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This page is a list of books I've read and need to read. Mostly, I keep this for my own records so I don't accidentally reread books, but if anyone wants to drop a recommendation based on what's listed here, I'll probably appreciate it. To read list: TS Eliot's Four Quartets Nabokov's Lolita Vonnegut's Bluebeard and a lot of others Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March List of books I've read (not all necessarily for pleasure, but those listed here I've liked enough to remember): Frank Herbert's Dune (x2), Dune: Messiah (x2), Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, Chapterhouse: Dune Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (x3), The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (x2, 4/31/05), Life, The Universe, and Everything (x2,4/31-5/1/05), So Long and Thanks for all the Fish (x2,5/1-2/05), Mostly Harmless(x2, 5/2/05), The Salmon of Doubt, The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul, Starship Titanic Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace (x2), Anna Karenina, Hadji Murad, other collected short stories Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (x2, latter September 2005), Notes from Underground, Notes from the House of the Dead, The Idiot (all September 2005), The Devils (October 2005), The Brothers Karamazov (November 2005) Joseph Heller's Catch 22 (x2), Catch as Catch Can Alexander Solzhenitsyn's A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich, August 1914 (The Red Wheel) George Orwell's 1984 (x2), Animal Farm Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (x2) Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince Arthur C. Clarke's 2001, 2010, 2069, 3001, Rendezvous with Rama, Childhood's End (December 1st 2006) Philip K. Dick's The Penultimate Truth, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Man in the High Castle (x2), Ubik (Dec 4-5 2006), Galactic Pot Healer (September 2006), A Scanner Darkly (September 2006), and assorted short stories Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (May 04), Lila (December 25-29 04) Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse 5 (May 04), Timequake (August 2 2005), Galapagos (August 4 2005) Isaac Asimov's I, Robot, Prelude to Foundation, Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation, Foundation's Edge, Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, Robots of Dawn, Nemesis (all May 2004, except Caves and Nemesis were June 04 and the last two July 04), Foundation and Earth February 05 George Orwell's 1984 (x2) Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (x2) Herman Hesse's Siddhartha (June '04) Yann Martel's Life of Pi (December 30 04) Richard Feynman's Surely you're joking Mr Feynman, and 2 others. The others were Dec 04 Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago (June 26 2005) Plato's Republic (October 2005) [October 4 2005] Umberto Eco's Foucault Pendulum (October 2006) Joe Haldeman's Forever War - Dec 7 '06, Forever Peace and Camouflage Shakespeare: Cymbeline, Pericles,Winter's Tale - late Oct '06 Charles Dickens' Great Expectations - 2nd week Nov '06 Dan Simmons' Hyperion (October 2006), Fall of Hyperion (October 2006), Ilium (October 2006), Olympos (November 2006), Endymion (November 2006), Rise of Endymion (November 2006) Neil Gaiman's American Gods (December 2006) Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett Good Omens(2007) H.G. Wells' Invisible Man (2006), War of the Worlds Chuck Palahniuk's Survivor (2007) Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, The Green Hills of the Earth (2007) David Brin's Kiln People (2007) Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom(2007) Spider Robinson's Mindkiller(2007), By any other name(2007) William Gibson's Virtual Light(2007),Idoru(2007), All Tomorrow's Parties(2007) Eric Flint's 1632 and 1633 Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle The Mote in God's Eye(2007), The Gripping Hand(2007) Greg Bear The Forge of God(2007) Robert L Forward Rocheworld(2008) Books on tape (less thoroughly read): David Brin's Sundiver(2007), Startide Rising(2007), The Uplift War(2007) Philip Pullman The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass (2008) Robert Heinlein's The Door into Summer,Citizen of the Galaxy,Double Star,Glory Road,Farnham's Freehold,Job: A Comedy of Justice,Variable Star (with Spider Robinson)(2008) Richard Matheson's I am Legend (2008) William Gibson's Burning Chrome (2007), Neuromancer (2007), Pattern Recognition (2008) Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted(incomplete - disgusting) Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner (incomplete - boring) Larry Niven's Protector(2006), Ringworld(2006), The Ringworld Engineers(2006), The Ringworld Throne(2006), and Ringworld's Children(2006) Spider Robinson's The Callahan Chronicles (2008) Partially completed but unfinished because they were boring: Cervantes' Don Quixote James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |