Books Read:
The Great Wheel, Ian MacLeod
City of Truth, James Morrow
Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life, Steve Martin
Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music, David N. Meyer
King of Russia: A Year in the Russian Super League, Dave King
100 Things You’re Not Supposed to Know, Russ Kick
The Farther Shore, Matthew Eck
Triumph, Philip Wylie (Review)
The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam’s Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda, Yaroslav Trofimov
Passage to Ararat, Michael J. Arlen
Axis, Robert Charles Wilson
Beam Me Up, Jesus: A Heathen’s Guide to the Rapture, Jim Gerard
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Oliver Sacks
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia, Orlando Figes (Review)
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, Jeffrey Toobin
Halting State, Charles Stross
Clapton: The Autobiography, Eric Clapton
Goon: The True Story of an Unlikely Journey into Minor League Hockey, Doug Smith and Adam Fattasio
Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent, Mary Laven
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound, Ben Ratliff
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, Naomi Wolf
Eifelheim, Michael Flynn
Old Twentieth, Joe Haldeman
Paper Crown, Jim Peterson
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America, Susan Faludi (Review)
Buddha or Bust: In Search of Truth, Meaning, Happiness, and the Man Who Found Them All, Perry Garfinkel
Malvinas Requiem, Rodolfo Fogwill (Review)
Living Blue in the Red States, David Starkey (ed.) (Review)
The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, Chingiz Aitmatov
The Accidental Time Machine, Joe Haldeman
Spook Country, William Gibson
The Last Summer of Reason, Tahar Djaout (Review)
The Witch of Portobello, Paulo Coelho
Finding George Orwell in Burma, Emma Larkin
Shooting from the Lip: Hockey’s Best Quotes and Quips, Chris McDonell (ed.)
The Last Witchfinder, James Morrow
The Exception, Christian Jungersen (Review)
Forgotten Fire, Adam Bagdasarian
Infoquake, David Louis Edelman
Skylark Farm, Antonia Arslan (Review)
The World Through the Eyes of Writers: An Anthology, Words Without Borders
Towing Jehovah, James Morrow
Generation Loss, Elizabeth Hand
HARM, Brian Aldiss
The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America, Daniel Brook (Review)
Gradisil, Adam Roberts (Review)
On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan
The Execution Channel, Ken Macleod
Literature from the “Axis of Evil”, Words Without Borders
The SFWA European Hall of Fame: Sixteen Contemporary Masterpieces of Science Fiction from the Continent, James Morrow (ed.)
Life During Wartime, Lucius Shepard
Sarah Canary, Karen Joy Fowler
Divided Kingdom, Rupert Thomson
Rollback, Robert J. Sawyer
The Apocalypse Reader, Justin Taylor (ed.)
Seeker, Jack McDevitt
The Android’s Dream, John Scalzi
The Deserter’s Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq, Joshua Key
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon, Crystal Zevon
The Power of Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work, Richard Leider
Blindsight, Peter Watts
Ghostwalk, Rebecca Stott
Help Your Dog Fight Cancer: An Overview Of Home Care Options, Laurie Kaplan
Pets Living With Cancer: A Pet Owner’s Resource, Robin Downing
Welcome to the Monkey House, Kurt Vonnegut
A Handbook of American Prayer, Lucius Shepard
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens
Night , Elie Wiesel
The Last Colony, John Scalzi
Missile Gap, Charles Stross
Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
Nothing: Something to Believe In, Nica Lalli
Essentials of Immigration Law, Richard A. Boswell
The Little Book of Plagiarism, Richard A. Posner
Once in a Promised Land, Laila Halaby
Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965, Francis French and Colin Burgess (Review)
The Bookseller of Kabul, Asne Seierstad
A Fighter’s Heart: One Man’s Journey Through the World of Fighting, Sam Sheridan
No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
Too Far From Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space, Chris Jones
James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, Julie Phillips
All God’s Children: Inside the Dark and Violent World of Street Families, Rene Denfeld
Songs from the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors, Charles Barber (Review)
Anti-Christ: A Satirical End of Days, Matthew Moses (Review)
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Max Brooks
The Unquiet Grave : The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country, Steve Hendricks
The Black Hills Yesterday and Today, Paul Horsted
Surveillance, Jonathan Raban
God: The Failed Hypothesis, Victor Stenger (Review)
The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures, Louis Theroux (Review)
The Aquariums of Pyongyang, Kang Chol-Hwan
In the Bin, Lloyd Freeberg
What If Our World Is Their Heaven?, Gwen Lee (ed.)
The Code: The Unwritten Rules of Fighting and Retaliation in the NHL, Ross Bernstein
The Castle in the Forest, Norman Mailer (Review)
Toast, Charles Stross
Secrets of the SuperOptimist, W.R. Morton & Nathaniel Whitten (Review)
Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn
Tropic of Hockey, Dave Bidini
