Currently Reading:
| The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself – Sean Carroll |
Category: Books
Recommended reading
Ayn Rand
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
— http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2009/03/ephemera-2009-7.html
Kim Stanley Robinson
| Three Californias (Orange County trilogy, Orange County triptych) | |
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| The Wild Shore | |
| The Gold Coast | |
| Pacific Edge | |
| The Mars Trilogy | |
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| Red Mars | |
| Green Mars | |
| Blue Mars | |
| Science in the Capital | |
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| Forty Signs of Rain | |
| Fifty Degrees Below | |
| Sixty Days and Counting | |
J. R. R. Tolkien
| The Hobbit | |
| The Fellowship of the Ring | |
| The Two Towers | |
| The Return of the King | |
| The Silmarillion | |
| Unfinished Tales | |
| The Children of Hurin | |
| Beren and Lúthien | |
| The Fall of Gondolin | |
| The Annotated Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien, Douglas A. Anderson (Editor) | |
| The Art of The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien (Author), Christina Scull (Editor), & Wayne G. Hammond (Editor) |
| Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún |
Stephen Baxter
| The Time Ships | |
| Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice | |
| The Massacre of Mankind: Sequel to The War of the Worlds |
| NASA Trilogy | |
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| Voyage | |
| Titan | |
| Moonseed | |
| Manifold Trilogy | |
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| Manifold: Time | |
| Manifold: Space | |
| Manifold: Origin | |
| Time’s Tapestry | |
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| Emperor | |
| Conqueror | |
| Navigator | |
| Weaver | |
| Proxima / Ultima | |
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| Proxima | |
| Ultima | |
| The Long Earth | |
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| The Long Earth – Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter | |
| The Long War – Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter | |
| The Long Mars – Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter | |
| The Long Utopia – Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter | |
| The Long Cosmos – Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter | |
Newtonian Swag: 2018
| The Fall of Gondolin – J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary – J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life – Frank Zappa | |
| LEGO James Bond Aston Martin DB5 | |
| LEGO BrickHeadz _Homer Simpson & Krusty The Clown | |
| POP AD Icons: Bob’s Big Boy |
Andy Weir
Biography
| Isaac Newton – James Gleick | |
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Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E. Lawrence – Jeremy Wilson |
| Miles: The Autobiography – Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe | |
| The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers Between Music and Technology: A Memoir – Thomas Dolby | |
| So, Anyway… – John Cleese | |
| The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room – Rainn Wilson | |
| The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America’s Race in Space – Eugene Cernan & Don Davis | |
| Flight My Life in Mission Control – Christopher C. Kraft | |
| Failure is not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond – Gene Kranz | |
| Deke!: U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury to the Shuttle – Donald K. Slayton, Michael Cassutt (Contributor) | |
| Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician – Anthony Everitt | |
| Caesar – Christian Meier | |
| Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B. C.: A Historical Biography – Peter Green | |
| Henry V – Christopher Allmand | |
| Alexander Hamilton – Ron Chernow |
Food
| Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly – Anthony Bourdain | |
| I’m Just Here for the Food: Version 2.0 – Alton Brown | |
| Iron Chef: The Official Book – Kaoru Hoketsu (Translator), Fuji Television, Kabushiki (Editor) |
Graphic Novels
| Futurama-O-Rama – Matt Groening, et al. | |
| Watchmen – Alan Moore (Author), Dave Gibbons (Illustrator) | |
| Chasing Dogma – Kevin Smith, Duncan Fegredo (Illustrator), Alanis Morissette (Introduction) | |
| The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable – Terry Pratchett, Paul Kidby (Illustrator) |
| The Sandman | |
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| The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes – Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith (Illustrator), & Mike Dringenberg (Illustrator) | |
| The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll’s House – Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg (Illustrator), & Malcolm Jones III (Illustrator) | |
| The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country – Neil Gaiman, Kelley Jones (Illustrator) & Charles Vess (Illustrator) | |
| The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists – Neil Gaiman, Kelley Jones (Illustrator), & Mike Dringenberg (Illustrator) | |
| The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You – Neil Gaiman, et al. | |
| The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflection – Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell (Illustrator), Shawn McManus (Illustrator) | |
| The Sandman Vol. 7: Brief Lives – Neil Gaiman (Author), Jill Thompson (Illustrator), Vince Locke (Illustrator) | |
| The Sandman Vol. 8: World’s End – Neil Gaiman, et al. | |
| The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones – Neil Gaiman, et al. | |
| The Sandman Vol. 10: The Wake – Neil Gaiman, et al. | |