My Library Catalog
These are the books that I currently own. Titles link to Amazon, and I have marked particularly noteworthy volumes with a star.
Do you know of a book that I might enjoy? I'd like to hear your suggestions.
Fiction
Edward Abbey, “The Monkey Wrench Gang,” “Fire on the Mountain”
Richard Adams, “Watership Down,” “Shardik,” “Maia”
Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice,” “Northanger Abbey,” “Emma”
Nicholson Baker, “The Fermata”
J. G. Ballard, “Crash”
Paul Bowles, “The Sheltering Sky”
Patrick O'Brian, “The Far Side of the World,” “Master and Commander”
Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre”
Stephen Brust & Megan Lindholm, “Gypsy”
Susanna Clarke, ☆“Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell”
Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness and Other Tales,” “The Secret Agent,” “Nostromo” “Lord Jim”
Mark Z. Danielewski, “House of Leaves”
Daniel Defoe, “Robinson Crusoe”
Cory Doctorow, “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom”
Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”
Alexandre Dumas, “The Three Musketeers,” “The Count of Monte Cristo”
Umberto Eco, “Baudolino,” “The Island of the Day Before,” “The Name of the Rose”
E. M. Forster, “A Passage to India”
Mark Haddon, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”
Dashiell Hammett, “The Maltese Falcon”
Thomas Hardy, “Jude the Obscure”
Ernest Hemingway, “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
John Irving, ☆“A Prayer for Owen Meany,” “A Widow for One Year,” “The World According to Garp,” “The Cider House Rules”
Jack Kerouac, “On the Road”
Barbara Kingsolver, “The Bean Trees,” “Prodigal Summer,” ☆“The Poisonwood Bible”
Rudyard Kipling, “Kim,” “Plain Tales from the Hills,” “The Jungle Book”
John LeCarre, “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”
Gaston Leroux, “The Phantom of the Opera”
Sir Thomas Malory, “Le Morte d'Arthur”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” ☆“Love in the Time of Cholera”
Herman Melville, “Moby Dick”
Alan Moore and David Lloyd, “V for Vendetta”
H. H. Munro, “The Collected Short Stories of Saki”
V.S. Naipaul, “A Bend in the River”
Audrey Niffenegger, ☆“The Time Traveler's Wife”
Chuck Palahniuk, “Survivor,” “Fight Club,” “Choke”
Robert M. Pirsig, “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”
Edgar Allen Poe, “Tales of Mystery and Imagination”
Chaim Potok, “The Chosen,” “My Name is Asher Lev”
Philip Pullman, ☆“The Golden Compass,” “The Subtle Knife,” “The Amber Spyglass”
Jonathan Raban, “Waxwings”
Ann Radcliffe, “The Mysteries of Udolpho”
Kim Stanley Robinson, ☆“Antarctica,” “Escape from Kathmandu,” “The Years of Rice and Salt,” “Forty Signs of Rain”
J. D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye”
Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein”
Upton Sinclair, “The Jungle”
John Steinbeck, “The Grapes of Wrath”
Bram Stoker, “Dracula”
Tom Stoppard, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”
Jonathan Swift, “Gulliver's Travels”
William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair”
Paul Theroux, “My Secret History,” “The Family Arsenal,” “The Mosquito Coast,” “World's End and Other Stories,” “Jungle Lovers,” “Kowloon Tong,” “Hotel Honolulu,” “The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro“
Hunter S. Thompson, ☆“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”
J. R. R. Tolkien, ☆“The Lord of the Rings,” “The Silmarillion,” “The Hobbit”
Mark Twain, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,” “Roughing It”
Jules Verne, “Around the World in Eighty Days”
Oscar Wilde, “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories”
Percival C. Wren, “Beau Geste”
Science-fiction
Margaret Atwood, “Oryx and Crake”
Iain M. Banks, “Consider Phlebas,” “Look to Windward,” “Feersum Endjinn”
Ray Bradbury, “The Martian Chronicles”
William Gibson, “Neuromancer”
Robert A. Heinlein, ☆“The Moon is a Harsh Mistress,” “The Puppet Masters”
Frank Herbert, “Dune”
Ursula K. LeGuin, “The Left Hand of Darkness,” “The Dispossessed”
China Miéville, “Perdido Street Station”
Walter Miller Jr., “A Canticle for Leibowitz”
Larry Niven, “Ringworld”
Kim Stanley Robinson, ☆“Red Mars,” “Green Mars,” “Blue Mars,” “The Martians,” “The Planet on the Table,” “Pacific Edge”
Neal Stephenson, “Snow Crash,” “The Diamond Age,” “Cryptonomicon,” “Zodiac”
Bruce Sterling, “Holy Fire,” “A Good Old-Fashioned Future,” “Islands in the Net,” “Crystal Express”
William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, “The Difference Engine”
Charles Stross, “Accelerando”
Vernor Vinge, “The Collected Stories,” ☆“A Fire upon the Deep,” “A Deepness in the Sky,” “Marooned in Realtime,” “The Peace War,” “Rainbows End”
H. G. Wells, “The Time Machine”
Travel
Edward Abbey, “Desert Solitaire”
Bill Bryson, “In a Sunburned Country,” “A Walk in the Woods,” “Neither Here nor There”
Richard F. Burton, “First Footsteps in East Africa”
Robert Byron, “The Road to Oxiana,” “The Station”
Tim Cahill, “Road Fever”
David G. Campbell, “The Crystal Desert”
Bruce Chatwin, “What Am I Doing Here,” “The Songlines,” ☆“In Patagonia”
Bruce Chatwin and Paul Theroux, “Patagonia Revisited”
Apsley Cherry-Garrard, “The Worst Journey in the World”
Robyn Davidson, “Desert Places,” “Tracks”
Jason Elliot, “An Unexpected Light”
Eugene Fromentin, “Between Sea and Sahara”
Laurie Gough, “Kite Strings of the Southern Cross”
Pico Iyer, “Video Night in Kathmandu,” “Falling Off the Map”
Nicholas Johnson, “Big Dead Place”
Jon Krakauer, “Into Thin Air,” “Eiger Dreams”
William Langewiesche, ☆“Sahara Unveiled,” “The Outlaw Sea”
Fitzroy MacLean, ☆“Eastern Approaches”
Sir John Mandeville, “The Travels of Sir John Mandeville”
Eric Margolis, “War at the Top of the World”
Peter Matthiessen, “End of the Earth,” “The Snow Leopard”
William Least Heat-Moon, “Blue Highways,” “River Horse”
V.S. Naipaul, “The Middle Passage”
Eric Newby, “A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush,” “A Traveller's Life,” “On the Shores of the Mediterranean,” “Love and War in the Apennines,” “The Big Red Train Ride”
Mungo Park, “Travels in the Interior of Africa”
Marco Polo, “The Travels”
Rolf Potts, “Vagabonding”
Byron Kuhn de Prorok, “Mysterious Sahara”
Jonathan Raban, “Passage to Juneau,” “Coasting,” “Hunting Mister Heartbreak,”
Everett Ruess, “On Desert Trails”
Ernest Shackleton, ☆“South,” “The Heart of the Antarctic”
Henry Morton Stanley, “Through the Dark Continent”
Marc Aurel Stein, “On Alexander's Track to the Indus”
Paul Theroux, “The Old Patagonian Express,” “Sunrise with Seamonsters,” “Fresh Air Fiend,” ☆“The Pillars of Hercules,” “The Kingdom by the Sea,” ☆“Dark Star Safari,” “Riding the Iron Rooster”
Wilfred Thesiger, “Arabian Sands”
Michel Vieuchange, “Smara, the Forbidden City”
Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle, “Sahara, a Natural History”
Edward Whymper, “Scrambles Amongst the Alps”
Frank A. Worsley, “Endurance”
Sir Francis Younghusband, “Kashmir”
History
Franz Borkenau, “The Spanish Cockpit”
David Cannadine, “Ornamentalism”
Matthew Edney, “Mapping an Empire”
Jane Fletcher Geniesse, “Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark”
Robert Gildea, “Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914”
Travis Hanes & Frank Sanello, “The Opium Wars”
Eric Hobsbawm, “The Age of Capital,” ☆“The Age of Empire”
Hochschild, “King Leopold's Ghost”
Thom Holmes, “Fossil Feud”
Peter Hopkirk, “The Great Game”
Robert Hughes, “The Fatal Shore”
Lawrence James, “The Rise and Fall of the British Empire,” “Raj”
Denis Judd, “Empire”
John Keay, “India Discovered”
Dean King, “Skeletons on the Zahara”
John Kenneth Knaus, “Orphans of the Cold War”
T. E. Lawrence, “Seven Pillars of Wisdom”
Joseph Lee, “The Modernisation of Irish Society 1848-1918”
Mary S. Lovell, “A Rage to Live”
Alan Moorehead, “The White Nile,” “The Blue Nile,” “The Fatal Impact”
Karl E. Meyer & Shareen Blair Brysac, ☆“Tournament of Shadows”
Thomas Pakenham, “The Scramble for Africa,” “The Boer War,” “The Year of Liberty”
J.H. Parry, “Trade & Dominion”
Pennell, “Morocco since 1830”
Porch, “The Conquest of the Sahara”
Diana Preston, “The Boxer Rebellion”
Jonathan Raban, “Bad Land”
Edward Rice, “Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton”
Tsering Shakya, “The Dragon in the Land of Snows”
Barbara W. Tuchman, “A Distant Mirror,” “The Proud Tower,” “The March of Folly,” “The Guns of August”
Simon Winchester, “The Map that Changed the World”
Computers
Randy Allen and Ken Kennedy, “Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures”
Fowler, ☆“Refactoring”
Eric Gunnerson, “A Programmer's Introduction to C#”
Aho, Sethi, and Ullmann, “Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools”
Bentley, “Programming Pearls”
Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, and Stein, “Introduction to Algorithms”
Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides, ☆“Design Patterns”
Harbison and Steele, “C: A Reference Manual”
Jacobson, “Object-Oriented Software Engineering”
Kacmarcik, “Optimizing PowerPC Code”
Kernighan and Ritchie, “The C Programming Language”
Steve McConnell, ☆“Code Complete,” “Rapid Development”
Muchnick, “Advanced Compiler Design & Implementation”
Peterson and Silberschatz, “Operating System Concepts”
Schildt, “C++ from the Ground Up”
Other non-fiction
Christopher Alexander, “A Pattern Language”
Barbour, Burk, and Pitts, “Terrestrial Plant Ecology”
Clegg and Larom, “Making Wire Jewelry”
Cotterell & Storm, “The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology”
C. Barry Cox & Peter D. Moore, “Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach”
Eric A. Davidson, “You Can't Eat GNP”
Courtney Davis, “Celtic Initials & Alphabets”
Devall & Sessions, ☆“Deep Ecology”
Jared Diamond, ☆“Guns, Germs, and Steel,” “Collapse”
Jim Dufresne, “Tramping in New Zealand”
Deborah Durkee, “Easy Day Hikes in Yosemite”
Mark Ellingham, Don Grisbrook and Shaun McVeigh, “The Rough Guide to Morocco”
Arthur Ellridge, “Mucha: The Triumph of Art Nouveau”
Fanstein and Campbell, ☆“Readings in Urban Theory”
Steve Fiffer, “Tyrannosaurus Sue”
Isabel Fonseca, “Bury Me Standing”
R. Carey Gersten and Randel Washburne, “Kayaking Puget Sound, the San Juans, and Gulf Islands”
Lesley Gilbert and Gerdi Quist, “Teach Yourself Dutch”
Stephen Jay Gould, “Wonderful Life: the Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”
Katharine Harmon, “You Are Here”
Paul Hoffman, “The Man Who Loved Only Numbers”
Douglas R. Hofstadter, ☆“Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid”
Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett, “The Mind's I”
Bill Holm, “Northwest Coast Indian Art”
John Horner, “Digging Dinosaurs”
Jane Jacobs, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”
Edmund C. Jaeger, “Desert Wildlife”
Knud Jeppesen, “Counterpoint: The Polyphonic Vocal Style of the Sixteenth Century”
Shelley Johnson, “The Complete Sea Kayaker's Handbook”
Jon Krakauer, “Into the Wild,” “Under the Banner of Heaven”
Andrew Lambirth, “Aubrey Beardsley”
Kalle Lasn, “Culture Jam”
Aldo Leopold, “A Sand County Almanac”
Lonely Planet, “Buddhist Stupas in Asia”
John McPhee, “Basin and Range”
Eric Molvar, “Hiking Olympic National Park”
The Mountaineers, “Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills”
John Muir, “Mountaineering Essays”
Andreas Papadakis, “Art Nouveau: An Architectural Indulgence”
Steve Parker, “The Practical Paleontologist”
Mallory Pearce, “ Ready-to-Use Decorative Celtic Alphabets”
Peterson, “Great Wire Jewelry”
Marc Reisner, ☆“Cadillac Desert,” “A Dangerous Place”
Boyd Robertson and Iain Taylor, “Teach Yourself Gaelic”
Mícheál Ó Siadhail, “Learning Irish”
Damien Simonis and Geoff Crowther, “Lonely Planet Morocco”
Joe Simpson, “Touching the Void”
Ray Smith, “Drawing Figures”
Rebecca Solnit, “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”
Sheila Sturrock, “Celtic Spirals and Other Designs”
Stead and Hughes, “Celtic Designs from the British Museum”
David Suzuki, “The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature”
Roberta Waddell, “The Art Nouveau Style”
Gabriel P. Weisberg, “Art Nouveau Bing: Paris Style, 1900”
Paul White, “Home Recording Made Easy”
Eva Wilson, “Islamic Designs for Artists and Craftspeople”
Dave Wortman, “San Juan Islands: A Guide to Exploring the Great Outdoors”
Bill Yenne, “The Pictorial History of NASA”
John Zilly, “Beyond Mount Si”
Poetry
Charles Baudelaire, “Flowers of Evil”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Emily Dickinson, “Collected Poems”
T. S. Eliot, “The Waste Land,” ”Four Quartets”
Arthur Rimbaud, “Collected Poems”
