Books read and rated (under construction).
Submitted by Jeandré on Sat, 01/03/2009 - 05:12
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- 7 Adams, Douglas, John Lloyd (1990) The deeper meaning of Liff
- 6 Adams, Douglas (1987) Dirk Gently's holistic detective agency
- 8 Adams, Douglas (1979) The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
- 6 Adams, Douglas (1982) Life, the universe and everything
- 7 Adams, Douglas, John Lloyd (1983) The meaning of Liff
- 6 Adams, Douglas (1992) Mostly harmless
- 6 Adams, Douglas (1980) The restaurant at the end of the universe
- 6 Adams, Douglas (2002) The salmon of doubt
- 7 Adams, Douglas (1984) So long, and thanks for all the fish
- 5 Aikman, David (2008) The delusion of disbelief
- 7 Alcott, Louisa May (1868, 1869) Little women
- 5 Anderson, Poul (1974) Knight of ghosts and shadows
- 5 Anderson, Poul (1972) There will be time
- 6 Asimov, Isaac (1951) Foundation 0586010807
- 6 Asimov, Isaac (1952) Foundation and empire 0586013555
- 7 Asimov, Isaac (1989) Nemesis
- 6 Banks, Iain M. (1998) Inversions
- 6 Baxter, Stephen (1997) The web: GulliverZone
- 5 Bear, Greg (1989) Tangents
- 4 Beard, Richard (2001) The cartoonist
- 6 Bell, William (1990) Forbidden City
- 7 Bennett, Ronan (1992) Overthrown by strangers
- 5 Biggle, Lloyd, Jr (1963) All the colours of darkness
- 6 Blackson, Lynn, Jason Durall (2008) Serenity role playing game: six-shooters & spaceships 978-1-931567-81-7 [2009]
- 7 Blake, Michael (1988) Dances with wolves
- 4 Blincoe, Nicolas, Matt Thorne (2000) All hail the new puritans
- 5 Bova, Ben (2001) Jupiter
- 7 Bova, Ben (1996) Moonrise
- 7 Bova, Ben (1998) Moonwar
- 8 Boyle, T. Coraghessan (2000) A friend of the Earth
- 6 Bradbury, Ray (1997) Driving blind
- 5 Bradbury, Ray (1953) Fahrenheit 451
- 6 Bradbury, Ray (1950) The Martian chronicles
- 4 Brontë, Charlotte (1847) Jane Eyre
- 4 Brontë, Charlotte (c1838) Mina Laury
- 4 Brontë, Charlotte (1857) The professor
- 6 Burnie, David (2002) Evolution 0-7513-7355-9 [2009]
- 6 Chambers, Jamie (2005) Serenity role playing game 1931567506
- 8 Chomsky, Noam (2001) 9-11
- 6 Cochrane, Peter (1998) Tips for time travellers: visionary insights into new technology, life, and the future by one of the world's leading technology prophets
- 4 Coelho, Paulo, translated by ? (1988, 1993) The alchemist
- 5 Collins, Max Allan (1998) Saving private Ryan
- 4 Crowley, John (1979) Engine summer
- 3 Davidson, Avram (1969) The phoenix and the mirror
- 7 Dawkins, Richard (1986, 1991) The blind watchmaker 0-140-29122-9 [2009]
- 7 Dawkins, Richard (2006) The God delusion
- 5 Defoe, Daniel (1719) Robinson Crusoe 0-19-210033-5 [2009]
- 6 Dick, Philip K. (1968) Do androids dream of electric sheep?
- 7 Dickens, Charles (1860/1861) Great expectations
- 7 Du Preez, Max (2003) Pale native: memories of a renegade reporter 978-1-86872-913-5 [2009]
- 4 Eggers, Dave (2000) A heartbreaking work of staggering genius
- 4 Ellison , Harlan (1970) The glass teat
- 6 Fitzgerald, F Scott (1925) The great Gatsby
- 7 Franken, Al (2004) Lies and the lying liars who tell them: a fair and balanced look at the right (revised paperback edition) 0-141-01780-5 [2009]
- 7 Frazier, Charles (1997) Cold Mountain
- 7 Golding, William (1954) Lord of the flies
- 6 Grisham, John (1991 / 1992) The firm / The pelican brief 0091870070
- 8 Haddon, Mark (2003) The curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
- 4 Hajime Yatate, Yutaka Nanten, Hajime Yadate, Amy Forsyth (1999, 2002) Cowboy Bebop 1
- 7 Harris, Sam (2006) Letter to a Christian nation: a chellenge to faith 978-0-593-05897-8 [2009]
- 5 Hawking, Stephen (1988) A brief history of time
- 7 Hawking, Stephen (1996) The illustrated a brief history of time 0593040597
- 4 Heinlein, Robert A. (1958) Have space suit - will travel
- 7 Heller, Joseph (1961) Catch-22
- 6 Herbert, Frank (1965) Dune
- 6 Herbert, Frank (ed) (1981) Nebula winners 15 (5 Dann, Jack (1979) Camps; 7 Martin, George R.R. (1979) Sandkings; 7 Longyear, Barry (1979) Enemy mine; 6 Bryant, Edward (1979) giANTS; 4 Russ, Joanna (1979) The extraordinary voyages of Ame'lie Bertrand) [2009]
- 6 Hill, Peter (2003) Stargazing: Memoirs of a young lighthouse keeper
- 6 Huxley, Aldous (1932) Brave new world 0-00-711589-x [2009]
- 3 Johnson, Spencer (1998) Who moved my cheese?
- 8 Klein, Naomi (2000) No logo 0006530400
- 7 Larson, Gary (1982) The far side
- 7 Lee, Harper (1960) To kill a mockingbird
- 4 Lem, Stanislaw, translated by Michael Kandel (1967, 1974) The Cyberiad
- 5 Lovegrove, James (1997) Days
- 3 MacDonald, George (1895) Lilith
- 3 Miller, Frank, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley (1986) Batman: the dark knight returns
- 7 Moore, Alan, David Lloyd (1982-1988) V for Vendetta
- 7 Moore, Michael (2001) Stupid white men ...and other sorry excuses for the state of the nation 0-141-01190-4 [2009]
- 7 Mulvany, Nancy C. (2005) Indexing books, second edition 0226552764
- 8 Orwell, George (1945) Animal farm
- 7 Palahniuk, Chuck (1996) Fight club
- 6 Palahniuk, Chuck (1999) Survivor
- 7 Paton, Alan (1948) Cry, the beloved country
- 7 Pinker, Steven (2004) The best American science and nature writing 2004
- 5 Pratchett, Terry (1983) The colour of magic
- 4 Pynchon, Thomas (1966) The crying of lot 49
- 5 Rand, Ayn (1943) The fountainhead
- 7 Robinson, Kim Stanley (1997) Antarctica
- 8 Robinson, Kim Stanley (1996) Blue Mars 0586213910
- 8 Robinson, Kim Stanley (1992) Down and out in the year 2000
- 7 Robinson, Kim Stanley (2004) Forty signs of rain
- 8 Robinson, Kim Stanley (1993) Green Mars
- 8 Robinson, Kim Stanley (1999) The Martians
- 6 Robinson, Kim Stanley (1985) The memory of whiteness
- 9 Robinson, Kim Stanley (1992) Red Mars
- 6 Robinson, Kim Stanley (1990) A short, sharp shock
- 9 Sagan, Carl (1980) Cosmos
- 8 Sagan, Carl (1995) The demon-haunted world: science as a candle in the dark
- 6 Sagan, Carl (1985, 2006) The varieties of scientific experience: a personal view of the search for God 9780143112624
- 5 Salinger, JD (1951) Catcher in the rye
- 8 Sasson, Jean (1992) Princess: a true story of life behind the veil in Saudi Arabia
- 7 Shakespeare, William (1600) Much ado about nothing
- 7 Shakespeare, William (1597) Romeo and Juliet
- 4 Shapero, Rich (2004) Wild animus: a novel
- 5 Shaw, George Bernard (1898) Arms and the man: an anti-romantic comedy in three acts
- 7 Sheldon, Charles (1896) In His steps: What would Jesus do?
- 8 Sheriff, R. C. (1928) Journey's end
- 9 Singer, Peter (2002) Writings on an ethical life 1841155519
- 7 Steinbeck, John (1945) Cannery row
- 7 Steinbeck, John (1937) Of mice and men
- 6 Steinberg, S. H. (1966) Five hundred years of printing [2009]
- 5 Stevenson, Robert Louis (1886) Kidnapped
- 5 Sutherland, Bill, Matt Meyer, Desmond Tutu (2000) Guns and Gandhi in Africa: Pan African insights on nonviolence, armed struggle, and liberation
- 6 Thoreau, Henry David (1854) Walden
- 7 Tolkien, JRR (2007) The children of Húrin 978-0-00-724622-9 [2009]
- 8 Tolkien, JRR (1937) The hobbit or there and back again
- 8 Tolkien, JRR, (1954-1955) The lord of the rings: the fellowship of the rings
- 8 Tolkien, JRR, (1954) The lord of the rings: the two towers
- 8 Tolkien, JRR, (1955) The lord of the rings: the return of the king
- 6 Tolkien, JRR (1977) The Silmarillion
- 7 Tolkien, JRR (1980) Unfinished tales
- 6 Tolstoy, Leo, translated by Rosemary Edmonds (1886, 1960) Death of Ivan Ilyich
- 7 Truss, Lynne (2003) Eats, shoots & leaves: the zero tolerance approach to punctuation 1861976771
- 5 various (c 1000BCE/350) The bible
- 5 Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. (1969) Slaughterhouse-five, or the children's crusade, a duty-dance with death
- 7 White, EB (1952) Charlotte's web
- 8 Zimbardo, Philip (2007) The Lucifer effect: How good people turn evil 978-1-84-604103-7 [2009]
- 7 Zweig, Stefan (1942) Royal Game
- ... others I can't remember
rating Surname, first names, other authors (year first published) title ISBN [year read if after 2008]
Additional dates are for when the translation I read was first published, or when a standalone addition was first published. Books with ratings >7 are bold.
Great books, West, 1990.