Nov 26 2007
To Be Read
I’ve been crazy busy with photography and some new programming tasks recently, and as a result I haven’t finished a book in over a month. (It’s not like I actually do book reviews here anyway). So, for the sake of something different, here’s what’s on my “to be read” shelf (which grows much faster than I can keep up).
What’s on your “to be read” shelf?
Do you have an opinion on any of these books?
| Title | Author | Comments |
| Good Omens | Neil Gaiman and TerryPratchett | Recommended by Dorrie. |
| Hearts in Atlantis | Stephen King | Recommend by Nate as accompaniment to the Dark Tower books. |
| Numbered Account | Christopher Reich | Recommended by my dad. |
| The First Billion | ||
| The Runner | ||
| Red Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | Just something I wanted to read. I’m not sure where I heard of these books. |
| Green Mars | ||
| Blue Mars | ||
| Signal to Noise | Eric S. Nylund | Recommended by my sister-in-law, Rhiannon, who has recommended at least a couple other good cyberpunk novels in the past. |
| Wikinomics - How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything | Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams | Friend Alex Gorelik and I noticed this at Tattered Cover one day. He showed interest in the book and I bought it for him a few days later. I decided I wanted to read it first but haven’t yet. |
| The Immortal Game - A History of Chess | David Shenk | This was a gift from Dorrie. |
| Take This Advice: The Best Graduation Speeches Ever Given | Wally Lamb, Bill Cosby, Kofi Annan, Sting, Robert Redford, et al. | I picked this one up for myself. |
| An Inconvenient Truth | Al Gore | This has been on the shelf for over a year. I’m avoiding it for the same reason that I’m avoiding the movie: I know it’s going to make me angry and depressed. |
| The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race | Priscilla J. McMillan | Physicists involved in the Manhattan Project fascinate me, especially Oppenheimer and Feynman. I have an impressive collection of books on these two people. |
| Brotherhood of the Bomb | Gregg Herken | Another book about Oppenheimer, this one also about Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller. |
| Galileo’s Finger - the Ten Great Ideas of Science | Peter Atkins | I would have chosen a different title if I were Peter Atkins. |
| The Birthday of the World and Other Stories | Ursula K. Le Guin | Recommended by Ellebee. |
| Babyproofing Your Marriage | Stacie Cockrell, Cathy O’Neill and Julia Stone | I started reading this book, but got |
| Photography and the Art of Seeing | Freeman Patterson | A book about how to “see” as a photographer. |
| The Joy of Fatherhood | Marcus Jacob Goldman, M.D. | I really need to start reading this one. Baby is due in five months. |
| Great Physicists | William H. Cropper | More geek material. |
| Chaos - Making a New Science | James Glieck | Even more geek material. This one is a classic for geeks. |
| Shadow of the Giant | Orson Scott Card | I had to reread a few Ender’s Game books to get back up to speed for this latest (and last?) book in the Ender’s series. |
| Lafcadio - The Lion Who Shot Back | Shel Silverstein | Just something lightto have on the nightstand. |