Table of Contents
- 1. To publish this:
- 2. To sort a list by author last name
- 3. Economics
- 4. Geography
- 5. History
- 5.1. TODO What is history? – E.H. Carr
- 5.2. TODO Our Man in Charleston – Christopher Dickey
- 5.3. TODO Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed – Lisa Duggan
- 5.4. TODO The worst hard time – Timothy Egan
- 5.5. TODO American Creation – Joseph Ellis
- 5.6. TODO Britain After Rome – Robin Fleming
- 5.7. TODO The Medieval Machine – Jean Gimpel
- 5.8. TODO American Exodus: The dust bowl migration and Okie culture in California – James Gregory
- 5.9. TODO The Southern Diaspora: How the great migrations of black and white southerners transformed America – James Gregory
- 5.10. TODO Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II – Meredith Hindley
- 5.11. TODO River Kings: A New History of Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads – Kat Jarman
- 5.12. TODO The Bomb: Presidents, General, and the Secret History of Nuclear War – Fred Kaplan
- 5.13. TODO Salt: A World History – Mark Kurlansky
- 5.14. TODO American Lion – John Meacham
- 5.15. TODO After the ice – Stephen Mithen
- 5.16. TODO The man whole stole himself – Gisli Palsson
- 5.17. TODO Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness – Elizabeth D. Samet
- 5.18. TODO How to Slay a Dragon: A Fantasy Hero's Guide to the Real Middle Ages – Dr Cait Stevenson (@sunagainstgold)
- 5.19. TODO Medieval Technology and Social Change - Lynn Townsend
- 5.20. TODO Framing the Early Middle Ages – Wickham
- 5.21. TODO The Radicalism of the American Revolution – Gordon S. Wood
- 5.22. TODO The Invention of Science – David Wootton
- 5.23. TODO The Master Switch – Tim Wu
- 6. SciFi
- 6.1. TODO The City in the Middle of the Night – Charlie Jane Anders
- 6.2. TODO Rescue Mode – Ben Bova & Les Johnson
- 6.3. TODO Good Morning Midnight – Lily Brooks-Dalton
- 6.4. TODO The Pride of Chanur – C.J. Cherryh
- 6.5. TODO Down and out in the magic kingdom – Cory Doctorow
- 6.6. TODO Makers – Cory Doctorow
- 6.7. TODO When Gravity Fails – George Alec Effinger
- 6.8. TODO Permutation City – Greg Egan
- 6.9. TODO The Wreck of the River Of Stars – Michael Flynn
- 6.10. TODO Golden Witchbreed – Mary Gentle
- 6.11. TODO Surfing Samurai Robots – Mel Gilden
- 6.12. TODO Stray Souls – Kate Griffin
- 6.13. TODO The Forever War – Joe Haldeman
- 6.14. TODO River of Stars - Guy Gavriel Kay
- 6.15. TODO Blue Gemini – Mike Jenne
- 6.16. TODO Ancillary Sword – Anne Leckie
- 6.17. TODO Disposessed – Ursula K. LeGuin
- 6.18. TODO Lathe of Heaven – Ursula K. LeGuin
- 6.19. TODO Beyond the Hallowed Sky – Ken McLeod
- 6.20. TODO The city and the city – China Meiville
- 6.21. TODO The Red Trilogy – Linda Nagata
- 6.22. TODO A History of What Comes Next – Sylvain Neuvel
- 6.23. TODO Lagoon – Nnedi Okorafor
- 6.24. TODO Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
- 6.25. TODO Burning the Days – James Salter
- 6.26. TODO Everfair – Nivi Shawl
- 6.27. TODO For want of a nail - John Sobel
- 6.28. TODO Schismatrix – Bruce Sterling
- 6.29. TODO Road Out Of Winter – Alison Sinte
- 6.30. TODO We Shall Sing A Song Into The Deep – Andrew Kelly Stewart
- 6.31. TODO Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovsky
- 6.32. TODO Up the walls of the world – James Tiptree Jr
- 6.33. TODO The Lesson – Cadwell Turnbull
- 6.34. TODO Rainbows End – Verner Vinge
- 6.35. TODO Blindsight – Peter Watts
- 6.36. TODO The Shadow of the Torturer – Gene Wolfe
- 7. Space
- 7.1. TODO Nostalgia for the Light (movie, BPL)
- 7.2. TODO The Mission – David Brown
- 7.3. TODO Diary of an apprentice astronaut – Samantha Cristoforetti
- 7.4. TODO We Have Capture – Thomas Stafford and Michael Cassutt
- 7.5. TODO How to make a spaceship – Julian Guthrie
- 7.6. TODO High Calling – Evelyn Husband
- 7.7. TODO The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World – Sarah Stewart Johnson
- 7.8. TODO Too Far from Home – Chris Jones
- 7.9. TODO Moon Lander: How we developed the Apollo Lunar Module – Thomas J. Kelly
- 7.10. TODO Mars: The Dusty Planet – Ellen Lawrence
- 7.11. TODO Mission Mars – Ajey Lele
- 7.12. TODO The Long Space Age: The Economic Origins of Space Exploration – Alexander MacDonald
- 7.13. TODO Wonders All Around – Bruce McCandless III
- 7.14. TODO How NASA Builds Teams – Charles J Pellerin
- 7.15. TODO Mankind beyond earth – Claude Piantadosi
- 7.16. TODO Space 2.0 – Rod Pyle
- 7.17. TODO Martian Outpost – Erik Seedhouse
- 7.18. TODO Mars: A New View – Giles Sparrow
- 7.19. TODO The Value of the Moon – Paul D. Spudis
- 7.20. TODO The Right Kind of Crazy – Adam Steltzner
- 7.21. TODO Mars Up Close – Faye Weldon
- 7.22. TODO Moonrush – David Wingo
- 8. Politics
- 8.1. TODO Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue by Ryan Holiday
- 8.2. TODO The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan
- 8.3. TODO Race and Reunion – Eric Blight
- 8.4. TODO The Drone Memos – Jameel Jaffer
- 8.5. TODO Black Code – Ron Deibert (Citizen Labs)
- 8.6. TODO I was told to come alone: my journey behind the lines of Jihad – Souad Mekhennet
- 8.7. TODO Twitter & Tear Gas – Zeynep Tufekci
- 9. Climate
- 10. Science
- 10.1. TODO Super Fly – Jonathan Balcombe
- 10.2. TODO Dream Reaper – Craig Canine
- 10.3. TODO Common Bees of Eastern North America – Olivia Messinger Carril
- 10.4. TODO Empire of Ants: The Hidden Worlds and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors – Susanne Foitzik & Olaf Fritsche
- 10.5. TODO The Ocean’s Whistleblower: the remarkable life and work of Daniel Pauly – David Gremillet
- 10.6. TODO Being a dog – Alexandra Horowitz
- 10.7. TODO Lab Girl – Hope Jahren
- 10.8. TODO The Soul of a New Machine – Tracy Kidder
- 10.9. TODO Teaming with microbes – Jeff Lowenfels & Wayne Lewis
- 10.10. TODO Gifts of the Crow – John Marzluff
- 10.11. TODO In the company of crow and raven – John Marzluff (pretty much anything by him)
- 10.12. TODO Genius Makes – Cade Metz
- 10.13. TODO Weapons of math destruction – Cathy O'Neil
- 10.14. TODO The Ecology of a Garden: The First Fifteen Years – Jennifer Owen
- 10.15. TODO Chernobyl: The history of a nuclear catastrophe – Serhii Plokhy
- 10.16. TODO Insectopedia – Hugh Raffles
- 10.17. TODO Human Error – James Reason
- 10.18. TODO Between Pacific Tides, Fifth Edition – Ricketts, Edward F.; Calvin, Jack
- 10.19. TODO A Tidal Odyssey: Ed Ricketts and the Making of Between Pacific Tides – Richard Astro, Donald Kohrs
- 10.20. TODO Beyond the Outer Shores: The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts – Tamm, Eric Enno
- 10.21. TODO Honeybee Democracy – Thomas D. Seeley
- 10.22. TODO Why we sleep – Matthew Walker
- 10.23. TODO The Freeze-Frame Revolution – Peter Watts
- 10.24. Reading The Nature Handbook: A Guide to Observing the Great Outdoors – Ernest H. Williams
- 10.25. TODO I contain multitudes – Ed Yong
- 11. Other non-fiction
- 11.1. TODO A Pattern Language – Christopher Alexander et al
- 11.2. TODO Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
- 11.3. TODO Never split the difference – Chris Voss
- 11.4. TODO Thinking in Systems – Donella Meadows
- 11.5. TODO Extreme Economies – Richard Davies – Econtalk guest
- 11.6. TODO Bagels, Bumpf and Buses: A Day in the Life of the English Language – Simon Horobin
- 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
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- 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
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2. To sort a list by author last name
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3. Economics
3.1. TODO An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States – Charles Beard
3.2. TODO Debt: The first 5000 years – David Graeber
3.3. TODO Technological revolutions and financial capital- Carlota Perez
4. Geography
4.1. TODO Owning the earth – Andrew Linklater
4.2. TODO Measuring America – Andrew Linklater
5. History
5.1. TODO What is history? – E.H. Carr
5.2. TODO Our Man in Charleston – Christopher Dickey
5.3. TODO Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed – Lisa Duggan
5.4. TODO The worst hard time – Timothy Egan
5.5. TODO American Creation – Joseph Ellis
5.6. TODO Britain After Rome – Robin Fleming
5.7. TODO The Medieval Machine – Jean Gimpel
5.8. TODO American Exodus: The dust bowl migration and Okie culture in California – James Gregory
5.9. TODO The Southern Diaspora: How the great migrations of black and white southerners transformed America – James Gregory
5.10. TODO Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II – Meredith Hindley
- Lawfare/Chatter interview; sounds fasincating
5.11. TODO River Kings: A New History of Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads – Kat Jarman
5.12. TODO The Bomb: Presidents, General, and the Secret History of Nuclear War – Fred Kaplan
5.13. TODO Salt: A World History – Mark Kurlansky
5.14. TODO American Lion – John Meacham
5.15. TODO After the ice – Stephen Mithen
5.16. TODO The man whole stole himself – Gisli Palsson
5.17. 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
5.18. TODO How to Slay a Dragon: A Fantasy Hero's Guide to the Real Middle Ages – Dr Cait Stevenson (@sunagainstgold)
5.19. TODO Medieval Technology and Social Change - Lynn Townsend
5.20. TODO Framing the Early Middle Ages – Wickham
5.21. TODO The Radicalism of the American Revolution – Gordon S. Wood
5.22. TODO The Invention of Science – David Wootton
5.23. TODO The Master Switch – Tim Wu
6. SciFi
6.1. TODO The City in the Middle of the Night – Charlie Jane Anders
6.2. TODO Rescue Mode – Ben Bova & Les Johnson
6.3. TODO Good Morning Midnight – Lily Brooks-Dalton
6.4. TODO The Pride of Chanur – C.J. Cherryh
6.5. TODO Down and out in the magic kingdom – Cory Doctorow
6.6. TODO Makers – Cory Doctorow
6.7. TODO When Gravity Fails – George Alec Effinger
6.8. TODO Permutation City – Greg Egan
6.9. TODO The Wreck of the River Of Stars – Michael Flynn
6.10. TODO Golden Witchbreed – Mary Gentle
6.11. TODO Surfing Samurai Robots – Mel Gilden
6.12. TODO Stray Souls – Kate Griffin
6.13. TODO The Forever War – Joe Haldeman
6.14. TODO River of Stars - Guy Gavriel Kay
6.15. TODO Blue Gemini – Mike Jenne
- Thunderscreech recommends, says good writing
6.16. TODO Ancillary Sword – Anne Leckie
6.17. TODO Disposessed – Ursula K. LeGuin
6.18. TODO Lathe of Heaven – Ursula K. LeGuin
6.19. TODO Beyond the Hallowed Sky – Ken McLeod
6.20. TODO The city and the city – China Meiville
6.21. TODO The Red Trilogy – Linda Nagata
6.22. TODO A History of What Comes Next – Sylvain Neuvel
6.23. TODO Lagoon – Nnedi Okorafor
6.24. TODO Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
6.25. TODO Burning the Days – James Salter
6.26. TODO Everfair – Nivi Shawl
6.27. TODO For want of a nail - John Sobel
6.28. TODO Schismatrix – Bruce Sterling
6.29. TODO Road Out Of Winter – Alison Sinte
6.30. TODO We Shall Sing A Song Into The Deep – Andrew Kelly Stewart
6.31. TODO Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovsky
6.32. TODO Up the walls of the world – James Tiptree Jr
6.33. TODO The Lesson – Cadwell Turnbull
6.34. TODO Rainbows End – Verner Vinge
6.35. TODO Blindsight – Peter Watts
6.36. TODO The Shadow of the Torturer – Gene Wolfe
7. Space
7.1. TODO Nostalgia for the Light (movie, BPL)
7.2. TODO The Mission – David Brown
7.3. TODO Diary of an apprentice astronaut – Samantha Cristoforetti
7.4. TODO We Have Capture – Thomas Stafford and Michael Cassutt
7.5. TODO How to make a spaceship – Julian Guthrie
7.6. TODO High Calling – Evelyn Husband
7.7. TODO The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World – Sarah Stewart Johnson
7.8. TODO Too Far from Home – Chris Jones
7.9. TODO Moon Lander: How we developed the Apollo Lunar Module – Thomas J. Kelly
7.10. TODO Mars: The Dusty Planet – Ellen Lawrence
7.11. TODO Mission Mars – Ajey Lele
7.12. TODO The Long Space Age: The Economic Origins of Space Exploration – Alexander MacDonald
7.13. TODO Wonders All Around – Bruce McCandless III
7.14. TODO How NASA Builds Teams – Charles J Pellerin
7.15. TODO Mankind beyond earth – Claude Piantadosi
7.16. TODO Space 2.0 – Rod Pyle
7.17. TODO Martian Outpost – Erik Seedhouse
7.18. TODO Mars: A New View – Giles Sparrow
7.19. TODO The Value of the Moon – Paul D. Spudis
7.20. TODO The Right Kind of Crazy – Adam Steltzner
7.21. TODO Mars Up Close – Faye Weldon
7.22. TODO Moonrush – David Wingo
8. Politics
8.1. TODO Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue by Ryan Holiday
8.2. TODO The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan
8.3. TODO Race and Reunion – Eric Blight
8.4. TODO The Drone Memos – Jameel Jaffer
8.5. TODO Black Code – Ron Deibert (Citizen Labs)
8.6. TODO I was told to come alone: my journey behind the lines of Jihad – Souad Mekhennet
8.7. TODO Twitter & Tear Gas – Zeynep Tufekci
9. Climate
9.1. DONE Saving Us – Katherine Hayhoe
An evangelical Christian and climate scientist writes about how to talk to others about climate change.
9.2. 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 Dream Reaper – Craig Canine
10.3. TODO Common Bees of Eastern North America – Olivia Messinger Carril
- will be a western North America version too
10.4. TODO Empire of Ants: The Hidden Worlds and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors – Susanne Foitzik & Olaf Fritsche
10.5. TODO The Ocean’s Whistleblower: the remarkable life and work of Daniel Pauly – David Gremillet
- Prof of fisheries at UBC
10.6. TODO Being a dog – Alexandra Horowitz
- Flying insects!
10.7. TODO Lab Girl – Hope Jahren
10.8. TODO The Soul of a New Machine – Tracy Kidder
10.9. TODO Teaming with microbes – Jeff Lowenfels & Wayne Lewis
10.10. TODO Gifts of the Crow – John Marzluff
10.11. TODO In the company of crow and raven – John Marzluff (pretty much anything by him)
10.12. TODO Genius Makes – Cade Metz
10.13. TODO Weapons of math destruction – Cathy O'Neil
10.14. TODO The Ecology of a Garden: The First Fifteen Years – Jennifer Owen
- Interlibrary loan submitted
10.15. TODO Chernobyl: The history of a nuclear catastrophe – Serhii Plokhy
10.16. TODO Insectopedia – Hugh Raffles
10.17. TODO Human Error – James Reason
10.18. TODO Between Pacific Tides, Fifth Edition – Ricketts, Edward F.; Calvin, Jack
10.19. TODO A Tidal Odyssey: Ed Ricketts and the Making of Between Pacific Tides – Richard Astro, Donald Kohrs
10.20. TODO Beyond the Outer Shores: The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts – Tamm, Eric Enno
- BPL, 578.77092 Ric
10.21. TODO Honeybee Democracy – Thomas D. Seeley
10.22. TODO Why we sleep – Matthew Walker
10.23. TODO The Freeze-Frame Revolution – Peter Watts
10.24. Reading The Nature Handbook: A Guide to Observing the Great Outdoors – Ernest H. Williams
- BPL, 508 Wil