Listed with completion date, otherwise in progress. Bold: Favorites of the year
Books read, year Four-- beginning May 2008
- Axis, Robert Charles Wilson, 5/1/08
- Game Over: How Nintendo Conquered the World, David Sheff, 5/6/08
- A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge, 5/11/08
- The 1977 Annual World's Best SF, Donald A. Wollheim (ed.), 5/17/08
- Gang Leader for a Day, Sudhir Venkatesh, 6/7/08
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon, 6/21/08
- Running Dog, Don DeLillo, 6/22/08
- The Best of Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov, 7/14/08
- Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson, 7/18/08
- Shards of Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold, 7/20/08
- Wolves of the Calla, Stephen King
- The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams
- Infinite Jests, Robert Silverberg (ed.)
- How to Cut a Cake: and other mathematical conundrums, Ian Stewart
- Green Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson
Books read, year Three-- beginning May 2007
- The Forever War, Joe Haldeman, 5/7/07
- So Long and Thanks For All the Fish, Douglas Adams, 5/9/07
- A Reading Diary, Alberto Manguel, 5/19/07
- Three men in a boat; to say nothing of the dog!, Jerome K. Jerome, 6/3/07
- The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame, 6/16/07
- Decade of the Year, Ellis Weiner, 6/24/07
- The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin, 7/8/07
- Beyond Star Trek, Lawrence M. Krauss, 7/18/07
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling, 7/20/07
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling, 7/22/07
- True Porn 2, Robyn Chapman and Kelli Nelson, 8/6/07
- The Green Futures of Tycho, William Sleator, 8/12/07
- Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson, 8/19/07
- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Al Franken, 8/20/07
- Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk, 8/24/07
- Forever Peace, Joe Haldeman, 9/5/07
- The Baseball Economist, J.C. Bradbury, 9/12/07
- Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Cory Doctorow, 9/18/07
- Prisoner of Trebekistan, Bob Harris, 9/30/07
- Naked, David Sedaris, 10/9/07
- Ringworld, Larry Niven, 10/15/07
- Rabbit, Run, John Updike, 10/23/07
- Foundation, Isaac Asimov, 11/13/07
- Foundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov, 11/24/07
- Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov, 11/27/07
- Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth, Chris Ware, 12/2/07
- Beloved, Toni Morrison, 12/13/07
- The Road, Cormac McCarthy, 12/17/07
- A Case of Conscience, James Blish, 12/27/07
- The Truth (With Jokes), Al Franken, 12/27/07
- A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge, 1/21/08
- Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth, Chris Ware, 1/27/08 (reread)
- The Designated Mourner, Wallace Shawn, 1/27/08
- Cyberville, Stacy Horn, 2/18/08
- Microserfs, Douglas Coupland, 2/18/08
- High Fidelity, Nick Hornby, 2/26/08
- Crimes Against Logic, Jaime Whyte, 2/27/08
- Spin, Robert Charles Wilson, 3/12/08
- Are We Rome?, Cullen Murphy, 4/4/08
- Technology for the Rest of Us, Nancy Courtney (ed.), 4/9/08
Books read, year Two-- beginning May 2006
- Good News from Outer Space, John Kessle, 5/6/06
- Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, 5/14/06
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling, 5/19/06
- The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin, 5/25/06
- The Velvet Underground and Nico, Joe Harvard, 5/30/06
- Harry Potter and Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling, 5/31/06
- Banana Sunday, Root Nibot, 6/30/06
- Rendevous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke, 7/2/06
- The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson, 7/15/06
- The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl, 7/27/06
- Nemesis, Richard Muller, 7/28/06
- Conspiracy Nation, Peter Knight, 8/8/06
- The Rules of Attraction, Bret Easton Ellis, 8/17/06
- A Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood, 9/11/06
- In Utero, Gillian G. Gaar, 9/19/06
- A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller, 9/19/06
- One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 10/17/06
- Intimacy and Solitude, Stephanie Dworkin, 10/21/06
- The Big Time, Fritz Leiber, 10/29/06
- Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards, Jim Ottaviani & Big Time Attic, 11/5/06
- This Island Earth, Raymond F. Jones, 11/8/06
- Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser, 12/1/06
- Doomsday Book, Connie Willis, 12/2/06
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 12/10/06
- A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. LeGuin, 12/22/06
- Ball Four, Jim Bouton, 1/10/07
- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert Heinlein, 1/15/07
- Loveless, Mike McGonigal, 1/18/07
- Libra, Don DeLillo, 1/30/07
- Ghost World, Daniel Clowes, 2/9/07
- The Meaning of Sports, Michael Mandelbaum, 2/18/07
- Valis, Philip K. Dick, 2/19/07
- To Hate Like This is to Be Happy Forever, Will Blythe, 3/10/07
- Inside the Third Reich, Albert Speer, 3/19/07
- Masters of Doom, David Kushner, 3/21/07
- Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis, 3/26/07
- Night, Elie Wiesel, 4/6/07
- How We Are Hungry, Dave Eggers, 4/7/07
- Childhood’s End, Arthur C. Clarke, 4/23/07
- Reasons to Live, Amy Hempel, 4/29/07
- Second life: the official guide, Michael Rymaszewski 4/30/07
Books read since the completion of graduate school -- beginning May 2005
1. Blankets, Craig Thompson, 5/12/05
2. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk, 5/14/05
3. The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler, 5/15/05
4. The Death Certificate, P. Sachidanandan, 5/16/05
5. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving, 6/19/05
6. Suspended in Language, Jim Ottaviani, 6/21/05
7. Neuromancer, William Gibson, 8/1/05
8. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, 8/14/05
9. 2024, Ted Rall, 8/14/05
10. Mr. Sandman, Barbara Gowdy, 8/22/05
11. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams, 9/14/05
12. White Noise, Don DeLillo, 9/16/05
13. Candide, Voltaire, 10/6/05
14. Life, The Universe, and Everything, Douglas Adams, 11/1/06
15. Crossfire: the Plot that Killed Kennedy, Jim Marrs, 11/28/05
16. Louis Armstong, Michael Collier, 11/30/05
17. The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger, 12/11/05
18. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card, 12/21/05
19. Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone, J.K. Rowling, 12/23/05
20. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling, 12/26/05
21. Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk, 1/2/06
22. Barrel Fever, David Sedaris, 1/8/06
23. Mao II, Don DeLillo, 1/19/06
24. Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card, 1/31/06
25. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson, 2/10/06
26. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk, 2/22/06
27. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers, 2/25/06
28. Limbo, Alfred Lubrano, 3/20/06
29. Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans, Dave Eggers, 3/29/06
30. The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov, 4/8/06
31. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling, 4/17/06
32. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling, 4/30/06
33. Ambient Findability, Peter Morville, 4/30/06
Partial credit: Books I spent meaningful time on, then quit
1. Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
2. A New Kind of Science, Stephen Wolfram
3. Strange brains and genius: the secret lives of eccentric scientists and madmen, Clifford Pickover