Incomplete list of books I have read in recent years

Legend:

• * = read out loud
• Bold = a book not yet read
• Italics = a book not yet bought (usually listed to complete a series)
• ! = a book currently being read

For a list of cookbooks and cooking magazines, go here.

Iain Banks

Science-fiction

• Consider Phlebas
• Player of Games
• Use of Weapons
• State of the Art
• Against a Dark Background
• Feersum Endjinn *
• Excession
• Inversions
• Look to Windward

  Mainstream

• Walking on Glass *
• The Bridge *
• Espedair Street
• Canal Dreams
• The Crow Road
• Complicity *
• The Business

• The Wasp Factory
• Whit
• Song of Stone

Military novels

Harry Coyle

• Team Yankee
• Sword Point
• Bright Star
• Trial by Fire
• The Ten Thousand
• Code of Honor !

  John Wingate

• Frigate
• Carrier
• Submarine

  Various

• Red Phoenix, Larry Bond
• Red Army, Ralph Peters
• Fields of Fire, James Webb
• Rainbow Six, Tom Clancy

Others

David Eddings Belgariad/Malloreon

• Belgariad 1: Pawn of Prophecy
• Belgariad 2: Queen of Sorcery
• Belgariad 3: Magicians Gambit
• Belgariad 4: Castle of Wizardry
• Belgariad 5: Enchanters' Endgame

• Malloreon 1: Guardians of the West
• Malloreon 2: King of the Murgos
• Malloreon 3: Demon Lord of Karanda
• Malloreon 4: Sorceress of Darshiva
• Malloreon 5: Seeress of Kell

  William Gibson Sprawl Series

• Burning Chrome
• Neuromancer
• Count Zero
• Mona Lisa Overdrive

  Rudy Rucker Bopper novels

• Software
• Wetware
• Freeware
• Realware

  S. M. Stirling's Drakka Novels

• Marching Through Georgia
• Under the Yoke
• The Stone Dogs
• Drakon
• Drakas! (anthology)

• NOTE: The first three titles above were reprinted in hardcover by Baen Books as The Domination

  Isaac Asimov

• Foundation
• Foundation and Empire
• Second Foundation

  Philip K. Dick

• The Man in the High Castle
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• Radio Free Albemuth
• Valis
• The Divine Invasion
• The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

  Ken MacLeod

• The Star Fraction
• The Stone Canal
• The Cassini Division
• The Sky Road
• Cosmonaut Keep
• Dark Light
• Engine City

  Others

• Pavane, Keith Roberts
• The Difference Engine, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
• The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
• The Gripping Hand, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
• Dreams of Terror and Death, H.P. Lovecraft
• Islands in the Net, Bruce Sterling

Others: Read out loud

Douglas Adams

• HGG 1: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy *
• HGG 2: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe *
• HGG 3: Life, The Universe, and Everything *
• HGG 4: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish *
• HGG 5: Mostly Harmless *
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency *
• The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul *

  Niel Hancock

• Circle of Light 1: Greyfax Grimwald *
• Circle of Light 2: Faragon Fairingay *
• Circle of Light 3: Calix Stay *
• Circle of Light 4: Squaring the Circle *

  Ursula K. LeGuin: Earthsea Cycle

• Earthsea Cycle 1: The Wizard of Earthsea *
• Earthsea Cycle 2: The Tombs of Atuan *
• Earthsea Cycle 3: The Farthest Shore *
• Earthsea Cycle 4: Tehanu *

  J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone *
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets *
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban *
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire *
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix *
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince *
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  J.R.R. Tolkien

• The Hobbit
• The Lord of the Rings

• The Princess Bride, William Goldman *
• Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez *
• Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco *
• Adventures in the Skin Trade, Dylan Thomas *
• A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle *
• Toujours Provence, Peter Mayle *
• How to Travel with a Salmon and other Essays, Umberto Eco *

Romans français

• Les trois mousquetaires, Alexandre Dumas
• Les émois d'un marchand de café, Yves Beauchemin
• Le matou, Yves Beauchemin
• Les misérables (2 vols.), Victor Hugo
• Notre-Dame de Paris, Victor Hugo !
• Juliette Pomerleau, Yves Beauchemin
• Le soleil brille sur la rivière Sanggan, Ding Ling
• Maître Eckhart, Jean Bédard

History and politics

Sir Martin Gilbert

• Holocaust: The History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War
• Second World War
• First World War !
• Holocaust Journey: Travelling in Search of the Past
• History of the Twentieth Century

  • 1900-1933
  • 1933-1951
  • 1952-1999

• Fighter, Len Deighton
• J'accuse! L'économie triomphante, Albert Jacquard
• The Unconscious Civilization, John Ralston Saul
• Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century, John Ralston Saul
• The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many, David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky
• The Cambridge Companion to Marx, ed. Terrence Carver
• The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovo, Noam Chomsky
• Explaining Hitler, Ron Rosenbaum
• Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans & the Holocaust, Daniel J. Goldhagen
• Sacré Blues: A Field Guide to Quebec, Taras Grescoe
• Hitler's Traitor: Martin Bormann and the Defeat of the Reich, Louis Kilzer
• A Soldier's Story, Omar Bradley
• Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991, Eric Hobsbawm
• History of Warfare, John Keegan
• Et si l'aventure humaine devait échouer?, Théodore Monod
• Canada and Quebec: One Country--Two Histories, Robert Bothwell
• Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Mark Kurlansky
• Marshall Zhukov's Greatest Battles, Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov (ed. Harrison E. Salisbury)
• Karl Marx (a biography), Francis Weems
• Stalingrad, Antony Beevor
• Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger !
• Trotsky (a biography), Ian D. Thatcher !
• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow !
• A World At Arms, Gerhard Weinberg !
• Revolutionaries, Eric Hobsbawn !
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer !
• The Basque History of the World, Mark Kurlansky !
• Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society, Bertell Ollman !

• Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World, Margaret Macmillan
• L'horreur économique, Viviane Forrester
• The Nature of Economies, Jane Jacobs
• A History of Fascism 1914-1945, Stanley G. Payne
• Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene V. Debs, Marguerite Young
• Structuralisme et marxisme, Jean-Marie Auzias, Emile Botigelli, et al.
• Ultra in the West: The Normandy Campaign of 1944-1945, Ralph Bennett
• Hitler's Spies: German Military Intelligence in World War II, David Kahn
• Decision at Normandy, Carlo D'Este
• Blitzkrieg, Len Deighton
• Blood, Tears and Folly, Len Deighton
• The Mitrokhin Archives, Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin
• The Road to Stalingrad, John Erickson
• The Road to Berlin, John Erickson
• My Three Years with Eisenhower (1942-1945), Cpt. Harry C. Butcher
• Le livre noir du communisme, S. Courtois (et al)
• Hitler and Stalin, Alan Bullock
• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky
• Winston Churchill's History of World War II

  • The Gathering Storm
  • Their Finest Hour
  • The Grand Alliance
  • The Hinge of Fate
  • Closing the Ring
  • Triumph and Tragedy