"There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it." - Bertrand Russell

In submission to the second motive, and my obsession with archiving data, I've kept a running list of every book I've read since 1990. For better or worse, here's the small portion of printed human knowledge that I've made it through thus far:

20 years, 456 books and counting
lastmod: January 11, 2010

2009

• The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson (x2)
• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less - Barry Schwartz
• Deeper: Adventures on the Net - John Seabrook
• The Arcanum - Janet Gleeson
• Stumbling on Happiness - Daniel Gilbert
• Gutted - Lawrence LaRose
• Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
• The Road - Cormac McCarthy
• Air Guitar - Dave Hickey
• The Backyard Lumberjack - Stephen & Frank Philbrick
• The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins

2008

• Bird By Bird - Anne Lamott
• The Replacements: All Over But The Shouting - Jim Walsh
• A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby
• The Perfect Thing - Steven Levy
• Amazonia - James Marcus

2007

• Soda, Clay and Fire - Gail Nichols
• Straight Man - Richard Russo
• Mouthpiece - Edward Hayes
• Play Money - Julian Dibbel

2006

• Living In The Country Growing Weird - Dennis Parks
• Learning To Float - Lili Wright
• Soda Glazing - Ruthanne Tudball
• Clay - Suzanne Staubach
• A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

2005

• Salt Glazing - Phil Rodgers
• The Kiln Book - Frederick Olsen
• Dot.Con - James Cassidy
• Fabrication - Susan Neville
• The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
• Faster - James Gleick
• The American Barn - Randy Leffingwell
• Sloth: The Seven Deadly Sins - Wendy Wasserman
• Blink - Malcolm Gladwell

2004

• System of the World - Neal Stephenson
• Mind Wide Open - Steven Johnson
• Built By Hand: Vernacular Architecture Around the World - Steen & Komatsu
• On Paradise Drive - David Brooks
• The Confusion - Neal Stephenson
• London - Edward Rutherfurd
• The Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond
• The Working Life - Joanne Ciulla
• Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson
• Forever Free - Joe Haldeman

2003

• Debt-Proof Living - Mary Hunt
• Generation X - Douglas Coupland
• Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
• Emergence - Steven Johnson
• Tomorrow Now - Bruce Sterling
• Toujours Provence - Peter Mayle
• Enough - Bill McKibben
• A Year in Provence - Peter Mayle
• Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers - Leonard Koren
• The Matrix and Philosophy - William Irwin, ed.
• My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World - Julian Dibbell
• The Second Coming of Steve Jobs - Alan Deutschman
• What Just Happened - James Gleick
• Thos. Moser: Artistry in Wood - Thomas Moser
• How to Grow as An Artist - Daniel Grant
• Titan/Wizard/Demon trilogy - John Varley
• What Should I Do With My Life? - Po Bronson

2002

• Galatea 2.2 - Richard Powers
• Creativity - Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
• The Art and Science of Web Design - Jeff Veen
• Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
• Release 2.0 - Esther Dyson
• Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson (x2)
• Secrets & Lies - Bruce Shneier
• Faster - James Gleick
• Bobos in Paradise - David Brooks
• Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• The Winner - David Balducci
• Art of Contemporary American Pottery - Kevin Hluch
• Code To Zero - Ken Follett
• Practical Demonkeeping - Christopher Moore

2001

• Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
• Warren MacKenzie: American Potter - David Lewis (x2)
• The Cobweb - Stephen Bury
• What If? Military History - Robert Cowley (ed.)
• R.E.M.: Talk About the Passion - Denise Sullivan
• Driving Mr. Albert - Michael Paterniti
• Interface - Stephen Bury
• 36 Ceramic Artists - Richard Zakin
• In A Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson
• Telecosm - George Gilder
• A Good Old-Fashioned Future - Bruce Sterling
• All Tomorrow's Parties - William Gibson
• The Big U - Neal Stephenson
• In the Beginning... Was the Command Line - Neal Stephenson (x2)
• A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
• Moths to the Flame - Gregory J.E. Rawlins
• Ceramics: Ways of Creation - Richard Zakin
• Clay: An Introduction - Susan Peterson
• Interface Culture - Steven Johnson
• On Writing - Stephen King

2000

• Wheel-Thrown Ceramics - Don Davis
• Flash Forward - Robert J. Sawyer
• A Potter's Workbook - Clary Illian
• When Things Start to Think - Neil Gershenfeld
• Factoring Humanity - Robert J. Sawyer
• Little Green Men - Christopher Buckley
• Thank you for Smoking - Christopher Buckley
• About a Boy - Nick Hornby
• High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late: Origins of the Internet - Hafner/Lyon
• What Will Be - Michael Dertouzous
• The Nudist on the Late Shift - Po Bronson
• In the Beginning... Was the Command Line - Neal Stephenson
• Distraction - Bruce Sterling
• The Transparent Society - David Brin

1999

• The Road Ahead - Bill Gates
• The Control Room - Martin Plissner
• The Internet - Gary Young, ed.
• Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
• Age of Spiritual Machines - Ray Kurzweil
• Being Digital - Nicholas Negroponte (x2)
• Citizen Soldiers - Stephen E. Ambrose
• The Victors - Stephen E. Ambrose
• WYRM - Mark Fabi
• I'm a Stranger Here Myself - Bill Bryson
• Made in America - Bill Bryson
• The Golden Globe - John Varley
• American Art: History and Culture - Wayne Craven
• On Stranger Tides - Tim Powers (x2)
• First Immortal - James L. Halperin
• The Rants - Dennis Miller
• Give War a Chance - P.J. O'Rourke
• Adolf Hitler - John Toland

1998

• Truth Machine - James L. Halperin
• Forever Peace - Joe Haldeman
• Zodiac - Neal Stephenson (x2)
• Woodfired Stoneware & Porcelain - Jack Troy
• Holy Fire - Bruce Sterling
• Why the Allies Won - Richard Overy
• Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond
• Bombardiers - Po Bronson
• Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan
• Culture of Craft - Peter Dormer, ed.
• Billions & Billions - Carl Sagan
• Cukoo's Egg - Clifford Stoll

1997

• The Proteus Operation - James P. Hogan
• Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys - Dave Barry
• Silicon Snake Oil - Clifford Stoll
• Idoru - William Gibson
• The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
• Half-Asleep in Frog Pajamas - Tom Robbins
• SeinLanguage - Jerry Seinfeld
• The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest - Po Bronson
• Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers - Loenard Koren
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
• CYBERIA - Douglas Rushkoff
• The Self-Reliant Potter - Andrew Holden
• Slips and Slipware - Anthony Phillips
• Steel Beach - John Varley (x2)
• None So Blind - Joe Haldeman
• Come Endless Darkness - Gary Gygax
• CV - Damon Knight
• Contact - Carl Sagan

1996

• The Craft of the Potter - Michael Casson
• Beyond the Blue Event Horizon - Frederick Pohl
• Superheroes - ed. John Varley
• Buying Time - Joe Haldeman
• Gateway - Fredrick Pohl
• Porcelain - Caroline Whyman
• Tool of the Trade - Joe Haldeman
• Millenium - John Varley
• Icehenge - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Lust for Life - Irving Stone
• American Potters - Garth Clark
• VURT - Jeff Noon
• Far Out: 13 Short Stories - Damon Knight
• Potters on Pottery - Cameron & Lewis
• Penland Crafts: Potters - Various
• Pottery Form and Expression - Daniel Rhodes
• Ceramics - Otto Natzler
• Kilns - Daniel Rhodes
• The Mud-Pie Dilemma - John Nance
• The Ceramic Spectrum - Robin Hopper
• Study War No More - Joe Haldeman, Ed.
• Zodiac - Neal Stephenson
• The New Ceramics - Peter Dormer
• The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
• Elminster, The Making of a Mage - Ed Greenwood
• Good Omens - Gaiman & Pratchett
• Being Digital - Nicholas Negroponte
• Magic For Sale - Avram Davidson, Ed.
• Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
• The Paper Grail - James P. Blaylock
• Majipoor Chronicals - Robert Silverberg
• Lord Valentine's Castle - Robert Silverberg
• There is No Darkness - Joe & Jack Haldeman
• Better Than Life - Grant Naylor
• Stoneware and Porcelain - Daniel Rhodes
• Tamba Pottery -Daniel Rhodes
• Nebula Award Winning Novellas - Greenberg, Ed.
• Use of Weapons - Iain M. Banks
• Heavy Weather - Bruce Sterling

1995

• Dealing in Futures - Joe Haldeman
• Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks
• Tower of Glass - Robert Silverberg
• Infinite Dreams - Joe Haldeman
• Blood Music - Greg Bear
• Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana - Michael Azerad
• Non-Stop - Brian Aldiss
• Worlds Enough and Time - Joe Haldeman
• Picnic on Nearside - John Varley
• The Hemingway Hoax - Joe Haldeman
• The Hacker Crackdown - Bruce Sterling
• Mindbridge - Joe Haldeman
• Globalhead - Bruce Sterling
• City of Hawks - Gary Gygax
• All My Sins Remembered - Joe Haldeman
• Assassin's Apprentice - Robin Hobb
• Tool of the Trade - Joe Haldeman
• Forsake the Sky - Tim Powers
• Buying Time - Joe Haldeman
• Blue Champagne - John Varley
• Worlds Apart - Joe Haldeman
• The R.E.M. Companion - Marcus Grey
• Sea of Death - Gary Gygax
• Artifact of Evil - Gary Gygax
• The Norse Myths - Kevin Crossley-Holland
• The Persistance of Vision - John Varley
• Virtual Light - William Gibson
• Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut
• Recalled to Life - Robert Silverberg
• Night Arrant - Gary Gygax
• Don't Panic - Neil Gaiman
• Press Enter - John Varley
• Hawksbill Station - Robert Silverberg
• Rendevous With Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
• Worlds - Joe Haldeman
• Crystal Express - Bruce Sterling
• Millenium - John Varley
• Michael Cardew, A Portrait - Garth Clark
• Soldier, Ask Not - Gordon R. Dickson
• Turners and Burners - Charles Zug III
• Peter Voulkos: Dialogue With Clay - Rose Slivka
• The Ophiuchi Hotline - John Varley
• R.E.M.: Talk About the Passion - Denise Sullivan
• Demon - John Varley
• Wizard - John Varley

1994

• The Mad Potter of Biloxi - Garth Clark
• Eye in the Sky - Philip K. Dick
• Master of the Game - Gary Gygax
• Titan - John Varley
• Swords Against Death - Fritz Leiber
• The Silver Eggheads - Fritz Leiber
• Robots, Androids and Mechanical Oddities: The SF of PKD - Warrick
• American Ceramics 1876 - Present - Garth Clark
• Potters on Pottery - Cameron & Lewis
• Swords and Deviltry - Fritz Leiber
• Dinner at Deviant's Palace - Tim Powers
• Martian Time Slip - Phillip K. Dick
• Paul Soldner: A Retrospective - Various
• Warren MacKenzie: American Potter - David Lewis
• Lord Kelvin's Machine - James P. Blaylock
• The Uplift War - David Brin
• Only Apparently Real: The World of PKD - Paul Williams
• Shoji Hamada - Susan Peterson
• Now Wait For Last Year - Phillip K. Dick
• Steel Beach - John Varley
• Count Geiger's Blues - Michael Bishop
• Startide Rising - David Brin
• Phillip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas - Michael Bishop
• The Transmigration of Timothy Archer - Phillip K. Dick
• A Potter's Work - Bernard Leach
• The Divine Invasion - Phillip K. Dick
• The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
• The Penultimate Truth - Phillip K. Dick
• Medieval English Pottery - Bernard Rackham
• The Unteleported Man - Phillip K. Dick
• A Potter's Book - Bernard Leach
• Dr. Futurity - Phillip K. Dick
• The Stress of Her Regard - Tim Powers
• VALIS - Phillip K. Dick
• Hamada, Potter - Bernard Leach
• The Dragon and the George - Gordon R. Dickson
• The Ganymede Takeover - Dick & Nelson
• Confessions of a Crap Artist - Phillip K. Dick
• Dr. Bloodmoney - Phillip K. Dick
• Possessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker
• The Drawing of the Dark - Tim Powers
• Counter Clock World - Phillip K. Dick
• Radio Free Albemuth - Phillip K. Dick

1993

• Red Dwarf - Grant Naylor
• On Wings of Song - Thomas M. Disch
• The Game-Players of Titan - Phillip K. Dick
• Time Out of Joint - Phillip K. Dick
• The Variable Man and Other Stories - Phillip K. Dick
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phillip K. Dick
• The World Jones Made - Phillip K. Dick
• Solar Lottery - Phillip K. Dick
• The Dreaming Earth - John Brunner
• The Futurological Congress - Stanislaw Lem
• Clans of the Alphane Moon - Phillip K. Dick
• The Elfin Ship - James P. Blaylock
• The Man in the High Castle - Phillip K. Dick
• Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger
• Camp Concentration - Thomas M. Disch
• A Scanner Darkly - Phillip K. Dick
• The Zap Gun - Phillip K. Dick
• Route 666: On The Road to Nirvana - Gina Arnold
• Charlotte Temple - Susanna Rawson
• The Musician's Home Recording Handbook - Ted Greenwald
• Jimi Hendrix: Inside the Experience - Mitch Mitchell
• The Best Comics of the Decade:1980 - 1990 - Gary Groth
• Last Call - Tim Powers
• On Stranger Tides -Tim Powers
• The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet
• Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut
• The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers
• Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Phillip K. Dick
• Oath of Fealty - Niven & Pournelle
• Mona Lisa Overdrive - William Gibson
• Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
• The Mote In God's Eye - Niven & Pournelle
• Count Zero - William Gibson
• Fates Worse Than Death - Kurt Vonnegut
• The Memory of Earth - Orson Scott Card
• Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton

1992

• Footfall - Niven & Pournelle
• Modern Physical Geography - Strahler
• The Satires of Juvenal - Juvenal
• So Long And Thanks For All The Fish - Douglas Adams
• Old & New Testament - God (allegedly)
• Life, the Universe, and Everything - Douglas Adams
• The Wasteland - T.S. Elliot
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe -Douglas Adams
• No Telephone to Heaven - Michelle Cliff
• To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
• Two Comedies - Aristophanes
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
• Euripidies - Four Plays
• Palace of the Peacock - Wilson Harris
• The Iliad - Homer
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
• Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
• Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
• The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul - Douglas Adams
• Deadeye Dick - Kurt Vonnegut
• Islands in the Net - Bruce Sterling
• Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov
• Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov
• Wampeters, Foma and Granfaloons - Kurt Vonnegut
• Man-Kzin Wars II - Various
• Neuromancer - William Gibson
• Middle Passage - Charles Johnson
• Native Son - Richard Wright
• Sent For You Yesterday - John Edgar Wideman
• East of Eden - John Steinbeck
• Ringworld - Larry Niven
• Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
• The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin
• As I Lay Dying - Willliam Faulkner
• Blueschild Baby - George Cain
• A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
• Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
• Blues For Mister Charlie - James Baldwin
• Elmer Gantry - Sinclair Lewis
• Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
• Foundation - Isaac Asimov
• Selected Poems - Gwendolyn Brooks
• When the Sleeper Wakes - H.G. Wells
• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• My Antonia - Willa Cather
• Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
• Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
• The Outsider - Richard Wright
• The Man - Kzin Wars - Niven/Anderson/Ing
• The Awakening - Kate Chopin
• Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
• The Smoke Ring - Larry Niven
• Hocus Pocus - Kurt Vonnegut

1991

• The Integral Trees - Larry Niven
• Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
• Personal Politics - Smith-Evans
• Rise of Silas Lapham - W.D. Howells
• Country of Pointed Firs - Jewett
• Wretched of the Earth - Franz Fannon
• Adventures of Huckelberry Finn - Mark Twain
• The Marx/Engels Reader - Tucker
• Four Quartets - T.S. Elliot
• The American - Henry James
• Slapstick - Kurt Vonnegut
• The Hidden Hand - E.D.E.N. Southworth
• The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker
• Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Hobomok - Lydia Maria Child
• The Ringworld Engineers - Larry Niven
• The Bridge Across Forever - Richard Bach
• Ringworld - Larry Niven
• Rabbit Is Rich - John Updike
• Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
• Raise High the Roofbeam Carpenters+Seymour, An Introduction - J.D. Salinger
• Slaughter-House Five - Kurt Vonnegut
• Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
• The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
• Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut
• Collected Works - William Shakespeare
• Death of A Salesman - Arthur Miller
• U.S. History: A People and a Nation - Norton Anthology
• America Firsthand: From reconstruction to Present - Robert D. Marcus
• Mystery Without Magic - Russel Pregent
• The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
• Lord of the Flies - William Golding
• Norton Introduction to Literature (Selections) - Norton
• Night - Elie Weisel
• One Past Midnight: The Langoliers - Stephen King
• Meridian - Alice Walker
• Roger's Version - John Updike
• Franny & Zooey - J.D. Salinger
• Understanding Modern Theology - Jeffery Hopper
• The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker
• Prelude to Foundation - Issac Asimov
• The Color Purple - Alice Walker
• Rabbit Redux - John Updike

1990

• Remarks: The Story of R.E.M. - Tony Fletcher
• Modern Astronomy - ?
• Dialogue on Immortality and Personal Identity - John R. Perry
• Communist Manifesto - Marx/Engels
• Honest To God - John Robinson
• American Ground - Fossum & Roth
• Rabbit Run - John Updike
• The Dark Half - Stephen King
• Babbit - Sinclair Lewis
• Exploring Religious Meaning - Robert C. Monk
• J.B. - Archibald MacLeish
• My Antonia - Willa Cather
• Hamlet - William Shakespeare
• Othello - William Shakespeare
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Samuel Clemens
• Notes To Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person - Hugh Prather
• Master of the Five Magics - Lyndon Hardy
• Setting Free The Bears - John Irving
• James and the Giant Peach - Rohl Dahl
• The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King
• The Water Method Man - John Irving
• Welcome, Chaos - Kate Wilhelm
• The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
• A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
• Mediamerica - Edward Jay Whetmore
• The Gunslinger - Stephen King
• Ramses the Damned, or The Mummy - Anne Rice
• Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
• The Cider House Rules - John Irving
• All Quiet on the Western Front - Eric Maria Remarque
• The 158-Pound Marriage - John Irving
• Last of the Breed - Louis L'Amour
• Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy
• The Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving