Recent Books

The following table shows the books I've recently read or acquired. At the moment the title link points to the amazon page for the book, but at some point I'll have it take you to a full description of the book.

The main purpose of this page is to exercise my MySQL database that I built from a Bookpedia export file. I really dig Bookpedia, but it's OS X only, and because it's closed source, I worry about all my book data being lost if I abandon OS X or if the developers abandon the program.

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Title	Copyright	Author	Publisher	Pages	Last Read	Purchased
V.	1963	Thomas Pynchon	Harper Perennial	496		Jan 2007
Vineland	1989	Thomas Pynchon	Little, Brown & Company	384		Jan 2007
The End of Faith	2004	Sam Harris	W. W. Norton & Company	224		Feb 2007
You Shall Know Our Velocity	2002	Dave Eggers	McSweeney's	376		Mar 2007
Shopaholic & Baby	2007	Sophie Kinsella	The Dial Press	368		Mar 2007
The Kite Runner	2003	Khaled Hosseini	Bloomsbury Publishing	324		Apr 2007
Gob's Grief	2000	Chris Adrian	Broadway	368		May 2007
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Issue 18	2005	Dave Eggers	McSweeney's	250		May 2007
Marine Life of the North Atlantic	1994	Andrew J. Martinez	Andrew Martinez & Norman Katz	265		May 2007
The People of Paper	2005	Salvador Plascencia	McSweeney's Rectangulars	251		May 2007
The Facts of Winter	2005	Paul Poissel	McSweeney's Rectangulars	150		May 2007
Spook	2005	Mary Roach	W. W. Norton & Company	320		May 2007
The Lovely Bones	2002	Alice Sebold	Little, Brown and Company	328		May 2007
Confederacy of Dunces	1980	John Kennedy Toole	Wings	462		Jun 2007
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Issue 13	2004	Chris Ware	McSweeney's	264		Jun 2007
The Brooklyn Follies	2006	Paul Auster	Picador	320		Jul 2007
The Savage Detectives	1998	Roberto Bolaño	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	592		Jul 2007
The Emperor of Ocean Park	2002	Stephen L. Carter	Vintage	672		Jul 2007
I.	2002	Stephen Dixon	McSweeney's	338		Jul 2007
End of I.	2006	Stephen Dixon	McSweeney's	202		Jul 2007
American Psycho	1991	Bret Easton Ellis	Vintage	416		Jul 2007
Organizing Idea Book	2005	John Loecke	Taunton	128		Jul 2007
The Last Town on Earth	2006	Thomas Mullen	Random House	416		Jul 2007
Dance Dance Dance	1994	Haruki Murakami	Vintage	416		Jul 2007
Master and Commander	1970	Patrick O'Brian	W. W. Norton & Company	411		Jul 2007
Special Topics in Calamity Physics	2006	Marisha Pessl	Penguin Press	528		Jul 2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	2007	J. K. Rowling	Arthur A. Levine Books	802		Jul 2007
Blindness	1995	José Saramago	Harvest Books	352		Jul 2007
Not So Big Solutions for Your Home	2002	Sarah Susanka	Taunton	160		Jul 2007
Watching Baseball Smarter	2007	Zack Hample	Vintage	272		Sep 2007
Fight Club	1996	Chuck Palahniuk	Owl Books	208		Sep 2007
Haunted	2005	Chuck Palahniuk	Anchor	432		Sep 2007
The God of Small Things	1997	Arundhati Roy	Harper Perennial	336		Sep 2007
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Issue 24	2007	Dave Eggers	McSweeney's	207		Oct 2007
Bowl of Cherries	2007	Millard Kaufman	McSweeney's	288		Oct 2007
Water for Elephants	2006	Sara Gruen	Algonquin Books	350		Nov 2007
The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection	1999	Ted Libbey	Workman Publishing Company	536		Nov 2007
Of a Feather	2007	Scott Weidensaul	Harcourt	368		Nov 2007
The Blind Assassin	2000	Margaret Atwood	Anchor	544		Dec 2007
World Famous Alaska Highway	2005	Tricia Brown	Alaska Northwest Books	288		Dec 2007
Bach and the Patterns of Invention	1996	Laurence Dreyfus	Harvard University Press	288		Dec 2007
The Birds of the Beaufort Sea	1989	Stephen R Johnson	BP Exploration	372		Dec 2007
Making Room	2007	Wendy A. Jordan	Taunton	176		Dec 2007
A Hero of Our Time	1841	Mikhail Lermontov	Modern Library	208		Dec 2007
Mastering Photoshop CS3 for Print Design and Production	2007	Ted Locascio	Sybex	573		Dec 2007
Life of Pi	2001	Yann Martel	Harvest Books	336		Dec 2007
Going Nucular	2004	Geoffrey Nunberg	PublicAffairs	256		Dec 2007
Ali and Nino	1937	Kurban Said	Anchor	288		Dec 2007
Russian Debutante's Handbook	2002	Gary Shteyngart	Riverhead Trade	496		Dec 2007
Built-In Furniture	2001	Jim Tolpin	Taunton	224		Dec 2007
Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach	1959	W. Gillies Whittaker	Oxford University Press	1,500		Dec 2007
Professional Design Techniques with Adobe Creative Suite 3	2008	Scott Citron	Adobe Press	306		Jan 2008
Historical Statistics of the States of the United States	1993	Donald B. Dodd	Greenwood Press	478		Jan 2008
The Cantatas of J. S. Bach	1992	Alfred Durr	Oxford University Press	967		Jan 2008
A Thousand Splendid Suns	2007	Khaled Hosseini	Riverhead	384		Jan 2008
The Fortress of Solitude	2003	Jonathan Lethem	Doubleday	511		Jan 2008
A Designer's Guide to Adobe InDesign and XML	2008	James J. Maivald	Adobe Press	324		Jan 2008
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America	2004	Jon Stewart	Grand Central Publishing	240		Jan 2008
The Joy of Music	1959	Leonard Bernstein	Simon and Schuster	303		Feb 2008
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine	1998	Tinsley Randolph Harrison	McGraw Hill	2,784		Feb 2008
Remember Me?	2008	Sophie Kinsella	The Dial Press	389		Mar 2008
Cisco IOS in a Nutshell	2005	James Boney	O'Reilly Media, Inc.	796		Apr 2008
Network Warrior	2007	Gary A. Donahue	O'Reilly Media, Inc.	598		Apr 2008
Cisco IOS Cookbook	2007	Kevin Dooley	O'Reilly Media, Inc.	1,236		Apr 2008
SQL Pocket Guide	2006	Jonathan Gennick	O'Reilly Media, Inc.	192		Apr 2008
What Hath God Wrought	2007	Daniel Walker Howe	Oxford University Press	928		Apr 2008
CSS Pocket Reference	2008	Eric Meyer	O'Reilly Media, Inc.	168		Apr 2008
Bonk	2008	Mary Roach	W. W. Norton	288		Apr 2008
Regular Expression Pocket Reference	2007	Tony Stubblebine	O'Reilly Media, Inc.	126		Apr 2008
The Basics	2007	Filip Verheyden	Melville House	320		Apr 2008
Good Birders Don't Wear White	2007	Lisa White	Houghton Mifflin	288		Apr 2008
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Issue 27	2008	Dave Eggers	McSweeney's	224		Jun 2008
Kafka on the Shore	2005	Haruki Murakami	Vintage	480		Jun 2008
The Courage To Start	1999	John Bingham	Fireside	208		Jul 2008
No Need for Speed	2002	John Bingham	Rodale Books	224		Jul 2008
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England	2007	Brock Clarke	Algonquin Books	305		Jul 2008
The Alaska Almanac	2006	Nancy Gates	Alaska Northwest Books	240		Jul 2008
A Little History of the World	1985	E. H. Gombrich	Yale University Press	304		Jul 2008
The Devil in the White City	2003	Erik Larson	Vintage	447		Jul 2008
Simply In Season	2005	Mary Beth Lind	Herald Press	352		Jul 2008
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World	1991	Haruki Murakami	Vintage	416		Jul 2008
Life	1978	Georges Perec	David R Godine	600		Jul 2008
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The Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book	2003	Laurel Robertson	Random House	464	Jan 2007	Jan 2007
Against the Day	2006	Thomas Pynchon	Penguin Press	1,120	Feb 2007	Nov 2006
The Time Traveler's Wife	2003	Audrey Niffenegger	Harvest Books	560	Feb 2007	Dec 2006
River Town	2001	Peter Hessler	Harper Perennial	432	Feb 2007	Feb 2007
Cloud Atlas	2004	David Mitchell	Random House	528	Mar 2007	Jan 2007
White Teeth	2000	Zadie Smith	Random House	464	Mar 2007	Feb 2007
What Is the What	2006	Dave Eggers	McSweeney's	475	Mar 2007	Mar 2007
Remainder	2005	Tom McCarthy	Vintage	320	Mar 2007	Mar 2007
The Road	2006	Cormac McCarthy	Knopf	256	Mar 2007	Mar 2007
The End of Mr. Y	2006	Scarlett Thomas	Harvest Books	416	Mar 2007	Mar 2007
Big Trouble	1997	J. Anthony Lukas	Simon and Schuster	880	Apr 2007	Feb 2007
Being Dead	1999	Jim Crace	Farrar Straus Giroux	192	Apr 2007	Mar 2007
Paradise	2004	A.L. Kennedy	Knopf	304	Apr 2007	Mar 2007
The Children's Hospital	2006	Chris Adrian	McSweeney's	615	Apr 2007	Apr 2007
Icelander	2006	Dustin Long	McSweeney's Rectangulars	249	Apr 2007	Apr 2007
Voyage Along the Horizon	1972	Javier Marias	Believer Books	182	May 2007	Apr 2007
Here They Come	2006	Yannick Murphy	McSweeney's Rectangulars	250	May 2007	Apr 2007
The Omnivore's Dilemma	2006	Michael Pollan	Penguin Press	450	May 2007	Apr 2007
The Yiddish Policemen's Union	2007	Michael Chabon	HarperCollins	414	May 2007	May 2007
Insect Pests	1966	George S. Fichter	Golden Press	160	May 2007	May 2007
Whole Grain Baking	2006	King Arthur Flour	Countryman	612	May 2007	May 2007
The Dictionary of Popular Yiddish Words, Phrases, and Proverbs	1995	Fred Kogos	MJ Fine	158	May 2007	May 2007
Thinking with Type	2004	Ellen Lupton	Princeton Architectural Press	176	May 2007	May 2007
Easy Guide to Sewing Pants	1998	Lynn MacIntyre	Taunton	160	May 2007	May 2007
Alaska Trees And Shrubs	2007	Leslie A. Viereck	University of Alaska Press	359	May 2007	May 2007
Never Let Me Go	2005	Kazuo Ishiguro	Vintage	304	Jun 2007	Mar 2007
Galatea 2.2	1995	Richard Powers	Perennial	329	Jun 2007	Apr 2007
Mushrooms Demystified	1979	David Arora	Ten Speed Press	668	Jun 2007	Jun 2007
Please to the Table	1990	Anya von Bremzen	Workman Publishing Company	659	Jun 2007	Jun 2007
Working Alone	2001	John Carroll	Taunton	152	Jun 2007	Jun 2007
Sewing 101	2002	Editors of CPI	Creative Publishing International	224	Jun 2007	Jun 2007
Falling Man	2007	Don DeLillo	Scribner	256	Jun 2007	Jun 2007
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius	2001	Dave Eggers	Vintage	485	Jun 2007	Jun 2007
The Raw Shark Texts	2007	Steven Hall	Canongate	436	Jun 2007	Jun 2007
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle	2007	Barbara Kingsolver	HarperCollins	370	Jun 2007	Jun 2007
Black Swan Green	2006	David Mitchell	Random House	294	Jun 2007	Jun 2007
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales	2002	Michael Chabon	Vintage	480	Jul 2007	May 2007
Jamestown	2007	Matthew Sharpe	Soft Skull Press	327	Jul 2007	Jul 2007
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	2003	Mark Haddon	Vintage	226	Aug 2007	Jun 2007
Absurdistan	2006	Gary Shteyngart	Random House	352	Aug 2007	Jul 2007
Peter Reinhart's Whole Grain Breads	2007	Peter Reinhart	Ten Speed Press	309	Sep 2007	Sep 2007
Local Breads	2007	Daniel Leader	W. W. Norton	355	Oct 2007	Oct 2007
American Pie	2003	Peter Reinhart	Ten Speed Press	256	Nov 2007	Nov 2007
African Psycho	2007	Alain Mabanckou	Soft Skull Press, Transition Books	176	Dec 2007	Oct 2007
War and Peace	1869	Leo Tolstoy	Knopf	1,296	Dec 2007	Oct 2007
Johann Sebastian Bach	2000	Christoph Wolff	W. W. Norton & Company	599	Dec 2007	Nov 2007
Spook Country	2007	William Gibson	Putnam Adult	371	Jan 2008	Aug 2007
Then We Came to the End	2007	Joshua Ferris	Little, Brown and Company	388	Jan 2008	Oct 2007
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Issue 25	2007	Dave Eggers	McSweeney's	198	Jan 2008	Dec 2007
My Year of Meats	1998	Ruth L. Ozeki	Penguin	366	Jan 2008	Dec 2007
Riding Toward Everywhere	2008	William T. Vollmann	Ecco	288	Jan 2008	Jan 2008
The Infinite Variety of Music	1966	Leonard Bernstein	Simon and Schuster	287	Feb 2008	Feb 2008
What to Listen for in Music	1939	Aaron Copland	Whittlesey House	281	Feb 2008	Feb 2008
The Glorious Cause	2005	Robert Middlekauff	Oxford University Press	752	Mar 2008	Dec 2007
In Defense of Food	2008	Michael Pollan	The Penguin Press	256	Mar 2008	Jan 2008
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle	1997	Haruki Murakami	Vintage	607	Apr 2008	Jun 2007
Human Smoke	2008	Nicholson Baker	Simon & Schuster	576	Apr 2008	Mar 2008
Learning SQL	2005	Alan Beaulieu	O'Reilly Media, Inc.	306	Apr 2008	Apr 2008
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	2007	Junot Díaz	Riverhead	352	May 2008	Apr 2008
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Issue 26	2008	Dave Eggers	McSweeney's	240	Jun 2008	Mar 2008
Where to Invade Next	2008	The Editors of McSweeney's	McSweeney's	96	Jun 2008	Mar 2008
Arkansas	2008	John Brandon	McSweeney's	224	Jun 2008	Apr 2008
Ambitious Brew	2006	Maureen Ogle	Harvest Books	432	Jul 2008	Dec 2007
The Rest Is Noise	2007	Alex Ross	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	640	Jul 2008	Mar 2008
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name	2007	Vendela Vida	Ecco	240	Jul 2008	Jun 2008
Atmospheric Disturbances	2008	Rivka Galchen	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	256	Jul 2008	Jul 2008
The Echo Maker	2006	Richard Powers	Picador	464	Jul 2008	Jul 2008

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