2018 Books

Num Rating Author Title Category
1 **** De Camp, L. Sprague Lest Darkness Fall [Fiction]
2 **** Berry, Jeff Beachbum Berry Remixed: A Gallery of Tiki Drinks [Cooking / History]
3 *** Lambe, Stephen Citizens of Hope and Glory: The Story of Progressive Rock [Music]
4 **** Martin, Bill Listening to the Future: The Time of Progressive Rock, 1968-1978 [Music]
5 **** Household, Geoffrey Red Anger [Fiction]
6 *** Romano, Will Close to the Edge [Music]
7 **** Mundy, Talbot Tros of Samothrace [Fiction]
8 **** Dirda, Michael Classics for Pleasure [Literary Criticism]
9 *** Crane, John Kenny The Legacy of Ladysmith [Fiction]
10 ***** Berendt, John Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil [Memoir / HIstory / Travel]
11 ***** Ripley, Mike Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang [Literary Criticism]
12 *** Stump, Paul The Music's All That Matters [Music]
13 ***** Gauld, Tom Baking with Kafka: Comics [Comics]
14 **** Heinlein, Robert A. The Rolling Stones [Fiction]
15 **** Gauld, Tom Mooncop [Comics]
16 **** Eskelin, Gerald Lies My Music Teacher Told Me [Music]
17 **** Dirda, Michael Browsings [Literary Criticism / Memoir]
18 ** Buchan, John Prester John [Fiction]
19 *** MacLean, Alistair South by Java Head [Fiction]
20 ***** Sublette, Ned & Sublette, Constance The American Slave Coast [History]
21 *** Dirda, Michael An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland [Biography]
22 **** Dobbs, Michael One Minute to Midnight [History]
23 *** Smith, Thorne The Bishop's Jaegers [Fiction]
24 *** O'Brian, Patrick The Yellow Admiral [Fiction]
25 U Moore, Allan Rock, The Primary Text: Developing a Musicology of Rock [Music]
26 **** Roberts, Kenneth I Wanted to Write [Biography]
27 ** Harrison, Harry A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! [Fiction]
28 **** Schor, Esther Bridge of Words [History / Biography]
29 *** Roberts, Kenneth The Battle of Cowpens [History]
30 **** Roberts, Kenneth Arundel [Novel]
31 *** Silverberg, Robert Starman's Quest [Fiction]
32 ***** Beard, Henry & Kenney, Douglas C. Bored of the Rings [Fiction]
33 **** Deighton, Len ABC of French Food [Cooking]
34 ***** Gaudi, Robert African Kaiser [History]
35 ** Haggard, H. Rider She [Fiction]
36 **** Reiss, Mike & Klickstein, Matthew Springfield Confidnential [Memoir / Televsion]
37 *** Wallace, David Rains Mammoth Cave [History / Geology]
38 ** Haber, Karen Meditations on Middle-Earth [Literary Criticism]
39 ***** Brickhill, Paul The Great Escape [History]
40 ***** Aldiss, Brian W. & David Wingrove Trillion Year Spree [Literary Criticism]
41 **** Gunn, James Paratexts: Introductions to Science Fiction and Fantasy [Literary Criticism]
42 **** Moore, Ward Bring the Jubilee [Fiction]
43 *** Lippert, Kevin War Plan Red [History]
44 *** Wysocki, Edward M., Jr An Astounding War: Science Fiction and World War II [History / Literary Criticism]
45 *** Zelazny, Roger Nine Princes in Amber [Fiction]
46 **** Gaiman, Neil The View from the Cheap Seats [Literary Criticism / Essays]
47 **** Downing, Taylor Secret Warriors [History]
48 ** Waugh, Alec The Prisoners of Mainz [Memoir]
49 ** Scalzi, John Redshirts [Fiction]
50 *** Kaplan, Fred The Wizards of Armageddon [History]
51 **** Sage, Jerry Sage [Memoir]
52 ***** Padua, Sydney The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage [Comics / Biography]
53 **** Stump, Paul Gentle Giant: Acquiring the Taste [Music]
54 **** Chesterton, G.K. The Man Who Was Thursday [Fiction]
55 ** Natalie Angier The Canon [Science]
56 *** Benford, Gregory Artifact [Fiction]
57 * Leinster, Murray Miners in the Sky [Fiction]
58 **** Frank, Pat Alas, Babylon [Fiction]
59 *** Benford, Gregory & Zebrowski, George Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science [Science / Fiction]
60 **** Joseph Kanon Leaving Berlin [Fiction]
61 *** Cross, Debbie Down the Badger Hole: R. Lionel Fanthorpe: The Badger Years [Literary Criticism / Humor]
62 **** Frank, Pat An Affair of State [Fiction]
63 ** Palmer, Jerry Thrillers [Literary Criticism]
64 *** Silverberg, Robert, ed. The Mirror of Infinity [Fiction]
65 **** Downing, David Stettin Station [Fiction]
66 *** Hitz, Frederick P. The Great Game: The Myth and Reality of Espionage [Literary Criticism / History]
67 **** Fleming, Ian Casino Royale [Fiction]
68 ** Steinmeyer, Jim Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural [Biography]
69 ***** Nevala-Lee, Alec Astounding [Biography]
70 *** Willett, John The Weimar Years: A Culture Cut Short [History / Art]
71 ***** Macintyre, Ben The Spy and the Traitor [History]
72 **** Cutter, Matthew Closer You Are: The Story of Robert Pollard And Guided by Voices [Biography / Music]

Keith Waclena
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