Sunday, November 11, 2007

Biographies/Autobiographies

  • Martin Seymour Smith, Rudyard Kipling
  • Carlos Baker, Ernest Hemingway
  • Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words (Autobiography)
  • Patricia Cornwell, Portrait of a Killer (Biography of Jack the Ripper)

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Fiction

  • Elizabeth Kostova, the Historian
  • Magnus Mills, The Restraint of Beasts
  • Nicholas Barker, Small Holdings
  • Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
  • Kurt Vonnegut, Galapagos
  • Ian Banks, Canal Dreams
  • Roy Strong, A Country Life
  • Tibor Fischer, The Thought Gang
  • Pat Barker, Border Crossing
  • Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club
  • Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
  • Christopher Hyde, A Gathering of Saints
  • Anne Rice, Interview With a Vampire
  • Patricia Cornwell, Hornet's Nest
  • Anne Rice, The Feast of All Saints
  • Alice Sebold, Lovely Bones

Non-Fiction

  • Tony Thompson, Gangs (a journey in to the heart of the British underworld.. a quote from a review on Amazon: "this guy has to be nuts. He researched all his material by going face to face with real criminals who have ties to the underworld. He even smokes crack with a prostitute..")
  • Simon Singh, The Code Book (the science of secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Crypotography)
  • Andrew Roberts, What Might Have Been
  • Stephen Dorril, Blackshirt (The rise and fall of Oswald Mosely and British Fascism)
  • Marc Ferro, Nicholas II, Last of the Tsars (an overview of the last days of the Russian Tsars)
  • Patricia Schultz, A Thousand Places to See Before You Die

Sci-Fi

  • Ian M. Banks, Against a Dark Background
  • Ian M. Banks, The Algebraist
  • Stephen Baxter, Coalescent (Destiny's Children Trilogy Book 1)
  • Stephen Baxter, Exultant (Destiny's Children Trilogy Book 2)
  • Stephen Baxter, Transcendent (Destiny's Children Trilogy Book 3)
  • Stephen Baxter, Manifold Space
  • Greg Bear, Eon
  • Greg Bear, Eternity
  • Phillip K. Dick Minority Report and other short stories
  • Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
  • Year's Best SF7
  • Year's Best SF8
  • Year's Best SF10
  • Year's Best SF11