what are the books you read in 2009?

[PhosterPhoster]

i thought it woud be interesting to list the books everyone read during 2009. Here is my list, mostly contemporary fiction and poetry...

the ghost soldiers - james tate
the age of wire and string - ben marcus
dreams of a robot dancing bee - james tate
a temple of texts - william h gass
paradise - donald barthelme
the complete short prose, 1929-1989 - samuel beckett
the tunnel: selected poems - russell edson
where i'm calling from: selected stories - raymond carver
sixty stories - donald barthelme
you never know - ron padgett
omensetter's luck - william h gass
the king - donald barthelme
the tunnel - william h gass
ray - barry hannah
molloy, malone dies, the unnamable - samuel beckett
it was like my trying to have a tenderhearted nature - diane williams
return to the city of white donkeys - james tate
invisible cities - italo calvino
difficult loves - italo calvino
willful creatures - aimee bender
romancer erector - diane williams
excitability - diane williams
nightwork - christine schutt
geometric regional novel - gert jonke
homage to czerny - gert jonke
waiting for godot - samuel beckett
the crying of lot 49 - thomas pynchon
the sound and the fury - william faulkner
stories in the worst way - gary lutz
alphabets and birthdays - gertrude stein

 

[Wish]

Wow. That is truly impressive. I almost feel ashamed of myself

a clockwork orange - anthony burgess
dharma bums - jack kerouac
on the road - jack kerouac

 

[Agent Intellect]

"The Universe In A Nutshell" - Stephen Hawking
"Origins" - Neil Degrasse Tyson
"Death By Black Hole" - Neil Degrasse Tyson
"A Different Universe" - Robert Laughlin
"Why Does E=MC2" - Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
"Your Brain Is (Almost) Perfect" - Read Montague
"Blink" - Malcolm Gladwell
"How We Decide" - Jonah Lehrer
"The Root Of Thought" - Andrew Koob
"Godel, Escher, Bach" - Douglass Hofstadter
"Complexity: A Guided Tour" - Melanie Mitchell
"The Singularity Is Near" - Ray Kurzweil
"The Extended Phenotype" - Richard Dawkins
"On The Origin Of Species" - Charles Darwin
"How The Mind Works" - Steven Pinker
"Pygmy" - Chuck Palahniuk

I'm sure there are more, but I wrote this down off memory (I didn't feel like digging through my boxes of books).

 

[Decaf]

Books in italics were re-reads

His Majesty's Dragon (Naomi Novik)
Throne of Jade
Black Powder War
Empire of Ivory
Victory of Eagles
Dune (Frank Herbert)
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune
Heretics of Dune
Chapterhouse Dune
And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
Fearless Fourteen (Janet Evanovich)
Finger Lickin' Fifteen
The Pirate King (R. A. Salvatore)
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (C. S. Forester)
How to Brew (John Palmer)
Secrets of a Buccaneer Scholar (James Marcus Bach)
Too Nice for your Own Good (Duke Robinson)
Portraits of Type: An MBTI Research Compendium (Avril Thorne & Harrison Gough)
Psychology (Gillian Butler & Freda McManus)
Out of Our Minds (Ken Robinson)

Not as extensive as it looks. I listened to the Dune series on audio book (unabridged, so it still took a long time) and some of those books were pretty short.

 

[fullerene]

holy crap. I think all of you (besides wishing well) have read more books in the past year than I have in my entire life. Much harder ones, too.

 

[PhosterPhoster]

"The Extended Phenotype" - Richard Dawkins

oh i forgot i read the god delusion by dawkins also.

 

[PhosterPhoster]

Wow. That is truly impressive. I almost feel ashamed of myself

a clockwork orange - anthony burgess
dharma bums - jack kerouac
on the road - jack kerouac

i read a clockwork orange maybe four years ago? i remember being impressed that burgess essentially invented an entirely new slang. its tough to read that book and try to suppress the memory of the movie though. the movie was too intense.

 

[bananaphallus]

I read one book this year, and hated it.

Hello to All That - John Falk

 

[Thoughtful]

Bah. I don't read books. I read webpages, magazine articles, and newspapers.


Books This year:
Double star -Heinlein
Young Miles -Bujold
V for vendetta
Twelfth night (read for a book discussion group)
Macbeth (same)
Little brother -Doctorow
Probably a few others

 

[Sapphire Harp]

I've been keeping track all year because it amuses me - and sometimes it's a nice reference... which also means this list is exhaustive.

Introvert Advantage
Killing Rommel
Meditations
Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings
Illium

Olympos
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Great Philosophers
The Story of Tibet
Please Understand Me II

Many Lives, Many Masters
On Combat
Same Soul, Many Bodies
Meditation
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior
20th Century Ghosts
River Out Of Eden
The Case For Reincarnation
The Best Buddhist Writing - 2004

Soul Genome
Yellow Blue Tibia
The Paradox of Choice
The Time Traveler's Wife
Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation

A Deepness In The Sky
Old Souls
The Happyness Myth
Reincarnation: A Critical Examination
Hominids

God's Debris
A Fire Upon The Deep
The Practice Effect
Ringworld
Rainbow's End

The Fountains Of Paradise
Old Man's War
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Downbelow Station
The Gods Themselves

Rendezvous With Rama
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Also, if it weren't disgustingly long enough already, I probably read enough articles, journals, blogs, and news stories amounting to a third (maybe a half) as much material as well.
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[fullerene]

"cutting through spiritual materialism" sounds like it could be really cool...

 

[Sapphire Harp]

It was really good - both in its own Buddhist philosophy, as well as the generic application in other religions.

Snowqueen recommended it to me, actually. I think she said it was one of the best religious books she had ever encountered. Now having read it, I'm quite inclined to agree.

The shambhala book, on the other hand... not so much. Even though it's by the same author.
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[RubberDucky451]

Sapphire, how did you like The Gods Themselves?

I have it but i haven't started reading it.

 

[Sapphire Harp]

Ah... honestly I wasn't so impressed. I've read a few things by Asimov and his characters usually seem a bit flat to me - and this was definitely one of those cases.

There isn't very much tension to it - or at least I didn't connect very much with that. It rather had a feeling of someone working on a rubix cube, which you know will be solved eventually. And probably without too much cost.

That said, the major plot driver is interesting and one of the most scientifically solid concepts I've heard of, which is good. And, also - when you get to read the third section - learning about the moon culture he imagined is very good, too. Much greater differences than I had expected.

Overall, it was alright. I'm working my way through the Hugo award winners, so it kind of got a free ride because of that... but it's so-so. And, unfortunately, the ideas batted around in the story don't have all that much relevance today. At least, not the way they were presented.

Hopefully, that helps you make up you mind, Mr. Ducky.
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[Wish]

i read a clockwork orange maybe four years ago? i remember being impressed that burgess essentially invented an entirely new slang. its tough to read that book and try to suppress the memory of the movie though. the movie was too intense.

"Learning" the language he created was definitely one of my favorite parts of that book. Others have said that that was actually what turned them away from it because it was so difficult to understand, but seeing as his language is heavily influenced by Russian, and I understand a bit of Russian, it was almost like a game trying to figure out what Russian word(s) was/were used to create each respective word in his language.

I have never seen the movie; what do you mean the movie was too intense?

 

[Anthile]

*stares at the thread*

I don't remember a single book I read this year. There were quite a few and some of them were quite good but that's it.

 

[Kuu]

Oh for the love of google, how am I supposed to remember? I feel like I read so little this year, mostly college related stuff... but maybe it's just my hideous memory again... or that I've been pretty much off fiction for quite a while (just last night I half-seriously told a friend "literature is dead")...

I remember...
(re-reads in italics)

Guns Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Glass Architecture - Paul Scheerbart
Las Ciudades Invisibles - Italo Calvino
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth - Buckminster Fuller
The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander
Ideas That Shaped Buildings - Fil Hearn
Analysing Architecture - Simon Unwin
Theory and Design in the First Machine Age - Reyner Banham
Architecture as Space - Bruno Zevi
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
La Idea Construida - Alberto Campo Baeza
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Conversations With Students - Louis I. Kahn

+ a bunch of H.P. Lovecraft stories, and half-readings of about half-dozen other books.

Hopefully next year I shall read at least twice as much... already I have a stack of 13 books waiting to be read next to my bed...

 

[PhosterPhoster]

I have never seen the movie; what do you mean the movie was too intense?

the movie is a whole other animal, stanley kubrick directed. the rape scenes were very disturbing to a lot of people. very controversial when it came out and was withdrawn from theaters. i think it was originally rated X or something. i had seen the movie before reading the book. i liked the movie a lot, its classic kubrick, but i can understand people's digust of it.

 

[PhosterPhoster]

Oh for the love of google, how am I supposed to remember? I feel like I read so little this year, mostly college related stuff... but maybe it's just my hideous memory again... or that I've been pretty much off fiction for quite a while (just last night I half-seriously told a friend "literature is dead")...

I remember...
(re-reads in italics)

Guns Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Glass Architecture - Paul Scheerbart
Las Ciudades Invisibles - Italo Calvino
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth - Buckminster Fuller
The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander
Ideas That Shaped Buildings - Fil Hearn
Analysing Architecture - Simon Unwin
Theory and Design in the First Machine Age - Reyner Banham
Architecture as Space - Bruno Zevi
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
La Idea Construida - Alberto Campo Baeza
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Conversations With Students - Louis I. Kahn

+ a bunch of H.P. Lovecraft stories, and half-readings of about half-dozen other books.

Hopefully next year I shall read at least twice as much... already I have a stack of 13 books waiting to be read next to my bed...

this is an interesting list. unbearable lightness, i read that so long ago i dont even remember it. and nietzsche. i've got to read more philosophy.. 2010

goodreads.com is an interesting tool for tracking books you read. thats how i know my list from the year.

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

Trying to remember what I read in the confines of a set period of time is hard for me. Plus I just don't remember it all and most of my books are either packed or I gave away so I can't go look either. So here's a partial list by genre (and I may get the titles a little wrong):

Sci-fi: Downbelow Station
Cyteen
40,000 in Gehenna
Merchanter's Luck
Cuckoo's Egg
The Lost Fleet series (I think there were six)
The Engines of God
Deepsix
Chindi
Judas Unchained
Runner

Classics: The Prince and the Pauper
The Pearl
Moll Flanders
Silas Marner
tried to read the Aeneid but ugh.

History: Enemy at the Gates
Stalingrad
Who's Who of the Middle Ages
Civil War Stories
The Battle of Verdun
The History of the Middle Ages

General Fiction: Hocus Pocus
....and now I draw a blank. There were quite a few more as I generally finish a book a week at least.

 

[ckm]

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Goddesses in Everywoman / Gods in Everyman by Jean Shinoda Bolen

I feel like an abomination.

In my defense though, I'm juggling about six nonfiction books that I got for Christmas at the moment.

 

[RubberDucky451]

Ah... honestly I wasn't so impressed. I've read a few things by Asimov and his characters usually seem a bit flat to me - and this was definitely one of those cases.

There isn't very much tension to it - or at least I didn't connect very much with that. It rather had a feeling of someone working on a rubix cube, which you know will be solved eventually. And probably without too much cost.

That said, the major plot driver is interesting and one of the most scientifically solid concepts I've heard of, which is good. And, also - when you get to read the third section - learning about the moon culture he imagined is very good, too. Much greater differences than I had expected.

Overall, it was alright. I'm working my way through the Hugo award winners, so it kind of got a free ride because of that... but it's so-so. And, unfortunately, the ideas batted around in the story don't have all that much relevance today. At least, not the way they were presented.

Hopefully, that helps you make up you mind, Mr. Ducky.
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Thanks. I haven't really read a lot of Asimov but I'm trying to get through classic sci fi.

Could you recommend any good sci fi books?

 

[Ermine]

Hmmm. I don't keep track of what I read too well, but here goes.

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (I think I read this one just to say I did...)
Godel, Escher, Bach (I only read part of it. As interesting as it was, it was very hard to follow, especially in the sections focusing on math and computer science. I only know high school level math, so this was pretty incomprehensible at the time.)
Anathem - Neal Stephensen (Also partially read. I got through 2/3 of it, but I couldn't find it anywhere in the university or public library when I went to college. Now that I'm back at home until April, I'll have to track it down.)
Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (Can't believe I didn't read this sooner!)
In Pursuit of Elegance - Matthew E. May
Silence - Shusaku Endo
Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
Idea Spotting - Sam Harrison
Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman (a good read, good explanation of emotions for us rational INTPs. )
The Artist's Way - Julia Cameron (partially read, but it's a kind of book you consult, rather than read cover to cover. I highly recommend it. )
Twilight (I wanted to see what the hype was all about...)
Looking Out, Looking In (It was my roommate's textbook for her Interpersonal Communications class. It was possibly the most interesting textbook I've read, and probably the only one I've read cover to cover.)
Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas (partially read, but this is the third or fourth time I've read it now.)

And I'm currently reading Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde. Very fun read, and has plenty of lines I want to put in my arsenal of wit.

 

[PhosterPhoster]

Anathem - Neal Stephensen (Also partially read. I got through 2/3 of it, but I couldn't find it anywhere in the university or public library when I went to college. Now that I'm back at home until April, I'll have to track it down.)

did you like what you read of it? i was kind of turned off by anathem's premise so i never put it on my read list. i loved cryptonomicon (one of my favorite sci fi novels (if its even sci fi)), but anathem seems like he's getting a little too orwellian or something, and i tend to turn away from fiction that tries to make vast political/ethical statements. the baroque cycle didn't keep me interested past the first one. anyway.

 

[Ghost1986]

first 3 of the vampire Chronicles-Ann rice
the world war trilogy-harry turtledove
time line 191 series-harry turtledove
the night angel trilogy- Brent weeks
8 texts books at least
mans search for meaning- viektor frankle
hitman enemy within
blood lines

 

[Gunnarsson]

"Normal" books:

The hunt for Red october - Tom Clancy
The stand - Stephen king
Thunderpoint/On dangerous ground/Angel of death - Jack Higgins
Various books written by Clive Cussler

Other:

Competition car composites
Competition car aerodynamics
Race car aerodynamics
Tune to win
Two stroke performance tuning
Four stroke performance tuning
Modern engine tuning
Forced induction performance tuning
Maximum boost
Motorcycle design and technology
Fiberglass and other composite materials
The fiberglass boat repair manual


This is the kind of books I like reading...


Hey, anyone who can figure out what my interests are?

 

[flow]

Ugh, I hardly read any books this year (started few, finished fewer). Would you guys care to include your 'favorite' book of the year? I'd be more inclined to investigate such titles.. these lists intimidate me.

 

[Dormouse]

Well, this is intimidating.

Um, I read way too much children's fiction. Though this year I really tried to read more non-fiction... Sadly I didn't get through many of the books. Damn library only lends 'em out for a couple of weeks.

Hmm, I don't remember enough to make a list. But I am reading Guns, Germs and Steel, and I wonder what you people think of it? I was talking to one friend who hadn't read the book but knew the theory, and she thought it was total bullshit. Made sense to me, though. Am I missing something?

 

[Ermine]

Well, this is intimidating.

Um, I read way too much children's fiction. Though this year I really tried to read more non-fiction... Sadly I didn't get through many of the books. Damn library only lends 'em out for a couple of weeks.

Hmm, I don't remember enough to make a list. But I am reading Guns, Germs and Steel, and I wonder what you people think of it? I was talking to one friend who hadn't read the book but knew the theory, and she thought it was total bullshit. Made sense to me, though. Am I missing something?

I read that book a while ago, and I thought it made sense in the past, but it isn't an excuse for developing nations now. So they didn't have domesticated animals? Ship them in from elsewhere. Less than forgiving climate? There are more things out there than agriculture. Trade for what you don't have. Good explanation though.

 

[PhosterPhoster]

Ugh, I hardly read any books this year (started few, finished fewer). Would you guys care to include your 'favorite' book of the year? I'd be more inclined to investigate such titles.. these lists intimidate me.

my favorite of the year, probably the tunnel by william h gass, or beckett's m,m,u. Although these are pretty difficult to get into unless you read a lot of experimental (ie. plotless) fiction. what i read that i would reccommend are the tunnel: selected poems by russell edson and return to the city of white donkeys by james tate. Both are poetry collections, but both have a style that is less like poetry and more like little quirky surreal anecdotes.

 

[hope]

So many
Demian Steppenwolf(forum recommendation) beneath the wheel Herman Hesse
Codex Alera all by Jim Butcher
Anthem by Ayn Rand
The lost symbol dan brown
by schism rent asunder david weber
blink tipping point outliers malcolm gladwell
The algebraist and matter by ian m banks
The magic engineer and a bunch more by somebody
assassin's apprentice and assassin's(2nd book) by robbin hobb
in school: some book about a flood in virginia
The Audacity of HOPE by Barack Obama
some go books
a bunch more i cant tell you off the top of my head

 

[Latro]

The 4 ASOIAF books are all I can think of outside of school readings.

I ought to read more on my own...I have plans to read a little Orson Scott Card but idk where I'd go after that.

 

[Darby]

I fail, I think I finished zero, but I started quite a lot, and got about 3/4 of the way through most

The Diamond Age
Anathem
Shogun
A Clockwork Orange
1984(I'm ashamed I didn't read it before)
A Brief History Of Time
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!
The God Delusion
The Blank Slate

and probably others

Favorite book? umm...well...I thought they were all ok, none of them were "blow your mind" fantastic though

 

[Cavallier]

I keep starting Anathem and then setting it down...*must finish*

Dreams of Trespass - Fatima Mernissi
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
Hunger Games, Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
Graceling, Fire - Kristin Cashore
Dies the Fire series (4 books?) - Stirling
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day - Jeff Hertxberg, Zoe Francois
The Book of Dead Philosophers - Simon Critchley
Bhagavad Gita - translator Stephen Mitchell
Chronicles of the Black Company - Glen Cook
Angel's Game, Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Making Money - Terry Pratchett
The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
Rimbaud - Edmund White
Wandering on the Way - Mair
Selected Verse - Federico Garcia Lorca
A thousand Words for Stranger - Czerneda
The Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell
Zandru's Forge - Marion Zimmer Bradley, Deborah J Ross
Perfumes The Guide - Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez
Wild Sourdough - Yoke Mardewi
The Best of America's Test Kitchen
Introvert's Advantage - Marti Olsen Laney
Nerds - ?
Best Meat Recipes - Cook's Illustrated Editors

I know there are more but like everybody else I can't remember them right now. Yes, I do read cook books cover to cover.

Edit: My favorite was/is The Perfume Guide. I bought it simply for the carefully created perfume descriptions. It gives me great writing ideas.

 

[Reverse Transcriptase]

I think I might just use Saphire Harp's & IB's lists as "to read" lists on my own.


and comeon......... fuck, I have no idea where to start. My finished-reading bookshelf is in another state. Not to mention I lend out books when I finish with them.....

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

I think I might just use Saphire Harp's & IB's lists as "to read" lists on my own.

Not sure I'd recommend all from my list!

 

[Sapphire Harp]

Mine either, really. :P

Books from my list I would absolutely NOT recommend: Meditation by Brian Weiss, The Case For Reincarnation, and Reincarnation: A Critical Examination.

Others I'd somewhat to strongly recommend skipping... The Practice Effect, River Out of Eden, Killing Rommel, and Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior.

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Just as a general comment - unless you happen to be buying most or all of the books you're reading - you really have to keep track through the year else you'll never remember. Not completely. But I find it kind of fun - each time you add to the list you can pretend you're accomplishing something.

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You know, Cavalier... I think I had the Chronicles of The Black Company recommended to me not too long ago. How did you enjoy it?
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[ashitaria]

Theres so many I can't state them all!

Hm...

The Alex Rider Series (My favorite all-time!)

The Leviathian

The Fablehaven Series

The Harry Potter Series

Psychology and You

Managing People: What's Personality to do with it?

Have you truly been born again?

The Eragon series

Lord of the Flies

The Gatekeeper series

The Alchemist

The Last Dragon

The Peter Pan series

House on Mango Street

The series about Gregory Underworld (or something like that)

Deptford Mice

Chronicles of the Fallen Sword

And so many more that I can't remember.....

 

[Puffy]

Excluding stuff I read for academic reasons.

Puckoon- Spike Milligan (Owner of possibly the funniest epitaph "I told you I was ill" classic!)
The Prince- Machiavelli
Red Dragon- Thomas Harris
Some sort of introduction to Jung
Romance of the Three Kingdoms vol.1- Lo Kuan Chung
The Art of War- Sun Tzu
Song of Susannah- Stephen King
The Odessa File- Frederick Forsyth

Actually more than I thought I had

My favourite was Red Dragon.

 

[Synoptist]

Well, these are the ones I can remember right now.

Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Candide - Voltaire
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Complete Idiot's guide to Philosophy - Jay Stevenson
Philosophy: 100 Essential Thinkers - Philip Stokes
Days Without Number - Robert Goddard
Celsius 7/7 - Michael Gove
Brass - Helen Walsh
Language: The Basics - RL Trask
Armchair Economist - Steven Landsburgh
Undercover Economist - Tim Harford
Accidental Theorist - Paul Krugman
Everlasting Light Bulbs - How Economics Illuminates The World - John Kay

 

[tashi]

I really did not read very much last year, due to massive ammounts of school work, stress ect.... So it's going to be rather short. I'm also fairly certain that I'm going to be forgetting quite a bit.

Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
Lucy, The Beginings of Humankind -Donald Johanson
The Hunchback of Notre Dame- Victor Hugo
A Brief History of Time- Stephen Hawkings
Sphere- Michael Crichton
Jurassic Park 1- Michael Crichton
Jurrassic Park 2- Michael Crichton
Beast- Donna Jo Napoli
Saving Fish From Drowning- Amy Tan
Red Dragon-Thomas Harris
The Girl With The Pearl Earring
The Little Friend
Of Mice and Men
There's like 5 or 6 more, but I can't remeber the names or authors....

 

[ElderToadstool]

The Dark Tower series - Stephen King
It - Stephen King
The Stand - Stephen King
Eyes of the Dragon - Stephen King
The Langoliers - Stephen King
Acid Dreams - Martin A. Lee & Bruce Shlain
The Puppet Masters - Robert A. Heinlein
Man and His Symbols - C.G. Jung
Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
The Aleph and Other Stories - Jorge Luis Borges
VALIS - Philip K. Dick
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. Dick
Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said- Philip K. Dick
The Philip K. Dick Reader - Philip K. Dick
The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard - J.G. Ballard
The Executioners - John D. MacDonald
To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip Jose Farmer
Call of the Wild - Jack London
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Dark Crusade - Karl Edward Wagner
Lean Times in Lankhmar - Fritz Leiber
Say You Love Satan - David St. Clair
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Welcome to Monkey-House - Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Babel-17 - Samuel R. Delaney
The Three Impostors - Arthur Machen
Ancient Sorceries - Algernon Blackwood
The Last Incantation - Clark Ashton Smith
Best of Henry Kuttner - Henry Kuttner
Cold Print - Ramsey Campbell
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carrol
The Ginger Star - Leigh Brackett
The Gods of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs
City of the Beast - Michael Moorcock
Dragons of Eden - Carl Sagan
The Story of Quantum Mechanics - Victor Guillemin
Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

 

[NoID10ts]

It seems like there were others, but I don't recall at the moment...........

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul - Douglas Adams
Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams
Salmon of Doubt - Douglas Adams
Self Editing for Fiction Writers - Renni Brown and Dave King
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
Line By Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing - Claire Kehrwald Cook
The Greatest Show on Earth - Richard Dawkins
Misquoting Jesus - Bart Ehrman
Jesus, Interrupted - Bart Ehrman
The End of Faith - Sam Harris
A Briefer History of Time - Stephen Hawking
God is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens
The Missionary Position - Christopher Hitchens
The Portable Atheist- Christopher Hitchens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Bird By Bird - Anne Lamott
The Forest for the Trees - Betsy Lerner
The First Five Pages - Noah Lukeman
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
Pygmy - Chuck Palahniuk
Rant - Chuck Palahniuk
Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Supersense by Bruce M. Hood is the first book of 2010 ..........

 

[Xel]

Books
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Fatal Purity by Ruth Scurr
The Republic by Plato
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Dune by Frank Herbert
Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche
Valis by Philip K. Dick

Comics
Batman: Year One by Frank Miller
The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
Sin City No. 1 by Frank Miller
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Logic: A Graphic Guide by Dan Cryan

Essays and Short Writings
Introduction to Metaphysics by Martin Heidegger
The Origin of the Work of Art by Martin Heidegger
The Question Concerning Technology by Martin Heidegger
Gospel of Mark
Gospel of Matthew
Gospel of Luke
Gospel of John
Gospel of Thomas
Gospel of Philip
Gospel of Truth
Apocryphon of John

Short Stories
The Call of Cthulhu by HP Lovecraft
The Shadow Over Innsmouth by HP Lovecraft
History of the Necronomicon by HP Lovecraft
The Colour Out of Space by HP Lovecraft
Dagon by HP Lovecraft

Books I tried to read but didn't finish
21st Century Economy: A Beginner's Guide by Randy Charles Epping
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis
The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
Beowulf (still working on it)
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (finished now)
Acts of the Apostles (still working on it)
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
The Parallax View by Slavoj Zizek
Jesus Remembered by James Dunn

 

[intuitivet]

Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore
Norwegian Wood

Terry Goodkind
Pillars of Creation
Naked Empire

Isaac Asimov
Naked Sun

Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray

Bret Easton Ellis
The Informers
Glamorama

Other
Social Psychology book (non fiction)

 

[BigApplePi]

I'm amazed some of you have read so many books! Don't understand why "A Clockwork Orange" came up so often. That came out some time ago. Coincidence or school assignment?

I started a few non-fictions but can't finish any of them. I keep thinking, "What about this"? When the author doesn't answer I get bogged down in other details.

I sorely neglect fiction. It is competing with my Tivo and movie rentals.