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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