Books

Written by Marian Stanescu | 01 July 2009
Posted in Organizer

This is a fairly complete list of my recent readings. It starts somewhere in the second half of 2007 when, after a several year long hiatus in book reading, I finally resumed this exquisite pleasure.

Heavy on Science-Fiction titles, there's nothing out of ordinary about it, except one small detail: my fingers never touched paper. All the items in this catalog have been read on electronic medium. That is, on-screen PDF and, starting June 2008, on my PRS-505 e-reader.

This is part of the reason why I chose to compile it manually, going – where available – for information related to the first print edition.

Currently reading:

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), by Mark Twain
• Parallel Lives (late 1st Century), by Plutarch
• Twenty-three Tales (?), by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
• On the Origin of Species (1859), by Charles Darwin
• Don Quixote (1605-1615), by Miguel Cervantes Saavedra
• A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), by Jules Verne

Finished reading: 

• 2010.08.26 - What is Man? And Other Irreverent Essays (?), by Mark Twain
• 2010.08.24 - Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction (?), by Al Sarrantonio (Ed.)
• 2010.08.21 - The Best of British SF 2 (?), by Mike Ashley (Ed.)
• 2010.08.17 - The War Magician (?), by David Fisher
• 2010.08.08 - Metal Swarm (The Saga of Seven Suns, Book 6) (?), by Kevin J. Anderson
• 2010.07.22 - Forever Peace (?), by Joe Haldeman
• 2010.07.18 - Forever Free (?), by Joe Haldeman
  
• 2010.07.08 - Calculating God (?), by Robert J. Sawyer
• 2010.06.04 - Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition (2007), by Rich Horton (Ed.)
• 2010.05.31 - Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition (2006), by Rich Horton (Ed.)
• 2010.05.18 - Flashforward (1999), by Robert J. Sawyer
• 2010.04.03 - Of Fire and Night (The Saga of Seven Suns, Book 5) (2006), by Kevin J. Anderson
• 2010.03.06 - Scattered Suns (The Saga of Seven Suns, Book 4) (2005), by Kevin J. Anderson
• 2010.02.20 - Horizon Storms (The Saga of Seven Suns, Book 3) (2004), by Kevin J. Anderson
• 2010.01.31 - A Forest of Stars (The Saga of Seven Suns, Book 2) (2003), by Kevin J. Anderson
• 2010.01.21 - Hidden Empire (The Saga of Seven Suns, Book 1) (2002), by Kevin J. Anderson

• 2009.11.01 - Divergence (2007), by Tony Ballantyne
• 2009.11.01 - Taras Bulba and Other Tales (?), by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
• 2009.10.08 - Kyoto: A Cultural and Literary History (2006), by John Dougill
• 2009.09.30 - Use of Weapons (?), by Iain M. Banks
• 2009.09.23 - Weapons of Choice (?), by Iain M. Banks
• 2009.09.18 - The Lost Fleet: Dauntless (2006), by Jack Campbell
• 2009.09.13 - The Demolished Man (1953), by Alfred Bester
• 2009.07.25 - Rollback (2008), by Robert J. Sawyer
• 2009.06.27 - The Vor Game (?), by Lois McMaster Bujold
• 2009.06.22 - God Is Not Great (2007), by Cristopher Hitchens
• 2009.06.14 - Genesis (2000), by Poul Anderson
• 2009.06.10 - The Empress of Mars (2003), by Kage Baker
• 2009.06.09 - Darwin's Radio (1999), by David Brin
• 2009.06.05 - The Postman (1985), by David Brin
• 2009.05.23 - Timescape (1980), by Gregory Benford
• 2009.05.18 - Moving Mars (1993), by Greg Bear
• 2009.05.04 - The Ringworld Engineers (1980), by Larry Niven
• 2009.05.02 - Excession (1996), by Iain M. Banks
• 2009.04.26 - Ringworld (1970), by Larry Niven
• 2009.04.19 - Tha Masks of Time (1968), by Robert Silverberg
• 2009.04.15 - Expanded Universe (1980), by Robert A. Heinlein
• 2009.04.13 - Double Star (1956), by Robert A. Heinlein
• 2009.04.11 - The Forever War (1974), by Joe Haldeman
• 2009.04.06 - The Sand Wars (1987), by Charles Ingrid
• 2009.04.04 - Halo: First Strike (2003), by Eric Nylund
• 2009.03.26 - To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987), by Robert A. Heinlein
• 2009.03.20 - The Cat Who Walks through Walls (1985), by Robert A. Heinlein
• 2009.03.10 - Time Enough for Love (1973), by Robert A. Heinlein
• 2009.03.05 - Methuselah's Children (1958), by Robert A. Heinlein
• 2009.03.01 - Assignment in Eternity (1953), by Robert A. Heinlein
• 2009.02.27 - The Past through Tomorrow (1967), by Robert A. Heinlein
• 2009.02.20 - The Man Who Sold the Moon (1949), by Robert A. Heinlein
• 2009.02.14 - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966), by Robert A. Heinlein
• 2009.02.06 - Babel-17 (1966), by Samuel R. Delany

• 2008.12.10 - The Worlds of H. Beam Piper (1983), by H. Beam Piper
• 2008.11.24 - 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997), by Arthur C. Clarke
• 2008.10.01 - The Necessity of Atheism (1813), by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• 2008.09.16 - Rashomon and Other Stories (1952), by Ryunosuke Akutagawa 
• 2008.06.16 - Sandworms of Dune (2007), by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
• 2008.06.10 - Hunters of Dune (2006), by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
• 2008.06.05 - Sabia de Bambus si Alte Povestiri cu Samurai (2003), by Shuhei Fujisawa
• 2008.06.04 - Dune: House Corrino (2001), by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
• 2008.05.31 - Dune: House Harkonnen (2000), by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
• 2008.05.27 - Dune: House Atreides (1999), by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
• 2008.05.20 - Dune: The Battle of Corrin (2004), by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
• 2008.05.10 - Dune: The Machine Crusade (2003), by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
• 2008.05.01 - Dune: The Butlerian Jihad (2002), by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson
• 2008.03.31 - Dorsai! (1959), by Gordon R. Dickson
• 2008.03.31 - Lost Dorsai (1980), by Gordon R. Dickson
• 2008.03.31 - Soldier, Ask Not (1967), by Gordon R. Dickson
• 2008.03.31 - The Spirit of Dorsai (1979), by Gordon R. Dickson
• 2008.03.31 - Tactics of Mistake (1971), by Gordon R. Dickson
• 2008.02.29 - I, Robot (1950), by Isaac Asimov
• 2008.02.29 - Lost: Fifty Suns (?), by A. E. Van Vogt
• 2008.01.31 - The Caves of Steel (1954), by Isaac Asimov
• 2008.01.31 - The End of Eternity (1955), by Isaac Asimov
• 2008.01.31 - The Gods Themselves (1972), by Isaac Asimov
• 2008.01.31 - The Naked Sun (1957), by Isaac Asimov
• 2008.01.31 - Pebble in the Sky (1950), by Isaac Asimov
• 2008.01.31 - Prelude to Foundation (1988), by Isaac Asimov
• 2008.01.31 - Robots and Empire (1985), by Isaac Asimov
• 2008.01.31 - The Robots of Dawn (1983), by Isaac Asimov
• 2008.01.31 - The Solarians (1966), by Norman Spinrad

• 2007.12.31 - Orion Shall Rise (1983), by Poul Anderson
• 2007.12.31 - The Status Civilization (1960), by Robert Scheckley
• 2007.12.31 - Time Patrol (1955), by Poul Anderson
• 2007.11.30 - The Little Golden Calf (1931), by Ilya Ilf, Eugene Petrov 
• 2007.11.30 - The Overlords of War (1971), by Gérard Klein
• 2007.11.30 - The Scepter of Chance (1968), by Gérard Klein
• 2007.11.30 - Whipping Star (1970), by Frank Herbert
• 2007.10.31 - The Avatar (1978), by Poul Anderson
• 2007.10.31 - Ender's Game (1985), by Orson Scott Card 
• 2007.09.30 - Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil (2004), by Michael C. Ruppert
• 2007.09.30 - The God Delusion (?), by Richard Dawkins