The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of Earth's Antiquity
by Jack Repcheck
(not recommended)

The Meaning of Truth
by William James

Los Detectives Salvajes
by Roberto Bolaño

The World Without Us
by Alan Weisman

Selected Stories
by Anton Checkhov (trans. Ann Dunnigan)

The Areas of My Expertise
by John Hodgman

Legal Daisy Spacing
by Christopher Winn

Eat the Document
by Dana Spiotta

Eat the Document
by Dana Spiotta
(recommended)

A Short History of Progress
by Ronald Wright

Society and Knowledge
by Gordon Childe
(skimmed some sections)

Landing
by Emma Donoghue

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
by Thomas E. Ricks

Selected Stories
by Alice Munro

A Pluralistic Universe
by William James

Reading Comics
by Douglas Wolk

gave up on:
The System of Comics
by Thierry Groensteen

Harry Potter!

Slouching towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

True Blue
by David Milch and Bill Clark

Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

Slouching Toward Bethlehem
by Joan Didion

selections from
A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vols. 1-3
by Egon Friedell

Friend of My Youth
by Alice Munro

Deadwood: Stories of the Black Hills
by David Milch &co.

If on a winter's night a traveler
by Italo Calvino

House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
both by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories
ed. Ben Marcus

Clouds of Witness
Strong Poison
by Dorothy L. Sayers

Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton

Unreliable Memoirs
by Clive James

The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property
by Lewis Hyde

El General en su Laberinto
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Whose Body
by Dorothy Sayers

Call Me By Your Name
by Andre Aciman

A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson

Or Else
Robert Penn Warren

Pragmatism
by William James
(100 yr anniversary! but not the best James)

All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren


Martin Dressler
by Steven Millhauser

The Road
by Cormac McCarthy

The Now Habit
by Neil Fiore
(not recommended)

Getting Things Done
by David Allen
(yes)

The War of Art
by Steven Pressfield
(also yes)

Writings 1878-1899
William James
includes: Psychology: Briefer Course, The Will to Believe, Talks to Teachers, and Selected Essays

The Scramble for Africa: 1876-1912
by Thomas Pakenham

Demons
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, trans. by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Changed Pop Culture
by David Kushner

Centuria: 100 Ouroboric Novels
by Giorgio Manganelli

Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
by Elizabeth Kolbert

Joystick Nation
by JC Herz

A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn

The Life and Times of Mexico
by Earl Shorris

The First World War
by John Keegan
(this one I read along with Great Battles of World War I by Anthony Livesey - for the graphics)

Anarchism and the Mexican Revolution: the Political Trials of Ricardo Flores Magon in the United States
by Colin MacLachlan

Crossing the Buffalo: the Zulu War of 1879
by Adrian Greaves

Started and abandoned

Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (got a free copy, tried it, but there's a weird falseness to it)
Lisey's Story by Stephen King (the writing is annoying and ridiculous)
Techgnosis by Erik Davis (read two thirds -- good but had to bring back to the library)

William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
by Robert D. Richardson
Fans only.

Mr. Personality
by Mark Singer

In Persuasion Nation
by George Saunders

The Three Musketeers, translation by Richard Pevear
by Alexandre Dumas

El Gringo Viejo
by Carlos Fuentes

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

Pastoralia
by George Saunders

I often pick up a handful of free New Yorkers from the University City Library.

The New Yorker, May 19, 2003

Highlights:

Tapka
by David Bezmozgis
(wonderful short story).

Accountants in the Sky
by Elizabeth Kolbert
(on New York state politics--what a disaster)

The Mission
by Calvin Tomkins
(about the Dia Art Foundation--a strange world, buying buildings to fill the first floor with dirt)

The AIDS Rebel
(about an AIDS activist in S. Africa)

A good issue!

The Control of Nature
by John McPhee

Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh

The Loved One
Evelyn Waugh

The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford

All the Little Live Things
by Wallace Stegner

Bookslut review

The Gyrth Chalice Mystery
by Margery Allingham

Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
by Nicholson Baker