Reading List
Here’s (some of) what I’ve been reading lately, most recent first:
December 2009
Acceptance: a legendary guidance counselor helps seven kids find the right colleges – and find themselves by Dave Marcus
Trickster’s Queen by Tamora Pierce
Trickster’s Choice by Tamora Pierce
The Seeress of Kell by David Eddings
Sorceress of Darshiva by David Eddings
Design it Yourself Clothes: pattern making simplified by Cal Patch
Demon Lord of Daranaka by David Eddings
King of the Murgos by David Eddings
Guardians of the West by David Eddings
Enchanters End Game by David Eddings
November 2009
Castle of Wizardry by David Eddings
Magician’s Gambit by David Eddings
Queen of Sorcery by David Eddings
Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
The Magician’s Book: a skeptic’s adventures in Narnia by Laura Miller
The Introvert Advantage: how to thrive in an extrovert world by Marti Olsen Laney
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith (and Jane Austen)
Making cheese, butter and yogurt by Ricki Carroll
Home Cheese Making: recipes for 75 homemade cheeses by Ricki Carroll
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
Cheap: the high cost of discount culture by Ellen Ruppel Shell
Apartment Therapy by Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
The Cheese Chronicles: a journey through the making and selling of cheese in America from field to farm to table by Liz Thorpe
October 2009
How Proust can change your life; not a novel by Alain De Boton
How Much is Enough by Arun Abey
The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King
Gimme Shelter by Mary Elizabeth Williams
Locked Rooms by Laurie R. King
Milk: the surprising story of Milk through the ages by Anne Mendelson
The Game by Laurie R. King
Catching Fire: how cooking made us human by Richard Wrangham
Justice Hall by Laurie R. King
Harry, a history: the true story of a boy wizard, his fans, and life inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon by Melissa Anelli
The Moor by Laurie R. King
Home from Nowhere: remaking our everyday world for the twenty-first century by James Howard Kunstler
The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King
September 2009
Drawing Berlage’s Exchange by Daniel Castor
A letter of Mary by Laurie R King
Deja dead by Kathleen Reichs
How much is enough?: making finanical decisions that create wealth and well-being by Arun Abey
There and back again: an actor’s tale by Sean Astin
Basic Black by Cathie Black
Eiland 7: tales from suburbia by Theo Baart
O Jerusalem by Laurie R King
How Proust can Change your Life: not a novel by Alain de Botton
The Cost of Bad Behavior: how incivility is damaging your business and what to do about it by Christine Pearson
A Monstrous Regiment of Women by Laurie R King
Not Becoming my Mother: and other things she taught me along the way by Ruth Reichl
Lighting their Fires: raising extraordinary kids in a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world by Rafe Esquith
Things Cooks Love: implements, ingredients and recipes by Marie Simmons
The Beekeepers Apprentice by Laurie R King
August 2009
Graphic Design for non-designers: essential knowledge, tips and tricks by Tony Seddon
Happy at last: the thinking person’s guide to finding joy by Richard O’Connor
How To Be Useful: a beginners guide to not hating work by Metan Hustad
Rainbow Valley by L.M. Montommery
In Praise of Slowness: how a worldwide movement is changing the cult of speed by Carl Honore
Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What WE Buy can Change Everything by Daniel Goleman
Patterns of Home: the ten essentials of enduring design by Max Jacobson
The Dressmaker’s Technique Bible by Lorna Knight
Decorative Dressmaking by Sue Thompson
Smart Women Finish Rich by David Bach
How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: simple meatless recipes for great food by Mark Bittman
A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgommery
$20 per Gallon: How the inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline will Change our Lives for the Better by Christopher Steiner
You Have More Than You Think: The Foolish Guide to Personal Finance by David and Tom Gardner
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stevenson
Decorative Dressmaking by Sue Thompson
Dressmaker’s Technique Bible
The Art of Natural Building: Design, Construction, Resources edited by Joseph F. Kennedy, Michael G. Smith and Catherine Wanek
The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
July 2009
Ten Shades of Green: Architecture and the Natural World by Peter Buchanan
Sun Wind and Light: Architectural Design Strategies by G. Z. Brown and Mark DeKay
Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgommery
The Student Loan Scam: the Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History – and How we Can Fight Back by Alan Michael Collinge
Why Didn’t the Ask Evans by Agatha Christie
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgommery
A Reverence for Wood by Eric Sloane
Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson
The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman
Commonsense Architecture: A Cross-Cultural Survey of Practical Design Principals by John S. Taylor
Emotional Design by Donald A. Norman
A Little House of My Own: 47 Grand Designs for 47 Tiny Houses by Lester Walker
