Table of Contents
- 1. To publish this:
- 2. To sort a list by author last name
- 3. Movies
- 3.1. TODO Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
- 3.2. TODO Amadeus
- 3.3. TODO Anything with Carmen Miranda
- 3.4. TODO The Asphalt Jungle
- 3.5. TODO Brian and Charles
- 3.6. TODO Far Away, So Close
- 3.7. TODO Highway 61
- 3.8. TODO In a World…
- 3.9. TODO Lapwing
- 3.10. TODO The Limey
- 3.11. TODO The Menu
- 3.12. TODO My Favorite Year
- 3.13. TODO Night On Earth (Criterion)
- 3.14. TODO Nomadland – Chloe Zhaop
- 3.15. TODO Pleasantville
- 3.16. TODO Seconds (Rock Hudson)
- 3.17. TODO The Rider – Chloe Zhao
- 3.18. TODO Truly Madly Deeply
- 4. Economics
- 5. Geography
- 6. History
- 6.1. TODO Britain After Rome – Robin Fleming
- 6.2. TODO The Medieval Machine – Jean Gimpel
- 6.3. TODO Essex Dogs – Dan Jones
- 6.4. TODO Common People: In Pursuit of My Ancestors – Alison Light
- 6.5. TODO After the ice: A Global Human History, 20,000 - 5000 BC – Stephen Mithen
- 6.6. TODO Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness – Elizabeth D. Samet
- 6.7. TODO Medieval Technology and Social Change - Lynn Townsend
- 6.8. TODO The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revoltuion – David Wootton
- 7. SciFi
- 7.1. TODO Columbus Day – Craig Alanson
- 7.2. TODO The City in the Middle of the Night – Charlie Jane Anders
- 7.3. TODO The Algebraist – Iain M. Banks
- 7.4. TODO The Shattered Skies – John Birmingham
- 7.5. TODO Rescue Mode – Ben Bova & Les Johnson
- 7.6. TODO Good Morning Midnight – Lily Brooks-Dalton
- 7.7. TODO The Pride of Chanur – C.J. Cherryh
- 7.8. TODO Down and out in the magic kingdom – Cory Doctorow
- 7.9. TODO Makers – Cory Doctorow
- 7.10. TODO When Gravity Fails – George Alec Effinger
- 7.11. TODO Permutation City – Greg Egan
- 7.12. TODO Golden Witchbreed – Mary Gentle
- 7.13. TODO Surfing Samurai Robots – Mel Gilden
- 7.14. TODO Stray Souls – Kate Griffin
- 7.15. TODO River of Stars - Guy Gavriel Kay
- 7.16. TODO Blue Gemini – Mike Jenne
- 7.17. TODO Ancillary Sword – Anne Leckie
- 7.18. TODO Disposessed – Ursula K. LeGuin
- 7.19. TODO Lathe of Heaven – Ursula K. LeGuin
- 7.20. TODO Beyond the Hallowed Sky – Ken McLeod
- 7.21. TODO The city and the city – China Meiville
- 7.22. TODO Warped Space - Jo Miles
- 7.23. TODO The Red Trilogy – Linda Nagata
- 7.24. TODO A History of What Comes Next – Sylvain Neuvel
- 7.25. TODO Lagoon – Nnedi Okorafor
- 7.26. TODO Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
- 7.27. TODO Burning the Days – James Salter
- 7.28. TODO Robert Sheckley – anything!
- 7.29. TODO Everfair – Nivi Shawl
- 7.30. TODO For want of a nail - John Sobel
- 7.31. TODO Schismatrix – Bruce Sterling
- 7.32. TODO Road Out Of Winter – Alison Sinte
- 7.33. TODO We Shall Sing A Song Into The Deep – Andrew Kelly Stewart
- 7.34. TODO Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovsky
- 7.35. TODO Up the walls of the world – James Tiptree Jr
- 7.36. TODO The Lesson – Cadwell Turnbull
- 7.37. TODO Rainbows End – Verner Vinge
- 7.38. TODO Blindsight – Peter Watts
- 7.39. Reading The Shadow of the Torturer – Gene Wolfe
- 8. Space
- 8.1. TODO The Mission – David Brown
- 8.2. TODO We Have Capture – Thomas Stafford and Michael Cassutt
- 8.3. TODO How to make a spaceship – Julian Guthrie
- 8.4. TODO High Calling – Evelyn Husband
- 8.5. TODO The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World – Sarah Stewart Johnson
- 8.6. TODO Too Far from Home – Chris Jones
- 8.7. TODO Moon Lander: How we developed the Apollo Lunar Module – Thomas J. Kelly
- 8.8. TODO Mars: The Dusty Planet – Ellen Lawrence
- 8.9. TODO Mission Mars – Ajey Lele
- 8.10. TODO The Long Space Age: The Economic Origins of Space Exploration – Alexander MacDonald
- 8.11. TODO Wonders All Around – Bruce McCandless III
- 8.12. TODO How NASA Builds Teams – Charles J Pellerin
- 8.13. TODO Mankind beyond earth – Claude Piantadosi
- 8.14. TODO Space 2.0 – Rod Pyle
- 8.15. TODO Martian Outpost – Erik Seedhouse
- 8.16. TODO Mars: A New View – Giles Sparrow
- 8.17. TODO The Value of the Moon – Paul D. Spudis
- 8.18. TODO The Right Kind of Crazy – Adam Steltzner
- 8.19. TODO Mars Up Close – Faye Weldon
- 8.20. TODO Moonrush – David Wingo
- 9. Climate
- 10. Science
- 10.1. TODO Super Fly – Jonathan Balcombe
- 10.2. TODO The Naturalist at Home – Kelly Brenner
- 10.3. TODO Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agriculture – Craig Canine
- 10.4. TODO Wasps: The astonishing diversity of a misunderstood insect – Eric R. Eaton
- 10.5. TODO Empire of Ants: The Hidden Worlds and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors – Susanne Foitzik & Olaf Fritsche
- 10.6. TODO The Ocean’s Whistleblower: the remarkable life and work of Daniel Pauly – David Gremillet
- 10.7. TODO The Ecology of a Garden: The First Fifteen Years – Jennifer Owen
- 10.8. TODO Chernobyl: The history of a nuclear catastrophe – Serhii Plokhy
- 10.9. TODO Insectopedia – Hugh Raffles
- 10.10. TODO Human Error – James Reason
- 10.11. TODO THIS ONE Between Pacific Tides, Fifth Edition – Ricketts, Edward F.; Calvin, Jack
- 10.12. TODO THIS ONE A Tidal Odyssey: Ed Ricketts and the Making of Between Pacific Tides – Richard Astro, Donald Kohrs
- 10.13. Reading THIS ONE Beyond the Outer Shores: The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts – Tamm, Eric Enno
- 10.14. TODO Plankton – Christian Sardet
- 10.15. TODO Honeybee Democracy – Thomas D. Seeley
- 10.16. TODO Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps – Serian Sumner
- 10.17. TODO Why we sleep – Matthew Walker
- 10.18. TODO The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life – Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski
- 11. Other non-fiction
- 11.1. TODO A Pattern Language – Christopher Alexander et al
- 11.2. Reading Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
- 11.3. TODO Tubes: A journey to the center of the Internet – Andrew Blum
- 11.4. TODO The Weather Machine: A journey inside the forecast – Andrew Blum
- 11.5. TODO Thinking in Systems – Donella Meadows
- 11.6. TODO Extreme Economies – Richard Davies – Econtalk guest
- 11.7. TODO Bagels, Bumpf and Buses: A Day in the Life of the English Language – Simon Horobin
- 11.8. TODO Twenty Minutes in Manhattan – Michael Sorkin
- 11.9. TODO Never split the difference – Chris Voss
- 11.10. TODO Fluent in 3 months – Benny Lewis
- 12. Fiction
- 13. Done
- 13.1. DONE The Glass Hotel – Emily St John Mandel
- 13.2. DONE Hidden Figures – Margot Lee Shetterly
- 13.3. DONE The Manager's Path – Camille Fournier
- 13.4. DONE Master and Commander
[22/22] - 13.5. DONE Man in the High Castle
- 13.6. DONE Rendezvous with Rama
- 13.7. DONE Ancillary Justice – Ann Leckie
- 13.8. DONE Luna: New Moon – Ian MacDonald
- 13.9. DONE Ancillary Mercy – Anne Leckie
- 13.10. DONE Lovecraft Country – Matt Ruff
- 13.11. DONE The Devil You Know – K.J. Parker
- 13.12. DONE Flight: My Life in Mission Control – Chris Kraft
- 13.13. DONE Power Wars – Charlie Savage
- 13.14. DONE Command & Control: Nuclear Weapons, The Damascus Incident, and the Illusion of Safety – Eric Schlosser
- 13.15. DONE The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
- 13.16. DONE Team of Rivals – Doris Kearns Goodwin
- 13.17. DONE The Wanderers – Meg Howrey
- 13.18. DONE Mockingbird – Walter Tevis
- 13.19. DONE The Big Picture – Sean Carroll
- 13.20. DONE Venomous – Christie Wilcox
- 13.21. DONE Armor – John Steakley
- 13.22. DONE The Case for Mars – Robert Zubrin
- 13.23. DONE Scatter, Adapt and Remember – Annalee Newitz
- 13.24. DONE The Perfectionists - Simon Winchester
- 13.25. DONE The Civil War – Shelby Foote
- 13.26. DONE The Fifth Risk – Michael Lewis
- 13.27. DONE Goodby Robinson Crusoe – John Varley
- 13.28. DONE Delta-V – Daniel Suarez
- 13.29. DONE The storytelling Animal – Jonathan Gottschall
- 13.30. DONE Red Moon – Kim Stanley Robinson
- 13.31. DONE Handprints on Hubble – Kathryn D. Sullivan
- 13.32. DONE Pinpoint (GPS book) – Jeff Milner
- 13.33. DONE In Hoffa's Shadow – Jack Goldsmith
- 13.34. DONE Failure is not an option – Gene Kranz
- 13.35. DONE More from Less – Andrew McAfee – Econtalk guest, dematerialization
- 13.36. DONE The Three-body Problem – Cixin Liu
- 13.37. DONE The Nature Handbook: A Guide to Observing the Great Outdoors – Ernest H. Williams
- 13.38. DONE How to Slay a Dragon: A Fantasy Hero's Guide to the Real Middle Ages – Dr Cait Stevenson (@sunagainstgold)
1. To publish this:
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2. To sort a list by author last name
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3. Movies
3.1. TODO Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
3.2. TODO Amadeus
3.3. TODO Anything with Carmen Miranda
3.4. TODO The Asphalt Jungle
3.5. TODO Brian and Charles
"Brian Gittins is a lonely inventor in rural Wales, who builds quirky contraptions that seldom work. One day while scavenging scrap, he comes across a mannequin’s head, which inspires him to attempt to create an artificially-intelligent robot, though he is unable to activate it. That night, during a thunderstorm, Brian discovers his activated robot wandering outside of his workshop, and Brian brings it into his house."
3.6. TODO Far Away, So Close
3.7. TODO Highway 61
3.8. TODO In a World…
3.9. TODO Lapwing
3.10. TODO The Limey
3.11. TODO The Menu
3.12. TODO My Favorite Year
3.13. TODO Night On Earth (Criterion)
3.14. TODO Nomadland – Chloe Zhaop
3.15. TODO Pleasantville
3.16. TODO Seconds (Rock Hudson)
3.17. TODO The Rider – Chloe Zhao
3.18. TODO Truly Madly Deeply
4. Economics
4.1. TODO Debt: The first 5000 years – David Graeber
4.2. TODO Technological revolutions and financial capital- Carlota Perez
5. Geography
5.1. TODO Owning the earth – Andrew Linklater
5.2. TODO Measuring America – Andrew Linklater
6. History
6.1. TODO Britain After Rome – Robin Fleming
6.2. TODO The Medieval Machine – Jean Gimpel
6.3. TODO Essex Dogs – Dan Jones
- Historical fiction about the 100 years war; podcast guest on Gone Medieval; sounds fascinating
6.4. TODO Common People: In Pursuit of My Ancestors – Alison Light
6.5. TODO After the ice: A Global Human History, 20,000 - 5000 BC – Stephen Mithen
6.6. TODO Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness – Elizabeth D. Samet
- About the effect of WWII movies on our remembering of WWII itself; Chatter/Lawfare interview; sounds fascinating
6.7. TODO Medieval Technology and Social Change - Lynn Townsend
6.8. TODO The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revoltuion – David Wootton
7. SciFi
7.1. TODO Columbus Day – Craig Alanson
7.2. TODO The City in the Middle of the Night – Charlie Jane Anders
7.3. TODO The Algebraist – Iain M. Banks
7.4. TODO The Shattered Skies – John Birmingham
7.5. TODO Rescue Mode – Ben Bova & Les Johnson
7.6. TODO Good Morning Midnight – Lily Brooks-Dalton
7.7. TODO The Pride of Chanur – C.J. Cherryh
7.8. TODO Down and out in the magic kingdom – Cory Doctorow
7.9. TODO Makers – Cory Doctorow
7.10. TODO When Gravity Fails – George Alec Effinger
7.11. TODO Permutation City – Greg Egan
7.12. TODO Golden Witchbreed – Mary Gentle
7.13. TODO Surfing Samurai Robots – Mel Gilden
7.14. TODO Stray Souls – Kate Griffin
7.15. TODO River of Stars - Guy Gavriel Kay
7.16. TODO Blue Gemini – Mike Jenne
- Thunderscreech recommends, says good writing
7.17. TODO Ancillary Sword – Anne Leckie
7.18. TODO Disposessed – Ursula K. LeGuin
7.19. TODO Lathe of Heaven – Ursula K. LeGuin
7.20. TODO Beyond the Hallowed Sky – Ken McLeod
7.21. TODO The city and the city – China Meiville
7.22. TODO Warped Space - Jo Miles
- The author I found from Nature w/very fun short stories
7.23. TODO The Red Trilogy – Linda Nagata
7.24. TODO A History of What Comes Next – Sylvain Neuvel
7.25. TODO Lagoon – Nnedi Okorafor
7.26. TODO Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
7.27. TODO Burning the Days – James Salter
7.28. TODO Robert Sheckley – anything!
7.29. TODO Everfair – Nivi Shawl
7.30. TODO For want of a nail - John Sobel
7.31. TODO Schismatrix – Bruce Sterling
7.32. TODO Road Out Of Winter – Alison Sinte
7.33. TODO We Shall Sing A Song Into The Deep – Andrew Kelly Stewart
7.34. TODO Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovsky
7.35. TODO Up the walls of the world – James Tiptree Jr
7.36. TODO The Lesson – Cadwell Turnbull
7.37. TODO Rainbows End – Verner Vinge
7.38. TODO Blindsight – Peter Watts
7.39. Reading The Shadow of the Torturer – Gene Wolfe
8. Space
8.1. TODO The Mission – David Brown
8.2. TODO We Have Capture – Thomas Stafford and Michael Cassutt
8.3. TODO How to make a spaceship – Julian Guthrie
8.4. TODO High Calling – Evelyn Husband
8.5. TODO The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World – Sarah Stewart Johnson
8.6. TODO Too Far from Home – Chris Jones
8.7. TODO Moon Lander: How we developed the Apollo Lunar Module – Thomas J. Kelly
8.8. TODO Mars: The Dusty Planet – Ellen Lawrence
8.9. TODO Mission Mars – Ajey Lele
8.10. TODO The Long Space Age: The Economic Origins of Space Exploration – Alexander MacDonald
8.11. TODO Wonders All Around – Bruce McCandless III
8.12. TODO How NASA Builds Teams – Charles J Pellerin
8.13. TODO Mankind beyond earth – Claude Piantadosi
8.14. TODO Space 2.0 – Rod Pyle
8.15. TODO Martian Outpost – Erik Seedhouse
8.16. TODO Mars: A New View – Giles Sparrow
8.17. TODO The Value of the Moon – Paul D. Spudis
8.18. TODO The Right Kind of Crazy – Adam Steltzner
8.19. TODO Mars Up Close – Faye Weldon
8.20. TODO Moonrush – David Wingo
9. Climate
9.1. TODO Ground Truth: A Guide to Tracking Climate Change at Home – Mark L. Hineline
- at VPL
10. Science
10.1. TODO Super Fly – Jonathan Balcombe
10.2. TODO The Naturalist at Home – Kelly Brenner
- 508 BRE at NWPL
10.3. TODO Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agriculture – Craig Canine
10.4. TODO Wasps: The astonishing diversity of a misunderstood insect – Eric R. Eaton
10.5. TODO Empire of Ants: The Hidden Worlds and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors – Susanne Foitzik & Olaf Fritsche
10.6. TODO The Ocean’s Whistleblower: the remarkable life and work of Daniel Pauly – David Gremillet
- Prof of fisheries at UBC
10.7. TODO The Ecology of a Garden: The First Fifteen Years – Jennifer Owen
- Interlibrary loan submitted
10.8. TODO Chernobyl: The history of a nuclear catastrophe – Serhii Plokhy
10.9. TODO Insectopedia – Hugh Raffles
10.10. TODO Human Error – James Reason
10.11. TODO THIS ONE Between Pacific Tides, Fifth Edition – Ricketts, Edward F.; Calvin, Jack
10.12. TODO THIS ONE A Tidal Odyssey: Ed Ricketts and the Making of Between Pacific Tides – Richard Astro, Donald Kohrs
10.13. Reading THIS ONE Beyond the Outer Shores: The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts – Tamm, Eric Enno
- BPL, 578.77092 Ric
10.14. TODO Plankton – Christian Sardet
10.15. TODO Honeybee Democracy – Thomas D. Seeley
- anything by him
10.16. TODO Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps – Serian Sumner
10.17. TODO Why we sleep – Matthew Walker
10.18. TODO The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life – Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski
11. Other non-fiction
11.1. TODO A Pattern Language – Christopher Alexander et al
- The original design patterns; architecture
11.2. Reading Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
11.3. TODO Tubes: A journey to the center of the Internet – Andrew Blum
11.4. TODO The Weather Machine: A journey inside the forecast – Andrew Blum
11.5. TODO Thinking in Systems – Donella Meadows
11.6. TODO Extreme Economies – Richard Davies – Econtalk guest
11.7. TODO Bagels, Bumpf and Buses: A Day in the Life of the English Language – Simon Horobin
11.8. TODO Twenty Minutes in Manhattan – Michael Sorkin
11.9. TODO Never split the difference – Chris Voss
11.10. TODO Fluent in 3 months – Benny Lewis
- Don't spend a lot on this…library or cheap used
12. Fiction
12.1. TODO The Marrow Thieves – Cherie Dimaline
12.2. TODO James – Percival Everett
- Huckleberry Finn re-imagining
12.3. TODO The Physician – Noah Gordonp
12.4. TODO The City of Tears – Kate Mosse
12.5. TODO Consider the Lobster – David Foster Wallace
12.6. TODO Death of a Red Heroine – Qiu Xiaolong
13. Done
13.1. DONE The Glass Hotel – Emily St John Mandel
13.2. DONE Hidden Figures – Margot Lee Shetterly
13.3. DONE The Manager's Path – Camille Fournier
13.4. DONE Master and Commander [22/22]
13.5. DONE Man in the High Castle
13.6. DONE Rendezvous with Rama
13.7. DONE Ancillary Justice – Ann Leckie
13.8. DONE Luna: New Moon – Ian MacDonald
13.9. DONE Ancillary Mercy – Anne Leckie
13.10. DONE Lovecraft Country – Matt Ruff
13.11. DONE The Devil You Know – K.J. Parker
13.12. DONE Flight: My Life in Mission Control – Chris Kraft
13.13. DONE Power Wars – Charlie Savage
13.14. DONE Command & Control: Nuclear Weapons, The Damascus Incident, and the Illusion of Safety – Eric Schlosser
13.15. DONE The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
13.16. DONE Team of Rivals – Doris Kearns Goodwin
13.17. DONE The Wanderers – Meg Howrey
13.18. DONE Mockingbird – Walter Tevis
13.19. DONE The Big Picture – Sean Carroll
13.20. DONE Venomous – Christie Wilcox
13.21. DONE Armor – John Steakley
13.22. DONE The Case for Mars – Robert Zubrin
13.23. DONE Scatter, Adapt and Remember – Annalee Newitz
13.24. DONE The Perfectionists - Simon Winchester
13.25. DONE The Civil War – Shelby Foote
13.26. DONE The Fifth Risk – Michael Lewis
13.27. DONE Goodby Robinson Crusoe – John Varley
13.28. DONE Delta-V – Daniel Suarez
13.29. DONE The storytelling Animal – Jonathan Gottschall
13.30. DONE Red Moon – Kim Stanley Robinson
13.31. DONE Handprints on Hubble – Kathryn D. Sullivan
13.32. DONE Pinpoint (GPS book) – Jeff Milner
13.33. DONE In Hoffa's Shadow – Jack Goldsmith
13.34. DONE Failure is not an option – Gene Kranz
13.35. DONE More from Less – Andrew McAfee – Econtalk guest, dematerialization
13.36. DONE The Three-body Problem – Cixin Liu
13.37. DONE The Nature Handbook: A Guide to Observing the Great Outdoors – Ernest H. Williams
- BPL, 508 Wil