Books I Have Read while Living in NYC

 

 

Count

Title

Author

Part

1

Isle of Woman

Anthony, Piers

All

2

Pride and Prejudice

Austen, Jane

All

3

Martian Chronicles

Bradbury, Ray

All

4

Walk in the Woods

Bryson, Bill

All

5

Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye

Byatt, A.S.

All

6

Power and Terror

Chomsky, Noam

All

7

Alchemist

Coelho, Paulo

All

8

Timeline

Crichton, Michael

All

9

How Proust Can Save Your life

De Botton, Alain

All

10

Third Chimpanzee

Diamond, Jared

All

11

Gambler

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

All

12

April Morning

Fast, Howard

All

13

Citizen Tom Paine

Fast, Howard

All

14

Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

All

15

October Sky

Hickam, Homer

All

16

Seabiscuit

Hillenbrand, Laura

All

17

Medusa Frequency

Hoban, Russell

All

18

Introducing Jung

Hyde / McGuinness

All

19

Peer Gynt

Ibsen, Henrik

All

20

WOT#1: Eye of the World

Jordan, Robert

All

21

WOT#2: Great Hunt

Jordan, Robert

All

22

WOT#3: Dragon Reborn

Jordan, Robert

All

23

Answer to Job

Jung, Carl Gustav

All

24

Confessions of a Street Addict

Kramer, James J.

All

25

Unbearable Lightness of Being

Kundera, Milos

All

26

Prince

Machiavelli, Nicolo

All

27

Cry for Myth

May, Rollo

All

28

Fires of Spring

Michener, James A.

All

29

Jung for Beginners

Platania, Jon

All

30

Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos

Poundstone, William

All

31

Beyond Civilization

Quinn, Daniel

All

32

Providence

Quinn, Daniel

All

33

Harry Potter I

Rowling, J. K.

All

34

Ender’s Game

Scott Card, Orson

All

35

Speaker for the Dead

Scott Card, Orson

All

36

Henry V

Shakespeare, William

All

37

Galileo’s Daughter

Sobel, Dava

All

38

LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring

Tolkien, J. R. R.

All

39

Zen in the Markets

Toppel, Edward A.

All

40

Shibumi

Trevanian

All

41

Sky is Not the Limit

Tyson, Neil DeGrasse

All

42

Puer Aeternus

Von Franz, Marie-Louise

All

43

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Feynman, Richard

All?

44

A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market

Paulos, John Allen

Half

45

Genome

Ridley, Matt

Half

46

Transformation of the God-Image

Edinger, Edward

I/P

47

A Primer of Jungian Psychology

Hall & Nordby

I/P

48

Man and His Symbols

Jung, C. G., ed.

I/P

49

Undaunted Courage

Ambrose, Stephen

Most

50

Guns Germs & Steel

Diamond, Jared

Most

51

American Sphinx

Ellis, Joseph J.

Most

52

Dreamquest

Kelsey, Morton

Most

53

Stories from American History

Lamb, Brian, ed

Most

54

Dinosaurs in the Attic

Preston, Douglas J.

Most

55

Non Zero

Wright, Robin

Most

56

Age of Spiritual Machines

Kurzweil, Ray

Some

 

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

 

 

 

 

Life in NOLA & ABQ & WashDC & RVA

Feb 2004 thru June 2006 & June 2006 thru June 2009 & July 2009 thru the present

 

Count Start End Title Author Type Part
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696   12/11  Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (lib) Bregman, Rutger Economics All/264
695   11/23 Humankind (lib) Bregman, Rutger humankind All/397
694   10/28 The Glory and the Dream (iPad) Manchester, William American history All/1308
693   08/06 Freedom (lib) Junger, Sebastian All/147
692   07/24 The Paranoid Style in American Politics: An Essay (iPad) Hofstadter, Richard American History All/45 
691   07/22 Why Nations Fail (iPad) Acemoğlu, Daron & James Robinson political economy All/483
690   06/07 Yuge!: 30 Years of Doonesbury on Trump (eBook loan) Trudeau, Gary comics All/ 
689   05/31 The Courage of Our Convictions: A Manifesto for Democrats (lib) Hart, Gary politics All/193
688   05/21 All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid (lib) Bai, Matt American history All/250
687 05/05 Ruth Bader Ginsburg: In Her Own Words (FIRE) Hunt, Helena ed.   All/206
686   04/22 If We Can Keep It (lib) Tomasky, Michael political science All/239
685 04/05 04/14 Rage (lib) Woodward, Bob current affairs All/397
684   04/03 Rules of the Lake (lib) Ziegler, Irene fiction All/192
683   03/28 Slaughterhouse-Five (lib) Vonnegut, Kurt fiction All/275
682   03/21 The Sirens of Titan (lib) Vonnegut, Kurt fiction All/326
681   02/17 Thomas Jefferson: Author of America (lib) Hitchens, Christopher American history All/188
680 02/01 02/04 1969: The Year That Changed Everything (FIRE)  Kirkpatrick, Rob American history All/272
679   01/14  Theodore Rex (FIRE) Morris, Edmund American hstory/bio All/555 
678   01/13 Twilight of Democracy (lib) Applebaum, Anne   All/192
2021 2021 2021 <above here>      
677   12/13 On Tyranny (lib) Snyder, Timothy 321 All/125
676 11/05 100 Turning Points in American History (FIRE) Axelrod, Alan   All/392
675   10/20 The Jews in America (FIRE) Dimont, Max   All/320
674   10/10 The Greatest Movement in Human History: How We're Going to Overcome Our Differences, Solve Our Biggest Problems, and Change the World (FIRE) Lynn, Randy   All/205
673   09/14 Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity (lib) Ryan, Christopher   All/400
672   08/16 Make Russia Great Again (lib) Buckley, Christopher fiction All/275
671   08/12 How the Right Lost its Mind (FIRE) Sykes, Charles J   All/234
670   08/07 Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (lib) Larson, Edward J 224 All/266
669   07/27 How to Fight Anti-Semitism (lib) Weiss, Bari 305 All/210
668   07/25 Too Much and Never Enough (lib) Trump, Mary L memoir All/211
      The Untethered Soul Singer   64/184
667   06/21 Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (FIRE) Millard, Candice American history All/302
666 06/19 Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (FIRE) Wood, Gordon S American history All/433
665   06/14 The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure (FIRE) Lukianoff, Greg & Jon Haidt   All/281
664   06/06 The Tragedy of Russia: Impressions from a Brief Visit (lib) Durant, Will 330 All/164
663   04/20 Diagrams & Dollars: Modern Money Illustrated (FIRE) Alt, J D economics All/41
662   04/05 The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (lib) Brands, H W 973:American History All/716
661   03/09 New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer (lib) Maher, Bill 791: humor All/228
660   03/06 The Darwin Awards (i): Evolution in Action (lib) Northcutt, Wendy 081 All/312
659   02/29 The Plot Against America (lib) Roth, Philip fiction All/391
658   02/19 Dear Pr*sident A**clown: 101 More Rude Letters to Donald Trump (Fire) Pennyfarthing, Aldous J   All/
657   02/11 Why We're Polarized (lib) Klein, Ezra 306 All/272
656   01/21 The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians (lib) Rubinstein, David M American History All/362
      The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers (lib) Heilbroner, Robert L economics 301/330
655 01/06 01/13 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (lib) Pirsig, Robert M memoir All/430
2020 2020 2020 <above here>      
654   12/26 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (lib) Peterson, Jordan B.   All/370
653   12/14 How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (lib) Stanley, Jason 321 All/193
652   11/12 The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (lib) Haidt, Jonathan 201 All/318
651   10/30 The Story of America: Essays on Origins (lib) Lepore, Jill American history All/318
650   10/26 The Alchemist (lib) Coelho, Paulo fiction All/179
649   10/20 This America: The Case for the Nation (lib) Lepore, Jill American History All/138
648   10/05 Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know (lib) Gladwell, Malcolm 302 All/348
      Extraterrestrial Civilizations (lib) Asimov, Isaac science 134/275
      The Indestructible Jews (lib) Dimont, Max history 81/338
647   09/30 The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World (lib) Stewart, Matthew 211: Philosophy All/311
646   09/09 The Red and the Blue: The 1990's and the Birth of Political Tribalism (lib) Kornacki, Steve 306 All/428
645   08/07 The Conscience of a Liberal (Fire) Wellstone, Paul   All/240
644   07/26 I Am Spartacus: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist (lib) Douglas, Kirk   All/210
643   07/20 Humankind: A Brief History (lib) Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe 128/F363 All/170
642   07/17 The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life (lib) Partanen, Anu   All/337
      Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis -- and Themselves (lib) Sorkin, Andrew Ross 330" Economics 236/544
641   05/28 The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West (lib) McCullough, David 977 American history All/263
640   05/03 Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution (lib) Fountain, Ben 324 All/416
639   04/11 Heirs of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster; the Second Generation of American Giants (lib) Brands, H W American History All/376
      Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (lib) Brands, H.W. American History / biography 344/824
638   03/31 In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (lib) Larson, Erik 943 All/375
      12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (lib) Peterson, Jordan B 170 138/368
637   02/24 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (lib) Kundera, Milan fiction All/237
636   02/19 Citizen Tom Paine: A Play in Two Acts (lib) Fast, Howard drama All/119
635   02/11 FDR (Fire) Smith, Jean Edward biography, Amer History All/636
634 01/30 01/31 Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (lib) Carmon, Irin & Shana Knizhnik biography All/193
633   01/24 Eisenhower in War and Peace (Fire) Smith, Jean Edward biography, Amer history All/766
632   01/16 The Chapo Guide to Revolution (lib) Chapo Trap House 320, politics All/309
631   01/07 Apostles of Revolution: Jefferson, Paine, Monroe, and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America and Europe (Fire) Ferling, John American history All/496
      Aristotle's Children (lib) Rubinstein, Richard E 189 82/298
      Leadership in Turbulent Times (lib) Goodwin, Doris Kearns 973 166/368
2019 2019 2019 <above here> (24)      
630   12/04 American Dialogue: The Founders and Us (lib) Ellis, Joseph J 973 All/242
629   11/28 Them: Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal (lib) Sasse, Ben 323 All/256
628   11/26 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (lib) Harari, Yuval Noah 909 All/323
627   11/24 The Cartoon History of the United States (lib) Gonick, Larry 178 All/377
626   11/07 Hyper-Capitalism: The Modern Economy, Its Values, and How to Change Them (lib) Gonick, Larry & Tim Kasser 501 All/209
625 10/10 10/13 The Fifth Risk (lib) Lewis, Michael 320 All/219
624   10/06 Wait Till Next Year (lib) Goodwin, Doris Kearns 796, memoir All/261
623   09/09 Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life (lib) Wilson, Edward O 333, biology All/231
622   09/06 When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants (lib) Levitt, Steven D & Stephen J Dubner economics All/351
621   08/24 Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (Fire) Goodwin, Doris Kearns biography All/382
620   08/04 Breakfast at Tiffany's (lib) Capote, Truman fiction All/109
      100 Years of Psychotherapy ... (lib) Hillman, James psychology 120/242
      The Growth Delusion (lib) Pilling, David economics 136/258
      Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution (Fire) Beeman, Richard American history 3%/423
      Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley (Fire) Martinez, Antonio Garcia Tech culture 8%/495
      The Politics Book (Fire) DK Publishing Political Science 14%/330
      America's Constitution: A Biography (Fire) Amar, Akhil Reed Constitutional law 19%/478
619   07/30 Human Universe (Fire) Cox, Brian science, astronomy All/256
618   07/27 Political Philosophy (Fire) Brennan, Jason Political Science All/180
617 07/18 07/19 Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. (lib) Wasson, Sam   All/207
616   06/ The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels (lib) Meacham, Jon American history All/275
      The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse (lib) El-Erian, Mohamed A economics 120/263
615   06/10 Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink (Fire) Currier, Richard L anthropology All/302
614   05/30 The Story of My Life (Fire) Darrow, Clarence biography, law, politics All/485
613   04/30 Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business (lib) Foroohar, Rana 332: economics All/326
612   04/12 How Democracies Die (lib) Levitsky, Steven & Daniel Ziblatt 321 All/231
611 03/29 03/31 Democracy: An American Novel (Fire) Adams, Henry fiction All/132
610   03/24 The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations (lib) Pilling, David 338: economics All/258
      Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (lib) Brands, H.W. American History / biography 312/824
609   02/28 Economics in Wonderland: A Cartoon Guide to a Political World Gone Mad and Mean (lib) Reich, Robert B economics All/117
608   02/19 Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics (lib) Shenkman, Rick 320 All/281
607   01/24 Thank You for Being Late (lib) Friedman, Thomas L 303: social sciences All/461
606   01/12 Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals (lib) Alinsky, Saul 323 All/196
2018 2018 2018 <above here> (25)      
605   12/25 To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian (lib) Ambrose, Stephen E American history All/252
      Leonardo da Vinci (lib) Isaacson, Walter biography 24/524
      Team of Rivals (lib) Goodwin, Doris Kearns biography 66/754
604   12/03

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire / A 500-Year History (lib)

Andersen, Kurt politics All/440
603 10/31 11/07 Born to Run (lib) Springsteen, Bruce biography All/508
602   10/30 An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments (iTouch) Almossawi, Ali   All/55
601 10/09 10/15 Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle (lib) Flake, Jeff 320: politics All/138
600 10/05 10/08 Origin (lib) Brown, Dan fiction All/457
      Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry that Forged a Nation (lib) Ferling, John American History 143/362
      Thank You for Arguing (lib) Heinrichs, Jay   114/408
      The Warburgs (lib) Chernow, Ron biography 36/728
      The Ascent of Money (lib) Ferguson, Niall   98/xxx
      SPQR (lib) Beard, Mary history 264/536
      The American Bible (lib)     368/xxx
599   10/01 The Jews (iTouch) Fast, Howard History, religion All/330
598   08/25 Social Darwinism in American Thought (lib) Hofstadter, Richard American history All/204
597   08/23 Mornings on Horseback (lib) McCullough, David American history All/370
596   08/17 The Retreat of Western Liberalism (lib) Luce, Edward 320 politics All/208
595   08/03 The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis - and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance (lib) Sasse, Ben 305 225/274
594   07/14 End of Discussion: How the Left's Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and FUN) (lib) Ham, Mary Katherine and Guy Benson politics All/283
593   06/27

The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good (lib)

Frank, Robert H economics All/215
592 06/22 06/23 The Complete Persepolis (lib) Satrapi, Marjane comic book / biography All/341
591 06/16 06/16 Trump: A Graphic Biography (lib) Rall, Ted comic book / biography All/179
590   06/16 American character : a history of the epic struggle between individual liberty and the common good (lib) Woodard, Colin political science All/271
589   06/06 Al Franken: Giant of the Senate (lib) Franken, Al current affairs All/396
588   06/01 Small Is Beautiful (lib) Schumacher, E F economics All/318
587   05/28 Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (lib) Foner, Eric American History All/315
586 05/11 05/23 Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist (iTouch) Raworth, Kate economics All/258
585 04/10   A Guide for the Perplexed (lib) Schumacher, E F   74/140
584   04/28 This Fight is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class (lib) Warren, Elizabeth 305:politics All/270
583   04/24 The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For (lib) McCullough, David   All/171
582   03/27 Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? (lib) Frank, Thomas politics All/294
581 03/13 03/19 Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (lib) O'Neil, Cathy politics, economics, social sciences All/218
580 03/09 03/12 The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds (lib) Lewis, Michael biography All/362
579 03/02 03/08 Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (lib) Harari, Yuval Noah history All/402
578   03/01 Alexander Hamilton (lib) Chernow, Ron biography All/738
577 02/11 02/18 Norse Mythology (lib) Gaiman, Neil fiction All/281
576 02/13 02/16 Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season (lib) Eig, Jonathan biography All/281
575 01/11 01/31 Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In (lib) Sanders, Bernie politics All/450
574 01/04 01/16 Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology (lib) Brende, Eric 303 All/233
573 01/04 01/14 The Genius of American Politics (lib) Boorstin, Daniel J American History All/194
      Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War that Won It (lib) Ferling, John American History 44/335
2017 2017 2017 <above here> (32)      
572 12/27 12/27 Manna: Two Visions of Humanity's Future (iTouch) Brain, Marshall Technology All/79
      Corruption in America (lib); bookmarked at p.30, 108, 250 Teachout, Zephyr    
571 12/13 12/26 Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (lib) Hofstadter, Richard American History All/465
570 11/21 12/23 Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In (lib Sanders, Bernie    
570 11/21 12/23 The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States (lib) Wood, Gordon S
569 11/15 12/17 The American Political Tradition (lib) Hofstadter, Richard American History All/456
568 12/07 12/07 Cato (iTouch) Addison, Joseph drama All/
567 11/18 11/26 The American Revolution: A History (lib) Wood, Gordon S American History All/166
566 11/07 11/11 The Golem and the Jinni (lib) Wecker, Helene fiction All/486
565 09/14 11/01 Will in the World: How Shakespeare became Shakespeare (lib) Greenblatt, Stephen biography All/390
564 09/06 10/26 Tom Paine: A Political Life (lib) Keane, John biography All/536
563 10/11 10/13 Why the Jews?: The Reason for Antisemitism (lib) Prager, Dennis 305 All/198
562   10/04 Orange, VA (lib) Abraham, Michael fiction All/291
      The Path (lib)     138/xxx
561 09/02 09/20 Alexander Hamilton, American (lib) Brookhiser, Richard biography All/217
560 07/14 09/10 A Short History of the United States (lib) Remini, Robert V American history All/336
559 08/29 09/04 Brave Companions: Portraits in History (lib) McCullough, David biography All/232
558 08/27 08/28 Common Sense (own) Paine, Thomas   All/50
557 08/21 08/21 Thomas Paine: Firebrand of the Revolution (lib) Kaye, Harvey J biography All/151
556 07/12 08/20 America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union (lib) Bordewich, Fergus M 973: American History All/401
555 07/14 07/16 46 Pages: Thomas Paine, Common Sense, and the Turning Point to Independence (lib) Liell, Scott 973: American History All/145
554     Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (lib) de Waal, Frans 591: science 98/275
553 06/29 07/10 Naked Money (lib) Wheelan, Charles    
      The Age of Stagnation (lib) Das, Satjavit   44/xxx
552 06/27 06/29 Man's Search for Meaning (lib) Frankl, Viktor E 150:psychology All/165
551 06/23 06/24 Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (lib) Larson, Edward J 345 All/266
550 05/26 06/21 The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government (lib) Bordewich, Fergus 327: History All/316
549 03/16 05/21 The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism  (lib) Goodwin, Doris Kearns 973: Amer History All/752
548 04/04 04/18 Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels who Created Progressive Politics (lib) Wolraich, Michael 973: Amer History All/259
547     Super Forecasting (lib)     192/xxx
546     The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, & the Birth of Right and Left (lib) Levin, Yuval 320: politics 136/235
545 03/30 04/03 In the Heart of the Sea (lib) Philbrick, Nathaniel 910: history All/238
544 03/14 03/18 The Boys of Summer: The Classic Narrative of Growing ... (lib) Kahn, Roger 796?: sports All/456
543   03/13 Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism - From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond (lib) Dionne, E.J., Jr 320:politics All/475
542 03/03 03/04 Leonard: My Fifty-year Friendship with a Remarkable Man (lib) Shatner, William biography All/278
541 02/08 02/22 Rise of the Robots (lib) Ford, Martin 331:busi All/284
      The River of Doubt (lib)      
      Innovators (lib)     132/???
540 01/19 02/12 Napoleon: A Life (lib) Roberts, Andrew biography All/851
      Louis D. Brandeis (pur) Urofksy, Melvin I biography 200/756
539 12/16 01/06 In the Heart of the Sea (lib) Philbrick, Nathaniel 910: history All/238or258/278
538 12/07 01/04 Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (lib) Meacham, Jon biography All/514
2016 2016 2016 <above here> (31)      
537 12/22 12/25 When to Rob a Bank: ... and 131 more warped suggestions and well-intended rants (lib) Levitt, Steven D & Stephen J Dubner 330: economics All/355
536 12/21 12/21 Democracy (lib) Papadatos, Alecos & Abraham Kawa fiction All/236
535 12/07 12/13 New Essays on Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (lib) Brodhead, Richard, ed. 813 145/178
534 12/02 12/04 Why Read Moby-Dick? (lib) Philbrick, Nathaniel American fiction / lit crit All/144
533 10/08 12/03 John Adams (lib) McCullough, David biography All/656
532 11/10 11/21 Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few (lib) Reich, Robert 330: economics All/219
531 10/26 11/12 The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great (lib) Kaye, Harvey J 973: American history All/216
530 10/19 11/04 Animal spirits : how human psychology drives the economy, and why it matters for global capitalism (lib) Akerlof, George & Robert Shiller 330: economics All/176
529 10/05 10/17 The "S" Word: A Short History of an American Tradition ... Socialism (lib) Nichols, John 320: politics All/292
528 08/24 10/07 Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt (lib) Hedges, Chris 303: politics All/229
527 09/16 09/30 Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground between Humans and Robots (lib) Markoff, John 303: technology All/346
526 08/26 09/19 A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic (lib) Ferling, John 973: American History All/488
525 08/24   One Hundred Years of Solitude (lib) Garcia Marquez, Gabriel fiction 130/417
524 08/19   Galileo's Dream (lib) Robinson, Kim Stanley science fiction 260/527
523 08/17 08/25 Free Market Madness: Why Human Nature is at Odds with Economics - and Why It Matters (lib) Ubel, Peter 330: economics All/225
522 08/10 08/15 The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and more Prosperous America (lib) Brooks, Arthur C politics All/218
521 07/24 07/28 The Song of Achilles (lib) Miller, Madeline fiction All/378
520 07/21 07/27 The Wright Brothers (lib) McCullough, David biography All/267
519 06/24 07/02 First Family: Abigail & John (lib) Ellis, Joseph J biography All/259
518 06/16 06/30 The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s (lib) Brands, H W 973: American History All/351
517 06/22 06/27 The Strange Death of American Liberalism (lib) Brands, H W 320: American History All/190
516 06/11 06/19 The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783 - 1789 (lib) Ellis, Joseph J 342: American History All/220
515 05/27 06/15 Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (lib) Thaler, Richard & Cass Sunstein economics 130+/253
514 05/22 06/09 Thieves in High Places:They've Stolen our Country and Its Time to Take It Back (lib) Hightower, Jim 973: American History All/262
513 05/22 06/03 Setting the world ablaze : Washington, Adams, Jefferson and the American revolution (lib) Ferling, John American History 3 All/306
512 05/14 05/22? Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 (lib) Ferling, John American History 2 All/215
  05/11 05/11 My Struggle (lib)   fiction, memoir 28/441
511 04/27 05/09 Sophie's World (lib) Gaarder, Jostein fiction, philosophy All/507
510 04/19 04/22 We the People: A Call to Take Back America (pur) Hartmann, Thom   All/188
509 04/07 04/15 The Meaning of Human Existence (lib) Wilson, Edward O science All/187
508 03/25 04/10 Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader (lib) Schlender, Brent & Rick Tetzeli biography All/435
507 04/06 04/07 Holy Cow (lib) Duchovny, David fiction All/207
506 03/20 04/01 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (lib) Harari, Yuval Noah 599: science All/416
  03/18   On Politics: A History of Political Thought from Herodotus to the Present (lib) Ryan, Alan politics 129/389
505 03/09 03/12 The Cartoon Introduction to Economics. volume 1: Microeconomics (lib) Klein, Grady & Yoram Bauman economics 1 All/211
504 02/18 02/28 How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life (lib) Adams, Scott biography All/231
503 02/19 02/22 To Kill A Mockingbird (lib) Lee, Harper fiction All/376
502 01/13   The Radicalism of the American Revolution (lib) Wood, Gordon S American history 1 130/370
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501 12/29 12/31 The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (lib) Kolbert, Elizabeth 576: science All/276
500 11/28 12/30 Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America (lib) Rakove, Jack 973: American History 9 All/446
499 11/28 12/06 To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders (lib) Bailyn, Bernard 973: American History 8 All/149
498 11/06 11/23 Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free (lib) Ferling, John 973: American History 7 All/362
  10/16   The Aristos: (lib) Fowles, John   123/235
497 09/19 11/11 Economics: The User's Guide (lib) Chang, Ha-Joon 330: Economics 6 All/350
496 10/06 11/04 Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry that Forged a Nation (lib) Ferling, John 973: American History 6 All/362
495 09/24 10/10 A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition (lib) Hemingway, Ernest fiction All/236
494 10/02 10/06 Citizen Tom Paine (tablet) Fast, Howard fiction All/348
493 08/25 09/18 America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped A Nation (lib) Davis, Kenneth C. 973: American History 5 All/245
492 09/11 09/17 Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (lib) Ariely, Dan 153: psychology / econ All/334
491 09/09   Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution (lib) Stephens, John Paul   98/133
  09/02   The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000BC - 1492AD (lib) Schama, Simon 909: History 100/421
490 08/15 08/29 Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence (lib) Ellis, Joseph J 973:American History 4 All/188
489 08/19 08/23 Odds Against Tomorrow (lib) Rich, Nathaniel fiction All/306
488 08/06 08/14 David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (lib) Gladwell, Malcolm 155: Psychology All/296
487 04/09 08/10 Thomas Paine and the Promise of America (lib) Kaye, Harvey American History 2 All/262
486 06/27 07/29 *A Short History of Nearly Everything (lib) Bryson, Bill 500 All/478
485 06/27 07/07 Gloryland (lib) Johnson, Shelton fiction All/275
484 06/23 06/25 Think Like a Freak (lib) Levitt, Steven D & Stephen J Dubner 153: Psychology All/214
483 06/12 06/15 What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (lib) Sandel, Michael J 174: Ethics All/206
482 05/09 06/09 Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Govt (lib) Brook, Yaron & Don Watkins 330: Economics 4 All/221
481 05/28 06/07 The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War over the American Dollar (lib) Brands, H W 332.092: Economics 5 All/210
480 05/21   Easy Economics : A Visual Guide To What You Need To Know (lib) Wolfe, Leonard   67/
479 05/12 05/19 American Dreams: The United States Since 1945 (lib) Brands, H W 973:American History 3 All/385
478 04/28   After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead (lib) Blinder, Alan S. 330.973: economics 72/443
477 04/21   Introducing Economics: A Graphic Guide (lib) Orrell, David 330: economics 129/138/172
476 04/19 04/25 Economix: How Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work) (lib) Goodwin, Michael & Dan E. Burr 330: economics 3 All/298
475 04/09   Libertarianism, from A to Z (lib) Miron, Jeffrey A.   {73|107}/198
474 04/07 04/15 Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt (lib) Lewis, Michael 332:620 Business All/274
473 03/28 04/05 Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know (lib) Brennan, Jason 320: politics All/189
472 03/12 03/15 Everything Is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer (lib) Watts, Duncan 153.4 All/324
471 02/10 03/11 One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy (lib) Frank, Thomas 330: economics 1 All/398
470 01/08 02/22 Founding Brothers : The Revolutionary Generation (lib) Ellis, Joseph J 973:American History 1 All/278
469 02/18 02/19 Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America (lib) Andersen, Kurt 330.973: economics 2 All/72
468 01/13 02/06 The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization (lib) Herman, Arthur 909: history All/572
467 12/18 01/11 Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption and the Hijacking of America (lib) Ferguson, Charles H 330.973: politics All/356
2014 2014 2014 <above here>      
466 12/23 12/28 The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America - and What We Can Do to Stop It (lib) Hartmann, Thom 330.973: economics 10 All/272
465 12/12   The Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present (lib) Madrick, Jeff Community Reinvestment Act note 437-8 82/
464     Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance (lib) pp.224,288,296,301 Roubini, Nouriel 338: economics 224, 288
463 12/09   The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (lib) Packer, George 973: American History 78/430
462 11/12   The Grapes of Wrath (lib) Steinbeck, John fiction 104/619
444 04/15 11/11 The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future (lib) Stiglitz, Joseph 305.5 economics 3 All/290
461 10/24 10/30 Occupy The Economy: Challenging Capitalism (lib) Wolff, Richard D 339: economics 9 All/186
460 10/15 10/24 Economix: How Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work) (lib) Goodwin, Michael & Dan E. Burr 330: economics 8 All/298
458 09/16 10/20 Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (lib) Ryan, Christopher & Cacilda Jetha 306: sexuality All/314
459 09/23 10/19 This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral - Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking! - in America's Gilded Capital (lib) Leibovich, Mark 306: politics All/371
457 08/26 09/16 Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (lib) Wheelan, Charles 330: economics 7 All/325
455 07/29   The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America (lib) Stockman, David 330: economics 30/
454 07/23 08/31 New Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought (lib) Buccholz, Todd G 330: economics 5 All/313
456 08/07 08/12 The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Macroeconomics (lib) Klein, Grady & Yoram Bauman 338: economics 6 All/227
453 07/23 08/05 A Tale of Two Cities (lib) Dickens, Charles fiction All/367
452 07/12 07/21 The Summer of 1787:The Men Who Invented the Constitution(lib) Stewart, David O 342:American History 4 All/271
451 07/01 07/18 Theodore Roosevelt's History of the United States (lib) Ruddy, Daniel, ed. 973:American History 3 All/354
445 05/06 06/21 The Armchair Economist: Economics & Everyday Life (lib) Landsburg, Steven E 306.3 economics 4 All/235
449 06/06 06/14 The End Is Near And It's Going to be Awesome (lib) Williamson, Kevin D 330.126 politics All/218
450 06/10 06/12 Agrarian Justice (iTouch) Paine, Thomas political theory All/20
448 06/06 06/06 How Do You Kill 11 Million People? (lib) Andrews, Andy 320.01 All/82
447 05/30   So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Govt (lib) Kaiser, Robert G 328.73 100/
446 05/16 05/21 Inferno (lib) Brown, Dan fiction All/462
443 03/28 04/21 An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power (lib) Gordon, John Steele 330: economics/American History 2 All/419
439 03/06 04/12 Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future (lib) Postman, Neil 909 history All/193
435 02/11 04/02 The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It (lib) Noah, Timothy 339: politics All/195
442 03/19 03/25 What Would the Founders Do?  Our Questions Their Answers (lib) Brookhiser, Richard 973:American History 1 All/224
440 03/13 03/21 The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder constantly Surprises Us and What We can Do about It (lib) Ramo, Joshua Cooper 327 All/266
441 03/19 03/19 Here's The Deal (iTouch) Leonhardt, David economics 1 All/79
429 01/10 03/11 War on the Middle Class: how the government, big business, and special interest groups are waging war on the American dream and how to fight back (lib) Dobbs, Lou 305 All/212
436 02/14 03/01 The Romantic Revolution: A History (lib) Blannning, Tim 700: history All/182
433 01/25   The Signal and the Noise (lib) Silver, Nate 519:statistics 170/454
432 01/25 02/23 Who Stole the American Dream? (lib) Smith, Hedrick 973:political economy All/443
438 02/22 02/22 Beyond Outrage: What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy; how to fix it (iTouch) Reich, Robert B 330: political economy All/176
434 02/11 02/21 Enough: True Measures of Money, Business and Life (lib) Bogle, John 650:business All/255
437 02/19 02/20 A Short History of Progress (lib) Wright, Ronald 303 All/132
430 01/14 01/31 Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer - and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class (lib) Hacker, Jacob S & Paul Pierson 306:political economy All/309
431 01/18 01/21 Walking (iTouch) Thoreau, Henry David essay All/
424 11/26 01/14 Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else (lib) Freeland, Chrystia 305:Business? All/291
428 01/02 01/05 The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist (lib) Tyson, Neil deGrasse 523:memoir, science All/192
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426 12/14 12/28 Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different (lib) Wood, Gordon S 973: American History All/274
427 12/23 12/26 The Servant Economy: Where America's Elite is Sending the Middle Class (iTouch) Faux, Jeff 330:Political Economics All/304
425 11/30   Capitalism and Freedom Friedman, Milton 330:economics All/
423 11/08 11/24 Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (lib) Wheelan, Charles 330:economics All/236
422 11/08 11/17 Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics (lib) Wapshott, Nicholas 330:economic history All/298
419 10/05   Introducing Economics (lib)   330:economics 128/173
418 10/05 10/29 Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius (lib) Nasar, Sylvia 330:economics All/466
420 10/10 10/21 The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers (lib) Heilbroner, Robert L 330:economics All/330
421 10/16 10/18 The Mysterious Stranger & Other Stories (iTouch) Twain, Mark fiction All/76
417 09/24 10/08 Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run (lib) Brower, David ecology All/196
416     The Fifteen Biggest Lies About the Economy (pur)   330:economics 97/262
410 08/13 09/22 The Corporation:The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (lib) Bakan, Joel 306:economics All/
415 09/14 09/19

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Mann, Thomas & Norm Orenstein 320:politics All/204
414 09/06   Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States (lib) Lind, Michael 330:economic history 38/482
407 07/30 09/08 The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain (lib) Lakoff, George 320:politics All/271
413 08/27 09/02 The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but ME Has Their Head Up their Ass (lib) Maher, Bill 817:humor All/350
412 08/27 08/31 Fifty Shades of Grey (lib) James, E.L. fiction All/514
411 08/20 08/28 The Party Is Over (lib) Lofgren, Mike 324:current affairs All/217
409   08/11 Warlord of Mars (iTouch) Burroughs, Edgar Rice science-fiction All/
408   08/03 The Gods of Mars (iTouch) Burroughs, Edgar Rice science-fiction All/332
406 07/23 07/26 Are America's Wealthy Too Powerful? (lib) ed. Lankford, Ronald D. Jr. 305:political All/93
405 07/02 07/20 forever (lib) Hamill, Pete fiction All/613
404   07/13 A Princess of Mars (iTouch) Burroughs, Edgar Rice science-fiction All/
403 06/14   The Social Conquest of Earth (lib) Wilson, Edward O.   42/299
402 06/25 07/10 Genius of the Beast (lib) Bloom, Howard 330:economics 481/483
400 06/14 06/25 Time to start thinking : America in the age of descent (lib) Luce, Edward 973:political economics All/281
401 06/18 06/21 End This Depression Now! (lib) Krugman, Paul 330:economics All/238
399 05/29 06/10 Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet (lib) Flannery, Tim 551:ecology All/281
398 05/18   Extreme Money (lib) Das, Satyajit  332:economics 272/383
397 05/11 05/28 Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress - and a Plan to Stop It (lib) Lessig, Lawrence 328:politics All/369
396 04/26   The Instant Economist (lib) Taylor, Timothy 330:economics 148/250
393 03/26   Thinking, Fast and Slow (lib) Kahneman, Daniel 153:economics 370/481
390 03/06 04/20 Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism(lib) Chang, Ha-Joon 382:economics All/266
395 04/14 04/14 One Way Forward (iTouch) Lessig, Lawrence politics All/
394 04/08 04/09 The Mysterious Stranger & Other Stories (iTouch) Twain, Mark fiction All/76
391 03/16 04/02 Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier (lib) Tyson, Neil de Grasse 629:astronomy All/261
392 03/20 03/21 A Short History of Progress (lib) Wright, Ronald 303 All/186
389 03/06 03/19 The Price of Civilization (lib) Sachs, Jeffrey 330:economics All/296
388 03/05   More Sex is Safer Sex (lib) Landsburg, Steven E. 330:economics 162/256
387 02/27 03/05 Corporations Are Not People (pur) Clements, Jeffrey 322 All/
386 02/23 02/29 Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right (lib) Frank, Thomas 973: American History All/187
383 12/29 02/15 Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices (lib) Feldman, Noah 347: American History All/433
382 12/29 01/31 American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865 - 1900 (lib) Brands, H W 330: American History All/556
385 01/04   The New Deal: A Modern History (lib) Hiltzik, Michael A. 973: American History 100/497
2012 2012 2012 <above here>      
384 12/29   The Plundered Planet (lib) Collier, Paul 333:economics, ecology 138/243
381 12/21   False Economy (lib) Beattie, Alan 330:economics 90/301
380 12/21 12/23 You Deserve Nothing (lib) Maksik, Alexander fiction All/320
378 11/28 12/13 Griftopia (lib) Taibbi, Matt 973:politics All/252
379 12/05 12/10 Boomerang (lib) Lewis, Michael 330:economics All/213
377 11/28 12/09 Steve Jobs (lib) Isaacson, Walter biography All/571
369 09/06 11/23 The Integral Vision (lib) Wilber, Ken 191:philosophy All/230
373 09/23 11/21 What Americans Really Want ... Really (lib) Luntz, Frank 306:political language All/290
376 10/25 11/07 Confidence Men (lib) Suskind, Ron 330:current affairs All/485
375 10/25 10/29 Conscience of a Conservative (lib) Goldwater, Barry politics 85/123
370 09/14 10/27 Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear (lib) Luntz, Frank 808:political language All/305
374 10/11 10/11 How to Cure a Fanatic (lib) Oz, Amos 956:essays All/95
372 09/23 10/10 Constitution Cafe: Jefferson's Brew for a True Revolution (lib) Phillips, Christopher 320: American History All/321
371 09/23 09/28 Here Comes Trouble (lib) Moore, Michael biography All/427
368 09/06 09/22 That Used to be Us (lib) Friedman, Thomas L & M Mandelbaum 338:current affairs All/356
367 08/24 09/04 Genghis Khan & The Making of the Modern World (lib) Weatherford, Jack 950:history All/270
366 08/16   Mornings on Horseback (lib) McCullough, David American History 100/370
365 08/04 08/08 The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (lib) McCullough, David 920:history All/460
364 07/05   The Spirit Level (lib)     98/
363 06/09 06/14 Common Nonsense:Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance (lib) Zaitchik, Alexander 320:politics All/273
362 06/03   The Idea of America (lib) ch 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,10,C (lib) Wood, Gordon S. 973: American History 240/336
360 05/09 06/ Common Sense Economics: What everyone should know about wealth and prosperity (lib) Gwartney, Stroup, Lee, Ferrarini 330:economics All/143
358 04/25 05/26 The Myth of the Rational Market : a history of risk, reward, and delusion on Wall Street(lib) Fox, Justin 332:economics All/321
361 05/13 05/19 The Great American Stickup (lib) Scheer, Robert economics All/249
359 05/04 05/05 The Burial at Thebes (lib) Heaney, Seamus drama All/
357 04/22 05/02 The Speech (pur) Sanders, Bernie politics All/255
356 03/30 04/28 The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (lib) Palast, Greg 364:politics All/200
355 03/30 04/17 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism (lib) Chang, 330:economics All/304
354 03/17 03/24 Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (lib) Sandel, Michael J 172:moral philosophy All/269
352 02/23 03/13 The Science of Liberty : Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature (lib) Ferris, Timothy 303:science, history All/293
353 02/28 03/05 The War That Killed Achilles (lib) (p.239) Alexander, Caroline 883:literary criticism All/228
351 02/19 02/24 The Death of Conservatism (lib) Tanenhaus, Sam 320:politics All/120
350 02/19 02/20 This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women (lib) Allison, Jay & Dan Gediman, eds 170:essays All/275
349 01/19   The Triumph of Politics (lib) Stockman, David economics 66/411
348 01/14 02/09 Comeback America (lib) Walker, David M 330:economics All/212
347 01/14 01/31 What Would Jefferson Do? (lib) Hartmann, Thom politics All/275
346 01/10   The Grand Design (lib) Hawking, Stephen 530:science 98/188
345 01/10   Decision Points (lib) Bush, George W bio:memoirs 52/xxx
343   01/14 David Copperfield (iTouch) Dickens, Charles fiction All/850
339 12/01 01/04 Rebooting the American Dream (lib) Hartmann, Thom 330:politics All/203
338 12/01 01/02 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (lib) Heinlein, Robert A science fiction All/382
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344 12/08   Courage and Consequences (lib) Rove, Karl autobiography 38/xxx
342 12/08   Last child in the woods: saving our children from nature-deficit disorder (lib) Louv, Richard 155 50?/323
341 12/08 12/16 American Heroes (lib) Morgan, Edmund S American History All/258
340 12/08 12/11 Idiot America (lib) Pierce, Charles P sociology All/293
337 12/01 12/18 Secretariat (lib) Nack, William horse racing All/455
336 12/01 12/04 Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the TeaBagging of America (lib) Milbank, Dana politics All/272
335 10/28 11/01 Aftershock (lib) Reich, Robert economics All/174
334 10/18 11/13 Moral Landscape (lib) Harris, Sam evolution, ethics All/194
333 10/08 10/27 Screwed (lib) Hartmann, Thom politics All/248
332 09/29 10/05 Neuromancer (lib) Gibson, William science fiction All/278
331 09/24 09/28 The Ape House (lib) Gruen, Sara fiction All/306
330 09/16 12/07 The Greatest Show on Earth (lib) Dawkins, Richard biology, evolution All/437
329 09/03 09/08 Liar's Poker (lib) Lewis, Michael finance All/249
328 08/13 08/22 Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization (lib) Wells, Spencer ecology All/220
327 07/29 08/10 Darkness at Noon (lib) Koestler, Arthur fiction All/216
326 07/23 09/16 The Long Emergency (lib) Kunstler,James Howard apocalyptic All/307
325 07/20 08/03 Hitch 22: A Memoir (lib) Hitchens, Christopher biography All/422
324 07/08 07/20 Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto (lib) Levin, Mark R politics All/205
323 06/16   "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us" (lib) Nader, Ralph fiction 123/733
322 06/02   The Promise (lib) Alter, Jonathan current history 86/440
321 06/02 06/16 The Vanishing Face of Gaia (lib) Lovelock, James ecology All/258
319 05/24 06/30 Rules for Radicals (lib) Alinsky, Saul politics All/196
320 05/24 05/27 The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (lib) Lewis, Michael finance All/196
318 05/14 06/22 The End of Nature (lib) McKibben, Bill ecology All/185
317 05/14 05/21 Down and Out in Paris and London (lib) Orwell, George memoir All/213
316 05/01   Anthill (lib) Wilson, E.O. fiction 130/378
315 04/28 05/01 The Value of Nothing (lib) Patel, Raj economics All/219
314 04/24 05/30 The Thirteen American Arguments (lib) Fineman, Howard American History All/250
313 04/24 05/08 eaarth (lib) McKibben, Bill ecology All/212
312 04/09   The Evolution of God (lib) Wright, Robert religion 45/541
311     The Count of Monte Cristo (iTouch) Dumas, Alexander fiction All/1462
310 04/09 04/13 The Undercover Economist (lib) Harford, Tim   All/252
309 04/07 04/08 Logicomix (lib) Doxiadēs, Apostolos K.   All/344
308 03/15   The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (lib) Chabon, Michael fiction 62/659
307 03/02 04/ Freefall (lib) Stiglitz, Joseph economics All/361
306 02/20   36 Arguments for the Existence of God (lib) Goldstein, Rebecca Newberger fiction All/402
305 02/13 02/15 The Prophet's Way: Touching the Power of Life (pur) Hartmann, Thom   All/333
304 01/25   The Brenner Assignment     48/249
303 01/06   The Great Turning Korten, David   98/359
302 01/06   Meltdown (see p125 & p126, note for issues)(p25, 2nd para, loss of savings) (lib) Woods, Thomas E economics All/162
301 01/06 01/12 46 Pages: Thomas Paine, Common Sense, and the Turning Point to Independence (lib) Liell, Scott American History All/145
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300 12/21   Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (lib) Levitt, Steven D & Stephen J Dubner economics All/256
299 12/16 12/20 What the Dog Saw (and Other Adventures) (lib) Gladwell, Malcolm essays All/410
298 11/28 02/07 I Am America (And So Can You!) (lib) Colbert, Stephen humor All/229
297 11/28   Going Rogue: an American Life Palin, Sarah autobiography 114/413
296 11/19 12/08 True Compass (lib) Kennedy, Edward M. biography, Am History All/511
295 11/19 11/22 Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis (only the photos and captions) Gore, Al ecology, earth science xxx/404
294 11/12 11/20 To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders(lib) Bailyn, Bernard American History All/149
293 10/28   The Greatest Show on Earth Dawkins, Richard evolution 60/437
292 10/24 10/29 Alex & Me (lib) Pepperberg, Irene M fiction All/226
291 10/24 10/26 The Lost Symbol (lib) Brown, Dan fiction All/509
290 10/13 11/22 Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America Waldman, Steven American History, Religion All/264
289 10/08 10/16 Dinner at Mr. Jefferson's: three men, five great wines, the evening that changed America Cerami, Charles A. American History All/255
288 10/06 11/09 Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (lib) Vidal, Gore American History All/189
287 09/22 09/26 Glenn Beck's Common Sense (lib) Beck, Glenn political All/167
286 09/21 10/28 Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations (lib) Nelson, Craig American History, bio, politics All/339
285 09/1x 10/08 The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule (lib) Frank, Thomas political All/353
284 09/12 9/13 Supreme Courtship (lib) Buckley, Christopher fiction All/285
      The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It How To Get It Back Sullivan, Andrew politics 34/280
  08/06   Intelligent Thought: Science vs. the Intelligent Design Movement Brockman, John ed. science 106/256
  08/24 09/04 Sky of Stone Hickham, Homer memoir 136/571
  08/18 09/04 Light Harrison, M John fiction 37/309
  08/10 09/04

Why Him?  Why Her? (lib)

M Directors choose F Negotiators, M Explorers choose F Explorers

Fisher, Helen pop psychology 52/241
283 08/15 08/16 Me of Little Faith (lib) Black, Lewis humor All/237
282 08/14 08/23 Threshold Hartmann, Thom   All/262
281 08/10 08/14 Crazy for God (lib) Schaeffer, Frank memoir All/408
280 07/31 08/01 The Kingsnake in the Sun De Herrera, John fiction All/207
279 07/03 07/19 Lies Across America (pur) Loewen, James American History All/436
278 06/13 07/29 The American Future, A History (lib, 2x) Schama, Simon American History All/373
277 05/27 06/05 The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 (lib) Krugman, Paul economics All/191
276 05/18   Descartes' Bones (lib) Shorto, Russell history 124/253
275 05/16 06/24 The Enchantress of Florence (lib) Rushdie, Salman fiction All/349

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (pur)

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273 05/02 05/10 Outliers: The Story of Success (lib) Gladwell, Malcolm   All/299
272 04/18 04/21 Angels and Demons (lib) Brown, Dan fiction All/572
271 04/17 04/17 Doubt: A Parable (lib) Shanley, John Patrick drama All/58
270 04/14 05/07 How We Decide (lib) Lehrer, Jonah psychology All/265
269 04/14 05/02 The Conscience of a Liberal (lib) Krugman, Paul politics All/274
268 03/24 04/01 The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (lib) Darwin, Charles biography All/243
267 03/04   Dreams from My Father (lib) Obama, Barack biography 64/457
266 03/04 03/05 The Reader (lib) Schlink, Bernhard fiction All/218
265 02/26 03/03 The Watchmen (lib) Moore, Alan&D Gibbins graphic novel All/416
264 02/13 02/15 The Philosopher's Apprentice (lib) Morrow, James fiction All/411
263 02/09 03/11 Unequal Protection: Rise of Corporate Dominance & Theft of Human Rights (lib) Hartmann, Thom politics All/316
262 01/28   How to Read Literature Like a Professor (lib) Foster, Thomas C   152/296
261 01/28 01/30 The Darwin Awards, Next Evolution: Chlorinating the Gene Pool (lib) Northcutt, Wendy humor All/277
260 01/24 02/23 1776 (lib) McCullough, David American History All/297
259 01/24 01/27 We the People: A Call to Take Back America (lib) Hartmann, Thomas politics All/200
258 01/22 01/23 Dewey: The Small-Town Cat Who Touched the World (lib) Myron, Vicki hmmm All/277
2009 2009 2009 <above here>      
257 12/29 01/27 The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight (lib) Hartmann, Thomas current affairs All/370
256 12/23 12/25 Cracking the Code (lib) Hartmann, Thomas current affairs / politics All/216
255 12/22 02/03 The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (lib) Toobin, Jeffrey   All/432
254 12/04 01/12 Hot, Flat, and Crowded (lib) Friedman, Thomas L current affairs, ecology All/421
253 12/04 12/06 Duluth (lib) Vidal, Gore fiction All/214
252 11/25 12/22 Journals: 1952 - 2000 (lib) Schlesinger, Arthur M Jr memoirs All/858
251 11/25 11/26 The Last Lecture (lib) Pausch, Randy memoir All/206
250 11/19 11/21 Outsider in the House (pur) Sanders, Bernie political All/244
249 10/18 10/22 Just How Stupid Are We?: Facing the Truth about the American Voter Shenkman, Rick   All/196
248 10/17 11/24 The Monkey Wrench Gang (lib) Abbey, Edward fiction All/421
247 10/01   Forty Signs of Rain Robinson, Kim Stanley science-fiction 96/358
246 10/01 11/03 American Gods (lib) Gaiman, Neil fiction All/465
245 10/01 10/14 Stardust (lib) Gaiman, Neil fiction, fable All/238
244 09/23 10/31 Heroic Conservatism Gerson, Michael J   214/292
243 09/23 09/29 Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality (lib) Murray, Charles Education All/200
242 09/13 09/25 The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (lib) Gladwell, Malcolm Social Sciences All/294
241 09/08   Atlas Shrugged Rand, Ayn fiction 306/1168
240 09/08 09/09 Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking (lib) Gladwell, Malcolm Psychology All/265
239 08/09   God Is a Verb: Kabbalah and the practice of mystical Judaism Cooper, David A comp religion, Judaism 120/323
238 08/06 08/13 The Hammer of God (lib) Clarke, Arthur C science-fiction All/226
237 08/06 08/08 Rendezvous with Rama (lib) Clarke, Arthur C science-fiction All/274
236 07/29 08/04 Prelude to Foundation (lib) Asimov, Isaac science-fiction All/403
235 07/05 07/16 Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul (lib) Miller, Kenneth R Life Sciences All/235
234 06/27 07/12 The Revolution: A Manifesto (lib) Paul, Ron Political Science All/173
233 06/12   Limits to Growth : the 30-year update Meadows, Donella et al Economics, Ecology 106/293
232 06/12 06/17 Picture This (lib) Heller, Joseph fiction All/341
231 05/29   Ada Nabokov, Vladimir fiction 42/589
230 05/29 05/29 Belief or nonbelief? : a confrontation (lib) Eco, Umberto & Cardinal Martini   All/
229 05/24 09/21 Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (lib) Reich, Robert Political Science All/251
228 05/24 09/05 Earth in the Balance (lib) Gore, Al Ecology All/373
227 05/20 06/17 Trickster Makes This World (lib) Hyde, Lewis   All/388
226 05/20 05/23 Maps and Legends (lib) Chabon, Michael Literature & rhetoric All/222
225 05/12 08/04 Justinian's Flea Rosen, William   240/325
224 05/12 05/12 The Purpose of the Past Wood, Gordon S history 55/308
223 04/18   Cosmos Sagan, Carl 520, Astronomy  
222 04/18 04/24 Truth and Consequences : Special Comments on the Bush Administration's War on American Values Olbermann, Keith 973, NAmerican history All/172
221 04/18 04/20 A People's History of American Empire Zinn, Howard & Mike Konopacki & Paul Buhle 741, history graphical All/264
220 04/14   Tom Paine : A Political Life Keane, John biography  
219 04/14   Freethinkers : A History of American Secularism Jacoby, Susan 211, Theory of Religion 65/370
218 04/05   The Adams-Jefferson Letters : the complete correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams ed. Cappon, Lester J 973, NAmerican history  
217 04/05 04/21 American creation : triumphs and tragedies at the founding of the republic Ellis, Joseph J. 973, NAmerican history All/270
216 04/05 04/10 The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Sagan, Carl 001, Generalities All/437
215 03/12   An incomplete education Jones, Judy & W Wilson   122/662
214 03/12 05/01 Thomas Paine and the Promise of America Kaye, Harvey J. 320, Political Science All/262
213 03/12 03/16 Fight Club Palahniuk, Chuck fiction All/208
212 03/01 07/10 James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights Labunski, Richard 342, Law 69/321
211 03/01 03/13 Where Does the Money Go?: guided tour to the federal budget crisis Bittle, Scott & Jean Johnson 336, Economics All/
210 02/21 02/29 Monkey Girl : Evolution, Education, Religion and the Battle for America's Soul Humes, Edward 211, Theory of Religion All/366
209 02/21 02/23 40 Days and 40 Nights : Darwin, intelligent design, God, Oxycontin, Chapman, Matthew 345, Law, Dover ID trial All/272
208 02/09 03/02 Not in Our Classrooms - re-read from p.52 Scott, Eugenie 231, Christianity All/152
207 01/25 02/18 The Man in the Iron Mask Dumas, Alexandre fiction All/470
206 01/19   The Shock Doctrine : the Rise of Disaster Capitalism Klein, Naomi 330, Economics 58/466
205 01/07 02/02 The French Lieutenant's Woman Fowles, John fiction All/350
204 01/07 01/23 The Amber Spyglass Pullman, Philip fantasy, fiction All/465
203 01/07 01/08 Mantissa Fowles, John fiction All/196
2008 2008 2008 <above here>      
202 12/15   The Portable Atheist Hitchens, Christopher 211, Theory of Religion ?/480
201 12/11 01/0? American Gospel: God, Founding Fathers, & Making of Nation (lib) Meacham, Jon 322, Political Science All/290
200 12/11 01/05 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (lib) Taleb, Nassim Nich. 121, Causation 68/329
199 12/11 12/20 Martin Dressler (lib) Millhauser, Steven fiction All/293
198 12/11 12/14 The Subtle Knife: Part Two of His Dark Materials (lib) Pullman, Philip fantasy, fiction All/326
197 12/3 12/11 Boom! Voices of the Sixties (lib) Brokaw, Tom 973, history NAmerica All/615
196 12/1 12/2 Finding Jefferson (gift) Dershowitz, Alan ???, essay, political All/233
195 11/20 11/21 The Gospel According to the Son (lib) Mailer, Norman fiction All/242
194 11/16   Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think (lib) Hauser, Marc 591, Animals 34/257
193 11/16 11/29 The Golden Compass: Part One of His Dark Materials (lib) Pullman, Philip fantasy, fiction All/399
192 10/26 10/28 The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot (lib) Wolf, Naomi politics All/192

191

10/13

10/17

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

Hitchens, Christopher

history, biography

All/142

190

10/8

11/14

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

Draper, Robert

history

All/444

189

10/1

10/7

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

Rosenberg, Joel C.

religion, fiction

212/312

188

9/24

10/12

Haroun and the Sea of Stories (lib)

Rushdie, Salman

fiction, fable

All/211

187

9/12

9/27

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

Hedges, Chris

religion, politics

All/207

186

9/12

10/12

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

Angier, Natalie

science

50/264

185

9/12

9/13

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

Cathcart, Thomas & Daniel Klein

philosophy, humor

All/200

184

9/6

9/7

God is my Broker (lib)

Buckley, Christopher & John Tierney

satire, self-help

All/197

183

8/25

9/7

Three Men in a Boat (pur)

Jerome, Jerome K

fiction, humor

All/150

182

8/18

9/12

A Shadow in Summer (lib)

Abraham, Daniel

fiction, fantasy

30/331

181

8/11

 

Good Omens (lib)

Pratchett, Terry & Neil Gaiman

fiction

86/384

180

8/11

9/12

Blessed Unrest (lib)

Hawkens, Paul

environmentalism

??/319

179

7/24

8/19

Religious Literacy (lib)

Prothero, Stephen

religion

All/279

178

7/20

9/26

The Toilers of the Sea (lib)

Hugo, Victor

fiction

18/430

177

7/16

7/27

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

Hitchens,Christopher

religion

All/286

176

7/14

9/26

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

Dennett, Daniel

religion

88/412

175

6/18

7/16

The Assault on Reason (lib)

Gore, Al

politics

All/276

174

6/11

8/05

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (lib)

Kundera, Milan

fiction

All/236

173

6/11

6/18

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (lib)

Kundera, Milan

fiction

All/314

172

05/25

05/28

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

Eig, Jonathan

sports

All/281

171

05/19

06/11

Nana (lib)

Zola, Emile

fiction

All/470

170

05/19

05/22

Still Life with Woodpecker (lib)

Robbins, Tom

fiction

58/277

169

05/15

05/22

The Language of God (lib)

Collins, Francis

science, religion

All/275

168

05/14

05/25

Thérèse Raquin (lib)

Zola, Emile

fiction

All/256

167

05/05

 

The Castle In the Forest (lib)

Mailer, Norman

fiction

96/467

166

04/25

 

Man O'War (lib)

Ours, Dorothy

sports, horses

50/325

165

04/16

05/16

Mere Christianity (lib)

Lewis, C.S.

religion

All/227

164

03/27

 

Think and Grow Rich (lib)

Hill, Napoleon

 

145/381

163

03/21

 

The Sixth Extinction (lib)

Leakey, Richard

 

???/254

162

03/11

03/23

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (pur)

Hugo, Victor

fiction, history, French

All/509

161

03/10

04/15

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

McAuliffe, Terry

 

All/388

160

03/10

03/28

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

Rosen, Jeffrey

 

All/261

159

03/02

 

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

Dimont, Max I.

history, Judaism

72/262

158

03/03

 

Human Accomplishment (pur)

Murray, Charles

 

104/624

157

03/02

03/08

The Merchant of Venice (lib)

Shakespare, William

drama

All/94

156

02/21

 

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

Diamond, Jared

 

110/525

155

02/13

02/15

Great Justices of the Supreme Court (lib)

Aaseng, Nathan

history, American

All/153

154

01/27

02/04

The God Delusion (pur) - ***

Dawkins, Richard

religion, science

All/406

153

01/20

02/14

Boomeritis (lib) - *

Wilber, Ken

fiction

All/456

152

01/20

02/19

The Secret (lib)

Byrne, Rhonda

New Age advice

132/198

151

01/20

01/21

V for Vendetta (lib)

Moore, Alan & David Lloyd

graphic novel

All/286

150

01/13

01/15

Busting Loose from the Money Game (lib)

Scheinfeld, Robert

New Age advice

All/225

2007 2007 2007 <above here>      

149

12/27

01/01

Flashman at the Charge (lib)

Fraser, G M

fiction

92/288

148

12/22

12/28

A Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife (lib)

Quinn, Daniel & Tom Whalen

fiction

All/136

147

12/14

 

The New Life (lib)

Pamuk, Orhan

fiction

128/296

146

11/28

12/03

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

Jacobson, Sid & E Colon

 

All/131

145

10/30

 

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

Everitt, Anthony

history, ancient

36/325

144

11/10

11/25

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

Poundstone, Wm

trading/gambling/math

All/329

143

10/30

01/11

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

Isaacson, Walter

history, biography

All/511

142

10/20

12/10

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

Eldredge, Niles

psychology, evolution

All/258

141

10/16

 

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

Brands, H W

history, biography

28/716

140

10/17

10/20

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

Chomsky, Noam

 

28/266

139

10/05

10/28

The "God" Part of the Brain (lib)

Alper, Matthew

religion, evolution

All/175

138

10/05

10/07

Imperial Ambitions (lib)

Chomsky, Noam

political science

All/201

137

10/05

10/30

From Beirut to Jerusalem (lib)

Friedman, Thomas

history, MidEast current

87/530

136

10/05

10/05

A Contract with God (lib) - *

Eisner, Will

fiction, graphic novel

All/188

135

10/03

10/29

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

Nicholi, Armand Jr.

theory of religion

80/244

134

10/03

10/08

Don't Think of an Elephant (lib)

Lakoff, George

political science

All/124

133

9/25

12/26

A History of the End of the World (bor)

Kirsch, Jonathan

Bible

92/321

132

9/25

10/21

The Creation (lib)

Wilson, Edward O

economics (sic)

All/168

131

9/24

9/25

Letter to a Christian Nation (bor)

Harris, Sam

religion

All/92

130

9/20

10/10

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

Harris, Robert

fiction, historic Rome

All/305

129

9/1

9/28

The Revenge of Gaia (lib) - *

Lovelock, James

earth science

All/165

128

8/7

 

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (pur)

Clarke, Susanna

fiction

354/1000

127

8/13

8/16

An Inconvenient Truth (lib) - *

Gore, Al

earth science

All/323

126

7/18

8/8

The Ages of GAIA (lib)

Lovelock, James

earth science

74/237

125

7/18

8/20

Misquoting Jesus (lib)

Erdman, Bart

religion, Christianity

All/227

124

7/20

7/25

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

Thompson, Hunter S.

political/political, memoir

All/508

123

6/24

7/17

Ideas That Changed the World (lib)

Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe

history

115/391

122

5/30

6/12

The Conscience of a Liberal (lib)

Wellstone, Paul

political, biography

All/216

121

5/17

7/???

A Little History of the World (lib) - *

Gombrich, E. H.

history

All/284

120

5/17

6/6

What We Believe But Cannot Prove (lib)

ed. Brockman, John

essays, science

All/252

119

5/17

5/27

Freakonomics - **

Levitt, Steven & Stephen Dubner

economics

All/232

118

5/15

5/25

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

Baigent, Michael

religious historical speculation

All/286

117

4/27

5/27

Personal Mythology: The Psychology of Your Evolving Self

Feinstein, David & Stanley Krippner

psychology, myth

32/247

116

4/2

4/10

Truth and Fiction in The DaVinci Code (lib)

Ehrman, Bart D

religion,Christianity

All/197

115

3/27

 

Dianetics (pur, $.25)

Hubbard, L. Ron

?

42/614

114

3/25

4/22

1776 (lib)

McCullough, David

history, American

159/294

113

3/4

3/25

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

Wilson, William S

biography

84/287

112

2/23

3/8

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

Dumas, Alexandre pere

fiction, Fr q-histor

All/1462

111

2/1

2/26

The World Is Flat (lib)

Friedman,Thomas L

socio-economics

All/473

110

2/12

2/16

Other Voices, Other Rooms (lib)

Capote, Truman

fiction, memoir

36/231

109

2/1

2/10

Scandalmonger (lib)

Safire, William

fiction, Am history

97/488

108

1/29

1/29

The Case for a Creator (lib)

Smolen, Lee

religion

50/340

107

1/17

1/22

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

Harris, Sam

religion

All/291

106

1/6/
2006

1/9

The Truth (with jokes) (lib)

Franken, Al

humor, political

All/336

2006 2006 2006 <above here>      

105

12/28

1/2

When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops (lib)

Carlin, George

humor

All/295

104

12/19

 

Intelligence In Nature: An Inquiry Into Knowledge (lib)

Narby, Jeremy

anthropology

40/243

103

12/15

12/26

Oryx and Crake (lib)

Atwood,Margaret

fiction, futuristic

All/376

102

12/15

12/25

The Planets (lib)

Sobel, Dava

science?

150+/254

101

12/8

 

A Wizard of Earthsea (lib)

LeGuin, Ursula K

science fiction

/198

100

12/8

1/28

Whose Bible Is It? (lib)

Pelikan, Jaroslav

religion, bible

All/274

99

12/8

12/19

Zorro (lib)

Allende, Isabel

fiction

All/390

98

12/6

1/26

Kepler's Witch (lib) - *

Connor, James A

science, biography

All/364

97

12/6

12/27

A Song for Lya (lib)

Martin, George R

science fiction

141/208

96

12/6

 

Origins (lib)

Tyson, Neil deG

science, cosmology

/321

95

11/27

11/27

The FairTax Book (lib)

Boortz, Neil

politics, taxation

All/200

94

11/16

11/17

Ishmael (lib) - ***

Quinn, Daniel

fiction, GAIAn

All/262

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

93

10/8

10/10

Gilgamesh (lib)

Mitchell, Stephen (trans.)

poem, epic

All/292

92

10/5

10/7

Questioning the Millennium (lib)

Gould, Stephen Jay

essays, numbers

All/179

91

10/5

 

Will They Ever Trust Us Again? (lib)

Moore, Michael

politics, Iraq war

40/218

90

9/15

9/19

Heroes of History (lib) - *

Durant, Will

history

All/329

89

 

 

Our Oriental Heritage (pur)

Durant, Will

history, early

444/938

88

7/30

7/31

State of Fear (lib)

Crichton, Michael

fiction, eco-terrorism

All/603

87

 

 

Moral Politics (lib)

Lakoff, George

politics, psychology

 

86

6/16

6/17

The Trojan Women (lib)

Euripides

classic drama

All/33

85

6/5

 

The Cartoon Guide to Physics (lib)

Gonick, L & Art Huffman

physics, humor

24/207

84

6/5

 

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

Gonick, Larry

humor, world history

All/303

83

5/27

6/17

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

Roizen, Michael F & Mehmet Oz

health

110/400

82

5/27

 

Caro's Book of Poker Tells (pur)

Caro, Mike

poker

84/309

81

5/27

 

The Theory of Poker (pur)

Sklansky, David

poker

All/292

80

5/27

 

The Psychology of Poker (pur)

Schoonmaker, Alan M

poker

/315

79

5/

 

The Tao of Poker (pur)

Phillips, Larry W

poker

/240

78

5/27

5/27

The Snow Queen (lib)

Andersen, Hans Christian

fairy tale

All/96

77

5/18

5/22

The Holy (lib)

Quinn, Daniel

fiction, animism

All/412

76

5/5

5/10

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

Preston, A S & G Dinkin

memoir, gambling

All/270

75

5/3

 

Time: A Traveler's Guide (lib)

Pickover, Clifford A

 

0/280

74

5/3

6/17

The Stars of Heaven (lib)

Pickover, Clifford A

astronomy

50/225

73

5/2

5/15

The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time (lib)

Durant, Will

essays, history

All/118

72

5/2

5/11

The Lessons of History (lib)

Durant, Will

essays, history

All/102

71

4/27

5/2

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

Gonick, Larry

humor, world history

All/305

71

5/2

5/3

I, Robot (lib)

Asimov, Isaac

science fiction

All/274

70

4/20

6/7

The Human Story (lib)

Davis, James C

history

All/440

69

4/20

5/10

Holy Blood, Holy Grail (lib) - *

Baigent, M & R Leigh

religious historical speculation

All/475

68

4/17

4/24

The Three Musketeers (lib) - ****

Dumas, Alexandre pere

fiction, French historical

All/724

67

4/13

 

God's Politics (lib)

Wallis, Jim

politics, religion

44/374

66

4/08

4/27

Inept:Impaired:Overwhelmed (lib)

Lepp, Bil

fiction, humor

All/163

65

4/08

4/17

Foucault's Pendulum (pur) - *

Eco, Umberto

fiction

All/641

64

4/06

4/10

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

Gonick, Larry

humor, world history

All/360

63

3/23

4/10

Wise Men and Their Tales (lib)

Wiesel, Elie

essays, religious

200/336

62

3/23

3/24

Odysseus: A Life (lib)

Beye, Charles Rowan

fiction, classical

All/192

61

 

2/28

Humankind (lib)

Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe

historical essay

All/180

60

 

 

The Origin of Satan (lib)

Pagels, Elaine

historical, religious

40/184

59

 

 

Bushworld (lib)

Dowd, Maureen

humor, political satire

263/523

58

2/4

2/10

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

Trudeau, G B

humor, political satire

All/220

57

2/1

2/14

A Devil's Chaplain (lib)

Dawkins, Richard

biology, Evolutionary, essays

All/248

56

2/1

2/7

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

Boorstin, Daniel J

historical, essays

All/199

55

1/??

1/31

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

Cantor, Norman F

history, classical

All/232

54

1/11/
2005

1/16

Inside the Animal Mind (lib)

Page, George

science, ethology(animal behavior)

All/264

2005 2005 2005 <above here>      

53

12/26

1/2

Hidalgo and Other Stories (lib)

Hopkins, Frank

fiction (old West), memoir

All/212

52

12/12

 

Wealth and Democracy (lib)

Phillips, Kevin

Amer history, economico-political

 

51

12/18

12/23

Darwin Awards II (lib)

Northcutt, Wendy

humor, satire

All/221

50

12/20

12/21

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

Watterson, Bill

humor, comics

All/128

49

12/3

12/4

Homegrown Democrat (lib)

Keillor, Garrison

memoir-essay, political

All/238

48

11/27

11/30

The Calvin & Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book (lib)

Watterson, Bill

humor, comics

All/128

47

11/27

11/30

Yeager (lib)

Yeager, Chuck & Janos, Leo

Biography, American, mid-20C, airflight

All/331

46

11/12

02/04

The Well-Educated Mind (lib)

Bauer, Susan Wise

 

sc220/404

45

11/12

02/04

The Closing of the Western Mind (lib)

Freeman, Charles

History, Christianity & science

215/340

44

11/10

11/10

Bridge for Dummies (lib)

Kantar, Eddie

Games, Bridge

1,8,9

43

11/10

11/10

25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know (lib)

Seagram & Smith

Games, Bridge

1,2,3

42

10/19

10/22

The Digital Fortress (lib)

Brown, Dan

Fiction, Cryptography

All/372

41

10/15

10/19

Walter Benjamin and the Dairy Queen (lib)

McMurtry, Larry

Memoir, Social Comment

All/204

40

10/4

10/9

Off Camera (lib)

Koppel, Ted

Memoir, Modern History

All/320

39

9/27

 

Inner Work (own)

Johnson, Robert A

Psychology, InDepth

 

38

9/30

 

Quicksilver (lib)

Stephenson, Neal

Fiction,

152/916

37

9/8

9/25

Seabiscuit (lib) (again) - **

Hillenbrand, Laura

History & Sports, America 1930's

All/483

36

 

9/20

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

Jordan, Robert

Fiction, Fantasy

All/980

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

8/20/5

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

 

Reading List

# Title Author Type Pages GB?
10

America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

Carson, Ben dc 973 history ? 196 yes
9 Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government Newsom, Gavin dc 352 236 yes
2 The Malign Hand of the Markets Staddon, John ??? 237 no
4 Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us Quiggin, John dc 330 economics 246 no
6 A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters Nelson, Scott Reynolds dc 338 economics 254 yes
8 The Age of the Unthinkable Ramo, Joshua Cooper dc 973 270 yes
3

This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

Reinhart, Carmen N & Kenneth S Rogoff dc 338 economics 291/392 yes
1

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

Reiss, Tom dc 944 330 yes
5 The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire Panitch, Leo & Sam Gindin dc 330 economics 340 no
7 Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Govt - and the Reckoning That Lies Ahead Rothkopf, David dc 322 political science 364 yes
12 Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance Roubini, Nouriel dc 338 economics 368 yes
11 This Explains Everything ed.: Brockman, John dc 500 402 yes

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