About
This page records all the books that I've read since I started accounting for them (around January 2005). A book can be written by many authors (though most are written by only one) and a book can be in many categories (though most are in only one or two), which means that a given book may appear in more than one place. The number in parenthesis indicates how many books are in a category, etc. You can either view all books or view single books, or browse by category, series, special criteria, language, author, or publisher.
The inspiration for this page comes mostly from Alex Holden's Book Catalogue (now only available from Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, unfortunately), which is wonderful, and which I hope I haven't emulated too badly.
Spoiler Warning
I try to keep my reviews and synopses as spoiler-free as I can, but inevitably some creep in! This is especially true for series, where to describe Book Two requires some recapping of events in Book One. In recapping I still try to avoid spoilers, but I don't guarantee it.
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Categories
There are 56 categories.
- Adventure (2)
- Alternate history (1)
- Anthology (42)
- Apocalyptic (1)
- Astronomy (12)
- Autobiography (6)
- Bible (1)
- Biography (2)
- Biology (14)
- Chemistry (5)
- Children's (3)
- Classic (3)
- Computing (2)
- Crime (5)
- Cyberpunk (6)
- Encyclopedia (1)
- Essay (7)
- Fantasy (9)
- Gothic (1)
- Graphic novel (7)
- History (6)
- Horror (11)
- Humor (15)
- Journalism (1)
- Language (2)
- Law (1)
- Logic (2)
- Manga (27)
- Mathematics (8)
- Mecha (8)
- Memoir (4)
- Miscellaneous (1)
- Music (1)
- Nanotechnology (1)
- Nonsense (2)
- Novel (111)
- Parody (1)
- Philosophy (12)
- Physics (7)
- Poetry (4)
- Politics (2)
- Psychology (6)
- Puzzle (3)
- Religion (19)
- Satire (2)
- Science (47)
- Science fiction (118)
- Self-help (1)
- Short stories (23)
- Skepticism (3)
- Space opera (4)
- Statistics (1)
- Travel (1)
- Warfare (2)
- Writing (2)
- Youth (4)
Series
There are 25 series.
- Artemis Fowl (4/8)
- Biomega (6/6)
- Black Lagoon (3/9)
- Culture (6/10)
- Dune (1/6)
- Empire (2/3)
- Ender's Game (4/6)
- Ender's Shadow (4/4)
- Extraordinary Voyages (2/54)
- Flood/Ark (2/2)
- Foundation (7/7)
- Full Metal Panic (8/8)
- Full Metal Panic Overload (2/2)
- H. P. Lovecraft Omnibus (1/3)
- Halo (1/7)
- Old Man's War (4/6)
- Planetes (5/5)
- Rama (4/4)
- Ringworld (1/4)
- Robot (4/4)
- Scott Pilgrim (6/6)
- Space Odyssey (4/4)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide (3)
- The Shining (1/2)
- Uzumaki (3/3)
Publisher series
There are 6 publisher series.
- Art of Mentoring (2/15)
- Bokklubbens lyrikkvenner (1)
- Enriched Classic (1)
- SF Masterworks (8)
- Wonders of the World (1)
- Wordsworth Classics (1)
Special
- List all books (276)
- List only books with a synopsis (152)
- List only books with a review (114)
- List only books with a synopsis or a review (163)
- List only books with both a synopsis and a review (111)
- List only books without a synopsis and a review (121)
- List only books with a subtitle (87)
- List only books with an original title (41)
- List only books with an alternative title (6)
- List only books with a translated title (14)
- List only books with online versions (16)
Languages
Authors
There are 136 authors.
- A. K. Dewdney (1)
- Alastair Reynolds (1)
- Alex Woolf (1)
- Alister McGrath (1)
- André Bjerke (3)
- Andrew McKeon (6)
- Annaka Harris (1)
- Anne Rooney (1)
- Anton Szandor LaVey (2)
- Apostolos Doxiadis (1)
- Arthur C. Clarke (19)
- Arthur Conan Doyle (1)
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1)
- Bart D. Ehrman (2)
- Ben Goldacre (1)
- Bill Bryson (1)
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1)
- Brenda Ueland (1)
- Bryan Lee O'Malley (6)
- Carl Sagan (3)
- Charles Stross (1)
- Christopher Hitchens (6)
- Christos H. Papadimitriou (1)
- Dan Brown (3)
- Daniel Dennett (2)
- David Mitchell (1)
- Dick Teresi (1)
- Dionys Burger (1)
- Donald Hall (1)
- Douglas Adams (4)
- Edgar Allan Poe (1)
- Edward Lear (1)
- Edwin A. Abbott (1)
- Eirik Newth (1)
- Eoin Colfer (4)
- Eric K. Drexler (1)
- Erik Meling Sele (1)
- Erlend Loe (1)
- Ernest Hemingway (1)
- Ernst Haeckel (1)
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1)
- Frank Herbert (1)
- Frederik Pohl (2)
- G. H. Hardy (1)
- Gabriel Scott (1)
- Gary Leach (3)
- Gentry Lee (4)
- George Carlin (2)
- George Mann (1)
- Gregory Benford (2)
- Groff Conklin (1)
- H. P. Lovecraft (1)
- Harlan Ellison (1)
- Haruki Murakami (2)
- Hege Storhaug (1)
- Hōsuke Nojiri (1)
- Hugo Gernsback (1)
- Iain M. Banks (6)
- Ian Spector (1)
- Ian Stewart (2)
- Isaac Asimov (43)
- J. D. Salinger (1)
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1)
- Jerry Coyne (1)
- Joanna Collicutt McGrath (1)
- John Brockman (1)
- John Farndon (1)
- John Scalzi (4)
- Jonathan Swift (1)
- Jordan B. Peterson (1)
- Joy Press (1)
- Jules Verne (2)
- Junji Ito (3)
- Kees Boeke (1)
- Larry Niven (2)
- Lawrence Krauss (1)
- Lawrence Lessig (1)
- Leon Lederman (1)
- Leonard Mlodinow (1)
- Leslie Morrill (1)
- Lewis Carroll (2)
- Liz Gogerly (1)
- Lynne Truss (1)
- Madge Morrill (1)
- Makoto Yukimura (5)
- Martin Gardner (2)
- Mary Shelley (1)
- Max Brooks (1)
- Maxine Hong Kingston (1)
- Michael Crichton (2)
- Michael Shermer (1)
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1)
- Mike Montesa (9)
- Neil Gaiman (3)
- Niccolò Machiavelli (1)
- Nick Hornby (1)
- Olaf Stapledon (3)
- Orson Scott Card (8)
- P. Z. Myers (1)
- Pat Murphy (1)
- Paul Graham (1)
- Paulo Coelho (1)
- Peter F. Hamilton (1)
- Philip K. Dick (5)
- Poul Anderson (4)
- Ran Prieur (1)
- Ray Bradbury (5)
- Ray Kurzweil (1)
- Raymond M. Smullyan (1)
- Rei Hiroe (3)
- Richard Dawkins (11)
- Richard Feynman (2)
- Richard Wiseman (1)
- Robert A. Heinlein (4)
- Robert M. Price (1)
- Robert Sheckley (2)
- Robert Silverberg (5)
- Roger Williams (1)
- Sam Harris (5)
- Shouji Gatou (10)
- Simon Reynolds (1)
- Stephen Baxter (2)
- Stephen Hawking (1)
- Stephen J. Dubner (1)
- Stephen Jay Gould (2)
- Stephen King (2)
- Steven D. Levitt (1)
- Steven Pinker (1)
- Sun Tzu (1)
- Terry Pratchett (1)
- Thomas More (1)
- Tsutomu Nihei (6)
- V. M. Rabolú (1)
- William C. Dietz (1)
- William Golding (1)
- William James (1)
Publishers
There are 76 publishers.
- [e-book: Project Gutenberg] (1)
- [self-published] (4)
- A. Prats Editor (1)
- Ace Books (6)
- ADV (10)
- Alfred A. Knopf (1)
- Arrow Books (2)
- Aschehoug (4)
- Atlantic Books (1)
- Avon Books (3)
- Baen Publishing Enterprises (2)
- Ballantine Books (11)
- Bantam Books (14)
- Basic Books (4)
- Black Swan (2)
- Bloomsbury (2)
- Chancellor Press (1)
- Copernicus (1)
- Coronet Books (1)
- CRW Publishing (1)
- Da Capo Press (1)
- Den Norske Bokklubben (1)
- Dover Publications (1)
- Eagle Editions (1)
- Faber and Faber (2)
- Gotham Books (1)
- Grafton (2)
- Graywolf Press (1)
- Harper Perennial (1)
- HarperCollins (9)
- Harvard University Press (1)
- Headline Publishing (1)
- Hodder & Stoughton (3)
- Houghton Mifflin (4)
- Hutchinson (1)
- John Day Company (1)
- Juritzen Forlag (1)
- Kagge Forlag (2)
- Lighthouse Books (1)
- Macmillan (2)
- Mariner Books (3)
- O'Reilly (1)
- Oni Press (6)
- Orb Publications (1)
- Orbit Books (6)
- Oxford University Press (4)
- Pan Books (1)
- Pantheon Books (1)
- Panther Books (2)
- Penguin Books (15)
- Pocket Books (5)
- Profile Books (1)
- Prometheus Books (2)
- Random House (1)
- Roc Books (2)
- Scholastic Book (1)
- Signet Books (3)
- Simon & Schuster (4)
- Solaris Books (1)
- SPCK (1)
- Thomas Y. Crowell Company (1)
- Tokyopop (5)
- Tor Books (13)
- Twelve (2)
- Verso (1)
- Victor Gollancz Ltd (13)
- Viking Books (2)
- Vintage Books (4)
- Vista (1)
- VIZ Media (13)
- Voyager (2)
- W. H. Freeman and Company (1)
- W. W. Norton (3)
- William Morrow (1)
- Wings Books (1)
- Wordsworth Editions (1)
Books
There are 276 books.
- 12 Rules for Life
- 2001
- 2010
- 2061
- 3001
- Abominable Earthman, The
- About a Boy
- Accelerando
- Age of Spiritual Machines, The
- Airframe
- Alchemist, The
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Alternate Asimovs, The
- American Poetry
- Ancestor's Tale, The
- Angels and Demons
- Apocalypsopolis
- Ark
- Around the World in Eighty Days
- Art of War, The
- Artemis Fowl
- Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident
- Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code
- Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception
- Asimov Laughs Again
- Asimov On Numbers
- Asimov's New Guide to Science
- Bad Science
- Beginning and the End, The
- Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov, The
- Biomega 1
- Biomega 2
- Biomega 3
- Biomega 4
- Biomega 5
- Biomega 6
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
- Black Lagoon 001
- Black Lagoon 002
- Black Lagoon 003
- Blank Slate, The
- Blind Watchmaker, The
- Book of Nonsense
- Brain Droppings
- Breaking the Spell
- Catcher in the Rye, The
- Caves of Steel, The
- Childhood's End
- Children of the Mind
- City and the Stars, The
- Climbing Mount Improbable
- Cloud Atlas
- Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke, The
- Complete Robot, The
- Consider Phlebas
- Cosmic View
- Cosmos
- Counting the Eons
- Cradle
- Da Vinci Code, The
- Dandelion Wine
- Dangerous Visions
- Dawkins Delusion?, The
- De dødes tjern
- Deception Point
- Demon-Haunted World, The
- Devil's Chaplain, A
- Discoveries
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- Don Quixote: Part One
- Døde menn går i land
- Dune
- Eaters of the Dead
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves
- Edgar Allan Poe Collected Stories and Poems
- End of Eternity, The
- End of Faith, The
- Ender's Game
- Ender's Shadow
- Engines of Creation
- Expanded Universe
- Expedition to Earth
- Fahrenheit 451
- Fall of Moondust, A
- Fantastic Voyage
- Fantastic Voyage II
- Farewell Summer
- Fifth Essence, The
- Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales
- Flatland
- Flatterland
- Flood
- Forward the Foundation
- Foundation
- Foundation and Earth
- Foundation and Empire
- Foundation's Edge
- Fragile Things
- Frankenstein
- Freakonomics
- Free Culture
- Free Will
- Freedom Evolves
- Fremtiden
- Full Metal Panic! 01
- Full Metal Panic! 02
- Full Metal Panic! 03
- Full Metal Panic! 04
- Full Metal Panic! 05
- Full Metal Panic! 06
- Full Metal Panic! 07
- Full Metal Panic! 08
- Full Metal Panic! Overload! 1
- Full Metal Panic! Overload! 2
- Fyrsten
- Garden of Rama, The
- Ghost Brigades, The
- God Delusion, The
- God is Not Great
- God Particle, The
- Gods Themselves, The
- Gold
- Good Omens
- Grand Design, The
- Great Gatsby, The
- Great Scientists, The
- Greatest Show on Earth, The
- Gulliver's Travels
- H. P. Lovecraft Omnibus Vol. 2
- Hackers & Painters
- Halo
- Happy Atheist, The
- Hercolubus or Red Planet
- Hitch-22
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The
- Hobbit, The
- Human Body, The
- Hunting of the Snark, The
- I. Asimov
- If You Want To Write
- Imperial Earth
- Infidel
- Inversions
- Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth
- Kafka on the Shore
- Kilden
- Kunstformen der Natur
- Last and First Men
- Last Colony, The
- Letter to a Christian Nation
- Letters to a Young Contrarian
- Letters to a Young Mathematician
- Life, the Universe and Everything
- Likkisten
- Livingstone
- Logicomix
- Look to Windward
- Lord of the Flies
- Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot, The
- Lying
- Magic of Reality, The
- Man in the High Castle, The
- Manhattan in Reverse
- Martian Chronicles, The
- Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions
- Mathematician's Apology, A
- Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, The
- Misquoting Jesus
- Missionary Position, The
- Moral Landscape, The
- More Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions
- Mortality
- Naiv. Super.
- Naked Sun, The
- Napalm and Silly Putty
- Nattmennesket
- Nightfall
- Nine Billion Names of God, The
- Odd and the Frost Giants
- Odd John
- Old Man and the Sea, The
- Old Man's War
- On Writing
- Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing, The
- Pale Blue Dot
- Pebble in the Sky
- Planetes 1
- Planetes 2
- Planetes 3
- Planetes 4/1
- Planetes 4/2
- Planiverse, The
- Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...
- Player of Games, The
- Portable Atheist, The
- Prelude to Foundation
- QED
- Quirkology
- Ralph 124C 41+
- Rama II
- Rama Revealed
- Reason-Driven Life, The
- Relativity of Wrong, The
- Rendezvous with Rama
- Restaurant at the End of the Universe, The
- Revolt on Alpha C
- Ringworld
- River Out of Eden
- Robot Dreams
- Robot Visions
- Robots and Empire
- Robots of Dawn, The
- Rocks of Ages
- Satanic Bible, The
- Satanic Rituals, The
- Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness
- Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
- Scott Pilgrim vs. The Universe
- Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
- Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour
- Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
- Second Foundation
- Selfish Gene, The
- Sex Revolts, The
- Shadow of the Giant
- Shadow of the Hegemon
- Shadow Puppets
- Sherlock Holmes
- Shining, The
- Short History of Nearly Everything, A
- So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
- Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, The
- Songs of Distant Earth, The
- Speaker for the Dead
- Sphereland
- Sputnik Sweetheart
- Star Maker
- Stars, Like Dust, The
- Starship Troopers
- State of the Art, The
- Stranger in a Strange Land
- Sun Shines Bright, The
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
- Tau Zero
- Tilslørt. Avslørt
- Time Gate
- Time Out of Joint
- To Open the Sky
- Tragedy of the Moon, The
- Truth About Chuck Norris, The
- Tyrannosaurus Prescription, The
- Ubik
- Unweaving the Rainbow
- Use of Weapons
- Usurper of the Sun
- Utopia
- Uzumaki Volume 1
- Uzumaki Volume 2
- Uzumaki Volume 3
- Varieties of Religious Experience, The
- View From a Height
- We'll Always Have Paris
- What Is the Name of This Book?
- What We Believe But Cannot Prove
- Why Evolution is True
- Why People Believe Weird Things
- Winds of Change, The
- Woman Warrior, The
- Words from the Myths
- Words in Genesis
- Words of Science and the History behind Them
- Xenocide
- Zima Blue and Other Stories
- Zoe's Tale
- Zombie Survival Guide, The
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Full title | Displays the full title of a book. If it has a subtitle and/or extended title, this will also be displayed. |
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Original title | If the book is a translated version, the title in the original language will be displayed here. |
Alternative title | The alternative title. Common for older works. |
Translated title | If both the title and original title is in a non-English language, this gives the title in English. If there is no English title, I attempt a translation. |
Transliterated title | If the title is written in a non-Latin script (e.g. kanji or Cyrillic), this field will display the transliteration (link to Wikipedia). |
Author | This lists the author (or authors) of the book, including authors with "roles" (illustrator, editor, etc.). Also displays the pseudonym under which the book was written, if any. |
Language | Self-explanatory. |
Publisher | Self-explanatory. |
Categories | Most books are in more than one category. The category is sort of a mix between genre, theme, and subject matter. Think of it like tags (which it really is). |
Series | Gives the series a book is in, if any. If the series is numbered, this will be indicated in parenthesis, like this: (n/m) where n is the book's position in the series and m is the total amount of books in the series. |
Publication year | Self-explanatory. |
Original publication year | The year the book was originally published, even if by another publisher. |
ISBN | Gives the ISBN with direct links to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, AbeBooks, and Powell's Books. |
Online version | Some books are only published online; in these cases, a link is provided. Some older books that are in the public domain are also linked to. |
Pages | Gives the number of pages. |
Synopsis | Gives an overview of the book. |
Review | Gives a review of the book. |
Images | Most books have scans from the front, back, and spine. For dust jackets, the flaps are also scanned. Click on an image for an enlarged version. All scans are at least 1000px high, more if it's a big book or the cover art is pretty. My policy is that all the text should be legible. I used to scan at 300 DPI, but now I always scan at 600 DPI; if you want the original scan for a book or a group of books, contact me. |
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