These 'yere are books. Books I done read. Y'know, them paper things with pitchers on ther covers and words. All them damn words...
In submission to my instinct to be obsessive about the trivial, I've attempted to keep a running list of every book I've read since 1990, when I started college. Warts and all, here's the small portion of printed human knowledge that I've made it through thus far.
Dot.Con - James Cassidy [9.05]
Fabrication - Susan Neville [5.23.05]
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell [5.2.05]
Faster - James Gleick [4.05]
The American Barn - Randy Leffingwell [4.05]
Sloth: The Seven Deadly Sins - Wendy Wasserman [4.1.05]
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell [3.29.05]
System of the World - Neal Stephenson [11.04]
Mind Wide Open - Steven Johnson [7.04]
Built By Hand: Vernacular Architecture Around the World - Steen & Komatsu [7.04]
On Paradise Drive - David Brooks [6.04]
The Confusion - Neal Stephenson [6.04]
London - Edward Rutherfurd [5.04]
The Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond [4.04]
The Working Life - Joanne Ciulla [1.04]
Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson [1.04]
Forever Free - Joe Haldeman [1.04]
Debt-Proof Living - Mary Hunt [12.03]
Generation X - Douglas Coupland [11.03]
Pattern Recognition - William Gibson [11.03]
Emergence - Steven Johnson [10.03]
Tomorrow Now - Bruce Sterling [9.03]
Toujours Provence - Peter Mayle [9.03]
Enough - Bill McKibben [9.03]
A Year in Provence - Peter Mayle [8.03]
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers - Leonard Koren [8.03]
The Matrix and Philosophy - William Irwin, ed. [7.03]
My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World - Julian Dibbell [6.03]
The Second Coming of Steve Jobs - Alan Deutschman [6.03]
What Just Happened - James Gleick [5.03]
Thos. Moser: Artistry in Wood - Thomas Moser [5.03]
How to Grow as An Artist - Daniel Grant [5.03]
Titan/Wizard/Demon trilogy - John Varley [4.03]
What Should I Do With My Life? - Po Bronson [1.12.03]
Galatea 2.2 - Richard Powers [12.12.02]
Creativity - Mihaly Csikszentmihaly [12.3.02]
The Art and Science of Web Design - Jeff Veen [11.22.02]
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris [11.2.02]
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers [10.14.02]
Release 2.0 - Esther Dyson [9.22.02]
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson (x2) [8.21.02]
Secrets & Lies - Bruce Shneier [7.28.02]
Faster - James Gleick [7.23.02]
Bobos in Paradise - David Brooks [7.15.02]
Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi [7.7.02]
The Winner - David Balducci [2.28.02]
Art of Contemporary American Pottery - Kevin Hluch [2.1.02]
Code To Zero - Ken Follett [1.15.02]
Practical Demonkeeping - Christopher Moore [1.8.02]
Microserfs - Douglas Coupland [12.23.01]
Warren MacKenzie: American Potter (x2) - David Lewis [11.3.01]
The Cobweb - Stephen Bury [10.22.01]
What If? Military History - Robert Cowley (ed.) [9.5.01]
R.E.M.: Talk About the Passion - Denise Sullivan [8.11.01]
Driving Mr. Albert - Michael Paterniti [8.1.01]
Interface - Stephen Bury [7.24.01]
36 Ceramic Artists - Richard Zakin [7.15.01]
In A Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson [7.14.01]
Telecosm - George Gilder [6.01]
All Tomorrow's Parties - William Gibson [6.01]
The Big U - Neal Stephenson [6.01]
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line (x2) - Neal Stephenson [5.01]
A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson [5.01]
Moths to the Flame - Gregory J.E. Rawlins [4.01]
Clay: An Introduction - Susan Peterson [3.01]
Interface Culture - Steven Johnson [2.01]
On Writing - Stephen King [1.01]
Wheel-Thrown Ceramics - Don Davis [12.00]
Flash Forward - Robert J. Sawyer [.00]
A Potter's Workbook - Clary Illian [.00]
When Things Start to Think - Neil Gershenfeld [.00]
Factoring Humanity - Robert J. Sawyer [.00]
Little Green Men - Christopher Buckley [.00]
Thank you for Smoking - Christopher Buckley [8.00]
About a Boy - Nick Hornby [7.00]
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby [6.00]
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: Origins of the Internet - Hafner/Lyon [6.00]
What Will Be - Michael Dertouzous [.00]
The Nudist on the Late Shift - Po Bronson [.00]
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line - Neal Stephenson [.00]
The Transparent Society - David Brin [.00]
Distraction - Bruce Sterling [.99]
The Road Ahead - Bill Gates  [.99]
The Control Room - Martin Plissner [.99]
The Internet - Gary Young, ed. [.99]
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson [.99]
Age of Spiritual Machines - Ray Kurzweil [.99]
Being Digital - Nicholas Negroponte (x2) [.99]
Citizen Soldiers - Stephen E. Ambrose [.99]
The Victors - Stephen E. Ambrose [.99]
WYRM - Mark Fabi [.99]
I'm a Stranger Here Myself - Bill Bryson [.99]
Made in America - Bill Bryson [.99]
The Golden Globe - John Varley [.99]
American Art: History and Culture - Wayne Craven [.99]
On Stranger Tides - Tim Powers (x2) [.99]
First Immortal - James L. Halperin [.99]
The Rants - Dennis Miller [4.] [.99]
Give War a Chance - P.J. O'Rourke [.99]
Adolf Hitler - John Toland [.99]
Truth Machine - James L. Halperin [.98]
Forever Peace - Joe Haldeman [.98]
Zodiac (2) - Neal Stephenson [.98]
Woodfired Stoneware & Porcelain - Jack Troy [.98]
Holy Fire - Bruce Sterling [.98]
Why the Allies Won - Richard Overy [.98]
Third Chimpanzee - Jared Diamond [.98]
Bombardiers - Po Bronson [.98]
Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan [.98]
Culture of Craft - Peter Dormer, ed. [.98]
Billions & Billions - Carl Sagan [.98]
Cukoo's Egg - Clifford Stoll [.98]
The Proteus Operation - James P. Hogan [.97]
Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys - Dave Barry [.97]
Silicon Snake Oil - Clifford Stoll [.97]
Idoru - William Gibson [.97]
The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson [.97]
Half-Asleep in Frog Pajamas - Tom Robbins [.97]
SeinLanguage - Jerry Seinfeld [.97]
The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest - Po Bronson [.97]
Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers - Loenard Koren [.97]
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams [.97]
CYBERIA - Douglas Rushkoff [.97]
The Self-Reliant Potter - Andrew Holden [.97]
Slips and Slipware - Anthony Phillips [.97]
Steel Beach (2) - John Varley [.97]
None So Blind - Joe Haldeman [.97]
Come Endless Darkness - Gary Gygax [.97]
CV - Damon Knight [.97]
Contact - Carl Sagan [.97]
The Craft of the Potter - Michael Casson [.96]
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon - Frederick Pohl [.96]
Superheroes - ed. John Varley [.96]
Buying Time - Joe Haldeman [.96]
Gateway - Fredrick Pohl [.96]
Porcelain - Caroline Whyman [.96]
Tool of the Trade - Joe Haldeman [.96]
Millenium - John Varley [.96]
Icehenge - Kim Stanley Robinson [.96]
Lust for Life - Irving Stone [.96]
American Potters - Garth Clark [.96]
VURT - Jeff Noon [.96]
Far Out: 13 Short Stories - Damon Knight [.96]
Potters on Pottery - Cameron & Lewis [.96]
Penland Crafts: Potters - Various [.96]
Pottery Form and Expression - Daniel Rhodes [.96]
Ceramics - Otto Natzler [.96]
Kilns - Daniel Rhodes [.96]
The Mud-Pie Dilemma - John Nance [.96]
The Ceramic Spectrum - Robin Hopper [.96]
Study War No More - Joe Haldeman, Ed. [.96]
Zodiac - Neal Stephenson [.96]
The New Ceramics - Peter Dormer [.96]
The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson [.96]
Elminster, The Making of a Mage - Ed Greenwood [.96]
Good Omens - Gaiman & Pratchett [.96]
Being Digital - Nicholas Negroponte [.96]
Magic For Sale - Avram Davidson, Ed. [.96]
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson [.96]
The Paper Grail - James P. Blaylock [.96]
Majipoor Chronicals - Robert Silverberg [.96]
Lord Valentine's Castle - Robert Silverberg [.96]
There is No Darkness - Joe & Jack Haldeman [.96]
Better Than Life - Grant Naylor [.96]
Stoneware and Porcelain - Daniel Rhodes [.96]
Tamba Pottery -Daniel Rhodes [.96]
Nebula Award Winning Novellas - Greenberg, Ed. [.96]
Use of Weapons - Iain M. Banks [.96]
Heavy Weather - Bruce Sterling [.96]
Dealing in Futures - Joe Haldeman [.95]
Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks [.95]
Tower of Glass - Robert Silverberg [.95]
Infinite Dreams - Joe Haldeman [.95]
Blood Music - Greg Bear [.95]
Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana - Michael Azerad [.95]
Non-Stop - Brian Aldiss [.95]
Worlds Enough and Time - Joe Haldeman [.95]
Picnic on Nearside - John Varley [.95]
The Hemingway Hoax - Joe Haldeman [.95]
The Hacker Crackdown - Bruce Sterling [.95]
Mindbridge - Joe Haldeman [.95]
Globalhead - Bruce Sterling [.95]
City of Hawks - Gary Gygax [.95]
All My Sins Remembered - Joe Haldeman [.95]
Assassin's Apprentice - Robin Hobb [.95]
Tool of the Trade - Joe Haldeman [.95]
Forsake the Sky - Tim Powers [.95]
Buying Time - Joe Haldeman [.95]
Blue Champagne - John Varley [.95]
Worlds Apart - Joe Haldeman [.95]
The R.E.M. Companion - Marcus Grey [.95]
Sea of Death - Gary Gygax [.95]
Artifact of Evil - Gary Gygax [.95]
The Norse Myths - Kevin Crossley-Holland [.95]
The Persistance of Vision - John Varley [.95]
Virtual Light - William Gibson [.95]
Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut [.95]
Recalled to Life - Robert Silverberg [.95]
Night Arrant - Gary Gygax [.95]
Don't Panic - Neil Gaiman [.95]
Press Enter - John Varley [.95]
Hawksbill Station - Robert Silverberg [.95]
Rendevous With Rama - Arthur C. Clarke [.95]
Worlds - Joe Haldeman [.95]
Crystal Express - Bruce Sterling [.95]
Millenium - John Varley [.95]
Michael Cardew, A Portrait - Garth Clark [.95]
Soldier, Ask Not - Gordon R. Dickson [.95]
Turners and Burners - Charles Zug III [.95]
Peter Voulkos: Dialogue With Clay - Rose Slivka [.95]
The Ophiuchi Hotline - John Varley [.95]
R.E.M.: Talk About the Passion - Denise Sullivan [1.] [.95]
Demon - John Varley [.95]
Wizard - John Varley [.95]
The Mad Potter of Biloxi - Garth Clark [.94]
Eye in the Sky - Philip K. Dick [.94]
Master of the Game - Gary Gygax [.94]
Titan - John Varley [.94]
Swords Against Death - Fritz Leiber [.94]
The Silver Eggheads - Fritz Leiber [.94]
Robots, Androids and Mechanical Oddities: The SF of PKD - Warrick [.94]
American Ceramics 1876 - Present - Garth Clark [.94]
Potters on Pottery - Cameron & Lewis [.94]
Swords and Deviltry - Fritz Leiber [.94]
Dinner at Deviant's Palace - Tim Powers [.94]
Martian Time Slip - Phillip K. Dick [.94]
Paul Soldner: A Retrospective - Various [.94]
Warren MacKenzie: American Potter - David Lewis [.94]
Lord Kelvin's Machine - James P. Blaylock [.94]
The Uplift War - David Brin [.94]
Only Apparently Real: The World of PKD - Paul Williams [.94]
Shoji Hamada - Susan Peterson [.94]
Now Wait For Last Year - Phillip K. Dick [.94]
Steel Beach - John Varley [.94]
Count Geiger's Blues - Michael Bishop [.94]
Startide Rising - David Brin [.94]
Phillip K. Dick Is Dead, Alas - Michael Bishop [.94]
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer - Phillip K. Dick [.94]
A Potter's Work - Bernard Leach [.94]
The Divine Invasion - Phillip K. Dick [.94]
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman [.94]
The Penultimate Truth - Phillip K. Dick [.94]
Medieval English Pottery - Bernard Rackham [.94]
The Unteleported Man - Phillip K. Dick [.94]
A Potter's Book - Bernard Leach [.94]
Dr. Futurity - Phillip K. Dick [.94]
The Stress of Her Regard - Tim Powers [.94]
VALIS - Phillip K. Dick [.94]
Hamada, Potter - Bernard Leach [.94]
The Dragon and the George - Gordon R. Dickson [.94]
The Ganymede Takeover - Dick & Nelson [.94]
Confessions of a Crap Artist - Phillip K. Dick [.94]
Dr. Bloodmoney - Phillip K. Dick [.94]
Possessing the Secret of Joy - Alice Walker [.94]
The Drawing of the Dark - Tim Powers [.94]
Counter Clock World - Phillip K. Dick [.94]
Radio Free Albemuth - Phillip K. Dick [.94]
Red Dwarf - Grant Naylor [.93]
On Wings of Song - Thomas M. Disch [.93]
The Game-Players of Titan - Phillip K. Dick [.93]
Time Out of Joint - Phillip K. Dick [.93]
The Variable Man and Other Stories - Phillip K. Dick [.93]
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phillip K. Dick [.93]
The World Jones Made - Phillip K. Dick [.93]
Solar Lottery - Phillip K. Dick [.93]
The Dreaming Earth - John Brunner [.93]
The Futurological Congress - Stanislaw Lem [.93]
Clans of the Alphane Moon - Phillip K. Dick [.93]
The Elfin Ship - James P. Blaylock [.93]
The Man in the High Castle - Phillip K. Dick [.93]
Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger [.93]
Camp Concentration - Thomas M. Disch [.93]
A Scanner Darkly - Phillip K. Dick [.93]
The Zap Gun - Phillip K. Dick [.93]
Route 666: On The Road to Nirvana - Gina Arnold [.93]
Charlotte Temple - Susanna Rawson [.93]
The Musician's Home Recording Handbook - Ted Greenwald [.93]
Jimi Hendrix: Inside the Experience - Mitch Mitchell [.93]
The Best Comics of the Decade:1980 - 1990 - ? [.93]
Last Call - Tim Powers [.93]
On Stranger Tides -Tim Powers [.93]
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet [.93]
Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut [.93]
The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers [.93]
Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Phillip K. Dick [.93]
Oath of Fealty - Niven & Pournelle [.93]
Mona Lisa Overdrive - William Gibson [.93]
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [.93]
The Mote In God's Eye - Niven & Pournelle [.93]
Count Zero - William Gibson [.93]
Fates Worse Than Death - Kurt Vonnegut [.93]
The Memory of Earth - Orson Scott Card [.93]
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton [.93]
Footfall - Niven & Pournelle [.92]
Modern Physical Geography - Strahler [.92]
The Satires of Juvenal (Selections) - ? [.92]
So Long And Thanks For All The Fish - Douglas Adams [.92]
Old & New Testament (Selections) - Some Old Dudes [.92]
Life, the Universe, and Everything - Douglas Adams [.92]
The Wasteland - T.S. Elliot [.92]
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe -Douglas Adams [.92]
No Telephone to Heaven - Michelle Cliff [.92]
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf [.92]
Two Comedies - Aristophanes [.92]
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [.92]
Euripidies - Four Plays [.92]
Palace of the Peacock - Wilson Harris [.92]
The Iliad - Homer [.92]
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams [.92]
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [.92]
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card [.92]
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul - Douglas Adams [.92]
Deadeye Dick - Kurt Vonnegut [.92]
Islands in the Net - Bruce Sterling [.92]
Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov [.92]
Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov [.92]
Wampeters, Foma and Granfaloons - Kurt Vonnegut [.92]
Man-Kzin Wars II - Various [.92]
Neuromancer - William Gibson [.92]
Middle Passage - Charles Johnson [.92]
Native Son - Richard Wright [.92]
Sent For You Yesterday - John Edgar Wideman [.92]
East of Eden - John Steinbeck [.92]
Ringworld - Larry Niven [.92]
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison [.92]
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin [.92]
As I Lay Dying - Willliam Faulkner [.92]
Blueschild Baby - George Cain [.92]
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway [.92]
Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke [.92]
Blues For Mister Charlie - James Baldwin [.92]
Elmer Gantry - Sinclair Lewis [.92]
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison [.92]
Foundation - Isaac Asimov [.92]
Selected Poems - Gwendolyn Brooks [.92]
When the Sleeper Wakes - H.G. Wells [.92]
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald [.92]
My Antonia - Willa Cather [.92]
Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton [.92]
Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser [.92]
The Outsider - Richard Wright [.92]
The Man - Kzin Wars - Niven/Anderson/Ing [.92]
The Awakening - Kate Chopin [.92]
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston [.92]
The Smoke Ring - Larry Niven [.92]
Hocus Pocus - Kurt Vonnegut [.92]
The Integral Trees - Larry Niven [.91]
Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut [.91]
Personal Politics - Smith-Evans [.91]
Rise of Silas Lapham - W.D. Howells [.91]
Country of Pointed Firs - Jewett [.91]
Wretched of the Earth - Franz Fannon [.91]
Adventures of Huckelberry Finn - Mark Twain [.91]
The Marx/Engels Reader - Tucker [.91]
Four Quartets - T.S. Elliot [.91]
The American - Henry James [.91]
Slapstick - Kurt Vonnegut [.91]
The Hidden Hand - E.D.E.N. Southworth [.91]
The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker [.91]
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe [.91]
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne [.91]
Hobomok - Lydia Maria Child [.91]
The Ringworld Engineers - Larry Niven [.91]
The Bridge Across Forever - Richard Bach [.91]
Ringworld - Larry Niven [.91]
Rabbit Is Rich - John Updike [.91]
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut [.91]
Raise High the Roofbeam Carpenters+Seymour, An Introduction - J.D. Salinger [.91]
Slaughter-House Five - Kurt Vonnegut [.91]
Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig [.91]
The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut [.91]
Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut [.91]
Collected Works - William Shakespeare [.91]
Death of A Salesman - Arthur Miller [.91]
U.S. History: A People and a Nation - Norton Anthology [.91]
America Firsthand: From reconstruction to Present - Robert D. Marcus [.91]
Mystery Without Magic - Russel Pregent [.91]
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger [.91]
Lord of the Flies - William Golding [.91]
Norton Introduction to Literature (Selections) - Norton [.91]
Night - Elie Weisel [.91]
One Past Midnight: The Langoliers - Stephen King [.91]
Meridian - Alice Walker [.91]
Roger's Version - John Updike [.91]
Franny & Zooey - J.D. Salinger [.91]
Understanding Modern Theology - Jeffery Hopper [.91]
The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker [.91]
Prelude to Foundation - Issac Asimov [.91]
The Color Purple - Alice Walker [.91]
Rabbit Redux - John Updike [.91]
Remarks: The Story of R.E.M. - Tony Fletcher [.90]
Modern Astronomy - ? [.90]
Dialogue on Immortality and Personal Identity - John R. Perry [.90]
Communist Manifesto - Marx/Engels [.90]
Honest To God - ? [.90]
American Ground - Fossum & Roth [.90]
Rabbit Run - John Updike [.90]
The Dark Half - Stephen King [.90]
Babbit - Sinclair Lewis [.90]
Exploring Religious Meaning - Robert C. Monk [.90]
J.B. - ? [.90]
My Antonia - Willa Cather [.90]
Hamlet - William Shakespeare [.90]
Othello - William Shakespeare [.90]
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Samuel Clemens [.90]
Notes To Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person - Hugh Prather [.90]
Master of the Five Magics - Lyndon Hardy [.90]
Setting Free The Bears - John Irving [.90]
James and the Giant Peach - Rohl Dahl [.90]
The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King [.90]
The Water Method Man - John Irving [.90]
Welcome, Chaos - Kate Wilhelm [.90]
The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien [.90]
The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien [.90]
The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien [.90]
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien [.90]
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving [.90]
Mediamerica - Edward Jay Whetmore [.90]
The Gunslinger - Stephen King [.90]
Ramses the Damned, or The Mummy - Anne Rice [.90]
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [.90]
The Cider House Rules - John Irving [.90]
All Quiet on the Western Front - Eric Maria Remarque [.90]
The 158-Pound Marriage - John Irving [.90]
Last of the Breed - Louis L'Amour [.90]
Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy [.90]
The Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving [.90]
Hey, I like magazines too! It used to be Rolling Stone and Newsweek, then Ceramics Monthly and Wired, now Studio Potter and The New Yorker.