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1DirtPriest
Bewerkt: nov 5, 2010, 5:27 pm

My opinion on these books is here on my Book Challenge thread.
1. Cities in Flight by James Blish
2. Solving Stonehenge by Anthony Johnson
3. Athens: A Portrait of the City in its Golden Age by Christian Meier
4. The Stonehenge Gate by Jack Williamson
5. Secrets of the Great Pyramid by Peter Tompkins
6. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
7. Dragons of Autumn Twilight
8. Dragons of Winter Night -- Dragonlance (hereafter noted as (DL))
9. Dragons of Spring Dawning
7-9. The Annotated Chronicles by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (DL)
10. Time of the Twins
11. War of the Twins -- (DL)
12. Test of the Twins
10-12. The Annotated Legends by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (DL)
13. The Second Generation by Weis & Hickman (DL)
14. Dragons of Summer Flame by Weis & Hickman (DL)
15. Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
16. Fragment by Warren Fahy
17. The Physics of Baseball by Robert Kemp Adair
18. Atlas of the Dragonlance World by Karen Wynn Fonstad
19. And All the Stars a Stage by James Blish
20. The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
21. Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
22. Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany
23. The Joy of Pi by David Blatner
24. The Destruction of Atlantis: Compelling Evidence of the Sudden Fall of the Legendary Civilization by Frank Joseph
25. The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie
26. Starlight: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester by Alfred Bester (obviously)
27. The Etruscans by Michael Grant
28. Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
29. Another Day, Another Dungeon by Greg Costikyan
30. One Quest, Hold the Dragons by Greg Costikyan
31. Requiem of the Human Soul by Jeremy R. Lent
32. Sundiver by David Brin
33. Startide Rising by David Brin
34. The Uplift War by David Brin
35. Flags of our Fathers by James Bradley
36. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
37. Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
38. By The Pricking Of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie
39. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
40. Flyboys by James Bradley
41. The History of the Circle: Mathematical Reasoning and the Physical Universe by Ernest Zebrowski
42. The Road to Infinity by Isaac Asimov
43. Sherlock Holmes was Wrong: Reopening the Case of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Pierre Bayard
44. A Tolkien Miscellany by J.R.R. Tolkien (obviousy)
45. The Tuesday Club Murders by Agatha Christie
46. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
47. The Road to Middle-Earth by T.A. Shippey
48. Towards Zero by Agatha Christie
49. Child of an Ancient City by Tad Williams
50. J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey

2DirtPriest
Bewerkt: nov 5, 2010, 5:22 pm

Second Fifty

My opinion on these books is here on my Book Challenge thread.
1. The Father Christmas Letters by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. Rogue Warrior: Dictator's Ransom by Richard Marcinko
3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
4. The Inheritors by William Golding
5. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
6. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
7. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
8. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
9. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
10. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
11. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
12. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
13. Connections by James Burke
14. The Day the Universe Changed by James Burke
15. The Dawning of a New Age by Jean Rabe
16. The Day of the Tempest by Jean Rabe DragonLance Fifth Age Trilogy
17. The Eve of the Maelstrom by Jean Rabe
18. Dragons of a Fallen Sun
19. Dragons of a Lost Star by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
20. Dragons of a Vanished Moon The War of Souls Fifth Age Trilogy
21. Robert the Bruce Ronald McNair Scott
22. Glide Path by Arthur C. Clarke
23. Voyages of the Pyramid Builders by Robert Schoch
24. Shakespeare's Planet by Clifford D. Simak
25. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
26. Birthright: The Book of Man by Mike Resnick
27. Remembering Heraclitus by Richard Geldard
28. The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany by Martin Goldsmith
29. The Greek Myths I by Robert Graves
30. The Greek Myths II by Robert Graves
31. The Rise of the Greeks by Michael Grant
32. The Humanoids by Jack Williamson
33. Artifact by Gregory Benford
34. Nine Tomorrows by Isaac Asimov
------- new thread in 50 BC --------
My opinion on these books is here on my Book Challenge thread.
35. Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead by Phil Lesh
36. The Classical Greeks by Michael Grant
37. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
38. The Complete Book of Swords by Fred Saberhagen
39. The Book of Lost Swords: The First Triad by Fred Saberhagen
40. The Book of Lost Swords: The Second Triad by Fred Saberhagen
41. The Book of Lost Swords: Endgame by Fred Saberhagen
42. Dune by Frank Herbert
43. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
44. Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
45. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
46. Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
47. Chapterhouse: Dune by Frank Herbert
48. The Age of the Picts by W.A. Cummins
49. The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean by Susan Casey
50. Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock

3DirtPriest
Bewerkt: dec 22, 2010, 5:26 pm

My opinion on these books is here on my Book Challenge thread.
1. Darkwalker on Moonshae
2. Black Wizards
3. Darkwell all three by Douglas Niles
4. The White Plague by Frank Herbert
5. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
6. The Godmakers by Frank Herbert
7. The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton
8. David Brinkley: A Memoir by David Brinkley
9. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
10. The History of Physics by Isaac Asimov
11. The Calculus Wars by Jason Socrates Bardi
12. The Archimedes Codex by Reviel Netz & William Noel
13. Why Didn't They Ask Evans? and
14. Sad Cypress both by Agatha Christie
15. The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay
16. The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present by Rebecca Fraser
17. At Bertram's Hotel
18. Cards on the Table both by Agatha Christie
19. Cambridge Illustrated History of France by Colin Jones
20. The Battle of Waterloo by Jeremy Black
21. Hanging Curve by Troy Soos
22. The City at the End of Time by Greg Bear
23. Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose

4DirtPriest
Bewerkt: dec 31, 2011, 6:05 pm

My opinion on these books is here on my Book Challenge thread.
1. The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
2. The Quincunx of Time by James Blish
3. The Physics of Football by Timothy Gay
4. The Star Dwellers by James Blish
5. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
6. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynmann by Richard Feynmann
7. Shadowmarch by Tad Williams
8. Shadowplay by Tad Williams
9. Shadowrise by Tad Williams
10. Shadowheart by Tad Williams
11. Heaven's Mirror-Quest for the Lost Civilization by Graham Hancock
12. Football-Bloody Hell!: A Biography of Sir Alex Ferguson by Patrick Barclay
13. Tales of Ten Worlds by Arthur C. Clarke
14. The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski
15. The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley
16. The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio
17. e: The Story of a Number by Eli Maor
18. Bolivar: The Liberator of Latin America by Robert Harvey
19. 2001: A Space Oddysey
20. 2010: Odyssey Two
21. 2061: Odyssey Three
22. 3001: Final Odyssey, all by Arthur C. Clarke
23. Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet by Ted Nield
24. Pre-historic Mackinac Island by George M. Stanley AND Geologic Story of Isle Royale National Park by N. King Huber
25. Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science by Peter Adkins
26. Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee
27. The Man Who Found Time by Jack Repcheck
28. Building Blocks of the Universe by Isaac Asimov
29. Michigan Rocks & Minerals: A Field Guide to the Great Lake State by Dan and Bob Lynch
30. Clark Griffith: The Old Fox of Washington Baseball by Ted Leavengood
31. Earth: An Intimate History by Richard Fortey
32. Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution by Richard Fortey
33. Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life by Scott Sampson
34. Maphead by Ken Jennings

5DirtPriest
Bewerkt: jun 7, 2013, 2:40 pm

Here's my list for 2012...

1. Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
2. Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov
3. Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov
4. The Permian Extinction and the Tethys: An Exercise in Global Geology by AMC Sengor & S. Atayman
5. The Crime of Galileo by Giorgio de Santillana
6. The Warriors of Day by James Blish
7. Paradise by Mike Resnick
8. American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot by Craig Ferguson
9. Physical Geology by Skinner & Porter
10. Geology and Scenery, North Shore of Lake Huron by Card & Robertson
11. Asimov's Mysteries by Isaac Asimov
12. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
13. Michigan Geography and Geology by Schaetzl, Darden & Brandt
14. Time is the Simplest Thing by Clifford D. Simak
15. Bob Dylan: The Illustrated Biography by Chris Rushby
16. Animal Farm by George Orwell
17. Agates Inside Out by Karen A. Brzys
18. Ice Ages - look up author

6DirtPriest
Bewerkt: jan 4, 2014, 3:00 pm

...and 2013

1) Structural Geology Of Rocks And Regions - Davis, Reynolds and Kluth
2) Manual of Mineral Science - Klein & Dutrow
3) Petrology - Loren A. Raymond
4) Revolutions in Geology from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment - Gary B. Rosenberg, ed.
5) Serpent in the Sky - John Anthony West
6) Here's Looking at Euclid - Alex Bellos
7) Fallen Star - James Blish
8) Galactic Cluster - "
9) The Seedling Stars - "
10) A Case of Conscience - "
11) The Devil's Day - "
12) Spock Must Die! - "
13) The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer - David Goldblatt
14) Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms - Richard Fortey
15) The Beginning of the World as We Know It: Geochronology, Radiometric Dating and Precambrian Time - John P. Rafferty
16) The Best of Fritz Leiber - A good short story collection, The Man Who Never Grew Young being the best one, for me.
17) The Planet in a Pebble: A Journey into Earth's Deep History - Jan Zalasiewicz
18) Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
19) The Nature of the Stratigraphic Record - Derek Ager
20) Annals of the Former World - John McPhee
21) Agates of Lake Superior: Stunning Varieties and How They Are Formed - Dan & Bob Lynch
22) All About the Silurian Period and Events - Omar Zamora
23) I Am The Secret Footballer - Anonymous
24) Deadeye Dick - Kurt Vonnegut
25) Inferno - Dan Brown
26) I, Robot - Start of Asimov bender...
27) The Rest of the Robots
28) Caves of Steel
29) The Naked Sun
30) The Robots of Dawn
31) Robots and Empire
32) Caliban \
33) Inferno --- Roger McBride Allen
34) Utopia /
35) The Stars, Like Dust-------/
36) The Currents of Space
37) Pebble In The Sky
38) Prelude to Foundation
39) Forward the Foundation All by Asimov
40) Foundation's Fear by Gregory Benford
41) Foundation and Chaos by Greg Bear
42) Foundation's Triumph by David Brin
43) Foundation
44) Foundation and Empire
45) Second Foundation
46) Foundation's Edge
47) Foundation and Earth - Asimov
48) The Gods Themselves by Asimov
49) If the Stars are Gods - Benford & Eklund
50) Ringworld
51) Ringworld Engineers
52) Ringworld Throne
53) Ringworld's Children
54) The Issue at Hand
55) More issues at Hand - by James Blish (as William Atheling Jr.)
56) City - Clifford D. Simak
57) All about Cribbage
58) On a Piece of Chalk by Thomas Huxley
59) Dinosaur Lives by Jack Horner
60) The Greatest Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
61) The Seven Percent Solution by Nicholas Meyer
62) The West End Horror by Meyer
63) Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester
64) Gorgon: The Monsters That Ruled the Planet Before Dinosaurs and How They Died in the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History by Peter Ward
65) Mammoth by John Varley
66) The Aquatic Ape by Elaine Morgan
67) Gemmology by Peter Read
68) They Shall Have Stars by James Blish
69) Druids by Morgan Llywelyn
70) Under Pressure by Frank Herbert (aka The Dragon in the Sea, 21st Century Sub)

7DirtPriest
Bewerkt: jun 21, 2015, 10:12 pm

2014 - I may have forgotten a book or two from during the school year but I doubt it

1) Vanished Ocean by Dorrik Stow
2) The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
3) Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut
4) Dragons of the Dwarven Depths by Weis and Hickman
5) Dragons of the Highlord Skies by W&H
6) Dragons of the Hourglass Mage by W&H
7) Le Mans '55: The Crash That Changed the Face of Motor Racing by Christopher Hilton
8) Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
9) Great Geological Controversies by A. Hallam
10) From So Simple a Beginning: The Four Great Books of Darwin edited by E.O. Wilson
10A) Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
11) Dinosaur Lives by Jack Horner
12) Geology of Sauk County, Wisconsin by Clayton and Attig
13) Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
14) Paleomagnetics-From Magnetic Domains to Geologic Terranes by Robert F. Butler
15) Tales from the Secret Footballer by Anonymous
16) Three and Out: Rich Rodriguez and the Michigan Wolverines in the Crucible of College Football by John U. Bacon
17) The Mechanic's Tale by Steve Matchett
18) Senna versus Prost by Malcolm Folley
19) The Unforgiven: The Story of Don Revie's Leeds United
20) We Are the Damned United by Phil Rostron
21) Keep Fighting: The Billy Bremner Story by Pail Harrison
22) Football Wit: Quips and Quotes for the Football Fanatic by Aubrey Malone
23) Clearing the Bases by Mike Schmidt and some Ghost Co-Writer
24) Ireland World Cup Diary 2002 by Mick McCarthy
25) Principles of Physical Geology by Arthur Holmes
26) Giants of Geology by Carroll and Mildred Fenton
27) Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick (should be between 2 and 3 but I forgot that I read this at field camp)
28) The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes edited by ?
29) We Called it Mag-Nificent by E.N. Brandt
30) Provided You Don't Kiss Me by Duncan Hamilton
31) A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan
32) Geology by A. Geikie
33) With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge
34) A General's Life by Omar Bradley and Clay Blair
35) Fatso by Art Donovan

8DirtPriest
Bewerkt: dec 4, 2015, 11:55 am

2015 starts about right here. .. I'll renumber these later

36) Last and First Men by Olaf Stapleton
37) Bottom of the 33rd by Dan Barry
38) Voices of the Rocks by Robert Schoch
39) Mastodonia by Clifford D. Simak
40) Masters of the Maze by Avram Davidson
41) The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
42) The New Catastrophism by Derek Ager
43) The Three Investigators in the Mystery of the Talking Skull
44) Chips from a Wilderness Log by Calvin Rutstrum
45) Midsummer Century by James Blish
46) In the Ocean of Night by Gregory Benford
47) Across the Sea of Suns
48) Great Sky River
49) Tides of Light
50) Furious Gulf
51) Sailing Bright Eternity by Gregory Benford
I'm sure i read something that goes here but maybe it was just a series of technical papers. Oh well. ..
52) Robin Hood and his Merry Outlaws by J. Walter McSpadden
53) 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
54) The Geoscience Guide to the Burgess Shale by Coppold and Powell
55) Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
56) The Orc King (Transitions I)
57) The Pirate King II
58) The Ghost King III by RA Salvatore
59) Gauntlgrym
60) Neverwinter
61) Charon's Claw
62) The Last Threshold 59-62 Neverwinter Saga by Salvatore
63) Empire of Imagination by Michael Witwer
64) The Lost Civilization Enigma by Philip Coppens
65) Night of the Hunter
66) Rise of the King
67) Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf Companions Codex by Salvatore
68) Magicians of the Gods by Graham Hancock

9DirtPriest
Bewerkt: jan 30, 2017, 8:56 pm

2016

1) The Black Company Campaign Setting by Green Ronin
2) The First World War by John Keegan
3) George Marshall: A Biography by Debi and Erwin Unger
4) Six Armies in Normandy by John Keegan
5) Kiln People by David Brin
6) The Clocks by Agatha Christie
7) The Age of Napoleon by J.C. Herold
8) Ilium by Dan Simmons
9) Olympos by Dan Simmons
10) Accelerando by Charles Stross
11) Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan
12) The Futurians by Damon Knight
13) His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C.M. Kornbluth
14) A Memory of Whiteness by Kim Stanley Robinson
15) Imprisoned in a Tesseract by David Ketterer
16) Works of Art by James Blish
17) Flights of Eagles by James Blish
18) Engineering Eden by whomever
19) Nelson's Battles by Nicolas Tracy
20) Sky Horizon by David Brin
21) Beyond Infinity by Gregory Benford
22) Heart of the Comet by David Brin
23) The Unreasoning Mask by Philip Jose Farmer
24) The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag by Robert Heinlein
25) Asimov on Chemistry by Isaac Asimov
26) The River of Time by David Brin
27) Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson
28) The Postman by David Brin
29) The Practice Effect by David Brin
30) Intelligence in War by John Keegan
31) Well of Darkness
32) Guardians of the Lost by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
33) Journey into the Void
34) Quarantine by Greg Egan
35) The History of Warfare by John Keegan

10DirtPriest
Bewerkt: feb 5, 2018, 8:09 pm

2017

1) The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
2) The French and Indian Wars by Borneman
3) Icehenge by Kim Stanley Robinson
4) Next Level Magic by Patrick Chapin
5) The Nemesis Affair: A Story of the Death of Dinosaurs and the Ways of Science by David Raup
6) Sundiver by David Brin
7) Startide Rising
8) The Uplift War
9) Brightness Reef
10) Infinity's Shore
11) Heaven's Reach by David Brin
12) Zhukov by Otto Preston
13) Beyond Time and Space edited by August Derleth
14) The Once and Future King by T.H. White
15) The Book of Merlyn by T.H. White
16) Apollo 8 by Jeffery Kluger
17) Next Level Deckbuilding by Patrick Chapin
18) Brilliant Orange by David Winner
19) Archmage
20) Maestro
21) Hero by R.A. Salvatore
22) Those Feet: A Sensual History of English Football by David Winner
23) Godspeed by Charles Sheffield
24) The Alchemist by Paolo Bacigalupi
25) The Executioness by Tobias S. Buckell
26) When Did Plate Tectonics In Planet Earth edited by Condie and Pease, GSA Special Paper 440
27) Endless Night by Agatha Christie
28) The Three Body Problem
29) The Dark Forest
30) Death's End by Cixin Liu
31) This Census-Taker by China Mieville
24.5) Hot Hands, Draft Hype, and DiMaggio's Streak: Debunking America's Favorite Sports Myths by Sheldon Hirsch
33) The Martian Race by Gregory Benford
34) The Sunborn by Gregory Benford
35) New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
36) Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
37) Darwin's Children by Greg Bear
38) Ancient Gods: Lost Histories, Hidden Truths, and the Conspiracy of Silence by Jim Willis
39) Quantico by Greg Bear
40) Mariposa by Greg Bear
41) Electric October by Kevin Cook
42) Sharpe's Rifles by Bernard Cornwell
43) Sharpe's Eagle
44) Sharpe's Gold
45) Sharpe's Company
46) Sharpe's Sword
47) Sharpe's Havoc
48) Existence by David Brin
49) The Space Merchants by Frederick Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth**
50) Art of the Formula One Race Car by Codling, Mann, and Murray
51) More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon**
52) Double Star by Robert Heinlein**
53) The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester**
54) The Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson**
55) Who? By Algys Budrys**
56) The Crimean Nexus by Constantine Please Pleshikov
57) Midnight in the Pacific: Guadalcanal by Joseph Wheelan
58) Rowdy: The Roddy Piper Story by Ariel and Colt Toombs
59) History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II volume 1: The Battle if the Atlantic September 1939 - May 1943 by Samuel Eliot Morison
60) Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
61) History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II Volume 2: Operations in North African Waters, October 1942 – June 1943 by Samuel Eliot Morison
62) History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II Volume 3: The Rising Sun in the Pacific, 1931 – April 1942 by Samuel Eliot Morison
63) History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II Volume 4: Coral Sea, Midway, and Submarine Action, Bay 1942 - August 1942 by Samuel Eliot Morison
64) The Amazing Baseball Adventure by Josh Pahigian
65) Frasier: A Cultural History by J.J. and Kate Darowski
66) Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes: Richard A. Clarke and R.P. Eddy
67) History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II Volume 5: The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942 – February 1943 by Samuel Eliot Morison
68) History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II Volume 6: Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, July 22, 1942 – May 1, 1944 by Samuel Eliot Morison
69) History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II Volume 7: Aleutians, Gilberts, and Marshalls, June 1942 – April 1944 by Samuel Eliot Morison
70) History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II Volume 8: New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944 – August 1944 by Samuel Eliot Morison
71) The Fall of the House of FIFA by David Conn
72) Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd by Nick Mason
73) The Comanches: The Destruction of a People by Fahrenbach
74) Origin by Dan Brown
75) History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II Volume 9: Sicily – Salerno – Anzio, January 1943 – June 1944
76) History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II Volume 10: The Atlantic Battle Won, May 1943 – May 1945
77) History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II Volume 11: The Invasion of France and Germany, 1944–1945
78) History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II Volume 12: Leyte, June 1944 – January 1945
79) History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II Volume 13: The Liberation of the Philippines: Luzon, Mindanao, the Visayas, 1944–1945
80) History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II Volume 14: Victory in the Pacific, 1945
81) History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II Volume 15: Supplement and General Index
This dragged in to the first two weeks of January 2018

11DirtPriest
Bewerkt: feb 7, 2019, 2:08 pm

2018

1) Toyotomi Hideyoshi by Stephen Turnbull (Osprey Command series)
2) Samurai Armies by Stephen Turnbull (Osprey Battle Orders 36)
3) Why Bob Dylan Matters by Richard F. Thomas
4) Records in Stone: Papers in honor of Alexander Thom edited by Clive Ruggles
5) War Dogs
6) Killing Titan
7) Take Back The Sky by Greg Bear - War Dogs Trilogy
8) Cardboard Gods by Josh Wilkerson
9) House of Nails by Lenny Dykstra
10) The Day off the Triffids by John Wyndham
11) A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
12) Rogue Warrior: Curse if the Infidel by Richard Marcinko and Jim DeFelice
13) The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
14) Clash of Cymbals: the Triumph of James Blish by Brian Stableford
15) The Last of the Doughboys by Richard Rubin
16) This Kind Of War by T.C. Ferenbach
17) Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
18) Wool
19) Shift
20) Dust
21) Frank Herbert
22) The Strangest Man
23) Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
24) Green Earth by Kim Stanley Robinson
25) Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson
26) The Black Sun by Jack Williamson
27) The Vital Question by Nick Lane
28) White King, Red Queen
There may have been one or two others. I got lax and may have forgotten. I spent most of December browsing through chess books, nothing to list here as read though...

12DirtPriest
Bewerkt: nov 28, 2019, 8:43 pm

2019

1) The Fifth Season
2) The Obelisk Gate
3) The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
4) Rewrite by Gregory Benford
5) Darwin's Lost World by Brasier
6) Influx by Daniel Suarez
7) Sphere by Michael Crighton
8) Archean Greenstone Belts ed. Kent Condie
9) 1947: When Now Began by Elisabeth Shrink
10) Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds
11) If, Then by Kate Hope Day
12) The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
13) Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan
14) Delta-V by David Suarez
15) The Shetland Bus by David Howarth
16) Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water
17) Longer by Michael Blumlein
18) Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip by John Selvin
19) Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
20) Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh
21) A Frozen Hell by William R. Trotter
22) Commander in Cheat by Rick Reilly
23) Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
24) America Before by Graham Hancock
25) Direct Descent by Frank Herbert
26) The Weather Machine by Andrew Blum
27) Birth of a Theorem by Cedric Villani
28) The Great Sperm Whale by Richard Ellis
29) The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte
30) The first signs : my quest to unlock the mysteries of the world's oldest symbols by Genevieve von Petzinger
31) The Real Team by Dick Marcinko
32) The Anglo-Irish War 1916-1921: A People's War by William H. Kautt
33) The Last Astronaut by David Wellington
34) Barren Lands by Kevin Krajik
35) Imperial Dreams: Tracking the Imperial Woodpecker through the Wild Sierra Madre by Tim Gallagher
36) The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History by Jason Vuic
37) Interference by Sue Burke
38) Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table by Kit Chapman
39) Worlds of Arthur by Guy Halsall
40) Imagined Life: A Speculative Scientific Journey Among the Exoplanets in Search of Intelligent Aliens, Ice Creatures, and Supergravity Animals by James Trefil and Michael Summers
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13DirtPriest
Bewerkt: jan 12, 2021, 3:39 pm

2020

1) Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden by Jack Vance
2) Lyonesse: The Green Pearl
3) Lyonesse: Madouc
4) Fields of Battle by John Keegan
5) Close to Birds by Ottoson and Magnuson
6) To See Every Bird on Earth by Dan Koeppel
7) The Black Company by Glen Cook
8) Port of Shadows
9) Shadows Linger
10) The White Rose
11) Shadow Games
12) Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy by Magli
13) Astronomy in Prehistoric Britain and Ireland by Clive Ruggles
14) The Silver Spike
15} Dreams of Steel
16) Bleak Seasons
17) She Is The Darkness
18) Water Sleeps
19) Soldiers Live. End of the Black company
20) Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
21) Great Lakes Shipwrecks and Survivals by William Ratigan
22) Fauna by Christiane Vadnais

14DirtPriest
Bewerkt: nov 19, 2021, 4:31 pm

2021

1) One Day in August: Ian Fleming, Enigma, and the Deadly Raid on Dieppe by David O'Keefe
2) Ancient Bones: Unearthing the astonishing New Story of how we became Human
3) Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
4) The Answer Is... By Alex Trebek
5) Beowulf by Maria Headley
6) Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War by Brandon R. Brown
7) A Time To Die: The Untold Story of the Kursk Tragedy by Robert Moore
8) City by Clifford Simak
9) The Green Brain by Frank Herbert
10) Timeless \
11) Boundless by R.A. Salvatore
12) Relentless/
13) Neuromancer by William Gibson
14) Count Zero
15) Mona Lisa Overdrive by Gibson
16) Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson
17) The Gone World by Sweterlitch
18) Burning Paradise by RC Wilson
19) Snow Crash but Neal Stephenson
20) Math Makers by Posamentier & Spreitzer
21) Fields of Fire by Jim Webb
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15DirtPriest
Bewerkt: feb 19, 2023, 3:20 pm

2022

1) Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico by T. R. Fehrenbach
2) Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
3) Blindsight by Peter Watts
4) Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
by Neil Price
5) Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson
6) The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
7) Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
8) Authority
9) Acceptance by jvdm
10) War in the Woods: Estonia's Struggle for Survival 1944-1956 by Mart Laar
11) Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
12) Fan Fiction by Brent Spiner
13) The First Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny (5 short books)
14) The Second Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny (5 short books)
15) The Blue Fox By Sjón
16) The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance by Henry Petrosky
17) Far From the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson
18) Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
19) The Eye of the World: Wheel of Time #1
20) The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan
21) The Dragon Reborn
22) The Shadow Rising #4
23) The Fires of Heaven
24) Lord of Chaos
25) Crown of Swords
26) The Path of Daggers
27) Goshawk Summer by James Aldred
28) Winter's Heart -> back to the Wheel of Time
29) Crossroads of Twilight
30) Knife of Dreams
31) The Gathering Storm
32) Towers of Midnight
33) A Memory of Light
End of the Wheel of Time in January 2023

16DirtPriest
Bewerkt: feb 7, 6:36 pm

2023
1) Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass by Frank Close
2) The Martian by Andy Weir
3) Brainwash: the Secret History of Mind Control by Dominic Streatfeild
4) Dragon Wing by Weis & Hickman
5) Elven Star. Death gate v2
6) Fire Sea. V3
7) Serpent Mage v4
8) The Hand of Chaos v5
9) Into the Labyrinth v6
10) The Seventh Gate v6 ends of Death Gate Cycle
11) Fairy Tale by Stephen King
12) From a Buick 8 by Stephen King
13) The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
14) Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
15) A Morbid Taste For Bones by Ellis Peters
16) Leviathan Wake
17) Caliban's War
18) Abbadon's Gate
19) Cibola Burn
20) Nemesis Games - The Expanse by James S.A. Corey
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