Rather than trying to describe what kinds of books I like, I have decided
to just keep a running log of the books I have read, and how many stars
(out of five) I gave them on <a href="http://www.amazon.com">Amazon's
Reccomendations</a> ratings.  This list started in December of 2002. <hr>

<b>2008</b>
<ul>
<li><i>Our Babies, Ourselves</i> - Meredith Small (***)
<li><i>Super Spy</i> - Matt Kindt (****)
<li><i>Runaways</i> - Brian Vaughan et al (****)
<li><i>The Savage Detectives</i> - Roberto Bolano (****)
<li><i>An Ordinary Spy</i> - Joseph Weisberg (*****)
<li><i>The Presidential Election Game</i> - Steven J Brams (***)
<li><i>Random Curves: A memoir</i> - Neil Koblitz (**)
<li><i>Big If</i> - Mark Costello (****)
<li><i>Super Crunchers</i> - Ian Ayres (***)
<li><i>Mathematics and Democracy</i> - Steven J Brams (*****)
<li><i>It Aint Over Till Its Over</i> - Baseball Prospectus Staff (***)
<li><i>The Gum Thief</i> - Douglas Coupland (***)
<li><i>The Road</i> - Cormac McCarthy (*****)
<li><i>Beginner's Greek</i> - James Collins (****)
<li><i>Dirty Money</i> - Richard Stark (****)
<li><i>A Spy By Nature</i> - Charles Cumming (***)
<li><i>The Stuff of Thought</i> - Stephen Pinker (***)
<li><i>Then We Came To The End</i> - Joshua Ferris (*****)
<li><i>American Nerd: The Story Of My People</i> - Benjamin Nugent (***)
<li><i>A Person Of Interest</i> - Susan Choi (****)
<li><i>The Dark Knight Strikes Again</i> - Frank Miller (**)
<li><i>Hit The Ground Crawling</i> - Greg Bishop (**)
<li><i>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao</i> - Junot Diaz (*****)
<li><i>Group Theory In The Bedroom</i> - Brian Hayes (*****)
<li><i>Eight Million Ways To Die</i> - Lawrence Block (****)
<li><i>Alternadad</i> - Neal Pollack (****)
<li><i>Maps and Legends</i> - Michael Chabon (****)
<li><i>Soon I Will Be Invincible</i> - Austin Grossman (***)
<li><i>Hit And Run</i> - Lawrence Block (***)
<li><i>The Best of World Cafe</i> - David Dye et al (****)
<li><i>Kirby: King of Comics</i> - Mark Evanier (****)
<li><i>Slam</i> - Nick Hornby (****)
<li><i>The Edge of the Universe</i> - Steve Kennedy and Deanna Haupsburger et al (****)
<li><i>Dead Even</i> - Brad Meltzer (****)
<li><i>The Black Hole War</i> - Leonard Susskind (*****)
<li><i>The Time Travellers Wife</i> - Audrey Niffenger (***)
<li><i>Atmospheric Disturbances</i> - Rivka Galchen (**)
<li><i>Superman Family Vol.2</i> - Curt Swan etal (****)
<li><i>The Zero Game</i> - Brad Meltzer (***)
<li><i>The Numerati</i> - Stephen Baker (***)
<li><i>The Drunkards Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives</i> - Leonard Mlodinow (*****)
<li><i>Downtown Owl</i> - Chuck Klosterman (****)
<li><i>Severance Package</i> - Duane Swierczynski (***)
<li><i>The World in Six Songs</i> - Daniel Levitin (***)
<li><i>Man In The Dark</i> - Paul Auster (***)
<li><i>The Broom of the System</i> - David Foster Wallace (***)
<li><i>Batman and Philosophy</i> - various (***)
<li><i>The Nine: Inside the Supreme Court</i> - Jeffrey Toobin (****)
<li><i>The Blonde</i> - Duane Swierczynski (****)
<li><i>The Best Nonrequired Reading 2008</i> - Dave Eggers et al (***)
<li><i>Indignation</i> - Philip Roth (*****)
<li><i>Dear American Airlines: A Novel</i> - Jonathan Miles (*****)
<li><i>The Book of Getting Even</i> - Benjamin Taylor (***)
<li><i>Fun Home</i> - Allison Bechdel (****)
<li><i>An Abundance of Katherines</i> - John Green (****)
<li><i>Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State</i> - Andrew Gelman (****)
<li><i>Icarus at the Edge of Time</i> - Brian Greene (****)
<li><i>State By State</i> - Matt Weiland et al (*****)
<li><i>Kingdom Come</i> - Mark Waid & Alex Ross (reread)
<li><i>The Book of Murder</i> - Guillermo Martinez (****)

</ul>

<b>2007</b>
<ul>
<li><i>The Man Who Ate Everything</i> - Jeffrey Steingarten (****)
<li><i>The Complete Joy Of Homebrewing</i> - Charles Papazian (****)
<li><i>The Devil Knows You're Dead</i> - Lawrence Block (****)
<li><i>Play It Again: Baseball Experts on What Might Have Been</i> - Jim Bresnahan et al (***)
<li><i>God Save The Mark</i> - Donald Westlake (****)
<li><i>Mathematics and Common Sense</i> - Philip Davis (****)
<li><i>Him Her Him Again The End of Him</i> - Patricia Marx (***)
<li><i>The End of Mr. Y</i> - Scarlett Thomas (****)
<li><i>Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name</i> - Vendela Vida (*****)
<li><i>You Don't Love Me Yet</i> - Jonathan Lethem (**)
<li><i>The Triumph Of The Thriller</i> - Patrick Anderson (***)
<li><i>Lucky at Cards</i> - Lawrence Block (***)
<li><i>It Must Have Been Something I Ate</i> - Jeffrey Steingarten (*****)
<li><i>Whats So Funny</i> - Donald Westlake (***)
<li><i>What The Best College Teachers Do</i> - Ken Bain (***)
<li><i>Citizen Vince</i> - Jess Walter (****)
<li><i>The Baseball Economist</i> - JC Bradbury (***)
<li><i>Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince</i> - JK Rowling (reread)
<li><i>Love is a Mix Tape</i> - Rob Sheffield(****)
<li><i>The Mexico City Reader</i> - Ruben Gallo et al (****)
<li><i>No One Belongs Here More Than You</i> - Miranda July (***)
<li><i>Que Vivan Los Tamales: Food and The Making of Mexican Identity</i> - Jeffrey Pilcher (****)
<li><i>The Uncomfortable Dead</i> - Paco Ignacio Taibo II & Subcommandante Marcos (**)
<li><i>The Code Book</i> - Simon Singh (reread)
<li><i>Civil War</i> - Mark Millar et al (****)
<li><i>The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable</i> - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (***)
<li><i>The Yiddish Policemans Union</i> - Michael Chabon (****)
<li><i>Watchmen</i> - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (reread)
<li><i>The Spy in the Ointment</i> - Donald Westlake (***) 
<li><i>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows</i> - JK Rowling (*****)
<li><i>The First Counsel</i> - Brad Meltzer (****)
<li><i>The Entitled</i> - Frank Deford (****)
<li><i>The Areas of My Expertise</i> - John Hodgman (*****)
<li><i>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt 3W</i> - Gabriel Brownstein (****)
<li><i>Privacy On The Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption</i> - Diffie & Landau (*****)
<li><i>Liars Poker</i> - Michael Lewis (***)
<li><i>New England White</i> - Stephen L Carter (****)
<li><i>Ice Haven</i> - Daniel Clowes (****)
<li><i>Crypto</i> - Steven Levy (reread)
<li><i>Acceptance</i> - Susan Coll (***)
<li><i>Make Love The Bruce Campbell Way</i> - Bruce Campbell (**)
<li><i>The Eternals</i> - Neil Gaiman (****)
<li><i>Tree of Smoke</i> - Denis Johnson (****)
<li><i>Benjamin Franklin's Numbers</i> - Paul Pasles (***)
<li><i>The Girl With The Long Green Heart</i> - Lawrence Block (****)
<li><i>X Out Of Wonderland</i> - David Alan Cates (**)
<li><i>An Arsonists Guide To Writers Homes In New England</i> - Brock Clarke (***)
<li><i>The Abstinence Teacher</i> - Tom Perrotta (****)
<li><i>When The Sacred Ginmill Closes</i> - Lawrence Block (***)
<li><i>I Am America and So Can You!</i> - Stephen Colbert (****)
<li><i>Crazy '08</i> - Kait Murphy (****)
<li><i>The Omnivore's Dilemma</i> - Michael Pollan (*****)
<li><i>A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel</i> - Gaurav Suri (****)
</ul>

<b>2006</b>
<ul>
<li><i>The Oxford Murders</i> - Guillermo Martinez (****)
<li><i>PopCo</i> - Scarlett Thomas (****)
<li><i>The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved</i> - Mario Livio (****)
<li><i>As She Crawled Slowly Across The Table</i> - Jonathan Lethem (***)
<li><i>The Believer Book Of Writers Talking To Writers</i> - Vendela Vida et al (***)
<li><i>The Republican War On Science</i> - Chris Mooney (****)
<li><i>On Beauty</i> - Zadie Smith (*****)
<li><i>What Good Are The Arts</i> - John Carey (***)
<li><i>Trust Me On This</i> - Donald Westlake (***)
<li><i>Selected Letters</i> - John von Neumann (****)
<li><i>The Shroud of the Thwacker</i> - Chris Elliot (***)
<li><i>Apex Hides The Hurt</i> - Colson Whitehead (***)
<li><i>Baseball Between The Numbers</i> - Baseball Prospectus staff (*****)
<li><i>This Shape We're In</i> - Jonathan Lethem (***)
<li><i>Consider The Lobster</i> - David Foster Wallace (****)
<li><i>Blue Angel</i> - Francine Prose (****)
<li><i>Superman: Secret Identity</i> - Kurt Busiek (****)
<li><i>Avengers Forever</i> - Kurt Busiek (**)
<li><i>In Your Face</i> - Scarlett Thomas (***)
<li><i>Cloud Atlas</i> - David Mitchell (***)
<li><i>Microserfs</i> - Douglas Coupland (reread)
<li><i>J-Pod</i> - Douglas Coupland (**)
<li><i>Ticket To The Boneyard</i> - Lawrence Block (****)
<li><i>Fantasyland: A season on baseball's lunatic fringe</i> - Sam Walker (***)
<li><i>Man of My Dreams</i> - Curtis Sittenfield (***)
<li><i>Time to Murder and Create</i> - Lawrence Block (****)
<li><i>On The Cutting Edge</i> - Lawrence Block (***)
<li><i>Jennifer Government</i> - Max Berry (****)
<li><i>Astonishing X-Men</i> - Joss Whedon (****)
<li><i>Oddysey of an Eavesdropper</i> - Martin Kaiser (***)
<li><i>The Last Spymaster</i> - Gayle Lynds (****)
<li><i>Symmetry and the Monster</i> -  Mark Ronan (****)
<li><i>Hit Parade</i> - Lawrence Block (****)
<li><i>Plastic Man: On The Lam</i> - Kyle Baker (**)
<li><i>Superman: Red Son</i> - Mark Millar (****)
<li><i>Everyman</i> - Philip Roth (***)
<li><i>Mexican Days</i> - Tony Cohan (****)
<li><i>Dance at the Slaughterhouse</i> - Lawrence Block (****)
<li><i>The Plot Thickens</i> - Mary Higgens Clark etal (***)
<li><i>Confessions of an Economic Hit Man</i> - John Perkins (***)
<li><i>The Natural</i> - Bernard Malamud (*****)
<li><i>Adverbs</i> - Daniel Handler (****)
<li><i>Maya Missions</i> - Richard Perry (****)
<li><i>Our Underachieving Colleges</i> - Derek Bok (****)
<li><i>Identity Crisis</i> - Brad Metzler (*****)
<li><i>Portnoy's Complaint</i> - Philip Roth (****)
<li><i>Heat</i> - Bill Buford (****)
<li><i>Nobody Runs Forever</i> - <s>Donald Westlake</s>Richard Stark (****)
<li><i>The Ruins</i> - Scott Smith (****)
<li><i>Comeback</i> - Richard Stark (***)
<li><i>Categories on the Beauty of Physics</i> - Emiliano Sefusatti (*****)
<li><i>Spiderman: Evolve or Die</i> - Peter David etal (***)
<li><i>Brainiac</i> - Ken Jennings (****)
<li><i>Ask The Parrot</i> - Richard Stark (****)
<li><i>Special Topics in Calamity Physics</i> - Marisha Pessl (*****)
<li><i>Chronicles Volume One</i> - Bob Dylan (****)
<li><i>Mathematicians in Love</i> - Rudy Rucker (***)
</ul>

<b>2005</b>
<ul>
<li><i>America: The Book</i> - Jon Stewart et al. (*****)
<li><i>How To Be Good</i> - Nick Hornby (reread)
<li><i>Everything Is Illuminated</i> - Jonathan Safren Foer (****)
<li><i>Hacker Cracker</i> - Ejovi Nuwere (***)
<li><i>Mcsweeneys Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories</i> - Michael Chabon, 
etal. (****)
<li><i>Prime Times: Writers on Their Favorite TV Shows</i> - Douglas Bauer etal (***)
<li><i>The Plot Against America</i> - Phillip Roth (*****)
<li><i>Take The Cannoli</i> - Sarah Vowell (*****)
<li><i>Bad News</i> - Donald Westlake (****)
<li><i>Too Weird For Ziggy</i> - Sylvie Simmons (**)
<li><i>The Final Solution</i> - Michael Chabon (****)
<li><i>1602</i> - Neil Gaiman (*****)
<li><i>Faculty in New Jobs</i> - Robert Menges et al (***)
<li><i>Going Out</i> - Scarlett Thomas (****)
<li><i>All The Flowers Are Dying</i> - Lawrence Block (****)
<li><i>Plastic Angels</i> - Nerissa Nields (****)
<li><i>The Numbers Game</i> - Alan Schwarz (*****)
<li><i>Mcsweeneys 13</i> - Chris Ware et al (****)
<li><i>Eleanor Rigby</i> - Douglas Coupland (***)
<li><i>The Dissapointment Artist</i> - Jonathan Lethem (****)
<li><i>Dead Clever</i> - Scarlett Thomas (****)
<li><i>A Philosophical Introduction To Probability</i> - Maria Carla 
Galavotti (***)
<li><i>Jump In!</i> - Mark Burnett (and ghostwriter) (**)
<li><i>Gotham Central: In The Line Of Duty</i> - Greg Rucka et al (****)
<li><i>Watch Your Back!</i> - Donald Westlake (****)
<li><i>Freakonomics</i> - Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner (****)
<li><i>What's The Matter With Kansas?</i> - Thomas Frank (***)
<li><i>A Long Way Down</i> - Nick Hornby (*****)
<li><i>The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers</i> - Rob Neyer & Bill James 
(***)
<li><i>Alternative Atlanta</i> - Marshall Boswell (****)
<li><i>Prep</i> - Curtis Sittenfeld (****)
<li><i>Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix</i> - JK Rowling (reread)
<li><i>Morningside Heights</i> - Cheryl Mendelson (***)
<li><i>Incompleteness: The Proof of Kurt Godel</i> - Rebecca Goldstein 
(****)
<li><i>Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince</i> - JK Rowling (*****)
<li><i>Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to 
Measure The Universe</i> - George Johnson (****)
<li><i>Random Walk</i> - Lawrence Block (**)
<li><i>Assassination Vacation</i> - Sarah Vowell (****)
<li><i>Garlic and Sapphires</i> - Ruth Reichl (****)
<li><i>Hit List</i> - Lawrence Block (****)
<li><i>Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close</i> - Jonathan Safran Foer (*****)
<li><i>Good Behavior</i> - Donald Westlake (****)
<li><i>Killing Yourself to Live : 85% of a True Story</i> - Chuck Klosterman (*****)
<li><i>Legends: A Novel of Dissimulation</i> - Robert Littell (***)
<li><i>The Bourbaki Gambit</i> - Carl Djerassi (****)
<li><i>Listener Supported: The History of Public Radio</i> - Jack Mitchell (****)
<li><i>Anansi Boys</i> - Neil Gaiman (****)
<li><i>How We Are Hungry</i> - Dave Eggers (****)
<li><i>Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them</i> - Al Franken (****)
<li><i>Contact Zero</i> - David Wolstencroft (*****)
<li><i>The Truth (with jokes)</i> - Al Franken (***)
<li><i>Political Numeracy</i> - Michael Myerson (****)
<li><i>Life On The Tenure Track</i> - James Lang (****)
<li><i>The Diviners</i> - Rick Moody (****)
<li><i>The Better of McSweeneys</i> - Dave Eggers et al (****)
<li><i>Mind Game</i> - Baseball Prospectus Guys (****)
<li><i>Cinderella Sims</i> - Lawrence Block (***)
</ul>

<b>2004</b>
<ul>
<li><I>Everything and More</I> - David Foster Wallace (****)
<li><I>The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract</I> - Bill James 
(*****)
<li><i>Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003</i> - Dave Eggers et al 
(****)
<li><i>May The Best Team Win</i> - Andrew Zimbalist (****)
<li><i>Quicksilver</i> - Neal Stephenson (***)
<li><i>A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again</i> - David Foster 
Wallace (****)
<li><i>One True Platonic Heaven</i> - John Casti (****)
<li><i>Wonder When You'll Miss Me</i> - Amanda Davis (****)
<li><i>The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night-Time</i> - Mark Haddon 
(****)
<li><i>The Death of an Amiable Child</i> - Irene Marcuse (**)
<li><i>The Bobby Gold Stories</i> - Anthony Bourdain (***)
<li><i>The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came To Be</i> - Dana Mackenzie (****)
<li><i>The Main Enemy : The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with 
the KGB</i> - Risen & Bearden (****)
<li><i>Pattern Recognition</i> - William Gibson (****)
<li><i>Astro City: Life in the Big City</i> - Kurt Busiek et al (*****)
<li><i>The Gatekeepers</i> - Jacques Steinberg (****)
<li><i>Infinite Jest</i> - David Foster Wallace (***)
<li><i>The Effect of Living Backwards</i> - Heidi Julavits (****)
<li><i>Priorities of the Professoriate</i> - Ernest Boyer (***)
<li><i>Kingdom Come</i> - Mark Waid & Alex Ross (****)
<li><i>The Burglar on the Prowl</i> - Lawrence Block (*****)
<li><i>Distinctively American: The Residential Liberal Arts 
College</i> - Koblik & Graubard (****)
<li><i>Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste</i> - Lester Bangs (***)
<li><i>The Mineral Palace</i> - Heidi Julavits (***)
<li><i>How To Breathe Underwater</i> - Julie Orringer (*****)
<li><i>What Was She Thinking?</i> - Zoe Heller (***)
<li><i>Sherlock Holmes in Babylon and Other Tales of Mathematical 
History</i> - various (****)
<li><i>Count Down: Six Kids Vie For Glory In The Toughest Math 
Competition</i> - Steve Olson (*****)
<li><i>Publish and Perish</i> - James Hynes (****)
<li><i>The Wild Numbers</i> - Philip Schogt (****)
<li><i>The Bonfire of the Vanities</i> - Tom Wolfe (reread)
<li><i>In Code</i> - Sarah Flannery (****)
<li><i>Cogwheels of the Mind</i> - AWF Edwards (****)
<li><i>The Topless Tulip Caper</i> - Lawrence Block (****)
<li><i>The Secret Pilgrim</i> - John LeCarre (***)
<li><i>Hooking Up</i> - Tom Wolfe (*****)
<li><i>Money For Nothing</i> - Donald Westlake (****)
<li><i>Hey Nostradamus!</i> - Douglas Coupland (*****)
<li><i>Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Botton Line</i> - David Kirp (*****)
<li><i>The Fortress of Solitude</i> - Jonathan Lethem (*****)
<li><i>Fugitives and Refugees : A Walk in Portland, Oregon</i> - Chuck 
Palahniuk (**)
<li><i>Thieves' Dozen</i> - Donald Westlake (****)
<li><i>Notable American Women</i> - Ben Marcus (**)
<li><i>Food Inc: The Perils and Promise of the Biotech Industry</i> - 
Peter Pringle (****)
<li><i>The Road To Ruin</i> - Donald Westlake (***)
<li><i>Joe College</i> - Tom Perrotta (*****)
<li><i>Oblivion</i> - David Foster Wallace (****)
<li><i>Forty Watts From Nowhere</i> - Sue Carpenter (***)
<li><i>Amalee</i> - Dar Williams (****)
<li><i>Kings of Infinite Space</i> - James Hynes (****)
<li><i>After The First Death</i> - Lawrence Block (***)
<li><i>Gasping For Airtime</i> - Jay Mohr (***)
<li><i>The Well of Lost Plots</i> - Jasper Fforde (**)
<li><i>Starman: Times Past</i> - James Robinson (***)
<li><i>The Game Makers: The Story of Parker Brothers, from Tiddledy Winks 
to Trivial Pursuit</i> - Philip E. Orbanes (****)
<li><i>Little Children</i> - Tom Perrotta (****)
<li><i>So You Wanna Be A Rock n' Roll Star</i> - Jacob Slichter (*****)
<li><i>The Hook</i> - Donald Westlake (***)
<li><i>Losing My Faculties: A Teacher's Story</i> - Brendan Halpin (****)
<li><i>Proof</i> - David Auburn (*****)
<li><i>The Wishbones</i> - Tom Perrotta (****)
<li><i>Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans</i> - Dave Eggers et al 
(****)
<li><i>Nine Innings</i> - Daniel Okrent (****)
<li><i>Oryx and Crake</i> - Margaret Atwood (****)
<li><i>Checkpoint</i> - Nicholson Baker (***)
<li><i>Reunion</i> - Alan Lightman (****)
<li><i>A Pretext For War</i> - James Bamford (****)
<li><i>Radiant Cool</i> - Dan Lloyd (**)
<li><i>In The Shadow Of No Towers</i> - Art Spiegelman (***)
<li><i>Man Walks Into A Room</i> - Nicole Krause (***)
<li><i>Dress Your Family in Courdory and Denim</i> - David Sedaris (*****)
<li><i>Media Mythmakers</i> - Benjamin Radford (***)
<li><i>Good News, Bad News</i> - David Wolstencroft (****)
<li><i>Men and Cartoons</i> - Jonathan Lethem (*****)
<li><i>The Work of the University</i> - Richard Levin (****)
<li><i>I Am Charlotte Simmons</i> - Tom Wolfe (****)
<li><i>Deadly Honeymoon</i> - Lawrence Block (***)
<li><i>Worlds Fair</i> - EL Doctorow (****)
<li><i>The Librarian</i> - Larry Beinhart (***)
<li><i>The Polysylllabic Spree</i> - Nick Hornby (****)

</ul>

<b>2003</b>
<ul> 
<li><I>Great Jones Street</I> - Don DeLillo (****)
<li><I>The Last Samurai</I> - Helen DeWitt (*****)
<li><I>Word Freak</I> - Stefan Fatsis (****)
<li><I>The Autograph Man</I> - Zadie Smith (***)
<li><I>Double Fold</I> - Nicholson Baker (****)
<li><I>Radio On</I> - Sarah Vowell (****)
<li><I>Song Book</I> - Nick Hornby (*****)
<li><I>I.</I> - Stephen Dixon (*****)
<li><I>Coraline</I> - Neil Gaiman (****)
<li><I>The Mezzanine</I> - Nicholson Baker (***)
<li><I>Motherless Brooklyn</I> - Jonathan Lethem (***)
<li><I>Don't Ask</I> - Donald Westlake (****)
<li><I>The Math Gene</I> - Keith Devlin (****)
<li><I>Carnival of Saints</I> - George Herman (****)
<li><I>Firebreak</I> - Richard Stark (***)
<li><I>The Fermata</I> - Nicholson Baker (****)
<li><I>The Marraige of Sticks</I> - Jonathan Carroll (****)
<li><I>Movies</I> - Stephen Dixon (***)
<li><I>Notes From A Small Island</I> - Bill Bryson (***)
<li><I>Small Town</I> - Lawrence Block (**)
<li><I>Wonder Boys</I> - Michael Chabon (*****)
<li><I>The Company</I> - Robert Littell (****)
<li><I>If I Never Get Back</I> - Darryl Brock (***)
<li><I>Vox</I> - Nicholson Baker (****)
<li><I>Mcsweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales</I> - Michael 
Chabon etal (****)
<li><I>Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azakhban</I> - JK Rowling (reread)
<li><I>The Partly Cloudy Patriot</I> - Sarah Vowell (*****)
<li><I>Spy Dust</I> - Antonio and Jonna Mendez (***)
<li><I>Oaxaca Journal</I> - Oliver Sachs (***)
<li><I>The Diamond Age</I> - Neal Stephenson (****)
<li><I>Naked</I> - David Sedaris (*****)
<li><I>Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire</I> - JK Rowling (reread)
<li><I>The Politics of Glory</I> - Bill James (****)
<li><I>Giotto's Hand</I> - Iain Pears (****)
<li><I>The Cities of Ancient Mexico</I> - Jeremy Sabloff (**)
<li><I>What's The Worst That Could Happen</I> - Donald Westlake (*****)
<li><I>The Bernini Bust</I> - Iain Pears (****)
<li><I>Aztec</i> - Gary Jennings (*****)
<li><I>Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix</I> - JK Rowling (*****)
<li><I>The Game Of Life: College Sports and Educational Values</I> - 
Shulman and Bowen (****)
<li><I>The Burglar In The Rye</I> - Lawrence Block (****)
<li><I>The Big Book of Baseball Lineups</i> - Rob Neyer (*****)
<li><I>Strong Motion</I> - Jonathan Franzen (****)
<li><I>Aztec Autumn</I> - Gary Jennings (***)
<li><I>You Shall Know Our Velocity</I> - Dave Eggers (*****)
<li><I>Summerland</i> - Michael Chabon (***)
<li><I>The Wizards of Langley</I> - Jeffrey T. Richelson (***)
<li><I>The Grasshopper King</I> - Jordan Ellenberg (*****)
<li><I>The Great Big Book of Tomorrow</i> - Tom Tomorrow (*****)
<li><I>The Emperor of Ocean Park</I> - Stephen Carter (****)
<li><I>Straight Man</I> - Richard Russo (****)
<li><I>How To Be Alone</I> - Jonathan Franzen (****)
<li><I>The Amateur</I> - Robert Littell (***)
<li><I>Moneyball</I> - Michael Lewis (*****)
<li><I>Sandman: Endless Nights</I> - Neil Gaiman et al. (****)
<li><I>The Visiting Professor</I> - Robert Littell (**)
<li><I>The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature</i> - Neal 
Pollack (****)
<li><I>The Eyre Affair</I> - Jasper Fforde (***)
<li><I>All Families Are Psychotic</I> - Douglas Coupland (***)
<li><I>The Mammoth Cheese</i> - Sheri Holman (****)
<li><I>Breakout</I> - Richard Stark (***)
<li><I>A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market</I> - John Allen Paulos 
(***)
<li><I>A Box of Matches</I> - Nicholson Baker (****)
<li><I>And Now You Can Go</I> - Vendela Vida (****)
<li><I>Mailman: A Novel</I> - J. Robert Lennon (***)
<li><I>Universities In The Marketplace</I> - Derek Bok (****)
<li><I>Game Time</I> - Roger Angell (****)
<li><I>Superbad</I> - Ben Greenman (****)
<li><I>American Pastoral</I> - Philip Roth (reread)
<li><I>The Secret History</I> - Donna Tarrt (***)
<li><I>The Uses of the University</I> - Clark Kerr (*****)
<li><I>High Fidelity</I> - Nick Hornby (reread)
<li><I>You Could Call It Murder</i> - Lawrence Block (***)
<li><I>The Raphael Affair</I> - Iain Pears (****)
<li><I>Backflash</I> - Richard Stark (****)
<li><I>The Creation of the Future</I> - Frank Rhodes (*****)
<li><I>Turing (a novel about computation)</I> - Christos H. Papadimitriou  
(****)
<li><I>Fever Pitch</I> - Nick Hornby (***)
<li><I>Never Mind The Pollacks</I> - Neal Pollack (****)
<li><I>Drowned Hopes</I> - Donald Westlake (****)

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