When I am in the mood to read about the history of computers and the internet, here are two books to try.
Dealers of Light - Michael A. Hiltzik
Where Wizards Stay Up Late - Katie Hafner
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Books Read 2024
- Open City
- Librarianist
- Big Swiss
- Monstrilio
- Heavan & Earth Grocery Store
- Heat
- Shamshine Blind
- Paradox Hotel
- True Story of the First Bicycle in the Antarctic
- The Dark
- Starless Sea
- Sputnik Sweetheart
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
- In a Dark, Dark Wood
- Use of Weapons
- Project Hail Mary
- Years of Rice and Salt
- Tom Lake
- An Honest Man
- In Search of Lost Time
- Butter
- Daughter of Doctor Moreau
- Spy Coast
- Same Bed Different Dreams
- Inhibitor Phase
- A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Haunting on the Hill
- Gray House
- All the Beauty in the World
- Truth of All Things
- Extinction of Irena Ray
- Orbital
- History of Sound
Books Read in 2023
- What you are looking for is in the library
- Changling
- Dayswork
- Cold People
- Of Cocktails and Penguins
- Sound and the Fury
- The Measure
- Round House
- Witch Elm
- Seveneves
- Confessions of an Accidental Lawyer
- Miracle on Monhegan Island
- Winter Over
- Fates & Furies
- Pushing Ice
- Terra Incognita
- The Sentence
- The Lesson
- My Brilliant Friend
- Malice
- Mountains of Madness
- Bar Harbor Retirement Home
- Antarctica - G Walker
- Ancillary Mercy
- Those Across the River
- Coroner's Lunch
- Blind Assassin
Books Read 2022
- Rainbows End
- Cloud Cuckoo Land
- 109 East Palace
- A Dangerous Talent
- House at Otowi Bridge
- Pot Thief D H Lawrence
- Reconstructing Mabel
- Wives of Los Alamos
- Midnight Riot
- Guest Book
- Children of Time
- Beautiful Country
- Sea of Tranquillity
- Yiddish Policemen's Union
- Her Hidden Genius
- The Street
- The Subdivision
- The Book of Form and Emptiness
Books Read 2021
- Hurricane Season
- Blood, Bones & Butter
- All the Devils are Here
- Space Opera
- How it Happened
- A Piece of the World
- Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane
- Last House Guest
- Traitor Baru Cormorant
- Into Oblivion
- Butterflies in November
- Enchanted August
- Piranesi
- Sourdough
- A Children's Bible
- Little Gods
Books Read 2020
- Player of Games
- A Better Man
- Bats of the Republic
- Atlantis Found
- Mexican Gothic
- Clockwork Dynasty
- Good Lord Bird
- Kingdom of the Blind
- The Underground Railroad
- Jennifer Morgue
- The Accidental
- Consider Phlebas
- Uncharted
- My Sister, the Serial Killer
- A Mercy
- Friday Black
- Beijing Payback
- Polar Bear Dawn
- Opium Nation
- Modern Art: A Novel
- All Men Are Liars
- Little Fires Everywhere
- Ancillary Sword
- A Visit from the Goon Squad
- I Remember You
- Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
- Golden State
- The Testaments
- Nothing to See Here
- Optic Nerve
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“The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.” Gabriel Zaid
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Books Read in 2019
- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
- Glass Houses
- Thirteen
- South Pole Station
- The Fifth Season
- A Great Reckoning
- The Blazing World
- Carter & Lovecraft
- The Nature of the Beast
- Where the Shadows Lie
Books Read in 2018
- Killing Commandatore
- Pachinko
- Washington Black
- Italian Teacher
- Overstory
- The Long Way Home
- Death's End
- The Nix
- Maine
- The Beautiful Mystery
- Dark Forest
Books Read in 2017
- Exit West
- Fever Dream
- Trick of Light
- Lincoln in the Bardo
- The Night Ocean
- The Snowman
- Bangkok Tatoo
- Norse Mythology
- North Haven
- The Sunlit Night
- Borne
- The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle
- Homegoing
- The Sympathizer
- All the Birds in the Sky
- The Vegetarian
- The Last Days of New Paris
Books Read in 2016
- Bury Your Dead
- A Hundred Thousand Worlds
- Jar City
- Absolution Gap
- Crimson Shore
- The Brutal Telling
- Lovecraft Country
- The Boy Who Drew Monsters
- Redemption Ark
- A Rule Against Murder
- The Sellout
- Under Major Domo Minor
- Ancillary Justice
- The Lace Reader
- Fourth of July Creek
- The Atrocity Archives
- Beyond the Ice Limit
- The Fold
- The Last Book
- Straight Man
Books Read in 2015
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- The Manikin
- Reamde
- Searchers
- A Novel Bookstore
- Land of Love and Drowning
- MaddAddam
- Angel's Game
- First Great Triumph by Warren Zimmermann
- Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up
- Arcadia
- Blue Labyrinth
- What the Dead Know
- Three Body Problem
- Flight Behavior
- Cruelest Month
- Sand
- Saving Grace
- Hard Truth
- Revelation Space
- Redeployment
- S
- A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall
- Station Eleven
- Everything I Never Told You
- The Bone Clocks
- Finding George Orwell in Burma
- Bangkok 8
Books Read in 2014
- Seed
- Art of Hearing Heartbeats
- White Fire
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki
- A Narrow Road to the Deep North
- A Fatal Grace
- Acceptance
- The Glass Palace
- Authority
- Pnin
- The Power of Habit
- Wild
- Mating
- Rise and Fall of Great Powers
- The Year of the Flood
- Annihilation
- A Carrion Death
- What Ever You Do, Don't Run
- Colour Bar
- The People in the Trees
- Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute
- Enchanted Night
- Double Comfort Safari Club
- Tuner of Silences
- A Tale for the Time Being
- The Goldfinch
- How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
- Long Division
Books Read in 2013
- Ex Libris
- Devil's Hand
- Ender's Game
- Rise of Endymion
- Monsters of Templeton
- Veniss Underground
- Salem's Lot
- Snow Flower & Secret Fan
- Dust
- Where Wizards Stay Up Late
- Golem and the Jinni
- Inferno
- Art Forger
- Beautiful Ruins
- Two Graves
- Girl in Hyacinth Blue
- Silo Archipelago
- Room
- Poet's Funeral
- Antarktos Rising
- Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore
- Shadow Wars
- 1Q84
- Gormenghast
- Alchemy of Stone
- Samedi the Deafness
- Gone Girl
- Where'd You Go, Bernadette
- Endymion
- Third Shift
- Cat's Cradle
- Woken Furies
- Still Life
- Inside Scientology
Books Read in 2012
- Second Shift
- First Shift
- Wool Omnibus
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Rebecca
- The Reckoning
- A History of the World in Six Glasses
- Night Circus
- Seed
- Ready Player One
- Provenance
- Orphan Master's Son
- Sisters Brothers
- Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag
- Anathem
- Cold Vengeance
- Snow Child
- Stone Raft
- Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
- Fool Moon
- Demi-monde: Winter
- Invitation to a Beheading
- Garden of Evil
- Sense of An Ending
- Sirens of Titan
- Lost City of Z
Books Read in 2011
- The Taker
- Atlantis Found
- Golden City
- Various Flavors of Coffee
- Sleepless
- Historian
- The Wave
- Crocodile on the Sandbank
- Manual of Detection
- The Library
- The Ghost & Mrs. McClure
- Finch
- The Castle
- The City & the City
- Alchemist & Executioness
- Priceless
- Imperfectionists
- Broken Angels
- Lost Art of Reading
- Windup Girl
Books Read in 2010
- Girl Who Played With Fire
- Fever Dream
- New York Trilogy
- My Name is Red
- Master and Margarita
- Dark River
- Winter's Tale
- Kook
- People of the Book
- A Wild Sheep Chase
- Savage Garden
- Man Who Loved Books Too Much
- Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
- 2666
- Pale Fire
- Kiss the Girls
- Invisible Cities
- The Other City
- Shriek
- Cemetery Dance
- Unburnable
- Canticle for Leibowitz
- Guernsey Literary and Potatoe Peel Pie Society
- Brasyl
- Fall of Hyperion
- Housekeeper and the Professor
Books Read in 2009
- Cane River
- Lucky One
- House of Leaves
- Thirteenth Tale
- Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
- Pride Prejudice and Zombies
- Egalia’s Daughters
- Turn of the Screw
- Hell House
- All She Was Worth
- Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
- No Great Mischief
- Feeding Frenzy
- Elegance of the Hedgehog
- Spin
- Uncommon Reader
- City of Saints and Madmen
- Death with Interruptions
- Martian Chronicles
- Hyperion
- Book of Lost Things
- The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
- Altered Carbon
- Venus on the Half Shell
- Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Books Read in 2008
- Wheel of Darkness
- Haunting of Hill House
- Heart Shaped Box
- Tales of Moonlight and Rain
- Out
- Perdido Street Station
- The Thin Place
- God of Animals
- Halting State
- Deception Point
- Gracious Plenty
- Storm Front
- The Stolen Child
- Harsh Cry of the Heron
- American Gods
- The Secret History
- The Bookwoman's Last Fling
- Lullaby
- If On A Winter's Night A Traveler
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
1 comment:
'Where Wizards Stay Up Late'...what a great title for a book.
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