We’re clearing out a bunch of books, see if there are any you like. (I can’t link to my specific listing for some reason — but if you look for seller kdegelau, that’s me.)
Fiction
- The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
, Steinbeck
- Ahab’s Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund – Yes, Ahab from Moby Dick.
- All the Names, Jose Saramago – One of my husband’s books. The cover blurb says that he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998.
- Baudolino, Umberto Eco – Classic Eco
- The Biographer’s Tale, AS Byatt – I love Byatt, but this one didn’t hold my interest.
- The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy – An amazingly good fictionalization of The Black Dahlia murders that happened in LA in the 1940s. They made a movie
out of it a couple of years ago, too. Gruesome, but well done.
- Busman’s Honeymoon, Dorothy L Sayers – Mystery produced some Lord Peter Wimsey-Harriet Vane mysteries
when I was in high school. I liked them and tried to read Sayers after I saw the shows. It didn’t work.
- But What of Earth?, Piers Anthony – I haven’t read this book in so long that I’ve actually forgotten its plot. The hook is that he details the editing process via footnotes (before DFW popularized them), so you learn a thing or two about publishing.
- Case Histories, Kate Atkinson
- Charming Billy, Alice McDermott – won the National Book Award
- Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
- Dark Matter, Philip Kerr
- The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger
- The Egyptologist, Arthur Phillips
- Foreigner, CJ Cherryh – Science Fiction
- Galetea 2.2, Richard Powers – About a cognitive scientist who helps build and train an AI, revealing things about himself in the process. Powers is a bit like DFW, so if you like his stuff, you might like Powers.
- The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, Melissa Bank
- The Hazards of Good Breeding, Jessica Shattuck
- How to Make an American Quilt, Whitney Otto
- Identity, Milan Kundera – meh.
- Interface, Stephen Bury – Science Fiction
- The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler
- The King’s Justice, Katherine Kurtz – Fantasy
- The Quality of Life Report, Meghan Daum – A woman from NYC moves to the middle of Kansas.
- Sick Puppy, Carl Hiaasen
- The Time Machine and The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne – I’ve never read it and I’m not likely to. I enjoyed Around the World in Eighty Days
, but somehow a bunch of people trapped on a submarine fighting off giant squid just doesn’t appeal.
Nonfiction
- Ada: Problem Solving and Program Design
- Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Wylie and Barrett
- The Beardstown Ladies Common-Sense Investment Guide
- The Bounty, Caroline Alexander – Written by the same woman who wrote The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
- Calculus, Hurley
- Culture of the Internet, Keisler – Bought, never read.
- The Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Kozen – CS text
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion – Hume
- Do Bald Men Get Half-Price Haircuts? – I don’t know where I got this book of essays.
- Elementary Linear Algebra
- Frontiers of Electronic Commerce, Kalakota and Winston – I don’t know how to describe this anymore. A book that covers a lot of basics about websites but it was written in the late 90s, so possibly out of date.
- Handbook of Applied Cryptography
- Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life, David Friedman
- How to Overthrow the Government, Arianna Huffington
- Human-Computer Interaction, Second Edition
- In Defense of Globalization, Jagdish Bhagwati
- Interface Culture, Stephen Johnson
- Italian Neighbors, Tim Parks – Englishman/American goes to live in Italy
- Language and Perception, Miller and Johnson-Laird
- Meditations on a First Philosophy, Descartes – I can’t remember if this is the “I think therefore I am” essay. I suspect it is.
- More Things You Need to Be Told, Lesley Carlin, Honore Ervin – Etiquette. I went through A Phase.
- Pigs at the Trough, Arianna Huffington
- Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Kant – I have no idea what prolegomena means. (dictionary.com says it means prologue. Why not just use prologue then?)
- Structures and Abstractions – Another CS text, pascal this time.
- Structuring Techniques – The textbook from the lone CS class I took in college. It’s an introduction to C++.
- Topology: A First Course, Munkres – the textbook from my college topology class
- A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Berkeley – philosophy, in case the title didn’t give it away.
- The Trouble with Computers, Thomas K Landauer
- Turn Signals Are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles, Don Norman
- Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Personal Finance – Hmm. Maybe the banks should have read this a couple of years ago?
- Who Owns Information?, Anne Wells Branscomb
- You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, Deborah Tannen
