Reading Log

Basically, in 2017, I switched from a linear, one-book-at-a-time approach to a parallel approach in which I am simultaneously reading as many books at a time as I wish.  I have discovered I like to have about 5-10 books of different types running at a time, for different moods and levels of fatigue. "On deck" means I already have them - they're on the shelf or in the Kindle. Asterisks are star ratings 1-5. If anything drops to a ** in progress, forget it. You'll never see a ** or * on the completed list. Well, maybe if it's some pivotal self-edification thing I forced myself to read for cultural literacy purposes.  

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In Progress:
All Of The Marvels - Douglas Wolk
Encounters With The Archdruid - John McPhee
​Anatomy of Drumming - John Lamb
​The Sword of the Lictor; Gene Wolfe
Investing in ETFs For Dummies - Russell Wild
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land - Monica Hesse
The Runes of The Earth, Stephen R Donaldson
The High King; Lloyd Alexander
The Body: A Guide For Occupants - Bill Bryson
Black Dragon River, Dominic Ziegler
Franny & Zooey - J.D. Salinger
Candide - Voltaire
Eternity, Greg Bear
The Book of Mormon
Necronomicon, H.P. Lovecraft
Treasury of Humor, Isaac Asimov
The Incredible Adventures of Kavalier & Clay; Michael Chabon
Meet You In Hell, Les Standiford
Arabian Sands, Wilfred Thesiger
What If?, Randall Monroe
On Writing, Stephen King
The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, Bernal Diaz del Castillo
The Alexiad, Anna Comnena
One For The Road, Tony Horwitz
The Crystal Horizon, Reinhold Messner

​Read/Reread:
Strange Things Happen - Stewart Copeland****(4/7/2022)
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir*****(9/2/2021)
The Black Friend - Frederick Joseph****(8/2021)
Oranges - John McPhee*****(8/2021)
Marco Polo, From Venice to Xanadu - Laurence Bergreen**** (6/2021)
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. LeGuin****(3/14/2021)
The Claw of the Conciliator; Gene Wolfe****(7/23/2020)
The Shadow of the Torturer; Gene Wolfe****(6/2020)
White Gold Wielder - Stephen R. Donaldson***(5/2020)
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx ***(5/2020)
East of Eden - John Steinbeck*****(4/2020)
In The Pleasure Groove: Love, Death & Duran Duran - John Taylor***** (3/3/2020)
The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. LeGuin**** (2/2020)
100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez** (1/2020)
The Life of Pi - Yann Martel***(10/2019)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Dominic Ziegler*****​ (9/2019)
The One Tree - Stephen R. Donaldson**** (8/2019)
The Wounded Land - Stephen R. Donaldson*****(7/2019)
The Power That Preserves, Stephen R. Donaldson**** (6/2/2019)
The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins***** (6/1/2019)
Stone By Stone - Robert M. Thorson***** (5/2019)
The Lost City Of The Monkey God - Douglas Preston***** (4/14/2019)
The Control of Nature, John McPhee​*****
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde*****
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells***
Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann*****
The Illearth War, Stephen R. Donaldson*****
Lord Foul's Bane, Stephen R. Donaldson****
Taran Wanderer, Lloyd Alexander***
The Quran** (9/29/2018)
Eon, Greg Bear*****
The Castle of Llyr; Lloyd Alexander***
Dispatches From Pluto, Richard Grant*****
The Black Cauldron, Lloyd Alexander***
Planet of the Apes; Pierre Boulle****
Make Room! Make Room!; Harry Harrison***
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson*****
The Book of Three, Lloyd Alexander***
The Bible** (1/14/2018)
Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein****
Garbology, Edward Humes****
The Forever War, Joe Haldeman****
At Home, Bill Bryson*****
Gateway, Frederick Pohl****
The Martian, Andy Weir*****
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley****
The Catcher In The Rye, JD Salinger (reread)*****
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson*****
The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson*****
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest, Stieg Larsson*****
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula LeGuin***
The War of The Worlds, H.G. Wells****

On Deck:
Uncommon Carriers - John McPhee
The Pine Barrens - John McPhee
Coming Into The Country - John McPhee
Looking For A Ship - John McPhee
Believing - Anita Hill
Let The Drums Speak! - Bernard "Pretty" Purdie
The Citadel of the Autarch; Gene Wolfe
Cities of Gold:  A Journey Across The American Southwest in Pursuit of Coronado - Douglas Preston
Something In The Water:  Catherine Steadman
The Other Side of Russia, Sharon Hudgins
Legacy; Greg Bear
U-Boat Commander; Capt. Gunther Prien
The Tirpitz; David Woodward
Valiant Ambition, Nathaniel Philbrick
Fatal Revenant; Stephen R. Donaldson
Against All Things Ending; Stephen R. Donaldson
The Last Dark, Stephen R. Donaldson
The Second World War (6 vol.), Winston Churchill
A Journal of The Plague Year, Daniel Defoe
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay 
The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela
Fort Halifax, Daniel Tortora 
The Flatiron, Alice Alexiou