359 books overall; 62 books read in the last year; 2 books read in the last month. That's an average of 5 books each month.

Planned books (7):

• Foundation and Empire (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov
• Second Foundation (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov
• Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Inve by Julia Keller
• The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq, Frank Wynne
• Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
• John Dies at the End by David Wong
• The Stories of English by David Crystal

Current books (1):

• Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography by Peter Green

Recent books (319):

• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
• At Home: A Short History of Domestic Life by Bill Bryson
• Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky
• In Search of Time: The History, Physics, and Philosophy of Time by Dan Falk
• Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Prof. Randy Frost Ph.D., Prof. Gail Steketee Ph.D.
• The Magicians: A Novel by Lev Grossman
• Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
• Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson
• Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
• Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden
• Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History by Simon Winder
• Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
• Logan’s Run by William F. Nolan
• Foundation (Foundation Novels) by Isaac Asimov
• The Wal-Mart Effect by Charles Fishman
• On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears by Stephen T. Asma
• Singularity Sky by Charles Stross
• Grendel by John Gardner
• The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman
• Oil Panic and the Global Crisis: Predictions and Myths by Steven M. Gorelick
• Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
• And God Said: How Translations Conceal the Bible’s Original Meaning by Joel M. Hoffman
• The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history by John M. Barry
• The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
• Juliet, Naked: a novel by Nick Hornby
• Shades of Grey: A Novel by Jasper Fforde
• The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris
• K-Pax by Dr. Gene Brewer
• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
• The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment by A. J. Jacobs
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• The Wild Things by Dave Eggers
• Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century by Masha Gessen
• An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• Last Words: A Memoir by George Carlin
• Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
• Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath by John Esposito
• Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer
• SuperFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
• JPod by Douglas Coupland
• Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman
• And Another Thing… by Eoin Colfer
• Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel by Audrey Niffenegger
• Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
• The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter
• Halting State by Charles Stross
• Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography by Stanley Plumly
• A Short History of the American Stomach by Frederick Kaufman
• McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern Issue #31 by McSweeney’s
• The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave
• Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World by Eugenie Samuel Reich
• The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
• Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn’t–and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger by Daniel Gardner
• In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent
• Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines by Richard A. Muller
• The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede
• I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away by Bill Bryson
• I Drink for a Reason by David Cross
• A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz
• Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
• The Drunkard’s Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
• Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) by Stephenie Meyer
• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
• Made in America by Bill Bryson
• Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free by Charles P. Pierce
• Spanking the Donkey: Dispatches from the Dumb Season by Matt Taibbi
• Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You by Sam Gosling
• And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
• The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester
• Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel by Rivka Galchen
• The Engaged Groom: You’re Getting Married. Read this Book. by Doug Gordon
• Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End . . . by Philip Plait Ph.D.
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith
• Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers
• Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy by Martin Lindstrom
• Kornwolf by Tristan Egolf
• Daemon by Daniel Suarez
• Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship by Christopher Hitchens
• McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern Issue #30 by McSweeney’s
• Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku
• Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
• Brain Droppings by George Carlin
• The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno
• Downtown Owl: A Novel by Chuck Klosterman
• The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
• Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
• The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
• The Truth (with jokes) by Al Franken
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
• The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule by Thomas Frank
• More Information Than You Require by John Hodgman
• Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions by Christian Lander
• Brisingr (Inheritance, Book 3) by Christopher Paolini
• The Raw Shark Texts: A Novel by Steven Hall
• Watchmen by Alan Moore
• I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter
• Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
• Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
• The Bellmaker (Redwall, Book 7) by Brian Jacques
• I Want to Buy a Vowel: A Novel of Illegal Alienation by John Welter
• All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen
• When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
• Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
• Me of Little Faith by Lewis Black
• The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
• The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu
• Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
• Napoleon’s Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Penny Le Couteur
• Night of the Avenging Blowfish: A Novel of Covert Operations, Love, and Luncheon Meat by John Welter
• His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
• Martin the Warrior (Redwall, Book 6) by Brian Jacques
• Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
• A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
• The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil
• Salamandastron (Redwall, Book 5) by Brian Jacques
• God’s Problem by Bart D. Ehrman
• John Adams by David McCullough
• Mariel of Redwall (Redwall, Book 4) by Brian Jacques
• Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Ignores Helpful Advice by Scott Adams
• Mattimeo (Redwall, Book 3) by Brian Jacques
• Mossflower (Redwall, Book 2) by Brian Jacques
• Redwall (Redwall, Book 1) by Brian Jacques
• Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan
• A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong
• Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2) by Christopher Paolini
• Saint Francis of Assisi by G.K. Chesterton
• Eragon (Inheritance) by Christopher Paolini
• The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
• God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
• The Fugitive Game: Online with Kevin Mitnick by Jonathan Littman
• Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk
• The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed by Bart D. Ehrman
• The Road (Oprah’s Book Club) by Cormac McCarthy
• Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
• Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
• So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• Jesus Freaks by Don Lattin
• Monkey Girl by Edward Humes
• Our Dumb World: The Onion’s Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition by The Onion
• Mental Floss Presents Condensed Knowledge: A Deliciously Irreverent Guide to Feeling Smart Again by Mangesh Hattikudur
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A. J. Jacobs
• Bill of Wrongs: The Executive Branch’s Assault on America’s Fundamental Rights by Molly Ivins
• Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man: A Biography by Christopher Hitchens
• The Big Con by Jonathan Chait
• Dave Barry’s History of the Millennium (So Far) by Dave Barry
• The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language by Christine Kenneally
• The Daily Show and Philosophy by Jason Holt
• The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
• The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
• Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
• Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson
• The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch
• The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics by David Toomey
• Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments by Alex Boese
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
• The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders
• Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
• Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel by Austin Grossman
• Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas by Chuck Klosterman
• Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft by G. Pascal Zachary
• Lord Conrad’s Crusade (Adventures of Conrad Stargard, Book 7) by Leo Frankowski
• Conrad’s Quest for Rubber (The Adventures of Conrad Stargard, Book 6) by Leo A. Frankowski
• When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden by Bill Maher
• Lord Conrad’s Lady (Adventures of Conrad Stargard, Book 5) by Leo A. Frankowski
• Flying Warlord (Adventures of Conrad Stargard, Book 4) by Leo A. Frankowski
• The Radiant Warrior (Adventures of Conrad Stargard, Bk 3) by Leo A. Frankowski
• The Cross-Time Engineer (Adventures of Conrad Stargard, Book 1) by Leo A. Frankowski
• The High-Tech Knight (Adventures of Conrad Stargard, Book 2) by Leo A. Frankowski
• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman
• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
• The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
• From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain by Minister Faust
• Mere Anarchy by Woody Allen
• The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson
• Love and Other Near-Death Experiences: A Novel by Mil Millington
• Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel by Scott Adams
• It’s Superman!: A Novel by Tom De Haven
• Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
• The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh by David Damrosch
• The Corrections: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen
• A History Of The World In Six Glasses by Tom Standage
• Love, Poverty, and War : Journeys and Essays by Christopher Hitchens
• Then We Came to the End: A Novel by Joshua Ferris
• The Alphabet Of Manliness by Maddox
• What Is the What by Dave Eggers
• The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
• The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
• Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War and the Aftermath as Seen by NPR’s Correspondent by Anne Garrels
• The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkein
• The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron
• Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics by Jennifer Ouellette
• Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival by Jen Marlowe
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
• Galatea 2.2: A Novel by Richard Powers
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
• The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
• The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
• From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame by Mark Monmonier
• Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman
• Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World by John Man
• The Children’s Hospital by Chris Adrian
• The Fata Morgana by Leo Frankowski
• Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney’s Book of Lists by McSweeney’s
• The Stones Of Summer by Dow Mossman
• Conrad’s Time Machine by Leo Frankowski
• Down Under by Bill Bryson
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Wicked by Gregory Maguire
• A History of the English Language by Albert C. Baugh
• The Futurist by James P. Othmer
• Lord of the Barnyard by Tristan Egolf
• The Worst Person in the World by Keith Olbermann
• The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
• Snow by Orhan Pamuk
• Don’t Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff
• Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• Night of Stone by Catherine Merridale
• The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
• Introducing Lenin and the Russian Revolution by Oscar Appignanesi
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• Foe by J. M. Coetzee
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
• Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
• The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway by Dave Barry
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
• Say Goodnight, Grace Notes by Jack McCarthy
• A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
• The Ancestor’s Tale by Richard Dawkins
• Hitler’s Pope by John Cornwell
• The Truth (with jokes) by Al Franken
• The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
• Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
• Everything Bad Is Good for You by Steven Johnson
• The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman
• The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
• Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley
• Adultery & Other Choices by Andre Dubus
• The Worst Movies of All Time by Michael Sauter
• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
• Against All Enemies by Richard A. Clarke
• Infernal Sky by Dafydd ab Hugh
• Endgame by Dafydd ab Hugh
• Hell On Earth by Dafydd ab Hugh
• Knee-Deep in the Dead by Dafydd ab Hugh
• New Rules by Bill Maher
• Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
• Lord Vishnu’s Love Handles : A Spy Novel (Sort Of) by Will Clarke
• Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
• Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way by Bruce Campbell
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Spam Kings by Brian S. McWilliams
• The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney
• The Truth (with jokes) by Al Franken
• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
• Hill 568 by Zack Emerson
• Welcome to Vietnam by Zack Emerson
• Tis the Season by Zack Emerson
• Stand Down by Zack Emerson
• The Road Home by Ellen Emerson White
• They Made America by Harold Evans
• The Know-It-All by A. J. Jacobs
• What’s the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
• Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules by David Sedaris
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
• Model Patient by Karen Duffy
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
• The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman
• The Shroud of the Thwacker by Chris Elliott
• The Physics of Superheroes by James Kakalios
• Kornwolf by Tristan Egolf
• The Search by John Battelle
• Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks
• Candyfreak by Steve Almond
• Dave Barry’s Money Secrets by Dave Barry
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
• Uncommon Grounds by Mark Pendergrast
• Sweetness and Power by Sidney W. Mintz
• Food Fight by Kelly Brownell
• Kren of the Mitchegai by Leo Frankowski
• Lord Conrad’s Crusade by Leo Frankowski
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
• Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy
• Skirt and the Fiddle by Tristan Egolf
• Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel by Judith Morgan
• The Beautiful Miscellaneous by Dominic Smith
• The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
• The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English by Henry Hitchings
• The Book of Job by Stephen Mitchell
• The Mental Floss History of the World: An Irreverent Romp through Civilization’s Best Bits by Erik Sass, Steve Wiegand, Editors Of Mental Floss
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• The McSweeney’s Joke Book of Book Jokes by McSweeney’s
• Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
• Welcome to Vietnam by Zack Emerson
• Hill 568 by Zack Emerson
• Tis the Season by Zack Emerson
• stand down by Zack Emerson
• The Road Home (Point Signature) by Ellen Emerson White
• Drive by Daniel H. Pink