Ratings *****
excellent, enthusiastically recommended for everyone
**** very good, recommended if you
are interested
*** good, happy I
read it
** OK, I
like to finish what I start to read
*
a chore to finish; sorry
I started
(A) = art or theater
(B) = biography
(C) = criticism
(F) = fiction
(H) = history
(Ph) = philosophy
(P) = poetry
(S) = science or math
(T) = travel
***** Master and Commander, by
Patrick O'Brian (F)
***** Post Captain, by Patrick
O'Brian (F)
***** view with a grain of sand,
by Wislawa Szymborska (P)
***** The Inflationary Universe,
by Alan Guth (B, S)
***** Mason
& Dixon, by Thomas Pynchon (F, H)
***** The Measure of
Reality: Quantification and Western Society 1250 - 1600, by Alfred W. Crosby
(H)
***** Undaunted Courage, by
Stephen E. Ambrose (H)
***** West with the Night,
by Beryl Markham (B, H)
***** The Man Who Loved Only
Numbers, by Paul Hoffman (B, S)
***** Just Six Numbers: The Deep
Forces that Shape the Universe, by Martin Rees (S)
***** Morality Play, by
Barry Unsworth (F)
***** The Tao is Silent,
by Raymond M. Smullyan (Ph)
***** The Year 1000 : What
Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium,
by Robert
Lacey and Danny Danziger (H)
***** America 1900 : The Sweeping Story of a Pivotal Year in the Life of a Nation, by Judy Crichton
(H)
***** On Reflection,
by Jonathan Miller (A)
***** The Essential
Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa, by Robert Hass (P)
*****
John Adams, by David
McCollugh (B, H)
*****
Snow Crash, by Neil Stephenson (F)
**** How Nature Works,
by Per Bak (S)
**** The Man Who Knew
Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan, by Robert Kanigel (B)
**** Fermat's Last Theorem,
by Amir D. Aczel (S)
**** In the Lake of the
Woods, by Tim O'Brien (F)
**** Family, by Ian
Frazier (B, H)
**** The Beginnings of
Western Science, by David C. Lindberg (H)
**** The Maxwellians,
by Bruce J. Hunt (H, S)
**** The Quantum Challenge:
Modern Research on the Foundations of Quantum
Mechanics,
by George Greenstein and Arthur G. Zajonc (S)
**** Adventures
in the Unknown Interior of America, by Cabeza de Vaca (H)
**** "B" is for
Burglar, by Sue Grafton (F)
**** Full House: The Spread
of Excellence from Plato to Darwin, by Stephen Jay Gould (S)
**** The Book of Laughter
and Forgetting, by Milan Kundera (F)
**** The Professor
and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the
Oxford
English Dictionary, by Simon Winchester (B)
**** First Cut:
A Season in the Human Anatomy Lab, by Albert Howard Carter III (S)
**** The Arcanum:
The Extraordinary True Story, by Janet Gleeson (H)
**** Albert
Einstein and the Frontiers of Physics, by Jeremy Bernstein (B, S)
**** The Calendar:
Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year,
by David
Ewing Duncan (H)
**** The Mind's
Past, by Michael S. Gazzaniga (S)
**** Isaac Newton
And the Scientific Revolution, by Gale E. Christianson (B, S)
**** A Cold Day in Paradise,
by Steve Hamilton (F)
**** The Meaning
of It All, by Richard Feynman (S)
**** The Statement,
by Brian Moore (F)
**** Into Thin Air,
by Jon Krakauer (B, H)
**** Galileo's
Daughter, by Dava Sobel (B, H)
**** Mathematical
Mysteries: The Beauty and Magic of Numbers, by Calvin C. Clawson (S)
**** Three Men in
a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), by Jerome K. Jerome (F)
**** The Solace of
Open Spaces, by Gretel Ehrlich (B, Ph)
**** Shipwreck at the Bottom of
the World, by Jennifer Armstrong (H)
**** The Unschooled Mind,
by Howard Gardner (Ph)
**** Ingenious
Pursuits : Building the Scientific Revolution, by Lisa Jardine (H)
**** Code Breaking : A History and Exploration, by Rudolf Kippenhahn
(H, S)
**** Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity,
by Naomi Pasachoff (B)
**** The
Runaway Universe: The Race to Discover the Future of the Cosmos,
by Donald Goldsmith (S)
**** Thinking
About Teaching and Learning,
by Robert Leamnson (Ph)
**** The
Hunting Wind,
by Steve Hamilton (F)
**** Boltzmann's
Atom: The Great Debate that Launched a Revolution in Physics,
by David Lindley (H, S)
****
Cold Mountain, by Burton Watson (P)
**** The Heart of
Chinese Poetry, by Greg Whincup (P)
**** Banvard's
Folly, by Paul Collins (H)
**** A
Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson (T)
**** Neither Here
Nor There, by Bill Bryson (T)
**** North of
Nowhere, by Steve Hamilton (M)
**** O'Keeffe &
Stieglitz, by Benita Eisler (B)
**** Passage,
by Connie Willis (F)
**** Doomsday Book,
by Connie Willis (F)
**** The Third
Policeman, by Flann O'Brien (F)
****
Throwing Fire : Projectile Technology through
History, by Alfred W. Crosby (H)
****
Trilobite, by Richard Fortey (S)
****
Fermat's Last Theorem, by Amir D. Aczel (S)
****
Euler: The Master of Us All, by William Dunham (S)
****
Voodoo Science, by Robert Park (S)
****
The Extravagant Universe, by Robert P. Kirshner (S)
****
A World Lit Only by Fire, by William Manchester (H)
****
Good Omens, by Neil
Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (F)
***
"A" is for Alibi, by Sue Grafton
(F)
*** Time's
Arrow, by Martin Amis (F)
*** The Bird
Artist, by Howard Norman (F)
*** Into The
Wild, by Jon Krakauer (B)
*** The
Alienist, by Caleb Carr (F)
*** Early
Greek Philosophy, by Jonathon Barnes (H, Ph)
*** The
Wreck of the Whaleship Essex, by Owen Chase, First Mate (B)
*** Timeline,
by Michael Crichton (F)
*** The
Compleat McAndrew, by Charles Sheffield (F)
*** Night
Train, by Martin Amis (F)
*** The
Victorian Internet : The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's
On-Line
Pioneers, by Tom Standage (H)
*** Galileo
Galilei : First Physicist, by James MacLachlan (B, S)
*** Rebel
Private: Front and Rear, by William A. Fletcher (B, H)
*** Inventing
the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians, by Jeffrey Burton Russell (H)
*** Pynchon
& Mason & Dixon, by Charles Clerc (C)
***
Leap, by Terry Tempest Williams (B)
***
The Evolutionists, by Richard Morris (H, S)
*** Winter
of the Wolf Moon,
by Steve Hamilton (F)
***
In the Beginning . . . was the Command Line, by Neal Stephenson
(S)
***
What the Corpse Revealed, by Hugh Miller (S)
***
The Lady Tasting Tea, by David Salsbury (S)
***
Who Knows?, by Raymond Smullyan (Ph)
***
Invention of Love, by Tom Stoppard (A)
*** To Say
Nothing of the Dog, by Connie Willis (F)
**
Physics in the Nineteenth Century, by Robert D. Purrington (H, S)
** Mr.
Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, by Lawrence Weschler (B, H)
*
The Dancing Wu Li Masters, by
Gary Zukov (S)
*
Doubt and Certainty, by Tony Rothmnan and
George Sudarshan (S)
*
Los Alamos, by Joseph Kanon (F)
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