a prior booklist.

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
Laurie Colwin: Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object (tenth reread, probably)
Annie Fellows Johnston: The Little Colonel (and all -- yes, all -- of its sequels)
Pepper White: The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at MIT
Ali MacGraw: Moving Pictures
Louisa May Alcott: A Garland for Girls
Ayun Halliday: Dirty Sugar Cookies: Culinary Observations, Questionable Taste
Richard P. Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works
Richard P. Feynman: "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
Siobhan Dowd: The London Eye Mystery
Charlie and Dotty Duke: Moonwalker
Emily Jenkins and Paul O. Zelinsky: Toy Dance Party: Being the Further Adventures of a Bossyboots Stingray, a Courageous Buffalo, and a Hopeful Round Someone Called Plastic
Marya Hornbacher: Madness: A Bipolar Life
Deborah Grabien: The Weaver and the Factory Maid
Marya Hornbacher: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Tracy Kidder: The Soul of a New Machine (a re-read of the terrific book that will trail Jess for the rest of her life)
Francesca Lia Block: Blood Roses
Eugene Cernan and Don Davis: The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space
Bridget Asher: My Husband's Sweethearts
John Green: Paper Towns
Daphne Du Maurier: The Birds and Other Stories
Joan Wickersham: The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order
Elizabeth McCracken: An Exact Replica Of a Figment Of My Imagination: A Memoir
Mark Oliver Everett: Things the Grandchildren Should Know
Melissa Marr: Ink Exchange
Charles de Lint: The Mystery of Grace
Be Your Own Dentist!: For Masochists Only
Patrick Buckley and Lily Binns: The Hungry Scientist Handbook: Electric Birthday Cakes, Edible Origami, and Other DIY Projects for Techies, Tinkerers, and Foodies (Note: This has little to do with actual food)
Many awesome books by Jim Ottaviani and co-conspirators
Legends of Caltech (O Pranksters of Caltech, how I adore thee)
Henry S. Cooper: Thirteen: The Apollo Flight that Failed
Linda Medley: Castle Waiting
Joan Aiken: The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories

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