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I love to read. Here are some of the books I have read and given a rating. One thumbs up means I enjoyed the book. Two thumbs up means the book made a distinct impression on me. Thumbs down means it was somewhat tedious. Two thumbs down means it was awful!

Fiction

TITLE
AUTHOR
RATING
JawsPeter Benchley
Digital FortressDan Brown
The Good EarthPearl S. Buck
AirframeMichael Chrichton
DisclosureMichael Crichton
Rising SunMichael Crichton
State of FearMichael Crichton
The Red Badge of CourageStephen Crane
Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe
Peace Like a RiverLeif Enger
The Little PrinceAntione de Saint Exupery
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop CafeFannie Flagg
A Painted HouseJohn Grisham
A Time to KillJohn Grisham
The AppealJohn Grisham
The BrethrenJohn Grisham
The BrokerJohn Grisham
The ChamberJohn Grisham
The ClientJohn Grisham
The FirmJohn Grisham
The King of TortsJohn Grisham
The PartnerJohn Grisham
The Pelican BriefJohn Grisham
The RainmakerJohn Grisham
The Runaway JuryJohn Grisham
The SummonsJohn Grisham
The TestamentJohn Grisham
The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway
SkinwalkersTony Hillerman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestKen Kesey
The Honk and Holler Opening SoonBillie Letts
The Bourne IdentityRobert Ludlum
The Bourne SupremacyRobert Ludlum
The Bourne UltimatumRobert Ludlum
The Cassandra Compact: A Covert One NovelRobert Ludlum and Philip Shelby
Moby DickHerman Melville
The GodfatherMario Puzo
The Great DivideFrank M. Robinson, John F. Levin
The Years of Rice and SaltKim Stanley Robinson
Of Mice and MenJohn Steinbeck
The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain

Science Fiction

TITLE
AUTHOR
RATING
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyDouglas Adams
The Restaraunt at the End of the UniverseDouglas Adams
Life, the Universe and EverythingDouglas Adams
So Long, and Thanks For All the FishDouglas Adams
Mostly HarmlessDouglas Adams
Darwin's RadioGreg Bear
EonGreg Bear
EternityGreg Bear
LegacyGreg Bear
Looking Backward: 2000 to 1887Edward Bellamy
PowersatBen Bova
Fahrenheit 451Ray Bradbury
World War Z: an oral history of the zombie warMax Brooks
Ender's GameOrson Scott Card
Speaker for the DeadOrson Scott Card
2001: A Space OdysseyArthur C. Clarke
The Light of Other DaysArthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter
CongoMichael Crichton
Jurassic ParkMichael Crichton
The Lost WorldMichael Crichton
NextMichael Crichton
PreyMichael Crichton
SphereMichael Crichton
TimelineMichael Crichton
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Philip K. Dick
A Boy and His DogHarlan Ellison
American GodsNeil Gaiman
NeuromancerWilliam Gibson
FeedMira Grant
DuneFrank Herbert
Battlefield EarthL. Ron Hubbard
Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes
DreamcatcherStephen King
The StandStephen King
Ancient ShoresJack McDevitt
the engines of godJack McDevitt
Altered CarbonRichard K. Morgan
RingworldLarry Niven
Luficer's HammerLarry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
FootfallLarry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
The Ice LimitDouglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Century RainAlastair Reynolds
Revelation SpaceAlastair Reynolds
Red MarsKim Stanley Robinson
Green MarsKim Stanley Robinson
Blue MarsKim Stanley Robinson
The Rosetta CodexRichard Paul Russo
ContactCarl Sagan
HominidsRobert J. Sawyer
www : WakeRobert J. Sawyer
Snow CrashNeal Stephenson
Earth AbidesGeorge R. Stewart
TitanJohn Varley
DemonJohn Varley
WizardJohn Varley
Red ThunderJohn Varley
Red LightningJohn Varley
Rolling ThunderJohn Varley

Humor

TITLE
AUTHOR
RATING
Just a Guy: Notes from a Blue Collar LifeBill Engval with Alan Eisenstock
The Thurber CarnivalJames Thurber

Business and Comunication

TITLE
AUTHOR
RATING
Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees LeadJames Belasco, Ralph C. Stayer
The One Minute ManagerKenneth Blanchard, Spencer Johnson
Apple: The Inside Story of Intrigue, Egomania, and Business BlundersJim Carlton
How to Win Friends and Influence PeopleDale Carnegie
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective PeopleStephen R. Covey
Today and TomorrowHenry Ford
Iacocca: An AutobiographyLee Iacocca with William Novak
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving InRoger Fisher and William Ury
Outliers: The Story of SuccessMalcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big DifferenceMalcolm Gladwell
Dress for SuccessJohn T. Molloy
In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run CompaniesThomas J. Peters, Robert H. Waterman
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly ImprobableNassim Nicholas Taleb

Psychology

TITLE
AUTHOR
RATING
Jonathan Livingston SeagullRichard Bach
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in KindergartenRobert Fulghum
I'm OK - You're OKThomas A. Harris, M.D.

Religion

TITLE
AUTHOR
RATING
The BibleGod
Mere ChristianityC.S. Lewis
The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in GodDallas Willard

Politics and Sociology

TITLE
AUTHOR
RATING
Godless: The Church of LiberalismAnn Coulter
Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on TerrorismAnn Coulter
100 People Who Are Screwing Up AmericaBernard Goldberg
The Good Soldier Svejk and his fortunes in the world warJaroslav Hasek
Do the Right ThingMike Huckabee
Brave New WorldAldous Huxley
Culture WarriorBill O'Reilly
Animal FarmGeorge Orwell
One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovitchAlexander Solzhenitsyn
Walden (Life in the Woods)Henry David Thoreau
Gang Leader For A Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the StreetsSudhir Venkatesh

Math and Science

TITLE
AUTHOR
RATING
Flatland: A Romance of Many DimensionsEdwin A. Abbott
The Day the Universe ChangedJames Burke
Origin of SpeciesCharles Darwin
QED: the strange theory of light and matterRichard P. Feynman
Mr. Thompkins in PaperbackGeorge Gamov
Chaos: Making a New ScienceJames Gleick
Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden BraidDouglas R. Hofstadter
Einstein: His Life and UniverseWalter Isaacson
The Watershed: A Biography of Johannes KeplerArthur Koestler
Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy LogicBart Kosko
Early Greek Science: Thales to AristotleG.E.R. Lloyd
Greek Science After AristotleG.E.R. Lloyd
The Fractal Geometry of NatureBenoit B. Mandelbrot
The ABC's of RelativityBertrand Russell
Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily LifeSteven Strogatz
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the UniverseSteven Weinberg

Health and Fitness

TITLE
AUTHOR
RATING
The Lance Armstrong Performance ProgramLance Armstrong and Chris Carmichael
Daniels' Running FormulaJack Daniels, PhD
Galloway's Book on RunningJeff Galloway
Why We Run: A Natural HistoryBernd Heinrich
The Maffetone Method: The Holistic, Low-Stress,
No-Pain Way to Exceptional Fitness
Dr. Philip Maffetone
Training Techniques for Cyclistsedited by Ed Pavelka
The Stress of LifeHans Selye, M.D. (The man who "invented" stress)

Sports

TITLE
AUTHOR
RATING
Every Second CountsLance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins
It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to LifeLance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins
The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve ItNeal Bascomb
Duel in the Sun: Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley and America's Greatest MarathonJohn Brant
Chasing LanceMartin Dugard
Flying Scotsman: Cycling to Triumph Through My Darkest HoursGraeme Obree
From Lance to Landis: Inside the American Doping Controversy at the Tour De FranceDavid Walsh
Chariots of FireW. J. Weatherby
The 2003 Tour De FranceJohn Wilcockson
C.C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race: True story of the 1928 coast-to-coast run across AmericaGeoff Williams

Geography and History

TITLE
AUTHOR
RATING
An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural BoyhoodJimmy Carter
WindtalkersMax A. Collins
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesJared Diamond
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small TownJohn Grisham
Thirty Seconds Over TokyoCaptain Ted W. Lawson
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest JourneyCandice Millard
Icebound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South PoleJerri Nielsen & Maryanne Vollers
The Rise and Fall of Adolf HitlerWilliam L. Shirer
The Rise and Fall of the Third ReichWilliam L. Shirer
The Battle of the BulgeJohn Toland
Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expeditionedited by unknown

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