Books

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I'm currently reading In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks by Adam Carolla.

Books I've read recently

5 = I loved it; 1 = I hated it!

• Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 Iron Coffins [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 5 The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 3 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 5 Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 3 Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 3 Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 3 My Detachment by Tracy Kidder [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 Black Sunday by Thomas Harris [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 Yeager by Chuck Yeager [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 Hiroshima by John Hersey [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 5 Fate is the Hunter by Ernest Kellogg Gann [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 3 Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 Aftermath by Flying Magazine [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 3 The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 3 Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 3 American Gods by Neil Gaiman [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Hot Zone by Richard Preston [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 3 Next by Michael Crichton [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 3 Prey by Michael Crichton [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 Seeker by Jack McDevitt [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 3 The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Peopleware by Tom Demarco, Timothy Lister [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 2 My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 3 Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 2 Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 Airframe by Michael Crichton [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 3 Flashforward by Robert Sawyer [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 Bobos In Paradise by David Brooks [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 3 Singularity Sky by Charles Stross [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 3 The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 Hyperion by Dan Simmons [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 747 by Joe Sutter [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 3 For Us, The Living by Robert A. Heinlein [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 2 A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 Trinity by Leon Uris [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 3 The Perfect Thing by Steven Levy [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 3 Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 5 A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 3 Ten Hours Until Dawn by Michael Tougias [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 3 Shopgirl by Steve Martin [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 Time Enough For Love by Robert A. Heinlein [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 5 Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 Foundation by Arthur C. Clarke [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 5 Drop City by T. Coraghessan Boyle [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 Dune by Frank Herbert [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 2 Manliness by Harvey C. Mansfield [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 3 Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 3 The Complete Idiot's Guide to Middle East Conflict by Mitchell G. Bard [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 3 A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 5 An Army At Dawn by Rick Atkinson [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 Ishmael by Daniel Quinn [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 Illusions by Richard Bach [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 4 Lila by Robert M. Pirsig [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]

In the Queue

• Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Soul Of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Shallows by Nicholas Carr [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Unheeded Warning by Stephen A. Fredrick [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Drive by Daniel H. Pink [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]

Wish list (top 10)

• The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman by Vic Armstrong [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Big Short by Michael Lewis [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Star Island by Carl Hiaasen [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Millionth Chance by James Leasor [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Overboard! by Michael J. Tougias [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Mystery of Flight 427 by Bill Adair [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Blind Landing by Tony Blackman [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• On the Edge by Brian Bagnall [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Dealers of Lightning by Michael A. Hiltzik [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Future Noir by Paul M. Sammon [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Against All Odds by Chuck Norris [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart by Tom Slee [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Dispatches by Michael Herr [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Generation Me by Jean M. Twenge [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Wake of the Wahoo [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Coming Back Alive by Spike Walker [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]

Wish list (the rest)

• The Introvert Advantage by Marti Olsen Laney [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Failure is not an Option by Gene Krantz [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Forever Flying by Bob Hoover [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Mercury 13 by Martha Ackmann [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Jackie Cochran by Doris L. Rich [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Billy Mitchell by Alfred F. Hurley [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Free-Range Kids by Lenore Skenazy [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Under Pressure by Carl Honore [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Accidental Empires by Robert X. Cringely [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way by Bruce Campbell [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• What the Dormouse Said by John Markoff [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Licks of Love by John Updike [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• When Hell Was in Session by Jeremiah A. Denton, Ed Brandt [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Why We Were In Vietnam by Norman Podhoretz [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• PAVN: Peoples Army of Vietnam by Douglas Pike [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Big Story by Peter Braestrup [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Fields of Fire by James Webb [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Stolen Valor by B. G. Burkett, Glenna Whitley [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• A Better War by Lewis Sorley [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Vietnam: The Necessary War by Michael Lind [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• My Sweetest Victory by Alex Zanardi [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Control of Nature by John Mcphee [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Sun Tzu Was a Sissy by Stanley Bing [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The PayPal Wars by Eric M. Jackson [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Logan's Run by William Nolan [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Ryanair by Siobhan Creaton [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Southwest Passage by Lamar Muse [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Machine That Changed the World by James P. Womack [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The World At My Feet by Meryl Getline [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Easter Offensive, Vietnam, 1972 by G. H. Turley [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Phoenix and the Birds of Prey : The CIA's Secret Campaign to Destroy the Viet Cong by Mark Moyar [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Out of Ivy by Jamie Glazov [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Raven by Marquis James [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Quarks, Chaos, and Christianity by John Polkinghorne [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• That Hideous Strength by CS Lewis [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• 3001: The Final Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Children of Men by P.D. James [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Power Failure by Mimi Swartz, Sherron Watkins [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Stealing the General by Russell S. Bonds [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Winner-Take-All Society by Robert H. Frank [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Mellon by David Cannadine [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War by Rick Atkinson [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Few and the Proud by Larry Smith [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Space Race by Deborah Cadbury [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• House by Tracy Kidder [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Home Town by Tracy Kidder [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Great Disruption by Francis Fukuyama [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Fat Land by Greg Critser [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Uncivil War by David Lebedoff [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Shadows on the Hudson by Isaac Bashevis Singer [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Seize the Day by Saul Bellow [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Shock of the Old by David Edgerton [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Fattening of America by Eric A. Finkelstein [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• US Guys by Charlie LeDuff [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Startide Rising by David Brin [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Boat of A Million Years by Poul Anderson [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Camouflage by Joe Haldeman [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Double Whammy by Carl Hiaasen [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Griftopia by Matt Taibbi [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen [ amazon ] [ bmw region ] [ pa ] [ pa audiobook ]

Other lists

• Nebula Awards - by the SFWA
• The Hugo Award - (by year)
• My First Literary Crush - The books famous people loved in college.
• Top 20 geek novels - according to Jack Schofield's survey of (only) 132 people (who may or may not be geeks)
• Reading List: Fog Creek Software Management Training Program -
• The definitive books on the battles of the 20th century - by Victor Davis Hanson
• My Ten Favorite Books - by Guy Kawasaki
• Book Reviews - by Joel Spolsky (from 2002)
• 100 best non-fiction books from the last century - by National Review
• Books by Tom Wolfe -
• Books by RAH -
• 20 Best Science Fiction Books Of The Decade - from Russ
• Locus Magazine Unveils 2009 Recommended Reading List - from Russ
• Philip Marlowe books - The Forever Peace
• Aviation books - studentpilot.com
• Aviation books - Amazon
• 20 science fiction novels -
• Books by Carl Hiaasen -