Books that I’ve recently read

This is simply an inverse chronologic list of the books I’ve read since mid 1996, when I started keeping track. It does not include reference books, cookbooks, travel guides, and such. I don’t necessarily recommend these books. See Books that I Recommend for the ones I liked.

2013

• The Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans, by Plutarch. [Audible]
• The Player of Games, by Iain M. Banks, narrated by Peter Kenny.
• Consider Phlebas, by Iain M. Banks, narrated by Peter Kenny.
• Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver, narrated by Barbara Kingsolver.
• Gilgamesh, translated by Stephen Mitchell, narrated by George Guidall.
• Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art, by Laney Salisbury, Aly Sujo, narrated by Marty Peterson.
• The Barbarian Nurseries, by Héctor Tobar, narrated by Frankie J. Alvarez.
• The Chronoliths, by Robert Charles Wilson, narrated by Oliver Wyman.
• The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, narrated by Steven Crossley.
• Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson, narrated by Scott Brick.
• 2666, by Roberto Bolaño. [Audible]

2012

• Deliverance from the Little Big Horn: Doctor Henry Porter and Custer’s Seventh Cavalry, by Joan Nabseth Stevenson.
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami.
• The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux, Mireille Ribiere.
• The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, narrated by David Horovitch.
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translated by Simon Armitage, narrated by Bill Wallis.
• Candide, by Voltaire, narrated by Andrew Sachs.
• Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler, narrated by Frank Muller.
• Tao Te Ching: A New English Version, by Lao Tzu, translated and narrated by Stephen Mitchell.
• Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, by Sherry Turkle.
• The Mailbox, by Audrey Shafer.
• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, by Naomi Oreskes.
• Cleopatra: A Life, by Stacy Schiff.
• Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson.
• Madame Pamplemousse and Her Incredible Edibles, by Rupert Kingfisher.
• A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
• The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science--and Reality, by Chris Mooney.
• Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil, by Tom Mueller.
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
• Philosophical Investigations, by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
• The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, by James D. Hornfischer.
• Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace.
• The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver.
• Love Songs, by Sara Teasdale.
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, by John Le Carré.

2011

• Queen of Kings, by Maria Dahvana Headley.
• A Lion Among Men, by Gregory Maguire.
• A Bend in the River, by V.S. Naipaul.
• The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi.
• Son of a Witch: Volume Two in The Wicked Years, by Gregory Maguire.
• The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss.
• Coalescent, by Stephen Baxter.
• The Difference Engine, by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.
• The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst.
• After Dark, by Haruki Murakami.
• How to Live Safely in A Science Fictional Universe, by Charles Yu.
• Embassytown, by China Mieville.
• Ratner’s Star, by Don DeLillo.
• The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being, by Daniel J. Siegel.
• The Body Has a Mind of Its Own, by Sandra Blakeslee, Matthew Blakeslee.
• How Risky Is It, Really?, by David Ropeik.
• Stabilizing An Unstable Economy, by Hyman P. Minsky.
• Paris Was Ours, by Penelope Rowlands.
• The Flâneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris, by Edmund White.
• Nocturnes: five stories of music and nightfall, by Kazuo Ishiguro.
• On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not, by Robert Burton.
• Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell.
• Apes, Language, and the Human Mind, by Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Stuart G. Shanker, Talbot J. Taylor.
• Taking Science To School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8, by Richard Duschl et al.
• Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro.
• Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation, by Michael Zielenziger.
• Kanzi’s Primal Language: The Cultural Initiation of Primates into Language, by Pär Segerdahl, William Fields, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh.
• The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, by Steven Pinker.
• A Thousand Days of Wonder: A Scientist’s Chronicle of His Daughter’s Developing Mind, by Charles Fernyhough.
• The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories, by Philip K. Dick.
• Brain Gender, by Melissa Hines.
• Paycheck And Other Classic Stories, by Philip K. Dick.
• The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans, by Stanley I. Greenspan, Stuart Shanker.
• Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, by Yiyun Li.

2010

• The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran.
• Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else, by Geoff Colvin.
• Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future, by Robert Reich.
• Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner.
• My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey, by Jill Bolte Taylor.
• Mind In Society, by Lev Vygotsky.
• A Man Without Words, by Susan Schaller.
• Thought and Language, by Lev Vygotsky.
• The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, by Michael Chabon.
• In Spite of the Gods, by Edward Luce.
• Chaos: Making a New Science, by James Gleick.
• The Boat: Stories, by Nam Le.
• The Philosophical Baby, by Alison Gopnik.
• Complete Guide To Single Malt Scotch, by Michael Jackson.
• Nemesis, by Chalmers Johnson.
• The Sorrows of Empire, by Chalmers Johnson.
• Treating the "Untreatable", by Ira Steinman.
• Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization, by Steven Solomon.
• Napoleon’s Egypt, by Juan Cole.
• Food Not Lawns, by Heather Flores.
• Natural Experiments of History, edited by Jared Diamond and James Robinson.
• Invisible History: Afghanistan’s Untold Story, by Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould.
• Blowback, by Chalmers Johnson.
• Lipstick Jihad, by Azadeh Moaveni.
• My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes, edited by Lila Azam Zanganeh.
• Prosperity Without Growth, by Tim Jackson.
• Euripides II: The Cyclops and Heracles, Iphigenia in Tauris, Helen, by Euripides, edited by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore.
• Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow.
• Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, by Margaret Atwood.
• The Road, by Cormac McCarthy.
• Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, by Euripides, translated by David Grene.

2009

• Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, Heracleidae, Hippolytus, by Euripides, translated by David Grene and Richmond Lattimore.
• FIASCO: Blood in the Water on Wall Street, by Frank Partnoy.
• The Other Wind, by Ursula K. Le Guin.
• Tales From Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin.
• Tehanu, by Ursula K. Le Guin.
• The Farthest Shore, by Ursula K. Le Guin.
• The Tombs of Atuan, by Ursula K. Le Guin.
• A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K. Le Guin.
• The Killing of Worlds, by Schott Westerfeld.
• The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots, by Irene Maxine Pepperberg.
• This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff.
• Iconoclast, by Gregory Berns.
• The Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood.
• The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer.
• The death of conservatism, by Sam Tanenhaus.
• Don’t Think of an Elephant, by George Lakoff.
• Farewell to the Master, by Harry Bates.
• Anathem, by Neal Stephenson.
• The Last Season, by Eric Blehm.
• The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008, by Paul Krugman.
• Street Fighters, by Kate Kelly.
• Fool’s Gold, by Gillian Tett.
• The Years of Talking Dangerously, by Geoffrey Nunberg.
• The Political Mind, by George Lakoff.
• World Without End, by Ken Follett.
• How to Win a Cosmic War, by Reza Aslan.
• Too Big to Fail: The Hazards of Bank Bailouts, by Gary Stern, Ron Feldman.
• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, by Liaquat Ahamed.
• An Autobiography, by Mohandas Gandhi.
• Two Billion Cars, by Daniel Sperling and Deborah Gordon.

2008

• Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, by Mark Lynas.
• Worms Eat My Garbage, by Mary Appelhof.
• East Wind, Rain, by Caroline Paul.
• Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge.
• The Risen Empire, by Scott Westerfeld.
• The Three Trillion Dollar War : The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Linda J. Blimes.
• Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What’s at Stake for American Power, by Mark Schapiro.
• The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman.
• The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett.
• Second Foundation, by Isaac Asimov.
• Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov.
• Foundation, by Isaac Asimov.
• The Fountains of Paradise, by Arthur C. Clark.
• The Peace War, by Vernor Vinge.
• The Spies of Warsaw, by Alan Furst.
• All the President’s Men, by Bob Woodward.
• The Nine, by Jeffrey Toobin.
• Freakonomics Rev Ed, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.
• The Digital Photography Book, by Scott Kelby.
• Internal Combustion, by Edwin Black.
• Total Solar Eclipses and How to Observe Them, by Martin Mobberley.
• Eclipse!, by Philip S. Harrington.
• Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths, by Benjamin K. Sovacool.
• The Lemon Tree, by Sandy Tolan.
• The Enemy of Nature, by Joel Kovel.

2007

• Titan, by Stephen Baxter.
• Annals of the Former World, by John McPhee.
• Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell.
• Understanding Terror Networks, by Marc Sageman.
• Natural Beekeeping, by Ross Conrad.
• Bones of the Moon, by Jonathan Carroll.
• First Lessons in Beekeeping, by Dadant
• Critical Mass, by Philip Ball.
• The Upanishads, translated by Juan Mascaró.
• Soul Mountain, by Gao Xingjian.
• After the Deluge, by Chris Carlsson.
• The Prestige, by Christopher Priest.
• Drawing the Line, by Steven M. Wise.
• Bread, by Jeffrey Hamelman.
• Aeschylus II, by Aeschylus, translated by S.G. Benardete and David Grene.
• Finding George Orwell in Burma, by Emma Larkin.
• Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes, by Frans de Waal.
• The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-century Science, Including the Original Papers, by Alan Lightman.
• Hell and High Water, by Joseph Romm.
• Bhagavad Gita, translated by Juan Mascaro.
• The Humanure Handbook, by Joe Jenkins.
• Empire, by Niall Ferguson.
• Plug-in Hybrids, by Sherry Boschert.
• Life of Pi, by Yann Martel.
• Oresteia, by Aeschylus, translated Richmond Lattimore.
• The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.
• Allergy-Free Gardening, by Thomas L. Ogren.
• Water Storage Tanks, Cisterns, Aquifers, and Ponds, by Art Ludwig.
• Prometheus Bound, by Aeschylus, Scully, Herrington.
• The Penelopiad, by Margaret Atwood.
• Stalking the Wild Taboo, by Garrett Hardin.
• The Bread Book, by Thom Leonard.
• Forging, by John Jernberg.
• The Bread Builders: Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens, by Daniel Wing, Alan Scott.
• Build Your Own Earth Oven, by Kiko Denzer.
• Farmers of Forty Centuries Or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan, by D. F. H. King.

2006

• Solar House, by Terry Galloway.
• Euripides’ Hippolytos, retold by Sirish Rao.
• The Woodburners Encyclopedia, by Jay Shelton. Amazon
• The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown.
• Cradle to Cradle, by William McDonough, Michael Braungart.
• Unweaving the Rainbow, by Richard Dawkins.
• Rocket Mass Heaters, by Ianto Evans and Leslie Jackson.
• Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet, by James Mann.
• Courtyards, by John S. Reynolds.
• Meeting the Other Crowd: The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland, by Eddie Lenihan.
• Idoru, by William Gibson.
• Superbia!: 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods, by Dan Chiras.
• Naomi, by Junichiro Tanizaki.
• Tales Before Tolkien, by Douglas A. Anderson.
• Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson.
• Saving Seeds: The Gardener’s Guide to Growing and Storing Vegetable and Flower Seeds, by Marc Rogers.
• Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold.
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan.
• Peacemaking among Primates, by Frans de Waal.
• Manifesto for a New World Order, by George Monbiot.
• Godless Constitution: The Case against Religious Correctness, by Isaac Kramnick.
• Natural Swimming Pools, by Michael Littlewood.
• Rattling the Cage, by Steven M. Wise.
• Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood.
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond.

2005

• The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush, by Peter Singer.
• Collapse of Complex Societies, by Joseph A. Tainter.
• Fab, by Neil Gershenfeld.
• The Innovator’s Dilemma, by Clayton Christensen.
• Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, by Janine M. Benyus.
• Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick.
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, by Philip K. Dick.
• Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays, by J. R. R. Tolkien.
• Systemantics, by John Gall.
• In Other Words, by Christopher J. Moore.
• The Girl Who Played Go, by Shan Sa.
• The Speed of Dark, by Elizabeth Moon.
• Gilgamesh, translated by Stephen Mitchell.
• The Complete Essays, by Michel de Montaigne.
• Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code, by Bart Ehrman.
• The curious incident of the dog in the night-time, by Mark Haddon.
• Einstein’s Dreams, by Alan Lightman.
• Redemolished, by Alfred Bester.
• The Pig Who Sang to the Moon, by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson.
• The Demolished Man, by Alfred Bester.

2004

• Diffusion of Innovations, by Everett Rogers.
• Synthajoy, by D. G. Compton.
• Hominids, by Robert J. Sawyer.
• Major Barbara, by George Bernard Shaw.
• Small Is Beautiful, Economics As If People Mattered, by E.F. Schumacher.
• Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David Luke (Translator).
• Jeff Duntemann’s Wi-Fi Guide, by Jeff Duntemann.
• Wardriving: Drive, Detect, Defend, by Chris Hurley.
• The Dogs of Babel, by Carolyn Parkhurst.
• Target Iraq, by Norman Solomon and Reese Erlich.
• Night of Many Dreams, by Gail Tsukiyama.
• The Language of the Night, by Ursula K. Le Guin.
• The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin.
• We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin.
• Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal, by Jared Diamond.
• What Liberal Media?: The Truth about Bias and the News, by Eric Alterman.
• Albert Einstein: A Biography, by Albrecht Fölsing, Ewald Osers (Translator).
• A World Restored, by Henry Kissinger.
• Postfix: The Definitive Guide, by Kyle D. Dent.
• Retooling, by Rosalind Williams.
• No Exit and Three Other Plays, by Jean-Paul Sartre.
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra: a book for all and none, by Friedrich Nietzsche.
• War Talk, by Arundhati Roy.
• Training for Endurance, by Philip Maffetone.
• Applied Cryptography, by Bruce Schneier.

2003

• Kerberos, by Jason Garman.
• Building Internet Firewalls, by Elizabeth Zwicky, et al.
• Practical Photovoltaics, by Richard J. Komp.
• The New Doublespeak, by William Lutz.
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by Malcolm Gladwell.
• Natural Plaster Book: Earth, Lime, and Gypsum Plasters for Natural Homes, by Cedar Rose Guelberth.
• Quarantine, by Greg Egan.
• It’s a Free Country, by Danny Goldberg, Victor Goldberg, Robert Greenwald.
• Anil’s Ghost, by Michael Ondaatje.
• Michelangelo, by Gilles Néret.
• Globalization and Its Discontents, by Joseph E. Stiglitz.
• Nice Guys Finish Seventh, by Ralph Keyes.
• Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy, by Ted Nace.
  (newly published version of earlier read The American Invention, with additional chapters)
• Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon, by Robert Fisk.
• The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, by Greg Palast.
• High and Mighty: SUVs: The World’s Most Dangerous Vehicles, by Keith Bradsher.
• The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood.
• Building With Vision: Optimizing and Finding Alternatives to Wood, by Dan Imhoff.
• Flatlander, by Larry Niven.
• The End of Time, by Julian Barbour.
• Entanglement: the greatest mystery in physics, by Amir Aczel.
• What Nietzsche Really Said, by Robert Solomon and Kathleen Higgins.
• The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives, by Zbigniew K. Brzezinski.
• The Journey to the East, by Hermann Hesse.
• American Gods, by Neil Gaiman.
• The Clan of the Cave Bear, by Jean M. Auel.

2002

• Ahab’s Wife, by Sena Jeter Naslund.
• Peace on Earth, by Stanislaw Lem.
• 9-11, by Noam Chomsky.
• Div, grad, curl, and all that, by H.M. Schey.
• Create an Oasis with Greywater, by Art Ludwig.
• The Trial, by Franz Kafka.
• Walking on Fire, by Beverly Bell.
• Quaternions and rotation sequences, by Jack B. Kuipers.
• Animal Liberation, by Peter Singer.
• Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since World War II, by William Blum.
• The myth of Sisyphus, and other essays, by Albert Camus.
• The Stranger, by Albert Camus.
• Flatterland, by Ian Stewart.
• Modern Physics, by Paul A. Tipler and Ralph A. Llewellyn.
• Differential Equations & Linear Algebra, by Jerry Farlow, James E. Hall, Jean Marie McDill, and Beverly H. West.
• Disturbing the Peace, by Vaclav Havel.
• The Myth of the Liberal Media, by Edward S. Herman.
• The American Invention, by Ted Nace. (not yet published)
• The Passive Solar House, by James Kachadorian.
• Across the Sea of Suns, by Gregory Benford.
• Understanding Power, by Noam Chomsky, Peter Rounds Mitchell, and John Schoeffel.
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers.
• O is for Outlaw, by Sue Grafton.
• Island, by Aldous Huxley.
• Into the Buzzsaw, edited by Kristina Borjesson.
• The Case Against the Global Economy, edited by Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith.
• Charging Ahead, by Joe Sherman.
• The Glass Bead Game, by Hermann Hesse.
• Serious Strawbale, by Paul Lacinski and Michel Bergeron.
• Earthponds Sourcebook, by Tim Matson.
• The Not So Big House, by Sarah Susanka with Kira Obolensky.
• The Book of Sand, by Jorge Luis Borges.
• A Friend of Kafka, and Other Stories, by Isaac Bashevis Singer.
• The Botony of Desire, by Michael Pollan.
• Limit of Vision, by Linda Nagata.
• Why God Won’t Go Away, by Andrew Newberg, Eugene D’Acuili, and Vince Rause.
• Narcissus and Goldmund, by Hermann Hesse.
• The River King, by Alice Hoffman.
• The Aeneid, by Virgil.
• Political Fictions, by Joan Didion.
• Writings on an Ethical Life, by Peter Singer.
• Darwin’s Ghost, by Steve Jones.
• The Miracle of Mindfulness, by Thich Nhat Hanh.
• The Cultural Creatives, by Paul Anderson, Sherry Anderson.
• The Post-Corporate World, by David C. Korten.
• When Corporations Rule the World, by David C. Korten.
• Stinger, by Nancy Kress.
• Troublemakers, by Harlan Ellison.
• The Timeless Way of Building, by Christopher Alexander.
• Maximum Light, by Nancy Kress.

2001

• The Vampire Armand, by Anne Rice.
• Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser.
• Merrick, by Anne Rice.
• The Symbolic Species, by Terrence W. Deacon.
• Lies Across America, by James W. Loewen.
• The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse, by Jack Zipes.
• Reason for Hope, by Jane Goodall.
• Development as Freedom, by Amartya Sen.
• Waiting, by Ha Jin.
• The Constant Gardener, by John le Carré.
• A Pattern Language, by Christopher Alexander, et al.
• The State We’re In, by Will Hutton.
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by J. K. Rowling.
• Powerful Peacemaking, by George Lakey.
• Logical Effort, by Ivan Sutherland.
• The Annotated Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, W. W. Denslow.
• Violin, by Anne Rice.
• Supersymmetry, by Gordon Kane.
• The Blind Watchmaker, by Richard Dawkins.
• The Story of B, by Daniel Quinn.
• Zodiac, by Neal Stephenson.
• Manifold Time, by Stephen Baxter.
• Stardust, by Neil Gaiman.
• Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn.
• Journey Through Genius, by William Dunham.
• A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge.
• The Lady, by Barbara Victor.

2000

• Natural Capitalism : Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, by Paul Hawken, Hunter Lovins, Amory B. Lovins.
• Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
• Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson.
• Lincoln, by Gore Vidal.
• The Terrible Hours, by Peter Maas.
• Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond.
• The Emotional Brain, by Joseph LeDoux.
• The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Inferno, translated by Allen Mandelbaum.
• A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb, by Philip Langdon.
• The Healthy House, by John Bower.
• The New Natural House Book, by David Pearson.
• Darwin’s Radio, by Greg Bear.
• Otherland Volume Three: Mountain of Black Glass, by Tad Williams.
• After Progress, by Anthony O’Hear.
• The Greenpeace Guide to Anti-Environmental Organizations, by Carl Deal.
• Asphalt Nation, by Jane Holtz Kay.
• Beaker’s Dozen, by Nancy Kress.
• A Conspiracy of Paper, by David Liss.
• Forever Peace, by Joe Haldeman.
• The Next American Metropolis, by Peter Calthorpe.
• Purgatorio, by Dante Alighieri, translated by W.S. Merwin.
• The Economics of Climate Change, by Stephen J. Decanio.
• We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families, by Philip Gourevitch.
• Stiffed, by Susan Faludi.

1999

• The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger.
• Lost in Translation, by Nicole Mones.
• There’s Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stipes and Dead Armadillos, by Jim Hightower.
• Toxic Deception, by Dan Fagin, Marianne Lavelle.
• Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson.
• Otherland: River of Blue Fire, Volume Two, by Tad Williams.
• The New Way Things Work, by David Macaulay, Neil Ardley.
• Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller.
• Ethics into Action, by Peter Singer.
• The Dreaded Comparison, by Marjorie Spiegel, Alice Walker.
• In Dubious Battle, by John Steinbeck.
• The Invisible Computer, by Donald Norman.
• Banker to the Poor, by Muhammad Yunus, et al.
• The Penguin Essays of George Orwell, by George Orwell.
• Elements of Ml Programming, by Jeffrey D. Ullman.
• East of the Mountains, by David Guterson.
• Slow River, by Nicola Griffith.
• The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media, by Norman Solomon.
• The Consumer’s Guide to Effective Environmental Choices, by Michael Brower and Warren Leon.
• The Simple Truth, by David Baldacci.
• The Sacred Depths of Nature, by Ursula Goodenough.
• The Sun and the Moon, by Vonda McIntyre.
• The UNIX-HATERS Handbook (download here)
• Going Local, by Michael Shuman.
• Far Futures, by Gregory Benford.
• Poverty and Famines, by Amartya Sen.
• I, Claudius, by Robert Graves.
• Taking Charge, by Michael R. Beschloss.
• The Secret Agent, by Joseph Conrad.
• Against the Grain, by Marc Lappe, Britt Bailey.
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, by Gregory Maguire.
• The Loop, by Nicholas Evans.
• The Collosus of Maroussi, by Henry Miller.
• The Postman, by David Brin.
• Otherland, by Tad Williams.

1998

• Dark Alliance, by Gary Webb.
• Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, by Alan Weisman.
• Los Alamos, by Joseph Kanon.
• Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman.
• Four Ways to Foregiveness, by Ursula K. Le Guin.
• Angela’s Ashes, by Frank McCourt.
• Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden.
• Heart of the Comet, by David Brin and Gregory Benford.
• Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier.
• The War Against the Greens, by David Helvarg.
• Celtic Myths & Legends, by Charles Squire.
• Diet for a Poisoned Planet, by David Steinman.
• Green Backlash : Global Subversion of the Environmental Movement, by Andrew Rowell.
• Secrets of the Temple : How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country, by William Greider.
• Inside Intel : Andy Grove and the Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Chip Company, by Tim Jackson.
• No Contest : Corporate Lawyers and the Perversion of Justice in America, by Ralph Nader and Wesley J. Smith.
• Living Downstream : An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment, by Sandra Steingraber.
• Toxic Sludge Is Good for You! Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry, by John C. Stauber and Sheldon Rampton.
• Great Books, by David Denby.

1997

• Vegan Nutrition, by Gill Langley.
• Being Digital, by Nicholas Negroponte.
• The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy.
• Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson.
• The Man Who Listens to Horses, by Monty Roberts.
• Children of the Mind, by Orson Scott Card.
• Blue Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson.
• Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson.
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera.
• Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus, by Orson Scott Card.
• A Civil Action, by Jonathon Harr.
• The Uplift War, by David Brin.
• Pirates of the Universe, by Terry Bisson.
• Hong Kong, Final Edition, by Jan Morris.
• Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.
• The Ancient Mediterranean, by Michael Grant.
• The Tailor of Panama, by John Le Carre.
• Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James W. Lowen.
• The Chess Garden, by Brooks Hansen.
• Archangel, by Sharon Shinn.
• Soros On Soros, by George Soros, Byron Wien, Krisztina Koenen.
• The Media Monopoly, by Ben H. Bagdikian.
• The Samurai’s Garden, by Gail Tsukiyama.
• The Horse Whisperer, by Nicholas Evans.

1996

• The Healer’s War, by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough.
• Brightness Reef, by David Brin.
• Primary Colors, by Anonymous.
• The Winner-Take-All Society, by Robert H. Frank and Philip J. Cook.
• Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson.
• On the Origins of War, and the Preservation of Peace, by Donald Kagan.
• Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years, by Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
• Beggars and Choosers, by Nancy Kress.
• Of Tigers & Men, Entering the Age of Extinction, by Richard Ives.
• In Retrospect, The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, by Robert S. McNamara.
• Black Elk Speaks, by John G. Neihardt.
• Reason to Believe, by Mario Cuomo.
• Killing Custer, by James Welch.
• Who Will Tell the People: The Betrayal of American Democracy, by William Greider.
• The Last of the Wine, by Mary Renault.