a booklist.
No, the title of this page is not a lie. I actually do read one thousand words per minute, at least when I was clocked back in eighth grade. I read so much and so fast that I got sick of changing the link on my obsessive page. Instead, I am going to list everything I can remember reading as I go along, excluding work. My links will generally take you to Indie Bound, but you can also go straight to the original Amazon -- or visit your local independent. (Thanks to Holt Uncensored.)
I should probably add here that I buy just about all of these non-work books -- I don't get them as freebies. It's important.
If you're interested in reading any of these yourself, let me know. Assuming that I didn't borrow it from the library, we can arrange a trade.
the scattershot booklist, from january 2008
Diana Wynne Jones: House of Many Ways
Matt Ruff: Bad Monkeys
Carolyn Burke: Lee Miller: A Life
James Spencer: The Pilots
Molly Gloss: The Hearts of Horses
Mark Bowden, editor: The Best American Crime Writing 2006
Linda Fairstein, editor: The Best American Crime Reporting 2007
Colin Burgess and Francis French: In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969
Diana Wynne Jones: Archer's Goon (a reread)
Colin Burgess/Kate Doolan/Bert Vis: Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon
Nathaniel Fick: One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
Donald K. Slayton with Michael Cassutt: Deke!: An Autobiography
Jean Stein and George Plimpton, eds.: Edie: An American Biography
James R. Hansen: First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
Lillian B. Rubin: The Man With The Beautiful Voice: And More Stories from the Other Side of the Couch
Thomas E. Ricks: Making the Corps
David Levithan: How They Met and Other Stories
Daphne Merkin: Enchantment
Ellen Rosner Feig: The Ex Files: Women's Tales of Love, Litigation, and Liberty (jury duty reading)
Billy Watkins: Apollo Moon Missions: The Unsung Heroes
Leslie Glass: The Silent Bride
Evan Wright: Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
David Lipsky: Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point
Cassandra Clare: City of Ashes
Walter Cunningham: The All-American Boys
Francis French and Colin Burgess: Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965
Deborah Grabien: Rock & Roll Never Forgets: A JP Kinkaid Mystery
Joan Kanel Slomanson: When Everybody Ate at Schrafft's: Memories, Pictures, and Recipes from a Very Special Restaurant Empire
Scott Carpenter and Kris Stoever: For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut
Linda Dahl: Haunted Heart: A Biography of Susannah McCorkle
Margot Livesey: Eva Moves the Furniture
Jeff Lindsay: Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox: Apollo: The Race to the Moon
Tamora Pierce: Melting Stones
Blake Bailey: A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates
America in Space: NASA's First Fifty Years
Harlan Ellison: Spider Kiss
Jay Barbree: "Live from Cape Canaveral": Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today
Christie Harris: Let X Be Excitement (thank you, Peter Sieruta)
Neal Thompson: Light This Candle: The Life and Times of Alan Shepard -- America's First Spaceman
Thomas J. Kelly: Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module
Christopher Sandford: McQueen: The Biography
T.F. Peterson: Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT
Kamran Nazeer: Send In the Idiots: Stories from the Other Side of Autism
Robert Zimmerman: Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8
Christie Harris: You Have to Draw the Line Somewhere
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