Table of Contents

1. To publish this:

(x-hugh-org-publish-books-org)

2. To sort a list by author last name

awk '{print $NF, $0}' | sort | cut -f2- -d' '

3. Movies

3.1. TODO Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

3.2. TODO Anything with Carmen Miranda

3.3. TODO The Asphalt Jungle

3.4. 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."

3.5. TODO Far Away, So Close

3.6. TODO Highway 61

3.7. TODO Lapwing

3.8. TODO The Limey

3.9. TODO The Menu

3.10. TODO Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalstorm:_The_Destruction_of_Jared-Syn

3.11. TODO My Favorite Year

3.12. TODO Night On Earth (Criterion)

3.13. TODO Nomadland – Chloe Zhaop

3.14. TODO Pleasantville

3.15. TODO The Rider – Chloe Zhao

3.16. TODO Truly Madly Deeply

4. Italiano 🇮🇹

4.1. Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore – Valerio Evangelisti

4.2. Il partigiano Johnny – Beppe Fenoglio

4.3. Carta bianca - Carlo Lucarelli

4.4. La casa in collina – Cesare Pavese

4.5. Uomini e no – Elio Vittorini

4.6. I divoratori – Annie Vivanti

5. History

5.1. Reading Britain After Rome – Robin Fleming

5.2. TODO The Medieval Machine – Jean Gimpel

5.3. TODO Freedom's Forge: How American business produced victory in WWII – Arthur Herman

5.4. TODO Common People: In Pursuit of My Ancestors – Alison Light

5.5. TODO After the ice: A Global Human History, 20,000 - 5000 BC – Stephen Mithen

5.6. 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

5.7. TODO Medieval Technology and Social Change - Lynn Townsend

6. SciFi

6.1. TODO Columbus Day – Craig Alanson

6.2. TODO The City in the Middle of the Night – Charlie Jane Anders

6.3. TODO The Algebraist – Iain M. Banks

6.4. TODO The Shattered Skies – John Birmingham

6.5. TODO Rescue Mode – Ben Bova & Les Johnson

6.6. TODO Good Morning Midnight – Lily Brooks-Dalton

6.7. TODO The Pride of Chanur – C.J. Cherryh

6.8. TODO Down and out in the magic kingdom – Cory Doctorow

6.9. TODO Makers – Cory Doctorow

6.10. TODO When Gravity Fails – George Alec Effinger

6.11. TODO Permutation City – Greg Egan

6.12. TODO Golden Witchbreed – Mary Gentle

6.13. TODO Surfing Samurai Robots – Mel Gilden

6.14. TODO Stray Souls – Kate Griffin

6.15. TODO River of Stars - Guy Gavriel Kay

6.16. TODO Blue Gemini – Mike Jenne

  • Thunderscreech recommends, says good writing

6.17. TODO Ancillary Sword – Anne Leckie

6.18. TODO Disposessed – Ursula K. LeGuin

6.19. TODO Lathe of Heaven – Ursula K. LeGuin

6.20. TODO The Deluge – Stephen Markley

6.21. TODO Beyond the Hallowed Sky – Ken McLeod

6.22. TODO The Body Scout – Lincoln Michel

6.23. TODO The city and the city – China Meiville

6.24. TODO Warped Space - Jo Miles

  • The author I found from Nature w/very fun short stories

6.25. TODO The Red Trilogy – Linda Nagata

6.26. TODO A History of What Comes Next – Sylvain Neuvel

6.27. TODO Lagoon – Nnedi Okorafor

6.28. TODO Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss

6.29. TODO Burning the Days – James Salter

6.30. TODO Robert Sheckley – anything!

6.31. TODO Everfair – Nivi Shawl

6.32. TODO For want of a nail - John Sobel

6.33. TODO Schismatrix – Bruce Sterling

6.34. TODO Road Out Of Winter – Alison Sinte

6.35. TODO We Shall Sing A Song Into The Deep – Andrew Kelly Stewart

6.36. TODO Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovsky

6.37. TODO Some Desperate Glory – Emily tesh

6.38. TODO Up the walls of the world – James Tiptree Jr

6.39. TODO The Lesson – Cadwell Turnbull

6.40. TODO Rainbows End – Verner Vinge

6.41. TODO Blindsight – Peter Watts

6.42. Reading The Shadow of the Torturer – Gene Wolfe

7. Space

7.1. TODO The Mission – David Brown

7.2. TODO We Have Capture – Thomas Stafford and Michael Cassutt

7.3. TODO How to make a spaceship – Julian Guthrie

7.4. TODO High Calling – Evelyn Husband

7.5. TODO The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World – Sarah Stewart Johnson

7.6. TODO Too Far from Home – Chris Jones

7.7. TODO Moon Lander: How we developed the Apollo Lunar Module – Thomas J. Kelly

7.8. TODO Mars: The Dusty Planet – Ellen Lawrence

7.9. TODO Mission Mars – Ajey Lele

7.10. TODO The Long Space Age: The Economic Origins of Space Exploration – Alexander MacDonald

7.11. TODO Wonders All Around – Bruce McCandless III

7.12. TODO How NASA Builds Teams – Charles J Pellerin

7.13. TODO Mankind beyond earth – Claude Piantadosi

7.14. TODO Space 2.0 – Rod Pyle

7.15. TODO Martian Outpost – Erik Seedhouse

7.17. TODO Mars: A New View – Giles Sparrow

7.18. TODO The Value of the Moon – Paul D. Spudis

7.19. TODO The Right Kind of Crazy – Adam Steltzner

7.20. TODO Mars Up Close – Faye Weldon

7.21. TODO Moonrush – David Wingo

8. Climate

8.1. TODO Ground Truth: A Guide to Tracking Climate Change at Home – Mark L. Hineline

  • at VPL

9. Science

9.1. TODO Outlive: The science and art of Longevity – Peter Attia and Bill Gifford

9.2. TODO How Life Works – Phillip Ball (highly recommended)

9.3. TODO Super Fly – Jonathan Balcombe

9.4. TODO The Naturalist at Home – Kelly Brenner

  • 508 BRE at NWPL

9.5. TODO Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agriculture – Craig Canine

9.6. TODO The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets – Thomas R. Cech

9.7. TODO Wasps: The astonishing diversity of a misunderstood insect – Eric R. Eaton

9.8. TODO Empire of Ants: The Hidden Worlds and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors – Susanne Foitzik & Olaf Fritsche

9.9. TODO The Ocean’s Whistleblower: the remarkable life and work of Daniel Pauly – David Gremillet

  • Prof of fisheries at UBC

9.10. TODO Intraterrestrials: Discovering the strangest life on earth – Karen G. Lloyd

9.11. TODO Chernobyl: The history of a nuclear catastrophe – Serhii Plokhy

9.12. TODO Insectopedia – Hugh Raffles

9.13. TODO Human Error – James Reason

9.14. TODO THIS ONE Between Pacific Tides, Fifth Edition – Ricketts, Edward F.; Calvin, Jack

9.15. TODO THIS ONE A Tidal Odyssey: Ed Ricketts and the Making of Between Pacific Tides – Richard Astro, Donald Kohrs

9.16. TODO Plankton – Christian Sardet

9.17. TODO Honeybee Democracy – Thomas D. Seeley

  • anything by him

9.18. TODO The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life – Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski

9.19. TODO Why we sleep – Matthew Walker

9.20. TODO Nature's Ghosts: The world we lost and how to bring it back – Sophie Yeo

9.21. TODO Airborne: The hidden history of the life we breathe – Carl Zimmer

10. Other non-fiction

10.1. TODO A Pattern Language – Christopher Alexander et al

  • The original design patterns; architecture

10.2. Reading Meditations – Marcus Aurelius

10.3. TODO Tubes: A journey to the center of the Internet – Andrew Blum

10.4. TODO The Weather Machine: A journey inside the forecast – Andrew Blum

10.5. TODO Extreme Economies – Richard Davies – Econtalk guest

10.6. TODO Bagels, Bumpf and Buses: A Day in the Life of the English Language – Simon Horobin

10.7. TODO Wiring up the Big Brother machine…and then fighting it – Mark Klein

10.8. TODO Fluent in 3 months – Benny Lewis

  • Don't spend a lot on this…library or cheap used

10.9. TODO Thinking in Systems – Donella Meadows

10.10. TODO Twenty Minutes in Manhattan – Michael Sorkin

10.11. TODO Never split the difference – Chris Voss

11. Fiction

11.1. TODO The Marrow Thieves – Cherie Dimaline

11.2. TODO James – Percival Everett

  • Huckleberry Finn re-imagining

11.3. TODO Boy – Nicole Galland

  • Historical fiction, Shakespearian London, recommendation by Neal Stephenson

11.4. TODO The Physician – Noah Gordonp

11.5. TODO The City of Tears – Kate Mosse

11.6. TODO Consider the Lobster – David Foster Wallace

11.7. TODO Death of a Red Heroine – Qiu Xiaolong

12. Economics

12.1. TODO Debt: The first 5000 years – David Graeber

12.2. TODO Technological revolutions and financial capital – Carlota Perez

13. Geography

13.1. TODO Owning the earth – Andrew Linklater

13.2. TODO Measuring America – Andrew Linklater

14. Done

14.1. DONE The Glass Hotel – Emily St John Mandel

14.2. DONE Hidden Figures – Margot Lee Shetterly

14.3. DONE The Manager's Path – Camille Fournier

14.4. DONE Master and Commander [22/22]

14.5. DONE Man in the High Castle

14.6. DONE Rendezvous with Rama

14.7. DONE Ancillary Justice – Ann Leckie

14.8. DONE Luna: New Moon – Ian MacDonald

14.9. DONE Ancillary Mercy – Anne Leckie

14.10. DONE Lovecraft Country – Matt Ruff

14.11. DONE The Devil You Know – K.J. Parker

14.12. DONE Flight: My Life in Mission Control – Chris Kraft

14.13. DONE Power Wars – Charlie Savage

14.14. DONE Command & Control: Nuclear Weapons, The Damascus Incident, and the Illusion of Safety – Eric Schlosser

14.15. DONE The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead

14.16. DONE Team of Rivals – Doris Kearns Goodwin

14.17. DONE The Wanderers – Meg Howrey

14.18. DONE Mockingbird – Walter Tevis

14.19. DONE The Big Picture – Sean Carroll

14.20. DONE Venomous – Christie Wilcox

14.21. DONE Armor – John Steakley

14.22. DONE The Case for Mars – Robert Zubrin

14.23. DONE Scatter, Adapt and Remember – Annalee Newitz

14.24. DONE The Perfectionists - Simon Winchester

14.25. DONE The Civil War – Shelby Foote

14.26. DONE The Fifth Risk – Michael Lewis

14.27. DONE Goodby Robinson Crusoe – John Varley

14.28. DONE Delta-V – Daniel Suarez

14.29. DONE The storytelling Animal – Jonathan Gottschall

14.30. DONE Red Moon – Kim Stanley Robinson

14.31. DONE Handprints on Hubble – Kathryn D. Sullivan

14.32. DONE Pinpoint (GPS book) – Jeff Milner

14.33. DONE In Hoffa's Shadow – Jack Goldsmith

14.34. DONE Failure is not an option – Gene Kranz

14.35. DONE More from Less – Andrew McAfee – Econtalk guest, dematerialization

14.36. DONE The Three-body Problem – Cixin Liu

14.37. DONE The Nature Handbook: A Guide to Observing the Great Outdoors – Ernest H. Williams

  • BPL, 508 Wil

14.38. DONE How to Slay a Dragon: A Fantasy Hero's Guide to the Real Middle Ages – Dr Cait Stevenson (@sunagainstgold)

Author: Saint Aardvark

Created: 2025-06-15 Sun 04:25

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