John Brinckerhoff Clements

Books I've Read that I didn't forget to put in the list:

2013-8: Mr. Majestyk, Elmore Leonard -- Well, that was fast.
2013-5: Bleak House, Charles Dickens -- A shame to come to the end of this book.
2013-4: This is Water, David Foster Wallace -- Sort of grim. In retrospect.
2013-2: The Presidents' Club, ? -- I feel like I have a permanently improved understanding of our presidents.
2012-9: Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
2012-8: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
2012-4: The Better Angels of Our Nature {sp?}, Stephen Pinker
2012-1: David Copperfield, Charles Dickens -- Less a modern novel than a Tale of Two Cities.
2011-11: The Canon, Just the right level for me; I learned many useful superficial things about a variety of sciences.
2011-10: Neil Gaiman, American Gods -- Couldn't put it down.
2011-10: Bellwether, Connie Willis -- Pretty forgettable
2011-10: The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman -- very nicely done
2011-09: The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship or the Art of Winning Without Actually Cheating, Stephen Potter & Frank Wilson
2011-09: The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa
2011-09: The Good School, ?? -- fun pop science educational theory
2011-09: Logicomix, ?? -- not as good as I'd hoped.
2011-09: A Mathematician's Apology, G.H. Hardy
2011-08: The Indian Clerk, David Leavitt
2011-08: A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens -- made me cry. Dickens is famous for a reason.
2011-07: The Moor's Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
2011-07: Atonement, Ian McEwan -- Really really moving. An extraordinary writer.
2011-07: After Dark, Haruki Murakami -- spacey in that Murakami way
2011-07: Crazy U, Andrew Ferguson -- fast, informative.
2011-07: The Information, James Gleick -- Awesome! I loved it!
2011-05: ??, Nick Hornby
2010-09: The Evolution of God, Robert Wright -- A book that changed my worldview permanently.
2010-08: Losing Mum and Pup, Christopher Buckley
2010-08: The Eustace Diamonds, Anthony Trollope
2010-07: Phineas Finn, Anthony Trollope
2010-07: Born To Run, Christopher McDougall -- Chapter 25 was quite good
2010-06: Can You Forgive Her?, Anthony Trollope
2010-05: Everything and More, David Foster Wallace -- entertaining though filled with small mistakes
2010-04: Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2010-03: Slapstick, Kurt Vonnegut -- it's been too long since I read any Kurt Vonnegut
2010-03: Juliet, Naked, Nick Hornby -- Light and sweet
2010-02: Physics for Future Presidents, Richard Muller -- entertaining, edifying, and light.
2009-11: The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery -- a really affectionate and wonderful book.
2009-10: The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins -- edifying and meaty and occasionally shrill
2009-09: The Dain Curse, Dashiell Hammett -- much better than I'd remembered it.
2009-08: The Little Sister, Raymond Chandler -- many thanks, Jack Williams.
2009-08: One Man's Meat, E.B. White -- a lovely look at a time that's getting further and further away.
2009-08: The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie
2009-06: Travels with Charlie, John Steinbeck
2008-10: Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie -- can't say much about this book in nine words
2008-08: Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte -- Grr! That Darn Heathcliff!
2008-08: The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
2008-06: The Golden Compass -- thanks, David!
2008-04: The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon -- this book's atmosphere got _really_ glued on to me. Kind of scary.
Umm... I've read lots of books in here, like.. hmmm.
2007-09: Strange Angel, George Pendle -- a great biography of Jack Parsons, whom I'd never heard of either.
2007-08: Five Skies, Ron Carlson -- a lovely book.
2007-08: The Bafut Beagles, Gerald Durell
2007-08: The Road, Cormac McCarthy -- very quick, very compelling, VERY depressing.
2007-05: Freedom Evolves, Daniel Dennett -- fantastic, but then I think I agreed already.
2007-05: Assembling California, John McPhee -- I'm still trying to read enough geology to impress Anika.
2007-04: Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain -- a super fast read, very entertaining and pretty superficial.
2006-07: Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, Lauren Slater
2006-06: Gardening with a Wild Heart: Restoring California's Native Landscapes at Home , Judith Larner Lowry
2006-06: Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards, Sara Stein
2005-10: Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From The Beaten Track: The Letters Of Richard P. Feynman, edited by Michelle Feynman
2005-09: Introduction to Water in California, David Carle -- fascinating!
2005-09: Bicycle: the History, David Herlihy
2005-07: The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis
2005-06: Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth -- transporting, but not in the normal sense
2005-06: Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner -- very entertaining but short and superficial
2005-06: The Big House, George Howe Colt -- this book has cost me many thousands of dollars.
2005-05: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami -- he takes you to a mysterious world.
2005-04: Empire Falls, Richard Russo
2005-03: Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
2005-01: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Gregory Maguire -- very moving
2005-01: Traveling Mercies, Annie Lamott -- inspirational
2005-01: A Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar
2004-12: Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson (read approx. 19 times this week)
2004-11: Consciousness Explained, Daniel Dennett
2004-09: No Way to Treat a First Lady, Christopher Buckley
2004-08: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
2004-08: The Life of Pi, Yann Martel
2004-06: The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices, Michael Brower & Warren Leon
2004-05: <i>The Metaphysical Club</i>, Louis Menand
2004-04: <i>Straight Man</i>, Richard Russo