Here's my list of books that I would like to read someday or that have been recommended
to me (34 entries at this point). Some of them are just books that seem interesting from
reviews I've read. I use this to keep track of the books, but my officemate kept bugging
me to put this on-line so here it is, personal annotations and all. If you want to know
more about one of these books, follow the amazon link and there may be a review there.
The books in bold are the half dozen that I'm most interested in at the moment.
- The Age of Spiritual Machines; Ray Kurzweil; amazon;
nonfiction
- Amy and Isabelle; Elizabeth Strout; amazon; literature
& fiction
- Another Marvelous Thing; Laurie Colwin; amazon; fiction &
literature; recommended by Susan
- Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast; Robin McKinley; amazon; literature &
fiction
- Bellwether; Connie Willis; amazon;
science fiction & fantasy; recommended by Trina
- The Book on the Bookshelf; Henry Petroski; amazon; nonfiction
- The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron's Daughter; Benjamin Woolley;
biography; reviewed in UK Times
- The Club Dumas; Arturo Pérez-Reverte; amazon;
literature & fiction
- Dinner at Deviant's Palace; Tim Powers; amazon; science fiction; out
of print
- The District Governor's Daughters; Camilla Collett; amazon; literature &
fiction; recomm 500 Great Books by Women
- Does Jane Compute?:Preserving Our Daughters' Place in the Cyber Revolution;
Roberta Furger; amazon;
nonfiction
- The Essence of the Thing; Madeleine St. John, amazon;
literature & fiction
- Ex Utero, Laurie Foos (via Bibliafiles)
- The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership; Sally Helgesen; amazon; nonfiction
- For the Relief of Unbearable Urges; Nathan Englander; amazon; literature &
fiction short stories; wait for paperback
- The Futures of Women: Scenarios for the 21st Century; Pamela McCorduck, Nancy
Ramsey; amazon;
nonfiction
- Goethe's Faust; Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe; amazon; literature &
fiction
- Gravity's Rainbow; Thomas Pynchon; amazon; literature &
fiction
- The Hours; Michael Cunningham; amazon; literature &
fiction; recommended by amazon
- How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry; Edward Hirsch; amazon; nonfiction
- Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations; Michael
Walzer; amazon;
history & non-fiction; recommmended Amherst history dept.
- Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters; Andrew
Carroll (ed.); amazon;
history
- Listen Up: Voices of the Next Feminist Generation; Barbara Findlen; amazon; feminism
- Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction; Jonathan Culler; amazon; nonfiction
- The Magician's Assistant; Ann Patchett; amazon; fiction;
recommended by Susan
- The Metaphysical Touch; Sylvia Brownrigg; amazon; literature &
fiction; recommended by Lyn
- Natural Law in Judaism; David Novak; amazon; non-fiction
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Muriel Spark; amazon; literature &
fiction
- Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption; Whitfield
Diffie and Susan Landau; amazon;
science and technology
- The Rainbow; D.H. Lawrence; amazon; literature &
fiction
- The River Midnight; Lilian Nattel; amazon; literature &
fiction
- Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books; Lynne Sharon Schwartz; amazon;
biography/memoir
- The Sabbathday River; Jean Hanff Korelitz; amazon; literature &
fiction; wait for paperback
- Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness; Roger
Penrose; amazon;
nonfiction
- The Vagina Monologues; Eve Ensler, Gloria Steinem; amazon; nonfiction
- The Way We Never Were; Stephanie Coontz (via Bibliafiles)
- Zeros + Ones: Digital Women + the New Technoculture; Sadie Plant; amazon; nonfiction
Authors that I should try something by:
- Maya Angelou
- Mercedes Lackey
- Melanie Rawn
- Lee Smith (e.g. Oral History, News of the Spirit)