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Listed with completion date, otherwise in progress. Bold: Favorites of the year

I'm still maintaining this HTML list, but am spending more meaningful time tracking these on Goodreads. If for some reason you want to see ratings and an occasional review, check there.

Books read, year Seven-- beginning May 2011

  1. Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut, 5/3/11
  2. Asterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli, 5/5/11
  3. The Far Arena, Richard Ben Sapir, 5/23/11
  4. Baseball Hacks, Joseph Adler, 5/24/11
  5. The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan, 6/21/11
  6. Quicksilver (Baroque Cycle #1), Neal Stephenson, 7/5/11
  7. Round Ireland with a Fridge, Tony Hawks, 7/14/11
  8. Fuzzy Nation, John Scalzi, 7/18/11
  9. An Off Year, Claire Zulkey, 7/18/11
  10. The Final Reflection, John M. Ford, 7/21/11
  11. Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, Grant Naylor, 7/22/11
  12. Web Analytics 2.0, Avinash Kaushik, 8/11/11
  13. The Power of Positive Dog Training, Pat Miller, 9/8/11
  14. The Other End of the Leash, Patricia B. McConnell, 9/13/11
  15. Don't Shoot the Dog!, Karen Pryor, 9/26/11
  16. Studs Terkels' Working: A Graphic Adaptation, Harvey Pekar, 9/28/11
  17. Stranger Things Happen, Kelly Link, 10/8/11
  18. Neutron Star, Larry Niven, 10/16/11
  19. Ringworld, Larry Niven, 11/2/11
  20. The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon, 11/11/11
  21. The Confusion (Baroque Cycle #2), Neal Stephenson, 12/4/11
  22. Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut, 12/8/11
  23. Sundiver, David Brin, 12/19/11
  24. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguri, 12/30/11
  25. Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut, 1/2/12
  26. The System of the World (Baroque Cycle #3), Neal Stephenson
  27. The Power Broker, Robert A. Caro

Books read, year Six-- beginning May 2010

  1. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, 5/8/10
  2. Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology, James Patrick Kelly (ed.), 5/14/10
  3. Brian Eno's Another Green World (33 1/3), Geeta Dayal, 5/29/10
  4. Nick Drake's Pink Moon (33 1/3), Amanda Petrusich, 5/30/10
  5. The Fall of Hyperion, Dan Simmons, 5/31/10
  6. Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader, Neil Gaiman et al, 6/10/10
  7. The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi, 6/13/10
  8. Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James Morrow, 6/16/10
  9. Palimpsest, Charles Stross, 6/18/10
  10. The Women of Nell Gwynne's, Kage Baker, 6/19/10
  11. The City & The City, China Mieville, 6/29/10
  12. The God Engines, John Scalzi, 7/13/10
  13. Fables: The Dark Ages (#12), Bill Willingham, 7/15/10
  14. Girl Genius Volume 9: Agatha Heterodyne and the Heirs of the Storm, Phil Foglio, 7/25/10
  15. Laika, Nick Abadzis, 7/27/10
  16. Little Fuzzy, H. Beam Piper, 8/2/10
  17. Fuzzy Sapiens, H. Beam Piper, 8/9/10
  18. Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby, 8/11/10
  19. The Android's Dream, John Scalzi, 8/21/10
  20. God Save the Fan, Will Leitch, 8/26/10
  21. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer, 9/4/10
  22. Blackout, Connie Willis, 9/18/10
  23. Physics for Future Presidents, Richard Muller, 10/4/10
  24. V., Thomas Pynchon, 10/11/10
  25. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins, 10/17/10
  26. Hominids, Robert J. Sawyer, 10/26/10
  27. All Clear, Connie Willis, 11/15/10
  28. Humans, Robert J. Sawyer, 11/26/10
  29. Neutron Star, Larry Niven, 11/26/10
  30. Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins, 11/29/10
  31. Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins, 12/5/10
  32. The End of Eternity, Isaac Asimov, 12/15/10
  33. Hybrids, Robert J. Sawyer, 12/23/10
  34. Manhood for Amateurs, Michael Chabon, 1/5/11
  35. Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America, Robert Charles Wilson, 1/11/11
  36. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson, 1/21/11
  37. White Noise, Don DeLillo, 1/30/11
  38. Boneshaker, Cherie Priest, 2/8/11
  39. Nova, Samuel R. Delany, 2/14/11
  40. This Immortal, Roger Zelazny, 2/20/11
  41. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot, 2/23/11
  42. Zodiac, Neal Stephenson, 3/2/11
  43. Star Trek: Klingons: Blood Will Tell, Scott Tipton et al., 3/13/11
  44. WWW: Wake, Robert J. Sawyer, 3/14/11
  45. Palimpsest, Cathrynne M. Valente, 3/27/11
  46. House of Stairs, William Sleator, 3/28/11
  47. Newton and the Counterfeiter, Thomas Levenson, 4/21/11
  48. Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin, 4/29/11

Books read, year Five-- beginning May 2009

  1. The Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You, Neil Gaiman, 5/6/09
  2. The Jungle Books, Rudyard Kipling, 5/17/09
  3. The 1976 Annual World's Best SF, Donald Wollheim (ed.), 5/22/09
  4. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe, 6/5/09
  5. The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections, Neil Gaiman, 6/6/09
  6. Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud, 6/7/09
  7. The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman, 6/10/09
  8. The Wonderful O, James Thurber, 6/11/09
  9. Summer of '49, David Halberstam, 7/20/09
  10. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace, 7/23/09
  11. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. LeGuin, 7/24/09
  12. Zoe's Tale, John Scalzi, 7/28/09
  13. Star Trek: Klingons: Blood Will Tell, Scott Tipton et al., 7/29/09
  14. The Tombs of Atuan, Ursula K. Le Guin, 7/31/09
  15. Little Brother, Cory Doctorow, 8/2/09
  16. The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon, 8/6/09
  17. The Farthest Shore, Ursula K. Le Guin, 8/9/09
  18. Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling, 8/11/09
  19. Fables Volume 1: Legends in Exile, Bill Willingham et al., 8/16/09
  20. Gateway, Frederick Pohl, 8/19/09
  21. Tehanu, Ursula K. Le Guin, 8/24/09
  22. The Sandman Vol. 7: Brief Lives, Neil Gaiman, 8/29/09
  23. Rainbow's End, Vernor Vinge, 9/9/09
  24. Opening Skinner's Box, Lauren Slater, 9/11/09
  25. The Sandman Vol. 8: Worlds' End, Neil Gaiman, 9/16/09
  26. 1984, George Orwell, 9/18/09
  27. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller, 9/22/09
  28. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, 9/27/09
  29. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History, Art Spiegelman, 9/28/09
  30. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began, Art Spiegelman, 9/29/09
  31. To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer, 10/8/09
  32. The Numerati, Stephen Baker, 10/12/09
  33. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Chuck Klosterman, 11/17/09
  34. Anathem, Neil Stephenson, 12/9/09
  35. Everything Bad is Good for You, Steven Johnson, 12/11/09
  36. The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones, Neil Gaiman, 12/23/09
  37. The Book of Basketball, Bill Simmons, 12/24/09
  38. The Sandman Vol. 10: The Wake, Neil Gaiman, 12/25/09
  39. And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie, 12/28/09
  40. At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O'Brien, 1/10/10
  41. The Seven Dials Mystery, Agatha Christie, 1/21/10
  42. Looking for Calvin and Hobbes, Nevin Martell, 2/5/10
  43. The Complete Calvin & Hobbes, Bill Watterson, 2/28/10
  44. What is the What, Dave Eggers, 3/2/10
  45. The ACME Novelty Library, Chris Ware, 3/13/10
  46. Hyperion, Dan Simmons, 4/2/10
  47. Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales, Stephen King, 4/19/10

Books read, year Four-- beginning May 2008

  1. Axis, Robert Charles Wilson, 5/1/08
  2. Game Over: How Nintendo Conquered the World, David Sheff, 5/6/08
  3. A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge, 5/11/08
  4. The 1977 Annual World's Best SF, Donald A. Wollheim (ed.), 5/17/08
  5. Gang Leader for a Day, Sudhir Venkatesh, 6/7/08
  6. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon, 6/21/08
  7. Running Dog, Don DeLillo, 6/22/08
  8. The Best of Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov, 7/14/08
  9. Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson, 7/18/08
  10. Shards of Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold, 7/20/08
  11. Wolves of the Calla, Stephen King, 8/12/08
  12. How to Cut a Cake: and other mathematical conundrums, Ian Stewart, 8/13/08
  13. The Arrival, Shaun Tan, 8/13/08
  14. The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon, 8/17/08
  15. Song of Susannah, Stephen King, 8/30/08
  16. David Starr: Space Ranger, Isaac Asimov, 9/2/08
  17. Infinite Jests, Robert Silverberg (ed.), 9/9/08
  18. Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein, 9/16/08
  19. Breaks of the Game, David Halberstam, 9/29/08
  20. Green Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson, 10/14/08
  21. The Third Policeman, Flann O'Brien, 11/2/08
  22. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susannah Clarke, 11/30/08
  23. Scamorama, Eve Edelson, 12/3/08
  24. Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis, 12/15/08
  25. Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Charles Sheffield, 12/22/08
  26. The Lost Thing, Shaun Tan, 12/28/08
  27. Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, Lester Bangs, 12/31/08
  28. The Dark Tower, Stephen King, 1/6/09
  29. Barrayar, Lois McMaster Bujold, 1/20/09
  30. The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes, Neil Gaiman, 1/25/09
  31. The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester, 1/29/09
  32. True Enough, Farhad Manjoo, 2/3/09
  33. Old Man's War, John Scalzi, 2/9/09
  34. The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House, Neil Gaiman, 2/16/09
  35. The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country, Neil Gaiman, 2/26/09
  36. The Blind Side, Michael Lewis, 2/27/09
  37. Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem, 3/1/09
  38. Levitation: Physics And Psychology In The Service Of Deception, Jim Ottaviani & Janine Johnston, 3/9/09
  39. The Vor Game, Lois McMaster Bujold, 3/14/09
  40. The Watchmen, Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons, 3/18/09
  41. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell, 3/21/09
  42. Wire Mothers: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love, Jim Ottaviani & Dylan Meconis, 3/23/09
  43. The Ghost Brigades, John Scalzi, 3/31/09
  44. The Last Colony, John Scalzi, 4/5/09
  45. The Alchemy of Air, Thomas Hager, 4/8/09
  46. Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger, 4/12/09
  47. The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman, 4/24/09
  48. To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis, 4/29/09

Books read, year Three-- beginning May 2007

  1. The Forever War, Joe Haldeman, 5/7/07
  2. So Long and Thanks For All the Fish, Douglas Adams, 5/9/07
  3. A Reading Diary, Alberto Manguel, 5/19/07
  4. Three men in a boat; to say nothing of the dog!, Jerome K. Jerome, 6/3/07
  5. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame, 6/16/07
  6. Decade of the Year, Ellis Weiner, 6/24/07
  7. The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin, 7/8/07
  8. Beyond Star Trek, Lawrence M. Krauss, 7/18/07
  9. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling, 7/20/07
  10. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling, 7/22/07
  11. True Porn 2, Robyn Chapman and Kelli Nelson, 8/6/07
  12. The Green Futures of Tycho, William Sleator, 8/12/07
  13. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson, 8/19/07
  14. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Al Franken, 8/20/07
  15. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk, 8/24/07
  16. Forever Peace, Joe Haldeman, 9/5/07
  17. The Baseball Economist, J.C. Bradbury, 9/12/07
  18. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Cory Doctorow, 9/18/07
  19. Prisoner of Trebekistan, Bob Harris, 9/30/07
  20. Naked, David Sedaris, 10/9/07
  21. Ringworld, Larry Niven, 10/15/07
  22. Rabbit, Run, John Updike, 10/23/07
  23. Foundation, Isaac Asimov, 11/13/07
  24. Foundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov, 11/24/07
  25. Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov, 11/27/07
  26. Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth, Chris Ware, 12/2/07
  27. Beloved, Toni Morrison, 12/13/07
  28. The Road, Cormac McCarthy, 12/17/07
  29. A Case of Conscience, James Blish, 12/27/07
  30. The Truth (With Jokes), Al Franken, 12/27/07
  31. A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge, 1/21/08
  32. Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth, Chris Ware, 1/27/08 (reread)
  33. The Designated Mourner, Wallace Shawn, 1/27/08
  34. Cyberville, Stacy Horn, 2/18/08
  35. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland, 2/18/08
  36. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby, 2/26/08
  37. Crimes Against Logic, Jaime Whyte, 2/27/08
  38. Spin, Robert Charles Wilson, 3/12/08
  39. Are We Rome?, Cullen Murphy, 4/4/08
  40. Technology for the Rest of Us, Nancy Courtney (ed.), 4/9/08

Books read, year Two-- beginning May 2006

  1. Good News from Outer Space, John Kessle, 5/6/06
  2. Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, 5/14/06
  3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling, 5/19/06
  4. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin, 5/25/06
  5. The Velvet Underground and Nico, Joe Harvard, 5/30/06
  6. Harry Potter and Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling, 5/31/06
  7. Banana Sunday, Root Nibot, 6/30/06
  8. Rendevous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke, 7/2/06
  9. The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson, 7/15/06
  10. The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl, 7/27/06
  11. Nemesis, Richard Muller, 7/28/06
  12. Conspiracy Nation, Peter Knight, 8/8/06
  13. The Rules of Attraction, Bret Easton Ellis, 8/17/06
  14. A Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood, 9/11/06
  15. In Utero, Gillian G. Gaar, 9/19/06
  16. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller, 9/19/06
  17. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 10/17/06
  18. Intimacy and Solitude, Stephanie Dworkin, 10/21/06
  19. The Big Time, Fritz Leiber, 10/29/06
  20. Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards, Jim Ottaviani & Big Time Attic, 11/5/06
  21. This Island Earth, Raymond F. Jones, 11/8/06
  22. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser, 12/1/06
  23. Doomsday Book, Connie Willis, 12/2/06
  24. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 12/10/06
  25. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. LeGuin, 12/22/06
  26. Ball Four, Jim Bouton, 1/10/07
  27. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert Heinlein, 1/15/07
  28. Loveless, Mike McGonigal, 1/18/07
  29. Libra, Don DeLillo, 1/30/07
  30. Ghost World, Daniel Clowes, 2/9/07
  31. The Meaning of Sports, Michael Mandelbaum, 2/18/07
  32. Valis, Philip K. Dick, 2/19/07
  33. To Hate Like This is to Be Happy Forever, Will Blythe, 3/10/07
  34. Inside the Third Reich, Albert Speer, 3/19/07
  35. Masters of Doom, David Kushner, 3/21/07
  36. Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis, 3/26/07
  37. Night, Elie Wiesel, 4/6/07
  38. How We Are Hungry, Dave Eggers, 4/7/07
  39. Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke, 4/23/07
  40. Reasons to Live, Amy Hempel, 4/29/07
  41. 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, James Lincoln 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. Googled: The End of the World As We Know It, Ken Auletta
  2. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, James Tiptree, Jr.
  3. Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
  4. A New Kind of Science, Stephen Wolfram
  5. Strange brains and genius: the secret lives of eccentric scientists and madmen, Clifford Pickover
  6. The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams

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