Rik's Virtual Bookshelf Project I browse your bookshelf and see inside your cupboards: ideas old and new. To know me better, you ask how I seek titles I find for myself. Neither endorsement nor a solicitation, just a list of books. Last updated December 2008 Black Swan Green / David Mitchell The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century / Alex Ross Out Stealing Horses / Per Petterson Wind-Up Bird Chronicle / Haruki Murakami The evidence for the top quark: objectivity and bias in collaborative experimentation / Kent W. Staley Samedi the Deafness / Jesse Ball Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations / Dave Montgomery Ghostwritten / David Mitchell Special Topics in Calamity Physics / Marisha Pessl Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies / Jared Diamond Freakonomics / Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Saturday / Ian McEwan A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian / Marina Lewycka Portugese Irregular Verbs / Alexander McCall Smith The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need / Andrew Tobias Salmela: Architect / Peter Bastianelli Kerze The Gulag Archipelago / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Never Let Me Go / Kazuo Ishiguro Kafka on the Shore / Haruki Murakami Statistics on the Table / Stephen Stigler Design Paradigms: case histories of error and judgment in engineering / Henry Petroski Memoir / Edward Teller The Salmon of Doubt / Douglas Adams Victim of the Aurora / Thomas Kenealy Cloud Atlas / David Mitchell The Bird Artist / Howard Norman The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time / Mark Haddon The English Passengers / Matthew Kneale The Shipping News / Annie Proulx The DaVinci Code / Dan Brown Three to see the King / Magnus Mills The Crazed / Ha Jin Pattern Recognition / William Gibson The Evolution of Technology / George Basalla Coming into the Country / John McPhee The Cave / Jose Saramago Dogbert's Management Handbook / Scott Adams Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions / Ben Mezrich Airframe / Michael Chrichton Prisoners Dilemma / William Poundstone Herzog / Saul Bellow The Boy who Kicked Pigs / Tom Baker Selectivity and Discord / Allan Franklin 2182 kHz / David Masiel Snow Falling on Cedars / David Guterson Macbeth / Shakespeare When We Were Orphans / Kazuo Ishiguro The Man Who Ate Everything / Jeffrey Steingarten The Birth Partner 2nd edition / Penny Simkin Motherless Brooklyn / Jonathan Lethem You Shall Know Our Velocity / Dave Eggers Geek Love / Catherine Dunn The Pleasure of Finding Things Out / Richard Feynman The Flanders Panel / Arturo Perez-Reverte Gun, With Occasional Music / Jonathan Lethem Hunting Badger / Tony Hillerman The Cheese Monkeys / Chip Kidd The Inflationary Universe / Alan Guth Memoirs / Edward Teller The Hesperides Tree / Nicholas Mosely 36 Views of Mount Fuji / Cathy N. Davidson Wearing Dad's Head / Barry Yourgrau The Corrections / Jonathan Franzen Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said / Philip K. Dick No Hurry to Get Home / Emily Hahn The Humane Interface / Jef Raskin A Sand County Almanac / Aldo Leopold Clans of the Alphane Moon / Philip K. Dick Lincoln's Greatest Speech / Ronald C. White Stupid White Men / Michael Moore The Poet Game / Salar Abdoh Play for a Kindgom / Tom Dyja Dispatches from the Ninth Circle / The Onion Nine Crazy Ideas in Science / Robert Erlich The Future of Ideas / Lawrence Lessig The Meadowlands / Robert Sullivan The Map that Changed the World / Simon Winchester Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer / David Winner Galactic Pot Healer / Philip K. Dick The Age of Spiritual Machines / Ray Kurzweil Tuesdays With Morrie / Mitch Albom The Design of Everyday Things / Donald A. Norman Home: A short history of an idea / Witold Rybczynski Strategies Against Architecture III / Einsturzende Neubauten Angle of Repose / Wallace Stenger The Innovators Dilemma / Clayton Christensen In the Beginning was the Command Line / Neal Stephensen Eccentric Islands / Bill Holm Hungry Again / Dolly Parton Lament / Giya Kanchelli Next: The future just happened / Michael Lewis The Man in the High Castle / Philip K. Dick Mauve: The story of the color that changed the world / Simon Garfield Nobu: The Cookbook / Nobuyuki Matsuhisa A Short History of the Screwdriver and the Screw / Witold Rybczynski The Number Sense / Stanislas Debaene Soul Mountain / Gao Xingjian Just For Fun / Linus Torvalds Hemingway's Chair / Michael Palin Food in England / Dorothy Hartley The heart can be filled anywhere on Earth / Bill Holm Kitchen Confidental / Anthony Bourdain The Last Debate / Jim Lehrer The Look of Architecture / Witold Rybczynski The Informant / Kurt Eichenwald The Lord of the Rings / J.R.R. Tolkein Red China Blues / Headlong / Michael Frayn Last Days of Haute Cuisine / Patric Huh Fast Food Nation: the dark side of the all-American meal / Eric Schlosser The Hobbit / J.R.R. Tolkein The Professor and the Madman / Simon Winchester Author Unknown: on the Trail of Anonymous / Donald Foster Cold Mountain / Charles Frazier Hitler's Uranium Club / Jeremy Bernstein House of Leaves / Mark Z. Danielewski Copenhagen / Michael Frayn Random Walk Down Wall Street / Burton Malkiel The Westing Game / Ellen Raskin Lord Foul's Bane / (and five sequels) Stephen R. Donaldson The Control of Nature / John McPhee Isaac's Storm / Erik Larson Encounters with the Archdruid / John McPhee Catch-22 / Joseph Heller Galileo's Daughter / Dava Sobel Longitude / Dava Sobel On Giant's Shoulders / Melvyn Bragg The River Warren / Kent Meyers A short haiku that might provide boring answers to questions you might have but wouldn't actually ask. 2000. CD's, Movies, Web. Library.