2019 Books

Num Rating Author Title Category
1 **** Maugham, W. Somerset Ashenden: or, The British Agent [Fiction]
2 **** Heinlein, Robert A. Methuselah's Children [Fiction]
3 **** Dolin, Eric Jay Fur, Fortune, and Empire [History]
4 **** Heinlein, Robert A. The Door Into Summer [Fiction]
5 **** Diaconis, Persi & Graham, Ron Magical Mathematics [Mathematics / Magic]
6 *** Heinlein, Robert A. Logic of Empire [Fiction]
7 ***** Kerr, Philip Prussian Blue [Fiction]
8 ***** Poundstone, William Fortune's Formula [Science]
9 ***** Parlett, David Solitaire [Games]
10 **** Heinlein, Robert A. The Man Who Sold the Moon [Fiction]
11 **** Chambers, Becky The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet [Fiction]
12 **** Willetts, Paul North Soho 999: A True Story of Gun-Crime in 1940s London [History]
13 **** Heinlein, Robert A. Double Star [Fiction]
14 *** Poundstone, William Rock Breaks Scissors [Science]
15 *** Evans, Alan Thunder at Dawn [Fiction]
16 **** Deighton, Len Winter [Fiction]
17 **** Segaloff, Nat A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison [Biography]
18 *** Dando-Collins, Stephen The Big Break [History]
19 *** Brown, Box Is This Guy for Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman [Biography / Comics]
20 **** Brown, Box Tetris: The Games People Play [Games / Comics]
21 **** Durrell, Gerald The Drunken Forest [Travel / Memoir]
22 U McWhorter, John H. Words On the Move [Linguistics]
23 ** Asimov, Isaac The Naked Sun [Fiction]
24 *** Walton, Jo An Informal History of the Hugos [Literature]
25 **** Fowler, William M., Jr Empires at War [History]
26 ** Piper, H. Beam The Other Human Race [Fiction]
27 **** Kerr, Philip Greeks Bearing Gifts [Fiction]
28 **** Murphy, N.T.P In Search of Blandings [Literary Criticism]
29 **** Kerr, Philip Metropolis [Fiction]
30 * Shute, Nevil Most Secret [Fiction]
31 ***** Corbett, John Pick Up the Pieces: Excursions in Seventies Music [Music / Memoir]
32 ** Charles Stross Saturn's Children [Fiction]
33 ***** Howard, Michael The First World War [History]
34 U O'Brian, Patrick The Golden Ocean [Fiction]
35 U Parkman, Francis The Oregon Trail [Travel / Memoir]
36 ** Cogswell, Theodore [ed.] PITFCS: Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies [Literary Criticism]
37 ***** Shute, Nevil Trustee From the Toolroom [Fiction]
38 U Dodson, Kenneth Away all boats [Fiction]
39 **** Myers, Mike Canada [Memoir / Social Life]
40 *** Kneale, Matthew Rome: A History in Seven Sackings [History]
41 ***** Edward Abbey The Monkey Wrench Gang [Fiction]
42 *** Siegel, Mark Sailor Twain, or, The Mermaid in the Hudson [Comics / Fiction]
43 **** Harpster, Jack & Stalter, Ken Captive! The Story of David Ogden and the Iroquois [History]
44 ** Atkinson, Kate Transcription [Fiction]
45 **** Evers, Alf The Catskills: From Wilderness to Woodstock [History]
46 ***** Reid, P.R. The Colditz Story [History]
47 **** Barski, Conrad Land of Lisp [Computers]
48 ** MacLean, Alistair Night Without End [Fiction]
49 *** Lewis, Jeremy Penguin Special: The Life and Times of Allen Lane [Biography]
50 *** Norton, Andre Star Soldiers [Fiction]
51 ***** Kelly, Jack Heaven's Ditch: God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal [History]
52 ***** Boyd, Joe White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s [Music / Biography]
53 *** Cope, Julian Copendium [Music]
54 **** Ransome, Arthur Great Northern? [Fiction]
55 **** Heinlein, Robert A. Tunnel in the Sky [Fiction]
56 ***** Dummett, Michael Twelve Tarot Games [Non-fiction]
57 **** Kernighan, Brian UNIX: A History and a Memoir [Computing / Memoir]
58 **** Shute, Nevil On the Beach [Fiction]
59 ** Lamont, Peter & Steinmeyer, Jim The Secret History of Magic [History / Magic]
60 *** Heinlein, Robert A. Waldo and Magic, Inc. [Fiction]
61 ***** Piekut, Benjamin Henry Cow: The World is a Problem [Music]
62 *** Wodehouse, P.G. Love Among the Chickens [Fiction]
63 U Leiber, Fritz The Wanderer [Fiction]
64 **** Brandt, Nat The Man Who Tried to Burn New York [Biography / History]
65 **** Twain, Mark The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [Fiction]

Keith Waclena
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