All images are Copyright © James W. Blilie, 2016:  All rights reserved       Back to Main Photo Page   This page is a listing of all the books I've read (that I can remember for sure reading and that are worth mentioning*). I didn't know how many I had actually read; but I knew the number is large.  I will continue to add to this list as I read books and as I remember others I've read.   I was inspired to do this by looking at Chip Codella's website:  http://sylvio-codella.squarespace.com/   I would say that these were all worth reading.  I have added a "rating" column (5-point scale, 1 being poor, 5 being great); and I will also add some comments about each one (that will take quite a bit of time and is a low priority right now).  They are all listed in alphabetical order by author's last name.  I've read much more poetry than is listed here; but I can't remember all the books.  I have listed almost no short stories, though I've read a lot of them.  I also have listed no:  Drama, text books, technical books, reference, manuals, etc.:  These are only general-interest books.  Of course, it's in a spreadsheet!  I'm an engineer, what can I say?   CORE book list   Ratings: 1 = Poor 2 = Below average 3 = Average 4 = Above average 5 = Excellent   Edward Abbey, The Brave Cowboy , Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Edward Abbey, Fire on the Mountain , Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Edward Abbey, Black Sun , Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang , Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Edward Abbey, Good News , Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Edward Abbey, The Fool's Progress , Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Edward Abbey, Hayduke Lives , Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Edward Abbey, Earth Apples: The Poetry of Edward Abbey , Type: Poetry, Rating = 3 Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness , Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Edward Abbey, Appalachian Wilderness , Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Edward Abbey, Slickrock , Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Edward Abbey, The Journey Home , Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Edward Abbey, Abbey's Road , Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Edward Abbey, Desert Images , Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Edward Abbey, Down the River , Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Edward Abbey, Beyond the Wall , Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Edward Abbey, One Life at a Time, Please , Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness: Notes from a Secret Journal , Type: Journals, Rating = 3 Edward Abbey, Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey, 1951–1989 , Type: Journals, Rating = 4 Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed, Type: Letters, Rating = 5 Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Caroline Alexander, The Bounty, Type: History, Rating = 4 Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nomad, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Terry Anderson, The Movement and the Sixties, Type: History, Rating = 4 Roy Chapman Andrews, Under a Lucky Star, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Anon. English, 8th c., Beowulf , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Anon., The Bible, Type: Religion, Rating = 4 Anon., The Baghavad Gita, Type: Religion, Rating = 3 Lance Armstrong, It's Not About the Bike, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 5 Isaac Asimov, Foundation, Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire, Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation, Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves , Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Reza Aslan, No God but God, Type: Essay, Rating = 1 Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Type: Novel, Rating = 5 J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Simon Baker, Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, Type: History, Rating = 3 Allessandro Baricco, Silk, Type: History, Rating = 4 Kim Barker, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 2 Kim Barker, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 2 John M. Barry, The Great Influenza, Type: History, Rating = 5 Fred Beckey, The Challenge of the North Cascades, Type: History, Rating = 4 Moazzam Begg, Enemy Combattant, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 David Bellavia, House to House, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 5 Felice Benuzzi, No Picnic on Mt. Kenya, Type: Travel, Rating = 5 Peter Bergen, Holy War, Inc., Type: History, Rating = 4 Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution, Type: Essay, Rating = 2 Mischa Berlinski, Field Work, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Wendell Berry, The Long-Legged House, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Wendell Berry, Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural & Agricultural, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Wendell Berry, The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural Essays, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Wendell Berry, Recollected Essays: 1965–1980, Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Wendell Berry, Standing by Words, Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Wendell Berry, What Are People For?, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Wendell Berry, The Collected Poems: 1957–1982, Type: Poetry, Rating = 5 Wendell Berry, Sabbaths: Poems, Type: Poetry, Rating = 5 James Bishop, Epitaph For A Desert Anarchist: The Life And Legacy Of Edward Abbey, Type: Biography, Rating = 4 Karen Blixen, Out of Africa, Type: History, Rating = 4 Mark Bowden, Blackhawk Down, Type: History, Rating = 5 Mark Bowden, Killing Pablo, Type: History, Rating = 4 Mark Bowden, The Finish, Type: History, Rating = 4 Mark Bowden, Guests of the Ayatollah, Type: History, Rating = 3 Mark Bowden, Doctor Dealer, Type: Biography, Rating = 3 Catherine Drinker Bowen, Miracle at Philadelphia, Type: History, Rating = 5 William Boyd, Any Human Heart, Type: Novel, Rating = 5 William Boyd, Brazzaville Beach, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Hugh Brody, Maps & Dreams: Indians and the British Columbia Frontier, Type: History, Rating = 3 Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Dan Brown, The DaVinci Code, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Dan Brown, Angels and Demons, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Dan Brown, Deception Point, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat, Type: History, Rating = 4 John Brown, Two Against the Amazon, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Tom Bruce, Every Inch of the Way, Type: Travel, Rating = 2 Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way, Type: History, Rating = 4 Bill Bryson, Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Bill Bryson, Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States, Type: History, Rating = 4 Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Bill Bryson, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Type: History, Rating = 4 Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Bill Bryson, Shakespeare: The World as Stage, Type: History, Rating = 5 Bill Bryson, Seeing Further, Type: History, Rating = 4 Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life, Type: History, Rating = 5 Bill Bryson, One Summer American 1927, Type: History, Rating = 4 Caesar, The Gallic War, Type: History, Rating = 5 Caesar, The Civil War, Type: History, Rating = 4 Caesar, The African War, Type: History, Rating = 3 James Calahan, Edward Abbey, A Life, Type: Biography, Rating = 5 Steven Callahan, Adrift: Seventy Six Days Lost at Sea, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Albert Camus, The Plague, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Peter Carlin, Bruce, Type: Biography, Rating = 3 Willa Cather, My Antonia, Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Willa Cather, O, Pioneers, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Cervantes, Don Quixote, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia , Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Bruce Chatwin, The Viceroy of Ouidah , Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Bruce Chatwin, On the Black Hill , Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines , Type: Travel, Rating = 5 Bruce Chatwin, Utz , Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Bruce Chatwin, What Am I Doing Here , Type: Travel, Rating = 5 Bruce Chatwin, Photographs and Notebooks , Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Bruce Chatwin, Anatomy of Restlessness , Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Bruce Chatwin, Winding Paths , Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Tracy Chevalier, Girl With a Pearl Earring, Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Tracy Chevalier, Falling Angels, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Sir Francis Chichester, Gypsy Moth Circles the World, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Winston Churchill, The Second World War (all 6 big volumes), Type: History, Rating = 5 Winston Churchill, The River War, Type: History, Rating = 4 Winston Churchill, From London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, Type: History, Rating = 3 James Clavell, King Rat , Type: Novel, Rating = 4 James Clavell, Tai-Pan , Type: Novel, Rating = 4 James Clavell, Shōgun , Type: Novel, Rating = 4 James Clavell, Noble House , Type: Novel, Rating = 4 James Clavell, Whirlwind , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 James Clavell, Gai-Jin , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Te-Nehisi Coates, The Beautiful Struggle, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Matthew Cobb, Generation, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Matthew Cobb, Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code, Type: History, Rating = 4 Bruce Cockburn, Rumours of Glory, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 LaPierre, Collins, Freedom at Midnight, Type: History, Rating = 4 Columbus, The Four Voyages, Type: History, Rating = 4 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Joseph Coohil, Ireland: A Short History, Type: History, Rating = 3 James Cook, The Jouinals of Captain James Cook, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Jerry Coyne, Why Evolution Is True, Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Jerry Coyne, Faith vs. Fact, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Matthew Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 e. e. cummings, Many books of his poems, Type: Poetry, Rating = 3 Richard Henry Dana, Two Years Before the Mast, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Nick Danziger, Danziger's Travels, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Robert Darnton, Berlin Journal, Type: History, Rating = 4 Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 5 Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Richard Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Richard Dawkins, Climbing Mount Improbable, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Richard Dawkins, A Devil's Chaplain, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale, Type: History, Rating = 5 Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Richard Dawkins, The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Richard Dawkins, An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Richard Dawkins, Brief Candle in the Dark, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 3 Daniel Dennett, Brainstorms, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal , Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Jared Diamond, Why Is Sex Fun?, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel, Type: History, Rating = 5 Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. New York: Penguin Books , Type: History, Rating = 4 Jared Diamond, The World until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? , Type: History, Rating = 3 Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 E. J. Dionne, Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism--From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond, Type: History, Rating = 3 David Donald, Lincoln, Type: Biography, Rating = 4 Stillman Drake, Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo, Type: Biography, Rating = 5 Alexander Dubcek, Hope Dies Last: The Autobiography of Alexander Dubcek, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Kathryn Dudley, Guitar Makers, Type: History, Rating = 4 Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Lawrence Durrell, Bitter Lemons, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Banning Eire, In Griot Time, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Dwight Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe, Type: History, Rating = 3 Jason Elliot, An Unexpected Light - Travels in Afghanistan, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Leif Enger, Peace Like A River, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Charles Erskine, Twenty Years Before The Mast, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 3 Daniel Everett, Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money, Type: History, Rating = 3 Richard Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think?, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Dexter Filkins, The Forever War, Type: History, Rating = 4 William Finnegan, Barbarian Days, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Peter Fleming, News from Tartary, Type: Travel, Rating = 5 Peter Fleming, Tibetan Marches, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Peter Fleming, Brazilian Adventure, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Peter Fleming, One's Company, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Isabel Fonseca, Bury Me Standing, Type: History, Rating = 4 Dave Forman, Ecodefense, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 John Fowles, The Magus, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Harry Franck, Vagabonding Down the Andes, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 John Fraser, Round the World on a Wheel, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 John C. Fremont, The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California, Type: History, Rating = 4 Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Type: History, Rating = 3 Robert Fulton, Jr., One-Man Caravan, Type: Travel, Rating = 5 Simon Garfield, Mauve, Type: History, Rating = 4 Anne Garrels, Putin Country:  A Journey into the Real Russia, Type: History, Rating = 4 Atul Gawande, Complications, Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Atul Gawande, Better, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Atul Gawande, Being Mortal, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Bob Geldof, Is That All?, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Vo Nguyen Giap, How We Won the War, Type: History, Rating = 3 Daniel Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners, Type: History, Rating = 4 Alan Grafen, Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think, Type: Biography, Rating = 3 Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 3 Robert Graves, I, Claudius, Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Robert Graves, Claudius the God, Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Zane Grey, Valley of Wild Horses, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 John Gribbin, Science, A History, Type: History, Rating = 4 John Grisham, A Time To Kill , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 John Grisham, The Firm , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 John Grisham, The Pelican Brief , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 John Grisham, The Client , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 John Grisham, The Chamber , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 John Grisham, The Rainmaker , Type: Novel, Rating = 4 John Grisham, One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 3 Richard Halliburton, The Flying Carpet: Adventures in a Biplane from Timbuktu to Everest and Beyond, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Richard Halliburton, The Royal Road to Romance, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Thea Halo, Not Even My Name, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 3 Eric Hanson, Motoring with Mohammad, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Yuval Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Type: History, Rating = 3 Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet , Type: Autobiography, Rating = 5 Heinrich Harrer, Lost Lhasa , Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Heinrich Harrer, The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger , Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Heinrich Harrer, Return to Tibet , Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Sam Harris, The End of Faith, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Sam Harris, Free Will, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Sam Harris, Lying, Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Sam Harris, Waking Up, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz, Islam and the Future of Tolerance, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Robert Harvey, Cochrane, The Life and Exploits of a Fighting Captain, Type: Biography, Rating = 4 Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, Type: Science Fiction, Rating = 4 Robert Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Type: Science Fiction, Rating = 4 Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Type: Science Fiction, Rating = 3 Robert Heinlein, Tunnel in the Sky, Type: Science Fiction, Rating = 4 Daniel Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Daniel Helprin, Refiner's Fire, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Daniel Helprin, Winter's Tale, Type: Novel, Rating = 2 Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises , Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms , Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls , Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea , Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Ernest Hemingway, By-Line, Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Ernest Hemingway, Many short stories, Type: Short Stories, Rating = 3 Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Ernest Hemingway, The Green Hills of Africa, Type: Travel, Rating = 5 Ernest Hemingway, The Dangerous Summer, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 McNamee, Hepworth, Resist Much, Obey Little, Type: Biography, Rating = 3 Frank Herbert, Dune, Type: Science Fiction, Rating = 4 Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah, Type: Science Fiction, Rating = 4 Frank Herbert, Children of Dune, Type: Science Fiction, Rating = 3 Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune, Type: Science Fiction, Rating = 3 Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune, Type: Science Fiction, Rating = 3 Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune, Type: Science Fiction, Rating = 3 Herodotus, The Histories, Type: History, Rating = 4 Karl Herrligkoffer, Nanga Parbat, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Carl Hiaasen, Skin Tight, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Carl Hiaasen, Lucky You, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Carl Hiaasen, Sick Puppy, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Carl Hiaasen, Team Rodent, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit, Type: History, Rating = 4 Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, Type: Biography, Rating = 4 Christopher Hitchens, Mortality, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Christopher Hitchens, God Is not Great, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Tony Horwitz, Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore, Type: History, Rating = 5 Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 John Hunt, The Conquest of Everest, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Ellspeth Huxley, The Flame Trees of Thika, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 3 Ellspeth Huxley, The Red Strangers, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 David Ignatius, Body of Lies, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Walter Isaacson, The Innovators, Type: History, Rating = 4 Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin, Type: Biography, Rating = 4 Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs, Type: Biography, Rating = 4 Walter Isaacson, Einstein, Type: Biography, Rating = 4 Walter Isaacson, The Wise Men, Type: History, Rating = 3 Isserman and Weaver, Fallen Giants, Type: History, Rating = 4 Taylor, Iwasaki, Tools of the Trade: The Art and Craft of Carpentry, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 James Joyce, Dubliners, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 John Jerome, Stone Work: Reflections on Serious Play and Other Aspects of Country Life, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 John Jerome, Truck: On Rebuilding a Worn-Out Pickup and Other Post-Technological Adventures, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Steven Johnson, How We Got to Now, Type: History, Rating = 3 David Cay Johnston, The Making of Donald Trump, Type: Biography, Rating = 2 Robert Jourdain, Music, The Brain, And Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Stephanie Judy, Making Music for the Joy of It, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Ernst Junger, Storm of Steel, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 3 Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm, Type: History, Rating = 5 Sebastian Junger, Fire, Type: History, Rating = 4 Sebastian Junger, War, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging , Type: History, Rating = 4 Garrison Keillor, Home Grown Democrat, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 3 Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 3 Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 3 Rudyard Kipling, Kim, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Donald Kladstrup, Wine & War: The French, the Nazis & the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure, Type: History, Rating = 3 Jon Krakauer, Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains , Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild , Type: Non-fiction narrative, Rating = 4 Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air , Type: Non-fiction narrative, Rating = 5 Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith , Type: History, Rating = 5 Jon Krakauer, Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman , Type: Non-fiction narrative, Rating = 5 Jon Krakauer, Three Cups of Deceit , Type: Non-fiction narrative, Rating = 4 Jon Krakauer, Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town , Type: Non-fiction narrative, Rating = 4 Joseph Wood Krutch, The Desert Year , Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Joseph Wood Krutch, The Voice of the Desert , Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Joseph Wood Krutch, The Forgotten Peninsula , Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Mark Kurlansky, 1968: The Year That Rocked the World, Type: History, Rating = 3 Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World , Type: History, Rating = 5 Mark Kurlansky, The Basque History of the World , Type: History, Rating = 4 Mark Kurlansky, Salt: A World History, Type: History, Rating = 5 Mark Kurlansky, Birdseye, Type: Biography, Rating = 4 Mark Kurlansky, Paper, Type: History, Rating = 4 The Resurrection of European Jewry, A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry, Type: History, Rating = 3 Robert Kurson, Shadow Divers, Type: History, Rating = 4 Robert Kurson, Crashing Through, Type: Biography, Rating = 3 J. G. Landels, Engineering in the Ancient World, Type: History, Rating = 4 Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts, Type: Biography, Rating = 3 Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played With Fire, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Lauri Lebo, The Devil in Dover, Type: History, Rating = 3 Ursula Leguin, The Lathe of Heaven, Type: Science Fiction, Rating = 4 Ursula Leguin, The Compass Rose, Type: Science Fiction, Rating = 3 Ursula Leguin, Always Coming Home, Type: Science Fiction, Rating = 3 Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Dennis Lehane, Darkness, Take My Hand , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Dennis Lehane, Sacred , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Dennis Lehane, Gone, Baby, Gone , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 5 Aldo Leopold, Round River: From the Journals of Aldo Leopold, Type: Journals, Rating = 4 Primo Levi, The Periodic Table, Type: Short Stories, Rating = 4 Primo Levi, If This Is a Man, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 5 Primo Levi, The Truce, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 5 Primo Levi, The Monkey's Wrench, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Daniel Levin, This Is Your Brain On Music, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia, Type: Fantasy, Rating = 4 C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, Type: Essay, Rating = 2 C.S. Lewis, The Space Trilogy, Type: Science Fiction, Rating = 3 C.S. Lewis, The Dark Tower, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Heng Liang, Son of the Revolution, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Anatoly Liberman, Word Origins, Type: History, Rating = 3 Jack London, White Fang, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Jack London, The Call of the Wild, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Jack London, Various short stories, Type: Short Stories, Rating = 4 Barry Lopez, Desert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Raven , Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Barry Lopez, Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter , Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Barry Lopez, River Notes: The Dance of Herons , Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Barry Lopez, Winter Count , Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Barry Lopez, Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Barry Lopez, Of Wolves and Men, Type: History, Rating = 4 Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape , Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Barry Lopez, Crossing Open Ground , Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Barry Lopez, The Rediscovery of North America , Type: History, Rating = 3 Robert Ludlum, The Rhinemann Exchange , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Robert Ludlum, The Chancellor Manuscript , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity , Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Robert Ludlum, The Parsifal Mosaic , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Ultimatum , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Kermit Lynch, Adventures on the Wine Route, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Kermit Lynch, Inspiring Thirst, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Roger Allan Macdonald, A Country Doctor's Casebook: Tales from the North Woods, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Roger Allan Macdonald, Country Doctors Chronicle: Further Tales From The North Woods, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Antonio Machado, Soledades, Type: Poetry, Rating = 3 Machiavelli, The Prince, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Ben Macintyre, Agent Zigzag, Type: Biography, Rating = 4 Fitzroy Maclean, Eastern Approaches, Type: History, Rating = 4 Fitzroy Maclean, A Person from England, Type: History, Rating = 3 Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 5 Norman Maclean, Young Men and Fire, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 William Manchester, The Arms of Krupp, Type: History, Rating = 4 William Manchester, American Caesar, Type: Biography, Rating = 3 William Manchester, A World Lit Only by Fire, Type: History, Rating = 5 William Manchester, The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972, Type: History, Rating = 3 William Manchester, Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War, Type: History, Rating = 3 Charles Mann, 1491, Type: History, Rating = 2 Robert Marion, Genetic Rounds, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Karl Marlantes, The Matterhorn, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 100 Years of Solitude, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 David Marshall, The Truth Behind the New Atheism, Type: Essay, Rating = 1 Henno Martin, The Sheltering Desert, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Peter Mathiessen, At Play in the Fields of the Lord , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Peter Mathiessen, Far Tortuga , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Peter Mathiessen, On the River Styx and Other Stories , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Peter Mathiessen, Killing Mister Watson , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Peter Mathiessen, Wildlife in America , Type: History, Rating = 4 Peter Mathiessen, The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness , Type: History, Rating = 4 Peter Mathiessen, Under the Mountain Wall: A Chronicle of Two Seasons in the Stone Age , Type: History, Rating = 4 Peter Mathiessen, Oomingmak , Type: History, Rating = 3 Peter Mathiessen, Blue Meridian. The Search for the Great White Shark , Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Peter Mathiessen, The Tree Where Man Was Born , Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Peter Mathiessen, The Snow Leopard , Type: Autobiography, Rating = 5 Peter Mathiessen, Sand Rivers, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Peter Mathiessen, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse , Type: History, Rating = 4 Peter Mathiessen, Indian Country , Type: History, Rating = 5 Peter Mathiessen, Nine-headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969–1982 , Type: Journals, Rating = 3 Peter Mathiessen, Men's Lives: The Surfmen and Baymen of the South Fork , Type: History, Rating = 4 Peter Mathiessen, African Silences , Type: Essay, Rating = 4 W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Peter Mayle, A Year in Provence, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Peter Mayle, Toujours Provence, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Peter Mayle, Acquired Tastes: A Beginner's Guide to Serious Pleasures, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Peter Mayle, Hotel Pastis: A Novel of Provence, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Peter Mayle, Anything Considered, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Peter Mayle, Where Did I Come From? The Facts of Life without Any Nonsense and with Illustrations, Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Peter Mayle, Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France, Type: Travel, Rating = 2 Peter Mayle, The Vintage Caper, Type: Novel, Rating = 2 Paul McCartney, Many Years from Now, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 3 Mark McCurley, Hunter Killer, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Alister McGrath, Dawkins' God, Type: Essay, Rating = 1 John McPhee, Oranges, Type: Essay, Rating = 5 John McPhee, Levels of the Game, Type: Biography, Rating = 4 John McPhee, The Crofter and the Laird, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 John McPhee, Encounters with the Archdruid, Type: Biography, Rating = 3 John McPhee, The Curve of Binding Energy, Type: Biography, Rating = 3 John McPhee, The Survival of the Bark Canoe, Type: Essay, Rating = 5 John McPhee, Coming into the Country, Type: Travel, Rating = 5 John McPhee, Basin and Range, Type: Essay, Rating = 5 John McPhee, In Suspect Terrain, Type: Essay, Rating = 5 John McPhee, Rising from the Plains, Type: Essay, Rating = 5 John McPhee, The Control of Nature, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 John McPhee, Looking for a Ship, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 John McPhee, Assembling California, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 John McPhee, La Place de la Concorde Suisse, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 John McPhee, Founding Fish, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 John McPhee, Pieces of the Frame , Type: Essay, Rating = 3 James McPherson, The Battle Cry of Freedom, Type: History, Rating = 5 James McPherson, Abraham Lincoln, Type: Biography, Rating = 4 Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 James Michener, Hawaii, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 James Michener, Chesapeake, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 James Michener, Centennial, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Andre Migot, Tibetan Marches, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Andre Migot, Thin Edge of the World, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Richard Moe, Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers, Type: History, Rating = 4 Mark Molesky, This Gulf of Fire, Type: History, Rating = 2 Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Type: Biography, Rating = 4 Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex, Type: Biography, Rating = 4 Greg Mortenson, Three Cups of Tea, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 3 Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 3 Muhammd, The Koran, Type: Religion, Rating = 3 John Muir, The Mountains of California, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 5 John Muir, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 John Muir, Travels in Alaska, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 John Muir, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Type: History, Rating = 5 An Intimate History, The Gene: An Intimate History, Type: History, Rating = 2 Craig Mullaney, The Unforgiving Minute, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 3 Dervla Murphy, Fult Tilt: From Ireland to india by Bike, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Gary Nabhan, Songbirds, truffles and wolves: an American naturalist in Italy, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Gary Nabhan, Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation, Type: History, Rating = 3 Gary Nabhan, Gathering the Desert, Type: History, Rating = 3 Gary Nabhan, The Desert Smells Like Rain: a naturalist in O'Odham county, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Maajid Nawaz, Radical, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks, Type: History, Rating = 5 Richard Nelson, Make Prayers to the Raven, Type: History, Rating = 4 Pablo Neruda, Many poems, Type: Poetry, Rating = 5 Jo Nesbø, The Bat, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Jo Nesbø, Cockroaches, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Jo Nesbø, The Redbreast, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Jo Nesbø, Nemesis, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Jo Nesbø, The Devil's Star, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Jo Nesbø, The Redeemer, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Jo Nesbø, The Snowman, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Jo Nesbø, The Leopard, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Jo Nesbø, Phantom, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Nesse and Williams, Why We Get Sick, Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Eric Newby, The Last Grain Race , Type: Autobiography, Rating = 5 Eric Newby, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush , Type: Travel, Rating = 5 Eric Newby, Something Wholesale , Type: Autobiography, Rating = 3 Eric Newby, Slowly Down the Ganges , Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Eric Newby, Love and War in the Apennines , Type: Autobiography, Rating = 5 Eric Newby, A Small Place in Italy , Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Eric Newby, Learning the Ropes: An Apprentice in the Last of the Windjammers , Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Symnpathizer, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander , Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain , Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise , Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Patrick O'Brian, The Mauritius Command , Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Patrick O'Brian, Desolation Island , Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War , Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Patrick O'Brian, The Surgeon's Mate , Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission , Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour , Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World , Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Patrick O'Brian, The Reverse of the Medal , Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Patrick O'Brian, The Letter of Marque , Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen-Gun Salute , Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation , Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Patrick O'Brian, The Truelove, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Patrick O'Brian, The Wine-Dark Sea , Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Patrick O'Brian, The Commodore , Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Patrick O'Brian, The Yellow Admiral , Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days , Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Patrick O'Brian, Blue at the Mizzen , Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Patrick O'Brian, The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey, Type: Novel, Rating = 2 Patrick O'Brian, Joseph Banks, Type: Biography, Rating = 3 Patrick O'Brian, Picasso, Type: Biography, Rating = 3 Patrick O'Brian, The Road to Samarcand, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Sigurd F. Olson, Listening Point, Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Sigurd F. Olson, The Singing Wilderness, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Sigurd F. Olson, Runes of the North, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 George Orwell, Animal House, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 George Orwell, 1984, Type: Novel, Rating = 5 George Orwell, many essys, Type: Essay, Rating = 5 David Oshinsky, Polio, Type: History, Rating = 5 Alison Osius, Second Ascent: The Story of Hugh Herr, Type: Biography, Rating = 4 Thomas Paine, Common Sense, Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Christopher Parkening, Grace Like A River, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 3 Francis Parkman, The Oregon Trail, Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 3 Doug Peacock, The Essential Grizzly, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Doug Peacock, Walking It Off, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Irene Pepperberg, Alex and Me, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 3 Nathaniel Philbrick, The Last Stand, Type: History, Rating = 4 Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, Type: History, Rating = 4 Nathaniel Philbrick, Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, Type: History, Rating = 4 Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: a Story of Courage, Type: History, Rating = 3 Bertrand Piccard, Around the World in 20 Days : The Story of Our History-Making Balloon Flight, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Perfect Vehicle: What It is about Motorcycles, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Steven Pinker, Words and Rules, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire, Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Michael Pollan, A Place of My Own, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 2 Michael Pollan, Food Rules, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Gontran de Poncins, Kabloona, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 John Wesley Powell, The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, Type: History, Rating = 5 William Prescott, The Conquest of Mexico, Type: History, Rating = 5 William Prescott, The Conquest of Peru, Type: History, Rating = 4 Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 David Quammen, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, Type: Biography, Rating = 4 David Quammen, Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind, Type: History, Rating = 3 David Quammen, Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 David Quammen, The Flight of the Iguana, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Daniel Quinn, Ishmael, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Slavomir Rawicz, The Long Walk, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Gaston Rebuffat, On Ice and Snow and Rock, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Tom Reiss, The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, Type: Biography, Rating = 4 Erich Maria Remarke, Drei Kamaraden, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Erich Maria Remarke, All Quiet on the Western Front, Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Thomas Ricks, Making the Corps, Type: History, Rating = 4 Thomas Ricks, Fiasco, Type: History, Rating = 4 Matt Ridley, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature, Type: History, Rating = 4 Matt Ridley, The Origins of Virtue, Type: History, Rating = 4 Matt Ridley, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Matt Ridley, Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience, & What Makes Us Human, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Matt Ridley, Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code, Type: Biography, Rating = 4 Matt Ridley, The Rational Optimist, Type: Essay, Rating = 2 Mary Roach, Packing for Mars, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 David Roberts, Moments of Doubt, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Joe Robinson, Work to Live, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 3 Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children, Type: Novel, Rating = 2 Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Rafael Sabatini, Captain Blood, Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Rafael Sabatini, The Sea Hawk, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Rafael Sabatini, The Gamester, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Rafael Sabatini, Captain Blood Returns, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Oliver Sacks, On the Move: A Life, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat , Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf , Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars , Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colorblind , Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood , Type: Autobiography, Rating = 5 Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain , Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Oliver Sacks, The Mind's Eye , Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Oliver Sacks, A Leg to Stand On, Type: Biography, Rating = 3 Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience, Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Carl Sagan, Contact, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Carl Sagan, The Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 5 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 David Salsburg, The Lady Tasting Tea, Type: History, Rating = 3 Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 David Sedaris, Naked , Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day , Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim , Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames , Type: Autobiography, Rating = 3 Eric Sevareid, Canoeing with the Cree, Type: Travel, Rating = 5 Eric Sevareid, Not So Wild a Dream, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Michael Shaara, Killer Angels, Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Nicholas Shakespeare, Bruce Chatwin: A Biography, Type: Biography, Rating = 3 William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Type: History, Rating = 5 William Shirer, Berlin Diary, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 5 William Shirer, Mid-Century Journey, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 William Shirer, The Sinking of the Bismarck, Type: History, Rating = 4 William Shirer, The Nightmare Years, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 5 William Shirer, 20th Century Journey, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish, Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Neil Shubin, The Universe Within, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Neville Shute, Slide Rule, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Neville Shute, On the Beach, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Daniel Silva, The Kill Artist , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Daniel Silva, The English Assassin , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Daniel Silva, The Confessor , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Daniel Silva, A Death in Vienna , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Daniel Silva, Prince of Fire , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Daniel Silva, The Messenger , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Daniel Silva, The Secret Servant , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Daniel Silva, Moscow Rules , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Daniel Silva, The Unlikely Spy, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Ted Simon, Jupiter's Travels, Type: Travel, Rating = 5 Ted Simon, Riding High, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Ted Simon, The Gypsy in Me, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Ted Simon, Dreaming of Jupiter, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Ted Simon, Riding Through the Isles, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Joe Simpson, Touching the Void, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 5 Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Type: Biography, Rating = 4 Joshua Slocum, Saling Alone Around the World, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Pete Slosberg, Beer for Pete's Sake: The Wicked Adventures of a Brewing Maverick, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 3 Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Alexander McCall Smith, The Ladies No. 1 Detective Agency, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Alexander McCall Smith, The Cupboard Full of Life, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Alexander McCall Smith, The Kalahari Typing School for Men, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Alexander McCall Smith, Morality for Beautiful Girls, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Alexander McCall Smith, Blue Shoes and Happiness, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Alexander McCall Smith, In the Company of Cheerful Ladies, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Alexander McCall Smith, The Miracle at Speedy Motors, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Alexander McCall Smith, The Good Husband of Zebra Drive, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Alexander McCall Smith, Tea Time for the Tradionally Built, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Gary Snyder, Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems , Type: Poetry, Rating = 4 Gary Snyder, Earth House Hold , Type: Poetry, Rating = 4 Gary Snyder, Turtle Island , Type: Poetry, Rating = 4 Gary Snyder, The Old Ways , Type: Poetry, Rating = 4 Gary Snyder, Axe Handles , Type: Poetry, Rating = 4 Freya Stark, The Valleys of the Assassins and Other Persian Travels, Type: Travel, Rating = 5 Freya Stark, A Winter in Arabia, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Freya Stark, Alexander's Path: From Caria to Cilicia, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Wilhjalmur Stefansson, My Life with the Eskimo, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Wallace Stegner, Mormon Country , Type: History, Rating = 4 Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West , Type: History, Rating = 5 Wallace Stegner, The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail , Type: History, Rating = 4 Wallace Stegner, The Sound of Mountain Water , Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Wallace Stegner, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West , Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 John Steinbeck, The Red Pony, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Type: Novel, Rating = 5 John Steinbeck, Cannery Row, Type: Novel, Rating = 5 John Steinbeck, The Pearl, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez, Type: Travel, Rating = 5 John Steinbeck, East of Eden, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 John L. Stevens, Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (3 volumes), Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Robert Louis Stevenson, Caitriona, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow, Type: Novel, Rating = 2 Robert Louis Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 George R. Stewart, Names on the Land, Type: History, Rating = 4 George R. Stewart, Man: An Autobiography, Type: History, Rating = 4 Rory Stewart, The Prince of the Marshes, Type: History, Rating = 3 Rory Stewart, The Places In Between, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Mark Stoler, George C. Marshall, Type: Biography, Rating = 3 Irving Stone, Lust for Life , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Irving Stone, Those Who Love , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Irving Stone, The Passions of the Mind , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Irving Stone, The Greek Treasure , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Irving Stone, The Origin , Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Irving Stone, Depths of Glory , Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Anthony Storr, Music and the Mind, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Hew Strachan, The First World War, Type: History, Rating = 3 Michael Streissguth, Johnny Cash: The Biography, Type: Biography, Rating = 4 Michael Streissguth, Always Been There: Rosanne Cash, "The List", and the Spirit of Southern Music, Type: Biography, Rating = 4 Patrick Susskind, Perfume, Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Tacitus, The Annals, Type: History, Rating = 4 Ian Tattersall, The Last Neanderthal, Type: History, Rating = 4 Colleen Taylor Sen, Curry: A Global History, Type: History, Rating = 3 Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar , Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Paul Theroux, The Old Patagonian Express , Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Paul Theroux, Riding the Iron Rooster , Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Paul Theroux, The Happy Isles of Oceania , Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Paul Theroux, The Pillars of Hercules , Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 5 Wilfred Thesiger, The Life of My Choice , Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Wilfred Thesiger, The Last Nomad , Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Wilfred Thesiger, Among the Mountains: Travels Through Asia, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Llowell Thomas, Beyond Khyber Pass, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Colin Thubron, Among the Russians , Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Colin Thubron, Behind the Wall: A Journey through China , Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Colin Thubron, The Silk Road: Beyond the Celestial Kingdom , Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Colin Thubron, The Lost Heart of Asia , Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Colin Thubron, In Siberia , Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Type: History, Rating = 4 J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, Type: Fantasy, Rating = 4 J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Type: Fantasy, Rating = 5 J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, Type: Fantasy, Rating = 5 Ian Toll, Six Frigates, Type: History, Rating = 5 Robert Treuer, The Tree Farm, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Trevanian, The Summer of Katya, Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Trevanian, Shibumi, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Trevanian, The Eiger Sanction, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Trevanian, The Main, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Barbara Tuchman, The Zimmermann Telegram , Type: History, Rating = 4 Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August , Type: History, Rating = 5 Barbara Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890–1914 , Type: History, Rating = 4 Barbara Tuchman, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45 , Type: History, Rating = 4 Barbara Tuchman, Notes from China , Type: History, Rating = 4 Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century , Type: History, Rating = 5 Barbara Tuchman, Practicing History , Type: History, Rating = 4 Barbara Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam , Type: History, Rating = 4 Barbara Tuchman, The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution , Type: History, Rating = 4 Scott Turow, Presumed Innocent, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Scott Turow, The Burden of Proof, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Scott Turow, Pleading Guilty, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Scott Turow, The Laws of Our Fathers, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Damon Tweedy, Black Man in a White Coat, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Loa Tzu, The Tao Te Ching, Type: Religion, Rating = 3 James Ramsey Ullman, Americans on Everest, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Leon Uris, Trinity, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Leon Uris, The Angry Hills, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Leon Uris, Exodus, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Leon Uris, Mila 18, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Leon Uris, QB VII, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Leon Uris, The Haj, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Leon Uris, Battle Cry, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Leon Uris, Topaz, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 John C. Vandyke, The Desert, Type: Travel, Rating = 4 Various, The 9/11 Commission Report, Type: Report, Rating = 3 Voltaire, Candide, Type: Novel, Rating = 5 Jeannette Walls, Half-Broke Horses, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Evelyn Waugh, Sword of Honor, Type: Novel, Rating = 2 James Webb, Fields of Fire, Type: Novel, Rating = 5 James Webb, Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America, Type: History, Rating = 4 James Webb, The Emperor's General, Type: Novel, Rating = 3 Steven Weinberg, To Explain the World, Type: History, Rating = 3 Jonathan Weiner, The Beak of the Finch, Type: History, Rating = 4 Andy Weir, The Martian, Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Carveth Wells, Six Years in the Malay Jungle, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 3 H. G. Wells, The Outline of History, Type: History, Rating = 5 H. G. Wells, A Brief History of the World, Type: History, Rating = 5 T. H. White, The Goshawk, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Timothy White, Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley, Type: Biography, Rating = 4 Simon Winchester, Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire, Type: Travel, Rating = 3 Simon Winchester, Pacific Rising: The Emergence of a New World Culture, Type: History, Rating = 3 Simon Winchester, The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, Type: History, Rating = 4 Simon Winchester, Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded – 27 August 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, Type: History, Rating = 4 Simon Winchester, The Man Who Loved China – the life of Joseph Needham, Type: Biography, Rating = 3 Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test , Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff , Type: Essay, Rating = 5 Tom Wolfe, In Our Time , Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities , Type: Novel, Rating = 4 Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word, Type: Essay, Rating = 3 Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower, Type: History, Rating = 4 Lawrence Wright, Going Clear, Type: History, Rating = 3 Xenophon, The Ananbasis, Type: History, Rating = 4 Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book, Type: Autobiography, Rating = 4 Crystal Zevon, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, Type: Biography, Rating = 4 Carl Zimmer, At the Water's Edge , Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Carl Zimmer, Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures , Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Carl Zimmer, Soul Made Flesh , Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Carl Zimmer, Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life , Type: Essay, Rating = 3 William Zinnser, On Writing Well, Type: Essay, Rating = 5 William Zinnser, Writing to Learn, Type: Essay, Rating = 4 Anne Zwinger, Wind in the Rock: The Canyonlands of Southeastern Utah, Type: Travel, Rating = 4

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