Reading
Get Caught Reading!
I love to read. Here are some of the books I have read and given a rating. One thumbs up means I enjoyed the book. Two thumbs up means the book made a distinct impression on me. Thumbs down means it was somewhat tedious. Two thumbs down means it was awful!
Fiction
| Jaws | Peter Benchley |  |
| Digital Fortress | Dan Brown |  |
| The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck | |
| The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | |
| Peace Like a River | Leif Enger | |
| The Little Prince | Antione de Saint Exupery | |
| Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe | Fannie Flagg | |
| A Painted House | John Grisham | |
| A Time to Kill | John Grisham | |
| The Brethren | John Grisham | |
| The Broker | John Grisham | |
| The Chamber | John Grisham | |
| The Client | John Grisham | |
| The Firm | John Grisham | |
| The King of Torts | John Grisham | |
| The Partner | John Grisham | |
| The Pelican Brief | John Grisham | |
| The Rainmaker | John Grisham | |
| The Runaway Jury | John Grisham | |
| The Summons | John Grisham | |
| The Testament | John Grisham | |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | |
| Skinwalkers | Tony Hillerman | |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Ken Kesey | |
| The Honk and Holler Opening Soon | Billie Letts | |
| The Bourne Identity | Robert Ludlum | |
| The Bourne Supremacy | Robert Ludlum | |
| The Bourne Ultimatum | Robert Ludlum | |
| The Cassandra Compact: A Covert One Novel | Robert Ludlum and Philip Shelby | |
| Moby Dick | Herman Melville | |
| The Godfather | Mario Puzo | |
| The Great Divide | Frank M. Robinson, John F. Levin | |
| The Years of Rice and Salt | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | |
Science Fiction
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | |
| The Restaraunt at the End of the Universe | Douglas Adams | |
| Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | |
| So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish | Douglas Adams | |
| Mostly Harmless | Douglas Adams | |
| Darwin's Radio | Greg Bear | |
| Looking Backward: 2000 to 1887 | Edward Bellamy | |
| Powersat | Ben Bova | |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | |
| Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | Arthur C. Clarke | |
| The Light of Other Days | Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter | |
| Congo | Michael Crichton | |
| Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton | |
| The Lost World | Michael Crichton | |
| Next | Michael Crichton | |
| Prey | Michael Crichton | |
| Sphere | Michael Crichton | |
| State of Fear | Michael Crichton | |
| Timeline | Michael Crichton | |
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick | |
| A Boy and His Dog | Harlan Ellison | |
| American Gods | Neil Gaiman | |
| Neuromancer | William Gibson | |
| Dune | Frank Herbert | |
| Battlefield Earth | L. Ron Hubbard | |
| Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | |
| Dreamcatcher | Stephen King | |
| The Stand | Stephen King | |
| Altered Carbon | Richard K. Morgan | |
| Ringworld | Larry Niven | |
| Luficer's Hammer | Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle | |
| Footfall | Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle | |
| The Ice Limit | Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child | |
| Century Rain | Alastair Reynolds | |
| Revelation Space | Alastair Reynolds | |
| Red Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| Green Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| Blue Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| The Rosetta Codex | Richard Paul Russo | |
| Contact | Carl Sagan | |
| Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | |
| Earth Abides | George R. Stewart | |
| Titan | John Varley | |
| Demon | John Varley | |
| Wizard | John Varley | |
Humor
| Just a Guy: Notes from a Blue Collar Life | Bill Engval with Alan Eisenstock | |
| The Thurber Carnival | James Thurber | |
Business and Comunication
| Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead | James Belasco, Ralph C. Stayer | |
| The One Minute Manager | Kenneth Blanchard, Spencer Johnson | |
| Apple: The Inside Story of Intrigue, Egomania, and Business Blunders | Jim Carlton | |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie | |
| The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen R. Covey | |
| Today and Tomorrow | Henry Ford | |
| Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In | Roger Fisher and William Ury | |
| Dress for Success | John T. Molloy | |
| In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies | Thomas J. Peters, Robert H. Waterman | |
Psychology
| Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Richard Bach | |
| All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten | Robert Fulghum | |
| I'm OK - You're OK | Thomas A. Harris, M.D. | |
Religion
| The Bible | God | |
| Mere Christianity | C.S. Lewis | |
| The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God | Dallas Willard | |
Politics and Sociology
| Godless: The Church of Liberalism | Ann Coulter | |
| Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism | Ann Coulter | |
| 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America | Bernard Goldberg | |
| Do the Right Thing | Mike Huckabee | |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | |
| Culture Warrior | Bill O'Reilly | |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell | |
| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | |
| Walden (Life in the Woods) | Henry David Thoreau | |
Math and Science
| Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions | Edwin A. Abbott | |
| The Day the Universe Changed | James Burke | |
| Origin of Species | Charles Darwin | |
| QED: the strange theory of light and matter | Richard P. Feynman | |
| Mr. Thompkins in Paperback | George Gamov | |
| Chaos: Making a New Science | James Gleick | |
| Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid | Douglas R. Hofstadter | |
| Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic | Bart Kosko | |
| Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle | G.E.R. Lloyd | |
| Greek Science After Aristotle | G.E.R. Lloyd | |
| The Fractal Geometry of Nature | Benoit B. Mandelbrot | |
| The ABC's of Relativity | Bertrand Russell | |
| Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life | Steven Strogatz | |
| The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe | Steven Weinberg | |
Health and Fitness
| The Lance Armstrong Performance Program | Lance Armstrong and Chris Carmichael | |
| Daniels' Running Formula | Jack Daniels, PhD | |
| Galloway's Book on Running | Jeff Galloway | |
| Why We Run: A Natural History | Bernd Heinrich | |
| The Maffetone Method: The Holistic, Low-Stress, No-Pain Way to Exceptional Fitness | Dr. Philip Maffetone | |
| Training Techniques for Cyclists | edited by Ed Pavelka | |
| The Stress of Life | Hans Selye, M.D. (The man who "invented" stress) | |
Sports
| Duel in the Sun: Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley and America's Greatest Marathon | John Brant | |
| Chasing Lance | Martin Dugard | |
| Every Second Counts | Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins | |
| The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It | Neal Bascomb | |
| From Lance to Landis: Inside the American Doping Controversy at the Tour De France | David Walsh | |
| Chariots of Fire | W. J. Weatherby | |
| The 2003 Tour De France | John Wilcockson | |
Biography
| It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life | Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins | |
| An Hour Before Daylight: Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood | Jimmy Carter | |
| Iacocca: An Autobiography | Lee Iacocca with William Novak | |
| Einstein: His Life and Universe | Walter Isaacson | |
| The Watershed: A Biography of Johannes Kepler | Arthur Koestler | |
| The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler | William L. Shirer | |
Geography and History
| Windtalkers | Max A. Collins | |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies | Jared Diamond | |
| The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town | John Grisham | |
| Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo | Captain Ted W. Lawson | |
| The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey | Candice Millard | |
| Icebound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole | Jerri Nielsen & Maryanne Vollers | |
| The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | William L. Shirer | |
| The Battle of the Bulge | John Toland | |
| Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition | edited by unknown | |
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