Steven’s Notebook

“The real reason to read is to meet more interesting people than we have time to meet in a lifetime.”
- Harold Bloom

Here’s a list of the books I’ve finished reading in the past years. I don’t bother finishing a bad book — I figure that if the first two chapters are crap it’s not getting any better. Life is too short to read crap. So if I’ve finished it, it’s at least “good.” More stars means “better than good.”

Title	Author	Finished	Rating/Notes
Cosmic Banditos	A.C. Weisbecker	8/22/2004
Rediscovering Catholicism	Matthew Kelly	8/21/2010
California: A History	Kevin Starr	8/1/2010
Trek to Madworld	Stephen Goldin	7/29/2010
The Gunslinger	Stephen King	7/29/2010
Futureland	Walter Mosley	7/21/2010
Moral Politics: what conservatives know that liberals don’t	George Lakoff	7/13/2010
Wikis for Dummies	Dan Woods and Peter Thoeny	7/12/2010
Practices of an Agile Developer	Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt	7/10/2010
The Passionate Programmer	Chad Fowler	7/3/2010	“Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development”
A Geography of Time	Robert Levine	6/29/2010
Total Money Makeover	Dave Ramsey	6/15/2010
Pragmatic Thinking & Learning	Andy Hunt	5/15/2010
Moyers on Democracy	Bill Moyers	5/01/2010
Brain Rules	John Medina	4/10/2010
To Your Scattered Bodies Go	Phillip Jose Farmer	4/5/2010	Riverworld, book 1
Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language	Patricia T. O’Conner	3/25/2010	(almost) everything I was taught as a child was wrong.
Smooth Riding the Pridmore Way	Reg Pridmore, Geoff Drake	3/23/2010
The Annotated Alice	Lewis Carroll	3/20/2010
Unseen Academicals	Terry Pratchett	3/14/2010	the 37th novel in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series
Dark Side of the Moon: the making of the Pink Floyd masterpiece	John Harris	3/6/2010
crazy love	Francis Chan	3/5/2010
The Godwulf Manuscript	Robert B. Parker	3/4/2010	First of the “Spencer” books. That’s “Spencer,” as in “Spencer, For Hire.”
The Complete Vader	Ryder Windham, Peter Vilmur	3/1/2010
Clapton: The Autobiography	Eric Clapton	2/22/2010
You Were Born for This: Seven Keys to a Life of Predictable Miracles	Bruce Wilkinson and David Kopp	2/14/2010
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal	Christopher Moore	2/8/2010
The Air I Breathe	Louie Giglio	2/3/2010
Dead Until Dark	Charlaine Harris	1/20/2010
The Company	K.J. Parker	1/2/2010
Fool	Christopher Moore	12/29/2009
The Shack	William P. Young	12/23/2009
The Atrocity Archives	Charles Stross	12/22/2009
The End of Overeating	David A Kessler, MD	12/08/2009
Black Widow	Randy Wayne White	12/09/2009
ASP.NET for Web Designers	Peter Ladka	11/24/2009	pretty out-dated, not recommended.
The Noticer	Andy Andrews	11/24/2009
Blessed are the Bored in Spirit	Mark Hart	11/21/2009
Dreamcatcher	Stephen King	10/21/2009
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War	Max Brooks	10/13/2009
Saving the World at Work	Tim Sanders	10/1/2009
Harry Potter (7) and the Deathly Hallows	J.K. Rowling	9/13/2009
Harry Potter (6) and the Half-Blood Prince	J.K. Rowling	9/7/2009
Triggerfish Twist	Tim Dorsey	9/3/2009
Flashforward	Robert J. Sawyer	8/31/2005
Orange Crush	Tim Dorsey	8/23/2009
The Making of Star Trek	Stephen E. Whitfield	8/21/2009
Six Battles Every Man Must Win	Bill Perkins	8/08/2009
Dead Silence	Randy Wayne White	8/02/2009
Ender In Exile	Orson Scott Card	7/29/2009
The No Asshole Rule	Robert J. Sutton	7/16/2009
Force Of Nature	Laird Hamilton	7/12/2009	Mind, Body, Soul, and of course Surfing
All My Sins Remembered	Joe Haldeman	7/4/2009
Soon I Will Be Invincible	Austin Grossman	7/3/2009
Good Omens	Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett	7/1/2009
Life, the Universe and Everything	Douglas Adams	6/27/2009
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe	Douglas Adams	6/25/2009
The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	6/24/2009
Watchmen	Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons	6/20/2009
Dark Side of the Moon	Sherrilyn Kenyon	6/14/2009
Dies the Fire	S. M. Stirling	6/12/2009
Everyday Survival	Laurence Gonzales	6/10/2009	“why smart people do stupid things”
The Princess Bride	William Goldman	5/31/2009
Dark Integers	Greg Egan	5/29/2009
The Stand	Stephen King	5/25/2009
The Art of Running in the Rain	Garth Stein	4/30/2009
blink	Malcolm Gladwell	4/25/2009
Torpedo Juice	Tim Dorsey	4/11/2009
The Big Bamboo	Tim Dorsey	4/8/2009
Cell	Stephen King	4/7/2009
The Accidental Time Machine	Joe Haldeman	3/15/2009
I, Robot	Cory Doctorow	3/08/2009
Hammerhead Ranch Motel	Tim Dorsey	2/23/2009
Florida Roadkill	Tim Dorsey	2/12/2009	Serge watches the shuttle launch and heads to Key West.
Change We Can Believe In		2/12/2009	subtitle: Barack Obama’s Plan to Renew America’s Promise
Cadillac Beach	Tim Dorsey	2/6/2009
Atomic Lobster	Tim Dorsey	2/2/2009	mix a little John D. MacDonald with some Pulp Fiction and toss in a side order of wacky humour, and you might come close.
The Four Agreements	Don Miguel Ruiz	1/30/2009	I agrree with the “Agreements,” but the rest of the book is hippy-dippy new-age mumbo-jumbo.
Bodies In Motion	Steven L. Thompson	1/25/2009
The Shack	William P. Young	12/29/2008
Facing Your Giants	Max Lucado	12/29/2008	“The God Who Made a Miracle Out of David Stands Ready to Make One Out of You”
Time and Again	Jack Finney	12/28/2003
Soul Music	Terry Pratchett	12/23/2008
Reaper Man	Terry Pratchett	12/22/2008
Something Wicked This Way Comes	Ray Bradbury	11/09/2008
Walking with God	John Eldredge	11/03/2008
HALT! Dismount and be Recognized	Jason Carr	10/13/2008
A Princess of Mars	Edgar Rice Burroughs	9/28/2008
The Shack	William P. Young	9/22/2008	yes, I know the max is supposed to be two stars, but this book is that good
Start Late, Finish Rich	David Bach	8/3/2008
This Is Your Brain On Music	Daniel J. Levitin	7/13/2008
Dreaming In Code	Scott Rosenberg	6/28/2008
Galactic Pot-Healer	Philip K. Dick	6/22/2008
The White Mountains	John Christopher	6/1/2008
Wild at Heart	John Eldredge	5/26/2008	“Discovering the Secret of a Man’s Soul”
Eric Sink on the Business of Software	Eric Sink	5/12/2008
Hunter’s Moon	Randy Wayne White	5/4/2008
When Fish Fly	John Yokoyama, Joseph Michelli	4/27/2008
The Leadership Pill	Ken Blanchard, Marc Muchnick	4/27/2008
Black Cherry Blues	James Lee Burke	4/27/2008
Blink	Ted Dekker	4/14/2008
Blue Highways	William Least Heat-Moon	4/12/2008
Empire	Orson Scott Card	4/9/2008	An excellent novel, a “disturbing look at a possible future” in our United States.
Mirror Universe	Sussman, Ward, Dilmore, Mack, Cox	4/6/2008	three Star Trek novels in one book: Age of the Empress, The Sorrows of Empire, and The Worst of Both Worlds.
Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager	Michael Lopp	4/3/2008	perhaps the best book on management of software developers I’ve ever read.
The 4:8 Principle: The Secret to a Joy-Filled Life	Tommy Newberry	3/31/2008
the Neon Rain	James Lee Burke	3/16/2008
The Final Question of Jesus	Joseph M. Stowell	3/11/2008	A look at John 21:1-17, the Lord’s conversation with Peter, and what it can mean to us.
Now and Forever	Ray Bradbury	3/8/2008	two novellas: Somewhere a band Is Playing & Leviathan ‘99
Crusader’s Cross	James Lee Burke	2/29/2008
Irish Alibi	Ralph McInerny	2/20/2008
Pilgrimage	Zenna Henderson	2/10/2008	The Book of The People
Two Wheels Through Terror: Diary of a South American Motorcycle Odyssey	Glen Heggstad	1/30/2008
Making Money	Terry Pratchett	1/21/2008	a Discworld novel
Dune	Frank Herbert	1/16/2008
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	Philip K. Dick	12/31/2007
The Man Who Invented Florida	Randy Wayne White	12/30/2007
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves	Lynne Truss	12/24/2007	“Proper punctuation is both the sign and cause of clear thinking. If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is unimaginable.”
Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga	Hunter S. Thompson	12/21/2007
The Lexus and the Olive Tree	Thomas L. Friedman	12/20/2007
Dynamic Scheduling with Microsoft Office Project 2003: The Book by and for Professionals	Eric Uyttewaal	11/25/2007
Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life	Larry Winget	11/24/2007
The Dark Tower [The Dark Tower, book VI]	Stephen King	11/17/2007
Song of Susannah [The Dark Tower, book VI]	Stephen King	11/11/2007
Wolves of the Calla [The Dark Tower, book V]	Stephen King	11/10/2007
Out of Their Minds	Clifford D. Simak	10/20/2007
Wizard And Glass [The Dark Tower, book IV]	Stephen King	10/14/2007
Snow Crash	Neal Stephenson	10/01/2007
The Waste Lands [The Dark Tower, book III]	Stephen King	9/23/2007
The Drawing Of The Three [The Dark Tower, book II]	Stephen King	9/18/2007
The Gunslinger [The Dark Tower, book I]	Stephen King	9/12/2007
The Jesus of Suburbia	Mike Erre	9/10/2007
The Club Dumas	Arturo Perez-Reverte	9/2/2007
The Book of Lost Things	John Connolly	8/26/2007
Tao of the Ride	Garri Garripoli	8/25/2007
The Starbucks Experience	Joseph A. Michelli	8/25/2007	“5 Principles for Turning Ordinary into Extraordinary”
The Case for Christ	Lee Strobel	8/18/2007
The Audacity of Hope	Barack Obama	8/12/2007	“Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”
Bambi vs. Godzilla	David Mamet	8/11/2007	“On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business”
Leanings 2	Peter Egan	8/10/2007
Harry Potter (7) and the Deathly Hallows	J.K. Rowling	8/5/2007	Wow.
Harry Potter (6) and the Half-Blood Prince	J.K. Rowling	8/4/2007
Freedom: Credos from the Road	Sonny Barger	8/2/2007
Harry Potter (5) and the Order of the Phoenix	J.K. Rowling	7/30/2007
The Terminal Man	Michael Crichton	7/22/2007
Leanings: Best of Peter Egan from Cycle World	Peter Egan	7/21/2007
Executive (Bio of a Space Tyrant, Vol 4)	Piers Anthony	7/17/2007
Free Fall in Crimson	John D. MacDonald	7/15/2007
Be Our Guest : Perfecting the art of customer service	Disney Institute	7/13/2007
The Experience Economy : Work is Theatre & Every Business a Stage	Joseph Pine	7/12/2007
Politician (Bio of a Space Tyrant, Vol 3)	Piers Anthony	6/29/2007
Mercenary (Bio of a Space Tyrant, Vol 2)	Piers Anthony	6/26/2007
Refugee (Bio of a Space Tyrant, Vol 1)	Piers Anthony	6/24/2007
Tampa Burn	Randy Wayne White	6/23/2007
To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh (Star Trek)	Greg Cox	6/6/2007
When the Shooting Stops	Ralph Rosenblu and Robert Karen	5/28/2007	…the Cutting Begins. A Film Editor’s Story
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance	Robert Pirsig	5/28/2007	An Inquiry into Values.
Treasure of Khan	Clive Cussler	5/27/2007
The Kids are Alright: How the Gamer Generation is Changing the Workplace	John C. Beck	5/20/2007
The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World With Kindness	Linda Kaplan Thaler	5/04/2007
No More Teams	Michael Schrage	5/01/2007
Made to Stick	Chip Heath & Dan Heath	4/24/2007
Daemon	Leinad Zeraus	4/22/2007
Who moved my cheese?	Spencer Johnson	4/20/2007
Love Is The Killer App	Tim Sanders	4/19/2007
Dark Light	Randy Wayne White	4/08/2007
The Rebels of Ireland	Edward Rutherfurd	3/26/2007
The Mangrove Coast	Randy Wayne White	3/25/2007
The Heat Islands	Randy Wayne White	3/23/2007
Small Giants	Bo Burlingham	3/10/2007
Lincoln on Leadership	Donald T. Phillips	3/4/2007
VoIP for Dummies	Timothy V. Kelly	2/28/2007
WordPress Complete	Hasin Hayder	2/15/2007
The Long Tail	Chris Anderson	2/1/2007	“Why the future of business is selling less of more”
Primal Leadership	Daniel Goleman	1/24/2007
Storm Front	Jim Butcher	1/21/2007	Book One of The Dresden Files
How the Irish Saved Civilization	Thomas Cahill	1/16/2007	“The untold story of Ireland’s historic role from the fall of Rome to the rise of medieval Europe.”
First Meetings in Ender’s Universe	Orson Scott Card	1/4/2007
The Princes of Ireland	Edward Rutherfurd	1/2/2007
No Opportunity Wasted	Phil Keoghan	12/19/2006
Cirque Du Soleil – The Spark	John U. Bacon	12/16/2006	Igniting the Creative Fire that Lives Within Us All.
How Buffett does it	James Pardoe	12/12/2006	24 simple investing strategies from the world’s greatest value investor
The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel	Benjamin Graham	12/10/2006	“By far the best book on investing ever written.” — Warren E. Buffett No secret formulas, no get-rich-quick schemes or speculating just calm practical thoughtful long-term investing.
Just do It	Donald Katz	12/1/2006	“the nike spirit in the corporate world”
Why We Want You To Be Rich	Donald Trump & Robert Kiyosaki	11/28/2006
Murder At Golgotha	Ian Wilson	11/23/2006	“Revisiting the Most Famous Crime Scene in History”
Star Wreck	Leah Rewollnksi	11/11/2006
The Road Ahead	Bill Gates	11/2/2006
North of Havana	Randy Wayne White	10/22/2006
The Victorian Internet	Tom Standage	10/13/2006
Blue Like Jazz	Donald Miller	10/7/2006	“Nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality.”
Joystick Nation	J.C. Herz	9/10/2006	“How videogames ate our quarters, won our hearts, and rewired our minds.”
Eric	Terry Pratchett	9/4/2006
The Light Fantastic	Terry Pratchett	9/1/2006
Sourcery	Terry Pratchett	8/30/2006
Going Live [getting the news right in a real-time, online world]	Philip Seib	8/26/2006
Rules for Revolutionaries	Guy Kawasaki	8/23/2006
Going Postal	Terry Pratchett	8/21/2006
Toon Art [the graphic art of digital cartooning]	Steven Winthrow	8/13/2006
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century	Thomas L. Friedman	8/11/2006
Dungeons and Dreamers: The Rise of Computer Game Culture From Geek to Chic	Brad King & John Borland	8/3/2006
Everglades	Randy Wayne White	7/30/2006
Shark River	Randy Wayne White	7/28/2006
Pale Gray for Guilt	John D. MacDonald	7/25/2006
Ten Thousand Islands	Randy Wayne White	7/23/2006
Dream’s Edge’	Terry Carr, editor	7/20/2006
Twelve Mile Limit	Randy Wayne White	7/15/2006
Body Piercing Saved My Live	Andrew Beaujon	7/08/2006
The Wastelands	Stephen King	6/26/2006
The Drawing of the Three	Stephen King	6/21/2006
The Gunslinger	Stephen King	6/18/2006
The road to the dark tower : exploring Stephen King’s magnum opus	Bev Vincent	6/15/2006
White Man’s Grave	Richar Dooling	6/11/2006
Cure for the Common Life	Max Lucado	6/10/2006
Decoding the universe	Charles Seife	5/31/2006
The Likability Factor	Tim Sanders	5/24/2006
What To Do With Your Money Now	David & Tom Gardner	5/16/2006
The Hundredth Window: Protecting Your Privacy and Security in the Age of the Internet.	Charles Jennings and Lori Fenna	5/2/2006
The Draco Tavern	Larry Niven	5/1/2006
The Web Wizard’s Guide to PHP	David A. Lash	4/29/2006
110%	Pat Croce	4/28/2006
Dirty Pool	Steve Brewer	4/25/2006
Rainbow Mars	Larry Niven	4/24/2006
Air Dance Iguana	Tom Corcoran	4/17/2006
Ireland	Frank Delaney	4/16/2006
The Christmas Train	David Baldacci	4/6/2006
Sometimes the Magic Works	Terry Brooks	3/27/2006	If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.
Tales From Margaritaville	Jimmy Buffett	3/24/2006
Take Control of Apple Mail in Tiger	Joe Kissell	3/23/2006
Macintosh… The Naked Truth	Scott Kelby	3/17/2006
The Mind Map Book	Tony Buzan	3/15/2006	True mental freedom is the ability to create order from chaos.
Mac OS X for Unix Geeks	Brian Jepson & Ernest E. Rothman	3/8/2006	Here’s a Top Ten Tips article on MacDevCenter.
The Da Vinci Hoax	Carl E. Olson & Sandra Miesel	3/1/2006
The Da Vinci Code	Dan Brown	2/27/2006	Repeat after me… “this is a work of FICTION.”
Cinnamon Skin	John D. MacDonald	2/25/2006
Blink	Malcolm Gladwell	2/23/2006	All about the Adaptive Unconcious – how we make use instantanious impressions to make conclusions… without even knowing we’re doing it.
Octopus Alibi	Tom Corcoran	2/19/2006
The End of Poverty	Jeffrey D. Sachs	2/17/2006	Economic Possibilities for Our Time, forward by Bono. Millennium Development Goals, including ending extreme poverty – worldwide – by 2025.
Star Wars and Philosophy	edited by Kevin S. Decker and Jason T. Eberl	2/7/2006
Emergence	Steven Johnson	1/31/2006
The Good News from North Haven	Michael L. Lindvall	1/12/2006	Excellent stories from a mid-west pastor. Funny and heartwarming.
Pacific Vortex!	Clive Cussler	1/8/2006
What Is Your Life’s Work?	Bill Jensen	12/31/2005
The Last Battle	C.S. Lewis	12/25/2005
A Horse and His Boy	C.S. Lewis	12/24/2005
The Silver Chair	C.S. Lewis	12/23/2005
The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”	C.S. Lewis	12/22/2005
Prince Capian	C.S. Lewis	12/21/2005
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe	C.S. Lewis	12/20/2005
The Magician’s Nephew	C.S. Lewis	12/19/2005	The Chronicles of Narnia
The John Wooden Pyramid of Success	Neville L. Johnson	12/12/2005	A lot about Mr. Wooden, not as much about the Pyramid Of Success.
Children of the Mind	Orson Scott Card	12/10/2005
Xenocide	Orson Scott Card	12/05/2005
Speaker For The Dead	Orson Scott Card	11/22/2005
Ender’s Game	Orson Scott Card	11/18/2005
Cruising At Last	Elliott Merrick	11/15/2005
Shadows of the Empire	Steve Perry	11/8/2005
U2 & i	Anton Corbijn	11/1/2005
The Tonybee Convector	Ray Bradbury	10/19/2005
Island of the Blue Dolphins	Scott O’Dell	10/19/2005
The Abode of Life	Lee Correy	10/17/2005
Farenheit 451	Rad Bradbury	10/1/2005
Prince of Mercenaries	Jerry Pournelle	9/27/2005
Death is a Lonely Business	Ray Bradbury	9/23/2005
Call of the Wild	Jack London	9/21/2005
Skirmish	Clifford D. Simak	9/21/2005
To Your Scattered Bodies Go	Philip Jose Farmer	9/20/2005
The Dark Tower [The Dark Tower VII]	Stephen King	9/14/2005	The Dark Tower and Beyond
Song of Susannah [The Dark Tower VI]	Stephen King	9/8/2005
Wolves of the Calla [The Dark Tower V]	Stephen King	9/7/2005
Wizard and Glass [The Dark Tower IV]	Stephen King	9/1/2005
The Waste Lands [The Dark Tower III]	Stephen King	8/30/2005
The Drawing of the Three [The Dark Tower II]	Stephen King	8/20/2005
The Gunslinger [The Dark Tower I]	Stephen King	8/17/2005	Thanks, Bryant.
Mexifornia	Victor Davis Hanson	8/14/2005
Sailing Alone Around the World	Captain Joshua Slocum	8/11/2005	a Classic of Naval Literature
Everything Bad is Good For You	Steven Johnson	8/7/2005	A controversial and thought-provoking assertion that popular culture, including video games and television programming, is more intellectually challenging than typically though and may even be helping society become smarter.
Mind Wide Open	Steven Johnson	8/2/2005
Never Eat Alone	Keith Ferrazzi	7/31/2005
Sailor’s Life	Jan De Hartog	7/24/2005
The Joy of Digital Photography	Jeff Wignall	7/23/2005
Growing Up Digital	Don Tapscott	7/23/2005
Manager’s pocket guide to Generation X	Bruce Tulgan	7/10/2005
Anthem	Ayn Rand	7/2/2005
Freakonomics	Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner	7/1/2005
The Flight of the Creative Class	Richard Florida	6/26/2005
Nudist on the Late Shift	Po Bronson	6/16/2005
Trojan Odyssey	Clive Cussler	5/31/2005
Atlantas Found	Clive Cussler	5/29/2005
Danger Quicksand – Have A Nice Day	David St. Lawrence	5/22/2005
Wicked	Gregory Maguire	5/16/2005
Orbiting the Giant Hairball	Gordon Mackenzie	5/10/2005
The Master of Disguise	Antonio J. Mendez	5/8/2005
Moneyball	Michael Lewis	5/6/2005
Have Board, Will Travel	Jamie Brisick	4/29/2005
Zathura	Chris Van Allsburg	4/19/2005
the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	4/14/2005
Flashforward	Robert J. Sawyer	3/3/2005
The Photoshop CS Book for Digital Photographers	Scott Kelby	3/1/2005
Sahara	Clive Cussler	3/1/2005
A Salty Piece of Land	Jimmy Buffett	2/25/2005
Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays	Laurent Bouzerau	2/16/2005
Leadership and the One Minute Manager	Ken Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi and Drea Zigarmi	2/8/2005
Camouflage	Joe Haldaman	2/5/2005
Get The Picture: A Personal History of Photojournalism	John G. Morris	2/3/2005
The Puppet Masters	Robert A. Heinlein	1/30/2005
The Pentagon’s New Map	Thomas P.M. Barnett	1/16/2005
Hogfather	Terry Pratchett	12/20/2004
Night Watch	Terry Pratchett	12/18/2004
The Fifth Elephant	Terry Pratchett	12/16/2004
Cycling . A celebration of the sport and the world’s best places to enjoy it	Arlene Plevin	12/8/2004
Thief of Time	Terry Pratchett	12/6/2004
The Automatic Millionare	David Bach	11/22/2004	Everyone should read this… and follow his recommendations.
The Wide Window	Lemony Snicket	11/19/2004
The Impossible Just Takes a Little Longer	Art Berg	11/17/2004
The Reptile Room	Lemony Snicket	10/26/2004
The Bad Beginning	Lemony Snicket	10/23/2004
Getting Things Done	David Allen	10/18/2004	Everyone should read this… and follow his recommendations.
Squirrel Inc.	Stephen Denning	9/25/2004
National Geographic Photography Field Guide – People & Portraits	Robert Caputo	9/17/2004
Desiging with Web Standards	Jeffrey Zeldman	9/17/2004
The Colour of Magic	Terry Pratchett	9/9/2004
Digital Photography: Expert Techniques	Ken Milburn	9/1/2004	Very good. I need to come back to this one after I get to know Photoshop a bit better.
Shooting Digital	Mikkel Aaland	8/27/2004
Darker Than Amber	John D. MacDonald	8/24/2004
Purple Cow	Seth Godin	8/8/2004
Octopus Alibi	Tom Corcoran	8/6/2004
Caught Inside	Daniel Duane	8/5/2004
Cosmic Banditos	A.C. Weisbecker	8/4/2004
In Search of Captain Zero	A.C. Weisbecker	8/3/2004	Good, though the ending was a bit of a letdown. Real life can be like that.
The Songlines	Bruce Chatwin	8/2/2004
The Five Disfunctions of a Team	P. Lencioni	7/22/2004
Re-invent!	Tom Peters	7/20/2004
Hardball Selling	Robert L. Shook	7/18/2004
Make Your Own Digital Photo Scrapbook	Pring/Hissey	6/8/2004
Get Out of My Life but First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall – A Parents Guide to the New Teenager	Anthony E. Wolf, Ph.D.	6/8/2004	on parenting teenagers
The Right to Write	Julia Cameron	6/6/2004
Free Fall in Crimson	John D. MacDonald	6/01/2004
The Life of Pi	Yann Martel	5/27/2004
Shameless Exploitation in the Pursuit of the Common Good	Paul Newman , A. E. Hotchner	5/22/2004
Cuba	Walker Evans	5/19/2004	When we think “Cuba,” the images many of us see in our mind’s eye are those captured by Evans in the 1930s.
The Green Ripper	John D. MacDonald	5/19/2004	A Travis McGee mystery/adventure, somewhat different from the others I’ve read.
Blue Latitudes	Tony Horwitz	5/17/2004	good, but long
A Deadly Shade of Gold	John D. MacDonald	4/25/2004	a Travis McGee mystery/adventure.
I, Robot	Isaac Asimov	4/23/2004	Technology dated but still good stories.
The Number of the Beast	Robert Heinlein	4/5/2004	Not RAH’s best work, to put it mildly. Mind candy that I keep around for reading when I’m bored and don’t want to think. The final chapter, L’Envoi, is still pretty much incomprehensible.
Midnight Clear	Kathy Hogan Trocheck	3/12/2004	Another murder mystery in & around Atlanta, not quite as good as Irish Eyes.
Irish Eyes	Kathy Hogan Trocheck	3/6/2004	Murder mystery in & around Atlanta.
The Legacy of Herot	Larry Niven, Steven Barnes, Jerry Pournell	2/24/2004
Broken Music	Sting	2/22/2004
Peter Davidson’s Book of Alien Planets	various short story authors	11/21/2003
The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemmingway	11/02/2003
The Institute	Anthony Edgeworth (Photographer), Geoffrey Norman, Paul De Angelis	10/18/2003
Making It Happen	Mackenzie Kyle	10/9/2003
The 5 Patterns of Extraordianry Careers	James M. Citrin, Richard A. Smith	10/1/2003
Love Is The Killer App	Tim Sanders	9/7/2003
The Westing Game	Ellen Raskin	9/1/2003	a fun kids mystery
Gumbo Limbo	Tom Corcoran	9/1/2003
Surfers Start-Up: A Beginner’s Guide to Surfing	Doug Werner	8/31/2003
Where’s Joe Merchant?	Jimmy Buffett	8/30/2003
Sailing in Grandfather’s Wake	Captain Ian Tew	8/10/2003
A Pirate Looks at Fifty	Jimmy Buffett	8/08/2003
Shadow Puppets	Orson Scott Card	8/04/2003
Tales From Margaritaville	Jimmy Buffett	7/30/2003
Shadow of the Hegemon	Orson Scott Card	7/29/2003
Ender’s Shadow	Orson Scott Card	7/28/2003
Buck Up, Suck Up… and Come Back When You Foul Up	James Carville and Paul Begala	7/27/2003
The Brendan Voyage	Tim Severin	7/27/2003	He sailed from Ireland to North America in what?
Ender’s Game	Orson Scott Card	7/20/2003
The Mango Opera	Tom Corcoran	7/19/2003
The People: No Different Flesh	Zenna Henderson	7/13/2003
Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters	Adam Barr	7/12/2003
Microsoft ASP.NET Step by Step	G. Andrew Duthie	7/10/2003
Holding Wonder	Zenna Henderson	7/1/2003
The Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger	6/21/2003
J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye: Bloom’s Notes	Harold Bloom, editor	6/21/2003
Telecosm	George Gilder	6/13/2003	/
Burning Chrome	William Gibson	6/8/2003
Visual C#	Sharp & Jagger	6/5/2003
wot9: Winter’s Heart	Robert Jordan	6/3/2003
Halo: The Flood	William C. Dietz	5/22/2003
Caught by the Sea	Gary Paulsen	5/3/2003
Singlehanding: A Sailor’s Guide	Tony Meisel	4/1/2003
Introducing Microsoft .NET	David Platt	4/1/2003
The Sea Wolf	Jack London	3/28/2003
Mastering Windows 2000 Server	Mark Minasi	2/28/2003
Halo: The Fall of Reach	Eric Nylund	2/18/2003
13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?	Howe and Strauss	2/15/2003
Footfall	Niven and Pournelle	2/14/2003
Solaris	Stanislaw Lem	2/5/2003
Getting Things Done	David Allen	2/4/2003
The Serling Huck Letters	Sterling Huck	1/31/2003
A Canticle For Leibowitz	Walter M. Miller, Jr.	1/9/2003
Xbox: Blow the lid off!	Brian Underhal	1/3/2003
Walk On: the Spiritual Journey of U2	Steve Stockman	12/31/2002
A Mystery of Errors	Simon Hawke	12/23/2002
Celestial Navigation step by step	Warren Norville	11/13/2002
Master and Commander	Patrick O’Brian	11/10/2002
The Complete Sailor	David Seidman	10/30/2002
Weaving the Web	Tim Berners-Lee	10/28/2002
First You Have to Row a Little Boat	Richard Bode	10/20/2002
Sailing… for dummies	JJ & Peter Isler	10/16/2002
My Old Man and The Sea	David and Daniel Hays	10/14/2002
Black Aces High	Robert K. Wilcox	10/11/2002
The Other 90%	Robert K. Cooper	10/2/2002
Mac OS X The Missing Manual	David Pogue	9/9/2002
The Fourth Turning	William Strauss and Neil Howe	9/2/2002
Mac OS X	Marie Langer	8/27/2002
XML Family of Specifications	Kenneth Sall	8/20/2002
Fast Food Nation	Eric Schlosser	8/16/2002
Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything	Steven Levy	8/16/2002
Letters to my son: Reflections on Becoming a Man	Kent Nerburn	8/10/2002
Wings of Fury	Robert Wilcox	8/9/2002
Icefire	Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens	8/2/2002
The Forever War	Joe Haldaman	7/30/2002
March Upcountry	David Weber, John Ringo	7/20/2002
Five Equations That Changed the World	Michael Guillen, Ph.D.	7/13/2002
True Names	Vernor Vinge	7/10/2002
Macintosh… The Naked Truth	Scott Kelby	7/7/2002
Space	James A. Michener	7/3/2002
Out of Phaze (Book Four of the Apprentice Adept Series)	Piers Anthony	6/24/2002
A Star Called Henry	Roddy Doyle	5/24/2002
Fish!	S.Lundin, H.Paul, J.Christensen	5/23/2002
The Story of Tuan MacCairill	Irish fairy tale	5/22/2002
The Story of the King	Irish fairy tale	5/22/2002
Ireland Standing Firm: My Wartime Mission in Washington / Eamon De Valera: a Memoir	Robert Brennan	4/27/2002
Attack of the Clones (script)	George Lucas	4/4/2002
Magic: A Novel	William Goldman	3/29/2002
Jack Straight From the Gut	Jack Welch	3/25/2002
Extreme Programming in Practice	James Newkirk	3/10/2002
Irish Diary	Fr. Robert E. Brennan	3/5/2002
The Gutbucket Quest	Ron Leming and Piers Anthony	3/2/2002
Negotiating for Dummies	Michael and Mimi Donaldson	2/27/2002
Hyperion	Dan Simmons	2/26/2002
Cascading Style Sheets	Eric A. Meyer	2/17/2002
The Final Reflection	John M. Ford	1/26/2002
The Fellowship of the Ring	J.R.R. Tolkien	1/23/2002
Beating the Street	Peter Lynch	1/18/2002
Rich Dad, Poor Dad	Robert Kiyosaki	12/30/2001
Three to See the King	Magnus Mills	12/2/2001
The Fellowship of the Ring	J.R.R. Tolkien	11/30/2001
Biplane	Richard Bach	11/5/2001
Fate is the Hunter	Ernest K. Gann	11/4/2001
wot8: The Path of Daggers	Robert Jordan	10/25/2001
Guitar for Dummies	Mark Phillips, John Chappell, Jon Chappell	9/20/2001
The Talented Mr. Ripley	Patricia Highsmith	9/15/2001
Zen Guitar	Philip Toshio Sudo	7/10/2001
The Greatest Generation	Tom Brokaw	7/10/2001
Redwall	Brian Jacques	7/6/2001
Burning City	Jerry Pournelle & Larry Niven	7/4/2001
Neuromancer	William Gibson	6/6/2001
Lost Boys	Orson Scott Card	6/4/2001
I’m a Stranger Here Myself	Bill Bryson	6/1/2001
Tuesdays With Morrie	Mitch Albom	5/5/2001
Timeline	Michael Crichton	4/30/2001
Failure Is Not An Option	Gene Krantz	4/21/2001
Underground	Suelette Dreufus	4/7/2001
The Turquoise Lament	John D. MacDonald	3/15/2001
The Junk-Drawers Corner-Store Front-Porch Blues	John Powers	2/28/2001
The Godfather	Mario Puzo	2/27/2001
How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day	Michael J. Gelb	2/16/2001
Guns, Germs, and Steel : The Fates of Human Societies	Jared Diamond	2/8/2001
How the Irish Saved Civilization	Thomas Cahill	1/30/2001
Mainline	Deborah Christian	1/30/2001
The Wearing of the Green	Clifford Lindsey Alderman	1/27/2001
Feng Shui at Work	Kirsten Lagatree	1/22/2001
Enter the Irish-American	Edward Wakin	1/21/2001
Starswarm	Jerry Pournelle	1/20/2001
Stick and Rudder	Wolfgang Langewiesche	1/11/2001
Ireland, a Bicycle and a Tin Whistle	David A. Wilson	1/1/2001
Pilot’s Notes for Mustang III	RAF Air Council	1/1/2001
Rules for Revolutionaries	Guy Kawasaki	12/14/2000
wot7: A Crown of Swords	Robert Jordan	12/8/2000
Ground Zero (X-Files)	Kevin J. Anderson	11/18/2000
The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes	Lauren Kessler	11/14/2000
The Story of Amelia Earhart: Winged Legend	John Burke	11/8/2000
The Perfect Flight	Richard L. Collins	11/6/2000
Cannibal Queen	Stephen Coonts	11/3/2000
Birth of the Chaordic Age	Dee Hock	10/28/2000
Out of my mind	Richard Bach	10/28/2000
wot6: Lord of Chaos	Robert Jordan	10/6/2000
Who moved my cheese?	Spencer Johnson	9/26/2000
The Tao of Leadership	John Heider	9/25/2000
XML Processing with Python	Sean McGrath	9/13/2000
Harry Potter (4) and the Goblet of Fire	J.K. Rowling	8/12/2000
Harry Potter (3) and the Prisoner of Azkaban	J.K. Rowling	8/6/2000
Harry Potter (2) and the Chamber of Secrets	J.K. Rowling	8/5/2000
Unleashing the IdeaVirus	Seth Godin	8/2/2000
Harry Potter (1) and the Sorcerer’s Stone	J.K. Rowling	7/31/2000
Map and Compass	Cliff Jacobson	7/30/2000
wot5: The Fires of Heaven	Robert Jordan	7/21/2000
Make It So: Leadership lessons from ST:TNG	Wess Roberts, Ph.D. & Bill Ross	7/14/2000
Cryptonomicon	Neal Stephenson	7/4/2000
wot4: The Shadow Rising	Robert Jordan	6/12/2000
Philip and Alex’s Guide to Web Publishing	Philip Greenspun	5/25/2000
MS Project 98 for Dummies	Marty Doucette	5/15/2000
wot3: Dragon Reborn	Robert Jordan	5/11/2000
Nightmare in Pink	John D. MacDonald	5/4/2000
Flight of Passage	Rinker Buck	4/24/2000
wot2: The Great Hunt	Robert Jordan	4/19/2000
Voyager	Rutan & Yeager	4/6/2000
Beyond the Wild Blue: A History of the United States Airforce	Walter J. Boyne	3/31/2000
wot1: Eye of the World	Robert Jordan	3/23/2000
Foundation and Chaos	Greg Bear	3/16/2000
The Hacker Crackdown	Bruce Sterling	3/1/2000
Star Wars:Vision of the Future	Timothy Zahn	2/24/2000
Star Wars:Specter of the Past	Timothy Zahn	2/19/2000
Snow Crash	Neal Stephenson	2/18/2000
Dune	Frank Herbert	2/8/2000
Ender’s Shadow	Orson Scott Card	2/2/2000
The Insurection in Dublin	James Stephens	2/1/2000
Nimitz Class	Patrick Robinson	1/30/2000
Red Hat Linux 6 in Small Business	P.Sery & E.Harper	1/23/2000
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus	Orson Scott Card	1/11/2000
Allegiance	Robert Brennan	1/2/2000
The Silver Robin	Dean Marshall	1/2/2000
Maximum Bob	Elmore Leonard	12/30/1999
Weather Flying	Robert Buck	11/15/1999
China Clipper	Ronald W. Jackson	11/7/1999
Reflections of a Pilot	Len Morgan	10/26/1999
Accidental Empires	Robert Cringely	10/19/1999
The Nine Nations of North America	Joel Garreau	10/10/1999
The Cathedral and the Bazaar	Eric Raymond	9/30/1999
But Why Shoot the Magistrate?	Patricia Sprinkle	9/5/1999
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership	John C. Maxwell	9/4/1999
Every Man a Tiger	Tom Clancy	8/30/1999
The Book of Darts	Jack McClintock	7/15/1999
A Different Kind of Courage	Jim Horsley	7/13/1999
All About Darts	I.L. Brackin & W. Fitzgerald	7/11/1999
Rainbow Six	Tom Clancy	6/20/1999
Firebirds	Chuck Carlock	6/15/1999
Sled Driver – flying the world’s fastest jet	Brian Shul	6/2/1999
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (Episode I)	Terry Brooks	5/31/1999
Everything we had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War	Al Santolli	5/28/1999
Rolling Thunder	Ivan Rendall	5/4/1999
How to get what you want and want what you have	John Gray	4/27/1999
What Cathollcs Really Believe	Karl Keating	4/21/1999
A Man on the Moon	Andrew Chaikin	4/1/1999
Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu	L. Neil Smith	3/15/1999
Assignment:Eternity (Star Trek)	Greg Cox	3/7/1999
Left Behind	T.LaHaye/J.Jenkins	2/28/1999
Work in Progress	M. Eisner w/Tony Schwartz	2/25/1999
Time and Again	Jack Finney	2/16/1999
The War of the Worlds	H.G. Wells	2/12/1999
Cuba Libre	Elmore Leonard	1/27/1999
Microserfs	Douglas Coupland	1/21/1999
The Deep Blue Good-By	John D. MacDonald	1/20/1999
How Much For Just The Planet?	John M. Ford	1/9/1999
Carribbean	James A. Michner	1/8/1999
Six Days inHavana	J.Michener & J.Kings	11/22/1998
Gold	Issac Asimov	11/20/1998
Don’t Stop The Carnival	Herman Wouk	11/19/1998
Plane Crazy: A Celebration of Flying	Burton Bernstein	11/15/1998
Lessons of the Future	Andrew Duggan & David Murcott	10/23/1998
A Pirate Looks at 50	Jimmy Buffett	10/21/1998
Where’s Joe Merchant?	Jimmy Buffett	10/15/1998
War In The Air	Stephen Coonts	10/8/1998
Phantom Over Vietnam	John Trotti	9/15/1998
The War in Vietnam	Don Lawson	9/8/1998
3001: The Final Odessy	Arthur C. Clarke	9/7/1998
Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space	Issac Asimov	8/30/1998
2061: Odyssey Three	Arthur C. Clarke	8/27/1998
Roadmarks	Roger Zelazney	8/23/1998
The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	8/6/1998
Timequake	Kurt Vonnegut	8/5/1998
X-Files: Fight the Future	Chris Carter	7/11/1998
Into Thin Air	Jon Krakauer	6/21/1998
Wings of Fury	Robert K. Wilcox	6/18/1998
I Must Fly!	Johnny Moore	5/30/1998
Carrier Combat	David Wragg	5/19/1998
STAR TREK: Where no one has gone before	M.M. Dillard	5/13/1998
Rolling Thunder	Mark Berent	5/10/1998
Bogeys and Bandits: the making of a fighter pilot	Robert L. Gandt	4/16/1998
Ruins (X-Files)	Kevin J. Anderson	4/9/1998
Simplify Your Life	Elaine St. James	4/8/1998
Beyond Star Trek	Lawrence Krauss	4/7/1998
The Intruders	Stephen Coonts	4/6/1998	sequel to Flight of…
Flight of the Intruder	Stephen Coonts	4/3/1998
Super Carrier	George C. Wilson	3/28/1998
The Caine Mutiny	Herman Wouk	3/27/1998
2010: Odyssey Two	Arthur C. Clarke	3/25/1998
2001: A Space Odyssey	Arthur C. Clarke	3/20/1998
The Count of Monte Cristo	Alexander Dumas	3/18/1998
Ten Stupid Things Men Do To Mess Up Their Lives	Dr. Laura S.	3/13/1998
Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers	Robert Kriegel	3/6/1998
ST:TNG The Continuing Mission	Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens	2/11/1998
Simple Simon	Ryne Douglas Pearson	2/7/1998
Contact	Carl Sagan	1/31/1998
Rama Revealed	Arthur C. Clarke	1/16/1998
Gardens of Rama	Arthur C. Clarke	1/7/1998
Winnie-the-Pooh on Management	Roger E. Allen	1/3/1998
The Great Gatsby	F.Scott Fitzgerald	1/2/1998
X Files: Book of the Unexplained vol 2	Jane Goldman	12/31/1997
StarWars: The Magic of Myth	Mary Henderson	12/27/1997
The Postman	David Brin	12/23/1997
A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens	12/22/1997
Communion	Whitley Strieber	12/20/1997
Joseph	Gene A. Getz	11/30/1997
Rama II	Arthur C. Clarke & Gentry Lee	11/22/1997
Rendezvous with Rama	Arthur C. Clarke	11/17/1997
Circus	Alistair MacLean	10/26/1997
Robots and empire	Issac Asimov	10/15/1997
Robots of Dawn, The	Issac Asimov	10/7/1997
Murder With Mirrors	Agatha Christie	9/29/1997
Til The End of Time	Allen Appel	9/24/1997
Starship Troopers	Robert Heinlein	9/22/1997
The Night People	Jack Finney	9/13/1997
About Time	Jack Finney	9/13/1997
Lord Foul’s Bane	Stephen R. Donaldson	9/12/1997
Patriots	David Drake	8/25/1997
Tom Sawyer	Mark Twain	8/10/1997
The Naked Sun	Isaac Asimov	8/8/1997
The Wizard of Oz	L. Frank Baum	8/3/1997
The New Doublespeak; Why no one knows what anyone’s saying anymore	William Lutz	7/28/1997
Narabadla Ltd.	Frederik Pohl	7/24/1997
Innumeracy, Mathematical illiteracy and its consequences	John Allen Paulos	7/23/1997
Black Star Rising	Frederik Pohl	7/20/1997
Using Visual Basic 4	McKelvy	7/19/1997
The Martian Chronicles	Ray Bradbury	7/17/1997
Beowulf’s Children	Larry Niven, Steven Barnes, Jerry Pournell	7/14/1997	Not quite as good as Legacy
The Illusion of Life, Disney Animation	Frank Thomas & Ollie Johnson	7/11/1997
Where Wizards Stay Up Late	Hafner & Lyon	6/27/1997
The Legacy of Herot	Larry Niven, Steven Barnes, Jerry Pournell	6/23/1997
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