Six-month Mark
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stoutfellowAt the (rough) halfway point of the year, I've finished reading 45 books; that's a bit ahead of last year's pace. The odd thing this year is the amount of nonfiction I've been reading. In each of the last two years, I finished fifteen nonfiction works; this year, I've already read fourteen. Maybe I'm getting more serious as I approach the big 5-0.... The full list is under the cut; asterisks indicate rereads.
Fiction
F&SF (20): Peter Beagle, A Fine and Private Place*, The Last Unicorn*, The Folk of the Air*, The Innkeeper's Song*, Giant Bones*, Tamsin*; Kristine Smith, Contact Imminent; C. J. Cherryh, Chanur's Legacy*; Caroline Stevermer, A College of Magics; Theodore Sturgeon, The Ultimate Egoist; Sonia Singh, Goddess for Hire; Pat Wrede, Dealing with Dragons, Searching for Dragons, Calling on Dragons, Talking to Dragons; Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith; Harry Turtledove, Return Engagement; Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog*; Neil Gaiman, American Gods*; William Gibson, Neuromancer*.
Graphic Novels (5): Phil & Kaja Foglio, Agatha Heterodyne and the Beetleburg Clank, ... and the Airship City, ... and the Monster Engine, ... and the Circus of Dreams, ... and the Clockwork Princess.
Mysteries (1): Jennifer Crusie, Welcome to Temptation.
Mainstream (5): Naguib Mahfouz, Sugar Street; Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter*; F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby*; Oscar Wilde, The Portable Oscar Wilde.
Nonfiction
Mathematics and Natural Science (5): Ross Honsberger, Episodes in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Euclidean Geometry; Rahman & Schmeisser, Analytic Theory of Polynomials; Henri Cartan, Formes Differentielles; Keith Kendig, Conics; Selden & Nudds, Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems.
Language and Linguistics (1): Adams Bodomo, The Structure of Dagaare.
History and Social Science (5): Harry Summers, On Strategy; Alvin Josephy (ed.), America in 1492; John Short, The World Through Maps; Stephen Skowronek, The Politics Presidents Make; Alex Marshall, Beneath the Metropolis.
Miscellaneous (3): Robert Reich, Reason; Christopher Frayling, Mad, Bad and Dangerous?; Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father.
Fiction
F&SF (20): Peter Beagle, A Fine and Private Place*, The Last Unicorn*, The Folk of the Air*, The Innkeeper's Song*, Giant Bones*, Tamsin*; Kristine Smith, Contact Imminent; C. J. Cherryh, Chanur's Legacy*; Caroline Stevermer, A College of Magics; Theodore Sturgeon, The Ultimate Egoist; Sonia Singh, Goddess for Hire; Pat Wrede, Dealing with Dragons, Searching for Dragons, Calling on Dragons, Talking to Dragons; Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith; Harry Turtledove, Return Engagement; Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog*; Neil Gaiman, American Gods*; William Gibson, Neuromancer*.
Graphic Novels (5): Phil & Kaja Foglio, Agatha Heterodyne and the Beetleburg Clank, ... and the Airship City, ... and the Monster Engine, ... and the Circus of Dreams, ... and the Clockwork Princess.
Mysteries (1): Jennifer Crusie, Welcome to Temptation.
Mainstream (5): Naguib Mahfouz, Sugar Street; Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter*; F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby*; Oscar Wilde, The Portable Oscar Wilde.
Nonfiction
Mathematics and Natural Science (5): Ross Honsberger, Episodes in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Euclidean Geometry; Rahman & Schmeisser, Analytic Theory of Polynomials; Henri Cartan, Formes Differentielles; Keith Kendig, Conics; Selden & Nudds, Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems.
Language and Linguistics (1): Adams Bodomo, The Structure of Dagaare.
History and Social Science (5): Harry Summers, On Strategy; Alvin Josephy (ed.), America in 1492; John Short, The World Through Maps; Stephen Skowronek, The Politics Presidents Make; Alex Marshall, Beneath the Metropolis.
Miscellaneous (3): Robert Reich, Reason; Christopher Frayling, Mad, Bad and Dangerous?; Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father.
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Date: 2007-07-05 11:16 pm (UTC)There are 140 books on my to-get list, just at the moment....
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