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. 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. Reading Britain After Rome – Robin Fleming

6.2. TODO The Medieval Machine – Jean Gimpel

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

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

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 The Deluge – Stephen Markley

7.21. TODO Beyond the Hallowed Sky – Ken McLeod

7.22. TODO The Body Scout – Lincoln Michel

7.23. TODO The city and the city – China Meiville

7.24. TODO Warped Space - Jo Miles

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

7.25. TODO The Red Trilogy – Linda Nagata

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

7.27. TODO Lagoon – Nnedi Okorafor

7.28. TODO Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss

7.29. TODO Burning the Days – James Salter

7.30. TODO Robert Sheckley – anything!

7.31. TODO Everfair – Nivi Shawl

7.32. TODO For want of a nail - John Sobel

7.33. TODO Schismatrix – Bruce Sterling

7.34. TODO Road Out Of Winter – Alison Sinte

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

7.36. TODO Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovsky

7.37. TODO Some Desperate Glory – Emily tesh

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

7.39. TODO The Lesson – Cadwell Turnbull

7.40. TODO Rainbows End – Verner Vinge

7.41. TODO Blindsight – Peter Watts

7.42. 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

8.17. TODO Mars: A New View – Giles Sparrow

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

8.19. TODO The Right Kind of Crazy – Adam Steltzner

8.20. TODO Mars Up Close – Faye Weldon

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

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

10.3. TODO Super Fly – Jonathan Balcombe

10.4. TODO The Naturalist at Home – Kelly Brenner

  • 508 BRE at NWPL

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

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

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

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

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

  • Prof of fisheries at UBC

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

10.11. TODO Insectopedia – Hugh Raffles

10.12. TODO Human Error – James Reason

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

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

10.15. TODO Plankton – Christian Sardet

10.16. TODO Honeybee Democracy – Thomas D. Seeley

  • anything by him

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

10.18. TODO Why we sleep – Matthew Walker

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

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 Extreme Economies – Richard Davies – Econtalk guest

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

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

11.8. TODO Fluent in 3 months – Benny Lewis

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

11.9. TODO Thinking in Systems – Donella Meadows

11.10. TODO Twenty Minutes in Manhattan – Michael Sorkin

11.11. TODO Never split the difference – Chris Voss

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

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

Author: Saint Aardvark

Created: 2025-03-12 Wed 20:52

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