Things I've read recently...

Death by PowerPoint: a modern office survival guide - Michael Flocker
The Omnivore's Dilema - Michael Pollan
The Know It All - A.J. Jacobs
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right - Al Franken
The Secret Life of Lobnsters - Trevor Corson
Flight Maps - Jennifer Price
Wolves & Honey - Susan Brind Morrow
Waiting for Aphrodite - Susan Hubbell
The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization - Patrick J. Buchanan
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Catcher in the Rhye - J.D. Salinger
Anthem - Ayn Rand
Captain Alatriste - Arturo Perez-Reverte
Innumeracy: mathematical illiteracy and its consequences - John Allen Paulos
Wolves & Honey : A Hidden History of the Natural World - Susan Brind Morrow
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut
Fantastic Mr. Fox - Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator - Roald Dahl
A Murder, A mystery, And A Funeral - Mark Twain
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr.
On Drink - Kingsley Amis
Tulipomania - the story of the world's most coveted flower & the extraordinary passions it aroused - Mike Dash
Flight Paths : Adventures with Nature In Modern America - Jennifer Price
The Rum Diary - Hunter S Thompson
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
The Two Cultures: and a second look - C. P. Snow
Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud - Robert L. Park
Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Neil Gaiman
"Izaak Walton" and "Doctor Johnson" - Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa
Ex-Libris - Ross King
Out of the Flames : The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of theRarest Books in the World - Lawrence & Nancy Goldstone
Joy In the Morning - Betty Smith
Circles : Fifty Roundtrips Through History Technology Science Culture - James Burke
An Obsession With Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect - by Sharman Apt Russell
Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There - David Brooks
God Knows - Joseph Heller
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly : A Memoir of Life in Death- Jean-Dominique Bauby
Factotum - Charles Bukowski
"Pretty Reflections," Darryl E. Haley, Phd
Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
Hot Water Music - Charles Bukowski
Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut
" Notes On 'Camp' " - Susan Sontag
A Perverse History of the Human Heart - Milad Doueihi
She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
All Familes Are Psychotic - Douglas Coupland
Fast Food Nation: the Dark Side of the All-American Meal - Eric Schlosser
Tolkien and the Great War: the Threshold of Middle-Earth - John Garth
User Error: Resisting Computer Culture - Ellen Rose
"Fishhead" - Irvin S. Cobb
Mutant Message Down Under - Marlo Morgan
Space: A Memoir - Jesse Lee Kercheval
To Kill a Mockingbird - by Harper Lee
"Sincerity in Art" - Aldous Huxley
Barabbas - Par Lägerkvist
I Dream of Microwaves: Stories - Imad Rahman
Zalmen, or The Madness of God - Elie Wiesel
The Blade Runner - Alan E. Nourse
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
The Search for Roots: A Personal Anthology - Primo Levi (trans. Peter Forbes, afterward by Italo Calvino)
One Hundred Years of Solitude - by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology - Lawrence Weschler
Memento Mori - Jonathan Nolan
Simplified Celestrial Navigation - Maxwell Kelch
The Miraculous Fever Tree : Malaria and the Quest for a Cure That Changed the World- Fiammetta Rocco
"What Is Pure English? " - Brander Matthews
The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells
The Elephant Calf - Bertolt Brecht (trans. Eric Bentley)
The Informer - Bertolt Brecht (trans. Eric Bentley)
In Search of Justice - Bertolt Brecht (trans. Eric Bentley)
The Jewish Wife - Bertolt Brecht (trans. Eric Bentley)
The Victorian Internet - The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers - Tom Standage
King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
Night - Elie Wiesel
Range of Motion - Elizabeth Berg
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn - Betty Smith
A Cook's Tour: in search of the perfect meal - Anthony Bourdain
"Wilkie Fahnstock: The Boxed Set" - Rick Moody (from Demonology)
"Boys" - Rick Moody (from Demonology)
Cavalier in Buckskin : George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier - Robert M. Utley (revised ed.)
In The Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food - Stewart Lee Allen
Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened And Why Do They Say It? - Michael Shermer & Alex Grobman
University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers: H. L. Mencken - Philip Wagner
Denying The Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory - Deborah Lipstadt
Shanghai: The Rise And Fall of a Decadent City - Stekka Dong
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution - Christopher R. Browning
Memories of Silk And Straw: A Self-Portrait of Small-Town Japan - Dr. Junichi Saga
The Abominable Pig - Marvin Harris
What Is The Meaning Of Santa Claus - Warren O. Hagstrom
The Motives of Hamlet - Theodore Caplow
One Good Turn: A Natural History Of The Screwdriver And The Screw - Witold Rybczynski
Taming The Tiger: The Struggle To Control Technology - Witold Rybczynski
Belief or Nonbelief?: A Confrontation - Umberto Eco & Cardinal Carlo-Maria Martini
Angels & Demons - Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
From The Defence and Illustrations of the French Language - Joachim du Bellay (trans. Gladys M Turquet - selections from The Norton Anth. of Theory & Criticism)
The Immoralist - André Gide
Summer in Algiers - Albert Camus
Farenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
The DaVinci Code- Dan Brown
The Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict- the Maori, the British, and the New Zealand Wars - James Belich
The devil's Details: a history of footnotes - Chuck Zerby
Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
"No home but the heart's hut" : thematic development in the poetry of Dave Smith - Julia Cyphers West
Roundhouse voices : selected and new poems - Dave Smith
Modern Science and Modern Man - James B. Conant
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway
Making Mortal Choices: Three Exercises in Moral Casuistry - Hugo Adam Bedau
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemmingway
Watchmen - Alan Moore, Barry Marx (Editor), Dave Gibbons (Illustrator)
Lying Awake - Mark Salzman
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
The Time Machine -H. G. Wells
Alice in Wonderland (Annotated) -Lewis Carroll (Martin Gardner)
Angels & Insects: two novellas - Morpho Eugenia - A. S. Byatt
Anti-semite and Jew - Jean-Paul Sartre
Plato in 90 minutes - Paul Strathern
The Consolation of Philosophy - Boethius
The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley
The Fencing Master - Arturo Perez-Reverte
Zero: the biography of a dangerous idea - Charles Seife
The Murders In The Rue Morgue - Edgar Allan Poe
Maimonides: his wisdom for our time - (ed. & trans.) Gilbert S. Rosenthal
The Memorandum - Václar Havel
Personalities & Problems Vol. I: Interpretive Essays In World Civilizations - Ken Wolf
The Great Arc- the dramatic tale of how India was mapped and Everest was named - John Keay
How Proust Can Change Your Life - Alain De Botton
The Tao of Leadership: leadership strategies for a new age - John Heider
The Snail and the Medusa: further observations of a biology watcher - Thomas Lewis
Richelieu and the French Monarchy - C.V. Wedgwood
The Factor - Bill O'Reilly
The Naked Ape - Desmond Morris
Lives Of A Cell: notes of a biology watcher - Thomas Lewis
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
Life Is a Miracle: An Essay against Modern Superstition - Wendell Berry
King Lear -William Shakespeare
The Botany of Desire: a plant's eye view of the world - Michael Pollan
Holidays on Ice - David Sedaris
Lord of the Flies- William Golding
Romeo & Juliet - William Shakespeare
The Last Judgment - Karel Capek
"In the Bedroom" - Guy De Maupassant (trans. Roger Colet)
"Mouche" - Guy De Maupassant (trans. Roger Colet)
"Boule de Suif" - Guy De Maupassant (trans. Roger Colet)
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
Beertie Wooster Sees It Through - P.G. Wodehouse
Seagoing - Jonathan Raban
The Return of Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse
Rossum's Universal Robots - Karel Capek
Chasing Cézanne - Peter Mayle
Toujours Provence - Peter Mayle
A Year in Provence - Peter Mayle
Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand (trans. Brian Hooker)
The Grand Inquisitor - Fydor Dostoevsky
Goodbye To a River - John Graves
The Giver - Lois Lowry
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
1984 - George Orwell
Lost Souls - Clive Barker
Animal Life - Clive Barker
Shakespeare in the Bush - Laura Bohannan
Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Palm Sunday - Kurt Vonnegut
The Act of Philosophy - Josef Pieper
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
The Little Book of Zen - Manuela Dunn Mascetti & Timothy Hugh Barrett
The Judgement - Franz Kafka
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son - J.R.R. Tolkien (essay)
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Essential Rumi - (trans.) Coleman Barks & John Moyne
Pudd'nhead Wilson - Mark Twain
From a Limestone Ledge - John Graves
Don Juan - Moliere
Data Smog: surviving the information glut - David Shenk
The Age of Missing Information - Bill McKibbean
Frank Lloyd Wright : America's master architect -
Kathryn Smith
Five By Endo - Shusaku Endo
Leisure the Basis of Culture - Josef Pieper
Hermes Guide of Souls - Karl Kerenyi
Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare
The Professor & the Siren - Giuseppe Tomasi de
Lampedusa
English Literature - Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa
Waiting for the Weekend - Witold Rybczynski
The Dream of the Red Chamber - Cao Xueqin
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
Brave New World Revisted - Aldous Huxley
The Three Muskateers - Alexandre Dumas
Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Studies in Words - CS Lewis
Interzone - William S Burroughs
The Flanders Panel - Arturo Perez-Reverte
Jonathon Livingston Seagull, a story - Richard Bach
(photograhs by Russell Munson)
A Midsummer's Night Dream - William Shakespeare
Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban- J.K. Rowling
The Abolition of Man - C.S. Lewis
A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning - James V. Schall,
S.J.
"The Zero Clue" - Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe short
story)
Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
Ideas Have Consequences - Richard Weaver
Topology - a first course - James R Munkres (section on
set theory)
History In English Words - Owen Barfield
The Island of Doctor Moreau - H.G. Wells
Autobiographical Reflections - Eric Voegling
73 poems - e. e. cumings
Jewish Poets of Spain - trans. David Goldstein
BFG - Roald Dahl
Jacobson's Organ and the Remarkable Nature of Smell -
Lyall Watson
Hokusai - One Hundred Poets - George Braziller
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis
The Way To Love: the last meditations of Anthony De Mello -
Anthony De Mello
The Te of Piglet - Benjamin Hoff
Being Digital - Nicholas Negroponte
Men Are From Mars, Women are from Venus - John Gray, Phd.
Recovery of Political Theory: limits and possibilities -
William C Havard (following sections)
    I.  Disenchantment of
Intellectuals
   VI. Voegeliln's Changing Conception of
History and Conciousness
   VII. Notes on Voegelin's Contributions to
Politcal Theory
The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi (trans.
Nicolas J Perella)
And More By Andy Rooney - Andrew A. Rooney
Harry Potter and The Secret Chamber - J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling
Non Zero (the logic of human destiny) - Robert Wright
The Recovery of Political Theory: limits & possibilties -
William C. Havard
The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
Girlfriend In A Comma - Douglas Coupland
Haiku Moment: an anthology of contemporary North American
haiku - ed. Bruce Ross
The Tipping Point: how little things can make a big diffrence
- Malcom Gladwell
The Orchid Thief - Susan Orlean
Beowulf: The Monster and the Critics - JRR Tolkien
Introducing Stephen Hawkings - JP McEvoy & Oscar
Zarate
The History of Pirates - Angus Konstam
Why The North Won The Civil War - David Donald (editor)
Black Elk Speaks - John G Neidhardt
Tell Me The Truth About Love - WH Auden
Burning Chrome (short story) - William Gibson
The Wisdom of the Sufi Sages - Timothy Freke
Generation X: tales for an accelerated culture - Douglas
Coupland
Mondo 2000: users guide to the new edge - Rudy Rucker,
R.U. Sirius & Queen Mu
The Power of Now - Vivek Ranadive'
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Polaroids from the Dead - Douglas Coupland
The Teacher-The Mind - Thomas Aquinas
Shampoo Nation - Douglas Coupland
Ants At Work - Deborah Gordon
The Wit and Wisdom of Lewis Grizzard - Lewis Grizzard
Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
Bhagavadgita (Unabriged)
Turks, Moors, and Englishmen (in the age of discovery) -
Nabil Matar
Life 101 - Colleen L Reece & Julie Reece
In The beginning... Was the Command Line - Neal Stephenson
Believe and Achieve: W. Clement Stone's 17 Principles of
Success - Samuel A. Cypert
Calendar: Humanity's epic struggle to determine a true and
accurate year - David Ewing Duncan
The Club Dumas - Arturo Perez-Reverte
Hero With a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
The Seville Communion - Arturo Perez-Reverte
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Plato - The Symposium - trans. Christopher Gill
High Tech Heretic: why computers don't belong in the classroom
& other reflections by a computer contrarian - Clifford
Stoll
Some of the Dharma - Jack Kerouac
Plato - Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo - trans. F.J.
Church
Manchurian Candidate - Richard Condon
Tales of the Dervishes - Idries Shah
Haikus: This Other World -Richard Wright
Unseen Rain (Quatrains of Rumi) - John Moyne & Coleman
Barks
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -Robert Pirsig
Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Billy Budd -Herman Melville
Clan Novel: Gangrel -Gherrod Fleming
Brave New World -Aldous Huxley
If You Meet The Buddha On The Road, Kill Him! -Sheldon
Kopp
The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
Virtual Light -William Gibson
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
The Pinball Effect - James Burke
The Overcoat and Other Short Stories -Nikolai Vasilevich
Gogol
The Professor and the Madman -Simon Winchester
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy -Douglas Adams