Stephen King Fiction Dark Tower 1 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction Dark Tower 2 - roland draws Eddie and Susannah from New York 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction a killer virus wipes out 99% of the world's population - story follows the survivors as they try to reconstruct a society 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction collection 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 8/13/2005 1:35:36 PM Stephen King Fiction collection 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction a man accidentally kills a gypsy man and is cursed by his wife 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction collection 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction collection 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction guy has insomnia, suddenly gains ability to see these weird ribbon-things coming off of everyone. low men come and cut ribbons, people die. 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction fantasy-era stuff - a young boy growing up in a castle, something involving someone escaping from a tower (ala rapunzel) 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King, Peter Straub Fiction a young boy on a quest from new york to the west coast in search of a talisman that can save his mother 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction death row inmates/guards find some meaning to life 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King, Peter Straub Fiction sequel to The Talisman, involves a house which somehow opens onto another world 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction woman handcuffed to bed accidentally kills husband, spends whole book trying to get loose 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction collection 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction Dark Tower 3 - jake rejoins the ka-tet and they meet blaine the crazed monorail train 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction Dark Tower 5 - the ka-tet arrives on the edge of thunderclap and saves calla brin sturgis from the wolves 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction Dark Tower 6 - roland and eddie go to visit stephen king, callahan and jake chase susannah to new york 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction Dark Tower 7 - roland finally reaches the tower 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction Dark Tower 4 - by far the best book, covers some of roland's younger years with cuthbert and alain and susan delgado 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction strange haunted Buick lives in a shed at a police station 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction collection 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction vietnam-era stories - playing hearts in college, something about a young boy and the low men 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Douglas Hofstadter Philosophy discussion of godel's incompleteness theorem, complexity, AI 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Umberto Eco Linguistics incomplete - linguistics/semiotics stuff 2005 Low 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM A. K. Dewdney Computers collection - essays about CS 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Kim Stanley Robinson Sci-Fi really great discussion of the political and social impact of colonizing mars 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Kim Stanley Robinson Sci-Fi second of mars trilogy - lots of great politics 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Kim Stanley Robinson Sci-Fi incomplete - last of mars trilogy 2005 Low 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Larry Niven Sci-Fi something about a space station that's an enormous ring with a habitable world along the inside 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle Sci-Fi first-contact stuff 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes Sci-Fi colonization of a new planet, young vs. old 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Vernor Vinge Sci-Fi space opera stuff - spacefarers meet a race of spider-people 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Vernor Vinge Sci-Fi some continuity with "deepness in the sky" - hyperspace, people who are packs of dogs 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Douglas Adams Sci-Fi random amusement 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Petru Popescu Sci-Fi anthropologists find cro-magnon man in modern world 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Alastair Reynolds Sci-Fi great space opera stuff - involves "lighthugger" ships traveling through deep space, ancient species called "wolves" trying tp prevent intelligent life from surviving 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Alastair Reynolds Sci-Fi last book of series with Revelation Space and Redemption ark 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Alastair Reynolds Sci-Fi book 2 of the revelation space series - not as good as the first, but better than the last 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Dan Simmons Sci-Fi strange time-travel stuff involving some scary blade-covered creature 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Dan Simmons Sci-Fi really weird sci-fi that brings together the Iliad and random far-future stuff 2005 Huh 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Greg Bear Sci-Fi theories about evolution progressing in occasional leaps rather than slow steady progress 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Greg Bear Sci-Fi mars/earth political stuff - ends up with a technology that can relocate objects in space instantaneously. an interesting premise, but the plot didn't seem to have much direction till the very end 2005 Low 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Frank Herbert Fiction futuristic stuff on a desert planet including nomads who wear water-retention suits and worms that swim through the sand 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Michael Crichton Sci-Fi nanotechnology stuff 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Larry Niven Sci-Fi 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM William Gibson Sci-Fi really interesting stuff about product marketing and how it affects society 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM William Gibson Sci-Fi an AI becomes a celebrity and marries a rock star 2005 Low 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Richard K Morgan Sci-Fi more pulp sci-fi 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Richard K Morgan Sci-Fi pulp sci-fi - "sleeves", "envoys", some cool philosophy about personal identity (copying someone's "stack" into two sleeves at once) 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction scary clown demon thing 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Vernor Vinge Sci-Fi collection - "the opening of the cyberspace frontier" 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM William Gibson Sci-Fi random wanderings through San Francisco 2005 Low 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Chris Moriarty Sci-Fi lots if interesting discussion of the philosophical and practical ramifications of AI 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Margaret Atwood Fiction very strange sort of futuristic stuff, told in the past tense by the last remaining "normal" human in the country 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Jack Whyte Fiction Camulod Chronicles 1 - takes place when romans still dominated england, begins the story of varrus and caius 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Jack Whyte Fiction Camulod Chronicles 2 - rome's influence on england slowly declines and leaves varrus/caius to run their island of civilization 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Jack Whyte Fiction Camulod Chronicles 3 - Varrus and Caius have children - Merlyn and Uther 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Jack Whyte Fiction Camulod Chronicles 4 - uther and merlyn wage war in southern england 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Jack Whyte Fiction Camulod Chronicles 6 - follow's merlyn's transformation into a myth 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Jack Whyte Fiction Camulod Chronicles 5 - merlyn takes young arthur north to keep him safe 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Marion Zimmer Bradley Fantasy (Historical) the arthurian legends from the point of view of morgaine 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Marion Zimmer Bradley Fantasy (Historical) historic-fiction story of the fall of troy, from the point of view of cassandra 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Roger Zelazny Fantasy collection of 10 books about amber - fantasy involving order vs. chaos 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Robert Heinlein Sci-Fi collection of cold-war-era nuclear holocaust scare-stories - not great 2005 Low 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Robert Heinlein Sci-Fi something about time travel and a cat? 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Robert Heinlein Sci-Fi martian brought back to earth and integrated into our society - origin of "grok" 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Robert Heinlein Sci-Fi excellent political sci-fi - convicts sent to moon eventually revolt and want their own society 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Robert Heinlein Sci-Fi woman-android-assassin likes to have random sex 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Robert Heinlein Sci-Fi weird 2005 Huh 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Robert Heinlein Sci-Fi 2005 Huh 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Philip K Dick Sci-Fi strange post-WWII story which posits Japanese and Germans winning and dividing US between them 2005 Low 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Philip K Dick Sci-Fi standard PKD - not my favorite 2005 Low 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Philip K Dick Sci-Fi basis for bladerunner 2005 Low 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Philip K Dick Sci-Fi police officer hunts down drug addict who is actually the same person 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Neal Stephenson Sci-Fi something about a computer virus that infects humans (because of implanted computer tech) 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Neal Stephenson Sci-Fi or "A Young Woman's Primer" - something about a book that has stories that are actually being generated in realtime by actors 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Neal Stephenson Sci-Fi incredible conglomeration of science, tech, cryptography, history 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Neal Stephenson Sci-Fi incomplete - endless random musings, no real plot to speak of 2005 Low 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Orson Scott Card Sci-Fi space warfare recuits children to become commanders/soldiers 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Gardner Dozois Sci-Fi collection 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Gardner Dozois Sci-Fi collection 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM James Clavell Fiction book 1 of asian saga - europeans in japan towards the end of the shogun dynasties 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM James Clavell Fiction book 2 of asian saga - picks up years after shogun when europeans are finally starting to make serious inroads into japan/china 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM James Clavell Fiction book 4 of asian saga - guys stuck in a POW camp in korea/wwii ? 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM James Clavell Fiction book 5 of asian saga - takes place in Hong Kong in the 60's, 1000+ pages covering 4 days of time. 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM James Clavell Fiction book 6 of asian saga - involves oil drilling in middle east 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Robert Pirsig Philosophy a man and his son travel cross-country on a motorcycle, and he recounts the story of his study of Quality and his eventual commitment to an asylum. 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Robert Pirsig Philosophy phaedrus sails a boat up the st. lawrence seaway, down east coast. brings along socially-questionable Lila. lots of great metaphysics - "metaphysics of quality" 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM James Michener Fiction (Historical) history of hawaii 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM James Michener Fiction (Historical) traces the evolution of judaism from pre-civilization through the mid 1900's 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM James Michener Fiction (Historical) story of the US race into space 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM James Michener Fiction (Historical) some historic fiction about texas - didn't cover enough really early history for my taste 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM James Michener Fiction (Historical) the history of alaska, starting with mammoths and people crossing the land bridge at the bering straits 2000 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM James Michener Fiction (Historical) less interesting than some of his others 2005 Low 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM James Michener Fiction (Historical) mainly about bullfighting - framed as a journalist's trip to his hometown in mexico 2005 Low 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Jean M Auel Fiction pseudo-historical story about our ancient ancestors 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Ken Follett Fiction 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Ken Follett Fiction 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Ken Follett Fiction something about a young-ish girl whose father is an ambassador-type and whose mother had an affar with a russian man before she was born (or maybe he was her real father?) 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Ken Follett Fiction really excellent book taking place in the late middle ages, covering several generatoins and the building of a cathedral 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Ken Follett Fiction something about the space program and sabotage? 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Ken Follett Fiction thieves plot to steal a deadly virus from a biotech company 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Ken Follett Fiction young boy rebuilds a hornet (biplane) to smuggle intelligence out of denmark in WWII 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Ken Follett Fiction somehow involves an amphibious plane crossing the atlantic 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Ken Follett Fiction women spies in WWII 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Ken Follett Fiction 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Ken Follett Fiction resistance work in afghanistan/pakistan? 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Ken Follett Fiction 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM John Grisham Fiction deep south - young girl attacked, father kills attackers, father on trial 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM John Grisham Fiction guy is hired by shady lawfirm 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM John Grisham Fiction law student discovers that wetlands are being destroyed and the underlying conspiracy behind it 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM John Grisham Fiction 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM John Grisham Fiction 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM John Grisham Fiction something about a young lawyer doing pro-bono work for the elderly? 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM John Grisham Fiction two people try to take over a jury in a shooting trial 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM John Grisham Fiction something about a lawyer who moves to mexico to avoid the government? 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM John Grisham Fiction father/judge dies and leaves strange hoard of money for his sons to figure out 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM John Grisham Fiction defunct judges (laywers?) run a scam from a florida prison 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM John Grisham Fiction coming-of-age story on a farm in the deep south 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Pat Conroy Fiction book about conroy's experience teaching elementary school in the carolinas 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Pat Conroy Fiction book that seems to be about conroy's father 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Pat Conroy Fiction autobiographical description of conroy's experience at the Citadel 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Pat Conroy Fiction story of a boy and his siblings/mother growing up 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Pat Conroy Fiction mother dies and leaves father to raise daughter 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Isaac Asimov Sci-Fi collection of robot stories - not as good as robot dreams 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Isaac Asimov Sci-Fi collection - really great philosophical and practical discussions of the issues surrounding AI 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Isaac Asimov Sci-Fi read this a looooong time ago.... 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Isaac Asimov Sci-Fi Foundation 1 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Isaac Asimov Sci-Fi Foundation N ? 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Isaac Asimov Sci-Fi Foundation N ? 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Isaac Asimov Sci-Fi Foundation N ? 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Isaac Asimov Sci-Fi prequel to the foundation books 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 8/13/2005 1:36:34 PM Isaac Asimov Sci-Fi Foundation 6 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Thich Nhat Hanh Philosophy journal entries from the 60's 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Mark Twain Satire satire about the bible, such as excerpts from Adam's and Eve's diaries 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Eric Schlosser Documentary documentary about fast food, exploitation of workers, food quality, school system corporate sponsors 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 11/3/2005 11:32:10 PM Amy Tan Fiction mother/daughter story, mother lived in china and was raised by "auntie" who was really her mother 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Kurt Vonnegut Fiction wow, I read this less than a year ago and even looking through it I have no recollection whatsoever as to what it's about. 2005 Huh 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Steve Martin Comedy collection - lots of satire and such 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Steve Martin Comedy collection - great satire 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM James Bamford Documentary stuff about NSA - very revealing 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Douglas Coupland Fiction a shooting at a high school and the aftermath 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Douglas Coupland Fiction autobiographical story about his time as a microsoftie 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Douglas Coupland Fiction various family drama - one daughter an astronaut, son/mother both HIV-positive, son has girlfriend named Shw 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM John Irving Fiction young boy grows up in orphanage, falls in love with woman who is engaged to all-american boy 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM John Irving Fiction the life of an author - I wonder if this was at all autobiographical? 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM John Irving Fiction reporter loses hand to circus lion - ends up getting a hand transplant from a guy whose wife he later befriends 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM John Irving Fiction two boys grow up together - one is growth-stunted but has amazing power of personality 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Dick Rutan, Jeana Yeager Documentary story of the voyager (around-the-world without refueling) 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Jeffrey Eugenides Fiction story about a hermaphroditic person and his/her heritage 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Yann Martel Fiction ship sinks, boy stranded on boat with zerbra, tiger, etc. 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Joseph Heller Fiction lots of strange irony/satire around WWII 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Arthur Golden Fiction story of a geisha living in japan around wwii 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Chuck Palahniuk Fiction someone finds a book of children's songs which includes a "culling song" which kills people when you sing it to them. 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM J R R Tolkien Fantasy original book about bilbo and gandalf 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM J R R Tolkien Fantasy book 1 of lord of the rings - frodo, sam, merry, and pippin set off to take the ring back to mordor 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM J R R Tolkien Fantasy book 2 of rings trilogy 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM J R R Tolkien Fantasy last of the rings trilogy - sam and frodo reach mordor, sauron is defeated 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Dan Brown Fiction techno-thriller about someone making a code that the NSA can't break - why is that somehow supposed to be terrifying? technical details were really dumb/bad. 2005 Low 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Dale Brown Fiction something about a B52 that's painted black and turned into a steath bomber 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Dale Brown Fiction an F15 that has a mind-link to its pilot, who flies just by thinking about it 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Dale Brown Fiction drug enforcement stuff, cool V-22 ospreys 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Tom Clancy Fiction russian sub captain defects to US 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Tom Clancy Fiction 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Tom Clancy Fiction jack ryan foils an assassination attempt by the IRA, ends up a target himself 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Tom Clancy Fiction 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Tom Clancy Fiction involves drug smuggling in central america? 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Tom Clancy Fiction bad guys try to blow up US, we kick their ass (yawn) 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Tom Clancy Fiction john clark randomly kicks ass 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Tom Clancy Fiction more gratuitous ass-kicking 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Tom Clancy Fiction jack ryan becomes vp or president or something? happens right after Debt of Honor when some guy flies a 747 into the capitol. 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Alice Sebold Fiction how a family deals with the murder of their daughter 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Murray Gell-Mann Physics discussions on philosophy, physics, and complexity 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM George Johnson Philosophy/Science great bringing-together of science, philosophy, religion, etc. 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction collection - includes the long walk, the running man 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction something about a young girl that can set fire to things by thinking about it? 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction famous auther is rescued and then imprisoned by a crazed fan 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction a crashed spaceship in maine starts turning people into aliens 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction someone's alter-ego is a serial kiler? 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction a man comes to town and is able to give people their wishes, which ends up doing more harm than good 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction something about a woman who is being abused stepping inside a painting (and meeting roland?) 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction couple pulled over out in nevada or somewhere, kidnapped by crazy psycho cop 2005 Low 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction strange haunted house on the side of a lake in maine (where else?) 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction girl wanders off in woods, gets lost 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Fiction aliens land in maine and take over the body of a guy. ends up with military quarantine of area, issues of morality of killing alien-infected people. 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Noam Chomsky Documentary great discussion of how the government influences the public's perception of how the world works 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM David Guterson Fiction stuff about japanese-american persecution in the northwest around wwii ? 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Geoffrey K Pullum Linguistics collection; essays on academic linguistics 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Joseph Halderman Sci-Fi 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Joseph Halderman Sci-Fi 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM John C Wright Sci-Fi incomplete - too much jargon, too little plot 2005 Low 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM James Michener Fiction (Historical) incomplete 2005 Low 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM James Michener Fiction (Historical) incomplete 2005 Low 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Vernor Vinge Sci-Fi scientists learn how to create stasis fields ("bobbles") and proceed to take over the world and outlaw advanced technology, calling themselves The Peace. "tinkers" form a resistance to overthrow the scientists and regain freedom. 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Douglas Coupland Fiction a story of a woman's life of loneliness 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM James Ellroy Fiction LA crime fiction 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM James Ellroy Fiction LA crime fiction 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM James Ellroy Fiction LA crime fiction, involving all sorts of famous figures (JFK, Howard Hughes, etc) 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM James Clavell Fiction incomplete - book 3 of asian saga, long, boring 2005 Low 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Michael Crichton Sci-Fi something about a virus from deep space infecting the world? 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Michael Crichton Sci-Fi 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Michael Crichton Sci-Fi explorers venture into the congo to try to find lost diamond mines. 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Michael Crichton Sci-Fi scientists discover a spaceship on the ocean floor which contains a mysterious sphere. 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Michael Crichton Sci-Fi scientists hatch dinosaurs from fossilized DNA 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Michael Crichton Sci-Fi mystery involving an unintended murder and the resulting techno-cool coverup 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Michael Crichton Sci-Fi something involving cellular phones? 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 8/13/2005 1:35:56 PM Michael Crichton Sci-Fi sequel to Jurassic Park 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Michael Crichton Sci-Fi something about a plane crash? 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Michael Crichton Sci-Fi time-travel stuff involving medieval europe 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Michael Crichton Autobiography tales of all the cool stuff MC has done 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Michael Crichton Nonfiction 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Michael Crichton Fiction mostly about eco-terrorism. also a book with a serious agenda - mc is of the opinion that a lot of "global warming" theory is crackpot science and not backed up by facts. 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Stephen King Autobiography lots of cool discussion about the why and the how of SK's writing 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Chuck Palahniuk Fiction very weird story about a sex addict and his delusional mother 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Elizabeth Moon Fiction a group of autistic people are offered the chance to become "normal." told in the first-person by one of the autists, includes lots of really different ways of looking at things, many of which I identified with. 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Milan Kundera Fiction story about love and (in)fidelity 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Samuel R. Delaney Sci-Fi very odd spacefaring novel involving a language constructed to turn a man into a killer without him knowing 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Samuel R. Delaney Sci-Fi young backwoods boy goes off into space to help save the world 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Chuck Palahniuk Fiction child from a weird cult works as a house cleaner, then becomes super-famous 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Vernor Vinge Sci-Fi sequel to The Peace War 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Samuel R. Delaney Sci-Fi incomplete - some prince guy searching for a rare mineral in a supernova 2005 Low 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Douglas Coupland Fiction a movie producer and a failed actress pull disappearing acts and discover happiness 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Dan Brown Fiction catholicism and the illuminati - the first Robert Langdon story. very similar to DaVinci Code, good but heavy-handed. 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Orson Scott Card Sci-Fi parallel telling of the story from ender's game 2005 High 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Anne Tyler Fiction a neurotic travel guide author meets and falls in love with a dog trainer 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM George Johnson Philosophy/Science a high-level overview of quantum computing - well done, but a little short on technical content 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Yann Martel Fiction short stories; odd, but good 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Gardner Dozois Sci-Fi collection 2005 None 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM Richard Mason Fiction man murders his wife, story is built on their history and why it happened 2005 Mid 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM 11/3/2005 11:31:56 PM Douglas Coupland Fiction young man living in smalltown washington deals with ambition and love 2005 Mid 8/27/2005 3:07:09 PM 8/27/2005 3:07:09 PM Orson Scott Card Sci-Fi ender 3000 years in the future, visits a new planet and makes peace with the piggies. (hugo and nebula awards) 2005 High 9/17/2005 10:17:19 PM 9/17/2005 10:17:19 PM James Butler, Greg Hoglund Computers explanations and sample code of how to write and detect rootkits 2005 Mid 9/17/2005 10:18:33 PM 9/17/2005 10:18:33 PM Peter Szor Computers detailed discussion of infection tactics of viruses and worms, very well-written 2005 Mid 9/17/2005 10:19:18 PM 9/17/2005 10:19:18 PM Philip Caputo Fiction (Historical) vietnam wartime narrative - excellent 2005 Mid 10/2/2005 2:40:18 PM 10/2/2005 2:42:10 PM Philip Caputo Fiction takes place in late 20th century wartime sudan/kenya; excellent story with lots of great characters 2005 Mid 10/2/2005 2:40:40 PM 10/2/2005 2:40:40 PM Charles Stross Sci-Fi fairly near-term, post-singularity futuristic story, involving lots of quantum and relativistic stuff, including some form of time travel. a good first book. 2005 Mid 10/10/2005 9:02:55 PM 10/10/2005 9:02:55 PM Nathaniel Fick Nonfiction autobiography of a marine officer who served in afghanistan and iraq 2005 Mid 11/3/2005 11:29:46 PM 11/3/2005 11:29:46 PM Orson Scott Card Sci-Fi lots of really cool philosophical discussion about free will, intelligence, AI, ethics of inter-species relationships 2005 High 11/3/2005 11:30:42 PM 11/3/2005 11:30:42 PM C. S. Lewis Sci-Fi 2005 Low 12/4/2005 12:41:12 AM 12/4/2005 12:41:12 AM Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Dennett Philosophy various selections on the subject of AI, personal identity, etc. 2005 Mid 12/18/2005 11:06:58 PM 12/18/2005 11:06:58 PM Richard K Morgan Sci-Fi near-future "road-rage" society, Conflict Investment invests in wars, guerilla actions, etc 2006 Mid 3/4/2006 1:33:13 PM 3/4/2006 1:33:13 PM Betty Edwards Nonfiction great stuff about how the brain works and how to think about drawing 2006 High 3/4/2006 1:34:37 PM 3/4/2006 1:34:37 PM Wolfgang Langewiesche Nonfiction great book on flying technique 2006 Mid 3/4/2006 1:35:34 PM 3/4/2006 1:35:34 PM Elmore Leonard Fiction a US marshal who always tells people "if I have to pull my gun, I shoot to kill". takes place in the 1930's, various interwoven tales of law/crime. 2006 None 3/25/2006 5:04:13 PM 3/25/2006 5:04:13 PM Orson Scott Card Sci-Fi continuation of ender's saga, including peter and val 2006 Mid 5/21/2006 8:59:59 PM 5/21/2006 9:17:33 PM Stephen King Fiction cellular phones start emitting messages that turn people into zombies 2006 Mid 5/21/2006 9:01:18 PM 5/21/2006 9:17:00 PM Robert Silverberg Sci-Fi collection of nebula-award stuff 2006 Mid 7/15/2006 1:14:02 PM 7/15/2006 1:14:02 PM Mary Roach Nonfiction "the curious lives of human cadavers". a little unsettling at times, but good 2006 Mid 7/15/2006 1:14:50 PM 7/15/2006 1:14:50 PM Leon Lederman, Christopher Hill Nonfiction book about symmetry and physics 2006 Mid 7/15/2006 1:15:21 PM 7/15/2006 1:17:39 PM Philip Caputo Fiction guys go out into desert in sudan/somalia and dicsover their inner demons. 2006 Mid 7/15/2006 1:16:04 PM 7/15/2006 1:16:04 PM Neil Gaiman Sci-Fi odd story of two brothers who are sons of a spider god 2006 Mid 7/15/2006 1:16:36 PM 7/15/2006 1:16:36 PM Richard K Morgan Sci-Fi another takeshi kovacs novel 2006 Mid 7/29/2006 11:47:18 PM 7/29/2006 11:47:18 PM Daniel Keyes Sci-Fi book about a man whose very-low intelligence is raised through surgery, becomes a genius, and then slowly reverts back to his old self 2006 High 7/31/2006 8:34:43 PM 7/31/2006 8:34:43 PM Ray Kurzweil Science predictions about the future of computers and technology 2003 High 8/19/2006 5:45:17 PM 8/19/2006 5:45:17 PM Ray Kurzweil Science kurzweil's visions of the impending technological singularity - lots of great stuff 2006 High 8/19/2006 5:45:55 PM 8/19/2006 5:46:35 PM Ayn Rand Fiction great book about an architect and his pursuit of truth 2006 Mid 9/5/2006 11:25:57 PM 9/5/2006 11:25:57 PM Barbara Kingsolver Fiction a woman comes home to a small town to take care of her father and discovers it's not a terrible place after all 2006 Mid 9/5/2006 11:26:53 PM 9/5/2006 11:26:53 PM Alastair Reynolds Sci-Fi 2006 Mid 9/7/2006 9:19:43 PM 9/7/2006 9:19:43 PM