What I’ve been reading lately:

• Biting the Wax Tadpole — Elizabeth Little
• Komarr — Lois McMaster Bujold
• A Wrinkle in Time — Madeleine L’Engle
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay — Michael Chabon
• Chocolate: History, Culture, and Heritage — ed. Louis Evan Grivetti & Howard-Yana Shapiro
• Anthill — E O Wilson
• Grave Peril — Jim Butcher
• Consumer Rites — Leigh Eric Schmidt
• Bugs in the System — May R Berenbaum
• Memory — Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm — Nancy Farmer
• The Checklist Manifesto — Atul Gawande
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — Stieg Larsson
• The Happiness Project — Gretchen Rubin
• Beowulf — trans. Seamus Heaney
• Ransom — David Malouf
• Remarkable Creatures — Tracy Chevalier
• The Perfect Fruit — Chip Brantley
• Timequake — Kurt Vonnegut
• Ceremonial Time — John Mitchell
• Lincoln at Gettysburg — Garry Wills
• Antigone — Jean Anouilh, adapted by Lewis Galantiere
• Mirror Dance — Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Last Oblivion — Clark Ashton Smith *
• The Removal Company — J K Maxwell
• God’s Defenders: What They Believe and Why They Are Wrong — S T Joshi
• The Jennifer Morgue — Charles Stross
• What the Dog Saw — Malcolm Gladwell
• Born to Run — Christopher McDougall *
• We the People: Consenting to a Deeper Democracy — Buck & Villines
• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things — McDonough & Braungart *
• A Simpler Way — Margaret J Wheatley & Myron Kellner-Rogers *
• Zod Wallop — William Spencer *
• The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009 — ed. Elizabeth Kolbert & Tim Folger
• Eating Animals — Jonathan Safran Foer *
• Atheism: A Reader — S T Joshi
• Wild Justice — Marc Bekoff & Jessica Pierce
• The Chair — Galen Cranz *
• His Last Bow — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Science of Sherlock Holmes — E J Wagner
• Halting State — Charles Stross
• Between Silk and Cyanide — Leo Marks
• Kimono: Fashioning Culture — Liza Dalby
• The Merchant of Venice — William Shakespeare
• In the Skin of a Lion — Michael Ondaatje
• Wireless — Charles Stross
• Gaia’s Garden — Toby Hemenway *
• Wetware — Dennis Bray *
• The Best of Wodehouse — P G Wodehouse
• Classics & Contemporaries — S T Joshi
• The Boss of You — Lauren Bacon & Emira Mears
• Brothers in Arms — Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Beekeeper’s Apprentice — Laurie King
• The Atrocity Archives — Charles Stross
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Valley of Fear — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Found of the Baskervilles — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Sign of Four — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• A Study in Scarlet — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho
• The Botany of Desire — Michael Pollan
• Fragile Things — Neil Gaiman
• Therefore Repent! — Jim Munroe & Salgood Sam
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Life of Pi — Yann Martel *
• Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire — John Wagner et. al.
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH — Robert O’Brien
• The Screwtape Letters — C. S. Lewis
• The Ghost Map — Steven Johnson
• Cetaganda — Lois McMaster Bujold
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer — Donella Meadows *
• Small Gods — Terry Pratchett
• American Gods — Neil Gaiman
• Little House on a Small Planet — Shay Salomon *
• Borders of Infinity — Lois McMaster Bujold
• Young Miles — Lois McMaster Bujold
• Janes in Love — Cecil Castellucci
• Shards of Honor — Lois McMaster Bujold
• Falling Free — Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Thrive Diet — Brendan Brazier
• The Ethical Slut — Dossie Easton & Janet Hardy *
• Musicophilia — Oliver Sacks
• Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked — Catherine Orenstein
• Coraline — Neil Gaiman
• Le Morte d’Arthur — Sir Thomas Malory
• The Vimalakirti Sutra *
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight — trans. James Winny
• The Tao of Pooh — Benjamin Hoff *
• ChiRunning — Danny Dreyer *
• Making a Killing — Bob Torres
• Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language — Robin Dunbar
• Animal Passions and Beastly Virtues — Marc Bekoff *
• Skinny Bitch — Rory Freedman & Kim Barnouin
• Ta Hsueh and Chung Yung — trans. Plaks
• China to 1850 — Charles Hucker
• The Meme Machine — Susan Blackmore *
• Memoirs of a Geisha — Arthur Golden
• The China Study — T. Colin Campbell *
• From Bauhaus to Our House — Tom Wolfe
• The Time Traveler’s Wife — Audrey Niffenegger
• Garfinkel & Ethnomethodology — John Heritage *
• The Reluctant Swordsman — Dave Duncan
• Mindless Eating — Brian Wansink
• The Wisdom of Insecurity — Alan Watts
• How Institutions Think — Mary Douglas
• The Architecture of Happiness — Alain de Botton
• Midnight Lightning — Greg Tate
• Lavinia — Ursula K. Le Guin
• Maus — Art Spiegelman
• Sexing the Body — Anne Fausto-Sterling *
• Religion and Anthropology — Brian Morris
• The God Delusion — Richard Dawkins
• Regardng the Pain of Others — Susan Sontag
• The Book — Alan Watts
• Austerlitz — W. G. Sebald
• The Natural World of Lewis and Clark — David Dalton
• The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde
• I Am a Strange Loop — Douglas Hofstadter
• Three Cups of Tea — Greg Mortenson & David Relin
• The First Word — Christine Kenneally *
• The Fortune Cookie Chronicles — Jennifer 8. Lee
• The Pillars of the Earth — Ken Follett *
• The Terrible Tudors & The Slimy Stuarts — Terry Deary
• The Meaning of It All — Richard Feynman
• House of Leaves — Mark Z. Danielewski
• Stranger in a Strange Land — Robert Heinlein
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
• If You Want to Write — Brenda Ueland *
• Angels & Insects — A. S. Byatt
• Complete Short Fiction — Oscar Wilde
• Freakonomics — Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
• English Passengers — Matthew Kneale
• Exit Music — Ian Rankin
• Real Food: What to Eat and Why — Nina Planck
• Eat, Pray, Love — Elizabeth Gilbert
• Wicked — Gregory Maguire
• Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece — Jane Cowen
• The Collected Poems of C. P. Cavafy — trans. Aliki Barnstone
• Living the Good Life — Gordon Graham
• Juniper — Monica Furlong *
• Wise Child — Monica Furlong
• Dealing with Dragons — Patricia Wrede
• Thinking with Type — Ellen Lupton
• The Book of Lost Things — John Connolly
• My Family and Other Animals — Gerald Durrell
• Bird by Bird — Anne Lamott
• Finding Serenity
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information; Envisioning Information; Visual Explanations– Edward Tufte *
• Blink — Malcolm Gladwell *
• The Design of Future Things — Donald Norman
• Metamagical Themas — Doulgas Hofstadter *
• Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle — Dervla Murphy
• The Amateur Gourmet — Adam Roberts
• Cool Tools — Kate Klippensteen
• The Three Musketeers — Alexandre Dumas
• Yurts: Living in the Round — Becky Kemery
• Of Mice and Men — John Steinbeck
• Harry Potter 7 — JK Rowling
• Olympos — David Simmons
• The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins *
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell — Susanna Clarke
• A Short History of Nearly Everything — Bill Bryson *
• Smoke and Mirrors — Neil Gaiman
• His Dark Materials — Philip Pullman
• Frankenstein — Mary Shelley *
• The Grand Contraption — David Park
• Headless Males Make Great Lovers — Marty Crump
• Introduction to the Theory of Computation — Michael Sipser
• Soulwind — Scott Morse
• Slayers and Their Vampires — Bruce McClelland
• Blankets — Craig Thompson
• The Tipping Point — Malcolm Gladwell *
• Self-Made Man — Norah Vincent
• The Hite Report on the Family — Shere Hite
• Gilgamesh
• Public Sex — Pat Califia
• Good Omens — Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
• Anansi Boys — Neil Gaiman
• Waking Up Screaming — HP Lovecraft
• Beyond Backpacking — Ray Jardine
• Interview with the Vampire — Anne Rice
• Paradise Lost — Milton
• Foundation — Isaac Asimov
• Ilium — David Simmons
• Under the Mountain — Maurice Gee
• Beowulf
• Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass — Lewis Caroll
• Grendel — John Gardner *

• Pattern Recognition — William Gibson

• The ones I like best.