* Books marked with an asterisk I have not completed. ~ Books marked with a tilde are recommended. Nudge Sunstein / Thaler Oct 2008 A Primate's Memoir~ Robert M. Sapolsky Sept 2008 The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana* Umberto Eco August 2008 The Separation Christopher Priest July 2008 The Ghost Brigades John Scalzi June 2008 Old Man's War~ John Scalzi May 2008 Lucifer's Hammer Larry Niven May 2008 Gang Leader for a Day~ Sudhir Venkatesh May 2008 Enchantment Orson Scott Card May 2008 Sunrunner's Fire Melanie Rawn March 2008 Revelation Space Alastair Reynolds Feb 2008 Meditations on First Philosophy Rene Descartes Jan 2008 ? Black Man Richard Morgan October 2007 god is Not Great Christopher Hitchens Sept 2007 Genome~ Matt Ridley August 2007 Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom Cory Doctorow August 2007 Singularity Sky Charles Stross August 2007 The Undercover Economist Tim Harford August 2007 Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes July 2007 Infidel~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali July 2007 Snowcrash Neal Stephenson June 2007 The Ruins of Ambrai Melanie Rawn June 2007 Self-Made Man Norah Vincent May 2007 Glasshouse Charles Stross May 2007 Behemoth: Seppeku Peter Watts May 2007 The Blank Slate Steven Pinker April 2007 The Future of Freedom Fareed Zakaria March 2007 The Right Nation Micklethwait, Woolridge Feb 2007 Accelerando Charles Stross Jan 2007 Burning Tower Larry Niven Jan 2007 Blindsight~ Peter Watts Dec 2006 Never at War~ Stephen Weart Sept 2006 How to Read a Book*~ J. M. Adler Sept 2006 The Visitor (this book sucked) Sherri S Tepper August 2006 Art and Craft of Playwriting Jeffery Hatcher August 2006 The Testosterone Files~ Max Wolf Valerio August 2006 Lady of Mazes Karl Schroeder August 2006 A Fractured Mind Robert Oxnam July 2006 Rainbows End Vernor Vinge June 2006 The Game~ Neil Strauss June 2006 Man's Search For Meaning Victor Frankl April 2006 Last Chance to See Douglas Adams April 2006 Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice for All Creation Olivia Judson March 2006 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions~ Thomas Kuhn January 2006 A Certain Chemistry* Mil Millington January 2006 My Father the Spy~ John Richardson December 2005 The Letters of Richard Feynman Richard Feynman December 2005 The Universe in a Nutshell Stephen Hawking December 2005 Endurance: Shackleton's....* Alfred Lansing December 2005 Building Harlequin's Moon Larry Niven November 2005 Woken Furies Richard Morgan November 2005 Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich November 2005 The Pretenders Barbara Guyer November 2005 Life Is So Good George Dawson October 2005 Altered Carbon~ Richard Morgan September 2005 Freakonomics~ Steven Levitt September 2005 Interface Neal Stephenson September 2005 Ringworld's Children Larry Niven September 2005 The Big U~ Neal Stephenson September 2005 Set This House in Order~ Matt Ruff August 2005 A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century~ Barbara Tuchman July 2005 Godel Escher Bach* Douglas Hofstadter June 2005 One Went Over the Cuckoo's Nest* Ken Kesey June 2005 Rubyfruit Jungle~ Rita Mae Brown June 2005 QED: The Strange Theory Of Light & Matter* Richard Feynman June 2005 Six Easy Pieces Richard Feynman May 2005 Flatland: A romance of many dimensions Edwin Abbott May 2005 Behemoth: B-Max Peter Watts April 2005 Travels with Lizbeth~ Lars Eighner April 2005 A History of the Circle Ernest Zebrowski April 2005 Pride and Prejudice~ Jane Austen April 2005 Ten Thousand Working Days~ Robert Schrank February 2005 What Do You Care What Other People Think Richard Feynman February 2005 Takedown Tsutomu Shimomura December 2004 The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson December 2004 Atlas Shrugged~ Ayn Rand November 2004 Across Realtime~ Vernor Vinge October 2004 ? Black Like Me John Howard Griffin July 2004 The Gripping Hand Larry Niven June 2004 The Mote In God's Eye~ Larry Niven June 2004 Catspaw Joan D. Vinge June 2004 Tangled Up In Blue Joan D. Vinge June 2004 A Hole in Space Larry Niven June 2004 Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott May 2004 Mitsou Colette April 2004 Cryptonomicon~ Neal Stephenson April 2004 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn April 2004 Ghost Soldiers Hampton Sides April 2004 The Future of War Bevin Alexander March 2004 Exile and the Kingdom Albert Camus March 2004 Through the Looking Glass~ Lewis Caroll Feb 2004 Alice in Wonderland~ Lewis Caroll Feb 2004 August 1914 Solzhenitsyn January 2004 The Sexual Life of Catherine M.* Catherine Millet January 2004 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!~ Richard Feynman December 2003 Protector Larry Niven December 2003 A Deepness In the Sky~ Vernor Vinge November 2003 A Fire Upon The Deep~ Vernor Vinge November 2003 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Robbins October 2003 How Few Remain Harry Turtledove October 2003 Archangel Sharon Shinn October 2003 Noninterference~ Harry Turtledove October 2003 Jou Pu Tuan Li Yu October 2003 The Queen's Conjurer Benjamin Woolley October 2003 Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand September 2003 N-Space Larry Niven September 2003 Playgrounds of the Mind Larry Niven September 2003 The Face of the Waters Robert Silverberg August 2003 Making Sense of Sex~ Barash & Lipton August 2003 The Gulag Archipelago*~ Solzhenitsyn August 2003 Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson July 2003 Fading Sun (Kesrith)* CJ Cherryh May 2003 Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller~ Neal Stephenson January 2003 The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul Douglas Adams july 2002 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Douglas Adams July 2002 -- Maelstrom Peter Watts January 2002 Lord Valentine's Castle Robert Silverberg (Nearly All Books by..) Larry Niven Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert Pirsig