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For some reason, in '95 I started writing down the books I read and when I started and finished them. Most of my reading takes place on buses, planes, subways, &c., so you can tell when I was commuting primarily by bike, i.e. I didn't read as much. Also, this doesn't include computer books or cookbooks as I rarely read those cover-to-cover, nor does it include books on tape. And I lost track between 2004 and 2006.
| Dancing with the Analysts | 14-Aug-08 - 15-Aug-08 | My father-in-law suggested I read this book. I found it rather poorly written, but the concepts within are fascinating. |
| The Case For Make Believe | 12-Aug-08 - 17-Aug-08 | Reading this right after reading Born to Buy was an excellent choice as the two books complement each other nicely, this book giving a more personal account of how consumer culture is damaging our children. |
| World Made By Hand | 11-Aug-08 - 12-Aug-08 | An alternately depressing and uplifting book about the post-fossil fuel age. Though I felt it ended without resolving a number of loose ends. |
| Born to Buy | 8-Aug-08 - 11-Aug-08 | An excellent book. If you're not consumed by a desire to smash your television, you're not paying attention. |
| Teaming With Microbes | 6-Jun-08 - 24-Jul-08 | The best gardening book I have ever read! |
| [Making a Killing] | 28-Jan-08 - 24-Apr-08 | A great book which picks up where Gary Francione leaves off. |
| The Shock Doctrine | Oct-07 - 29-Jan-08 | |
| Our Man in Belize | Aug-07 | |
| The Penitent (I.B. Singer) | Mar-07 | |
| Future Hype: The Myths of Technology Change | 4-Mar-07 - mid 07 | |
| The Botanist and the Vintner: How Wine Was Saved for the World | 26-Dec-06 - 3-Mar-07 | |
| [Prison Chickens, Poisoned Eggs] | Jan-07 | |
| Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned | - Oct-06 | |
| [The Hundred Year Lie] | Aug-06 | |
| Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything | Aug-06 | |
| Monstrous Regiment | May-06 | |
| The Long Emergency | ||
| The Primal Teen | early 05 | |
| The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century | ||
| Night Watch | ||
| Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust | 10-Apr-04 - Jul-04 | Wow! |
| [Visual Display of Quantitative Information] | 4-Mar-04 - 27-Mar-04 | |
| [Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom] | 27-Jan-04 - 7-Mar-04 | |
| Best Democracy Money Can Buy | 28-Jun-03 - late 04 | |
| Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture | 11-May-03 - | A great book, but too big to carry around. |
| The Food Revolution | 27-Mar-03 - 21-Apr-03 | |
| A Year in Provence | 15-Mar-03 - 24-Mar-03 | |
| Unequal Protection | 16-Feb-03 - 12-Mar-03 | |
| Fast Food Nation | 26-Jan-03 - 13-Feb-03 | |
| Carpe Jugulum | 19-Jan-03 - 26-Jan-03 | This is the best Pratchett book in the "witch" series (which I was never very fond of). One of his best of the last several years. |
| The Spiral Dance | Dec-02 - 17-Jan-03 | |
| Nickel and Dimed | 18-Nov-02 - Dec-02 | Depressing! What makes people tolerate this? Organized labour desperately needs to make a comeback. |
| The Tipping Point | 29-Oct-02 - 17-Nov-02 | |
| The Road to Mars | 20-Oct-02 - 25-Oct-02 | |
| Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation | 28-Sep-02 - 19-Oct-02 | |
| God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian | 21-Sep-02 | |
| The Botany of Desire | 29-Aug-02 - 21-Sep-02 | |
| The Last Hero | 20-Aug-02 - 24-Aug-02 | Fun, but not Pratchett's best storytelling. It comes across as prefunctory and dependent upon the illustrations (which are great). |
| Calculating God | Aug-02 | A fascinating book exploring the frontier between religion and science. |
| The Treasure Of Montségur | 4-Jul-02 - 21-Jul-02 | |
| Saint Francis by Nikos Kazantzakis | 17-Jun-02 - 30-Oct-02 | What an intense, brutal book! It hurt to read about how Francis tortured himself, and, ultimately brought around his own death. I suspect this is not the most balanced portrait of Francis, though, probably no worse that one written by apologists for the orthodoxy. |
| River Horse | May-02 - | I only read a few chapters before I had to leave on a trip and didn't want to carry such a large book. Unfortunately, I have yet to pick it back up. |
| Hope's Edge | - 11-Jul-02 | |
| Electric Vehicles | 23-Jan-02 - | I got bogged down in the technical details towards the end and gave up. |
| Recovering America | Jan-01 | |
| Underground Homes by Rob Roy | Dec-01 - | Interesting, but more technical details than I need or will use in the near future. Great for someone, unlike me, who has time, property and ability. |
| The New Independent Home | Nov-01 - Dec-01 | |
| Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book | 16-Jul-01 - | |
| American Gods | 25-Jun-01 - 7-Sep-01 | Here's another book that I wish was annotated, as much of the mythological references went over my head. A great book, though. |
| Lost Religion of Jesus | Jun-01 - 16-Sep-01 | A bit repetitive, and some of his conclusions are a bit shaky. Nevertheless it is very enlightening. |
| The Thief of Time | 15-May-01 - Jun-01 | |
| Slaughterhouse 5 | 4-May-01 - 15-May-01 | |
| Next of Kin | 7-Apr-01 - 1-May-01 | |
| Timequake | 20-Feb-01 - Apr-01 | |
| Frisco Pigeon Mambo | 2-Feb-01 - 20-Feb-01 | A hillarious book! |
| Diet for a New America | 27-Dec-00 - 24-Jan-01 | |
| Vegan Sourcebook | 24-Dec-00 - | |
| Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman | 2-Nov-00 - Dec-00 | |
| The Last Continent | 8-Sep-00 - 20-Sep-00 | Not one of Pratchett's best. |
| Asphalt Nation | 12-Aug-00 - | I found this to be a tedious read, especially when compared to The Geography of Nowhere |
| Ranting Again | 15-Jul-00 - 12-Aug-00 | |
| The Missionary Position Christopher Hitchens | 31-Jul-00 - 6-Aug-00 | How can you write a book against Mother Theresa? Christopher Hitchens has done it. |
| The Fifth Elephant | May-00 - 3-Jul-00 | |
| The Geography of Nowhere | 21-Apr-00 - 21-May-00 | Ironically, I was reading this on a trip to Silicon Valley, which is a prime example of the sprawl and cartoon architecture Kunstler (rightfully) rails against. |
| Hogfather | 14-Apr-00 - 21-Apr-00 | |
| Common Sense | Feb-00 - 15-May-00 | Read this on my Pilot |
| Spokesongs | - 13-Mar-00 | |
| Radio Free Albemuth | 4-Feb-00 - 13-Feb-00 | |
| The Tragedy of the Moon by Isaac Asimov | 1-Feb-00 - 4-Feb-00 | A fun read despite it being very dated ('73). |
| Sailing to Simplicity | - 31-Jan-00 | |
| Maskerade | 25-Jan-00 - 31-Jan-00 | |
| Royce's Sailing Illustrated | 13-Dec-99 - | More a reference book. And I wasn't really doing much sailing anymore. |
| High Tech Heretic | 29-Nov-99 - 11-Dec-99 | |
| Metal Cowboy | 16-Oct-99 - 28-Nov-99 | |
| Three Men in a Boat | 26-Sep-99 - 9-Jan-00 | Great fun. Read this on my Pilot. |
| Jingo | Sep-99 | |
| Interesting Times | I was disappointed. The heavy use of stereotypes made me cringe. | |
| The Mote in God's Eye | Jun - 1-Aug-99 | |
| The Wheels of Chance | 28-May - 13-Jun-99 | read this on my pilot |
| The Birth of Christianity | 99? | I didn't get very far into this: far too dry. |
| Born of a Woman | early 99 | Incredible! Spong is my hero! |
| Practical Junk Rig | 12-Oct - 27-Nov-98 | Someday I'll have a junk rigged sailboat. |
| Effective Cycling | 22-Aug - 9-Oct-98 | Every cyclist needs to read this book! Though is opinions on recumbents and rear-view mirrors are unfortunate. |
| Bike Cult | 5-Aug - 22-Aug-98 | Wow! Cycling played a bigger role in history that I thought. |
| The Mass Psychology of Fascism | 13-Jul-98 - | I really wanted to finish this, but it was just too heavy. |
| Voyaging on a Small Income | 4-Jun - 10-Jul-98 | |
| The Trouble with Dilbert | late May - 3-Jun-98 | |
| Canticle for Leibowitz | 25-Jan - mid-98 | A vivid imagining of the world after a nuclear war. Very sad. I wish there was an annotated version as much of the latin and Catholic references went over my head. |
| A Prostitute in the Family Tree by Douglas Adams | 12-Jan - 24-Jan-98 | No, not the same Douglas Adams (though, that's how I found the book). |
| COINTELPRO | 22-Dec-97 - 12-Jan-98 | |
| Spanish Civil War | 16-Dec - 22-Dec-97 | |
| Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan | 17-Sep-97 - 10-Nov-97 | |
| Sirens of Titan | 1-Sep - 7-Sep-97 | |
| Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan | 28-Jul-97 - 14-Sep-97 | Very good, though I thought he should have spent less time debunking alien abduction claims and more time on his "baloney detection kit". |
| Emotional Intelligence | I never got very far on this... though I should get back to it. | |
| Sacred Pleasure | 26-Mar-97 - May-97 | |
| Cat's Cradle | 5-Mar-97 - 11-Mar-97 | |
| Engineers and the Price System | 27-Jan-97 - 14-Feb-97 | A tough read due to the obtuse writing style. |
| Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time | 30-Dec-96 - 9-Jan-97 | |
| Looking Backwards | 19-Dec-96 - 29-Dec-96 | |
| Honest to Jesus | 6-Dec-96 - 19-Dec-96 | A Great Book! It repeats some of the material in The Five Gospels but is much more bold (since he isn't representing the entire Jesus Seminar here). |
| St. Francis of Assisi By Chesterton | 19-Nov-96 - 6-Dec-96 | From this book I learned that Chesterton is pretty full of himself and wasn't really interested in explaining much about Francis. |
| Technocrats: Prophets of Automation | 4-Nov-96 - 18-Nov-96 | A very revealing look at this movement and how it self-destructed. |
| Yoga Sutras | 14-Oct-96 - 2-Nov-96 | Given to me by my first Yoga teacher, [[Dave Monette]]. |
| The Psychedelic Revolution and Beyond | 9-Oct-96 - 11-Oct-96 | This was written by a Technocrat; the most suprising thing about it is that he was brave enough to hand it to other people. Yuck! |
| There But For Fortune | 27-Sep-96 - 8-Oct-96 | A great bio of Phil Ochs |
| Stranger in a Strange Land | 23-Aug-96 - 23-Sep-96 | |
| Living the Good Life | 6-Aug-96 - 21-Aug-96 | |
| The Flight of Peter Fromm | 4-Aug-96 - 6-Aug-96 | I picked this up in a library book sale because of the name Martin Gardner. I only got a few pages into it when I gave it to my (then) wife as it seemed more up her alley. |
| Designing your Edible Landscape | 12-Jul-96 - 4-Aug-96 | |
| Healing with Whole Foods | 26-Jun-96 - 12-Jul-96 | I checked this out from the library, and had to stop reading. I since bought a copy, and need to re-read it. This book is the one that first opened my mind to vegetarianism. |
| A Dream Deferred | 12-Jun-96 - 26-Jun-96 | |
| The Future is Abundant | 2-Jun-96 - 11-Jun-96 | A very rare book about sustainable agriculture with lots of info specific to the Pacific Northwest. |
| The Five Gospels | 22-Apr-96 - 2-Jun-96 | |
| America: What Went Wrong? | 2-Apr-96 - 22-Apr-96 | An excellent book about the horrendous shift in wealth to the upper classes that took place during the Reagan years. |
| A Gathering of Cranes | 28-Mar-96 - 2-Apr-96 | |
| The Turning Point | 8-Feb-96 - 27-Mar-96 | I got this after seeing the film "Mind Walk". |
| The Peace War | 2-Feb-96 - 8-Feb-96 | I read this on a trip to a GNU Conference where Vernor Vinge was supposed to be a speaker. He didn't show :-( Interesting concepts, but I couldn't quite get into his writing style. |
| X-Ray | 12-Jan-96 - 20-Feb-96 | Leave it to Ray Davies to write an "unauthorized autobiography"! Very inventive but strange. |
| Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | 7-Jan-96 - 12-Jan-96 | I got this from the library in an attempt to gain a better understanding of ZMM, but, in the end, I learned why I'm no good at philosophy. I gave up, muddled and confused. I should stick to writing code. |
| Beyond the Limits | 15-Dec-95 - 5-Jan-96 | An excellent follwup to ... |
| Limits to Growth | 5-Dec-95 - 15-Dec-95 | |
| The Peter Principle | 26-Nov-95 - 5-Dec-95 | |
| The Axemaker's Gift | 24-Oct-95 - 26-Nov-95 | |
| New World, New Mind | 11-Oct-95 - 30-Oct-95 | |
| Minstrels of the Dawn | 22-Sep-95 - 10-Oct-95 | |
| The Black Girl in Search of God | 11-Sep-95 - 15-Sep-95 | |
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Aug - 8-Sep-95 | This is the first book I wrote down in this list, probably because I felt it was a notable event. This is an amazing book, which had a subtle, but profound, effect on my life. Though I cannot adequately explain how. |
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | ||
| Scholar Warrior | ||
| Siddhartha | ||
| Chronicles of Tao | ||
| Permaculture Garden | ||
| Silicon Snake Oil |
