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      This is simply an inverse chronologic list of the books I’ve
      read since mid 1996, when I started keeping track.  It does not
      include reference books,
      cookbooks, travel guides, and such.  I don’t necessarily
      recommend these books.  See
      Books that I Recommend for the ones I
      liked.
       2019
      Contact, by  Carl Sagan.Leviathan Wakes, by James S.A. Corey.The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir, by Steffanie Strathdee.Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities, by Bettany Hughes.Borrowed Time: The Science of How and Why We Age, by Sue Armstrong.The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War, by Joanne B. Freeman.The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-term Health, by Justin Sonnenburg.Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom, by Katherine Eban.Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari.The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, by Shoshana Zuboff.Foundation’s Triumph, by David Brin.Foundation and Chaos, by Greg Bear.Foundation’s Fear, by Gregory Benford.Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, by Roger McNamee.Pebble in the Sky, by Isaac Asimov.The Currents of Space, by Isaac Asimov.The Stars, Like Dust, by Isaac Asimov.Robots and Empire, by Isaac Asimov.The Robots of Dawn, by Isaac Asimov.The Naked Sun, by Isaac Asimov.The Caves of Steel, by Isaac Asimov.Foundation and Earth, by Isaac Asimov.The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire, by David E. Sanger.The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai.Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, by David W. Blight.Second Foundation, by Isaac Asimov.Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov.Foundation, by Isaac Asimov.Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World, by Tom Wright.Forward the Foundation, by Isaac Asimov.We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights, by Adam Winkler.The Collapsing Empire, by John Scalzi.King Leopold’s Ghost, by Adam Hochschild.The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, by Deborah Blum. 2018
      Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America, by Cass R. Sunstein.How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, by Jason Stanley.Impeachment: An American History, by Jeffrey A. Engel.Prelude to Foundation, by Isaac Asimov.How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveller, by Ryan North.The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers.The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, by Stephen Greenblatt.Circe, by Madeline Miller.14, by Peter Clines.Artemis, by Andy Weir.The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World, by Simon Winchester.All These Worlds, by Dennis E. Taylor.For We Are Many, by Dennis E. Taylor.We Are Legion We Are Bob, by Dennis E. Taylor.Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them, by Jennifer Wright.How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics, by Michael Pollan.Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood.The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak.White Dog Fell from the Sky, by Eleanor Morse.Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, by Steve Coll.Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, by Steve Coll.Enemies: A History of the FBI, by Tim Weiner.Rise and Kill First: The Inside Story and Secret Operations of Israel’s Assassination Program, by Ronen Bergman.How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future, by Steven Levitsky.The Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson.All the King’s Men, by Robert Penn Warren. 2017
      How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror, by Reza Aslan.The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee.The Best and the Brightest, by David Halberstam.A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS, by Robert F. Worth.A Wrinkle in Time, by L’Madeleine Engle.In the Time of the Butterflies, by Julia Alvarez.A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age, by Rob Goodman, Jimmy Soni, narrated by Jonathan Yen.Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening, by Manal al-Sharif, narrated by Lamecce Issaq.Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, by Tim Weiner.All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr.Water for Elephants: A Novel, by Sara Gruen.Uprooted, by Naomi Novik.The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, by David Halberstam.American War, by Omar El Akkad.New York 2140, by Kim Stanley Robinson. [Audible]Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, by Jane Mayer. [Audible]Way Station, by  Clifford D. Simak.Restless: An Aurora Rising Short Story, by G. S. Jennsen.Shadow Over Avalon, by C.N. Lesley.Dune Messiah, by Frank Herbert.The Orphan Master’s Son: A Novel of North Korea, by Adam Johnson. [Audible]The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, by David Grann, narrated by Mark Deakins.The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads, by Tim Wu, narrated by Marc Cashman.The Last Days of Night, by Graham Moore, narrated by Johnathan McClain.An Officer and a Spy, by Robert Harris.Dune, by Frank Herbert.The Woman on the Orient Express, by Lindsay Jayne Ashford.The Devourers, by Indra Das, narrated by Shishir Kurup, Meera Simhan.The Atrocity Archives, by Charles Stross.Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky.The Hercules Text, by Jack McDevitt. 2016
      A Talent for War, by Jack McDevitt.Seeker, by Jack McDevitt.The Grandmaster: A short essay on the Philosopher Roger Zelazny, by Mark O. Keen.The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles, 1-10, by Roger Zelazny.Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides, narrated by Kristoffer Tabori.Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny .Stories of Your Life and Others, by Ted Chiang.The Fifth Season, by N. K. Jemisin.The Prefect, by Alastair Reynolds, narrated by John Lee.Julian, by Gore Vidal, narrated by Charlton Griffin.For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World’s Favorite Drink and Changed History, by Sarah Rose.A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel, by Amor Towles, narrated by Nicholas Guy Smith.1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Turning Points in Ancient History), by Eric H. Cline.Dictator: A Novel, by Robert Harris, narrated by David Rintoul.The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, by Peter Frankopan, narrated by Laurence Kennedy.Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome, by Robert Harris, narrated by Simon Jones.War and Remembrance, by Herman Wouk, narrated by Kevin Pariseau.The Passage, by Justin Cronin, narrated by Scott Brick, Adenrele Ojo, Abby Craden.Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard, by Lawrence M. Schoen.Red Rising, by Pierce Brown, narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds.The Phantom Major, by Virginia Cowles, narrated by Robert Whitfield.Pompeii: A Novel, by Robert Harris, narrated by John Lee.The Winds of War, by Herman Wouk, narrated by Kevin Pariseau.Hitler’s Holy Relics, by Sidney Kirkpatrick, narrated by Charles Stransky.The Jedburghs: The Secret History of the Allied Special Forces, France 1944, by Will Irwin, narrated by Patrick Lawlor.The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb, by Neal Bascomb, narrated by Chris Sorensen.Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World, by Bruce Schneier.Italian Shoes, by Henning Mankell.Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies, by Ben Macintyre.SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, by Mary Beard.In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire, by Robert G. Hoyland, narrated by Peter Ganim.This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, by Naomi Klein.The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government, by David Talbot, narrated by Peter Altschuler. 2015
      The Golem and the Jinni: A Novel, by Helene Wecker.Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door, by Brain Krebs.Ancillary Justice, by Anne Leckie.Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War, by Andrew J. Bacevich, narrated by Sean Runnette.The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789, by Joseph J. Ellis.Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, by Rick Perlstein, narrated by Stephen R. Thorne.Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, narrated by Adjoa Andoh.Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, by David Shafer.Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age, by Jack Copeland.The Water Knife, by Paolo Bacigalupi, narrated by Almarie Guerra .The Cider House Rules, by John Irving, narrated by Grover Gardner.Aurora, by Kim Stanley Robinson, narrated by Kim Stanley Robinson.Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel, narrated by Simon Vance.Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson.The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu (Author), Ken Liu (Translator).A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller Jr..The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, by Tim Wu.The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch, by Lewis Dartnell.Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel, narrated by Simon Slater.The Swimmer, by John Cheever.Orfeo, by Richard Powers.Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel, narrated by Kirsten Potter.Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, by Johann Hari, narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds.Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free, by Héctor Tobar. 2014
      The Peripheral, by William Gibson.Burmese Days, by George Orwell.The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, by Tom Reiss. [Audible]Lock In, by John Scalzi, narrated by Wil Wheaton.The Betrayers: A Novel, by David Bezmozgis, narrated by Christopher Lane.Pay Any Price, by James Risen.State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration, by James Risen.Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists: Unleashing the Power of Financial Markets to Create Wealth and Spread Opportunity, by Raghuram G. Rajan, Luigi Zingales.1Q84, by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel, narrated by Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett.Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation, by Edward Chancellor.Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism, by Sheldon S. Wolin.A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, by Anthony Marra, narrated by Colette Whitaker.Gifts: Annals of the Western Shore, Book 1, by Ursula K. Le Guin, narrated by Jim Colby.Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, by Eric Schlosser, narrated by Scott Brick.The Last Question, by Issac AsimovLawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East, by Scott Anderson.The Mother Tongue - English And How It Got That Way, by Bill Bryson.The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, by Simon Winchester.Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance, by Julia Angwin.The Man Who Loved China, by Simon Winchester.1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann.The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt.Breakfast at Tiffany’s, by Truman Capote, narrated by Michael C. Hall.Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol Dweck, narrated by Marguerite Gavin.The Circle, by Dave Eggers, narrated by Dion Graham.The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human, by V. S. Ramachandran, narrated by David Drummond.The Investor’s Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between, by William J. Bernstein.Flash Boys, by Michael Lewis, narrated by Dylan Baker.Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?, by Alan Weisman, narrated by Adam Grupper.The Martian, by Andy Weir, narrated by R. C. Bray.Why Nations Fail, by Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson.Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, by V.S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee, narrated by Neil Shah.Pushing Ice, by Alastair Reynolds, narrated by John Lee.2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke, narrated by Dick Hill.Downbelow Station, by C. J. Cherryh, narrated by Brian Troxell.A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, by Stacy Schiff. 2013
      Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain, by Antonio Damasio.Among Others, by Jo Walton, narrated by Katherine Kellgren.Foundation’s Edge, by Isaac Asimov, narrated by Scott Brick.The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman, narrated by Neil Gaiman.Cyteen, by C. J. Cherryh, narrated by Gabra Zackman.To Say Nothing of the Dog: Or How We Found the Bishop’s Bird Stump at Last, by Connie Willis, narrated by Steven Crossley.Roadside Picnic, by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky.Reamde, by Neal Stephenson, narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner.Power Foods for the Brain: An Effective 3-Step Plan to Protect Your Mind and Strengthen Your Memory, by Neal Barnard.Ulysses, by James Joyce, narrated by Jim Norton.MaddAddam, by Margaret Atwood, narrated by Bernadette Dunne, Bob Walter, Robbie Daymond.Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning, by Benjamin K. Bergen[BSP 94]The Infatuations, by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, narrated by Justine Eyre.Intelligence of Apes and Other Rational Beings, by Duane M. Rumbaugh, David A. Washburn.Use of Weapons, by Iain M. Banks.Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell, narrated by Scott Brick, Cassandra Campbell, Kim Mai Guest, Kirby Heyborne, John Lee, Richard Matthews.The Best American Short Stories 2012, edited by Tom Perrotta, Heidi Pitlor [TTBOOK]All Clear, by Connie Willis, narrated by Katherine Kellgren.Blackout, by Connie Willis, narrated by Katherine Kellgren.Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThirty-Three Teeth, by Colin Cotteril.The Coroner’s Lunch, by Colin Cotterill.The Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans, by Plutarch. [Audible]The Player of Games, by Iain M. Banks, narrated by Peter Kenny.Consider Phlebas, by Iain M. Banks, narrated by Peter Kenny.Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver, narrated by Barbara Kingsolver.Gilgamesh, translated by Stephen Mitchell, narrated by George Guidall.Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art, by Laney Salisbury, Aly Sujo, narrated by Marty Peterson.The Barbarian Nurseries, by Héctor Tobar, narrated by Frankie J. Alvarez.The Chronoliths, by Robert Charles Wilson, narrated by Oliver Wyman.The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, narrated by Steven Crossley.Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson, narrated by Scott Brick.2666, by Roberto Bolaño. [Audible] 2012
      Deliverance from the Little Big Horn: Doctor Henry Porter and Custer’s Seventh Cavalry, by Joan Nabseth Stevenson.The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami.The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux, Mireille Ribiere.The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, narrated by David Horovitch.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translated by Simon Armitage, narrated by Bill Wallis.Candide, by Voltaire, narrated by Andrew Sachs.Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler, narrated by Frank Muller.Tao Te Ching: A New English Version, by Lao Tzu, translated and narrated by Stephen Mitchell.Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, by Sherry Turkle.The Mailbox, by Audrey Shafer.Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, by Naomi Oreskes.Cleopatra: A Life, by Stacy Schiff.Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson.Madame Pamplemousse and Her Incredible Edibles, by Rupert Kingfisher.A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles DickensThe Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science--and Reality, by Chris Mooney.Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil, by Tom Mueller.The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson.Philosophical Investigations, by Ludwig Wittgenstein.The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, by James D. Hornfischer.Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace.The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver.Love Songs, by Sara Teasdale.Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, by John Le Carré. 2011
      Queen of Kings, by Maria Dahvana Headley.A Lion Among Men, by Gregory Maguire.A Bend in the River, by V.S. Naipaul.The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi.Son of a Witch: Volume Two in The Wicked Years, by Gregory Maguire.The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss.Coalescent, by Stephen Baxter.The Difference Engine, by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst.After Dark, by Haruki Murakami.How to Live Safely in A Science Fictional Universe, by Charles Yu.Embassytown, by China Mieville.Ratner’s Star, by Don DeLillo.The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being, by Daniel J. Siegel.The Body Has a Mind of Its Own, by Sandra Blakeslee, Matthew Blakeslee.How Risky Is It, Really?, by David Ropeik.Stabilizing An Unstable Economy, by Hyman P. Minsky.Paris Was Ours, by Penelope Rowlands.The Flâneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris, by Edmund White.Nocturnes: five stories of music and nightfall, by Kazuo Ishiguro.On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not, by Robert Burton.Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell.Apes, Language, and the Human Mind, by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Stuart G. Shanker, Talbot J. Taylor.Taking Science To School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8, by Richard Duschl et al.Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro.Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation, by Michael Zielenziger.Kanzi’s Primal Language: The Cultural Initiation of Primates into Language, by Pär Segerdahl, William Fields, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh.The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, by Steven Pinker.A Thousand Days of Wonder: A Scientist’s Chronicle of His Daughter’s Developing Mind, by Charles Fernyhough.The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories, by Philip K. Dick.Brain Gender, by Melissa Hines.Paycheck And Other Classic Stories, by Philip K. Dick.The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans, by Stanley I. Greenspan, Stuart Shanker.Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, by Yiyun Li. 2010
      The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran.Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else, by Geoff Colvin.Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future, by Robert Reich.Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner.My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey, by Jill Bolte Taylor.Mind In Society, by Lev Vygotsky.A Man Without Words, by Susan Schaller.Thought and Language, by Lev Vygotsky.The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, by Michael Chabon.In Spite of the Gods, by Edward Luce.Chaos: Making a New Science, by James Gleick.The Boat: Stories, by Nam Le.The Philosophical Baby, by Alison Gopnik.Complete Guide To Single Malt Scotch, by Michael Jackson.Nemesis, by Chalmers Johnson.The Sorrows of Empire, by Chalmers Johnson.Treating the "Untreatable", by Ira Steinman.Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization, by Steven Solomon.Napoleon’s Egypt, by Juan Cole.Food Not Lawns, by Heather Flores.Natural Experiments of History, edited by Jared Diamond and James Robinson.Invisible History: Afghanistan’s Untold Story, by Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould.Blowback, by Chalmers Johnson.Lipstick Jihad, by Azadeh Moaveni.My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes, edited by Lila Azam Zanganeh.Prosperity Without Growth, by Tim Jackson.Euripides II: The Cyclops and Heracles, Iphigenia in Tauris, Helen, by Euripides, edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore.Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow.Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, by Margaret Atwood.The Road, by Cormac McCarthy.Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, by Euripides, translated by David Grene. 2009
      Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, Heracleidae, Hippolytus, by Euripides, translated by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore.FIASCO: Blood in the Water on Wall Street, by Frank Partnoy.The Other Wind, by Ursula K. Le Guin.Tales From Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin.Tehanu, by Ursula K. Le Guin.The Farthest Shore, by Ursula K. Le Guin.The Tombs of Atuan, by Ursula K. Le Guin.A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin.The Killing of Worlds, by Schott Westerfeld.The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots, by Irene Maxine Pepperberg.This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff.Iconoclast, by Gregory Berns.The Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood.The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer.The death of conservatism, by Sam Tanenhaus.Don’t Think of an Elephant, by George Lakoff.Farewell to the Master, by Harry Bates.Anathem, by Neal Stephenson.The Last Season, by Eric Blehm.The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008, by Paul Krugman.Street Fighters, by Kate Kelly.Fool’s Gold, by Gillian Tett.The Years of Talking Dangerously, by Geoffrey Nunberg.The Political Mind, by George Lakoff.World Without End, by Ken Follett.How to Win a Cosmic War, by Reza Aslan.Too Big to Fail: The Hazards of Bank Bailouts, by Gary Stern, Ron Feldman.Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, by Liaquat Ahamed.An Autobiography, by Mohandas Gandhi.Two Billion Cars, by Daniel Sperling and Deborah Gordon. 2008
      Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, by Mark Lynas.Worms Eat My Garbage, by Mary Appelhof.East Wind, Rain, by Caroline Paul.Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge.The Risen Empire, by Scott Westerfeld.The Three Trillion Dollar War : The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Linda J. Blimes.Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What’s at Stake for American Power, by Mark Schapiro.The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman.The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett.Second Foundation, by Isaac Asimov.Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov.Foundation, by Isaac Asimov.The Fountains of Paradise, by Arthur C. Clark.The Peace War, by Vernor Vinge.The Spies of Warsaw, by Alan Furst.All the President’s Men, by Bob Woodward.The Nine, by Jeffrey Toobin.Freakonomics Rev Ed, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.The Digital Photography Book, by Scott Kelby.Internal Combustion, by Edwin Black.Total Solar Eclipses and How to Observe Them, by Martin Mobberley.Eclipse!, by Philip S. Harrington.Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths, by Benjamin K. Sovacool.The Lemon Tree, by Sandy Tolan.The Enemy of Nature, by Joel Kovel. 2007
      Titan, by Stephen Baxter.Annals of the Former World, by John McPhee.Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell.Understanding Terror Networks, by Marc Sageman.Natural Beekeeping, by Ross Conrad.Bones of the Moon, by Jonathan Carroll.First Lessons in Beekeeping, by DadantCritical Mass, by Philip Ball.The Upanishads, translated by Juan Mascaró.Soul Mountain, by Gao Xingjian.After the Deluge, by Chris Carlsson.The Prestige, by Christopher Priest.Drawing the Line, by Steven M. Wise.Bread, by Jeffrey Hamelman.Aeschylus II, by Aeschylus, translated by S.G. Benardete and David Grene.Finding George Orwell in Burma, by Emma Larkin.Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes, by Frans de Waal.The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-century Science, Including the Original Papers, by Alan Lightman.Hell and High Water, by Joseph Romm.Bhagavad Gita, translated by Juan Mascaro.The Humanure Handbook, by Joe Jenkins.Empire, by Niall Ferguson.Plug-in Hybrids, by Sherry Boschert.Life of Pi, by Yann Martel.Oresteia, by Aeschylus, translated Richmond Lattimore.The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.Allergy-Free Gardening, by Thomas L. Ogren.Water Storage Tanks, Cisterns, Aquifers, and Ponds, by Art Ludwig.Prometheus Bound, by Aeschylus, Scully, Herrington.The Penelopiad, by Margaret Atwood.Stalking the Wild Taboo, by Garrett Hardin.The Bread Book, by Thom Leonard.Forging, by John Jernberg.The Bread Builders: Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens, by Daniel Wing, Alan Scott.Build Your Own Earth Oven, by Kiko Denzer.Farmers of Forty Centuries Of Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan, by D. F. H. King. 2006
      Solar House, by Terry Galloway.Euripides’ Hippolytos, retold by Sirish Rao.The Woodburners Encyclopedia, by Jay Shelton. AmazonThe Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown.Cradle to Cradle, by William McDonough, Michael Braungart.Unweaving the Rainbow, by Richard Dawkins.Rocket Mass Heaters, by Ianto Evans and Leslie Jackson.Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet, by James Mann.Courtyards, by John S. Reynolds.Meeting the Other Crowd: The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland, by Eddie Lenihan.Idoru, by William Gibson.Superbia!: 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods, by Dan Chiras.Naomi, by Junichiro Tanizaki.Tales Before Tolkien, by Douglas A. Anderson.Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson.Saving Seeds: The Gardener’s Guide to Growing and Storing Vegetable and Flower Seeds, by Marc Rogers.Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold.The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan.Peacemaking among Primates, by Frans de Waal.Manifesto for a New World Order, by George Monbiot.Godless Constitution: The Case against Religious Correctness, by Isaac Kramnick.Natural Swimming Pools, by Michael Littlewood.Rattling the Cage, by Steven M. Wise.Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood.Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond. 2005
      The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush, by Peter Singer.Collapse of Complex Societies, by Joseph A. Tainter.Fab, by Neil Gershenfeld.The Innovator’s Dilemma, by Clayton Christensen.Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, by Janine M. Benyus.Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, by Philip K. Dick.Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays, by J. R. R. Tolkien.Systemantics, by John Gall.In Other Words, by Christopher J. Moore.The Girl Who Played Go, by Shan Sa.The Speed of Dark, by Elizabeth Moon.Gilgamesh, translated by Stephen Mitchell.The Complete Essays, by Michel de Montaigne.Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code, by Bart Ehrman.The curious incident of the dog in the night-time, by Mark Haddon.Einstein’s Dreams, by Alan Lightman.Redemolished, by Alfred Bester.The Pig Who Sang to the Moon, by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson.The Demolished Man, by Alfred Bester. 2004
      Diffusion of Innovations, by Everett Rogers.Synthajoy, by D. G. Compton.Hominids, by Robert J. Sawyer.Major Barbara, by George Bernard Shaw.Small Is Beautiful, Economics As If People Mattered, by E.F. Schumacher.Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David Luke (Translator).Jeff Duntemann’s Wi-Fi Guide, by Jeff Duntemann.Wardriving: Drive, Detect, Defend, by Chris Hurley.The Dogs of Babel, by Carolyn Parkhurst.Target Iraq, by Norman Solomon and Reese Erlich.Night of Many Dreams, by Gail Tsukiyama.The Language of the Night, by Ursula K. Le Guin.The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin.We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin.Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal, by Jared Diamond.What Liberal Media?: The Truth about Bias and the News, by Eric Alterman.Albert Einstein: A Biography, by Albrecht Fölsing, Ewald Osers (Translator).A World Restored, by Henry Kissinger.Postfix: The Definitive Guide, by Kyle D. Dent.Retooling, by Rosalind Williams.No Exit and Three Other Plays, by Jean-Paul Sartre.Thus Spoke Zarathustra: a book for all and none, by Friedrich Nietzsche.War Talk, by Arundhati Roy.Training for Endurance, by Philip Maffetone.Applied Cryptography, by Bruce Schneier. 2003
      Kerberos, by Jason Garman.Building Internet Firewalls, by Elizabeth Zwicky, et al.Practical Photovoltaics, by Richard J. Komp.The New Doublespeak, by William Lutz.The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by Malcolm Gladwell.Natural Plaster Book: Earth, Lime, and Gypsum Plasters for Natural Homes, by Cedar Rose Guelberth.Quarantine, by Greg Egan.It’s a Free Country, by Danny Goldberg, Victor Goldberg, Robert Greenwald.Anil’s Ghost, by Michael Ondaatje.Michelangelo, by Gilles Néret.Globalization and Its Discontents, by Joseph E. Stiglitz.Nice Guys Finish Seventh, by Ralph Keyes.Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy, by Ted Nace.(newly published version of earlier read The American Invention, with additional chapters)
Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon, by Robert Fisk.The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, by Greg Palast.High and Mighty: SUVs: The World’s Most Dangerous Vehicles, by Keith Bradsher.The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood.Building With Vision: Optimizing and Finding Alternatives to Wood, by Dan Imhoff.Flatlander, by Larry Niven.The End of Time, by Julian Barbour.Entanglement: the greatest mystery in physics, by Amir Aczel.What Nietzsche Really Said, by Robert Solomon and Kathleen Higgins.The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives, by Zbigniew K. Brzezinski.The Journey to the East, by Hermann Hesse.American Gods, by Neil Gaiman.The Clan of the Cave Bear, by Jean M. Auel. 2002
      Ahab’s Wife, by Sena Jeter Naslund.Peace on Earth, by Stanislaw Lem.9-11, by Noam Chomsky.Div, grad, curl, and all that, by H.M. Schey.Create an Oasis with Greywater, by Art Ludwig.The Trial, by Franz Kafka.Walking on Fire, by Beverly Bell.Quaternions and rotation sequences, by Jack B. Kuipers.Animal Liberation, by Peter Singer.Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since World War II, by William Blum.The myth of Sisyphus, and other essays, by Albert Camus.The Stranger, by Albert Camus.Flatterland, by Ian Stewart.Modern Physics, by Paul A. Tipler and Ralph A. Llewellyn.Differential Equations & Linear Algebra, by Jerry Farlow, James E. Hall, Jean Marie McDill, and Beverly H. West.Disturbing the Peace, by Vaclav Havel.The Myth of the Liberal Media, by Edward S. Herman.The American Invention, by Ted Nace. (not yet published)The Passive Solar House, by James Kachadorian.Across the Sea of Suns, by Gregory Benford.Understanding Power, by Noam Chomsky, Peter Rounds Mitchell, and John Schoeffel.A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers.O is for Outlaw, by Sue Grafton.Island, by Aldous Huxley.Into the Buzzsaw, edited by Kristina Borjesson.The Case Against the Global Economy, edited by Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith.Charging Ahead, by Joe Sherman.The Glass Bead Game, by Hermann Hesse.Serious Strawbale, by Paul Lacinski and Michel Bergeron.Earthponds Sourcebook, by Tim Matson.The Not So Big House, by Sarah Susanka with Kira Obolensky.The Book of Sand, by Jorge Luis Borges.A Friend of Kafka, and Other Stories, by Isaac Bashevis Singer.The Botony of Desire, by Michael Pollan.Limit of Vision, by Linda Nagata.Why God Won’t Go Away, by Andrew Newberg, Eugene D’Acuili, and Vince Rause.Narcissus and Goldmund, by Hermann Hesse.The River King, by Alice Hoffman.The Aeneid, by Virgil.Political Fictions, by Joan Didion.Writings on an Ethical Life, by Peter Singer.Darwin’s Ghost, by Steve Jones.The Miracle of Mindfulness, by Thich Nhat Hanh.The Cultural Creatives, by Paul Anderson, Sherry Anderson.The Post-Corporate World, by David C. Korten.When Corporations Rule the World, by David C. Korten.Stinger, by Nancy Kress.Troublemakers, by Harlan Ellison.The Timeless Way of Building, by Christopher Alexander.Maximum Light, by Nancy Kress. 2001
      The Vampire Armand, by Anne Rice.Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser.Merrick, by Anne Rice.The Symbolic Species, by Terrence W. Deacon.Lies Across America, by James W. Loewen.The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse, by Jack Zipes.Reason for Hope, by Jane Goodall.Development as Freedom, by Amartya Sen.Waiting, by Ha Jin.The Constant Gardener, by John le Carré.A Pattern Language, by Christopher Alexander, et al.The State We’re In, by Will Hutton.Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by J. K. Rowling.Powerful Peacemaking, by George Lakey.Logical Effort, by Ivan Sutherland.The Annotated Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, W. W. Denslow.Violin, by Anne Rice.Supersymmetry, by Gordon Kane.The Blind Watchmaker, by Richard Dawkins.The Story of B, by Daniel Quinn.Zodiac, by Neal Stephenson.Manifold Time, by Stephen Baxter.Stardust, by Neil Gaiman.Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn.Journey Through Genius, by William Dunham.A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge.The Lady, by Barbara Victor. 2000
      Natural Capitalism : Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, by Paul Hawken, Hunter Lovins, Amory B. Lovins.Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson.Lincoln, by Gore Vidal.The Terrible Hours, by Peter Maas.Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond.The Emotional Brain, by Joseph LeDoux.The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Inferno, translated by Allen Mandelbaum.A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb, by Philip Langdon.The Healthy House, by John Bower.The New Natural House Book, by David Pearson.Darwin’s Radio, by Greg Bear.Otherland Volume Three: Mountain of Black Glass, by Tad Williams.After Progress, by Anthony O’Hear.The Greenpeace Guide to Anti-Environmental Organizations, by Carl Deal.Asphalt Nation, by Jane Holtz Kay.Beaker’s Dozen, by Nancy Kress.A Conspiracy of Paper, by David Liss.Forever Peace, by Joe Haldeman.The Next American Metropolis, by Peter Calthorpe.Purgatorio, by Dante Alighieri, translated by W.S. Merwin.The Economics of Climate Change, by Stephen J. Decanio.We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families, by Philip Gourevitch.Stiffed, by Susan Faludi. 1999
      The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger.Lost in Translation, by Nicole Mones.There’s Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stipes and Dead Armadillos, by Jim Hightower.Toxic Deception, by Dan Fagin, Marianne Lavelle.Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson.Otherland: River of Blue Fire, Volume Two, by Tad Williams.The New Way Things Work, by David Macaulay, Neil Ardley.Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller.Ethics into Action, by Peter Singer.The Dreaded Comparison, by Marjorie Spiegel, Alice Walker.In Dubious Battle, by John Steinbeck.The Invisible Computer, by Donald Norman.Banker to the Poor, by Muhammad Yunus, et al.The Penguin Essays of George Orwell, by George Orwell.Elements of Ml Programming, by Jeffrey D. Ullman.East of the Mountains, by David Guterson.Slow River, by Nicola Griffith.The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media, by Norman Solomon.The Consumer’s Guide to Effective Environmental Choices, by Michael Brower and Warren Leon.The Simple Truth, by David Baldacci.The Sacred Depths of Nature, by Ursula Goodenough.The Sun and the Moon, by Vonda McIntyre.The UNIX-HATERS Handbook (download here)Going Local, by Michael Shuman.Far Futures, by Gregory Benford.Poverty and Famines, by Amartya Sen.I, Claudius, by Robert Graves.Taking Charge, by Michael R. Beschloss.The Secret Agent, by Joseph Conrad.Against the Grain, by Marc Lappe, Britt Bailey.Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, by Gregory Maguire.The Loop, by Nicholas Evans.The Collosus of Maroussi, by Henry Miller.The Postman, by David Brin.Otherland, by Tad Williams. 1998
      Dark Alliance, by Gary Webb.Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, by Alan Weisman.Los Alamos, by Joseph Kanon.Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman.Four Ways to Foregiveness, by Ursula K. Le Guin.Angela’s Ashes, by Frank McCourt.Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden.Heart of the Comet, by David Brin and Gregory Benford.Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier.The War Against the Greens, by David Helvarg.Celtic Myths & Legends, by Charles Squire.Diet for a Poisoned Planet, by David Steinman.Green Backlash : Global Subversion of the Environmental Movement, by Andrew Rowell.Secrets of the Temple : How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country, by William Greider.Inside Intel : Andy Grove and the Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Chip Company, by Tim Jackson.No Contest : Corporate Lawyers and the Perversion of Justice in America, by Ralph Nader and Wesley J. Smith.Living Downstream : An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment, by Sandra Steingraber.Toxic Sludge Is Good for You! Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry, by John C. Stauber and Sheldon Rampton.Great Books, by David Denby. 1997
      Vegan Nutrition, by Gill Langley.Being Digital, by Nicholas Negroponte.The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy.Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson.The Man Who Listens to Horses, by Monty Roberts.Children of the Mind, by Orson Scott Card.Blue Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson.Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson.The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera.Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus, by Orson Scott Card.A Civil Action, by Jonathon Harr.The Uplift War, by David Brin.Pirates of the Universe, by Terry Bisson.Hong Kong, Final Edition, by Jan Morris.Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.The Ancient Mediterranean, by Michael Grant.The Tailor of Panama, by John Le Carre.Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James W. Lowen.The Chess Garden, by Brooks Hansen.Archangel, by Sharon Shinn.Soros On Soros, by George Soros, Byron Wien, Krisztina Koenen.The Media Monopoly, by Ben H. Bagdikian.The Samurai’s Garden, by Gail Tsukiyama.The Horse Whisperer, by Nicholas Evans. 
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      The Healer’s War, by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough.Brightness Reef, by David Brin.Primary Colors, by Anonymous.The Winner-Take-All Society, by Robert H. Frank and Philip J. Cook.Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson.On the Origins of War, and the Preservation of Peace, by Donald Kagan.Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years, by Felipe Fernández-Armesto.Beggars and Choosers, by Nancy Kress.Of Tigers & Men, Entering the Age of Extinction, by Richard Ives.In Retrospect, The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, by Robert S. McNamara.Black Elk Speaks, by John G. Neihardt.Reason to Believe, by Mario Cuomo.Killing Custer, by James Welch.Who Will Tell the People: The Betrayal of American Democracy, by William Greider.The Last of the Wine, by Mary Renault. Older
      Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis.The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet, by David Kahn.When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals, by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Susan McCarthy.The Coming Plague: Newly emerging diseases in a world out of Balance, by Laurie Garret.The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston.Manufacturing Consent, by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky.Deterring Democracy, by Noam Chomsky.Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, by Dee Brown.The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000, by Paul Kennedy.The Global Politics of Arms Sales, by Andrew J. Pierre.The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability, by Paul Hawken.The Fate of the Elephant, by Douglas H. Chadwick.The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power, by Daniel Yergin.The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins.QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, by Richard P. Feynman.The Astonishing Hypothesis, by Francis Crick.Fats that Heal, Fats that Kill: The Complete Guide to Fats, Oils, Cholesterol and Human Health, by Udo Erasmus.The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward R. Tufte.Design of a Computer the Control Data 6600, by J. E. Thornton.JPEG Still Image Data Compression Standard, by William Pennebaker.Fundamentals of Renewable Energy Processes, by Aldo Da Rosa.The Annotated Alice: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Martin Gardner.1984, by George Orwell.Grendel, by John Gardener.Friday, by Michel Tournier.Glory Season, by David Brin.The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin.Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas: A savage journey into the heart of the American Dream, by Hunter S. Thompson.The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood.A Time to Kill, by John Grisham.Steppenwolf, by Herman Hesse.Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse.Cadillac Desert, by Marc Reisner. |