Books I have read

You can tell a lot about someone by what books they have read. I present you my list, in chronological order, with very little comentary. "***" means I really liked the book, and I've linked it to Amazon. "~~~" means I really hated it. The rest I'll leave up to you.

Gladwell, Malcom

1992
Foundation	Asimov, Isaac ***
Foundation and Empire	Asimov, Isaac ***
Emprise	Kube-McDowell, Micheal
Enigma	Kube-McDowell, Micheal
Empery	Kube-McDowell, Micheal
Second Foundation	Asimov, Isaac ***
Foundation's Edge	Asimov, Isaac
Foundation and Earth	Asimov, Isaac
Nemisis	Asimov, Isaac
The Puritan Dilema	Morgan
Prelude to Foundation	Asimov, Isaac
Nightfall	Asimov, Isaac and Silverberg, Robert
The Quiet Pools	Kube-McDowell, Micheal
Imperial Earth	Clarke, Arthur
Rendezvous With Rama	Clarke, Arthur ***
Rama II	Clarke, Arthur and Lee, Gentry
The Garden of Rama	Clarke, Arthur and Lee, Gentry
I, Robot	Asimov, Isaac ***
Songs of Distant Earth	Clarke, Arthur
The Naked Sun	Asimov, Isaac
The Currents of Space	Asimov, Isaac
The Stars Like Dust	Asimov, Isaac
The Agony and the Ecstasy	Stone, Irving
The Turner Thesis	Turner, Frederick Jackson
Beyond the Fall of Night	Clarke, Arthur and Benford, Gregory
The Robots of Dawn	Asimov, Isaac
The Fountains of Paradise	Clarke, Arthur
Robots and Empire	Asimov, Isaac
Childhood's End	Clarke, Arthur ***
Cradle	Clarke, Arthur and Lee, Gentry
1993
The Sum of All Fears	Clancy, Tom
The End of Eternity	Asimov, Isaac
Homage to Catalonia	Orwell, George
All I Really Needed to Know	Fulghum, Robert
It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It	Fulghum, Robert
A Brief History of Time	Hawking, Steven
American Pageant	Textbook
The Catacomb Years	Bishop, Micheal
Fatherland	Harris, Robert
2061	Clarke, Arthur
Becoming A Man	Monette, Paul
Animal Farm	Orwell, George
An Alien Light	Kress, Nancy
Chemistry	Textbook
Sex, Art, and American Culture	Paglia, Camille
The Once and Future King	White, T. H.
Applied Calculus	Textbook
More Than One Universe	Clarke, Arthur
Forward the Foundation	Asimov, Isaac
The Pelican Brief	Grisham, John
The Firm	Grisham, John
Sphere	Critchton, Micheal
The Fountainhead	Rand, Ayn ***
In Patagonia	Chatwin, Bruce ***
Atlas Shrugged	Rand, Ayn ***
A Time to Kill	Grisham, John
The Hammer of God	Clarke, Arthur
The Secret Sharer	Conrad, Joseph
And The Band Played On	Shilts, Randy ***
We The Living	Rand, Ayn
Anthem	Rand, Ayn
The Glass Menagerie	Williams, Tennesee
The Night of January 16th	Rand, Ayn ~~~
Crime and Punishment	Dostoevsky, Fyodor
God's Country	Dietz, Steven
The Man Who Used The Universe	Foster, Alan Dean
Dragon's Egg	Forward, Robert
Time Master	Forward, Robert ~~~
Siddhartha	Hesse, Herman
Ayn Rand	Baker, James
Martian Rainbow	Forward, Robert ~~~
Mars	Bova, Ben
1994
The City Not Long After	Murphy, Par
Rama Revealed	Clarke, Arthur and Lee, Gentry ~~~
The Mayor of Castro Street	Shilts, Randy ***
A Streetcar Named Desire	Williams, Tennnesee
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead	Stoppard, Tom
Waiting for Godot	Beckett, Samuel
Peacekeepers	Bova, Ben
Privateers	Bova, Ben
Empire Builders	Bova, Ben
Red Mars	Robinson, Kim Stanley ***
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress	Heinlein, Robert ***
Night	Weilsel, Elie
Green Mars	Robinson, Kim Stanley ***
More Tales of the City	Maupin, Armistead
Earthlight	Clarke, Arthur
Postman	Brin, David
The Dark Beyond the Stars	Robinson, Frank
Ender's Game	Card, Orson Scott ***
Speaker for the Dead	Card, Orson Scott ***
The Forever War	Haldeman, Joe ***
The Man in the High Castle	Dick, Phillip ***
Xenocide	Card, Orson Scott
Gateway	Pohl, Frederick
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch	Dick, Phillip K.
Solar Lottery	Dick, Phillip K.
The Dispossessed	LeGuin, Ursula K. ***
The Left Hand of Darkness	LeGuin, Ursula K. ***
The Peron Novel	Martinez, Tomas Eloy
The Old World and The New: 1492	Elliot, John H
Neuromancer	Gibson, William ~~~
1995
Moving Mars	Bear, Gregory
The Hot Zone	Preston, Richard
Hyperion	Simmons, Dan
A Place at the Table	Bawer, Bruce
Fall of Hyperion	Simmons, Dan
A Wizard of Earthsea	LeGuin, Ursula K. ***
A Canticle for Leibowitz	Miller, Walter ***
The Demolished Man	Bester, Alfred
The Stars My Destination	Bester, Alfred
The Character of Physical Law	Feynman
Dune	Herbert, Frank ***
The Bridge of San Luis Rey	Wilder, Thorton ***
The Clocks	Christie, Agatha
A Fire Upon the Deep	Vinge, Vernor
Dawn	Weisel, Elie
The Green Hills of Earth	Heinlein, Robert ~~~
Lovelock	Card, Orson Scott
One Hundred Years of Solitude	Garcia-Marquez, Gabriel ***
Remembering Denny	Trillin, Calvin
The Art of the Long View	Schwartz, Peter
Peddling Properity	Krugman, Paul ***
Peace War	Vinge, Vernor
Marooned in Realtime	Vinge, Vernor
True Names	Vinge, Vernor
Permutation City	Egan, Greg
Dancer From The Dance	Holleran, Andrew ***
1996
Magic's Pawn	Lackey, Mercedes ~~~
Armchair Economist	Landsburg, Steven
Queer in America	Signorile, Michelangelo ~~~
Blue Mars	Robinson, Kim Stanley
Quarantine	Egan, Greg
The Swimming Pool Library	Hollinghurst, Alan
River Out of Eden	Dawkins, Richard
The Folding Star	Hollinghurst, Alan ***
Queer	William S. Bourroughs
Snow Queen	Vinge, Joan D.
Bastard Out of Carolina	Allison, Dorothy
The Remains of the Day	Ishiguro, Kazuo
The Kitchen God's Wife	Tan, Amy
The Lost World	Crichton, Michael
Beloved	Morrison, Toni
Stones for Ibarra	Doerr, Harriet ***
1997
Snow Falling on Cedars	Guterson, David
Days of Obligation	Rodriguez, Richard
The Bean Trees	Kingsolver, Barbarh
The Blind Watchmaker	Dawkins, Richard
The Hobbit	Tolkien, J.R.R
A Place I'Ve Never Been	Leavitt, David ***
The Fellowship of the Ring	Tolkein, J.R.R.
The Two Towers	Tolkein, J.R.R.
The Return of the King	Tolkein, J.R.R.
Our Man in Havana	Greene, Graham ***
The Mote in God's Eye	NIven, Larry & J. Pournelle
High Fidelity	Hornby, Nick
Lonesome Dove	McMurtry, Larry
The Diamond Age	Stephenson, Neal
Invisible Man	Ellison, Ralph
The Rapture of Canaan	Reynolds, Sheri
And Then There Were None	Christie, Agatha
The Name of the Rose	Eco, Umberto
The House of the Spirits	Allende, Isabel ***
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Wilde, Oscar
A Civil Action	Harr, Jonathan
Ship Fever	Barret, Andrea
Family Dancing	Leavitt, David
Arkansas	Leavitt, David
Barrel Fever	Sedaris, David
O Pioneers!	Cather, Willa
A Thousand Acres	Smiley, Jane ***
Ceremony	Silko, Leslie Marmon
Refuge	Williams, Terry Tempest
1998
Into the Wild	Krakauer, John
Distress	Egan, Greg
Snow Crash	Stephenson, Neal
Guns, Germs, and Steel	Diamond, Jared ***
1999
Native Son	Wright, Richard
Sweet Soul Music	Guralnick, Peter
Gay New York	Chauncey, George
On Heroes and Tombs	Sabato, Ernesto
The Honorary Consul	Greene, Graham
Antarctica	Robinson, Kim Stanley
Common Ground	Lukas, Anthony ***
Kiss of the Spider Woman	Puig, Manuel
A State of Fear	Graham-Yooll, Andrew
The Wedding of Zein	Salih, Tayyib
After the Despots	Graham-Yooll, Andrew
Into Thin Air	Krakauer, Jon
Visual Display of Quantitative Information	Tufte, Edward
Investment Biker	Rogers, Jim
Where I'm Calling From	Carver, Raymond
2000
Permission Marketing	Godin, Seth
Influence, The Psychology of Persuasion	Caldini, Robert
Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing	Greenspun, Philip
The Design of Everyday Things	Norman, Donald
The Orchid Theif	Orlean, Susan
Understanding Comics	Scott McCloud
Maus, I & II	Spiegelman, Art
On Photography	Sontag, Susan ***
Designing Web Usability	Nielsen, Jakob
Yanomamo: The Fierce People	Chagnon, Napoleon
The War of the End of the World	LLosa, Mario Vargas
The Death of Artemio Cruz	Fuentes, Carlos
Seven Dials Mystery	Christie, Agatha
Murder at the Vicarage	Christie, Agatha
2001
Mrs. Dalloway	Woolf, Virginia
The Hours	Cunningham, Michael ***
A Universal History of Imfamy	Borges, Jorge Luis
Foucault's Pendulum	Eco, Umberto
A Map of the World	Hamilton, Jane
Gabriella, Clove and Cinnamon	Amado, Jorge
Inside the Sky	Langewiesche, William ***
Kitchen Confidential	Bourdain, Anthony
Disgrace	Coetzee, J.M.
Sunnyvale	Goodell, Jeff
The Tipping Point	Gladwell, Malcom
Demonic Males	Wrangham, Richard
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder	Wenschler, Lawrence
The Art of Innovation	Kelly, Tom
The Spell	Hollinghurst, Alan
A Home at the End of the World	Cunningham, Michael
Flesh and Blood	Cunningham, Michael
The Intuitionist	Whitehead, Colson
From Bauhaus to Our House	Wolfe, Tom
Buildings That Learn	Brand, Stewart
Confessions of an Advertising Man	Ogilvy, David
The Beach	Garland, Alex
The Secret History	Tartt, Donna
Independence Day	Ford, Richard ***
Class	Fussel, Paul
City of Quartz	Davis, Mike
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil	Brendt, John
The Heart that Bleeds	Guillermoprieto, Alma
Looking for History	Guillermoprieto, Alma
The Naked Civil Servant	Crisp, Quentin
Memory of Fire: Genesis	Galeano, Eduardo
Peopleware	DeMarco, Tom & Lister, Timothy
2002
Delirious New York	Koolhaus, Rem
Sahara Unveiled	Langewiesche, William
The Other Path	De Soto, Hernando
The Corrections	Franzen, Jonathan
The Story of Art	Gombrich, Ernst
The Sportswriter	Ford, Richard
Invisible Cities	Calvino, Italo
Rivertown: Two Years on the Yangtze	Hessler, Peter
American Ground	Langewiesche, William
2003
Ragtime	Doctorow, E.L.
Symposium	Spark, Muriel
What am I doing here?	Chatwin, Bruce
Anthropologist on Mars	Sacks, Oliver
Island of the Colorblind	Sacks, Oliver
Moneyball	Lewis, Michael
Slouching Towards Bethlemhem	Didion, Joan
Before Night Falls	Arenas, Reinaldo
2004
Farewell Symphony	White, Edmund
Plagues & Peoples	McNeill, William
Oaxaca Journal	Sacks, Oliver
The Years of Rice and Salt	Robinson, Kim Stanley
The Beautiful Room is Empty	White, Edmund
Cleopatra's Wedding Present	Moss, Robert Tewdwr
Songlines	Chatwin, Bruce
Sheltering Sky	Bowles, Paul
The Outlaw Sea	Langweische, William
Paris to the Moon	Gopnik, Adam
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas	Stein, Gertrude
The Shipping News	Proulx, Annie
Amsterdam	McEwan, Ian
2005
A Death in Brazil	Robb, Peter
Reading Lolita in Tehran	Nafisi, Azar
The Happy Isles of Oceania	Theroux, Paul
Midnight's Children	Rushdie, Salman
The Line of Beauty	Hollinghurst, Alan ***
The Death and Life of Great American Cities	Jacobs, Jane
Blue Highways	Least Heat Moon, William
Blink
Atonement	McEwan, Ian
2006
Maximum City	Suketu, Mehta
Saturday	McEwan, Ian
City of Bones	Connolly, Michael
Reversible Errors	Turow, Scott
The Narrows	Connelly, Michael
Devil in a Blue Dress	Mosley, Walter
The Black Ice	Connelly, Michael
The White Album	Didion, Joan
The Search	Battelle, John
Oracle Bones	Hessler, Peter ***
1491	Mann, Charles
Prep	Sittenfeld, Curtis
2007
The Closesrs	Connelly, Michael
The Ghost Map	Johnson, Steven
The Blind Side	Lewis, Michael
The Places in Between	Stewart, Rory
The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue	Mu�oz, Manuel
The Last Coyote	Connelly, Michael
2008
Daughter of Fortune	Allende, Isabel
You Can Run	Archer, Jesse
2009
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara	Fountain, Ben
Wyoming Stories	Proulx, Annie
A Darkness More Than Night	Connelly, Michael
Knifeboy	Williams, Tod Harrison

Some Comentary In 1992 I visited my grandparents in Indiana for a week. Fearing boredom I brought along a few Isaac Asimov books. I knew he wrote science fiction and altho I had never really read any books for pleasure before this, I thought it might be interesting. In the stack at the library I noticed a lot of his titles had the word "Foundation" in it. I figured this would be a good place to start. Little did I know this would set off a years-long love affair with science fiction. When I started college stopped reading so much, altho looking at my list you wouldn't necessarily see it. The year I took off to travel across Latin America (96-97), I read a lot. I don't read too much science fiction anymore, which is too bad. I miss the sense of wonderment and the dreaming it inspired within me.