Booklist

I've kept a booklist since 1962. Here are the latest years in reverse order (i.e. in weblog style); below and at the bottom is a link to the entire list in forward order, which I find a more natural read. Go there directly if you like.

Asterisks mean "recommended". I haven't added them to much of the list yet.

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2006
A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid (1981)*
Damascus Gate, Robert Stone (1998)

2005
Assassination Vacation, Sarah Vowell
John Adams, David McCullough (2002)*
The Postman, David Brin (1985)
Robinson, Muriel Spark (1958)
The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins (1986)
Antarctica, Kim Stanley Robinson (1998)
Mind Wide Open, Stephen Johnson (2004)
The Grand Complication, Allen Kurzweil (2001)
The Ancestors' Tale, Richard Dawkins (2004)*
The Effect of Living Backwards, Heidi Julavitz*
How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization, Cathy Crimmons (2004)
We, Yevgeny Zamyatin (1921)*
Jumper, Steven Gould (1992)
Forty Signs of Rain, Kim Stanley Robinson (2004)
The Human Stain, Philip Roth (2000)
The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown (2003)

2004
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway (1964)*
Reading in Bed, Steven Gilbar (1995)
Checkpoint, Nicholson Baker (2004)
Transmission, Hari Kunzru (2004)*
Lyra's Oxford, Philip Pullman (2003)
The Confusion, Neal Stephenson (2004)
Kingdom of Fear, Hunter S. Thompson (2003)
A Thief in the Night, John Cornwell (1989)*
Frek and the Elixer, Rudy Rucker (2004)
In the Beginning Was the Command Line (2), Neal Stephenson (1999)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera (1984)
The Middle Mind (Why Americans Can't Think for Themselves), Curtis White
Holy Fire (2), Bruce Sterling (1996)
The Zenith Angle, Bruce Sterling (2004)
Wild Swans, Jung Chang (1991)*
The King's English, Kingsly Amis (1997)
Absolute Friends, John LeCarré (2003)
A History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell (1945)
The Mind's Sky, Timothy Ferris
Isaac Newton, James Gleick (2003)
Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It, Geoff Dyer (2003)*
The Martians, Kim Stanley Robinson (1999)
Ignorance, Milan Kundera (2000)*

2003
Death in a Tenured Position, Amanda Cross
Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson (2003)
Saucer Wisdom, Rudy Rucker (1999)
The Art of Travel, Alain deBotton (2002)*
The Queen's Gambit, Walter Tevis (1983)
Blood of Victory, Alan Furst (2002)
Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard (1990)
Friends for 300 Years, Howard Brinton (1952)
Nothing Remains the Same, Wendy Lesser (2002)
The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman (2000)
Touching the Void, Joe Simpson (1988)
The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman (1997)
The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman (1995)
Embers, Sandor Marai (1942)
The Ape and the Sushi Master, Frans deWaal (2001)
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy (1997)
How to Be Good, Nick Hornby (2001)
Blue Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson (1996)
Pattern Recognition, William Gibson (2002)*
Tomorrow Now, Bruce Sterling (2002)
Green Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson (1994)

2002
Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson (1993)*
Blindness, Jose Saramago (1995)**
Genius, James Gleick (1992)*
Some Buried Caesar, Rex Stout (1938)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon (2000)
Atonement (abridged), Ian McEwan (2001)
Black Holes and Baby Universes, Stephen Hawking (1993)
Portrait in Grey, John Punshon (1984)
Crypto, Steven Levy (2001)
The Code Book, Simon Singh (1999)*
Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson (1999)*
Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon (1995)**
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon (1988)*
The Constant Gardener, John LeCarré (2001)*
Alien Dawn, Colin Wilson (1998)
My Tiny Life, Julian Dibbel (1998)*
Shoes Outside the Door, Michael Downing (2001)
Palimpsest, Gore Vidal (1995)*
The Telling, Ursula LeGuin (2000)
Ishmael, Daniel Quinn (1992)
The Three Hostages, John Buchan (1924)
The Thirty-Nine Steps (2), John Buchan (1915)
Mr. Standfast, John Buchan (1919)
Heavy Water, Martin Amis (1999)

2001
Night Train, Martin Amis (1997)
The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand (2001)*
Bee Season, Myla Goldberg (2000)
The Evolving Self, Mihaly Csikszentmihali (1993)
The Journey Not the Arrival Matters, Leonard Woolf (1970)
Downhill All the Way, Leonard Woolf (1967)
Beginning Again, Leonard Woolf (1964)
Basin and Range, John McPhee (1981)
Assembling California, John McPhee (1993)*
Growing, Leonard Woolf (1962)
Sowing, Leonard Woolf (1960)
The Bellarosa Connection, Saul Bellow (1989)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (1980)
More Die of Heartbreak, Saul Bellow (1987)
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells (1895)
Ravelstein, Saul Bellow (2000)*
A Theft, Saul Bellow (1989)
The Actual, Saul Bellow (1997)
Experience, Martin Amis (2000)*
Lightning On The Sun, Robert Bingham (2000)
Hard Travel to Sacred Places, Rudolph Wurlitzer (1995)
Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh (1997)*
The Consolations of Philosophy, Alain de Botton (2000)
Zeitgeist, Bruce Sterling (2000)*

2000
The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger (1997)
Annapurna, Maurice Herzog (1952)
Single and Single, John LeCarré (1999)
The Climb, Anatoli Boukreev (1997)
The Gutenberg Elegies, Sven Birkerts (1994)
Wetware (2), Rudy Rucker (1988)
Software (2), Rudy Rucker (1982)
Who Am I? An Autobiography of Emotion, Mind, and Spirit, Yi-fu Tuan (1999)
Circling the Sacred Mountain, Robert Thurman & Tad Wise (1999)
Realware, Rudy Rucker (2000)
The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas Friedman (1999)
High Exposure, David Brashears (1999)
The Clock of the Long Now, Stewart Brand (1999)
Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes (1984)
The Coming Conflict with China, Jeremy Bernstein (1997)
How Proust Can Change Your Life, Alain de Botton (1997)
The Good Apprentice, Iris Murdoch (1985)
Time and Bits, Stewart Brand (1998)
Islands in the Net (2), Bruce Sterling (1988)
The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard (1982)
Hard Drive, David Pogue (1993)
A Good Old Fashioned Future, Bruce Sterling (1999)
Shopping for Buddhas, Jeff Greenwald (1990)
Mount Misery, Samuel Shem (1997)
The Treatment, Daniel Menaker
The Rise of Endymion, Dan Simmons
All Tomorrow's Parties, William Gibson
Children of God, Dora Russell
Thank You Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse
In the Beginning Was the Command Line, Neal Stephenson
The Sparrow, Dora Russell

Well, that's the millenium so far. To see the entire list, in chronological order, click below:

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