Rationalia Bookshelf

[Sisifo]

When I go to someone's house, I can't resist to browse his or her bookselves. Even if wrongly, I cannot avoid making an image of the person according to the books that are exposed to people.

In the little more than one year of Rationalia, among the cheese and the relax, a lot of books have been commented, recommended, mentioned. They were not what we had. They were those seen in conversations... I wondered what would be a bookshelf of those books like. I have compiled, with obviously a lot of misses, those that happened in the more obvious reading and literature threads.

I have to say that after seeing that bookshelf, I felt very proud of belonging here, and my reading list for years to come, will feed on it.

The final bookshelf with the book covers can be found in https://dl.dropbox.com/u/423407/Rationa ... f_2009.pdf; it's 2,40Mb. I would suggest to link it here permanently in some kind of sticky, until the next update, in the next months.

A simple list of Ratz' bookshelf is following.

1984: A Novel (Commemorative Edition)::::Orwell, George
2666: A Novel::::Bolaño, Roberto
36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction::::Goldstein, Rebecca
50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need To Know (50 ideas)::::Dupre, Ben
50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God::::Harrison, Guy P.
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2)::::Martin, George R.R.
A Clergyman ‘s Daughter (The Complete works of George Orwell)::::Orwell, George
A Dog Called Demolition::::Rankin, Robert
A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind::::Axworthy, Michael
A History of Western Philosophy::::Russell, Bertrand
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Signet Classics)::::Joyce, James
A Princess of Mars (Dover Value Editions)::::Burroughs, Edgar Rice
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World::::Bernstein, William J.
A Thousand Splendid Suns::::Hosseini, Khaled
Absurdistan: A Novel::::Shteyngart, Gary
Accelerando (Singularity)::::Stross, Charles
Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat::::Harrison, Harry
Against Nature: A Rebours (Oxford World ‘s Classics)::::Huysmans, Joris-Karl
Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939::::Nicholson, Virginia
Amsterdam: A Novel::::McEwan, Ian
An Equal Music: A Novel::::Seth, Vikram
And Another Thing... CD (Hitchhiker ‘s Guide to the Galaxy)::::Colfer, Eoin
And Then There Were None::::Christie, Agatha
Animal Farm: Centennial Edition::::Orwell, George
Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals::::Grandin, Temple
Anna Karenina (Thrift Edition)::::Tolstoy, Leo
Apt Pupil : A Novella in Different Seasons::::King, Stephen
Arousal: The Secret Logic of Sexual Fantasies::::Bader, Michael J.
Art of War::::Tzu, Sun
Assessing the Threat: The Chinese Military and Taiwan ‘s Security (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)::::Swaine, Michael D.
Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam::::Onfray, Michel
Atonement::::McEwan, Ian
Ausgewhlte Gedichte, 1965-1975 =: Selected poems, 1965-1975::::Heaney, Seamus
Bad Science::::Goldacre, Ben
Baudolino::::Eco, Umberto
Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (Routledge Classics)::::Sartre, Jean-Paul
Beyond Good and Evil::::Nietzsche, Friedrich
Beyond Sleep::::Hermans, Willem Frederik
Bill, the Galactic Hero: On the Planet of Bottled Brains::::Harrison, Harry
Birds Without Wings::::Bernières, Louis de
Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War::::Faulks, Sebastian
Black Dogs::::McEwan, Ian
Blind Faith::::Elton, Ben
Blue Magic (Drinker of Souls)::::Clayton, Jo
Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy)::::Robinson, Kim Stanley
Bone in the Throat::::Bourdain, Anthony
Brave New World::::Huxley, Aldous
Breakfast of Champions: A Novel::::Vonnegut, Kurt
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon::::Dennett, Daniel C.
Bridget Jones ‘s Diary (movie tie-in)::::Fielding, Helen
Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland before the Romans::::Pryor, Francis
Burmese Days: A Novel::::Orwell, George
by George: A Novel::::Stace, Wesley
Camus: The Stranger (A Student Guide: Landmarks of World Literature)::::McCarthy, Patrick
Cancer Ward::::Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: A Biography::::Rice, Edward
Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea::::Massie, Robert K.
Catch-22::::Heller, Joseph
Ceremony: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)::::Silko, Leslie Marmon
Chaos: Making a New Science::::Gleick, James
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life::::Anderson, Jon Lee
Choice of Emily Dickinson ‘s Verse::::Hughes, Ted
Choke::::Palahniuk, Chuck
Chronicles of the Black Company::::Cook, Glen
Chung Kuo: The Middle Kingdom::::Wingrove, David
Cities in Flight::::Blish, James
Climbing Mount Improbable::::Dawkins, Richard
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed::::Diamond, Jared
Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell::::Orwell, George
Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Penguin Classics)::::Quincey, Thomas De
Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole::::Barber, Benjamin R.
Cosmic Banditos::::Weisbecker, A. C.
Cosmos::::Sagan, Carl
Crown of Slaves (Honor Harrington)::::Weber, David
Cryptonomicon::::Stephenson, Neal
Damned whores and God ‘s police: The colonization of women in Australia (A Pelican original)::::Summers, Anne
Darwin ‘s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life::::Dennett, Daniel C.
Days of Bitter Strength (Chung Kuo)::::Wingrove, David
Dear Professor Einstein (Albert Einstein ‘s Letters to and from Children)::::Einstein, Albert
Death of Virgil::::Broch, Hermann
Deja Dead: 10th Anniversary Edition (Temperance Brennan Novels)::::Reichs, Kathy
Die Räuber: Schauspiel (German Edition)::::Schiller, Friedrich
Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire::::Frank, Richard B.
Dr. Atkin ‘s Diet Revolution::::Atkins, Robert C.
Dragonlance Chronicles Trilogy Gift Set::::Weis, Margaret
Dreadnought::::Massie, Robert K.
Dreams of Love And Fateful Encounters: The Power of Romantic Passion::::Person, Ethel Spector
Driven to Distraction::::Clarkson, Jeremy
Dubliners (Signet Classics)::::Joyce, James
Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)::::Herbert, Frank
Eating Animals::::Foer, Jonathan Safran
Ecrits::::Giacometti, Alberto
Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments (Harvest Original)::::Boese, Alex
Elric of Melnibone 1::::Moorcock, Michael
Elric: The Stealer of Souls (Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melniboné, Vol. 1)::::Moorcock, Michael
Ender ‘s Game (Ender, Book 1)::::Card, Orson Scott
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo::::Carroll, Sean B.
Eragon (Inheritance)::::Paolini, Christopher
Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin ‘s Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives::::Wilson, David Sloan
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters::::Prothero, Donald R.
Executive Orders (Jack Ryan)::::Clancy, Tom
Eye in the Sky: A Novel::::Dick, Philip K.
Fancies and Goodnights (New York Review Books)::::Collier, John
Fast Food Nation::::Schlosser, Eric
Finn Family Moomintroll (Moomintrolls)::::Jansson, Tove
Finnegans Wake (Penguin Modern Classics)::::Joyce, James
FOR CRYING OUT LOUD: V. 3: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO CLARKSON (WORLD ACCORDING TO CLARKSON 3)::::CLARKSON, JEREMY
Foundation (Foundation Novels)::::Asimov, Isaac
Freedom (TM)::::Suarez, Daniel
Friedrich Schiller: Don Carlos Infant von Spanien::::Schiller, Friedrich
From the Eye of the Hurricane: My Story::::Higgins, Alex
Geek Love: A Novel::::Dunn, Katherine
Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements::::Burt, Austin
George Orwell::::Bowker, Gordon
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything::::Hitchens, Christopher
Godless Morality::::Holloway, Richard
Going Postal::::Pratchett, Terry
Going Solo::::Dahl, Roald
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch::::Gaiman, Neil
Good Sense Without God: Or Freethoughts Opposed To Supernatural Ideas A Translation Of Baron D ‘Holbach ‘s "Le Bon Sens"::::D ‘Holbach, Baron
Great Expectations::::Dickens, Charles
Green Mars (Mars Trilogy)::::Robinson, Kim Stanley
Grumpy Old Men: The Official Handbook::::Prebble, Stuart
Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance::::Santo, Ron Di
Gulliver ‘s Travels (Penguin Classics)::::Swift, Jonathan
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies::::Diamond, Jared
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai::::Tsunetomo, Yamamoto
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)::::Rowling, J. K.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer ‘s Stone: 10th Anniversary Edition (Harry Potter)::::Rowling, J.K.
Hegemony or Survival: America ‘s Quest for Global Dominance (American Empire Project)::::Chomsky, Noam
Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past (Meridian)::::Duberman, Martin Bauml
HMS "Surprise"::::O ‘Brian, Patrick
Homeland: The Dark Elf Trilogy, Part 1 (Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt, Book I) (Bk. 1)::::Salvatore, R. A.
HOUSE OF LEAVES::::DANIELEWSKI, MARK Z.
How Animals Have Sex: A Guide to the Reproductive Habits of Creatures Great and Small::::Strorm, David
I.Asimov: A Memoir::::Asimov, Isaac
Information Warfare Principles and Operations (Artech House Computer Science Library)::::Waltz, Edward
Inheritor: Foreigner 3::::Cherryh, C. J.
Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art::::Tsuji, Shizuo
Jingo (Discworld)::::Pratchett, Terry
Katz und Maus: Eine Novelle::::Grass, Gunter
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (The Complete works of George Orwell)::::Orwell, George
Kindergeschichten.::::Bichsel, Peter
King of the Vagabonds: The Baroque Cycle #2::::Stephenson, Neal
Kleinzeit::::Hoban, Russell
Lancelot Of Denmark::::P.Geyl, Dr.
Le Grand Meaulnes (French Edition)::::Fournier, Alain-
Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring)::::Hitchens, Christopher
Life, the Universe and Everything::::Adams, Douglas
Lolita::::Nabokov, Vladimir
Love, Poverty, and War : Journeys and Essays::::Hitchens, Christopher
Lullaby::::Palahniuk, Chuck
Maigret Sets a Trap (Penguin Modern Classics)::::Simenon, Georges
Man and His Symbols::::Jung, Carl Gustav
Manifold: Time::::Baxter, Stephen
Mark Twain: A Life::::Powers, Ron
Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS4::::Sullivan, Stephanie
Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction::::Gillingham, John
Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories::::Burton, Tim
Men in Love::::Friday, Nancy
Mindwarp: Chapter One (Earthsearch)::::
Moab Is My Washpot::::Fry, Stephen
Moonseed::::Baxter, Stephen
Mortal Causes (Inspector Rebus Novels)::::Rankin, Ian
Mostly Harmless::::Adams, Douglas
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Hornblower Saga)::::Forester, C.S.
My Life in France (Movie Tie-In Edition) (Random House Movie Tie-In Books)::::Child, Julia
My Name Is Red::::Pamuk, Orhan
Neill ‘s Netherland (Netherland (Vintage Contemporaries) by Joseph O ‘Neill (Paperback - May 7, 2009))::::O ‘Neill, Joseph
Neuromancer::::Gibson, William
Night Watch::::Pratchett, Terry
Nil: A Land Beyond Belief::::Turner, James
No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories::::July, Miranda
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness::::Thaler, Richard H.
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition)::::Steinbeck, John
Of Wolves and Men::::Lopez, Barry Holstun
Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac::::Amram, David
On Writing::::King, Stephen
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich::::Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)::::Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
Out of Africa (Modern Library)::::Dinesen, Isak
Pale Fire (Everyman ‘s Library (Cloth))::::Nabokov, Vladimir
Paul Klee Pedagogical Sketchbook::::Klee, Paul
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson)::::Riordan, Rick
Perfume::::Suskind, Patrick
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah (Volume 1)::::Burton, Richard
Philosophical Investigations::::Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Philosophy in the Boudoir: Or, The Immoral Mentors (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)::::Sade, Marquis de
Philosophy in the Flesh : The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought::::Lakoff, George
Picture Framing: A Complete Guide::::Foster, Armand
Picture of Dorian Grey (Classic Library)::::Wilde, Oscar
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes::::Cathcart, Thomas
Pnin::::Nabokov, Vladimir
Podkayne of Mars (Digest Size) (Ace Science Fiction)::::Heinlein, Robert A.
Poems and Prose::::Trakl, Georg
Politics and the English Language (World Cultural Heritage Library)::::Orwell, George
Porterhouse Blue::::Sharpe, Tom
post office: A Novel::::Bukowski, Charles
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls (Quirk Classics: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies)::::Austen, Jane
Prisoners of Hate: The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence::::Beck, Aaron T.
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order::::Chomsky, Noam
Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics::::Biden, Joe
Punctuated Equilibrium::::Gould, Stephen Jay
Pyramids::::Pratchett, Terry
Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle #1::::Stephenson, Neal
Rain Gods: A Novel::::Burke, James Lee
Reaper Man::::Pratchett, Terry
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy)::::Robinson, Kim Stanley
Red Planet::::Heinlein, Robert
Redemption Ark::::Reynolds, Alastair
Remarkable Creatures::::Chevalier, Tracy
Remembering the Kana: A Guide to Reading and Writing the Japanese Syllabaries in 3 Hours Each (Manoa) (Japanese Edition) (part 1)::::Heisig, James W.
Rendezvous with Rama: Intermediate (Macmillan Readers)::::Clarke, Arthur C.
Ringworld::::Niven, Larry
Rock Climbing: Introduction to Essential Technical Skills for Leaders and Seconds (Cicerone Guide)::::Hill, Pete
Rudyard Kipling ‘s Kim::::Kipling, Rudyard
Schiller: Volume One: The Robbers, Passion and Politics (Oberon Classics)::::Schiller, Friedrich
Scott and Amundsen: Duel in the Ice::::Langner, Rainier K.
Sea of Poppies::::Ghosh, Amitav
Silverthorn (Riftwar Saga, Volume 3)::::Feist, Raymond E.
Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel::::Vonnegut, Kurt
Small Gods::::Pratchett, Terry
SNIPER ONE: THE BLISTERING TRUE STORY OF A BRITISH BATTLE GROUP UNDER SIEGE::::MILLS, SGT. DAN
Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)::::Stephenson, Neal
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish::::Adams, Douglas
Society ‘s Child: My Autobiography::::Ian, Janis
Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot::::Wrede, Patricia C.
Speaker for the Dead (Ender, Book 2)::::Card, Orson Scott
Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior::::Miller, Geoffrey
Sport Climbing : The Positive Approach to Improve Your Climbing::::Berry, Adrian
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death::::Yalom, Irvin D.
Starship Troopers::::Heinlein, Robert A.
Stitch ‘N Bitch: The Knitter ‘s Handbook::::Stoller, Debbie
Stranger in a Strange Land::::Heinlein, Robert A.
Suite Francaise::::Nemirovsky, Irene
Surely You ‘re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)::::Feynman, Richard P.
T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone (Autonomedia New Autonomy Series)::::Bey, Hakim
Tarzan of the Apes (Signet Classics)::::Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Temeraire Vol 1-3 Box Set With Bonus Poster::::Novik, Naomi
Tempo and Mode in Evolution (Columbia Classics in Evolution Series.)::::Simpson, George Gaylord
The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings::::Sade, Marquis De
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century::::Dunn, Ross E.
The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey::::Schoolland, Ken
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes::::Doyle, Arthur Conan Conan
The Algebraist::::Banks, Iain M.
The Arabian Nights Entertainments Complete::::Anonymous
The Atheist ‘s Guide to Christmas::::Sherine, Ariane
The Autobiography of A Flea (New Traveller ‘s Companion)::::Anonymous
The Belgariad, Vol. 1 (Books 1-3): Pawn of Prophecy, Queen of Sorcery, Magician ‘s Gambit::::Eddings, David
The Best of Roald Dahl::::Dahl, Roald
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design::::Dawkins, Richard
The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia::::Palmer, James
The Book of the Sword::::Burton, Richard Francis
The Book Thief::::Zusak, Markus
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist ‘s Notebook Child Psychiatrist ‘s Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing::::Perry, Bruce
The Boys ‘ Book Of Survival (How To Survive Anything, Anywhere)::::Scholastic
The British Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638-1660::::Royle, Trevor
The Buddha ‘s Path to Deliverance: A Systematic Exposition in the Words of the Sutta Pitaka (Vipassana Meditation and the Buddha ‘s Teachings)::::Thera, Nyanatiloka
The Castle::::Kafka, Franz
The Cat in the Hat::::Seuss, Dr.
The Catcher in the Rye::::Salinger, J. D.
The Cement Garden::::McEwan, Ian
The Chronicles of Narnia::::Lewis, C. S.
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever::::Donaldson, Stephen
The Cider House Rules: A Novel (Modern Library)::::Irving, John
The City & The City::::Mieville, China
The Cloudspotter ‘s Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds::::Pretor-Pinney, Gavin
The Colour of Magic: AND The Light Fantastic::::Pratchett, Terry
The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care::::m.d, benjamin spock
The Communist Manifesto (the original definitive English edition)::::Marx, Karl
The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker::::Mankoff, Robert
The Complete Chronicles of Conan::::Howard, Robert E.
The Crimson Petal and the White::::Faber, Michel
The Damned (La-Bas) (Penguin Classics)::::Huysmans, Joris-Karl
The Dancers at the End of Time (S.F.Masterworks)::::Moorcock, Michael
The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, Book 7)::::King, Stephen
The Dark Tower Boxed Set (Books 1-4)::::King, Stephen
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark::::Sagan, Carl
The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady ‘s Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)::::Stephenson, Neal
The Dispossessed::::Guin, Ursula K. Le
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory::::Greene, Brian
The Ender ‘s Shadow Series Box Set: Ender ‘s Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant::::Card, Orson Scott
The Erotic Mind: Unlocking the Inner Sources of Passion and Fulfillment::::Morin, Jack
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)::::Dawkins, Richard
The Foreign Office and the Kremlin: British Documents on Anglo-Soviet Relations 1941-45::::Ross, Graham
The Forever War (Vintage)::::Filkins, Dexter
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food::::Lee, Jennifer 8
The Fratricides::::Kazantzakis, Nikos
The Gargoyle::::Davidson, Andrew
The Gargoyle King: Ogre Titans, Volume Three (The Ogre Titans)::::Knaak, richard a.
The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients (P.S.)::::Yalom, Irvin
The God Delusion::::Dawkins, Richard
The Golden Compass, Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition (His Dark Materials, Book 1)(Rough-cut)::::Pullman, Philip
The Gormenghast Novels::::Peake, Mervyn
The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)::::Steinbeck, John
The Great Stink::::Clark, Clare
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution::::Dawkins, Richard
The Guest (Creative Short Stories)::::Camus, Albert
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom::::Haidt, Jonathan
The Heart of Things::::Grayling, A. C.
The Hitchhiker ‘s Guide to the Galaxy, 25th Anniversary Edition::::Adams, Douglas
The Hobbit::::Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Classic Pew and Worship Edition, Black)
The House of the Spirits::::Allende, Isabel
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Signet Classics)::::Hugo, Victor
The Iliad and The Odyssey::::Homer
The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture::::Francis, Daniel
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: The Classic Burton Translation (Thrift Edition)::::Vatsyayana
The Kite Runner::::Hosseini, Khaled
The Left Hand of Darkness::::Guin, Ursula K. Le
The Lord of the Rings::::Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, No. 3)::::Brown, Dan
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution::::Carroll, Sean B.
The Medusa Frequency::::Hoban, Russell
The Member of the Wedding::::McCullers, Carson
The Metamorphosis::::Kafka, Franz
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice::::Hitchens, Christopher
The Monkey Wars::::Blum, Deborah
The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War::::Smith, David Livingstone
The Mote in God ‘s Eye::::Niven, Larry
The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov: The Story of Stalin ‘s Persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the Twentieth Century::::Pringle, Peter
The Mysterious Stranger (Literary Classics)::::Twain, Mark
The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays::::Camus, Albert
The Name of the Rose (Everyman ‘s Library (Cloth))::::Eco, Umberto
The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays (The Freethought Library)::::Shelley, Percy Bysshe
The Night Trilogy: Night / Dawn / The Accident::::Wiesel, Elie
The Omnivore ‘s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals::::Pollan, Michael
The Origin of Species (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)::::Darwin, Charles
The Origins of Genome Architecture::::Lynch, Michael
The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes::::Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Peregrine Falcon, Second Edition (T & AD Poyser)::::Ratcliffe, Derek
The Player of Games::::Banks, Iain M.
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman (Helix Books)::::Feynman, Richard P.
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever::::Hitchens, Christopher
The Power of One: A Novel::::Courtenay, Bryce
The Reality Dysfunction: Emergence & Expansion::::Hamilton, Peter F.
The Redemption of Althalus::::Eddings, David
The Regulatory Genome: Gene Regulatory Networks In Development And Evolution::::Davidson, Eric H.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist::::Hamid, Mohsin
The Ringworld Engineers::::Niven, Larry
The Road (Movie Tie-in Edition 2009) (Vintage International)::::McCarthy, Cormac
The Road Less Travelled: The New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth::::Peck, M.Scott
The Road to Wigan Pier::::Orwell, George
The Runes of the Earth (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 1)::::Donaldson, Stephen R.
The Satanic Bible::::Lavey, Anton Szandor
The Satanic Verses: A Novel::::Rushdie, Salman
The Schopenhauer Cure::::Yalom, Irvin D.
The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author::::Dawkins, Richard
The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World ‘s Most Famous Cooking School::::Flinn, Kathleen
The Ship::::Forester, C.S.
The Ship of Ishtar (Planet Stories)::::Merritt, A.
The Ship That Hunted Itself::::
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism::::Klein, Naomi
The Snack Thief (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries)::::Camilleri, Andrea
The Snake Oil Wars or Scheherazade Ginsberg Strikes Again::::Godwin, Parke
The Stainless Steel Rat Omnibus::::Harrison, Harry
The Story of Layla & Majnun::::Nizami
The Sword of Shannara Trilogy::::Brooks, Terry
The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3)::::Stephenson, Neal
The Tao of Love and Sex (Compass)::::Chang, Jolan
The Temporal Void::::Hamilton, Peter F.
The Three Musketeers (Oxford World ‘s Classics)::::Dumas, Alexandre
The Trial::::Kafka, Franz
The Ugly Little Boy::::Asimov, Isaac
The Virtue of Selfishness (Signet)::::Rand, Ayn
The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin ‘s Journal of Researches (Penguin Classics)::::Darwin, Charles
The War Magician: The Man Who Conjured Victory in the Desert::::Fisher, David
The Wheel of Time (Boxed Set #1)::::Jordan, Robert
The White Tiger: A Novel (Man Booker Prize)::::Adiga, Aravind
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel::::Murakami, Haruki
The Winter Queen: A Novel (An Erast Fandorin Mystery)::::Akunin, Boris
The Worst Journey in the World: A Tale of Loss and Courage in Antarctica::::Cherry-Garrard, Apsley
The Yiddish Policemen ‘s Union: A Novel (P.S.)::::Chabon, Michael
Thomas Paine ‘s Rights of Man (Books That Changed the World)::::Hitchens, Christopher
Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable::::Beckett, Samuel
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: All Parts; Premium Edition::::Nietzsche, Friedrich
Titus Groan::::Peake, Mervyn
To Sail Beyond The Sunset::::Heinlein, Robert A.
Transition::::Banks, Iain M.
Tripoint::::Cherryh, C.J.
Tunnel in the Sky::::Heinlein, Robert A.
Ulysses::::Joyce, James
Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages::::Roiphe, Katie
Under the Dome: A Novel::::King, Stephen
Understanding C. (Sams understanding series)::::Townsend, Carl
Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky::::Chomsky, Noam
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder::::Dawkins, Richard
Use of Weapons::::Banks, Iain M.
Vernon God Little::::Ronder, Tanya
Voice of the Fire::::Moore, Alan
Waiting For The Galactic Bus::::Godwin, Parke
Wanderings In West Africa::::Burton, Richard F.
Washington Square (Penguin Classics)::::James, Henry
Waterloo (Sharpe ‘s Adventures, No. 11)::::Cornwell, Bernard
Weaveworld::::Barker, Clive
Werner Herzog - Of Walking in Ice: Munich - Paris 23 November - 14 December 1974::::Herzog, Werner
What Next?: Surviving the Twenty-first Century::::Patten, Chris
What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World (American Empire Project)::::Chomsky, Noam
Why Evolution Is True::::Coyne, Jerry A.
Why Orwell Matters::::Hitchens, Christopher
World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West::::Rees, Laurence
You ‘ll never take me alive: the life and death of bushranger Ben Hall::::Bleszynski, Nick
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Vintage)::::Shubin, Neil

[GoodSmeagol]

Jesus Christ!!!

[AshtonBlack]

Having looked through the list, I would say about 25% I own and about 40% I have read.
Great work Sisifo, if I need recommendations I know where to come. *Bookmarked*

[charlou]

Thank you for this list, Carlos. It is indeed an excellent library.


hmmm .. I should mention Anais Nin's Delta Of Venus somewhere ...

[FBM]

Likewise, bookmarked! I don't think my brain could hold all of that, but I saw about 20 that I need/want to read and I only got through the B-list.

My eyes are also immediately drawn to someone's bookshelf when I visit them. Actually, most of the time I'd be happy with browsing their bookshelves instead of talking to the people.

[CookieJon]

I think the Jeremy Clarkson book should go to the back of the shelf. Y'know... just so the visitors don't see it and get the wrong impression.

And nobody's ever recommended The Bible?

[Thinking Aloud]

And here's a link to the "bookshelf" thread ...

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1692

[Sisifo]

Thank you for this list, Carlos. It is indeed an excellent library.


hmmm .. I should mention Anais Nin's Delta Of Venus somewhere ...

The above list is just the first year's Rationalia. I am sure it will grow exponentially next year. You didn't say that book before, you can recommend it now -o, you did-. I love it. It is a balanced and awesome library!

[Animavore]

My bookshelf has had the same amount of books on it for the last 4 or 5 years despite the fact that I bought loads.

I really have to stop giving them away although I see no reason to keep them because it is very rare that I read any book twice.

[macdoc]

Good list - will have to examine

mia amongst others

Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell - an English language masterwork - do have a dictionary handy...

Song of the Dodo .... incredible - science and adventure all in one...the best of science writing..

Master and Commander series ( O'Brian )

The Magus by Fowles

Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency
series

Kushiel's Dart series by Jacqueline Carey

any of Guy Gavriel Kaye the Canadian Tolkien

Monsarrat - Master Mariner series

to name a few...

who is compiling??

[Calilasseia]

Books I'd add to the list include:

Alan Turing: The Enigma Of Intelligence by Andrew Hodges - stunning biography of the man who did as much to save Britain from Nazi occupation as the Royal Air Force, which not only covers the Bletchley Park years, but a complete exposition, in eminently readable terms, of Turing's pioneering work on the theory of computers, and probably the best lay exposition of the operation of a Turing machine I've ever seen;

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder - a delighful, whimsical tour of the world of Western philosophy, written by someone who eminently understands the subject, and who makes some of the more intractable deliberations of Kant and Wittgenstein accessible;

The Parrot's Theorem by Dennis Guedj - an absolutely ripping piece of fiction that takes the reader on a Baedecker Tour of the great theorems in mathematics, without once leaving the reader feeling overwhelmed by the subject matter - a 'must read' for anyone who wishes to understand why mathematicians find their subject so fascinating.

[devogue]

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder - a delighful, whimsical tour of the world of Western philosophy, written by someone who eminently understands the subject, and who makes some of the more intractable deliberations of Kant and Wittgenstein accessible;

I read that straight after heart surgery, when I was still a bit drowsy - it had a wonderful dreamlike quality to it.

Thorhalland recommended it.

[Pappa]

Just whoring this excellent thread too:

http://rationalia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1692