AUTHOR	TITLE	TYPE	RATING	COMMENTS	
Achenbach, Joel	Captured by Aliens	Non-fiction			
Achenbach, Joel	Why Things Are	Non-fiction	Good		
Aczel, Amir D.	Fermat's Last Theorem	Science			
Aczel, Amir D.	Probability 1	Science			
Ambrose, David	Superstition 	Novel	Poor	'More is better'	
Ambrose, Stephen	Nothing Like It in the World	History			
Ambrose, Stephen	Undaunted Courage	History	 	 	
Ashley, Mike ed.	Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes	Short Stories			
Atkins, Peter W.	Creation Revisited	Science			
Atkins, Peter W.	The Second Law	Science			
Banfield, Edward	The Unheavenly City	Social Commentary			
Bang, Richard	The Lost River	Adventure			
Barbour, Ian G.	Unknown				
Barker, Clive	The Essential Clive Barker	Horror			
Barrow, John	Impossibility	Science			
Baum, L. Frank	The Annotated Wizard of Oz	Novel			
Beckmann, Petr	Pi	History of Science			
Berger, Thomas	The Return of Little Big Man	Novel			
Bernhardt, William	Cruel Justice	Novel			
Bernhardt, William	Dark Justice	Novel			
Bernhardt, William	Deadly Justice	Novel			
Birkerts, Sven	Readings	General			
Blackburn, Simon	Think	Philosophy of Science			
Blackmore, Susan	The Meme Machine	Science			
Blease, Kathleen	One Dark Night	Short Horror Stories			
Bourke, Joanna	An Intimate History of Killing	History			
Bowden, Mark	Black Hawk Down	History			
Breen, John L. and Ed Gorman	Sleuths of the Century	Short Story/Mystery			
Brehm, Jack	That Others May Live	Biography	Poor		
Brown, Dale	The Tin Man	Novel	Sucks	Totally unrealistic	
Buell, Thomas B.	The Warrior Generals: Combat Leadership in the Civil War	History			
Calne, Donald B.	Within Reason: Rationality and Human Behavior	Science			
Campbell, Steve	Statistics You Can't Trust	Science			
Camus, Albert	The Stranger	Novel			
Carr, Caleb	The Alienist	Novel			
Cavelos, Jeanne	The Science of Star Wars	Science			
Chowdhury, Bernie	The Last Dive	Nonfiction			
Clancy, Tom	Rainbow Six	Novel			
Clancy, Tom	The Bear and the Dragon	Novel			
Clancy, Tom	The Sum of All Fears	Novel			
Clancy, Tom	Without Remorse	Novel			
Clegg, Douglas	The Halloween Man	Horror			
Coben, Harlan	Tell No One	Novel			
Collier, Peter and David Horowitz	The Kennedys: An American Drama	Biography			
Connelly, Joe	Bringing Out the Dead 	Novel	Good	Too loaded with introspection and guilt	
Cook, Robin	Vector	Novel	Good	Better than most Cook crap	
Cookman, Scott	Ice Blink	History			
Coonts, Stephen	Flight of the Intruders	Novel			
Cowley, Robert	What If?	History			
Coyle, Harold	The Ten Thousand	Novel			
Cromer, Alan	Connected Knowledge	Philosophy of Science			
Davis, Robert	The Plutonium Murders	Novel			
Dawkins,  Richard	Unweaving the Rainbow	Philosophy of Science	Very good	More coherent and unified than Dawkins' other work	
De Mers, Joe	The Return	Novel	Good	Weird, but interesting	
DeMille, Nelson	The Charm School	Novel			
DeMille, Nelson	The Lion's Game	Novel			
DeMille, Nelson	The Talbot Odyssey	Novel			
DeMille, Nelson, & Thomas Block	Mayday	Novel			
Dennett, Daniel C.	Consciousness Explained	Science	Excellent	A coherent and detailed approach to a very difficult subject...just bear with it	
Dennett, Daniel C.	Darwin's Dangerous Idea  	Philosophy of Science	Good	Well-intentioned, but strays from the topic	
Dennett, Daniel C.	Elbow Room:  The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting	Psychology			
Dennett, Daniel C.	Kinds of Minds	Psychology			
Deutsch, David	The Fabric of Reality	Philosophy of Science			
Dickinson, Martin	The Other Side of Everest	Adventure			
Diffie, Whitfield & Susan Landau	Privacy on the Line	Social Commentary			
Donaldson, Stephen	Lord Foul's Bane	Novel			
Donaldson, Stephen	The Illearth War	Novel			
Donaldson, Stephen	The Power that Preserves	Novel			
Donaldson, Stephen R.	Reave the Just and Other Tales	Fiction			
Edelman, Gerald M.	Bright Air, Brilliant Fire	Science	Good	Difficult in spots...Edelman superimposes his neurological theories on everything in sight	
Edmundson, Mark	Nightmare on Main St.	Social Commentary			
Eickhoff, Randy Lee	Bowie 	Historical Novel	Good	Nice technique - story told from multiple points of view and made believable, but too superficial	
Eickhoff, Randy Lee	The Fourth Horseman	Historical Novel			
Eickhoff, Randy Lee	The Raid	Historical Novel			
Ferguson, Kitty	Measuring the Universe	Science			
Ferris, Timothy	The Whole Shebang	Science			
Feynman, Richard P.	QED - The Strange Theory of Light and Matter	Science	Excellent	How the world works...in less than 150 pages	
Fitchen, John	The Construction of Gothic Cathedrals	History			
Fletcher, Tony	Moon: The Life...	Science			
Flynn, Joseph	The Next President	Novel			
Flynn, Vince	Term Limits	Novel			
Forsyth, Frederick	The Deceiver	Short Story			
Forsyth, Frederick	The Negotiator	Novel			
Frazer, James George	The Golden Bough	Social Anthropology			
Frazier, Charles	Cold Mountain	Historical Novel			
Garber, Joseph R.	Vertical Run	Novel			
Gardner, Martin	The New Age: Notes of a Fringe Watcher 	Philosophy of Science	Very good	Rational, but author hedges his bets	
Gardner, Martin	Weird Water and Fuzzy Logic	Science			
Gilovich, Thomas	How We Know What Isn't So 	Philosophy of Science	Good	Shallow, but interesting	
Gleick, James	Chaos	Social Commentary			
Gleick, James	Faster	Social Commentary			
Gleiser, Marcello	The Dancing Universe: From Creation Myths to the Big Bang	Science			
Godfrey, Laurie 	Scientists Confront Creationism	Science			
Gottlieb, Anthony	The Dream of Reason	Philosophy			
Gould, Stephen	The Lying Stones of Marrakech	Essays	Poor	Running out of steam	
Gould, Stephen Jay	Questioning the Millennium 	Philosophy of Science	Muddled	Self-indulgent and populist...hope he made some money from this, because he sure didn't have much to say	
Greenberg, Martin ed.	Murder Most Medieval	Short stories			
Greene, Brian	The Elegant Universe	Science			
Gribbin, John	In the Beginning	Science			
Gribbin, John	Stardust	Science			
Gribbin, John	The Birth of Time	Science			
Gribbin, John	The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything…	Science	Satisfactory	What's the point?  I must have fallen asleep while I was reading it....	
Gross, Paul and Norman Levitt	Higher Superstition	Philosophy of Science			
Gross, Paul R.	The Flight from Science and Reason	Philosophy of Science			
Gutmann, Stephanie	The Kinder, Gentler Military	Commentary			
Harris, Robert	Enigma	Novel			
Henderson, Charles	Silent Warrior	Nonfiction			
Hernon, Peter	8.4	Novel	Good	Pure escapism	
Hillman, David and David Gibbs	Century Makers: One Hundred Clever Things....	History			
Hofstader, Douglas, and Daniel Dennett, eds.	The Mind's I	Psychology			
Hunter, Stephen	Hot Springs	Novel			
Hunter, Stephen	Time to Hunt 	Novel	Satisfactory	Pure escapism	
Jenkins, McKay	The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zone	Adventure			
Jones, Stephen ed.	Dark Detectives	Short stories			
Jones, Steve	Darwin's Ghost	Science			
Junger, Sebastian	The Perfect Storm	Adventure			
Kauffman, Stuart	At Home in the Universe 	Philosophy of Science	Muddled	Too much math - a statistical approach to ontology	
Kaye, Marvin ed.	Treasury of Horror Stories	Short stories			
Kent, Gordon	Peacemaker	Novel	OK		
King, Stephen	Bag of Bones	Novel			
King, Stephen	On Writing	Essay			
King, Stephen	The Waste Lands	Novel			
King, Stephen	Wizard and Glass	Novel			
Koerner, David and Simon LeVay	Here be Dragons	Science			
Koontz, Dean	Whispers	Novel	Very good		
Krakauer, Jon	Into Thin Air	Adventure		Excellent even the second time around	
Larson, Erik	Isaac's Storm	Adventure			
Snicket, Lemony	The Bad Beginning:  A Series of Unfortunate Events	Novel			
Loftus, Elizabeth	Witness for the Defense	Psychology	Poor	Too many examples from personal experience, little explanation, too much introspection about author's ethics	
Ludlum, Robert	The Apocalypse Watch	Novel			
Ludlum, Robert	The Aquitane Progression	Novel			
Ludlum, Robert	The Parsifal Mosaic	Novel			
Lundy, Derek	Godforsaken Sea	Adventure			
Maas, Peter	The Terrible Hours	Adventure			
Macgregor, Douglas	Breaking the Phalanx	History			
Mackay, John	Pinkertons	History			
MacNee, Patrick	The Avengers and Me	Biography			
Manchester, William	Goodbye Darkness	Autobiography			
Marks, Leo	Between Silk and Cyanide	History			
Marshall, William	Yellowthread St. mysteries	Novel			
Matthiessen	The Snow Leopard	History			
Maxim, John R.	Whistler's Angel	Novel			
Maxtone-Graham, John	Safe Return Doubtful	History			
Mazower, Mark	Dark Continent	History			
McCarty, Cormac	Blood Meridian	Novel			
McCourt, Frank	Angela's Ashes	Biography			
McNab, Andy	Crisis Four	Noveu			
Mills, Kyle	Phoenix Rising	Novel			
Mills, Kyle	Storming Heaven	Novel			
Mills, Kyle	Storming Heaven	Novel			
Montalbano, William D.	Basilica	Novel	Good	Implausible, but interesting.  Saw the surprise ending a mile off.	
Morrell, David	Black Evening	Short Stories			
Morrell, David	First Blood	Novel			
Morrell, David	The Covenant of the Flame	Novel			
Morrell, David	The Fraternity of the Stone	Novel			
Morrell, David	The Last Reveille	Novel			
Morrell, David	The League of Night and Fog	Novel			
Morris, Richard	Dismantling the Universe	Science			
Morris, Richard	The Universe, the Eleventh Dimension, and Everything	Science			
Morris, Richard	Time's Arrows	Science			
Murdoch, Iris	Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals	Philosophy	Difficult	Stand-alone essays at a level beyond mine	
Myers, John Myers	Doc Holliday	Biography		Very interesting	
Nance, John J.	Blackout	Novel			
Nance, John J.	Headwind	Novel			
Nance, John J.	Medusa's Child	Novel			
Nancy, Ted L.	Letters from a Nut	Humor			
Nancy, Ted L.	More Letters from a Nut	Humor			
Niven, Jennifer	The Ice Master	History			
Nozick, Robert	Philosophical Examinations	Philosophy			
Nozick, Robert	Socratic Puzzles	Philosophy			
Nozick, Robert	The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations	Philosophy	Muddled	Self-indulgent	
O'Rourke, P. J.	All the Trouble in the World	Humor	Excellent	Read for fourth time, but still great.	
O'Rourke, P. J.	Eat the Rich 	Humor	Very Good	Funny, as usual , with some great 'quotes'	
O'Rourke, P. J.	Give War a Chance	Humor	Very good	Read for fourth time, but still great.	
O'Rourke, P. J.	Holidays in Hell	Humor	Very Good		
Palliser, Charles	The Unburied	Novel			
Panati, Charles	Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things	History			
Pennock, Robert T.	Tower of Babel	Philosophy of Science			
Penrose, Roger	The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics	Philosophy of Science			
Philbrick, Nathaniel	In the Heart of the Sea	History			
Phillips, Robert (ed.)	Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories	Horror			
Pinker, Steven	How the Mind Works	Science			
Poundstone, William	Labyrinths of Reason	Philosophy of Science			
Pressfield, Stephen	Tides of War	Novel			
Pressfield, Steven	Gates of Fire 	Historical Novel	Excellent 	Stirring and inspirational	
Preston, Douglas, & Lincoln Child	Reliquary 	Novel	Poor	Social conscience meets supernatural thriller, result is dumb (with a 'b')	
Preston, Richard	The Cobra Effect 	Novel	Poor	Plot and storyline too loaded with gimmicks, would have been more enjoyable if understated	
Preston, Richard	The Hot Zone 	History	Good	Overly melodramatic	
Quammen, David	The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder	Natural History			
Rakoff, David	Fraud	Biograph. essays	Very good	Surprisingly good (and moving) series of essays	
Randi, James	Flim-Flam:  Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions 	Science	Very good	Offensive to many in a positive way	
Randi, James	The Mask of Nostradamus	Nonfiction	Very good	Well-written and informative	
Read, Piers Paul	The Templars	History			
Reeve, Simon	One Day in September	History			
Reeves-Stevens, Judith & Garfield	Icefire 	Novel	Average	Too outrageous to be taken seriously, but fun	
Rhodes, Richard	The Making of the Atomic Bomb	History		Looooonnnng...	
Rhodes, Richard	Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist	Sociology			
Robinson, Patrick	H. M. S. Unseen	Novel			
Robinson, Patrick	U.S.N. Seawolf	Novel			
Rosa, Joseph G.	Wild Bill Hickok:  The Man and the Myth	Biography			
Rose, David and Ed Douglass	Regions of the Heart	Adventure			
Rowling, J. K.	Harry Potter and...	Novel			
Russ, Martin	Breakout:  The Choisin Reservoir Campaign	History			
Sanders, Lawrence	The 8th Commandment	Novel	Poor	Attempt to write from female perspective	
Sawyer, Robert J.	Calculating God	Novel			
Schacter, Daniel L., and Elaine Scarry	Memory, Brain, and Belief	Essays			
Schechter, Harold	Nevermore	Historical Novel	Barely OK	Good idea, but crippled by the effort to integrate Poe's 'adventures' with his work	
Shaara, Michael	The Killer Angels 	Historical Novel	Very good	Good job, good style	
Sheldon, Garrett Ward	What Would Jefferson Say?	Commentary			
Shermer, Michael	Why People Believe Weird Things 	Psychology	Very good	Good but somewhat superficial in examination of people's beliefs	
Silva, Daniel	The Kill Artist	Novel			
Silva, Daniel	The Marching Season	Novel			
Silver, Brian	The Ascent of Science 	Philosophy of Science	Excellent	Long, but worth the effort/ excellent premise and broad scope	
Singh, Simon	The Code Book	Science			
Smith, Martin Cruz	Havana Bay	Novel			
Smith, Martin Cruz	Red Square	Novel			
Sokal, Alan	Fashionable Nonsense:  Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science	Philosophy of Science			
Sosa, Paul	The Complete Idiot Letters	Humor			
Sowell, Thomas	Conquests and Cultures	Political commentary			
Stevenson III, Robert Louis	Bright Star 	Novel	Satisfactory	Pure escapism	
Stewart, Ian	The Magical Maze 	Philosophy of Science	Good	Good intentions, but too populist	
Stone, Robert	Dog Soldiers	Novel			
Stone, Robert	The Damascus Gate	Novel			
Straub, Peter	Magic/Terror	Short stories			
Strauss, Barry S. and Josiah Obee	The Anatomy of Error	History			
Tales of Terror	Hitchcock, Alfred	Short Stories			
Tessier, Thomas	Ghost Music and Other Tales	Horror			
Thorp, Raymond W. and Robert Bunker	Crow Killer	Biography			
Trefil, James	The Dark Side of the Universe	Science			
Trefil, James S.	The Moment of Creation	Science			
Turtledove, Harry	The Guns of the South	Novel			
Unknown	Imagining Atlantis	History			
Vogel, Steven	Cats' Paws and Catapults	Science			
Wallechinsky, David	David Wallechinsky's Twentieth Century	History			
Ward, Peter D. and Donald Brownlee	Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe	Nonfiction			
Weekley, Carolyn	The Kingdoms of Edward Hicks	Fine Arts			
Weiner, Jonathan	Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior	Science			
Wilkes, Roger (ed.)	The Mammoth Book of Murder and Science	Non-fiction			
Wilson, F. Paul	All the Rage	Novel			
Wilson, F. Paul	Conspiracies	Novel		Repairman Jack	
Wilson, F. Paul	The Barrens and Others 	Fiction	Very good	Good stories well-told	
Winter, Douglas ed.	Prime Evil	Horror (anthology)			
Wolpert, Lewis	The Unnatural Nature of Science	Philosophy of Science