READ Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1)   fantasy

Author: Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman
Added: 2019-01-05
ISBN: 9780786915743
Rating: ★★★

READ Transmetropolitan, Vol. 10: One More Time   scifi cyberpunk comic

CLOSED: 2018-09-09

Author: Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Rodney Ramos
Added: 2016-04-12
ISBN: 9781401202170
Rating: ★★★★

READ Transmetropolitan, Vol. 9: The Cure   scifi cyberpunk comic

CLOSED: 2018-09-04

Author: Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Rodney Ramos
Added: 2016-04-12
ISBN: 9781563899881
Rating: ★★★★

READ Transmetropolitan, Vol. 8: Dirge   scifi cyberpunk comic

CLOSED: 2018-09-04

Author: Warren Ellis
Added: 2016-04-12
ISBN: 9781563899539
Rating: ★★★★

READ Transmetropolitan, Vol. 7: Spider's Thrash   scifi cyberpunk comic

CLOSED: 2018-09-03

Author: Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Rodney Ramos, Darren Aronofsky
Added: 2016-04-12
ISBN: 9781563898945
Rating: ★★★★

READ Transmetropolitan, Vol. 6: Gouge Away   scifi cyberpunk comic

CLOSED: 2018-09-03

Author: Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Rodney Ramos
Added: 2016-04-12
ISBN: 9781563897962
Rating: ★★★★

READ Transmetropolitan, Vol. 5: Lonely City   scifi cyberpunk comic

CLOSED: 2018-09-02

Author: Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Rodney Ramos, Patrick Stewart
Added: 2016-04-12
ISBN: 9781563897221
Rating: ★★★★

READ Transmetropolitan, Vol. 4: The New Scum   scifi cyberpunk comic

CLOSED: 2018-08-25

Author: Warren Ellis
Added: 2016-04-12
ISBN: 9781563896279
Rating: ★★★★

READ Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard   scifi cyberpunk comic

CLOSED: 2018-08-24

Author: Warren Ellis
Added: 2013-07-29
ISBN: 9781563895685
Rating: ★★★★

READ Transmetropolitan, Vol. 2: Lust for Life   scifi cyberpunk comic

CLOSED: 2013-06-30

Author: Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson
Added: 2013-02-10
ISBN: 9781563894817
Rating: ★★★★

READ Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street   scifi cyberpunk comic

Author: Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Darick Robertston, Rodney Ramos, Garth Ennis, Nathan Eyring, Patrick Stewart
Added: 2016-04-12
ISBN: 9781563894459
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD Dark Intelligence (Transformation, #1)   scifi

Author: Neal Asher
Added: 2018-07-22
ISBN: 9781597808248

TOREAD From Sumer to Rome: The Military Capabilities of Ancient Armies (Contributions in Military Studies)   history

Author: Richard A. Gabriel, Karen S. Metz
Added: 2018-07-06
ISBN: 9780313276453

TOREAD Phantom   fiction retelling

Author: Susan Kay
Added: 2018-06-17
ISBN: 9781933626048

TOREAD Sanditon   romance classic

Author: Jane Austen, A.C. Grayling
Added: 2015-01-21
ISBN: 9781843911845

READING Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)   scifi translation

Author: Liu Cixin, Ken Liu
Added: 2018-06-03
ISBN: 9780765386632

TOREAD The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World   history linguistics

Author: David W. Anthony
Added: 2018-05-29
ISBN: 9780691058870

TOREAD The Myth of Sisyphus   classic philosophy

Author: Albert Camus, Justin Obrien
Added: 2018-03-24
ISBN: 9780141182001

TOREAD The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures   nonfiction science

Author: Anne Fadiman
Added: 2018-03-21
ISBN: 9780374525644

READ Storage Made Easy   selfhelp

CLOSED: 2018-01-03

Author: Candace Ord Manroe
Added: 2017-10-29
ISBN: 9780895778208
Rating: ★★

Mostly meh. There are practical suggestions, but they are mostly obvious (use plastic coated wire racks, etc.) Mostly I think a lot of my storage problems would go away if I just had less stuff, so I'm going to try focusing on that.

TOREAD Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)   scifi

Author: John Scalzi
Added: 2017-12-28
ISBN: 9780765348272

TOREAD Arrowood (Arrowood, #1)   mystery fiction history

Author: Mick Finlay
Added: 2017-12-21
ISBN: 9780778330943

READ How To Keep People From Pushing Your Buttons   selfhelp

CLOSED: 2017-12-21

Author: Albert Ellis, Arthur J. Lange
Added: 2017-10-28
ISBN: 9780806516707
Rating: ★★

READ Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, #4)   fantasy

CLOSED: 2025-06-15 11:16

Author: Stephen        King
Added: 2013-01-09
ISBN: 9780451194862

READ Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time   tech management

CLOSED: 2017-12-08

Author: Jeff Sutherland
Added: 2017-10-05
ISBN: 9780385346450
Rating: ★★

TOREAD The Complete Idiot's Guide to Organizing your Life   selfhelp

Author: Georgene Lockwood
Added: 2017-10-29
ISBN: 9781592574131

TOREAD Maximize Your Memory   selfhelp

Author: John Lee Hancock
Added: 2017-10-28
ISBN: 9780762102426

TOREAD Remember Everything You Read: The Evelyn Wood 7-Day Speed Reading and Learning Program   selfhelp

Author: Stanley D. Frank
Added: 2017-10-28
ISBN: 9780812917734

TOREAD A Newfoundlander in Canada: Always Going Somewhere, Always Coming Home   canada

Author: Alan Doyle
Added: 2017-10-21
ISBN: 9780385686198

TOREAD Where I Belong   canada

Author: Alan Doyle
Added: 2017-10-21
ISBN: 9780385680363

TOREAD Culture and Imperialism   society politics

Author: Edward W. Said
Added: 2017-10-18
ISBN: 9780679750543

TOREAD The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine   religion

Author: Alister E. McGrath, Joanna Collicutt McGrath
Added: 2017-10-18
ISBN: 9780830834464

READ The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2)   fantasy

CLOSED: 2017-09-26

Author: Stephen        King
Added: 2013-01-09
ISBN: 9780451925084
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD The Death and Life of Great American Cities   society

Author: Jane Jacobs
Added: 2017-09-24
ISBN: 9780375508738

TOREAD The Princess Bride   fantasy ya

Author: William Goldman
Added: 2017-08-28
ISBN: 9780345418265

TOREAD Astrophysics for People in a Hurry   science

Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Added: 2017-08-12
ISBN: 9780393609394

READ Scrum and XP from the Trenches (Enterprise Software Development)   software

Author: Henrik Kniberg
Added: 2017-07-31
ISBN: 9781430322641
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions   psych

Author: Brian  Christian, Tom  Griffiths
Added: 2017-03-25
ISBN: 9781627790369

TOREAD ISIS: The State of Terror   society politics

Author: Jessica Stern, J.M. Berger
Added: 2017-03-25
ISBN: 9780062395559

TOREAD Art History: The Basics   art

Author: Diana Newall, Grant Pooke
Added: 2017-03-24
ISBN: 9780415373081

TOREAD Inside the Third Reich   history

Author: Albert Speer
Added: 2017-03-19
ISBN: 9780684829494

READ The Republic   philosophy

CLOSED: 2017-03-15

Author: Plato
Added: 2012-10-15
ISBN: 9780140440485
Rating: ★★

TOREAD The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever   philosophy religion

Author: Christopher Hitchens
Added: 2017-02-20
ISBN: 9780306816086

TOREAD Starship Titanic (IMAGINAIRE)   scifi

Author: Terry Jones, Marie-Catherine Caillava
Added: 2017-02-20
ISBN: 9782290053652

TOREAD The Illusion of Conscious Will   philosophy

Author: Daniel M. Wegner
Added: 2017-02-04
ISBN: 9780262731621

TOREAD Second Treatise of Government (Hackett Classics)   philosophy politics

Author: John Locke, C.B. MacPherson
Added: 2017-01-31
ISBN: 9780915144860

READ Revolting Rhymes   ya

Author: Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake
Added: 2016-03-03
ISBN: 9780142302262
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD Metaphysics   philosophy

Author: Aristotle, Joe Sachs, Michael Levine
Added: 2017-01-28
ISBN: 9781888009033

TOREAD City of God   religion philosophy

Author: Augustine of Hippo, Henry Bettenson
Added: 2017-01-27
ISBN: 9780140448948

TOREAD Meditations   philosophy stoicism

Author: Marcus Aurelius, Martin Hammond
Added: 2017-01-27
ISBN: 9780140449334

TOREAD History of the Peloponnesian War   history

Author: Thucydides, M.I. Finley, Rex Warner
Added: 2017-01-27
ISBN: 9780140440393

READ Heart of Darkness   classic

CLOSED: 2017-01-25

Author: Joseph Conrad, Stanley Appelbaum
Added: 2014-07-05
ISBN: 9780486264646
Rating: ★★★★

I liked this book more than I thought I would. The prose is very dense, and there isn't much "action" and when you're faced with a book like that, your only choices are to avoid it or savour it. I attempted to do the latter.

The language was vivid, intense and memorable. Long, descriptive passages that one might be tempted to skip over in other works became the key to enjoying this one. The tension ratchets up in the last third, with the slow, inexorable journey to Kurtz. It was quite amazing.

READ Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)   scifi comedy

Author: Douglas Adams
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780345418906
Rating: ★★★★

READ The Chocolate War   ya

Author: Robert Cormier
Added: 2012-10-14
ISBN: 9780440900320
Rating: ★★★

READ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)   ya

Author: Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake
Added: 2012-10-14
ISBN: 9780142403884
Rating: ★★★★

READ Exegesis   scifi

Author: Astro Teller
Added: 2012-10-14
ISBN: 9780375700514
Rating: ★★★★

READ Marvel 1602   comic superhero

Author: Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert, Richard Isanove, Peter Sanderson, Todd Klein
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9780785123118
Rating: ★★★★

READ Stories of Your Life: and Others   scifi philosophy

CLOSED: 2016-03-28

Author: Ted Chiang
Added: 2016-03-03
ISBN: 9781931520898
Rating: ★★★★★

I don't often give 5 stars, but this guy's something else. You know when you finish a really good story and you're just itching to tell someone about it? Almost every single story in this anthology was like that.

TOREAD Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004   politics society

Author: Hendrik Hertzberg
Added: 2017-01-21
ISBN: 9780143035534

TOREAD Pro Git (Expert's Voice in Software Development)   tech software ref

Author: Scott Chacon
Added: 2017-01-20
ISBN: 9781430218333

READ The Sandman: Overture   comic fantasy

CLOSED: 2017-01-04

Author: Neil Gaiman, J.H. Williams III, Todd Klein, Dave Stewart
Added: 2016-12-27
ISBN: 9781401248963
Rating: ★★★★

READ The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress   scifi

CLOSED: 2016-12-27

Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Added: 2014-06-16
ISBN: 9780340837948
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking   selfhelp

Author: Malcolm Gladwell, Barry Fox, Irina Henegar
Added: 2016-11-19
ISBN: 9780316010665

READ The Rise of Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #4)   scifi

CLOSED: 2016-11-18

Author: Dan Simmons
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780553572988
Rating: ★★

I guess?

I mean, some questions we're answered. But at times it felt like the TV series Lost - the story kind of got away from him and he basically just gave up.

So I don't really know what the Shrike was supposed to be. Not really. Whatever happened to the people on the Tree of Pain? Did Aenea feel the people on the Tree of Pain? How did the Void entities manage to control the Shrike?

None of this was answered, and instead I get a story about people travelling on a river. Like Huckleberry Finn. Disappointing.

READ Twelve Tomorrows 2016   scifi anthology

CLOSED: 2016-10-09

Author: Bruce Sterling, Nick Harkaway, Charles Stross, Daniel Suarez, Ilona Gaynor, Pepe Rojo, Ned Beauman, John Kessle, Annalee Newitz
Added: 2016-09-05
ISBN: 9780991044436
Rating: ★★★

READ Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)   scifi

CLOSED: 2016-10-01

Author: Dan Simmons, Gary Ruddell
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780553572940
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection   selfhelp society

Author: Michael  Harris
Added: 2016-09-19
ISBN: 9781591846932

TOREAD This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate   politics society

Author: Naomi Klein
Added: 2016-08-31
ISBN: 9781451697384

READ No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs   society

Author: Naomi Klein
Added: 2016-02-22
ISBN: 9780006530404
Rating: ★★★

READ The Best of Isaac Asimov   scifi anthology

CLOSED: 2016-08-13

Author: Isaac Asimov
Added: 2015-12-14
ISBN: 9780449230183
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD When You Are Engulfed in Flames   mystery

Author: David Sedaris
Added: 2016-08-01
ISBN: 9780316143479

TOREAD Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism   society

Author: Benedict Anderson
Added: 2015-03-11
ISBN: 9781844670864

READ Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth   comic superhero

Author: Grant Morrison, Dave McKean
Added: 2014-07-22
ISBN: 9781401204259
Rating: ★★★

This book came out perhaps 3 years after The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen. It shows. It's violent and disturbing, with a strong "Women in Refrigerator" vibe to it.

Nonetheless, the artwork is superb. And the story, when not over the top with gore, is engaging.

READ The End of Eternity   scifi

CLOSED: 2016-07-15

Author: Isaac Asimov, Apostol András
Added: 2016-02-20
ISBN: 9780449016190
Rating: ★★★★

Asimov is hit or miss, but this one was out of the park, if you can deal with the 1950's era sexism. It's mostly par for the course with this kind of book, though. It functions as a kind of prequel to the Foundation series, though the fact of that is somewhat of a twist ending.

TOREAD Continuous Delivery   tech ref software

Author: Jez Humble, David  Farley
Added: 2016-07-12
ISBN: 9780321601919

TOREAD It Can't Happen Here   fiction politics

Author: Sinclair Lewis
Added: 2016-07-06
ISBN: 9780451216588

READ A Canticle for Leibowitz   scifi

CLOSED: 2016-07-06

Author: Walter M. Miller Jr.
Added: 2014-07-28
ISBN: 9780553273816
Rating: ★★

TOREAD The Unseen War in Europe: Espionage and Conspiracy in the Second World War   politics history

Author: John H. Waller
Added: 2016-06-25
ISBN: 9780679448266

READ The Fabulous Riverboat (Riverworld #2)   scifi

Author: Philip José Farmer
Added: 2016-06-17
ISBN: 9780345419682
Rating: ★★★

READ To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1)   scifi

Author: Philip José Farmer
Added: 2016-06-17
ISBN: 9780345419675
Rating: ★★★

READ Lady Susan   romance comedy classic

CLOSED: 2016-06-15

Author: Jane Austen, R.W. Chapman
Added: 2015-01-21
ISBN: 9780486444079
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD The Silmarillion   fantasy

Author: J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, Ted Nasmith
Added: 2014-06-27
ISBN: 9780618391110

READ JavaScript Patterns: Build Better Applications with Coding and Design Patterns   ref programming tech

Author: Stoyan Stefanov
Added: 2014-09-12
ISBN: 9780596806750
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine   history

Author: Charles Petzold
Added: 2016-06-09
ISBN: 9780470229057

TOREAD Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed   science

Author: Jim Al-Khalili
Added: 2016-06-09
ISBN: 9781841882383

TOREAD QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter   science

Author: Richard P. Feynman
Added: 2016-06-09
ISBN: 9780691024172

TOREAD Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy   science

Author: Kip S. Thorne, Stephen Hawking
Added: 2016-06-09
ISBN: 9780393312768

TOREAD A Brief History of Time   science

Author: Stephen Hawking
Added: 2016-06-09
ISBN: 9780553380163

TOREAD A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present   history

Author: Howard Zinn
Added: 2016-06-09
ISBN: 9780060838652

READ The Left Hand of Darkness   scifi

CLOSED: 2016-05-20

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Added: 2016-02-28
ISBN: 9780441478071
Rating: ★★★

This was going to be two stars, until about the last third of the book, which bumped it up to three. I enjoyed the camaraderie between Genly and Estraven, and the explorations of what it meant to be male or female. The politics I enjoyed less.

TOREAD The Last Temptation of Christ   religion fiction

Author: Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter A. Bien
Added: 2016-06-08
ISBN: 9780684852560

READ I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)   scifi

CLOSED: 2016-06-08

Author: Isaac Asimov
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9780553803709
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD It's Superman!   comic superhero

Author: Tom De Haven
Added: 2016-04-30
ISBN: 9780345493927

READ Kick-Ass   comic superhero

CLOSED: 2016-04-25

Author: Mark Millar, John Romita Jr.
Added: 2016-04-28
ISBN: 9780785132615
Rating: ★★★

READ Wanted   comic superhero

Author: Mark Millar, J.G. Jones, Dick Giordano, Paul Mounts, Robin Spehar, Dennis Heisler, Mark Roslan, Brian K. Vaughan
Added: 2016-04-28
ISBN: 9781582404974
Rating: ★★★

READ Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)   scifi

Author: Ernest Cline
Added: 2016-03-21
ISBN: 9780099560432
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD Axiomatic   scifi

Author: Greg Egan
Added: 2016-04-24
ISBN: 9780061052651

TOREAD The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing   selfhelp

Author: Marie Kondō
Added: 2016-04-22
ISBN: 9781607747307

READ Harriet the Spy   ya

Author: Louise Fitzhugh
Added: 2016-04-20
ISBN: 9780440416791
Rating: ★★

READ The Witch Herself (Witch Saga, #3)   ya fantasy

Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Added: 2016-04-20
ISBN: 9780689853173
Rating: ★★★

READ Witch's Sister (Witch Saga, #1)   ya fantasy

Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Added: 2016-04-20
ISBN: 9780689853159
Rating: ★★★

READ Witch Water (Witch Saga, #2)   ya fantasy

Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Added: 2016-04-20
ISBN: 9780689853166
Rating: ★★★

READ Diaspora   scifi

CLOSED: 2016-04-14

Author: Greg Egan
Added: 2014-06-05
ISBN: 9780061057984
Rating: ★★★★

READ JavaScript: The Good Parts   tech programming ref

CLOSED: 2016-04-13

Author: Douglas Crockford
Added: 2014-09-12
ISBN: 9780596517748
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD Transmetropolitan, Vol. 0: Tales of Human Waste   comic cyberpunk

Author: Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson
Added: 2016-04-12
ISBN: 9781401202446

TOREAD The Prince   classic politics

Author: Niccolò Machiavelli, Rufus Goodwin, Benjamin Martinez, W.K. Marriott, Denis Daly, Μαρία Κασωτάκη
Added: 2014-07-09
ISBN: 9780937832387

TOREAD The Alchemist   fantasy

Author: Paulo Coelho, Alan R. Clarke
Added: 2016-04-09
ISBN: 9780061122415

TOREAD The Steampunk Trilogy   steampunk scifi

Author: Paul Di Filippo
Added: 2016-04-08
ISBN: 9781568581026

TOREAD Chaos: Making a New Science   science

Author: James Gleick
Added: 2016-04-07
ISBN: 9780140092509

TOREAD Unto the Sons   fiction

Author: Gay Talese
Added: 2016-04-07
ISBN: 9780679410348

TOREAD The Catcher in the Rye   fiction classic

Author: J.D. Salinger
Added: 2016-04-07
ISBN: 9780316769174

TOREAD Reflections on the Revolution in France   history politics

Author: Edmund Burke, L.G. Mitchell
Added: 2016-04-04
ISBN: 9780192839787

TOREAD Leviathan   classic politics

Author: Thomas Hobbes, Marshall Missner, Crawford Brough Macpherson
Added: 2016-04-04
ISBN: 9780140431957

TOREAD The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism   society

Author: Naomi Klein
Added: 2016-04-04
ISBN: 9780805079838

TOREAD Mr. Sammler's Planet   fiction

Author: Saul Bellow, Stanley Crouch
Added: 2016-04-04
ISBN: 9780142437834

TOREAD Humboldt's Gift   fiction

Author: Saul Bellow
Added: 2016-04-04
ISBN: 9780140189445

TOREAD A Moment of True Feeling   fiction

Author: Peter Handke, Ralph Manheim
Added: 2016-04-04
ISBN: 9780374172916

READ Parasite Pig (Interstellar Pig, #2)   ya scifi

CLOSED: 2016-04-03

Author: William Sleator
Added: 2014-06-28
ISBN: 9780142400869
Rating: ★★★

READ Heat Wave (Nikki Heat, #1)   mystery

CLOSED: 2016-04-01

Author: Richard Castle
Added: 2016-03-28
ISBN: 9780786891412
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD Learning GNU Emacs   tech ref

Author: Debra Cameron, James Elliott, Marc Loy, Eric Raymond, Bill Rosenblatt
Added: 2016-03-31
ISBN: 9780596006488

READ Beyond the Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #2)   ya

Author: Robert Cormier
Added: 2012-10-14
ISBN: 9780440905806
Rating: ★★★

READ The Boy Who Reversed Himself   ya scifi

Author: William Sleator
Added: 2014-06-28
ISBN: 9780553285703
Rating: ★★★★

READ A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)   ya scifi

Author: Madeleine L'Engle
Added: 2014-06-28
ISBN: 9780440800545
Rating: ★★★

READ The Duplicate   ya scifi

Author: William Sleator
Added: 2014-06-28
ISBN: 9780553286342
Rating: ★★

READ Interstellar Pig (Interstellar Pig #1)   ya scifi

Author: William Sleator
Added: 2013-01-03
ISBN: 9780553255645
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD The Nicomachean Ethics   philosophy classic

Author: Aristotle, Hugh Tredennick, J.A.K. Thomson, Jonathan Barnes
Added: 2016-03-29
ISBN: 9780140449495

READ Danny the Champion of the World   ya fiction

Author: Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake
Added: 2016-03-03
ISBN: 9780375814259
Rating: ★★★

READ Boy: Tales of Childhood (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #1)   ya biography

Author: Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake
Added: 2016-03-28
ISBN: 9780141311401
Rating: ★★★

READ Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2)   ya fantasy

Author: Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake
Added: 2016-03-28
ISBN: 9780142404126
Rating: ★★

READ Fantastic Mr. Fox   ya fantasy

Author: Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake
Added: 2016-03-28
ISBN: 9780375822070
Rating: ★★★

READ The Twits   ya fantasy

Author: Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake
Added: 2016-03-28
ISBN: 9780141318301
Rating: ★★★

READ The Witches   ya fantasy

Author: Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake
Added: 2016-03-28
ISBN: 9780590032490
Rating: ★★★

READ James and the Giant Peach   ya fantasy

Author: Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake
Added: 2012-10-15
ISBN: 9780375814242
Rating: ★★★

READ The Enormous Crocodile   ya fantasy

Author: Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake
Added: 2016-03-28
ISBN: 9780142302453
Rating: ★★★

READ Foundation and Earth (Foundation #5)   scifi

CLOSED: 2016-03-27

Author: Isaac Asimov
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9780345339966
Rating: ★★★

READ Kingdom Come   comic superhero

Author: Mark Waid, Alex Ross
Added: 2016-03-24
ISBN: 9781563893308
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD Whiskey: The Definitive World Guide   ref drinking

Author: Michael    Jackson
Added: 2016-03-24
ISBN: 9780789497109

TOREAD Two Solitudes   society canada quebec

Author: Hugh MacLennan
Added: 2016-03-17
ISBN: 9780771034824

TOREAD The Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome   myth

Author: E.M. Berens
Added: 2016-03-15
ISBN: 9780893410292

TOREAD Melmoth the Wanderer   fantasy

Author: Charles Robert Maturin, Victor Sage
Added: 2016-03-13
ISBN: 9780140447613

READ Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde   scifi

CLOSED: 2016-03-13

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson, Vladimir Nabokov, Dan Chaon, Jerome Charyn, Simon Vestdijk
Added: 2014-07-14
ISBN: 9780451528957
Rating: ★★★

Pretty good, but the problem with reading this book is that everyone knows the twist. Stevenson tries to makes things look like a simple case of Hyde blackmailing Jekyll, but everyone knows this isn't true. The big reveal therefore falls flat. I made an effort to pretend I was someone living in the Victorian era, reading this for the first time, but that was of limited success.

Anyway, I'm glad I read it, if only to see what all the fuss was about.

READ Robots and Empire (Robot, #4)   scifi

CLOSED: 2016-03-12

Author: Isaac Asimov
Added: 2014-06-27
ISBN: 9780345328946
Rating: ★★★

Overlong. Could have been shorter. And ended way too abruptly.

Nonetheless, not a bad bridge between the Robot novels and the Empire novels. Asimov did something quite cool - he took two unrelated series and put them in the same universe in a way that, to me, felt organic.

TOREAD The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory   philosophy

Author: David J. Chalmers
Added: 2016-03-09
ISBN: 9780195117899

READ The Stars, Like Dust (Galactic Empire, #1)   scifi

CLOSED: 2015-10-17

Author: Isaac Asimov, Paul Lehr
Added: 2014-06-27
ISBN: 9780449023730
Rating: ★★★

I appear to be in the same boat as most people when it comes to Asimov. His plots are and characters are paper thin, but his ideas are pretty cool. As much as the plot didn't really grab me, I find myself wanting to learn more about Asimov's "Future History".

I even found myself occasionally liking his imagery in this book, and sharing the sense of wonder that he obviously must have felt about space travel (as dated as it seems - the book was written at a time when space travel was truly science fiction. We hadn't been to the moon yet)

Anyway, decent stuff. I shall read more.

READ The Currents of Space (Galactic Empire, #2)   scifi

CLOSED: 2015-11-25

Author: Isaac Asimov
Added: 2014-06-27
ISBN: 9780345311955
Rating: ★★★

Almost 4 stars, but it ended rather abruptly.

Storywise it was actually pretty good, with a plot that I imagine was extremely progressive for the 1950's. Character wise, it was thin, in the usual Asmovian style.

READ Batman: The Long Halloween   comic superhero

Author: Jeph Loeb
Added: 2014-07-03
ISBN: 9781563894695
Rating: ★★★

READ Crisis on Infinite Earths   comic superhero

Author: Marv Wolfman, George Pérez
Added: 2015-11-09
ISBN: 9781563897504
Rating: ★★★

READ Infinite Crisis   comic superhero

Author: Geoff Johns, Phil Jimenez, George Pérez, Jerry Ordway, Ivan Reis, Andy Lanning
Added: 2015-11-09
ISBN: 9781401209599
Rating: ★★★

READ The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne, #1)   thriller

Author: Robert Ludlum
Added: 2016-03-09
ISBN: 9780752864327
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD Quantum Night   scifi

Author: Robert J. Sawyer
Added: 2016-03-06
ISBN: 9780425256831

READ Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (Red Dwarf, #1)   scifi comedy

CLOSED: 2014-07-09

Author: Grant Naylor
Added: 2014-07-09
ISBN: 9780451452016
Rating: ★★★

READ The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2   comic

Author: Alan             Moore, Kevin O'Neill
Added: 2014-07-14
ISBN: 9781401201180
Rating: ★★★

READ Cinderella, Volume 2: Fables are Forever   comic

Author: Chris Roberson, Bill Willingham, Various
Added: 2015-08-10
ISBN: 9781401233853
Rating: ★★★

READ Fairest, Volume 5: The Clamour for Glamour   comic

CLOSED: 2015-10-24

Author: Mark Buckingham, Bill Willingham, Russ Braun, Meghan Hetrick, Andrew Pepoy, Andrew Dalhouse, Lee Loughridge, Guy Major, Todd Klein, Adam Hughes
Added: 2015-08-15
ISBN: 9781401254261
Rating: ★★★

READ Bullet Gal: It's Not You, It's Me   comic scifi

CLOSED: 2015-08-19

Author: Andrez Bergen
Added: 2015-08-19
ISBN: 9780993853517
Rating: ★★★

READ Test-Driven Development: By Example   tech software

Author: Kent Beck
Added: 2015-09-14
ISBN: 9780321146533
Rating: ★★★

READ Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software   tech ref software

Author: Erich Gamma, Grady Booch, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
Added: 2015-09-14
ISBN: 9780201633610
Rating: ★★★

READ The Outsiders   ya fiction

Author: S.E. Hinton
Added: 2015-09-14
ISBN: 9780670532575
Rating: ★★

READ Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs   tech software

Author: Scott Meyers
Added: 2015-10-07
ISBN: 9780321334879
Rating: ★★★

READ Blackbriar   ya fantasy

Author: William Sleator
Added: 2016-03-05
ISBN: 9780380002481
Rating: ★★★

READ Strange Attractors   ya scifi

Author: William Sleator
Added: 2016-03-05
ISBN: 9780140345827
Rating: ★★

TOREAD Distress   scifi

Author: Greg Egan
Added: 2016-03-05
ISBN: 0061057274

TOREAD Quarantine   scifi

Author: Greg Egan
Added: 2016-03-05
ISBN: 9780061054235

TOREAD Songs of Distant Earth   scifi

Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Added: 2016-03-03
ISBN: 9780007115860

READ The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3)   scifi

CLOSED: 2016-03-01

Author: Isaac Asimov
Added: 2014-06-27
ISBN: 9780345315717
Rating: ★★★★

I choose to ignore the rather gratuitous scene of pseudo-erotic adultery near the end. With this in mind, I give the book 4 stars. It's an excellent read. As others have commented, it's the last 6 or 7 pages or so that do it.

TOREAD In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality   science

Author: John Gribbin
Added: 2014-08-18
ISBN: 9780553342536

TOREAD 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)   scifi

Author: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel
Added: 2016-02-11
ISBN: 9780307593313

TOREAD The Predicates of Fate   scifi

Author: V.A. Hezaran
Added: 2016-02-18
ISBN: 9781771550840

TOREAD The Martian Chronicles   scifi

Author: Ray Bradbury, Michael Whelan
Added: 2016-02-18
ISBN: 9780553278224

TOREAD A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)   scifi

Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Seelye
Added: 2016-02-18
ISBN: 9780143104889

TOREAD Forward the Foundation (Foundation, #7)   scifi

Author: Isaac Asimov
Added: 2015-11-07
ISBN: 9780553565072

TOREAD The Shockwave Rider   scifi

Author: John Brunner
Added: 2015-08-12
ISBN: 9780345467171

TOREAD A Scanner Darkly   scifi

Author: Philip K. Dick
Added: 2015-07-29
ISBN: 9780575076815

TOREAD The War of the Worlds   scifi

Author: H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke
Added: 2015-07-29
ISBN: 9780375759239

READ Lightning   scifi

Author: Dean Koontz
Added: 2016-02-26
ISBN: 9780425192030
Rating: ★★

READ Job: A Comedy of Justice   scifi

Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Added: 2016-02-25
ISBN: 9780345316509
Rating: ★★★

READ Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4)   scifi

CLOSED: 2016-02-24

Author: Isaac Asimov
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9780345308986
Rating: ★★★★

I'll probably have a more elaborate review later. I may write a blog entry about this. In the meantime:

  • 2 stars for the lame characters
  • plus 1 star for a decent plot and world building (3 stars)
  • plus 1 star for the meta plot and canon welding (4 stars)
  • minus 0.5 stars for the silly relationship between Bliss and Pel

That makes 3.5 stars. I'll be generous and round to 4.

TOREAD The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power   society

Author: Joel Bakan
Added: 2016-02-23
ISBN: 9780743247467

TOREAD Something Wicked This Way Comes   ya fantasy

Author: Ray Bradbury
Added: 2016-02-22
ISBN: 9780380729401

TOREAD A History of Western Philosophy   philosophy

Author: Bertrand Russell
Added: 2014-06-21
ISBN: 9780671201586

READ The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention   linguistics

CLOSED: 2014-09-05

Author: Guy Deutscher
Added: 2014-07-07
ISBN: 9780805080124
Rating: ★★★★

This book is an eye-opener. It explains not only how words and grammar have evolved over the centuries, but also how the very notion grammar (word endings, prepositions, etc.) could have evolved in the first place.

I thought the chapter on metaphors was profound - itself a metaphor, since "profound" means "deep", but I don't literally mean that the chapter was deep in the way that ocean is deep. The idea that tense markers could actually evolve from metaphors was something quite simply had never occurred to me.

It makes me want to take a real course in linguistics. It also makes me want to learn Old English so I can read Beowulf. I will likely do neither, but this book makes me want to :)

As a side note, it puts a song like "Word Crimes" into perspective. Amazingly clever song, yes, but I find I'm a little more tolerant of lapses in grammar after reading this book.

READ The Club Dumas   fantasy

CLOSED: 2015-04-09

Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Sonia Soto
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780156032834
Rating: ★★★★

Don't be turned off by the fact that this was the basis for the movie "The Ninth Gate". That movie was a shadow of this work. I know everyone always says that but in this case it's true. In short, this is an awesome book.

It's a love sonnet to the adventure serials of old. And, weirdly, it gives the devil his due at the same time.

If you're the kind of person who loves old, leather bound, gold leafed books, who's excited to see a Gutenberg Bible or a Shakespeare Folio on display in a museum, who avoids e-books because they just don't feel right, then stop what you're doing and read this book right now. You won't be sorry. This was written just for you.

It's true, to fully appreciate it requires a certain amount of literacy. Knowledge of the works of Alexandre Dumas (particularly The Three Musketeers) helps, but it's not required. I've only read the Count of Monte Cristo, a long time ago, and I was still able to fully enjoy this book.

But you know what? I now really want to read The Three Musketeers.

Now it's also true that the ending was a bit anti-climactic. I don't care. Everything leading up to that was gold and I'm not going to dismiss a work just because the author faltered in the last page. It's given me food for thought and that's enough for me

READ Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?   comic superhero

Author: Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert, Various
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9781401223038
Rating: ★★★★

READ Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?   comic superhero

Author: Alan             Moore, Curt Swan, George Pérez, Kurt Schaffenberger
Added: 2015-05-04
ISBN: 9781563893155
Rating: ★★

TOREAD The Puppet Masters   scifi

Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Added: 2016-02-18
ISBN: 9781439133767

TOREAD Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)   mystery

Author: Agatha Christie
Added: 2016-02-18
ISBN: 9780425200452

READ Second Foundation (Foundation, #3)   scifi

CLOSED: 2016-02-13

Author: Isaac Asimov
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9780380292806
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD 1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England   history

Author: W.C. Sellar, R.J. Yeatman, John Reynolds
Added: 2016-02-13
ISBN: 9780413772701

TOREAD Poetics   philosophy

Author: Aristotle, Malcolm Heath
Added: 2016-01-31
ISBN: 9780140446364

TOREAD S.   fantasy

Author: J.J. Abrams, Doug Dorst
Added: 2016-02-07
ISBN: 9780316201643

READ Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)   scifi

CLOSED: 2016-02-06

Author: Isaac Asimov
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9780380007745
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD The Emperor's New Mind   philosophy science

Author: Roger Penrose
Added: 2012-10-15
ISBN: 9780192861986

READ Foundation (Foundation, #1)   scifi

CLOSED: 2016-01-25

Author: Isaac Asimov
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9780380440658
Rating: ★★★

It seems appropriate that Issac Asimov, being the inventor of the fictional discipline of psychohistory - an odd blend of math, sociology and psychology, able to predict the future of very large groups of people while simultaneously being unable to predict the fate of a single individual - should be so awful at character development. As others have said, humanity is the protagonist in the Foundation trilogy, not any particular person.

It makes for quite a sweeping history, but quite a horrible plot, and paper thin characters. Watching an Empire collapse before your eyes is really cool, but my god there's no frickin' plot!

TOREAD Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words   ref

Author: Randall Munroe
Added: 2016-01-19
ISBN: 9780544668256

TOREAD Climbing Mount Improbable   science

Author: Richard Dawkins
Added: 2016-01-19
ISBN: 9780141026176

READ Lex Luthor: Man of Steel   comic superhero

CLOSED: 2016-01-14

Author: Brian Azzarello
Added: 2014-12-10
ISBN: 9781401204549
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False   philosophy

Author: Thomas Nagel
Added: 2016-01-13
ISBN: 9780199919758

TOREAD Odd and the Frost Giants   ya fantasy

Author: Neil Gaiman, Mark Buckingham
Added: 2016-01-13
ISBN: 9780747595380

READ The God Delusion   religion

CLOSED: 2016-01-11

Author: Richard Dawkins
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780618918249
Rating: ★★★

Good book, but feels little mean-spirited at times.

TOREAD Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder   science

Author: Richard Dawkins
Added: 2016-01-09
ISBN: 9780618056736

TOREAD The Lords of the Golden Horn: From Suleiman the Magnificent to Kamal Ataturk   history

Author: Noel Barber
Added: 2016-01-09
ISBN: 9780333138618

TOREAD Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong   science

Author: Marc Hauser
Added: 2016-01-08
ISBN: 9780060780708

TOREAD The Satanic Verses   fiction

Author: Salman Rushdie
Added: 2016-01-01
ISBN: 9780312270827

TOREAD The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers (Cornell Studies in Money)   society

Author: Ngaire Woods
Added: 2016-01-01
ISBN: 9780801474200

TOREAD A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing   science

Author: Lawrence M. Krauss, Richard Dawkins
Added: 2015-12-28
ISBN: 9781451624458

TOREAD The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was   society canada

Author: Chantal Hébert
Added: 2015-12-26
ISBN: 9780345807625

TOREAD The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism   economics society

Author: David D. Friedman
Added: 2015-12-17
ISBN: 9780812690699

READ Fables: The Wolf Among Us, Volume 1   comic

CLOSED: 2015-12-14

Author: Lilah Sturges, Matthew Sturges, Dave Justus, Shawn McManus, Stephen Sadowski, Travis Moore, Christopher Mitten, Eric    Nguyen, Andrew Pepoy, Lee Loughridge, Sal Cipriano, Chrissie Zullo
Added: 2015-11-27
ISBN: 9781401256845
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue   religion

Author: Sam Harris, Maajid Nawaz
Added: 2015-12-11
ISBN: 9780674088702

READ Pebble in the Sky (Galactic Empire, #3)   scifi

CLOSED: 2015-12-10

Author: Isaac Asimov
Added: 2014-06-27
ISBN: 9780345335630
Rating: ★★★

Not as good as The Naked Sun, but not bad. The usual cardboard characters and awful dialogue, but with a certain redeeming world-building charm.

READ Les Misérables   classic fiction

Author: Victor Hugo, Charles E. Wilbour, Laurence M. Porter
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9781593080662
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)   biography

Author: Felicia Day, Joss Whedon
Added: 2015-11-15
ISBN: 9781476785653

TOREAD Fairest, Volume 4: Of Men and Mice   comic

Author: Marc Andreyko, Shawn McManus, Adam Hughes, Lee Loughridge, Todd Klein
Added: 2015-08-15
ISBN: 9781401250058

TOREAD Fairest: In All the Land   comic

Author: Bill Willingham, Various
Added: 2015-10-17
ISBN: 9781401239008

TOREAD Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference   science

Author: Cordelia Fine
Added: 2015-09-27
ISBN: 9780393068382

READ Effective Python: 59 Specific Ways to Write Better Python (Effective Software Development Series)   tech software

CLOSED: 2015-09-25

Author: Brett Slatkin
Added: 2015-04-13
ISBN: 9780134034287
Rating: ★★★

READ Le Petit Prince   fantasy

Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Added: 2014-07-09
ISBN: 9785954200263
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship   tech software

Author: Robert C. Martin
Added: 2015-08-26
ISBN: 9780132350884

TOREAD Catch-22   fiction

Author: Joseph Heller
Added: 2015-08-26
ISBN: 9780684833392

READ Fables, Vol. 19: Snow White   comic

CLOSED: 2014-06-21

Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham
Added: 2014-06-05
ISBN: 9781401242480
Rating: ★★★

READ Fables, Vol. 20: Camelot   comic

CLOSED: 2015-08-16

Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Russ Braun, Barry Kitson, Andrew Pepoy, Gary Erskine, Lee Loughridge, Todd Klein
Added: 2015-05-01
ISBN: 9781401245160
Rating: ★★★

READ Fables, Vol. 21: Happily Ever After   comic

CLOSED: 2015-08-17

Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Andrew Pepoy, Lilah Sturges, Shawn McManus, Nimit Malavia, Dan Green, Jae Lee, Terry Moore, Eric Shanower, Russ Braun, Chrissie Zullo, Lee Loughridge, June Chung, Todd Klein
Added: 2015-08-10
ISBN: 9781401251321
Rating: ★★

Seriously, dude, you can't unceremoniously kill off major characters and expect me to give you a good rating.

READ Fables, Vol. 22: Farewell   comic

CLOSED: 2015-08-19

Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Andrew Pepoy, Dan Green, José Marzán Jr., David Petersen, Russ Braun, Joëlle Jones, Mark Schultz, Lee Garbett, Teddy Kristiansen, Mike Allred, Aaron Alexovich, David Hahn, Lan Medina, Niko Henrichon, Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson, Mark Farmer, Megan Levens, Bryan Talbot, Lee Loughridge, Andrew Dalhouse, Laura Allred, Todd Klein, Nimit Malavi
Added: 2015-08-12
ISBN: 9781401252335
Rating: ★★

I can't give this more than 2 stars. Fables as a whole gets 4 stars, but this last volume just felt like too much of a mop job. Characters that I've read about for years deserve a better ending than they got.

READ The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)   scifi

CLOSED: 2015-08-16

Author: Dan Simmons
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780553288209
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD Ayn Rand and the World She Made   biography

Author: Anne C. Heller
Added: 2015-08-06
ISBN: 9780385513999

TOREAD Steampunk   scifi anthology

Author: Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer, Joe R. Lansdale, Molly Brown, Ted Chiang, Ian R. McLeod, Paul Di Filippo, Rachel E. Pollock, Joseph E. Lake, Stepan Chapman, Neal Stephenson, Mollly Brown, Jess Nevins, Rick Klaw, Bill  Baker, Michael Moorcock, Rachel E. Pollack, Mary Gentle, Jay Lake, Michael Chabon, Ian R. MacLeod, James P. Blaylock, Amparo Ramajo Huélamo, Santiago Eximeno
Added: 2015-07-29
ISBN: 9781892391759

TOREAD The Difference Engine   scifi steampunk

Author: William Gibson
Added: 2015-07-29
ISBN: 9780575099401

TOREAD Metaphors We Live By   linguistics

Author: George Lakoff, Mark  Johnson
Added: 2015-07-28
ISBN: 9780226468013

TOREAD The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)   mystery

Author: Raymond Chandler
Added: 2015-07-27
ISBN: 9780394758282

TOREAD Gulliver’s Travels   fantasy

Author: Jonathan Swift, Robert DeMaria Jr.
Added: 2015-07-24
ISBN: 9780141439495

TOREAD The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature   philosophy

Author: Steven Pinker
Added: 2015-07-18
ISBN: 9780670063277

TOREAD Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others   myth

Author: Stephanie Dalley, Anonymous
Added: 2015-05-31
ISBN: 9780192835895

READ Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)   scifi

CLOSED: 2015-05-30

Author: Dan Simmons
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780553283686
Rating: ★★★

I wish goodreads had the ability to give half stars, because I sort of feel like 3.5 stars is a better rating for this book - somewhere between "liked it" and "really liked it".

As far as the universe building goes, this one feels quite realistic to me. It feels like all the science fictions elements with which we're familiar - time dilatation, farcaster portals, interplanetary politics - are all woven seamlessly into the fabric of the story. There wasn't too much useless exposition and I liked that.

The story itself had its highs and lows. I enjoyed the tales in the following order:

  • The Scholar's Tale
  • The Consul's Tale
  • The Priest's Tale
  • The Poet's Tale
  • The Soldier's Tale
  • The Detective's Tale

I found the detective's tale disappointing, especially after the first few pages showed such promise. It felt a little too derivative of William Gibson's work. I don't really enjoy Gibson at the best of times, and derivative Gibson is even worse.

The Scholar's Tale I found the most compelling. I very much want Rachel to survive this whole ordeal.

TOREAD The Batman Adventures: Mad Love   comic superhero

Author: Paul Dini, Bruce Timm, Rick  Taylor, Tim Harkins
Added: 2014-07-22
ISBN: 9781563892448

TOREAD The Practice Effect   scifi

Author: David Brin
Added: 2014-08-23
ISBN: 9780553269819

TOREAD Joker   comic superhero

Author: Brian Azzarello, Lee Bermejo
Added: 2015-05-04
ISBN: 9781401215811

TOREAD Batman: The Killing Joke   comic superhero

Author: Alan             Moore, Brian Bolland, Tim Sale
Added: 2015-05-04
ISBN: 9780930289454

TOREAD Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software   tech software

Author: Eric Evans
Added: 2015-05-09
ISBN: 9780321125217

TOREAD The Sirens of Titan   scifi

Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Added: 2015-05-12
ISBN: 9780385333498

TOREAD Foucault’s Pendulum   fiction mystery

Author: Umberto Eco, William Weaver
Added: 2015-04-07
ISBN: 9780156032971

TOREAD God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything   religion society

Author: Christopher Hitchens
Added: 2015-04-06
ISBN: 9780446579803

TOREAD Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers   society economics

Author: Éric Toussaint, Damien Millet
Added: 2015-04-05
ISBN: 9781583672228

READ The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks   drinking

CLOSED: 2015-03-29

Author: David A. Embury
Added: 2014-12-10
ISBN: 9781603111645
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid   philosophy

Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Added: 2012-10-15
ISBN: 9780465026562

TOREAD Atlas Shrugged   fiction

Author: Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff
Added: 2015-03-11
ISBN: 9780452011878
Rating: ★★

TOREAD Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians   politics society

Author: Noam Chomsky
Added: 2012-10-15
ISBN: 9780745315300

READ Night of January 16th   fiction mystery

Author: Ayn Rand
Added: 2015-03-11
ISBN: 9780452264861
Rating: ★★

TOREAD I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)   history fiction

Author: Robert Graves
Added: 2015-02-21
ISBN: 9780679724773

READ Dune (Dune, #1)   scifi

CLOSED: 2015-08-16

Author: Frank Herbert
Added: 2012-10-15
ISBN: 9780340839935
Rating: ★★

I finally finished it. I'm very proud of myself.

Unfortunately, I can't say I liked it very much. I appreciate the rich, detailed world-building Herbert has accomplished here, but I find his prose…off-putting, I guess? I would call it "florid", but that's not really it. Nonsensical? As in, most of his explanations for what was going on made no sense to me.

This book is very much a product of the 60's, with its emphasis on "awareness-spectrum narcotics" allowing people, apparently, to see though time. It's not really my jam.

Also, the ending was anti-climactic. The evil Baron dispatched so quickly? I was disappointed. Like Alia, I was enjoying watching him squirm, and I wanted the scene to last a little longer. So I guess Herbert did a good job there - he successfully made me hate the Baron enough that I enjoyed watching him receive his comeuppance. I just wish there had been more of it.

I did find myself vaguely intrigued by the oblique references to the Butlerian Jihad but, alas, very little of it was detailed. I suspect I won't be reading the sequels.

TOREAD The Inferno of Dante   religion classic

Author: Dante Alighieri, Robert Pinsky
Added: 2015-02-09
ISBN: 9780374524524

TOREAD Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances   fantasy

Author: Neil Gaiman
Added: 2015-02-05
ISBN: 9780062330291

TOREAD Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness   philosophy

Author: Daniel C. Dennett
Added: 2015-01-27
ISBN: 9780465073511

TOREAD The Society of Mind   philosophy

Author: Marvin Minsky
Added: 2015-01-27
ISBN: 9780671657130

TOREAD I Am a Strange Loop   philosophy

Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Added: 2015-01-23
ISBN: 9780465030781

TOREAD Ozma of Oz (Oz, #3)   ya fantasy

Author: L. Frank Baum
Added: 2013-01-03
ISBN: 9780543895141
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, #5)   fantasy

Author: Stephen        King, Bernie Wrightson
Added: 2013-01-09
ISBN: 9781416516934

TOREAD Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower, #6)   fantasy

Author: Stephen        King, Darrel Anderson
Added: 2013-01-09
ISBN: 9781416521495

TOREAD Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English   linguistics

Author: John McWhorter
Added: 2013-07-01
ISBN: 9781592403950

TOREAD The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind   philosophy

Author: Julian Jaynes
Added: 2014-06-27
ISBN: 9780618057078

TOREAD Civilization Before Greece and Rome   history

Author: Henry William Frederick Saggs
Added: 2014-07-05
ISBN: 9780300050318

TOREAD A History of the Ancient World   history

Author: Chester G. Starr
Added: 2014-07-05
ISBN: 9780195066296

TOREAD The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values   science philosophy

Author: Sam Harris
Added: 2014-07-05
ISBN: 9781439171219

TOREAD The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics   philosophy

Author: Steven E. Landsburg
Added: 2014-07-05
ISBN: 9781439148211

TOREAD Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media   politics society

Author: Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
Added: 2014-07-05
ISBN: 9780375714498

TOREAD Gödel's Proof   philosophy

Author: Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman, Douglas R. Hofstadter
Added: 2014-08-19
ISBN: 9780814758168

TOREAD Free Will   philosophy

Author: Sam Harris
Added: 2014-08-01
ISBN: 9781451683400

TOREAD Chasm City   scifi

Author: Alastair Reynolds
Added: 2014-07-28
ISBN: 9780441010646

TOREAD Revelation Space (Revelation Space #1)   scifi

Author: Alastair Reynolds
Added: 2014-07-28
ISBN: 9780441009428

TOREAD House of Suns   scifi

Author: Alastair Reynolds
Added: 2014-07-28
ISBN: 9780575099128

TOREAD Pushing Ice   scifi

Author: Alastair Reynolds
Added: 2014-07-28
ISBN: 9780441014019

TOREAD Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe   philosophy religion society

Author: Greg M. Epstein
Added: 2014-07-20
ISBN: 9780061670114

TOREAD The Essential Turing: Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life plus The Secrets of Enigma   philosophy

Author: Alan M. Turing, B. Jack Copeland
Added: 2014-07-20
ISBN: 9780198250807

TOREAD Plutarch's Lives: Volume II   biography

Author: Plutarch, John Dryden, James Atlas, Arthur Hugh Clough
Added: 2014-07-13
ISBN: 9780375756771

TOREAD Plutarch's Lives: Volume I   biography

Author: Plutarch, John Dryden, James Atlas, Arthur Hugh Clough
Added: 2014-07-13
ISBN: 9780375756764

TOREAD Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking   philosophy

Author: Daniel C. Dennett
Added: 2014-08-20
ISBN: 9780393348781

TOREAD The Intentional Stance   philosophy

Author: Daniel C. Dennett
Added: 2014-08-20
ISBN: 9780262540537

TOREAD Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code   tech software

Author: Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, Don Roberts, Erich Gamma
Added: 2014-09-12
ISBN: 9780201485677

TOREAD Introduction to Algorithms   tech programming

Author: Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein
Added: 2015-01-06
ISBN: 9780262032933

TOREAD Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools   tech programming

Author: Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, Jeffrey D. Ullman
Added: 2015-01-06
ISBN: 9780201100884

TOREAD The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms   tech programming

Author: Donald Ervin Knuth
Added: 2015-01-06
ISBN: 9780201896831

TOREAD The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms   tech programming

Author: Donald Ervin Knuth
Added: 2015-01-06
ISBN: 9780201896848

TOREAD The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 3: Sorting and Searching   tech programming

Author: Donald Ervin Knuth
Added: 2015-01-06
ISBN: 0785342896855

TOREAD Wiring a House (For Pros By Pros)   ref

Author: Rex Cauldwell
Added: 2015-01-08
ISBN: 9781561585274

TOREAD Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future   society

Author: Ian Morris
Added: 2015-01-07
ISBN: 9781429977043

TOREAD Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years   society

Author: Tom Standage
Added: 2015-01-05
ISBN: 9781620402856

TOREAD Illustrated Cabinetmaking: How to Design and Construct Furniture That Works (American Woodworker)   ref woodworking

Author: Bill Hylton
Added: 2014-12-13
ISBN: 9781565233690

TOREAD The Complete Manual of Woodworking: A Detailed Guide to Design, Techniques, and Tools for the Beginner and Expert   ref woodworking

Author: Albert Jackson, David Day
Added: 2014-12-13
ISBN: 9780679766117

TOREAD The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life   society

Author: Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray
Added: 2014-12-03
ISBN: 9780684824291

TOREAD Malt Whisky Companion   ref drinking

Author: Michael    Jackson
Added: 2014-09-12
ISBN: 9780751307085

TOREAD Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies   society

Author: Jared Diamond
Added: 2014-09-12
ISBN: 9780739467350

TOREAD The Meme Machine   philosophy society

Author: Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins
Added: 2014-08-20
ISBN: 9780192862129

TOREAD The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal   science

Author: Jared Diamond
Added: 2014-08-18
ISBN: 9780060845506

TOREAD In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto   food

Author: Michael Pollan
Added: 2014-08-18
ISBN: 9781594201455

TOREAD Fermat's Enigma   math

Author: Simon Singh, John Lynch
Added: 2014-08-18
ISBN: 9780385493628

READ Snow Crash   scifi cyberpunk

Author: Neal Stephenson
Added: 2012-10-14
ISBN: 9780553380958
Rating: ★★★★

READ Queen of Angels (Queen of Angels, #1)   scifi

Author: Greg Bear
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780446361309
Rating: ★★★★

READ Anvil of Stars (Forge of God, #2)   scifi

Author: Greg Bear
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780446364034
Rating: ★★★★

READ Anansi Boys   fantasy

Author: Neil Gaiman
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780060515195
Rating: ★★★★

READ The Man in the High Castle   scifi

Author: Philip K. Dick
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780679740674
Rating: ★★★★

READ Watchmen   comic superhero

Author: Alan             Moore, Dave Gibbons, John    Higgins
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780930289232
Rating: ★★★

READ And Another Thing… (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #6)   scifi humorous

Author: Eoin Colfer
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9781401323585
Rating: ★★★★

READ Pride and Prejudice   classic romance

Author: Jane Austen
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780553211542
Rating: ★★★★

I find that Jane Austen's sense of humour resonates with mine. This is a very funny book. It also gives hope to socially awkward men!

READ Atheism: The Case Against God   religion philosophy

Author: George H. Smith
Added: 2012-10-14
ISBN: 9780879751241
Rating: ★★★★

READ Slant (Queen of Angels, #4)   scifi

Author: Greg Bear
Added: 2012-10-14
ISBN: 9780812524826
Rating: ★★★

READ The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You   comic fantasy

Author: Neil Gaiman, Shawn McManus, Colleen Doran, Bryan Talbot, George Pratt, Stan Woch, Dick Giordano, Todd Klein
Added: 2012-10-13
ISBN: 9781563890932
Rating: ★★★

READ A Random Walk Down Wall Street   finance

Author: Burton G. Malkiel
Added: 2012-10-14
ISBN: 9780393325355
Rating: ★★★

READ The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake   comic fantasy

Author: Neil Gaiman
Added: 2012-10-13
ISBN: 9781563892875
Rating: ★★★

READ Fade   ya scifi

Author: Robert Cormier
Added: 2012-10-14
ISBN: 9780385731348
Rating: ★★★

READ Freedom Evolves   philosophy

Author: Daniel C. Dennett
Added: 2012-10-14
ISBN: 9780142003848
Rating: ★★★★

READ Brave New World   scifi classic

Author: Aldous Huxley
Added: 2012-10-14
ISBN: 9780060929879
Rating: ★★

READ Peter & Max   fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Steve Leialoha
Added: 2012-10-14
ISBN: 9781401215736
Rating: ★★★★

READ The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives   comic fantasy

Author: Neil Gaiman, Jill Thompson, Vince Locke, Peter Straub
Added: 2012-10-13
ISBN: 9781563891373
Rating: ★★★

READ The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones   comic fantasy

Author: Neil Gaiman, Marc Hempel, Richard Case, D'Israeli, Teddy Kristiansen, Glyn Dillon, Charles Vess, Dean Ormston, Kevin Nowlan, Todd Klein, Frank McConnell
Added: 2012-10-13
ISBN: 9781563892042
Rating: ★★★

READ The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House   comic fantasy

Author: Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, Chris Bachalo, Michael Zulli, Steve Parkhouse, Todd Klein, Clive Barker
Added: 2012-10-13
ISBN: 9781563892257
Rating: ★★★

READ The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists   comic fantasy

Author: Neil Gaiman, Kelley Jones, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, Matt Wagner, Dick Giordano, George Pratt, P. Craig Russell
Added: 2012-10-13
ISBN: 9781563890352
Rating: ★★★★

READ Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (Scott Pilgrim, #1)   comic

Author: Bryan Lee O'Malley
Added: 2012-10-13
ISBN: 9781932664089
Rating: ★★★★

READ Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Scott Pilgrim, #2)   comic

Author: Bryan Lee O'Malley
Added: 2012-10-13
ISBN: 9781932664126
Rating: ★★★★

READ Scott Pilgrim, Volume 3: Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness   comic

Author: Bryan Lee O'Malley
Added: 2012-10-13
ISBN: 9781932664225
Rating: ★★★★

READ The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections   comic fantasy

Author: Neil Gaiman
Added: 2012-10-13
ISBN: 9781563891069
Rating: ★★★

READ Scott Pilgrim, Volume 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together   comic

Author: Bryan Lee O'Malley
Added: 2012-10-13
ISBN: 9781932664492
Rating: ★★★★

READ The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time   scifi humorous

Author: Douglas Adams
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780345455291
Rating: ★★★

READ The Sandman, Vol. 8: Worlds' End   comic fantasy

Author: Neil Gaiman, Mike Allred, Gary Amaro, Mark Buckingham, David Giordano, Tony Harris, Steve Leialoha, Vince Locke, Shea Anton Pensa, Alec Stevens, Bryan Talbot, John Watkiss, Todd Klein, Michael Zulli, Stephen        King
Added: 2012-10-13
ISBN: 9781563891700
Rating: ★★★

READ The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes   comic fantasy

Author: Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, Todd Klein, Karen  Berger, Daniel Vozzo
Added: 2012-10-13
ISBN: 9781563892271
Rating: ★★★

READ The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country   comic fantasy

Author: Neil Gaiman, Bob Kahan
Added: 2012-10-13
ISBN: 9781563892264
Rating: ★★★

READ Scott Pilgrim, Volume 5: Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe   comic

Author: Bryan Lee O'Malley
Added: 2012-10-13
ISBN: 9781934964101
Rating: ★★★★

READ Scott Pilgrim, Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour   comic

Author: Bryan Lee O'Malley
Added: 2012-10-13
ISBN: 9781934964385
Rating: ★★★★

READ The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)   fantasy humorous

Author: Douglas Adams
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780671742515
Rating: ★★★

READ Neverwhere (London Below, #1)   fantasy

Author: Neil Gaiman
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780060557812
Rating: ★★★★

READ The Celts: A History   history

Author: Peter Berresford Ellis
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780786712113
Rating: ★★★★

READ The Count of Monte Cristo   adventure classic

Author: Alexandre Dumas, Robin Buss
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780140449266
Rating: ★★★

READ Language, Truth and Logic   philosophy

Author: Alfred Jules Ayer
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780486200101
Rating: ★★★

READ A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)   fantasy

Author: George R.R. Martin
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780553588484
Rating: ★★★★

READ The Graveyard Book   ya fantasy

Author: Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780060530921
Rating: ★★★★

READ Darwin's Radio (Darwin's Radio, #1)   scifi

Author: Greg Bear
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780345459817
Rating: ★★★

READ Stardust   ya fantasy

Author: Neil Gaiman
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780061142024
Rating: ★★★★

READ A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)   fantasy

Author: George R.R. Martin
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780553381696
Rating: ★★★★

READ Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life   science philosophy

Author: Daniel C. Dennett
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780684824710
Rating: ★★★

READ Consciousness Explained   philosophy

Author: Daniel C. Dennett
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780316180665
Rating: ★★★

READ Persuasion   classic romance

Author: Jane Austen, Deidre Shauna Lynch, James Kinsley
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780192802637
Rating: ★★★

READ Sense and Sensibility   classic romance

Author: Jane Austen, Ros Ballaster, Джейн Остин
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780141439662
Rating: ★★★★

READ So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4)   scifi humorous

Author: Douglas Adams
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780330491235
Rating: ★★

READ Emma   classic romance

CLOSED: 2014-06-03

Author: Jane Austen, Fiona Stafford
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780141439587
Rating: ★★★

I found this to be somewhere between "It was ok" and "Liked it". A few things bothered me. For one thing, I simply did not like the main character. To be fair, I realize this was more or less Austen's intent, but I find it hard to really like a novel when I can't sympathize with the main character.

Second, the values dissonance was a bit much at times. When Harriet says that she has a crush on Mr. Knightly, my first thought was "So, what?". Emma's reaction was a bit more…severe.

Now, I realize that, to some extent, Emma is an unreliable narrator, and in love with Mr. Knightly herself, so that we aren't to take everything she says at face value. But she can't be that unreliable; Austen must have agreed with her to some extent, to have Harriet marry Mr. Martin by the end. In general, I found it hard to figure out where Emma's opinion ended and Austen's opinion began.

Add to this rambling of Miss Bates and…well, you get the picture.

I much preferred Pride and Prejudice. I liked Elizabeth Bennet. I liked her father. I liked Darcy. I didn't really like anyone in Emma.

READ The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)   mystery

Author: Agatha Christie
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9781579126278
Rating: ★★★★

READ Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)   fantasy retelling

CLOSED: 2012-12-21

Author: Gregory Maguire, Douglas Smith
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780060987107
Rating: ★★★

READ The Wealthy Barber: The Common Sense Guide to Successful Financial Planning   finance

Author: David Chilton
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780968394731
Rating: ★★★★

READ The Forge of God (Forge of God, #1)   scifi

Author: Greg Bear
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780765301079
Rating: ★★★★

READ The Wealthy Barber Returns   finance

CLOSED: 2014-06-24

Author: David Chilton
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780968394748
Rating: ★★★★

READ Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, #1)   fantasy horror

Author: Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9781594743344
Rating: ★★

READ The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer   scifi

Author: Neal Stephenson
Added: 2012-10-14
ISBN: 9780553380965
Rating: ★★★

READ Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character   biography

Author: Richard P. Feynman, Albert R. Hibbs, Ralph Leighton, Edward Hutchings
Added: 2012-10-14
ISBN: 9780393316049
Rating: ★★★

READ What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character   biography

Author: Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton
Added: 2012-10-14
ISBN: 9780393320923
Rating: ★★★

READ Sophie’s World   philosophy fiction

Author: Jostein Gaarder, Paulette Møller
Added: 2012-10-14
ISBN: 9781857993288
Rating: ★★★

READ Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity   productivity selfhelp

Author: David    Allen
Added: 2012-10-15
ISBN: 9780142000281
Rating: ★★★

READ Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions   fantasy

Author: Neil Gaiman
Added: 2012-10-15
ISBN: 9780380789023
Rating: ★★★★

READ V for Vendetta   comic scifi

Author: Alan             Moore, David   Lloyd, Steve Whitaker, Siobhan Dodds
Added: 2012-10-15
ISBN: 9781401207922
Rating: ★★★

READ Superman: Red Son   comic superhero

Author: Mark Millar, Dave Johnson, Kilian Plunkett
Added: 2012-10-15
ISBN: 9781401201913
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD The Politics   philosophy politics classic

Author: Aristotle, T.A. Sinclair, Trevor J. Saunders
Added: 2012-10-15
ISBN: 9780140444216

READ The Ocean at the End of the Lane   fantasy

CLOSED: 2013-08-04

Author: Neil Gaiman
Added: 2013-07-29
ISBN: 9780062255655
Rating: ★★★

READ Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland   comic fantasy

CLOSED: 2013-03-25

Author: Bill Willingham, Jim Fern
Added: 2013-02-10
ISBN: 9781401224790
Rating: ★★

READ A Flight of Angels   comic fantasy

Author: Rebecca Guay, Holly Black, Louise Hawes, Todd Mitchell, Alisa Kwitney, Bill Willingham
Added: 2013-02-10
ISBN: 9781401232009
Rating: ★★★

I'm a bit of a sucker for religious fiction. Catholic school does that to some people. So this one, about a half-dead fallen angel, and a groups of fairies reaction to it, struck a chord.

READ Superman: Birthright   comic superhero

Author: Mark Waid, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Dave McCaig, Gerry Alanguilan, Leinil Francis Yu
Added: 2013-06-30
ISBN: 9781401202521
Rating: ★★★★

READ Lord of the Flies   fiction

Author: William Golding
Added: 2014-06-28
ISBN: 9780140283334
Rating: ★★

READ A Wind in the Door (Time Quintet, #2)   ya scifi

Author: Madeleine L'Engle
Added: 2014-06-28
ISBN: 9780440487616
Rating: ★★★

READ The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering   software

Author: Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Added: 2014-06-28
ISBN: 9780201835953
Rating: ★★★

READ Dracula   horror classic

Author: Bram Stoker, Rubén Toledo, Nina Auerbach, David J. Skal
Added: 2014-06-28
ISBN: 9780393970128
Rating: ★★★★

READ Contact   scifi

Author: Carl Sagan
Added: 2014-06-28
ISBN: 9782266079990
Rating: ★★★★

READ A Virtual Soul   scifi

Author: Kevin Teixeira
Added: 2014-06-29
ISBN: 9780345426758
Rating: ★★

READ Locus Awards, The: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy   scifi anthology

Author: Charles N. Brown
Added: 2014-06-29
ISBN: 9780060594268
Rating: ★★★

READ Songs of Earth and Power   fantasy

Author: Greg Bear
Added: 2014-07-02
ISBN: 9780812536034
Rating: ★★★

READ The New Hacker's Dictionary   ref tech

Author: Eric S. Raymond
Added: 2014-07-07
ISBN: 9780262680929
Rating: ★★★

READ The Phantom of the Opera   horror classic

Author: Gaston Leroux
Added: 2014-07-08
ISBN: 9780060809249
Rating: ★★★

READ The Screwtape Letters   fantasy religion

Author: C.S. Lewis
Added: 2014-07-14
ISBN: 9780060652890
Rating: ★★★

READ Hamlet   classic

Author: William Shakespeare, Harold Bloom, Rex Gibson, Israel Gollancz, Henry Norman Hudson, L.A. Sherman, Max J. Herzberg
Added: 2014-07-15
ISBN: 9780521618748
Rating: ★★

READ Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 1: Gifted   comic superhero

Author: Joss Whedon, John Cassaday
Added: 2014-07-21
ISBN: 9780785115311
Rating: ★★★★

READ Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 2: Dangerous   comic superhero

Author: Joss Whedon, John Cassaday
Added: 2014-07-21
ISBN: 9780785116776
Rating: ★★★★

READ Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 3: Torn   comic superhero

Author: Joss Whedon, John Cassaday
Added: 2014-07-21
ISBN: 9780785117599
Rating: ★★★★

READ Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 4: Unstoppable   comic superhero

Author: Joss Whedon, John Cassaday
Added: 2014-07-21
ISBN: 9780785122548
Rating: ★★★★

READ The Prisoner: Shattered Visage   comic

Author: Dean Motter, Mark Askwith
Added: 2014-07-27
ISBN: 9780930289539
Rating: ★★★

READ Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens   ya fantasy

Author: J.M. Barrie, Arthur Rackham
Added: 2014-08-01
ISBN: 9780486466071
Rating: ★★★

READ A Christmas Carol   classic

Author: Charles Dickens, Joe L. Wheeler
Added: 2014-08-01
ISBN: 9781561797462
Rating: ★★★

READ Anthem   fiction

Author: Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff
Added: 2014-08-01
ISBN: 9780452281257
Rating: ★★

READ Tangents   scifi

Author: Greg Bear
Added: 2014-08-03
ISBN: 9781857989793
Rating: ★★

READ Vitals   scifi

Author: Greg Bear
Added: 2014-08-03
ISBN: 9780345423344
Rating: ★★

READ Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds   philosophy

Author: Daniel C. Dennett
Added: 2014-08-04
ISBN: 9780140265637
Rating: ★★★

READ Planet of the Apes   scifi

Author: Pierre Boulle, Xan Fielding
Added: 2014-08-03
ISBN: 9780345447982
Rating: ★★★

READ Blood Music   scifi

Author: Greg Bear
Added: 2014-08-03
ISBN: 9781596871069
Rating: ★★★

READ Peter Pan   ya fantasy

Author: J.M. Barrie, Michael Hague
Added: 2014-08-01
ISBN: 9780805072457
Rating: ★★★

READ Candide   classic

Author: Voltaire, Rockwell Kent, Walter Jerrold, Don Hagen, Sara Gioacchino Corcos
Added: 2014-08-01
ISBN: 9780486266893
Rating: ★★

READ Thrice Upon A Time   scifi

Author: James P. Hogan
Added: 2014-08-01
ISBN: 9780671319489
Rating: ★★★

READ Chocky   scifi

Author: John Wyndham
Added: 2014-07-28
ISBN: 9780140031218
Rating: ★★

READ Nightfall   scifi

Author: Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg
Added: 2014-07-26
ISBN: 9780553290998
Rating: ★★★

READ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn   classic adventure

Author: Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell, E.W. Kemble, John Seelye, Walter Trier, Tom Wilson, William Little Hughes
Added: 2014-07-15
ISBN: 9780142437179
Rating: ★★★

READ The Merchant of Venice   classic

Author: William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, David Scott Kastan, Felix Emmanuel Schelling, محمد عناني, David Bevington, Robert          Jackson
Added: 2014-07-15
ISBN: 9780743477567
Rating: ★★★

READ Romeo and Juliet   classic

Author: William Shakespeare
Added: 2014-07-15
ISBN: 9780743477116
Rating: ★★★

READ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)   ya fantasy

Author: L. Frank Baum, W.W. Denslow
Added: 2012-12-21
ISBN: 9780140621679
Rating: ★★★

I was curious to read this book seeing as how I a) have just read Wicked and b) am a fan of the movie. It's interesting to see the differences. The Wicked Witch of the West, for example, is barely a character in this book; she takes up only a couple of chapters. The winged monkeys aren't quite as fearsome as they are in the movie. Glinda is actually the witch of the South , not the North.

Still, not a bad read, though I'll never think of the Scarecrow in the same way again after reading Wicked.

READ The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1   comic

Author: Alan             Moore
Added: 2014-07-14
ISBN: 9781563898587
Rating: ★★★

READ And Then There Were None   mystery

Author: Agatha Christie
Added: 2014-06-22
ISBN: 9780312330873
Rating: ★★★★

Definitely a page turner, but I found the ending a bit off. Gauging my reaction, I concluded that there weren't that many clues that could have led one to guess the murderer. This wasn't like Encyclopaedia Brown. It was more like The Illusionist - you find yourself trying to guess the mechanics of how the murders were done, rather than who did them.

READ Stupid White Men   politics society

Author: Michael Moore
Added: 2014-06-18
ISBN: 9780141019994
Rating: ★★

READ The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals   food

Author: Michael Pollan
Added: 2014-07-09
ISBN: 9781594200823
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD The Art of UNIX Programming   tech software

Author: Eric S. Raymond
Added: 2014-07-05
ISBN: 9780131429017

TOREAD The Hero With a Thousand Faces   psych

Author: Joseph Campbell
Added: 2014-07-05
ISBN: 9780691017846

TOREAD Steps towards Life: A Perspective on Evolution   science

Author: Manfred Eigen, Ruthild Winkler-Oswatitsch, Paul Woolley
Added: 2014-07-05
ISBN: 9780198547525

TOREAD The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2)   fiction humorous

Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Added: 2014-07-05
ISBN: 9780393339802

TOREAD Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)   scifi

Author: Frederik Pohl
Added: 2014-07-04
ISBN: 9780345475831

TOREAD The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1)   scifi

Author: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Added: 2014-07-04
ISBN: 9781568650548

READ Coraline   ya fantasy

CLOSED: 2014-07-03

Author: Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean
Added: 2014-06-16
ISBN: 9780061139376
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD The Player of Games (Culture, #2)   scifi

Author: Iain M. Banks
Added: 2014-07-01
ISBN: 9780061053566

READ Fortunately, the Milk   ya adventure

CLOSED: 2014-06-28

Author: Neil Gaiman, Skottie Young
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9780062224071
Rating: ★★★

READ The Invisible Man   scifi

Author: H.G. Wells, Daniel Philpott, Дмитро Паламарчук, Микола Іванов, Герберт Велз
Added: 2014-06-28
ISBN: 9780451528520
Rating: ★★★

READ The Green Futures of Tycho   ya scifi

Author: William Sleator
Added: 2014-06-28
ISBN: 9780765352385
Rating: ★★★★

READ Singularity   ya scifi

Author: William Sleator
Added: 2014-06-28
ISBN: 9780844669038
Rating: ★★★

READ Fingers   ya mystery

Author: William Sleator
Added: 2014-06-28
ISBN: 9780765353498
Rating: ★★★

READ Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4)   scifi

Author: Orson Scott Card
Added: 2014-06-27
ISBN: 9780765304742
Rating: ★★

READ Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)   scifi

Author: Orson Scott Card
Added: 2014-06-27
ISBN: 9780312861872
Rating: ★★★

READ Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)   scifi

Author: Orson Scott Card
Added: 2014-06-27
ISBN: 9780812550757
Rating: ★★★

READ Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)   scifi

Author: Orson Scott Card
Added: 2014-06-27
ISBN: 9780812550702
Rating: ★★★★

READ Mars (The Grand Tour, #4)   scifi

Author: Ben Bova, Bruno Bodin
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9782265071223
Rating: ★★

READ Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions   scifi math

Author: Edwin A. Abbott
Added: 2014-06-18
ISBN: 9780486272634
Rating: ★★★

READ The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)   fantasy

Author: J.R.R. Tolkien, Peter S. Beagle
Added: 2014-06-27
ISBN: 9780618346264
Rating: ★★★

READ The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)   fantasy

Author: J.R.R. Tolkien, Francis Ledoux, Maria Skibniewska
Added: 2014-06-27
ISBN: 9780618346257
Rating: ★★★

READ Fairest, Volume 3: The Return of the Maharaja   comic fantasy

CLOSED: 2014-06-26

Author: Sean E. Williams, Stephen Sadowski, Phil Jimenez, Andrew Pepoy, Dan           Green, Russ Braun, Meghan Hetrick, Christian Alamy, José Marzán Jr., Andrew Dalhouse, Todd Klein, Adam Hughes
Added: 2014-06-23
ISBN: 9781401245931
Rating: ★★★

READ For Love of Evil (Incarnations of Immortality, #6)   fantasy

Author: Piers Anthony
Added: 2014-06-21
ISBN: 9780380752850
Rating: ★★★

READ Being a Green Mother (Incarnations of Immortality, #5)   fantasy

Author: Piers Anthony
Added: 2014-06-21
ISBN: 9780345322234
Rating: ★★★

READ Wielding a Red Sword (Incarnations of Immortality, #4)   fantasy

Author: Piers Anthony
Added: 2014-06-21
ISBN: 9780345322210
Rating: ★★★

READ Bearing an Hourglass (Incarnations of Immortality, #2)   fantasy

Author: Piers Anthony
Added: 2014-06-21
ISBN: 9780345313157
Rating: ★★

READ And Eternity (Incarnations of Immortality, #7)   fantasy

Author: Piers Anthony
Added: 2014-06-21
ISBN: 9780380752867
Rating: ★★

READ With a Tangled Skein (Incarnations of Immortality, #3)   fantasy

Author: Piers Anthony
Added: 2014-06-21
ISBN: 9780345318855
Rating: ★★

READ On a Pale Horse (Incarnations of Immortality #1)   fantasy

Author: Piers Anthony
Added: 2014-06-21
ISBN: 9780345338587
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD The Conquest of Gaul   classic history

Author: Gaius Julius Caesar, S.A. Handford, Jane F. Gardner, James Bradstreet Greenough, Benjamin Leonard d'Ooge, Aulus Hirtius, Moses Grant Daniell
Added: 2014-06-21
ISBN: 9780140444339

READ Fairest, Volume 2: The Hidden Kingdom   comic fantasy

CLOSED: 2014-06-21

Author: Lauren Beukes, Bill Willingham, Inaki Miranda, Barry Kitson, Eva de la Cruz, Andrew Dalhouse, Todd Klein, Adam Hughes
Added: 2014-06-05
ISBN: 9781401240219
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD The Poetics   classic philosophy

Author: Aristotle, Theodore Alois Buckley
Added: 2014-06-18
ISBN: 9780879757762

TOREAD A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)   scifi

Author: Vernor Vinge
Added: 2014-06-18
ISBN: 9780812515282

TOREAD The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul   philosophy

Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter, Daniel C. Dennett
Added: 2014-06-18
ISBN: 9780553345841

READ The Dead Cat Bounce (Home Repair is Homicide, #1)   mystery

Author: Sarah Graves
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9780553578577
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)   scifi

Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9781857231588

READ Of Mice and Men   fiction classic

Author: John Steinbeck
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9780142000670
Rating: ★★★

READ Winter's Heart (The Wheel of Time, #9)   fantasy

Author: Robert Jordan
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9780812575583
Rating: ★★

READ The Path of Daggers (The Wheel of Time, #8)   fantasy

Author: Robert Jordan
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9780812550290
Rating: ★★

READ A Crown of Swords (The Wheel of Time, #7)   fantasy

Author: Robert Jordan
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9780812550283
Rating: ★★

READ Lord of Chaos (The Wheel of Time, #6)   fantasy

Author: Robert Jordan
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9780765334657
Rating: ★★★

READ The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5)   fantasy

Author: Robert Jordan
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9781857232097
Rating: ★★★

READ The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time, #4)   fantasy

Author: Robert Jordan
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9780812513738
Rating: ★★★

READ The Dragon Reborn (The Wheel of Time, #3)   fantasy

Author: Robert Jordan
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9780765305114
Rating: ★★★

READ The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time, #2)   fantasy

Author: Robert Jordan
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9780812517729
Rating: ★★★

READ The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)   fantasy

Author: Robert Jordan
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9780812511819
Rating: ★★★

READ Jack of Fables, Vol. 9: The End   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Tony Akins, Andrew Pepoy
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9781401231552
Rating: ★★

READ Jack of Fables, Vol. 8: The Fulminate Blade   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Tony Akins
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9781401229825
Rating: ★★

READ Jack of Fables, Vol. 7: The New Adventures of Jack and Jack   comic fantasy

Author: Chris Roberson, Bill Willingham, Brian Bolland
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9781401227128
Rating: ★★

READ Jack of Fables, Vol. 6: The Big Book of War   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Tony Akins
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9781401225001
Rating: ★★

READ Jack of Fables, Vol. 5: Turning Pages   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Tony Akins
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9781401221386
Rating: ★★

READ Jack of Fables, Vol. 4: Americana   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9781401219796
Rating: ★★

READ Jack of Fables, Vol. 3: The Bad Prince   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9781401218546
Rating: ★★

READ Jack of Fables, Vol. 2: Jack of Hearts   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Tony Akins, Steve Leialoha
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9781401214555
Rating: ★★

READ Jack of Fables, Vol. 1: The (Nearly) Great Escape   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Tony Akins, Andrew Pepoy
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9781401212223
Rating: ★★

TOREAD Lucifer, Vol. 11: Evensong   comic fantasy

Author: Mike Carey, Peter Gross, Ryan Kelly, Jon J. Muth, Zander Cannon, Dean Ormston, Aaron Alexovich
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9781401212001

TOREAD Lucifer, Vol. 10: Morningstar   comic fantasy

Author: Mike Carey, Colleen Doran
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9781401210069

TOREAD Lucifer, Vol. 9: Crux   comic fantasy

Author: Mike Carey
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9781401210052

TOREAD Lucifer, Vol. 8: The Wolf Beneath the Tree   comic fantasy

Author: Mike Carey
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9781401205027

TOREAD Lucifer, Vol. 7: Exodus   comic fantasy

Author: Mike Carey, Peter Gross, Ryan Kelly
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9781401204914

TOREAD Lucifer, Vol. 6: Mansions of the Silence   comic fantasy

Author: Mike Carey, Peter Gross, Ryan Kelley, Dean Ormston, David Hahn
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9781401202491

TOREAD Lucifer, Vol. 5: Inferno   comic fantasy

Author: Mike Carey, Peter Gross, Ryan Kelly, Dean Ormston, Craig Hamilton
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9781401202101

TOREAD Lucifer, Vol. 4: The Divine Humorous   comic fantasy

Author: Mike Carey
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9781401200091

READ Lucifer, Vol. 3: A Dalliance With the Damned   comic fantasy

Author: Mike Carey, Peter Gross, Ryan Kelly, Dean Ormston
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9781563898921
Rating: ★★★

READ Lucifer, Vol. 2: Children and Monsters   comic fantasy

Author: Mike Carey, Peter Gross, Ryan Kelly, Dean Ormston
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9781563898006
Rating: ★★★

READ Lucifer, Vol. 1: Devil in the Gateway   comic fantasy

Author: Mike Carey, Scott Hampton, Chris Weston, James Hodgkins, Warren Pleece, Dean Ormston, Neil Gaiman
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9781563897337
Rating: ★★★

READ Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Todd Klein
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9781401203672
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD I, Lucifer   fantasy religion

Author: Glen Duncan
Added: 2014-06-17
ISBN: 9780802140142

TOREAD Anathem   scifi

Author: Neal Stephenson
Added: 2014-06-16
ISBN: 9780061474095

TOREAD Reamde   scifi

Author: Neal Stephenson
Added: 2014-06-16
ISBN: 9780061977961

TOREAD The Brothers Karamazov   classic fiction

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
Added: 2014-06-16
ISBN: 9780374528379

READ Fairest, Volume 1: Wide Awake   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Phil Jimenez, Andy Lanning, Shawn McManus
Added: 2013-02-10
ISBN: 9781401235505
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD Permutation City   scifi

Author: Greg Egan
Added: 2014-06-05
ISBN: 9780061054815

READ The Cider House Rules   fiction

Author: John Irving
Added: 2013-07-29
ISBN: 9780786226740
Rating: ★★★

READ A Prayer for Owen Meany   fiction

Author: John Irving
Added: 2013-07-29
ISBN: 9780552135399
Rating: ★★★

READ Fahrenheit 451   scifi

Author: Ray Bradbury
Added: 2013-07-29
ISBN: 9780307347978
Rating: ★★

READ The Great Gatsby   fiction classic

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Added: 2013-07-29
ISBN: 9780743273565
Rating: ★★★

READ Fables, Vol. 18: Cubs in Toyland   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Gene Ha
Added: 2013-02-10
ISBN: 9781401237691
Rating: ★★★

READ The Marvelous Land of Oz (Oz, #2)   fantasy

Author: L. Frank Baum, David McKee
Added: 2013-01-03
ISBN: 9780140350418
Rating: ★★

READ Fables, Vol. 17: Inherit the Wind   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Andrew Pepoy, P. Craig Russell, Adam Hughes, Rick Leonardi, Ron Randall, Zander Cannon, Jim Fern, Ramón F. Bachs, Lee Loughridge, Todd Klein
Added: 2013-01-03
ISBN: 9781401235161
Rating: ★★★★

READ Fables, Vol. 16: Super Team   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Terry Moore, Eric Shanower
Added: 2013-01-03
ISBN: 9781401233068
Rating: ★★★★

READ Fables, Vol. 15: Rose Red   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham
Added: 2013-01-03
ISBN: 9781401230005
Rating: ★★★★

READ Fables, Vol. 14: Witches   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham
Added: 2013-01-03
ISBN: 9781401228804
Rating: ★★★★

READ Fables, Vol. 12: The Dark Ages   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Mike Allred, Mark Buckingham
Added: 2013-01-03
ISBN: 9781401223168
Rating: ★★★★

READ Fables, Vol. 11: War and Pieces   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Niko Henrichon, Andrew Pepoy
Added: 2013-01-03
ISBN: 9781401219130
Rating: ★★★★

READ Fables, Vol. 10: The Good Prince   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham
Added: 2013-01-03
ISBN: 9781401216863
Rating: ★★★★

READ Fables, Vol. 13: The Great Fables Crossover   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Russ Braun, José Marzán Jr., Mark Buckingham, Andrew Pepoy
Added: 2013-01-03
ISBN: 9781401225728
Rating: ★★★

READ Fables, Vol. 9: Sons of Empire   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, James Jean, Mike Allred, Joëlle Jones
Added: 2013-01-03
ISBN: 9781401213169
Rating: ★★★★

READ Fables, Vol. 8: Wolves   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Shawn McManus
Added: 2013-01-03
ISBN: 9781401210014
Rating: ★★★★

READ Fables, Vol. 7: Arabian Nights (and Days)   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Jim Fern, Jimmy Palmiotti, Andrew Pepoy
Added: 2013-01-03
ISBN: 9781401210007
Rating: ★★★★

READ Fables, Vol. 6: Homelands   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, David Hahn, Mark Buckingham, Lan Medina, Steve Leialoha
Added: 2013-01-03
ISBN: 9781401205003
Rating: ★★★★

READ Fables, Vol. 5: The Mean Seasons   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham
Added: 2013-01-03
ISBN: 9781401204860
Rating: ★★★★

READ Fables, Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Craig Hamilton, Steve Leialoha, P. Craig Russell
Added: 2013-01-03
ISBN: 9781401202224
Rating: ★★★★

READ Y: The Last Man, Vol. 8: Kimono Dragons   comic scifi

Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, José Marzán Jr.
Added: 2012-10-23
ISBN: 9781401210106
Rating: ★★

READ Y: The Last Man, Vol. 10: Whys and Wherefores   comic fantasy

Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, Claudia Fliege, José Marzán Jr.
Added: 2012-10-23
ISBN: 9781401218133
Rating: ★★

READ Y: The Last Man, Vol. 6: Girl on Girl   comic scifi

Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra
Added: 2012-10-23
ISBN: 9781401205010
Rating: ★★

READ Y: The Last Man, Vol. 7: Paper Dolls   comic scifi

Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, José Marzán Jr.
Added: 2012-10-23
ISBN: 9781401210090
Rating: ★★

READ Y: The Last Man, Vol. 3: One Small Step   comic scifi

Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, José Marzán Jr.
Added: 2012-10-23
ISBN: 9781401202019
Rating: ★★

READ Y: The Last Man, Vol. 5: Ring of Truth   comic scifi

Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, José Marzán Jr.
Added: 2012-10-23
ISBN: 9781401204877
Rating: ★★

READ Y: The Last Man, Vol. 9: Motherland   comic scifi

Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra
Added: 2012-10-23
ISBN: 9781401213510
Rating: ★★

READ Y: The Last Man, Vol. 4: Safeword   comic scifi

Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, Goran Parlov, José Marzán Jr.
Added: 2012-10-23
ISBN: 9781401202323
Rating: ★★

READ Y: The Last Man, Vol. 2: Cycles   comic scifi

Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, José Marzán Jr.
Added: 2012-10-23
ISBN: 9781401200763
Rating: ★★

READ Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned   comic scifi

Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra
Added: 2012-10-23
ISBN: 9781563899805
Rating: ★★

READ Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham, Lan Medina, Steve Leialoha, Terry Moore, Mike Allred, Mark Buckingham, Matthew Sturges, Russ Braun, Craig Hamilton, James Jean, Tony Akins, Eric Shanower, Shawn McManus, Jae Lee, Chrissie Zullo, David Petersen
Added: 2012-10-18
ISBN: 9781563899423
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD Ideological Perspectives on Canada (McGraw-Hill Series in Fundamentals of Physics: An Undergradu)   politics canada

Author: M. Patricia Marchak
Added: 2012-10-17
ISBN: 9780070821972

READ Batman: Year One   comic superhero

Author: Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli, Richmond Lewis, Dennis O'Neil, Todd Klein
Added: 2012-10-15
ISBN: 9781401207526
Rating: ★★★

READ Batman: The Dark Knight Returns   comic superhero

Author: Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley
Added: 2012-10-15
ISBN: 9781563893414
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness   philosophy science

Author: Roger Penrose
Added: 2012-10-15
ISBN: 9780195106466

TOREAD Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs   tech software

Author: Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman
Added: 2012-10-15
ISBN: 9780262510875

TOREAD Paradise Lost   classic religion fantasy

Author: John Milton
Added: 2012-10-15
ISBN: 9780140424393

TOREAD The Concept of Mind   philosophy

Author: Gilbert Ryle, Daniel C. Dennett
Added: 2012-10-15
ISBN: 9780226732961

READ Gods Behaving Badly   fantasy myth

Author: Marie Phillips
Added: 2012-10-14
ISBN: 9780316067621
Rating: ★★★★

READ The White Tiger   fiction

Author: Aravind Adiga
Added: 2012-10-14
ISBN: 9781416562597
Rating: ★★★

READ The Door Into Summer   scifi

Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Added: 2012-10-14
ISBN: 9780345413994
Rating: ★★

READ Moving Mars (Queen of Angels, #3)   scifi

Author: Greg Bear
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780765318237
Rating: ★★★

READ Eon (The Way, #1)   scifi

Author: Greg Bear
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780812520477
Rating: ★★

TOREAD The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design   science

Author: Richard Dawkins
Added: 2012-10-12
ISBN: 9780141026169

READ Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones   selfhelp

CLOSED: 2025-01-11

Author: James Clear
Added: 2025-04-06
ISBN: 9798613461172
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD Mansfield Park   classic romance

Author: Jane Austen
Added: 2025-04-06
ISBN: https://openlibrary.org/api/books?bibkeys=ISBN:019280264X&jscmd=data&format=json

READ The Philip K. Dick Reader   scifi anthology

CLOSED: 2025-05-20 20:23

Author: Philip K. Dick
Added: 2025-04-11
ISBN: 9780806537948

READ The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth'ss Past, #2)   scifi translation

CLOSED: 2025-04-28 08:50

Author: Liu Cixin, Joel Martinsen
Added: 2025-04-11
ISBN: 9781784971618

TOREAD Memory's Legion   scifi

Author: James S.A. Corey
Added: 2025-04-11
ISBN: 9780316669191

TOREAD The Great Divorce   fantasy religion

Author: C.S. Lewis
Added: 2025-04-11
ISBN: 9780060652951

READ The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past, #2)   scifi translation

CLOSED: 2023-11-12

Author: Liu Cixi, Ken Liu
Added: 2025-04-11
ISBN: 9780765382030
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD Virtual light (Bridge Trilogy, #1)   scifi cyberpunk

Author: William Gibson
Added: 2025-04-11
ISBN: 0553566067

TOREAD Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)   scifi cyberpunk

Author: William Gibson
Added: 2025-04-11
ISBN: 0441117732

TOREAD The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1)   horror religion

Author: William Peter Blatty
Added: 2025-04-11
ISBN: 9780553113402

READ Hooked (Wendy, Darling #2)   fantasy retelling

CLOSED: 2023-08-19

Author: A. C. Wise
Added: 2025-04-11
ISBN: 9781789096835
Rating: ★★

TOREAD The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage   steampunk

Author: Sydney Padua
Added: 2025-04-11
ISBN: 9780307908278

READ The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)   fantasy

CLOSED: 2023-05-01

Author: N. K. Jemisin
Added: 2025-04-11
ISBN: 9780316229241
Rating: ★★★

READ The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)   fantasy

CLOSED: 2022-10-26

Author: N. K. Jemisin
Added: 2025-04-11
ISBN: 9780316229265
Rating: ★★★★

READ The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)   fantasy

CLOSED: 2020-03-03

Author: N. K. Jemisin
Added: 2025-04-11
ISBN: 9780316229296
Rating: ★★★★

READ How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking   productivity selfhelp

CLOSED: 2022-12-08

Author: Sönke Ahrens
Added: 2025-04-11
ISBN: 9781542866507
Rating: ★★★

READ The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials #1)   fantasy religion

CLOSED: 2022-08-24

Author: Philip Pullman
Added: 2025-04-11
ISBN: 9780440418603
Rating: ★★★★

READ The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials #2)   fantasy religion

CLOSED: 2022-09-02

Author: Philip Pullman
Added: 2025-04-11
ISBN: 9780440418610
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD City We Became (Great Cities, #1)   fantasy

Author: N. K. Jemisin
Added: 2025-04-11
ISBN: 9780356512686

TOREAD So You Want to Talk About Race   society

Author: Ijeoma Oluo
Added: 2025-04-11
ISBN: 9781580056779

TOREAD Lady Susan / The Watsons / Sanditon   classic romance

Author: Jane Austen
Added: 2025-04-11
ISBN: 0140431020

TOREAD Saga, Volume 9   comic scifi

Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
Added: 2025-04-11
ISBN: 9781534308374

READ Cibola Burn (The Expanse #4)   scifi

CLOSED: 2019-10-25

Author: James S. A. Corey
Added: 2025-04-11
ISBN: 9780316217620
Rating: ★★★

READ Exhalation   scifi anthology

CLOSED: 2019-06-30

Author: Ted Chiang
Added: 2025-04-12
ISBN: 9781101947883
Rating: ★★★★

READ Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse, #3)   scifi

CLOSED: 2019-10-11

Author: James S. A. Corey
Added: 2025-04-12
ISBN: 9780316129077
Rating: ★★★★

READ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court   fantasy classic

CLOSED: 2019-08-28

Author: Mark Twain
Added: 2025-04-12
ISBN: 9780393013788
Rating: ★★★

READ 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)   scifi

CLOSED: 2019-07-16

Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Added: 2025-04-12
ISBN: 0451118642
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD House of Leaves   fantasy

Author: Mark Z. Danielewski
Added: 2025-04-12
ISBN: 9780375420528

READ In Cold Blood   crime

CLOSED: 2019-02-19

Author: Truman Capote
Added: 2025-04-12
ISBN: 0816156646
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD Carpet Diem   religion fantasy

Author: Justin Lee Anderson
Added: 2025-04-12
ISBN: 9781527224070

READ Breakfast of Champions   scifi

CLOSED: 2017-01-17

Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Added: 2025-04-12
ISBN: 0440131480
Rating: ★★★★

READ Picture of Dorian Gray   classic fantasy

CLOSED: 2018-08-08

Author: Oscar Wilde
Added: 2025-04-12
ISBN: 9781784871710
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD The Conquest of Gaul   history classic

Author: Gaius Julius Caesar, S.A. Handford
Added: 2025-04-12
ISBN: 9780140444339

READ The Waste Lands   fantasy

CLOSED: 2017-11-22

Author: Stephen King
Added: 2025-04-12
ISBN: 0452267404
Rating: ★★

READ American Gods   fantasy

Author: Neil Gaiman
Added: 2025-04-12
ISBN: 9780380973651
Rating: ★★★★★

READ Norse Mythology   myth

CLOSED: 2017-08-25

Author: Neil Gaiman
Added: 2025-04-12
ISBN: 9781526619211
Rating: ★★★★

READ The Gunslinger   fantasy

CLOSED: 2017-08-18

Author: Stephen King
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 0451210840
Rating: ★★★

READ Romantically Apocalyptic - Book 1   comic scifi

CLOSED: 2017-08-12

Author: Vitaly S. Alexius
Added: 2025-04-19
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD The Nicomachean ethics   philosophy

Author: Aristotle
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 9780140449495

TOREAD On the Good Life   philosophy

Author: Cicero
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 0140442448

READ The Restaurant at the End of the Universe   scifi humorous

Author: Douglas Adams
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 9780330262132
Rating: ★★★

READ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy   scifi humorous

Author: Douglas Adams
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 9780671432416
Rating: ★★★★

READ Good Omens   fantasy religion humorous

Author: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 9780060853976
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD Dubliners   classic fiction

Author: James Joyce
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 9781420953282

READ Waiting for Godot   classic play

Author: Samuel Beckett
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 9780571058082
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD New Skies   scifi anthology

Author: Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 0765300168

TOREAD Tuesdays with Morrie   biography

Author: Mitch Albom
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 9780767905923

TOREAD Mastering Emacs   tech software

Author: Mickey Petersen
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 9781320673914

READ Needful Things   horror

Author: Stephen King
Added: 2025-04-19
Rating: ★★★

READ The Stand   fantasy

Author: Stephen King
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 9780451160959
Rating: ★★★

READ The Eyes of the Dragon   fantasy

Author: Stephen King
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 9780340899069
Rating: ★★★

READ I Am the Cheese   ya

Author: Robert Cormier
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 0440940605
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD Childhood's End   scifi

Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 9781439557167

READ Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More   ya anthology

Author: Roald Dahl
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 9780553155419
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD The Annals of imperial Rome   history classic rome

Author: P. Cornelius Tacitus
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 9780140440607

TOREAD The Three Muskateers   classic

Author: Alexandre Dumas, William Robson
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 9781494423919

READ The Naked Sun (Robot #2)   scifi

CLOSED: 2015-11-07

Author: Isaac Asimov
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 0586010165
Rating: ★★★★

Alright, I think this is the first Asimov novel that I actually thoroughly enjoyed. "The Caves of Steel" was okay, "The Stars, Like Dust" was okay, but "The Naked Sun" was downright good.

The only wobble was the last 5 pages, when the murderer is finally revealed. That fell kinda flat, and was frankly unbelievable.

But the depiction of two vastly different cultures, Earth and Solaria, was fascinating and detailed. And the seeds that were sown near the end for easing into the Galactic Empire series of novels was a nice touch. Even then, Asimov had aspirations towards uniting his novels.

All in all, this book makes me want to read the rest of the stuff in this timeline. I even kinda want to re-read the Foundation novels now

TOREAD Slaughterhouse-Five   scifi

Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 9780385333849

TOREAD Food, Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It   society

Author: Karl Webber
Added: 2025-04-19

TOREAD Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell   fantasy

Author: Susanna Clarke
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 1582346038

TOREAD Notes from the Underground   fiction classic

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 1095835548

TOREAD The Fountainhead   fiction

Author: Ayn Rand
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 0451191153
Rating: ★★

TOREAD The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)   fantasy

Author: Stephen King
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 9780743254564

TOREAD The Wind Through the Keyhole   fantasy

Author: Stephen King
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 9781444731729

TOREAD Crime and Punishment   fiction

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 9781986348539

TOREAD Thus Spake Zarathustra   philosophy

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 9781071248454

TOREAD The Dispossessed   scifi

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: https://openlibrary.org/api/books?bibkeys=ISBN:006051275X&jscmd=data&format=json

TOREAD The Stranger   fiction classic

Author: Albert Camus
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 9798441401265

READ Ivanhoe   fiction classic

Author: Sir Walter Scott
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 0140431438
Rating: ★★★★

I remember reading this and really liking it. The anti-semitism felt real - you can tell the heores from the villains by how they treat the Jews of the story. The villains want them dead; the heroes are merely impolite.

READ Cryptonomicon   fiction history

Author: Neal Stephenson
Added: 2025-04-19
ISBN: 0380973464
Rating: ★★★★

READ Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1)   scifi

Author: Douglas Adams
ISBN: 1529034582
Added: 2025-04-21
Rating: ★★★

READ 1984   scifi politics

Author: George Orwell
ISBN: 0241430976
Added: 2025-04-21
Rating: ★★★★

READ Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5)   scifi humorous

Author: Douglas Adams
ISBN: 0434009261
Added: 2025-04-21
Rating: ★★★

READ Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)   scifi cyberpunk

Author: William Gibson
ISBN: 0441007465
Added: 2025-04-21

READ A Clockwork Orange   scifi classic

Author: Anthony Burgess
ISBN: 3453130790
Added: 2025-04-21
Rating: ★★★

READ Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders   fantasy anthology

Author: Neil Gaiman
ISBN: 9780060515225
Added: 2025-04-21
Rating: ★★★

READ Wuthering Heights   classic romance

Author: Emily Brontë
Added: 2025-04-21
ISBN: 9798542843742
Rating: ★★★

READ The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)   mystery

Author: Thomas Harris
Added: 2025-04-21
ISBN: 9780312915445
Rating: ★★★

READ Frankenstein   classic scifi

Author: Mary Shelley
Added: 2025-04-21
ISBN: 0451523369
Rating: ★★

READ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles   mystery classic

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Added: 2025-04-21
ISBN: 9781587265310
Rating: ★★★

READ The Caves of Steel   scifi

CLOSED: 2014-07-30

Author: Isaac Asimov
Added: 2025-04-21
ISBN: 9780345329004
Rating: ★★

I was going back and forth between a 2 star and a 3 star rating. The book started with 2 stars. Sometimes I thought it might go to 3. I finally settled on 2 stars.

While I appreciate certain aspects of this story (the eponymous "caves of steel" themselves are fascinating) the plot and the characterization are just…blah. Lije and Daneel are barely more real than cardboard cut outs.

The book was at its best when describing what the far future might be like, even if it seems at the same time to be horribly dated. But the rest was just tough to slog through.

READ The Cyberiad   scifi anthology translation

Author: Stanisław Lem
Added: 2025-04-21
ISBN: 9780156027595
Rating: ★★★

READ King Lear   classic play

Author: William Shakespeare
Added: 2025-04-21
ISBN: 9798720402907
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Omnibus   scifi

Author: Philip K. Dick
Added: 2025-04-21
ISBN: 9781608867844

TOREAD Time Enough For Love   scifi

Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Added: 2025-04-21
ISBN: 9780425079904

READ Prelude to Foundation   scifi

Author: Isaac Asimov
Added: 2025-04-21
ISBN: 0385233132
Rating: ★★★

TOREAD Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)   fiction history

Author: Neal Stephenson
Added: 2025-04-21
ISBN: 9780380977420

TOREAD Stranger in a Strange Land   scifi

Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Added: 2025-04-21
ISBN: 9780425017562

READ Fables Vol 3: Storybook Love   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham
Added: 2025-04-21
ISBN: 9781401202569
Rating: ★★★★

READ Fables Vol 2: Animal Farm   comic fantasy

Author: Bill Willingham
Added: 2025-04-21
ISBN: 9781401200770
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD The History of the Decline and Fall of the Romas Empire   history classic

Author: Edward Gibbon
Added: 2025-04-21
ISBN: 9781346102832

TOREAD Idylls of the King   fantasy poetry arthur

Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
Added: 2025-04-21
ISBN: 0140422536

READ The Hobbit   fantasy

Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Added: 2025-04-21
ISBN: 9780395520215
Rating: ★★★

READ Animal Farm   fiction politics

Author: George Orwell
Added: 2025-04-21
ISBN: 9780141036137
Rating: ★★★★

TOREAD Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds   scifi anthology

Author: Alastair Reynolds
Added: 2025-04-29
ISBN: 9781473219861

TOREAD Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth   ya fantasy myth

Author: Rick Riordan
Added: 2025-05-27
ISBN: 9781405664417

TOREAD Piranesi   fantasy

Author: Susanna Clarke
Added: 2025-06-14
ISBN: 9788417918484

TOREAD The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories   fantasy anthology

Author: Susanna Clarke
Added: 2025-06-14
ISBN: 9781596912519

TOREAD Labyrinths   fantasy

Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Added: 2025-06-16
ISBN: 9780140093131

TOREAD The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Arthurian Legends   arthur fantasy

Author: Ronan Coghlan
Added: 2025-06-22
ISBN: 9781843330059