Books on my shelves, randomly placed
Submitted by heatherhug on Sat, 12/02/2006 - 13:04
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- A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
- Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - Carl Sagan
- How the Mind Works - Stephen Pinker
- The Blank Slate - Stephen Pinker
- The Stuff of Thought: Langauge as a Window into Human Nature - Stephen Pinker
- Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
- The Horse, the Wheel, and Language - David Anthony
- The Language Instinct - Stephen Pinker
- The Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond
- Collapse - Jared Diamond
- Hyperspace - Michio Kaku
- The Descent of Woman - Elaine Morgan
- Our Inner Ape - Franz de Waal
- The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature - Geoffrey Miller
- Nonzero - Robert Wright
- The Moral Animal - Robert Wright
- Moral Clarity - Susan Neiman
- Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil - Hannah Arendt
- The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene
- Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene
- Billions and Billions - Carl Sagan
- Cosmos - Carl Sagan
- The Dragons of Eden - Carl Sagan
- Brocca's Brain - Carl Sagan
- Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
- The Stone Raft - Jose Saramago
- The Cave - Jose Saramago
- Blindness - Jose Saramago
- The Gringo - Carlos Fuentes
- The Death of Artemio Cruz - Carlos Fuentes
- The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargas Llosa
- The Way to Paradise - Mario Vargas Llosa
- Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter - Mario Vargas Llosa
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
- News of a Kidnapping - Gabriel Garcia-Marez
- Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
- The Autumn of the Patriarch - Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
- In Evil Hour - Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
- Eva Luna - Isabel Allende
- The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
- Of Love and Shadows - Isabel Allende
- The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
- Dona Flor and her Four Husbands - Jose Amado
- Gabriela, Clove, and Cinammon - Jose Amado
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
- The Plague - Albert Camus
- The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
- Ten Plays - Euripides
- Oedipus - Sophocles
- Paradise Lost - John Milton
- Hamlet - Shakespeare
- Henry IV, Part One - Shakespeare
- The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
- The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
- Rebecca - Daphne DuMaurier
- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
- Tess of the D'urbervilles- Thomas Hardy
- Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
- The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
- The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- Persuasion - Jane Austen
- Emma - Jane Austen
- Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
- Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
- Little Dorritt - Charles Dickens
- A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- Hard Times - Charles Dickens
- The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
- Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
- Possession - AS Byatt
- Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
- Complete Stores - Dorothy Parker
- Brave New World - Alduous Huxley
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maughm
- Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
- Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
- Everyman - Philip Roth
- Operation Shylock - Phillip Roth
- The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
- American Pastoral - Philip Roth
- Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
- A Separate Peace - John Knowles
- The Once and Future King - TH White
- The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
- The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
- The Magus - John Fowles
- 1984 - George Orwell
- The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
- Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
- Three Plays - Eugene O'Neill
- The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
- Jennie Gerhardt - Theodore Dreiser
- Lady Chatterley's Lover - DH Lawrence
- Women in Love - DH Lawrence
- The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
- The Winter of our Discontent - John Steinbeck
- The Little Red Book - Mao Zedong
- The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights - John Steinbeck
- A Dubious Battle - John Steinbeck
- East of Eden - Steinbeck
- Grapes of Wratch - Steinbeck
- The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway
- A Farewell to Arms - Hemingway
- The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
- For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Tender is the Night - Fitzgerald
- This Side of Paradise - Fitzgerald
- Look Homeward, Angel - Thomas Wolfe
- The Wapshot Chronicles - Cheever
- The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
- Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
- A Bend in the River - VS Naipaul
- A House for Mr. Biswas - VS Naipaul
- The World is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of VS Naipaul - Patrick French
- The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
- The Moor's Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie
- The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie
- Shame - Salman Rushdie
- Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
- Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie
- The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
- The Enchantress of Florence - Salman Rushdie
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
- Such a Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry
- A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
- Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
- Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
- Night Watch - Sarah Waters
- Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
- Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
- Affinity - Sarah Waters
- The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Klay - Michael Chabon
- Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
- The Final Solution - Michael Chabon
- The Yiddish Policemans' Union - Michael Chabon
- The Mysteries of Pittsburgh - Michael Chabon
- Gentlemen of the Road - Michael Chabon
- The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll - Alvaro Mutis
- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
- The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
- Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
- The Hours - Michael Cunningham
- A Home at the End of the World - Michael Cunningham
- Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
- The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
- The Savage Detectives - Robert Bolano
- Mohawk - Richard Russo
- The Risk Pool - Richard Russo
- The Whore's Child - Richard Russo
- Straight Man - Richard Russo
- Nobody's Fool - Richard Russo
- Empire Falls - Richard Russo
- Bridge of Sighs - Richard Russo
- The Emporer's Children - Claire Massud
- The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
- That Old Ace in the Hole - Annie Proulx
- Accordian Crimes - E. Annie Proulx
- Drop City - TC Boyle
- The Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem
- Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem
- The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
- Beowulf
- The Last Night in Ballyhoo - Alfred Uhry
- Waiting - Ha Jin
- True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
- Newjack - Ted Conover
- God: A Biography - Jack Miles
- Positively Fifth Street - James McManus
- Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
- Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
- Do they Hear you When You Cry? - Fauziya Kassindja
- The Book of Joe - Jonathan Tropper
- The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe
- The Bonfires of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
- On the Road - Jack Kerouac
- Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
- Katharine Graham's Washington
- The First American: Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin - HW Brands
- American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson - Joseph Ellis
- Savage Beauty - Nancy Milford
- Zelda - Nancy Milford
- Heavier Than Heaven: Kurt Cobain - Charles Cross
- Kurt Cobain - Christopher Sandford
- Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana - Michael Azerrad
- My Point...and I do Have One - Ellen DeGeneres
- An Hour Before Daylight (signed) - Jimmy Carter
- Blow - Bruce Porter
- Light My Fire: The Doors - Ray Manzarex
- Lindbergh - A. Scott Berg
- Wicked - Gregory Maguire
- Death of a Red Heroine - Qiu Xiaolong
- A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
- The Trial - Franz Kafka
- The Tin Drum - Gunter Grass
- Red Sorghum - Mo Yan
- Raise the Red Lantern - Su Tong
- To Live - Yu Hua
- News from Paraguay - Lily Tuck
- Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
- Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
- Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
- Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
- Pygmy - Chuck Palahniuk
- London Fields - Martin Amis
- Stalin - Simon Montefiore
- The I Hate George W. Bush Reader
- King Arthur and His Knights - Malory
- Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy O'Toole
- A Beautiful Mind - Sylvia Nassar
- Return of the King - JRR Tolkien
- The Two Towers - Tolkien
- Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann
- The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
- The Ugly American - Lederer
- Little Children - Tom Perotta
- The Abstinence Teacher - Tom Perotta
- Rabbit is Rich - John Updike
- Rabbit Redux - John Updike
- Rabbit, Run - John Updike
- Rabbit at Rest - John Updike
- I Am Charlotte Simmons - Tom Wolfe
- A Man in Full - Tom Wolfe
- The Education of a Woman - Gloria Steinem
- 1776 - David McCullogh
- John Adams - David McCullough
- Hitler - Ian Kershaw
- The Myth of Moral Justice - Thane Rosenbaum
- Fury - Salman Rushdie
- And You Shall Know Our Velocity (signed, 1st Edition)- Dave Eggers
- Gone With the Wind (in Chinese)
- The Rice Room - Ben Fong Torres
- The Years with Laura Diaz - Carlos Fuentes
- Shalimar the Clown - Salman Rushdie
- The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
- The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood
- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them - Al Franken
- The Great Fire - Shirley Hazzard
- Brick Lane - Monica Ali
- How to Lose Friends and Alienate People - Toby Young
- Apathy and Other Small Victories - Paul Neilan
- Portrait in Sepia - Isabel Allende
- Truman - David McCullough
- FDR - Jean Edward Smith
- American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House - John Meacham
- Lincoln - David Herbert Donald
- Living History - Hillary Clinton
- Dreams From My Father - Barack Obama
- 1421: The Year China Discovered America - Gavin Mendes
- Does America Need a Foreign Policy? - Henry Kissinger
- Born for Liberty - Sara Evans
- Nobody's Fool (1st Edition) - Richard Russo
- Empire Falls (1st Edition) - Richard Russo
- Living to Tell the Tale - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Chronicles of a Blood Merchant (signed) - Yu Hua
- In America - Susan Sontag
- Night Draws Near - Anthony Shadid
- The Bounty - Carline Alexander
- The Wrong Man - Michael Mello
- Roots - Alex Haley
- Courtroom 302 - Steve Bogira
- The Inner Circle - TC Boyle
- The Tiananmen Papers - Andrew Nathan
- Eve's Seed - Robert McElvaine
- The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
- The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- House of Sand and Fog - Andre dubos III
- The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
- Undaunted Courage - Stephen A. Ambrose
- Alexander Hamilton - Ron Chernow
- Code of the Street - Elijah Anderson
- The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
- The Bean Tree - Barbara Kingsolver
- Animal Dreams - Barbara Kingsolver
- Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
- She Comes Undone - Wally Lamb
- I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb
- The Hour I First Believed - Wally Lamb
- Into the Wild - Jon Kraukauer
- Memories of My Meloncholy Whores - Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
- The Russian Debutante's Handbook - Gary Shteyngart
- Absurdistan - Gary Shteyngart
- Female Chauvanist Pigs - Ariel Levy
- Thirteen Moons - Charles Frazier
- Krakatoa - Simon Winchester
- Talk Talk - TC Boyle
- Timothy Leary - Robert Greenfield
- Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
- Roget's International Thesaurus
- New Age Chinese-English Dictionary
- Far East Chinese-English Dictionary
- Chengyu Dictionary
- English-Chinese Pinyin Dictionary
- Concise English-Chinese, Chinese-English Dictionary
- Mandarin Chinese Grammar Manual
- Constitutional Interpretation - Ducat
- Demons - Dostoevsky
- The End of Faith - Sam Harris
- The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality - Andre Comte-Sponville
- Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
- American Brutus - Michael Kauffman
- The Places in Between - Rory Stewart
- His Excellency - Joseph Ellis
- Don Quixote - Cervantes
- Capote - Gerald Clarke
- The Orientalist - Tom Reiss
- The Ox-Bow Incident - William Clark Tilburg
- Why I am Not a Christian - Bertrand Russell
- Three Junes - Julia Glass
- A History of Love - Nicole Krauss
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
- Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
- The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
- An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
- A Pale View of the Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
- When We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
- After Dark - Haruki Murakami
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
- Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
- Out Stealing Horses -Per Petterson
- To Siberia - Pre Petterson
- Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
- Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
- Independence Day - Richard Ford
- The Sportswriter - Richard Ford
- Continental Drift - Rusell Banks
- Affliction - Russell Banks
- The Reserve - Russell Banks
- The Adventures of Auggie March - Saul Bellow
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
- Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
- Saturday - Ian McEwan
- On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
- Lush Life - Richard Price
- The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
- Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
- Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
- The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
- The Mandarins - Simone de Beauvoir
- All Men Are Mortal - Simone de Beauvoir
- Backlash - Susan Faludi
- Who Cooked the Last Supper? - Rosalind Miles
- Another Country - James Baldwin
- Shogun - James Clavell
- Taipan - James Clavell
- Gai-Jin - James Clavell
- London - Edward Rutherford
- The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
- World's Fair - EL Doctorow
- Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
- The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone
- The Fellowship of the Ring - Tolkien
- The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
- Them - Joyce Carol Oates
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- The Nice and the Good - Iris Murdoch
- Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
- The Hot Zone - Richard Preston
- And Then There were None - Agatha Christie
- The Clocks - Agatha Christie
- The ABC Murders - Agatha Christie
- Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Addams
- The Secret History - Donna Tart
- Elements of Style - Strunk and White
- A Time to Kill - John Grisham
- The Partner - John Grisham
- Gods, Graves, and Scholars - CW Ceram
- The Shining - Stephen King
- Breathing Lessons - Anne Tyler
- Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
- Deception Point - Dan Brown
- Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
- Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
- Justice at War - Peter Irons
- The Destruction of the European Jews - Paul Hilberg
- Behold a Pale Horse - William Cooper
- A History of Knowledge - Charles Van Doren
- Ethnic Groups in Conflict - Donald Horowitz
- Years of Renewal - Henry Kissenger
- A Theory of Justice - John Rawls
- The Pope's Ceiling - Ross King
- A History of the Supreme Court
- Six Days of War - Michael Oren
- Mao - Jung Chang
- The Beatles - Bob Spitz
- Weapons of the Weak - Scott
- In our Time - Susan Brownmiller
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Brown
- Diplomacy - Henry Kissenger
- And the Dead Shall Rise - Steve Oney
- Anarchy, State, and Utopia - Robert Novak
- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations - Dadid S. Landes
- Civilizations - Felipe Fernandez Armesto
- Lost Rights - James Bovard
- A People's History of the Supreme Court - Peter Irons
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
- Thunder from the East - Nicholas Krisatl and Sheryl Wudun
- The New Chinese Empire - Ross Terrill
- Mao: A Life - Philip Short
- The Private Life of Chairman Mao - Li Zhisui
- A Great Wall - Patrick Tyler
- Zhou Enlai - Dick Wilson
- Oracle Bones - Peter Hessler
- Wild Swans - Jung Chang
- The Origins of Chinese Communism - Arif Durlik
- Chinese Democracy - Andrew Nathan
- The Boxer Rebellion - Diana Preston
- Taipei People - Pai Hsien-yung
- Embracing Defeat - Dower
- The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk - Palden Gyatso
- China's New Rulers - Andrew Nathan
- Sources of Chinese Tradition, Vol. 1 - Theodore DeBary
- Anthology of Chinese Literature - Cyril Burch
- Red Star over China - Edgar Snow
- The New Emperors - Harrison Salisbury
- The Coming Conflict with China - Richard Berstein
- Thunder out of China - Theodore White
- The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang
- The Pacific War 1931-1945 - Ienaga
- Hirohito - Herbert Bix
- Deng Xiaoping - Richard Evans
- The Gate of Heavenly Peace - Jonathan Spence
- The Art of War - Sun Tzu
- River Town - Peter Hessler
- The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order - Samuel Huntington
- To End a War - Richard Holbrooke
- The End of History and the Last Man - Francis Fukuyama
- The Great Disruption - Fukuyama
- A World Transformed - George Bush & Brent Sowcroft
- The Lexus and the Olive Tree - Thomas Friedman
- Jihad vs. McWorld - Benjamin Barber
- The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Idea - Jane Mayer
- The Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency - Barton Gellman
- Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone - Rajiv Chandrasekaran
- People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
- All the President's Men - Bernstein & Woodward
- State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III - Bob Woodward
- Economics Explained - Robert Heilbroner
- Birds Without Wings - Louis de Bernieres
- Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court - Edward Lazarus
- The Brethren - Bob Woodward
- Supreme Conflict - the Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the Supreme Court - Jan Crawford Greenburg
- The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court - Jeffrey Toobin
- The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America - by Jeffrey Rosen
- Supreme Conflict - Jan Crawford Greenberg
- The Politics - Aristotle
- Two Treatises of Government - John Locke
- The Social Contract - Rousseau
- Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
- A Problem from Hell: American in the Age of Genocide - Samantha Powers
- Lenin's Tomb - David Remnick
- Over the Edge of the World - Laurence Begreen
- Marco Polo - Laurence Begreen
- Gulag - Anne Applebaum
- From Beirut to Jerusalum - Thomas Friedman
- Complications - Atul Gawande
- Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
- The Mapmakers - John Noble Wilford
- Ghost Wars - Steve Coll
- King Leopold's Ghost - Hochschild
- Tobacco Road - Caldwell Erskine
- The Complete Stories - Flannery O'Connor
- Confessions of Nat Turner - William Styron
- Sophie's Choice - Styron
- Set This House on Fire - Styron
- Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- Rhett Butler's People - Donald McCaig
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin
- Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
- Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
- The Wind Done Gone - Alice Randall
- Deliverance - James Dickey
- Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
- Strange Fruit - Lillian Smith
- The Temple Bombing - Melissa Faye Greene
- Fatal Flowers - Daniell
- What Southern Women Know that Every Woman Should - Ronda Rich
- At Home in the Heart of Appalachia - John O'Brien
- Storie of Scottsboro - Goodman
- Ava's Man - Rick Bragg
- All over but the Shoutin' - Rick Bragg
- God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man - Cornelia Walker Bailey
- At the Hands of Persons Unknown - Phillip Dray
- Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society - Theda Perdue
- Slavery, Law, and Politics: The Dred Scott Case in Historical Perspective - Don Fehrenbacher
- Sex, Time, and Power - Leonard Shlain
- Hitler's Willing Executioner's - Daniel Goldhagen
- The Painted Bird - Kosinski
- The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi
- The Forgotten - Elie Wiesel
- Night - Elie Wiesel
- Hitler: A Study of Tyranny - Alan Bullock
- Reading & Writing Chinese
- Understandig Chinese - Choy
- Chairman Mao Would Not Be Pleased: Stories
- Stones from the River - Ursula Heigl
- Away - Amy Bloom
- The Shadow Catcher - Marianne Wiggins
- John Dollar - Marianne Wiggins
- Almost Heaven - Marianne Wiggins
- Evidence of Things Unseen - Marianne Wiggins
- Netherland - Joseph O'Neill
- Pravda - Edward Docx
- Seabiscuit - Laura Hilderbrand
- Last Man Out - Melissa Faye Greene
- Family - Pa Chin
- The Crippled Tree - Han Suyin
- Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country - Rosalind Miles
- The Other Boleyn - Philippa Gregory
- The Boleyn Inheritance - Philippa Gregory
- The Queen's Fool - Philippa Gregory
- Innocent Traitor - Alison Weir
- The Lady Elizabeth - Alison Weir
- A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution - Jean Daubier
- The Long March - Edgar Snow
- The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler
- Far East Pinyin Chinese-English Dictionary
- Life and Death in Shanghai - Nien Cheng
- Shanghai - Christopher New
- Bigotry - Myers
- Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche
- In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
- The Soil - Nagatsuka Takashi
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
- Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
- The House on Pooh Corner - AA Milne
- When We Were Very Young - AA Milne
- Now We Are Six - AA Milne
- Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan
- The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 - Lawrence Wright
- The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
- The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
- Holy Blood, Holy Grail - Baigent & Leigh
- Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
- America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction - Jon Stewart
- The Beauty Myth - Naomi Wolf
- Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
- Dress Your Family in Curdoroy and Denim - David Sedaris
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris
- My Custom Van and 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays that Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face - Michael Ian Black
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clark
- Arc of Justice - Kevin Boyle
- Hell's Angels - Hunter S. Thompson
- War Trash - Ha Jin
- A Free Life - Ha Jin
- What is the What - Dave Eggers
- The Assassin's Gate: American in Iraq - George Packer
- America's Constitution - Akhil Reed Amar
- Justice For All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made - Jim Newton
- The Life and Times of the Lightingbolt Kid - Bill Bryson
- A Crack in the Edge of the World - Simon Winchester
- Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling
- The Echomaker - Richard Powers
- I, Claudius - Robert Graves
- Vindication: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft - Lydall Gordon
- The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
- Claudius the God - Robert Graves
- The Fixer - Bernard Malamud
- The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer
- The Naked and the Dead (1st Edition) - Norman Mailer
- Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
- The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- Snow - Orhan Pamuk
- Harry Potter: The Sorceror's Stone - JK Rowling
- Arthur and George - Julian Barnes
- Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
- Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon - Daniel C. Dennett
- The Diana Chronicles - Tina Brown
- God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - Christopher Hitchens
- Tree of Smoke - Denis Johnson
- Einstein - Walter Isacson
- The Conscience of a Liberal - Paul Krugman
- The Other Side of Desire - Daniel Bergner
- Sacred Games - Vikram Chandra
- My Booky Wook - Russell Brand
- The Future of Liberalism - Alan Wolfe
- White Teeth - Zadie Smith
- The Greatest Show on Earth: Evidence for Evolution - Richared Dawkins
- The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffeneger
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wrbolewski
- Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
- A Gate At the Stairs - Lorrie Moore
- God: The Failed Hypothesis - Victor Stenger
- The Evolution of God - Robert Wright
- Billy Bathgate - E.L. Doctorow
- That Old Cape Magic - Richard Russo
- Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
- Chronic City - Jonathan Lethem
- Homer and Langley - E.L. Doctorow
- House of Cards: a Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street - William Cohen
- The Three Weissmanns of Westport - Catherine Schine
- Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? - Lorrie Moore
- New York - Edward Rutherford
- Man Gone Down - Michael Thomas
- Caesar: Life of a Colossus - Adrian Keith Goldsworthy








I've read over half of them; many of them are un-readable, unless you actually do read dictionaries, in which case you are a bit odd.