The Book List

As of June 9, 2003

Title Author
100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to the Present Paul K. Davis
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Neil Sheehan
A Deepness in the Sky Vernor Vinge
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories Robert Olen Butler
A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh
A Hero of Our Time Mikhail Lermontov
A House for Mr. Biswas V. S. Naipaul
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland Samuel Johnson and James Boswell
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, J. Laslocky
A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving
A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley
A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Trans Atlantic Cable John Steele Gordon
Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
American Pastoral Philip Roth
An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943 Rick Atkinson
And Their Children After Them Dale Maharidge, Michael Williamson
Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
Annals of the Former World John A. McPhee
Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land David K. Shipler
Arab Seafaring George Fadlo Hourani, John Carswell
Arabian Nights Husain Haddawy
Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris Richard Kluger
Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe Stephen C. McCluskey
Awkward Age Henry James
Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope
Barrayar Lois McMaster Bujold
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era James M. McPherson
Battles of World War II Martin Marix Evans
Beyond the Last Village : A Journey of Discovery in Asia's Forbidden Wilderness Alan Rabinowitz
Black Mischief; Scoop; The Loved One; The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold Evelyn Waugh
Blue Mars Kim Stanley Robinson
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
Brighton Rock Graham Greene
Camille Alexandre Dumas, Edmund Gosse
Can You Forgive Her? Anthony Trollope
Cassell Military Classics: Last Stand!: Famous Battles Against the Odds Bryan Perrett
Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal
Childhood, Boyhood and Youth Leo Tolstoy
Collected Stories Raymond Chandler
Combat Leader's Field Guide Brett A. Stoneberger
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families J. Anthony Lukas
Common Sense Training: A Working Philosophy for Leaders Arthur S. Collins
Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg
Conspiracy Theories Mark Fenster
Cossacks Leo Tolstoy
Cousin Bette Honore do Balzac
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky
Custom of the Country Tom Wharton
Cyteen C. J. Cherryh
Daniel Deronda George Eliot
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb Richard Rhodes
Darwin's Dangerous Idea Daniel Clement Dennett
Darwin's Radio Greg Bear
Dashiell Hammett : Complete Novels : Red Harvest / The Dain Curse / The Maltese Falcon / The Glass Key / The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett
David Copperfield Charles Dickens
Days of War, Nights of Love : Crimethink For Beginners Paul F. Maul
Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather
Decline and Fall Evelyn Waugh
Demons Fyodor Dostoevsky
Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri
Doctor Faustus Thomas Mann
Doctor Thorne Anthony Trollope
Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes
Doomsday Book Connie Willis
Downbelow Station C. J. Cherryh
Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex Olivia Judson
Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions Charles Gallenkamp, Michael J. Novacek
Dreamsnake Vonda McIntyre
Dubliners James Joyce
Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings Amy Kelly
Emma Jane Austen
Encounters With The Archdruid John A. McPhee
Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics Amir D. Aczel
Equal Rites Terry Pratchett
Eugene Onegin Alexander Pushkin
Eugenie Grandet Honore de Balzac
Falling Free Lois McMaster Bujold
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
Fathers and Children Ivan Turgenev
Fear and Trembling and the Book on Adler Soren Kirkegaard
Ficciones Jorge Luis Borges
Fighting by Minutes Robert R. Leonhard
First Footsteps in East Africa Or, an Exploration of Harar Richard Francis Burton, Isabel Burton
First Love and Other Stories Ivan Turgenev
Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr. Lewis B. Puller, Jr.
Framley Parsonage Anthony Trollope
Frankenstein Mary Shelly
Gargantua and Pantagruel Francois Rabelais
Gateway Frederik Pohl
God: A Biography Jack Miles
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Douglas R. Hofstadter
Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell
Good Soldier Svejk Jaroslav Hasek
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Green Mars Kim Stanley Robinson
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond
H. M. S. Surprise Patrick O'Brien
Heiroglyphs Without Mystery Karl-Theodor Zauzich
History of the United States of America During the Administrations of James Madison Henry Adams, Earl Harbert
History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson Henry Adams, Earl Harbert
How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa Henry M. Stanley
How To Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs Mark Collier, Bill Manley
How to Write a Damn Good Novel James N. Frey
Howards End E. M. Forster
I, Cyborg Kevin Warwick
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino
Imagined Communities Benedict Anderson
In an Antique Land Amitav Ghosh
In Darkest Africa: Or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria Henry Morton Stanley
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines Stanley Karnow
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke
Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson
Kim Rudyard Kipling
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire David Remnick
Les Miserables Victor Hugo
Letters Mary Wortley Montagu
Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 Alan Taylor
Life Along The Silk Road Susan Whitfield
Life of Samuel Johnson James Boswell
Lincoln At Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America Garry Willis
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry
Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe David Herbert Donald
Louise Bogan Elizabeth Frank
Machiavelli In Hell Sebastian De Grazia
Maneuver Warfare Handbook William S. Lind
Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer Steven Millhauser
Master and Commander Patrick O'Brien
Mastodonia Clifford D. Simak
Mirror Dance Lois McMaster Bujold
Missionary Travels in South Africa David Livingstone
Moving Mars Greg Bear
Muhammad (Critical Lives) Yahiya J. Emerick
My First Summer in the Sierra John Muir
No Enemy But Time Michael Bishop
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II Doris Goodwin
Nubia William Y. Adams
One Hundred Unorthodox Strategies Ralph D. Sawyer
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Only Yesterday : An Informal History of the 1920's Frederick L. Allen
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution Jack N. Rakove
Oscar Wilde Richard Ellmann
Out of Africa Isak Dinesen
Parable of the Talents Octavia E. Butler
Personal History Katharine Graham
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Mecca Richard Francis Burton
Phoenix: Travels In West Africa: The Classic Account of One Woman's Epic and Eccentric Journey in the 1890's Mary Kingsley
Portrait of India Ved Mehta
Post Captain Patrick O'Brien
Quintessence Lawrence Krauss
Rabbit at Rest John Updike
Radicalism of the American Revolution Gordon S. Wood
Reading Egyptian Art Richard H. Wilkinson
Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. Clarke
Sarum Edward Rutherfurd
Schrodinger's Machines Gerard J. Milburn
Seasons of the Sea Jay Humphreys
Shipping News E. Annie Proulx
Sigma Protocol Robert Ludlum
Skywatchers, Shamans and Kings E. C. Krupp
Slow River Nicola Griffith
Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach Dandridge M. Malone
Soul Music Terry Pratchett
Space James A. Michener
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942- 1943 Anthony Beevor
Startide Rising David Brin
Stations of the Tide Michael Swanwick
Stories of the Invisible: A Guided Tour of the Molecules Philip Ball
Strategy Basil Henry Liddell Hart
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion Edward J. Larson
Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea Ursula K. LeGuin
The Adolescent Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Robin Hood Dr. Roger Lanclyn Green
The Aeneid Virgil
The Ants Bert Holldobler, Edward Osborne Wilson
The Art of Maneuver: Maneuver-Warfare Theory and Airland Battle Robert R. Leonhard
The Awakening Kate Chopin
The Battles of Armageddon: Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age Eric H. Cline
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time Jonathan Weiner
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002 Natalie Angier
The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window Raymond Chandler
The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood
The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, The Blue Flower Penelope Fitzgerald
The Border Trilogy Cormac McCarthy
The Bostonians Henry James
The Bourne Identity Robert Ludlum
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Cairo Trilogy Naguib Mahfouz
The Castle Franz Kafka
The Claw of the Conciliator Gene Wolfe
The Code of Kings Linda Schele and Peter Mathews
The Collected Stories Alexander Pushkin
The Complete Henry Bech John Updike
The Complete Short Stories Evelyn Waugh
The Dispossessed Ursula K. LeGuin
The Double Helix James D. Watson
The Electric Meme: A New Theory of How We Think Rober Aunger
The Eustace Diamonds Anthony Trollope
The Fall of Berlin 1945 Anthony Beevor
The Falling Woman Pat Murphy
The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties Mark E. Neely Jr.
The Forge of God Greg Bear
The Fountains of Paradise Arthur C. Clarke
The Godfather Mario Puzo
The Golden Bowl Henry James
The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism Tina Rosenberg
The Healer's War Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
The Histories Herodotus
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon
The Holcroft Covenant Robert Ludlum
The Hot Zone Richard Preston
The Human Factor Graham Greene
The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology Nick Cook
The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Iliad Homer
The Ingredients: A Guided Tour of the Elements Philip Ball
The Koran
The Lady in the Lake; The Little Sister; The Long Goodbye; Playback Raymond Chandler
The Lake Regions of Central Africa Richard Francis Burton
The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony Trollope
The Leopard Guiseppe T. Di Lampedusa
The Making of the Atomic Bomb Richard Rhodes
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth Paul Hoffman
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology Simon Winchester
The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World Ken Alder
The Mirror Crack'd Agatha Christie
The Moon and the Sun Vonda N. McIntyre
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Robert A. Heinlein
The Novel James A. Michener
The Once and Future King T. H. White
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power Daniel Yergin
The Quantum Rose Catherine Asaro
The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong Edward A. Gargan
The Runaway Universe Donald Goldsmith
The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins
The Shockwave Rider John Brunner
The Snow Queen Joan D. Vinge
The Stone Diaries Carol Shields
The Te of Piglet Benjamin Hoff
The Terminal Experiment Robert J. Sawyer
The Uplift War David Brin
The Vor Game Lois McMaster Bujold
The Waste Lands Stephen King
The White Deborah Larsen
The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures John Muir
The Winds of War Herman Wouk
The World According to Garp John Irving
Through the Dark Continent Henry Morton Stanley
Timescape Gregory Benford
To Say Nothing of the Dog Connie Willis
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa Mungo Park
Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne
Truman David McCullough
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood Oliver W. Sacks
Up In The Old Hotel Joseph Mitchell
Vulcan's Forge Josepha Sherman, Susan Shwarts
Walking The Bible Bruce Feiler
West With the Night Beryl Markham
When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405 - 1433 Louise Levathes
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang Kate Wilhelm
Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being George Lakoff, Rafael E. Nunez, Rafael Nuńez
William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic Alan Taylor
Zambesi Expedition David Livingstone
Zen in the Art of Writing Ray Bradbury
Zodiac Neil Stephenson